The St Ann Municipal Corporation could face legal action if it does not quickly turn over payment to Rahim’s Cleaning and Trucking Limited, the company hired to undertake controversial $46-million COVID-19 sanitisation at eight locations in Ocho...
SINGING THE praises of airport staff and health officials after emerging from the arrival halls of the Norman Manley International Airport yesterday, Norma Kelly returned to Jamaica with a new lease on life and a sense of liberation. The Jamaican...
Nearly five years after Britain’s Cameron administration offered to part-finance a new penal facility in Jamaica, the Holness Government has announced that it will fund the construction of a state-of-the-art prison out of pocket. The declaration...
President of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), Owen Speid, has resumed his call for the Andrew Holness-led administration to immediately put a stop to all “experimental emergency response virtual teaching”. Speid, who was speaking at the...
WHILE THE Jamaican police force and the army have had a piecemeal and stop-start engagement of body cameras over the years, private security companies have gradually incorporated the video-surveillance equipment as a crucial backstop in monitoring...
More than half a decade after moves were made to equip personnel with body cameras to guard against unprofessional conduct and extrajudicial killings, national security and defence officials have confirmed that neither the police nor the army has...
A JAMAICAN restaurateur whose philanthropic efforts have warmed the stomachs of the homeless in Florida is on the verge of losing her business because of spiralling overheads and low revenues caused by coronavirus containment measures. Millicent...
Agriculture Minister Audley Shaw has pledged to aggressively expand the footprint of drip irrigation as Jamaican farmers wilt under searing temperatures amid below-average rainfall. Preliminary data gathered by the Meteorological Service of...
Describing the late Oliver Clarke as an incredible philanthropist and businessman and “undercover celebrity”, Alexandra Clarke said that her late father always sought to keep her grounded, warning against notions of entitlement. Clarke, a banker...
The president of one of Jamaica’s most powerful unions has warned the Government against pushing for the whole-scale return of the workforce to offices and plants. The high-ranking official has also suggested that the decision might prejudice the...
THOUGH REMAINING optimistic, 40-year-old Evelyn Cordiel said she was unexpectedly thrown into a state of despair earlier this year when her daughter, Nittia Deleon, was diagnosed with ameloblastoma, a rare and fast-growing tumour in her jaw which...
As the coronavirus pandemic drags on, thousands of Jamaicans who have had to stay home from work and school are turning to their refrigerators and snack containers to pass the time. One such person is Attea Stewart, a resident of Portmore who...
AS JAMAICA makes preparatory steps to reopen the tourism sector and, by extension, the country’s borders, more stringent measures are proposed to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Audley Deidrick, president of the Airports Authority of...
Scores of people who turned up yesterday at the Pavilion Mall to collect their government-issued compassionate grants at Western Union made a mockery of physical distancing as they converge on the financial institution. There were long lines...
Michael Forrester, one of the 115 Jamaicans who were stranded in the United Kingdom and arrived aboard a TUI charter flight yesterday, revealed that his main reason for leaving his homeland was to tend to his elderly mother. Now that he has...
The night was heavy with grief as the mother of an eight-year-old child who was murdered at her home yesterday afternoon wailed uncontrollably in the arms of a policeman at her Denham Town, Kingston, home. According to a police source, the child...
LIMITED PARENTAL supervision and an emerging role reversal have hobbled the seamless transition to online classes since the shuttering of schools nationwide, with Jamaican teachers reportedly the targets of nude images and other inappropriate...
A number of expectant mothers are expressing fear as their delivery dates draw nearer due to the tragic sequence of events which resulted in the death of 23-year-old first-time mom Jodian Fearon over a week ago. Fearon, who had visited the Andrews...
With the spread of COVID-19 restricting large public gatherings, stakeholders in the funeral industry said their businesses have been slowly dying, as families opt to delay burials until a sense of normality resumes in the country. Some funeral...
Residents of COVID-19 quarantine zones are barred from donating blood until the state-imposed restriction is lifted, the Blood Bank has said. Director of the Blood Bank, Dr Alisha Tucker, says that although there has been no suspected or reported...
As the Ministry of Health and Wellness moves to ramp up its turnaround of COVID-19 test results, Gleaner investigations of three cases indicate that bureaucratic backlogs and a communication blackout may be compromising the country’s grasp of the...
PORTMORE MAYOR Leon Thomas has blamed hysteria and stigma for the no-show of truckloads of agricultural produce intended for farmers’ markets for the sprawling St Catherine community on Saturday. There was outrage among residents of Gregory Park...
Amid a massive increase in customers attempting to purchase rubbing alcohol since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Jamaica, P.A. Benjamin Manufacturing Company has closed its retail office temporarily to focus on supplying its major...
The National Workers’ Union (NWU) has blasted IRIE FM’s attempt to terminate 27 staff members as “unethical” and insensitive, saying the action is without justifiable cause. The reggae-centred radio station went off air late last month as...
Naomi Thompson-Henry boiled with anger as she condemned as malicious a video that has emerged on social media linking her late husband’s death to COVID-19 and potentially putting their lives at risk. In the five-minute video, the voice of a woman...
