One year after Prime Minister Andrew Holness rode a wave of unparalleled popularity this century to retain political power, his administration has been given a failing grade by pundits for its management of the coronavirus pandemic. That verdict...

Gas manufacturer Massy Gas Products (Jamaica) is eyeing the build-out of its operations for the storage and distribution of medical-grade oxygen in the island. That revelation came less than 24 hours after the Ministry of Health and Wellness said......

WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism interests have poured cold water on Opposition Leader Mark Golding’s call for the Government to insist on COVID-19 vaccination of all visitors. President of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), Clifton Reader,....

How would you rate the prime minister’s handling of the pandemic, and has the Government influenced you to get vaccinated? Tom Jones: You see before the opening, him have it excellent and him mek him entertainer friend dem come talk bout...

Residents of sections of Waterhouse in St Andrew Western battled hunger while others made quick dashes to corner shops with an eye out for patrolling soldiers during the last three-day lockdown, which ended on Tuesday. When The Gleaner visited the....

Clarendon South Western Member of Parliament (MP) Lothan Cousins is crying foul, alleging that the Government is playing politics with COVID-19 shots as his constituency is the only one in the parish without a vaccination site. Cousins, the sole......

Disbarred lawyer Jennifer Messado, who is accused of using fraudulent documents to obtain a $16 million loan from a businessman in 2018, is to return to the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on December 9. The 71-year-old, who is facing 12...

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is probing an incident in which a taxi operator was shot dead and a female passenger injured by a policeman in the vicinity of Parade in downtown Kingston yesterday. The incident, which...

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 (...