The 83-year-old People's National Party is reeling from a series of high profile resignations which are being interpreted as an attack on the eight-month leadership of Mark Golding. The party's Chairman, its three vice presidents and the president of its Youth...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is warning Jamaicans to be vigilant as the country's COVID-19 positivity rate and hospitalisations are showing signs of an increase since the relaxing of measures on July 1. The revelation comes as Jamaica is on high alert for the highly...
Director of Family Health Services in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Dr. Melody Ennis, is reassuring Jamaicans of the safety of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. The reassurance comes following a US FDA warning of the potential of developing Guillain-Barre...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Marissa Dalymple Philibert, has denied reports that Attorney General, Marlene Malahoo Forte, fainted during last Tuesday's sitting of the House of Representatives. Last week's sitting of the House was temporarily disrupted...
Education Minister, Fayval Williams, says Jamaican schools will soon have to observe an updated sexual harassment policy. The policy is to be promulgated in compliance with the new Sexual Harassment Bill. The Education Minister made the announcement during her...
The United States' former top diplomat to Jamaica, Donald Tapia, says the US Consular Office in Kingston made the wrong call when it cancelled the visa of Jamaica's Energy Minister, Daryl Vaz. In a candid assessment of the decision, Ambassador Tapia says it was made...
The Ministry of Education says more than 60,000 students across the island are enrolled in the National Summer School Programme. This is up from the 43,000 students reported on Tuesday. Speaking with our news center on Thursday, Education Minister, Fayval Williams...
ARC Systems Limited has been dealt another blow by local Courts in its long running legal dispute with Exclusive Holidays of Elegance Limited. ARC Systems had applied to the Court of Appeal for a stay of a recent ruling by Justice David Batts in the Supreme Court...
The Jamaica Medical Doctors' Association, JMDA, says several of its members have so far had their contracts amended by the government after more than half of the country's doctors called in sick last week. The health sector was put under increased pressure, when more...
The Jamaica Medical Doctors Association, JMDA president, Dr. Mindi Fitz Henley, wished her members a speedy recovery. In a statement, Dr. Fitz Henley says doctors have been working under tremendous strain and arduous conditions for many years. She says despite the...