The Government’s decision to push back indefinitely the construction of a cardiac ward at the island’s sole children’s hospital has placed scores of kids in need of heart surgery in further jeopardy. That’s the belief...
The shuttered Happy Corner Bar at the entrance to August Town in St Andrew stands as an eerie reminder of what once was. Believed by some to be haunted by the ghosts of its victims, even the caretaker of the premises on which it sits stays far...
Scammers are reportedly targeting persons hoping to rent houses in the gated Phoenix Park Village housing development in St Catherine, swindling over one million dollars in the latest case of rent fraud via illicit players in the Airbnb industry....
It is unclear how widespread the practice is but, despite best efforts from the Jamaica Gasolene Retailers Association (JGRA) and other stakeholders in the industry, operators of some gas stations continue to slap extra charges on customers who do...
More Jamaican women are reportedly requesting paternity tests than Jamaican men. And these are not necessarily doubtful mothers, but vexed aunts, sisters, and girlfriends hell-bent on proving that their loved ones – or lovers – are victims of...
Sherica Listock* is a broken woman, a desperate mother, and a citizen who has lost all faith in the justice system. For more than a year, she has not seen her six-year-old daughter, allegedly barred by the child’s father, who is bent on severing...
With the roll-out of the new Road Traffic Act (RTA) hitting several bumps, attorney-at-law Gavin Goffe has urged the Government not to unfairly punish motorists with fines, especially since the Island Traffic Authority (ITA), the main body...
The Government could have a slew of proposed revisions to the newly implemented Road Traffic Act to consider when stakeholders meet this Thursday. The Road Traffic Act, which was passed in 2018, took effect last Wednesday after the accompanying...
Police men and women are reportedly leaving the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) “in droves” with almost all divisions impacted by the exodus, especially since late last year. “Persons are submitting resignations left, right and centre. It is right...
An audit into the state of public bathroom facilities at hospitals and health centres islandwide has been completed, and according to the Ministry of Health and Wellness, it is satisfied with efforts to drastically improve the conditions. Health...
For 400 metres, the sight was pure horror. Chunks of human flesh, mangled, torn and pasted on the asphalt with blood that had gone muddy, littered the St Catherine leg of the North/South Highway. Initial reports were that the victim, believed to...
For years, his small seed of faith bore no fruit until the day of November 17, 2022, when his nine-year-old daughter was being wheeled into an operating theatre at the Bustamante Hospital for Children in St Andrew for open-heart surgery. Then the...
Clothes vendor Gem Watson is feeling the effects of a costly toxic mixture of business and relationship. However, customers who patronise her shop in downtown Kingston would never guess it, judging by her “roughneck yet inviting” persona. Only...
Delroy Lennon is a broken man, a desperate father, and a resident shaken by one of Clarendon’s toughest communities. His hardest days come with tears, but never thoughts of giving up on life. This is unlike 34 per cent of Jamaican men who say they...
Chronic lifestyle diseases, particularly diabetes and hypertension, continue their menace on the health sector, racking up medical expenditure and leaving many families in mourning. Yet many Jamaicans are still clinging to unhealthy food choices,...
At eight years old, Dae-Jhuana Sewell and her sister, Davianna, five, have endured more gun violence than most adults. Already, they have survived a gang invasion, stepped over dead men in their own home, and continue to relive those frightening...
It might be the biggest open secret in the health sector, which several medical professionals reluctantly admitted last week, but Jamaica’s COVID-19 vaccination programme appears to be critically ill – if not dead – with only about 27 per cent of...
Kenesha Robinson is a budding comedian with a gift to make people laugh. But that is on stage. At home, caring for her ailing 77-year-old mother is no laughing matter. At night, she cries, especially when there is no food for her mom to eat before...
Forty-one years on, it is no longer considered a death sentence but instead a chronic disease, in some cases inactive with on-time and consistent treatment. Still, inequality threatens efforts by the Joint United Nations programme for HIV/AIDS (...
From using gamma irradiation technology to curtail mosquito spread to employing nuclear energy to power homes and call centres, industry players last week outlined a slew of initiatives they say will bolster life for Jamaicans while making science...
Between midnight and 3:00 each morning, Natasia Barrett-Boswell is yanked from her bed by a desperate need to comfort her two-year-old son, Xander. The only problem is, Xander has been dead for two weeks now. Still, she can hear him crying. Still,...
The night before the bulldozers rolled in with a battalion of police and soldiers, a helicopter hovering overhead, Suelyn Ward-Brown was on a roadside in the Clifton community in St Catherine, expressing concerns to news teams about the fate of...
Jamaica was never slated to be part of a controversial survey that was to be administered to secondary students in several schools across the Caribbean, the local education ministry has said. But following last week’s uproar in Barbados over the...
There has been a drastic increase in the registration of slot machines across the island, but regulators at the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) say they are still grappling with unscrupulous persons who continue to flout the law...
They may have replaced the broken fences and repainted the muddy walls, but the memories of the treacherous Weise Road flooding in St Andrew two years ago remain etched in residents’ minds and rekindled fears as the threat of Tropical Storm Ian...
