Fear of insurrection from the public may have been the catalyst behind the Andrew Holness administration’s decision to reopen various sectors of the country, exposing it to an unprecedented spike in COVID-19 infections. Wednesday’s revelation.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Healthcare and business leaders have welcomed the extension of no-movement days for another two weeks, saying the lockdowns were crucial to restricting the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus. Prime Minister Andrew Holness......

Misuse of clients’ monies by attorneys-at-law remains “a worrying trend” for the General Legal Council (GLC), but the watchdog is hoping that new amendments to its accounting regulations, which take effect in January 2022, will nip the problem...

IGL Limited has said that the Ministry of Health and Wellness is yet to respond to repeated requests for forecasts of requirements for medical oxygen in the public-health sector as the island battles the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic. The.....

Small businesses have taken a battering from a second week of coronavirus lockdowns, with fears emerging that the imposition of more no-movement days could further cripple commerce. Those anxieties have left business people hesitant about...

WESTERN BUREAU: The three-mile stretch of roadway from Wakefield to Deeside is to get the lion’s share of a $342-million road repair project to be rolled out across sections of Northern Trelawny. This was disclosed by Everald Warmington, governmen...

The Kingston Eastern police have launched a probe into the shooting death of a taxi operator on Mountain View Avenue, Kingston 2, on Tuesday. Dead is 34-year-old Andre ‘Doctor’ Chambers, a resident of Mountain View Avenue. The police report th...

Jamaica’s homicide figures have increased by 9.7 per cent year on year, while the clear-up rate for 2021 is at a five-year low, 34.65 per cent. As of Saturday, August 28, Jamaica’s murder tally for 2021 had risen to 935, up from 852 for the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Bus driver Andrew Grizzle interacts with no fewer than 150 visitors to the island monthly, and still, he never feared the coronavirus until Westmoreland nurse Diagrea Cunningham’s life succumbed to the deadly disease. For months he...

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...