Consultant bioethicist Dr Derrick Aarons has described as “unfortunate” that 70 per cent of Jamaicans canvassed in an RJRGLEANER-commissioned Don Anderson poll are opposed to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination. Vaccination has been a thorny issue......

WESTERN BUREAU: Cleon Miller says he took his father Audley Miller to the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) around 9 p.m. on Wednesday, September 1 after he fell ill and stayed there with him until about 3 o’clock Thursday morning. About an hour....

Firebrand nurse and trade unionist Edith Allwood-Anderson, whose acerbic rhetoric rattled political negotiators and charm salved their wounded egos, passed away on Thursday after a long battle with illness. Allwood-Anderson, who served as president....

Transport and mining ministry representatives were sidelined as the boards of the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) and a subsidiary decided on the first part of a $450m investment in First Rock Capital Holdings (FRCH), meeting records have...

The Kingston Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is appealing for financial assistance to alleviate a “crisis situation as its revenue has dried up owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. The YMCA is acclaimed for transforming the lives of thousan...

By March next year, the appellate and Supreme courts are expected to clear their backlog of outstanding judgments. Noting that the court system seemed to have had its most productive last year, Chief Justice Bryan Sykes disclosed that the Gun Court....

Vendors in downtown Kingston were asked on Thursday, September 16, for their views regarding the return of nightly curfews and the cessation of weekday no-movement days. This is what they had to say. Pauletta Welsh McDonald: In terms of the...

The business community has welcomed news of the ending of the weekly three-day lockdowns which they complained was threatening the viability of their operations. On Wednesday, as he announced the latest restrictions to curtail the spread of the...

Cabinet colleagues of resigned Agriculture Minister Floyd Green have declared that he will be back. Green, the St Elizabeth South Western member of parliament, quit on Wednesday over a no-movement day party video that showed him among a group of......

Retaining shamed Agriculture Minister Floyd Green in the Cabinet would have damaged public confidence and compromised the Government’s campaign for compliance with COVID-19 health regulations in the worst phase of the disease, Prime Minister Andre...

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has been rocked by the resignations of at least five prosecutors last month amid reports of simmering discontentment over poor wages, heavy workloads, and the leadership. Workers have complained...

The Government has shifted its strategy from weekday lockdowns going forward and has returned to nightly curfews as a more sustained measure to keep businesses afloat while curtailing the spread of COVID-19. Prime Minister Andrew Holness said there....

Jermaine Chamberlain was charged by the police on September 21 last year for using an illegal gun to rob a young woman in east Kingston. But 10 months later, after pleading guilty to aggravated robbery in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court,...

WESTERN BUREAU: Police intelligence has revealed that last weekend’s Clarendon quadruple murder was ordered by an influential prisoner. The four – 32-year-old Tashana Whyte; her 25-year-old sister, Sherona Whyte; their 19-year-old nephew, Luke.....

The parliamentary Opposition is calling for more heads to roll in the wake of the resignation of Agriculture Minister Floyd Green and government Councillor Andrew Bellamy on Wednesday after a video emerged showing the two among a group of people at....

WESTERN BUREAU: There was disappointment all around Floyd Green’s St Elizabeth South Western constituency yesterday after he resigned as agriculture and fisheries minister amid the fallout from footage that surfaced showing him frolicking at an......

Jamaicans hoping that the extended coronavirus lockdowns would bring reprieve from marauding criminals are making a grave mistake, said Police Commissioner Antony Anderson, who yesterday redirected public criticism over an increase in murders...

The announcement that Audley Shaw, the self-styled ‘Man A Yaad’, has been handed the reins of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries again in the wake of yesterday’s resignation by Floyd Green, is being hailed as a strategic move by experts...

  Jamaica Labour Party councillor Andrew Bellamy has resigned from the board of the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) over a video showing him toasting to a COVID-19 no-movement day at a birthday party at the R Hotel.  He...

The hopes of 82,000 Jamaicans who received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine and are due a second in three weeks hinge on a shipment from the United States (US) that may not arrive on time, as the Ministry of Health...