WESTERN BUREAU: It is safe to say that Jamaica has now entered the fourth COVID-19 wave, Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has confirmed to The Gleaner. Impelled by the high rate of increase in COVID-19 cases, the minister made.....

The Government is facing a conundrum with the planned resumption of face-to-face classes on January 3 and a steady increase in COVID-19 cases as the highly transmissible Omicron variant continues its rampage globally, but Health and Wellness...

“Mommy, mi feel like mi paralysed” were the last words 10-year-old Jezariah Tyrell spoke fluently before she lost consciousness, alerting her frantic mother to a single bullet wound although there was no sighting of blood. The household was fi...

In what residents suspect to be a retaliatory attack in a dispute over domestic issues, arsonists on Thursday morning continued their spate of destruction by setting fire to a three-bedroom unoccupied house after destroying three adjoining houses......

Iris Coley today celebrates a remarkable milestone, having survived 100 years – a feat she credits to placing God at the centre of her life, thankful that He has guided her through many of life’s challenges. Born on December 31, 1921, the sevent...

WESTERN BUREAU: Some police officers assigned to the zone of special operation (ZOSO) in Norwood, St James, since the inception of the security measure in June are complaining of fatigue, saying that they desperately want to be reassigned to other.....

While the lingering presence of the coronavirus and the increasing threat of the Omicron variant, coupled with the ban on parties and the continued enforcement of COVID 19- restrictions, have put a damper on New Year’s Eve celebrations, some...

WESTERN BUREAU: Wild celebrations erupted in Clifton, Hanover, yesterday as a community gripped by tension breathed a sigh of relief as five days of searching came to a joyous climax after relatives acted on a vision a cousin received in a dream to....

WESTERN BUREAU: Relatives of 27-year-old Chaleen Evans, the Hanover woman who went missing on Christmas Day, were in a joyful mood yesterday after the University of the West Indies student was found alive on a beach near the Hopewell High School...

INVESTIGATORS IN Montego Bay, St James, are trying to determine if the unidentified male who was fatally shot yesterday morning while attempting to stage a robbery at the Scotiabank branch in Sam Sharpe Square in the parish had a history of mental.....

With nearly two months before local government elections are constitutionally due, Director of Elections Glasspole Brown says the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) has sent a budget of more than $1 billion to the Ministry of Finance and the Public.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Michelle Pinnock, regional director for the Ministry of Education’s Region Four, says plans remain in place to balance rotational face-to-face learning with virtual learning if the established COVID-19 vaccination rate of 65 per...

Following my visit to the Taj Mahal, I travelled to Akbar International in Agra, where I got a detailed demonstration of parchinkari, which is the painstaking art of inlaying precious or semi-precious stones in marble. Parchinkari began in India......

Investigators probing Sunday morning’s multimilion-dollar heist at the Red Stripe brewery on Spanish Town Road in St Andrew have recovered nearly half of the stolen beer and have seized one of two trucks believed to have been used in the robbery.....

Thirteen-year-old Sherinaé Brown took to the streets of the Corporate Area during the holidays to feed and clothe the homeless and most vulnerable in the society so they would not feel left out. The grade eight student at Immaculate Conception...

WESTERN BUREAU: There is noticeable increase in cancellation of rooms and a fall-off in the rate of forward bookings as Omicron threatens to put a dent in the Jamaican tourism industry, particularly the small hotel sector. Most of the island’s...

WESTERN BUREAU: Seven weeks after American tourist Antiellia Sterling rented a 2017 Toyota Corolla from Sixt-Rent-A-Car in Montego Bay, St James, the company has only been able to recoup seven days of payment. The other six weeks for which the...

Vice Chairman of the National Road Safety Council Dr Lucien Jones says he is not surprised that the country has surpassed last year’s total road fatalities , but noted that this year’s figure, which stood at 473 yesterday, is most disturbing.......

Glenister Estate, which operates out of Bernard Lodge in St Catherine, will next week export its first batch of Chinese and Indian bitter melon to the United Kingdom (UK). Bitter melon resembles the fruit which grows on the cerasee vine, but it is.....

CHUDLEIGH, Manchester: Although 20-year-old Sashanya Hart knew her new bundle of joy could have arrived sooner or later than her delivery due date, she was pleasantly surprised when her baby girl arrived four days later than expected to become the....