Epidemiologist Professor Peter Figueroa has lobbied for a ramping up of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign as a fourth wave of the virus could hit Jamaica by year end. That warning comes as the country emerges from the shadow of death that produced....

A former don-turned-prosecution witness delivered a shocking testimony on Monday, claiming that a member of the One Don Gang had told him that he wanted to exhume the skull of a dead man so that he could use it to drink blood. The ex-gangster, who....

NEW FOREST/DUFF HOUSE, Manchester: Farmers of New Forest/Duff House who experienced a crippling wipeout of their melon crop last year and remain puzzled about stunted production are being urged to adapt to changing conditions. As climate change......

AIC Jamaica, one of two companies hauled before the courts over their mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy, has admitted that it got legal advice to not dock salaries or require aggrieved workers pay for tests out of pocket. And it says it will not......

WESTERN BUREAU: Respected western Jamaica-based family therapist Dr Beverly Scott wants the members of the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, where a deadly cult ritual took place last month, to be treated with compassion, not......

Residents of Calabash Bay in St Elizabeth are growing increasingly anxious over the continued silence of the authorities as the beach slowly disappears, urging immediate action to halt – and, if possible, reverse – the steady shoreline erosion.....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Monday pressed developed countries to provide meaningful funding solutions for small island developing states, which continue to bear the brunt of the fallout from global warming and other negative impacts of...

Twenty-six-year-old Kevin 'Big Dog' Grant, who was recently captured on tape drinking blood from the head of a freshly slaughtered goat, was shot dead at a rented apartment in Discovery Bay, St Ann, on Sunday. Grant was reportedly cut down by armed....

The auditor general’s recommendation that a surcharge be instituted against Dean-Roy Bernard, the in-limbo permanent secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, and acting PS Dr Grace McLean is being reviewed by the Ministr...

The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has pulled the covers off its election machinery, conducting canvasses and fielding candidates for more than 200 divisions months ahead of the February deadline for local government elections. Chairman...

Medical and scientific professionals believe that the time is right for Jamaica to frontally discuss the ethical dilemma surrounding the right to die amid a growing global lobby for euthanasia to be legalised. With November 2 recognised as World......

Pummeled by storm surges and compromised by other environmental hazards, there’s hardly a sliver of sand between some shops and the sea at Hellshire Beach in St Catherine. Kingsley Johnson, operator of Any Money One Stop, has been doing business....

More than 50 persons, or a quarter of those who turned up for Sunday’s incentive-laden vaccination drive of free chicken and phone credit, declined the jab because their preferred brand, Pfizer, was not among the available options. That developme...

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Chairman Robert Montague says there are no plans to change the party’s voting mechanism in internal elections following moves by the People’s National Party (PNP) to open up ballots to its wider membership. Montague t...

A downed telephone line in Aberdeen, northeast St Elizabeth, robbed centenarian Muriel Crosse of the usual calls she is accustomed to receiving on her birthday, dampening what would have been an otherwise perfect celebration she had planned. Crosse....

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP): The United Nations climate summit, known as COP26 this year, brings officials from almost 200 countries to Glasgow to haggle over the best measures to combat global warming. Here are some of the terms and key issues that...

A breakaway from the local Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church denomination has established a commune in the deep bowels of St Mary, preparing for the Second Coming, with little to no plans of interfacing with the Government or the rest of the...

He has been out 17 months now, but 74-year-old George Williams, a schizophrenic who spent more than 50 years in prison without a trial, continues a life of incarceration and poverty. These days, the illusions of his mind, coupled with the rickety......

Convicted sex offender and former religious leader, Kevin O. Smith, who is now deceased, had some of his first footprints in Jamaica at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, where he operated a mentorship programme involving over three...

Management consultant Dr Henley Morgan has admitted opening doors for Pastor Kevin O. Smith to access the corridors of power locally. Morgan does not recall participating in a seminar Smith hosted at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona,.....