Faced with a social media backlash, Canadian Legislative Assembly member Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin, has backtracked on claims that Jamaicans are lazy and underproductive because of their excessive use of ganja.Smith-McCrossin, a member of the Legislative Assembly...
An assortment of counterfeit cigarettes worth approximately $5 million was seized at a house in James Village, Waterlane, in Clarendon, yesterday.Officers from the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime (C-TOC) unit arrested two Jamaicans, a brother...
More than $100 million in counterfeit clothes and shoes were seized by the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigation Branch (CTOC) in an operation on Barry Street in downtown Kingston yesterday.The raid was conducted on two adjoining...
Jamaica cannot achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) if persons with intellectual disabilities are excluded from the mix, says development manager of the Jamaica Association on Intellectual Disabilities (JAID), Marilyn McKoy.McKoy, who was...
Seven-year cancer survivor Juliet Davis is appealing to authorities in the public health sector to see what can be done to make the waiting time for appointments and results for cancer-related illnesses much quicker.It took Davis more than a year...
Four times more women than men in the 15 to 19 age group in Jamaica have been reported with AIDS, according to a 2015 epidemiology report.Against this backdrop, the new Consolidated guideline on sexual and reproductive health and rights of women...
With Jamaica recording just over 2,000 newly diagnosed or reported HIV cases in 2016, the country director for the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is adamant that more needs to be done if the island is going to meet its targets to end...
With teachers opting to stay home for three days as a sign of protest over the Government's latest wage offer, one teacher is sticking by her decision not to join the unofficial strike.Jody Titus-Maxwell, an educator for 11 years, who has worked at...
Risky behaviour, inter-generational sex, and dwindling public-education campaigns are said to be factors contributing to a recent increase in HIV among Jamaica's young people.While figures for 2017 are not yet available, the 2016 Ministry Of Health...
Opposition leader Dr Peter Philips is calling on the Andrew Holness administration to immediately retable the Sexual Harassment Bill as part of efforts to arrest this scourge in Jamaica.As Jamaica joined the rest of the world in marking...
More help is coming for persons who suffer from kidney disease. Two hospitals across St Catherine and St Andrew are expected to benefit from a total of 40 new dialysis machines funded by the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund....
Director of the Safety and Security Programme in the Ministry of Education, Assistant Superintendent Coleridge Minto, is confident that Jamaica has the systems in place to deal with most emergencies in the nation's schools.With security at Jamaican...
Approximately 1,000 persons are slated to benefit from the latest efforts by the Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology to increase Internet use in Jamaica.The Technology Advancement Programme (TAP), which was launched recently, is being funded...
The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) is stepping up efforts to get persons to apply for place of amusement licences before staging any event.Addressing the KSAMC monthly meeting on Tuesday, Councillor Vernon McLeod argued that...
Rocked by several allegations of mismanagement and frequent queries from the auditor general over its handling of State resources, the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) has embarked on a campaign to repair its image, and the current management is...
