The young man many have fingered as the individual who spread COVID-19 in a St Thomas community recently has stepped forward to flatly deny the claim. Earlier reports linked the young man to the spread, with allegations swirling that he had gone to the eastern Jamaica parish for seek spiritual healing from the virus, but […]
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There was very little movement of people and motor vehicles in Albion, St Thomas, yesterday afternoon. But that, according to one resident, Rory Brown, is not unusual for the community whose residents awoke yesterday morning to find out that it was under a COVID-19 quarantine. “This community is kinda quiet. People who live here just […]
HIS backers are certain that he will win handsomely, and Dr Nigel Andrew Lincoln Clarke is riding a wave that will take him across the line in colour and style at the end of the September 3 General Election. That excursion towards another phase of the 48-year-old minister of finance and the public service’s push […]
THE Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) had to call on replacements Raymond Pryce and Lisa Hanna late yesterday, after Peter Bunting and Krystal Tomlinson’s withdrawal from its team to participate in tonight’s first of three National Political Debates in the lead-up to the September 3 General Election. Bunting announced that he would not participate in […]
BANK of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor Richard Byles says the economy is projected to contract by between seven and 10 per cent during the 2020-21 fiscal year as a result of the impact of the novel coronavirus. Speaking at the central bank’s digital quarterly press briefing yesterday, the governor pointed out that this is a revision […]
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has activated containment protocols with immediate effect at the Horizon Adult Correctional Facility following the confirmation of five COVID-19 cases yesterday. “We currently can confirm five positive cases from seven tests conducted at the Horizon facility. The entire inmate population has been put on lockdown as we transition from […]
THERE were unconfirmed reports last night that the final count for the Westmoreland Eastern constituency has produced a tie. On election day, last Thursday, the Jamaica Labour Party’s Daniel Lawrence polled 4,837 votes, to the 4,823 gained by the People’s National Party’s Luther Buchanan. But yesterday it emerged that both candidates had polled 4,837 votes, […]
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes is confident that the local justice system has made good from the bad of the COVID-19 pandemic that led to the closure of the doors of courts across the island on several occasions since March. Speaking at the Annual Assize Service of the judiciary held at Webster Memorial Church in St […]
AS she takes her place as one of the youngest Jamaicans ever to be appointed to the Senate, Opposition Senator Gabriela Morris has put youth and education as well as issues affecting women at the top of her agenda. Morris, 23, was appointed yesterday at the opening of the new session of Parliament and […]
BUSINESS owners and operators in Port Antonio, Portland, are outraged over what they said is a spate of robberies that have plagued their once quiet town since the nightly curfews were imposed to restrict movements in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19. With the current pandemic and the curfew laws that have been […]