Prime Minister Andrew Holness is scheduled to speak on the Government’s plans to address the COVID-19 threat during the coming festive season when the House of Representatives resumes sitting at Gordon House this afternoon. No details on the prime minister’s presentation were available yesterday, but it was recognised that the current emergency orders, which came […]
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MONTEGO BAY, St James — As the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to inflict severe damage to economies across the globe and significantly curb travel, Jamaica received a well-needed boost with JetBlue’s inaugurating new flights into this western city, between the cities of Newark, New Jersey; and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina on Saturday. An elated Tourism Minister […]
THERE is emerging evidence that face-to-face classes during the novel coronavirus pandemic may not be as risky as feared, at least not for children under 12. Director of the Department of Communicable Diseases at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Marcos Espinal says the evidence suggests that pre-teens do not very effectively transmit the […]
As one of the companies that acknowledged, potentially, an early case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), J Wray & Nephew had to stay above the waters, acting in a spirit of control to ward off the unwelcome evil. Apart from the separation of staff in its sugar business, which was planned long before COVID-19 struck, […]
AS the Joint Select Committee (JSC) on the Sexual Harassment Bill continues its deliberations, indications at this point are that the fine for making a false claim will not be lowered, as is being proposed by at least one advocacy group. Girls Who Know Ja (GWK Ja), in its presentation to the JSC at Gordon […]
THERE will be no financial windfall for the Caribbean from a Joe Biden-led US Government cautions Richard Bernal, former Jamaican ambassador to the USA, who on Friday shared his views on the foreign policy implications of a Biden win. “An increase in financial aid to middle-income developing countries of the Caribbean is not likely as […]
THE Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) is expressing confidence that it should be able to declare the winner of the People’s National Party (PNP) presidential election before 5:00 pm on Saturday, after the party’s delegates vote. Mark Golding and Lisa Hanna have been nominated to contest the election to be the sixth president of the […]
GOVERNMENT officials are convinced they did all they could, procedurally, to avert the alarming cluster of COVID-19 cases recently discovered at the Golden Age Home in Vineyard Town, St Andrew. Now an investigation has been launched to find out why the system failed, and efforts are being made to ensure it does not happen at […]
PEOPLE’S National Party (PNP) presidential aspirant Mark Golding has reprimanded former St Ann North Western Member of Parliament Dr Dayton Campbell for comments made on a political platform in St Ann last week, which has since attracted widespread criticisms from onlookers. Campbell, who is supporting Golding in his bid to replace Dr Peter Phillips […]
SIBLINGS Dwayne and Feleca Jonas are now both waiting to be called to the Jamaican Bar Association, having recently successfully completed their two-year tenure together at Norman Manley Law School (NMLS). Though the brother/sister duo, who are two years apart in age, are overjoyed and thankful, it has also left them in a reflective mood, […]