As concerns heighten over the vulnerability of Kingston’s homeless population to the novel coronavirus, Local Government and Community Development Minister Desmond McKenzie said that the Government is in a race against time to retrofit a facility...
Locally produced 3D face shields could become available for healthcare workers who are on the front line of the unfolding COVID-19 crisis. Jamaican authorities are seeking to ramp up the supply of gear for doctors and nurses, with the World Health...
Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke has maintained that the Government’s approach to cushioning the impact of COVID-19 in Jamaica is to target those who are most affected. COVID-19 has disrupted the income of many Jamaicans...
Candidates registered to sit Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) May-June 2020 exams will be assessed using a modified process, the result of a policy decision taken by the council. More than 30,000 Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (...
LOUIS O’CONNOR, a resident of Kentish in St Catherine, has planted more seeds on his farm to guard against food shortage amid the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. When Jamaica recorded its first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus on March 10...
“Run fi di six!” he shouted to his teammate as the ball made its way to the mango tree in the distance. A strip of asphalt at Junction crossroads, St Catherine, was their pitch, and with little to no traffic passing by, their game of cricket was...
AN UNEMPLOYED mother of six, who requested that her name be withheld, is the head of one of the more than 130,000 families who receive benefit through the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH). “I wasn’t working ‘cause I had...
More than $23.5 billion was paid out to Jamaican families registered with the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) between 2014 and 2019. Benefits are provided under the Ministry of Labour and Social Security to children,...
All Jamaican airports and seaports will be closed to incoming passenger traffic effective today, at 11:59 p.m., as the Government increases its efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19. Incoming and outgoing cargo as well as outgoing passengers will...
The Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) is reporting a 30 per cent decline in revenues as the number of people using public transportation shrinks daily. Schools and universities haved closed since March 13. At the same time, an increasing...
Nestled in Irish Town, St Andrew, on a multi-crop farm is a sustainable farmhouse built from mainly natural materials. The Mudhouse is representative of a modern design using a traditional construction method, wattle and daub. It is...
Principal of Old Harbour High School, Lynton Weir, has suggested that schools proceed on the Easter and summer breaks should COVID-19 sweep Jamaica. All infant, primary, and secondary schools, as well as tertiary institutions, have been ordered...
Dwayne Gordon is a resident of Riverton Meadows who is engaged in scrap-metal trading. The bulk of the items he trades for cash are salvaged from the community dump that hoovers up all the solid waste generated in the Corporate Area. But when...
Online food delivery services are sinking their teeth into bigger profits as Jamaicans skip crowded restaurants and opt to stay indoors in line with a COVID-19 ban on mass gatherings. Starting yesterday, the Government imposed crowd-control...
Though issued a strict warning on the weekend that their licences could be confiscated, some taxi operators have continued to deny nurses their services. “We have gotten other reports across other parishes but not Kingston of the practice...
It was less than two hours before 2 p.m. yesterday and fewer than 10 customers milled about between the Cross Roads Market meat and ground provision areas that serve some communities in Kingston. But come today, there may be a rush at that time...
With social distancing becoming the new normal in the wake of 12 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Jamaica, more people have been seeking medical attention through telemedicine. Telemedicine is the remote delivery of healthcare services such as...
The Jamaican Government is working to expedite the delivery of vital hospital equipment in anticipation that COVID-19, the infections disease caused by the novel coronavirus, will peak here in about eight weeks. This is based on modelling...
Jamaican employees who are subject to quarantine or isolation for the novel coronavirus should not lose that vacation leave entitlement during that time, says Dunston Bryan, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health...
A major explosion at TAO Restaurant Chinese Cuisine in New Kingston yesterday left two persons with serious injuries and several others with minor burns. The blackened Knutsford Boulevard building, with smoke billowing from inside, and two damaged...
With Jamaica confirming its first COVID-19 case yesterday, Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has earmarked $7 billion in contingency funding to tackle the SARS-CoV-2 viral threat. In his contribution to the 2020-2021 Budget...
When Kadian Lewis and Iyania Turner were shipped off to the South Camp Juvenile Remand and Correctional Centre in Kingston, they never imagined that their stay would redound to more than rehabilitation. They left the facilities with capital to...
Colin Greenwood has been a barber for more than 30 years. He first experimented with trimming his own hair until his family and friends trusted him enough. Their verdict? He made the cut. But the 47-year-old is one of 25 barbers who have a higher...
The principals of Symbiote Investments, the operators of Caricel, have expressed shock that they and four other business partners have been listed as persons of interest by the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime (C-TOC) Investigations Branch. C-...
Joan Mignott smiled from ear to ear yesterday as she outlined the progress of students enrolled in the enrichment programme at Rollington Town Primary School in Kingston. Mignott, the teacher in charge of the programme, beamed with pride as she...
