Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett says Cabinet made a decision to facilitate the arrival of the Carnival Cruise Ship on a no-movement day to honour its agreement with the cruise line. The Carnival Cruise Ship will be docking with approximately 1,700 passengers onboard...
The Clarendon Police have taken six people into custody in relation to the early morning quadruple killing in Havannah Heights in the parish on Sunday. The four people who were killed include two sisters and their boyfriends. The women have been identified as...
Effective October 1, 2021, applicants for permanent residence in the United States will be required to prove that they are fully vaccinated against Covid-19. This as the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, has added the Covid-19 vaccine to their list of...
Another Nurse has died from COVID-19 complications. She's Deidre Cunningham. Nurse Cunningham died last night at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St. James. Ms. Cunningham was a Registered Nurse at the Savanna-la-Mar Public General Hospital. President of the Nurses...
Wayne Walker reports. COVID-19 deaths among the elderly have been on the decline while the casualties among those aged 18 to 39 years old have been inching up since the second wave of the pandemic. The seeming reverse in COVID deaths among these two demographics is...
The Meteorological Service of Jamaica has issued a Flash Flood Warning for low-lying and flood-prone areas of Central and Eastern parishes due to heavy rains. The rains are being brought by a strong Tropical wave south of the island. The Met Service is forecasting...
Wayne Walker reports. COVID-19 deaths per week in Jamaica could almost double in the next seven-day cycle from August 26 to September 1. That's according to projections from the Ministry of Health and Wellness. The Ministry has made its projections based on the...
Wayne Walker reports. Haitian citizens and rescue workers are busy today trying to find survivors of Saturday's earthquake as aftershocks continue and a tropical depression heads towards the Caribbean nation. The 7.2 magnitude earthquake has left more than 1200 people...
Only seven of the 90 people who were expected to be deported to Jamaica from the United Kingdom arrived on the island this morning. That's according to a report from The Guardian newspaper. The Guardian says the seven were deported to Jamaica on a Home Office charter...
The country's Chief Medical Officer is expressing fears that there'll be a significant increase in Covid-19 infections following several events held over the Independence weekend across the island. Dr. Jacqueline Bisasor McKenzie gave the dim forecast while speaking...