ONE hundred and twenty-five more schools will be allowed to resume face-to-face classes, Education Minister Fayval Williams announced in Parliament yesterday. She said the Government took the decision following favourable completion of the pilot reopening of 17 schools across nine parishes in November. Along with the pilot schools, 22 others out of the selected 125 […]
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AT the age of 15, she spent three months on the harsh streets of Kingston after her parents told her she was not welcome in their homes. Twenty-three years later, though light years removed from the situation that caused her to run the streets — at one point sleeping under the bed of a former […]
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House yesterday approved a Bill to decriminalise and tax marijuana at the federal level, reversing what supporters call a failed policy of criminalising pot use and taking steps to address racial disparities in enforcement of federal drug laws. Opponents, mostly Republicans, called the Bill a hollow political […]
The Government of the United Kingdom (UK) yesterday ignored calls for clemency and deported 13 Jamaicans who it said had combined jail terms of more than 100 years, including three convicted of murder, another of manslaughter, while others had been sentenced for crimes including drug dealing, burglary and robbery. The British Government also indicated that […]
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 […]
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 […]