In the wake of the tragic deaths of three men who are believed to have died from noxious fumes, a public-health expert has warned of the occupational hazards and grave dangers involved in the cleaning of septic tanks. President of the Jamaica...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s tourism stake­holders are confident of an early ­reassessment by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and a relaxation of its travel advisory urging United States citizens not to visit Jamaica amid...

The lone survivor of Monday’s septic tank triple tragedy at Moneague College can scarcely believe that he is alive. The painful images from the brush with death still flash across the mind of 38-year-old Rayon Reid. Kirk Kerr, 46, spun dizzily in....

A distressed radiation patient at the National Cancer Treatment Centre has lambasted the health ministry for its lack of urgency in repairing the linear accelerator (LINAC) at the St Joseph’s Hospital facility. The breast cancer patient was at......

A man believed to have been involved in the abduction of a 66-year-old taxi operator who was robbed and dumped in a pit in Jones Avenue in Spanish Town, St Catherine, in May, was one of two persons of interest detained in a police operation in...

Financial strategist Dr Adrian Stokes has described the Holness administration’s management of the economy since it romped to a landslide victory in the September 3, 2020 general election as “solid”. Stokes argued that the key macroeconomic.....

The rapid spread of the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 locally has pushed at least two companies to step up their vaccine requirements, mandating that employees get inoculated or present a negative test weekly, at their expense. In a......

WESTERN BUREAU: In the middle of a jovial conversation, police Inspector Michael Brown suddenly appeared to suffer a seizure. In a flash, he slumped forward, lifeless. The joie de vivre of the 56-year-old policeman, who was attached to the Lucea...

Monday’s start to the new academic year has resurrected a new sense of dread for Sandrine Bailey. Unemployed and blind, Bailey says her two teenage children are glum about their prospects as they have no laptops or tablets to log on to Internet......

WESTERN BUREAU: The rampaging coronavirus has claimed yet another high-profile victim in Montego Bay, St James, with Tuesday’s passing of iconic barber and renowned musicologist Neville ‘Dada’ Gilchrist. The stylist owned and operated the city...

When major sign manufacturer Caledonia Outdoor Advertising made an about-turn in April on a termination threat to employees who refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19, the reversal was hailed as a victory for the workforce and a feather in the.....

A patient transfer from Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) to Bellevue Hospital is believed to have triggered a second outbreak of COVID-19 at the state-run mental-health facility, where one person has so far died and 35, including registered nurses,.....

WESTERN BUREAU: News of the passing of the well-known Constable Damion Knight from complications associated with COVID-19 has shattered the mood among colleagues at the police post at the Sangster International Airport, as some did not even realise....

Inspectors contracted by the National Education Inspectorate (NEI) are bemoaning delayed compensation, a situation that has left them unwilling to re-engage with the quality-assurance watchdog. The NEI’s mandate is to assess the standards attaine...

When Glenroy Brown took his 75-year-old mother, Anita Brown, to be vaccinated against COVID-19 last Friday, he believed he had given her insurance against severe illness and death and had already started making arrangements for her to get the...

The stillness of the night air on Olympic Way is a time warp for Kervin Rose, whose jerk pan was once a crackling cauldron of flavour, wooing palates from near and far. But nightlife on a road that traditionally hummed with activity has been halted....

WESTERN BUREAU: A 43-year-old Hanover man has been arrested following an allegation by his 19-year-old daughter that he sexually molested her on separate occasions over the past four months. According to reports from the Lucea police, the accused.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Tanique Bailey-Small, the acting medical officer of health for St James, has estimated that less than a third of secondary school students targeted to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 jab in St James have received their first dose of.....

As Jamaica prepares to enter what is traditionally one of the busiest and most destructive phases of the Atlantic hurricane season, the Holness administration is grappling with a new preliminary flood damage bill from Tropical Storm Ida eclipsing.....

At least two Clarendon principals are lamenting a decline in registration of new students for the new academic year that officially starts today. Nadine Gayle-Little, principal of Beulah All-Age School, said that the institution usually has an...