Dozens of hospital staff islandwide are in isolation following a surge in COVID-19 infections amid a global eruption of the Omicron variant, limiting outpatient care and halting surgical operations at some facilities. For the first time since...
There are concerns in the medical field about the accuracy of COVID-19 tests being conducted by private facilities as well as suggestions that false negatives are being arrived at because of poor technique. The issue came to the fore on Wednesday...
There were no last-minute attempts by Haitian authorities to secure the extradition of Mario Antonio Palacios, one of the key suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, from Jamaica to the French-speaking country on Monday....
The Government may have to revert to its work-from-home (WFH) mandate, which ended last week for the public sector, amid heightened uncertainty around the highly contagious Omicron variant of the coronavirus which causes COVID-19, but stakeholders...
The Government is facing a conundrum with the planned resumption of face-to-face classes on January 3 and a steady increase in COVID-19 cases as the highly transmissible Omicron variant continues its rampage globally, but Health and Wellness...
Jamaica’s runaway crime rate has served as impetus for the full transformation of Kingston into a smart city, fuelling high expectations that heavy investments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) will deliver positive results. “...
The Greg Christie-led Integrity Commission is under increasing pressure to revisit the court matter involving former Hanover Western Member of Parliament Ian Hayles, almost five years after the Supreme Court granted an injunction blocking the...
The economic impact of the pandemic on consumers has become more pronounced with a decline in retail sales for the holiday period, but senior economists have said that there is very little the Government can do to loosen the screws of inflationary...
Seasoned trade unionist Granville Valentine says Monday’s Supreme Court ruling to deny Digicel Jamaica and Cari-Med Limited employees reprieve against the implementation of mandatory COVID vaccine policies pending trial will result in the wanton...
A number of students who want to continue attending the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) in Kingston will have to be vaccinated against COVID-19 following a new mandate expected to take effect in February. But already, there is pushback against...
CARICOM Secretary General Dr Carla Barnett stopped short of definitively supporting COVID-19 vaccine mandates across the region on Tuesday, opting instead to point out that governments have a right to protect their citizens. There has been strong...
The CARICOM Secretariat has conceded that there is little advocacy it can muscle to push member states off a European Union (EU) anti-money laundering blacklist but rapped developed countries for constantly shifting international benchmarks....
Former President of the Senate Floyd Morris says the Government is likely to face “major embarrassment” in the future if Senator Kamina Johnson continues her protest against Opposition Senator Lambert Brown, with whom she has had bad-tempered...
Ditching his ‘70s-era bush jackets, donning Kangol caps, and manicuring his scruffy beard, Opposition Leader Mark Golding’s handlers have sought to rebrand the dour commercial lawyer in the way young Labourites flipped the script in transforming a...
Washington is seeking to repair its soured relations with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) following the regional divisions that ensued after the Trump administration handpicked four member states for an exclusive meeting in March 2019, sparking...
The Biden administration has pledged more support in curbing the smuggling of guns from Haiti into Jamaica amid a sharp increase in murders here. Mark Wells, the United States deputy assistant secretary for Caribbean affairs and Haiti at the Bureau...
Coronavirus infections are expected to again envelop the country in a matter of weeks, putting seniors 60 years and over most at risk, but Jamaica’s Chief Medical Officer, (CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, has cautioned against hitting the...
A fix to the ills in the public health system, Howard Mitchell believes, could start with the National Housing Trust (NHT) and its facilitation of accommodation for healthcare workers, the majority of whom, it is argued, are not earning liveable...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says his administration is grappling with finding a balance between driving Kingston’s construction boom and avoiding environmental degradation. Holness said the sector is critical to positioning the capital city as...
Hours after Eastern Caribbean neighbours Barbados declared republic status and swore in its first president, a veteran politician has criticised Jamaican lawmakers’ inertia in severing the country’s links to the British monarchy. Fitz Jackson,...
Padmore Primary School principal Keisha Hayle has returned to the political fold of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) and is set to contest the Red Hills division in the upcoming local government elections due in three months. In a...
Senior defence lawyer Bert Samuels has challenged Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ position on how sentences for illegal possession of firearms should be handled, cautioning that the judiciary ought to be free from the influence of the executive and...
Seeking to staunch bloodshed with more than 1,300 people killed this year, Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Sunday promised a vigorous legislative push to tackle the country’s galloping murder rate. The thrust follows last Thursday’s blocking of...
Fraud and corruption charges against Kim Brown-Lawrence, councillor for the Brown’s Town division in the St Ann Municipal Corporation, have not immediately disqualified her candidacy for the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) as it fine-tunes...
Chairman of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Robert Montague, is facing a quiet-but-potent challenge headed by the party’s powerful Area Council One to oust him amid a trail of scandals spanning two ministries he has headed since 2016....
