Therese Turner-Jones – general manager of the Jamaica-based Caribbean Country Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which oversees the lending agency and development organisation’s work across several English-speaking Caribbea...

The financial hardships are beginning to set in for Antoinette Calderon*, the Qualcare Jamaica Limited employee who has been on unpaid vacation leave for refusing to comply with the COVID-19 policy implemented by her employers two months ago. It...

A threat by the Government to take legal action against families who have abandoned relatives at the island’s public hospitals has not scared Candace*, who is convinced that her father, Carlton*, is right where he should be: out of her life. Healt...

WESTERN BUREAU: Some days, the name is Abelo Forex; on other days, Kabelo Forex Goat Investments. The only constant is the image depicting Jamaican businessman Aubyn Henry, whose physical identity has been stolen by South African scammers. A month.....

Having done extensive research on cybercrime, head of that unit at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), Andrea Martin-Swaby, pointed out that identity theft has been a problem which predates the evolution of social media....

The five employees of pharmaceutical giant Cari-Med, who yesterday suffered a major blow in their bid to challenge the company’s vaccination policy after the Supreme Court threw out the constitutional aspect of the legal challenge, have signalled....

“There is no question that Jamaica has to become a republic.” That definitive declaration was made by Prime Minister Andrew yesterday, while delivering the keynote address during the official opening ceremony at Christel House Jamaica in Twicken...

Opposition Senator Damion Crawford is recommending that secondary schools concentrate primarily on five subjects as students return to the classrooms during the pandemic with the need to observe social-distancing guidelines. He said that if...

One of the leaders of a protest staged yesterday across from the United States (US) Embassy in Liguanea, St Andrew, objecting to what is said was that country’s meddling in the current Ethiopian conflict, has declared that he would have no...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Public Defender Arlene Harrison-Henry is urging Jamaicans to become more aware of their rights and responsibilities, noting that the two go hand in hand. Speaking yesterday – which was observed as International Human Rights...

Pencils4Kids founder and CEO Randy Griffiths believes that in order for education to be adaptable and inspire children, it must start with the learning environment and early on in each child’s development. Griffiths is an alumnus of the Quickstep...

Justice Vinette Graham Allen on Thursday denied a request for a closer mention date to afford a murder accused an opportunity to attend his mother’s funeral. Defence attorney Ernest Davis had made the plea on behalf of Oscar Barnes, who is jointly...

One of the wards of the state who absconded from the Metcalfe Street Secure Juvenile Remand Centre on Monday is back in custody and a second is expected to be returned to the facility based on dialogue with his family. This was disclosed in the...

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie says that the island’s efforts to boost vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) have been significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Government has been offering the....

Jamalco has taken “serious issue” with a Sunday Gleaner report quoting a CCA Capital Partners financial review of its operations, which shows that nearly US$100 million, or more than J$13 billion, in payments made by Clarendon Alumina Production...

One of the main witnesses in the Clansman-One Don Gang had reportedly told the police when he was arrested that he would have been killed if he had refused to comply with the One Don Gang’s order. An investigator in the gang case testified...

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie says there has already been a run on hospitals islandwide with crime and crash victims, mere days into the holiday period. “Right now, we are seeing those increasing numbers already,” t...

Coronavirus infections are expected to again envelop the country in a matter of weeks, putting seniors 60 years and over most at risk, but Jamaica’s Chief Medical Officer, (CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, has cautioned against hitting the...

As Jamaica remains on alert for a fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic as the Omicron variant makes its trek across the globe, IGL Blue Limited Chairman Bevon Francis has indicated that there are sufficient quantities of medical-grade oxygen...

Despite the low take-up of COVID-19 vaccines across the island, the health ministry has indicated that it will not be ceding the battle to anti-vaxxers as it pushes towards its target of inoculating 65 per cent of the population by next March. More....