As plans for entertainment and other activities for the summer get into high gear, Chief Medical Officer Dr Jacquiline Bisasor McKenzie is warning party-goers to observe the well-established protocols to reduce the likelihood of transmitting...

Each morning, Yvonne Fearon, a household worker from Rose Hill in Summerfield, Clarendon, uses one pack of chocolate mix to make tea for herself, her husband, and their twin boys. She’s forced to stretch the mixture by adding sugar, milk, and wate...

Lawmakers have pushed back against an Integrity Commission recommendation for legislative amendments to the 2017 Integrity Commission Act to include additional declaration of their assets, calling it “invasive and inappropriate”. They have also...

WESTERN BUREAU: Like a case of déjà vu, Jamaica’s first monkeypox case was confirmed yesterday in a patient travelling from the United Kingdom, two years and four months after the island’s first COVID-19 case was detected in a visitor from the...

Come Emancipation Day, 84-year-old Eustace Richards will line up among the riders in the perennial Top Hill donkey race that has for years been a cultural staple in the St Catherine district. And the evergreen warrior has every confidence he can...

Jamaica, for the first time, will be establishing an entity that will include children as part of school leadership as the country moves to implement a comprehensive transformation plan for the education sector. The recommendation for the inclusion....

A childhood friend of Dominic ‘Domz’ Davis has been left distraught at the murder of the popular photographer she grew up with, constantly sharing dreams and encouraging words as they blossomed into young professionals. Davis, CEO of DomzMedia, ...

The Government on Tuesday pledged $3.8 billion in assistance to struggling Jamaicans amid increasing inflation and rising food costs as it seeks to stabilise an economy rocked by the twin headwinds of the coronavirus pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine...

More than five years after former parliamentarian Ian Hayles filed a suit barring the Integrity Commission from tabling a report in Parliament from the then contractor general, the former lawmaker is being accused by the anti-corruption body of...

Buffeted by criticism about chronic machine breakdowns and overlong downtime for repairs, the Ministry of Health and Wellness is exploring the option of leasing medical equipment for the public sector instead of making purchases. That consideration....

Retired national swimmer Kanute Kelly still sports the green Jamaica athletic blazer he wore to the National Stadium on August 6, 1962. The nostalgia of that moment – of the dot on the atlas charting the unknown future – still fills him with pri...

Likening the economic climate to a Category Five hurricane, Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor Richard Byles has doubled down on the central bank’s position to continue hiking interest rates despite mounting criticisms from the business community....

Think tank leader and economist Dr Damien King, who has been appointed to conduct a review of healthcare financing in Jamaica, is expected to deliver his report in June 2023. King, who has received a draft of the terms of reference, said the right....

In an effort to refresh the fading walls of downtown Kingston in time for Jamaica’s 60th Independence anniversary celebrations, local creatives have partnered with paint manufacturers to offer all business owners in the commercial district a 25 pe...

Fresh on the heels of his nomination for presidency of the People’s National Party (PNP) on Tuesday, incumbent Mark Golding says he is expecting a solid performance from the party in the local government polls that are due no later than February 2...

Lawmakers in Jamaica’s bicameral legislature have created history by filing their statutory declarations for the period under review within the time frame set out by law. The 84 legislators in the Lower and Upper Houses of Parliament received...

Sixteen-year-old deaf student Rolando Grant has missed out on in-person or virtual classes for two years – victim of a back-and-forth squabble over a birth certificate that has never been issued. That has clipped the wings of the aspiring pilot,.....

The brutal slaughter of bedridden senior citizen Pamela Gordon at her home in Clarendon, on Monday has left relatives and residents of her Lionel Town community bewildered. Adding to the shock is the fact that Gordon’s 69-year-old husband has been...

On the heels of allegations of stolen utility poles and illegal electricity connections at the Ocho Rios playing field, and $61 million in unaccounted-for funds from the special grants and repairs fund (SGR) at the St Ann Municipal Corporation,...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes accused the prosecution in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial on Monday of being immature after it refused to agree with the defence on information captured in the prisoners’ admission book at the Spanish Town Police Statio...