The ravages of the coronavirus have taken the ultimate toll on one St Elizabeth family whose members are pondering if their relative would still be alive if he had been vaccinated. Andrew Burton, 45, was not an anti-vaxxer, but had reportedly not...
The success of Jamaica’s campaign to immunise tens of thousands of students could rest on the mobilisation of an army of vaccination teams into rural districts and inner-city communities. That is the assessment of Education Minister Fayval Williams...
Chaos is set to reign in the island’s public transport sector today as while interest group leaders are asking taxi and bus operators to delay applying a ministry-approved 15 per cent increase in fares as they lobby for a higher percentage, some...
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has said that there is no excuse for Jamaicans to now not take the COVID-19 vaccine, emphasising its importance in crippling the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking yesterday at the commissioning of 207 new justices of the...
In an effort to foster change in the violence-torn August Town in St Andrew Central, some community-based groups have started initiatives to give back to the area. The Peace Builders, African Gardens/Bedward Crescent Community Development...
In a sweeping condemnation of persons who are using social media to perpetuate misinformation about the coronavirus vaccine, State Minister in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Alando Terrelonge, has called on those...
Residents in the Bog Walk Gorge have blamed the contamination of the Rio Cobre for anecdotal cases of ill health and the stench from a fish kill for a financial fallout for small businesses. The unbearable smell coming from hundreds of pounds of...
Seventy-one-year-old Clovis Brown, a resident of Sligoville, St Catherine, was nine years old when Jamaica got its Independence from Britain in 1962. She recalled attending the Sligoville All-Age School at the time, and the efforts made by teachers...
There seem to be a waning resistance to the idea of the municipality of Portmore becoming Jamaica’s 15th parish on the part of some residents who spoke at the joint select committee of Parliament virtual town hall meeting last Thursday. Since the...
In a fervent display of will and determination, the Hermitage Women For Peace, in association with the Sizzla Youth Foundation and the August Town Peace Builders, staged a peace march on Sunday to register their opposition to the continued...
As citizens of Portmore were drawn into the discussions for the first time on the issue of their municipality becoming Jamaica’s 15th parish, concerns about well-defined parish boundaries, infrastructural development and revenue fallout dominated a...
Rogue transport operators whose unlicensed vehicles have had to be seized multiple times by the police should have their property forfeited to the State. That’s a recommendation by Senior Superintendent of Police Gary McKenzie, head of the Public...
Gang feud erupted in the Park Lane community off Red Hills Road, Kingston 19, on Saturday, leaving one family in deep distress after gunmen shot three cousins who were members of the family, killing two, and injuring a third. Another man, believed...
Fire of unknown origin completely destroyed a building that housed the administrative offices at the Hydel Group of Schools along Mandela Highway in St Catherine yesterday morning, just before the start of external examinations. There were no...
West Indies Home Contractors’ (WIHCON) plan to build 328 town houses on lands in Westchester, Portmore, will not trigger the eviction of businesses and a church that occupy the property. Concerns have lingered since WIHCON’s announcement of the...
Reported allegations of sexual abuse committed against children, although seeing a decline in 2020 over 2019, has prompted children’s advocate, national rapporteur and specialised justice expert Diahann Gordon Harrison to call for an expansion of...
Residents of 38 Valdez Road in Homestead, St Catherine, are demanding justice following the shooting death of 19-year-old Kevon Morgan, a tiler who was allegedly shot and killed by Jamaica Defence Force soldiers about 11:30 a.m. in the community...
After incurring massive losses since it was commissioned into service in 2016, the operations of the Linstead Transportation Centre will now be regularised. Plagued by extortion schemes, the failure of taxi and minibus operators to use the facility...
A 48-hour curfew imposed in Naggo Head, Portmore, since 6 p.m. Monday has not calmed the fears of residents, who believe that more violence will arise from two killings on the weekend. In the first attack, 69-year-old Paulette Brown of West Bank,...
Twenty-year-old Whitney Sinclair just can’t wait for the next crisis to conquer. The Glengoffe, St Catherine, native has bounced back better from just about every adversity and is carving out niche global markets in Africa, Europe, and North...
Deadly gun violence that erupted in Hermitage, St Andrew, on the weekend, has driven fear into a grieving family and forced the abandonment of a peace march in August Town. Dadrian Shaye, 33, was reportedly shot in the head and his one-room wooden...
Councillors of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation have almost unanimously demanded that they receive similar allocations as members of parliament under the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). All 63 members of parliament are allocated $20...
Forty-four-year-old Christopher Gordon has struggled all his life, but was never able to pull himself up out of poverty. Living near the highway in a 36-square-foot shack with dirt floor in the community of Vanity Fair, Linstead, was all he could...
As darkened skies hung over communities along the Gordon Town main road on Sunday, the pitter-patter of rainfall on zinc roofs was a haunting soundtrack that reminded residents of the catastrophe that unfolded eight months ago. Tropical Storm Elsa...
The St Catherine Disaster Management and Preparedness Committee says it is fully prepared to mitigate any fallout from Hurricane Elsa. Chairman of the committee Roogae Kirkew says the operational centre from which all responses will be generated...
