[ad_1] 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 […]
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[ad_1] 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 […]
[ad_1] Despite a dramatic increase in COVID-19 cases over the past two months, more than 60 per cent of respondents in the latest survey conducted by veteran pollster Bill Johnson have given the Government high marks for its handling of the pandemic.
At the same time, concerns about the virus have jumped from 55 per […]
[ad_1] FUNERAL directors across the island are urging the Government to address concerns surrounding the handling of COVID-19 bodies.
Michael Jones of Jones Funeral Home said there is a lack of regulation in the industry and in the absence of appropriate guidelines, some industry players flout with general safety protocols that guide handling of the […]
[ad_1] THE number of Jamaicans requesting assistance with food from Food For the Poor Jamaica (FFP) since the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic has doubled.
As at September, up to 65,000 care packages of food items and hygiene products have been distributed to the nation’s poor, with approximately 300,000 households receiving direct, pandemic-related support, […]
[ad_1] 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 […]
[ad_1] 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 […]
[ad_1] 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 […]
[ad_1] 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 […]
[ad_1] 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 […]