The two girls from Bath in St. Thomas who were abducted over the weekend remain under observation this afternoon at the hospital. Nine-yearold, Phylisa Prussia, and 13-year-old, Winshae Barrett, are believed to have been abducted by Davian Bryan sometime between last...
A second girl from Bath, in St. Thomas has been reported missing. She's 13-year-old Winshae Barrett. Winshae went missing from her home on Rhyne Road about 3:30 p.m today. An alarm was raised by Winshae’s aunt and sister. Both women are inside the Bath Police Station...
Jamaica will receive up to 600,000 doses of the much sought-after Pfizer vaccine within the next few weeks, according to Health and Wellness Minister, Dr. Christopher Tufton. The Minister says through the efforts of the Foreign Ministry and direct purchases through...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the government cannot continue to offer COVID-19 welfare grants over the long term. Earlier this week, Finance Minister, Dr. Nigel Clarke, announced direct government grants totaling nearly $4-billion as part of the administration's...
Ricardo Brooks reports Prime Minister Andrew Holness has for the first time set a threshold for when the government will begin to implement what he's calling a vaccine option in the country. The Prime Minister says once fifty percent of the population has received a...
Former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Elaine Foster Allen, says she's distressed by the state of affairs at the Fayval Williams-led Ministry. A special report by Auditor General, Pamela Munroe Ellis, has raised questions regarding payment of 124...
Anti-corruption watch dog, National Integrity Action, NIA, is demanding that those responsible for wrongfully allocating $124 million in taxpayers money to the Joint Committee of Tertiary Education, JCTE, be made to repay the entire sum. In a statement this afternoon,...
There are tensions emerging this afternoon between the management of the NCB Financial Group and its Staff Association over the issue of mandatory vaccination in the conglomerate. This after the financial institution issued a staff circular last evening mandating that...
Ricardo Brooks reports. Environmentalist, Diana McCaulay, has described the young Christopher "Dog Paw" Linton as a lovely young man who society failed. Ms. McCaulay, who knew Linton since childhood and assisted in sending him to St. Hugh's Prep. in the 1990s, says...
The NCB Financial Group has become the latest private sector company to issue a vaccine mandate for its staff. The mandate was issued by way of a staff circular dated yesterday, October 12, over the signature of the company's Group CEO, Patrick Hylton. The financial...