Owner and operator of Pier 1 Restaurant in Montego Bay, St James, Jason Russell, has asserted that some provisions in the Tobacco Control Act (2020) will rob tourists of the full Jamaican experience. In his submission to Tuesday’s joint select...
Seventy-eight-year-old Vincent Carara would usually be overwhelmed with school furniture orders, but with the arrival of COVID-19, the booming business came to a sudden halt as classes moved online. He is now fulfilling the first order of 150...
Epidemiologist Professor Peter Figueroa has lobbied for a ramping up of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign as a fourth wave of the virus could hit Jamaica by year end. That warning comes as the country emerges from the shadow of death that produced...
Pummeled by storm surges and compromised by other environmental hazards, there’s hardly a sliver of sand between some shops and the sea at Hellshire Beach in St Catherine. Kingsley Johnson, operator of Any Money One Stop, has been doing business...
The National Water Commission (NWC) is seeking to engage a legal officer with the sole duty of addressing revenue matters. Although it supplies 190 million gallons of potable water each day to its more than 400,000 registered customers, the...
Jamaica is being urged to consider embracing more water-efficient fixtures as a conservation strategy. Rapporteur and former managing director of the Water Resources Authority (WRA), Basil Fernandez, reasoned that, while these could seem costly...
The National Water Commission (NWC) will soon be approaching its regulator, the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR), with a request for a punitive water rate for periods of drought in a bid to drive conservation. NWC President Mark Barnett...
Advertising mogul and executive chairman of MacMillan Advertising, Robert Anthony MacMillan, has died. He was 73. MacMillan Advertising is one of the longest established advertising agencies in Jamaica, founded by Robert’s father, Dudley MacMillan...
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has cited security concerns and the right to a fair trial among the reasons for the transfer of Pastor Kevin O. Smith’s case to Kingston. Smith, the pastor of Pathways International Kingdom...
Approval has been granted for infants zero to five years to return to face-to-face engagement amid the COVID-19 pandemic which has shuttered most schools since March 2020. The education ministry’s bulletin dated Friday, October 22 is good news for...
Twenty-four-year-old Randy Greaves has been blazing a trail of his own. Though born with four conditions that make him visually impaired, he is a university graduate and now a master’s student. Greaves has bilateral cataracts, nystagmus (which...
Antonia Richards Stewart spent all nine months of her pregnancy working on the COVID-19 ward at Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), right up to the time of her delivery. She is among hundreds of healthcare workers who have been battling on the...
Rallying a call to action in the face of Jamaica’s “vaccine crisis of gargantuan proportions”, public-health specialist Dr Alverston Bailey has urged the Ministry of Health and Wellness to offer AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses to the estimated...
Jamaica’s employed labour force grew by 8.3 per cent in July, according to the latest data from the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN). The July 2021 Labour Force Survey (LFS) found that more than 1.2 million (1,215,000) Jamaicans were in...
The pass rate of Jamaican students in mathematics at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) level has plunged by 23 percentage points. In the June-July exam administered by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), only 38.2 per cent...
Kemar Gayle and Caroney Gregory met in college, embarked on parenthood, and recently mastered it together – literally! – with the award of their Master of Arts in teacher education and teacher development, with distinction, from The University of...
The Government has allocated an additional $5 billion in the Supplementary Estimates to cushion the impact of the pandemic on the most vulnerable Jamaicans. Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke announced a number of CARE packages valued at $3.75...
From one CXC to MSc with distinction. That’s the story of 31-year-old Castio Williams, who endured failure, tragedy, family challenges and financial difficulties, but triumphed. He now proudly holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree in...
At least three health regions across Jamaica have reported that some vaccines for young children are in short supply. South Eastern Regional Health Authority (SERHA) Regional Technical Director Dr Sandra Chambers-Gause disclosed that the BCG...
With poor housing being a major developmental challenge in Kingston Central, first-term Member of Parliament (MP) Donovan Williams has announced a major land-title drive and the courting of private-sector investors in developing the blighted...
Second-term member of parliament (MP) for St Andrew West Rural, Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, has outlined expansive improvement plans for the Lawrence Tavern division, focusing on water, roadways, and healthcare infrastructure. Cuthbert-Flynn, who is...
The medical chief of staff of the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), Dr Carl Bruce, has said that while most COVID-19 patients at the facility spend two weeks in admission, others have developed brain, heart, and other respiratory...
Over the past three months, skateboarding has become the new rave for children of Trench Town, St Andrew, with a few eyeing coaching and competitive sports. In street-style, they skated up and down Second Street, manoeuvring a board ramp to...
Residents of Woodford Park in southeast St Andrew are lamenting the daily disruption to their electricity supply, for several hours, since June. Some householders theorise that legitimate Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) customers are being...
A RESILIENT, cheerful and supportive Silvin Louise Osbourne Leslie reached the milestone age of 100 yesterday. Leslie, the eldest of five siblings, has a 95-year-old brother who resides in Canada. She was raised in Thompson Town, Clarendon, where...
