Non-communicable diseases have always been a problem for Jamaicans but now it appears that COVID-19 has been affecting even this part of life on the island. Some are developing diabetes, while others are developing high blood pressure or kidney...
With the Delta variant running rampant in Jamaica, fuelling a third wave of COVID-19 infections that has all but cripped the country’s health sector, there is one more worry. Now, Jamaicans and the Ministry of Health must worry about Mu,...
It is unimaginable to think what it must have been like for Rayon Reid, who not only narrowly escaped death, but also witnessed the demise of long-time colleagues. The Spanish Town resident tries to explain the ordeal that has cost him sleepless...
With companies the length and breadth of Jamaica hurriedly trying to come up with a vaccine policy, there is a divide over the preferences of mandating or encouraging vaccinations in the workplace. It seems the private sector has been left to its...
The name Karen Smith is timeless. Etched alongside words like class and vivacity, it is sometimes easily forgotten that the greats among us are also inevitably touched by the grim reaper and so it is with shock that the country came to the news of...
The devastation of Hurricane Ivan seems a distant memory today. But 17 years ago, the country was in tatters and it is worth remembering the kind of resilience Jamaica showed in recovering from that devastation. Have a look at the scenes to see...
Born September 7, 1919, Louise Bennett-Coverley, ‘Miss Lou’ was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, cultural icon and educator. Through her poems in Jamaican Patois, she raised the dialect of the Jamaican folk to a level acceptable to...
With a large percentage of its population old enough to remember the many months spent without electricity and the long, hard road to recovery the country faced after Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, Hurricane Ivan proved a terrible ordeal. However, the...
One of the reminders of Jamaica’s colonial history, was Britain’s money and images. People all over traded in a currency that did not represent them, with images of the Queen and buildings unknown to its people adorning the note. The...
Fifty-two years ago, a giant was laid to rest. Norman Washington Manley excelled at almost everything he tried his hand. The impact of that excellence is felt to this day, so while the final day for the nation to say goodbye was solemn, it needn...
UFOs could be piloted by time-travelling humans, an expert has claimed. Dr. Michael Masters, a professor of anthropology at the Montana Tech University in the United States, has claimed that decades of sightings and apparent abductions are actually...
A moped rider has finished his journey around some of the rudest named places in the UK. Paul Taylor completed his whistle-stop tour of amusing towns and villages in Bell End, Worcestershire, at the weekend as he raised money for charity following...
Cats are getting stressed as their owners spend more time at home. Vets are reporting a rise in the number of felines suffering from stress-related conditions, which they say is being caused by owners spending more time at home amid the pandemic...
Breast implants and pacemakers can melt off the bone during cremation. Caitlyn Doughty - who is also known as Ask a Mortician on YouTube - revealed that they can quite literally melt during the cremation process. She said: "They are usually...
September is the most popular month to start an affair. A 24 per cent increase in extra-marital romps has been predicted with children going back to school and a return to office working fuelling the surge. Jessica Leoni, from the dating website...
LONDON – Swaths of Europe are flooded, and the American west is engulfed in heat, fire, and drought. Wealthy countries are experiencing what many developing countries have always known: a changing climate can become quickly unmanageable when...
CAMBRIDGE – The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were a horrific shock. Images of trapped victims leaping from the Twin Towers are indelible, and the intrusive security measures introduced in the wake of the attacks have long since...
LONDON – During the Irish famine in the 1840s, as more than one million Irish citizens died, vast quantities of food were exported from Ireland to Britain. For the Whig government in London, the defence of commercial interests, the dictates...
NEW YORK – The upsurge of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in the United States serve as a bitter reminder that the pandemic is not over. The global economy will not return to normal until the disease is under control everywhere....
GENEVA (ILO News) – Despite the unprecedented worldwide expansion of social protection during the COVID-19 crisis, more than 4 billion people around the world remain entirely unprotected, a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist’s pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, may be worth so many more. Take a look at this week past’s line-up of cartoons as...
Millions of dollars are on the table in an industry which, up until quite recently, was illegal. Ganja is big business but the organisations created to regulate the industry is moving too slowly for the liking of stakeholders and costing big bucks...
An obvious increase in the number of COVID-19 infections through July and August has put the spotlight squarely on the Andrew Holness-led Government of Jamaica, with many blaming the Prime Minister for a number of missteps during the period....
The Moore Town Maroons have, through their chief, Colonel Wallace Sterling, come out in support of the Accompong Maroons and their claims to autonomy, but has cautioned against a combative approach to finding a resolution, championing dialogue on...
Health and Wellness Minister, Christopher Tufton, has downplayed arguments that there was a failure to plan for another wave of COVID-19 infections and, in particular, for the increased demand for oxygen, which led to a shortage that may or may not...
