Prime Minister Andrew Holness has been charged by Opposition Leader Mark Golding to take control of a spiralling coronavirus outbreak that has brought a summer of “deep crisis of death and despair”, invoking morbid imagery of a nation at war......

The Jamaica Police Federation says rank-and-file members are now restive after welfare support was slashed for personnel on duty during the coronavirus lockdown, with a single meal per day for patrolling cops while others fended for themselves. The....

WESTERN BUREAU: Tuesday’s death of a nurse to COVID-19 jolted healthcare workers at Savanna-la-Mar Hospital in Westmoreland, the tearful grief a graphic reminder of how the coronavirus has cast a shadow over families and workforces. Diagrea (...

Lionised for decades for a velvety voice that transcended the airwaves, advertising magnate and former broadcaster Adrian Robinson passed away on Monday, closing a chapter of transformation in a fast-evolving industry. Robinson, 86, passed away at.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Critics of the wildly popular Dream Weekend party series have received flak from one of its chief impresarios, who has charged that coronavirus data do not validate claims that the event was central to the summer infection spike....

Employers are not legally forbidden from enforcing mandatory vaccinations for workers, Jamaican Bar Association President Alexander Williams has said. Williams noted that no court or any other authority has made any ruling against the issue. His...

Residents of Padmore, Coopers Hill, Rock Hall and other communities in the rural outreaches of Red Hills are at their wits’ end, frustrated by frequent disruptions in Internet service caused by the theft of copper cable. The latest theft occurred....

The Jamaican Government could spend US$14.7 million, approximately J$2.3 billion, to purchase a cache of 1.972 million doses of the Johnson...

Jamaican hospital administrators exhaled on Monday as new supplies of oxygen flowed into cylinders, breathing new life into a healthcare system starved of reserves amid a suffocating wave of coronavirus infections. Predawn collection of imported...

A Jamaican woman who arranged more than two dozen sham marriages as part of an elaborate scheme to obtain green cards for herself and other non-American citizens is heading to prison in the United States (US). Between 2011 and 2017, Jodian...

WESTERN BUREAU: Prominent western Jamaica educator Jeannette Solomon has died from complications from the coronavirus, one of 1,510 people who have succumbed here to the ravages of the disease in the 17 months of the pandemic. Her death was a...

Fifteen-year-old Kevin McKenzie had been looking forward to the start of the new academic year next Monday. His mother, Marcia Brissett, told The Gleaner that she had already bought Kevin’s school shoes despite the uncertainty as to when face-to-....

It was after listening to former government minister K.D. Knight sharing the story of his wife Dr Pauline Knight’s death over a week ago to COVID-19 on Radio Jamaica’s ‘Hotline’ that Neil Newell had a change of heart, deciding to take become...

WESTERN BUREAU: As the ministry kick-started a vaccination drive to have 170,000 industry workers vaccinated yesterday, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett attempted to walk back comments made two weeks ago because of pushback on the domestic front.......

Residents of Port Royal in Kingston were awakened yesterday to sirens and a heavy police deployment with a manhunt under way inland and along the shoreline for three prisoners who went missing before dawn. The men on the run have been identified......

WESTERN BUREAU: Two men were shot and killed and a woman seriously injured at an illegal party staged in defiance of the Disaster Risk Management Act in Bogue Hill on the outskirts of Montego Bay on Friday night. One of the deceased has been...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Healthcare workers at the Mandeville Regional Hospital are struggling to decide which patients are administered oxygen support and which ones have to wait – a crisis exacerbated in the last week as coronavirus infections an...

Tropical Storm Ida is estimated to have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to central Jamaica after heavy rains unleashed a trail of destruction in the Clarendon district of Wakefield. That’s the view of Clarendon North Western Membe...

All things begin from Scratch. Reggae historian Roger Steffens’ simple yet profound conclusion captured the genius of Jamaican music’s quintessential eccentric Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, whose praise in death was as loud as his acclaim in life. T...

University of the West Indies Guild President Danielle Mullings has come out in support of the decision taken by the Mona campus to bar accommodation on halls of residence to students who are not vaccinated against COVID-19. The directive issued......