CHIEF Medical Officer Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, pointing to “problems with stigma”, says Jamaicans must come to terms with the reality that people deemed to be COVID-19 positive will be isolated at home in the coming days. “What we want to do is to prepare the public is that we are going to have positive cases […]
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MONTEGO BAY, St James — Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has disclosed that 21 people are now quarantined at Carlisle Inn, the 52-room hotel in this resort city that Sandals Resorts International (SRI) offered the Government for use in its response to the COVID-19 crisis. “We have 21 persons here at this facility. […]
More than 333,000 Jamaicans have so far successfully applied to the COVID-19 Allocation of Resources for Employees (CARE) Programme, the Government’s temporary cash transfer initiative designed to cushion the economic impact of the pandemic, Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke disclosed yesterday. “Applications opened on Thursday morning, April 9. By midnight of the first day we […]
The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has put the brakes on an ambitious project for Caribbean Cement Company to remove and incinerate between 1.5 and two million tyres from the Riverton City landfill. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the Government and Caribbean Cement was signed last July to see the removal of the environmentally […]
MANDEVILLE, Manchester — The Manchester Health Department has ordered a business process outsourcing (BPO) facility in the parish to cease operations following an inspection of the call centre. The health department confirmed that the two Sutherland Global facilities on Ward Avenue in Mandeville and at Kingsland just west of Mandeville, which employ more than 2,000 […]
Members of the farming community caught in the lockdown of St Catherine are crying foul as they claim the restriction on movement is preventing them from visiting their farms with the regularity needed. President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society Lenworth Fulton says the problem of the farmers is compounded with the fact that there is […]
FOREIGN Affairs Minister Senator Kamina Johnson Smith has moved to caution against the misinterpretation of aspects of the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) after news surfaced online yesterday of an ease in travel restrictions on incoming passenger traffic to the island. “I am encouraging calm and caution to Jamaicans overseas who are taking the literal […]
ST Catherine residents are the first to benefit from a Government subsidy on the price of eggs through the Egg Farmers Association of Jamaica, resulting from the decimation of markets in the hotel sector. Roy Baker, president of the Egg Farmers Association, told the Jamaica Observer at a farmer’s market in Portmore yesterday that the […]
THE Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has launched a formal investigation into the death of Jodian Fearon, the young mother who developed complications last Friday after being denied access to health care at several Corporate Area hospitals. The revelation was made by Prime Minister Andrew Holness at yesterday’s virtual press conference at Jamaica House in St […]
MONTEGO BAY, St James — President of the Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ) Gloria Henry has called for an end to what she says is the “abuse, discrimination, and harassment” of business process outsourcing (BPO) employees, which she claims have become prevalent since cases of COVID-19 were confirmed at Alorica call centre in Portmore, […]