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January 7 05:18 PM
ST MARY, Jamaica – Retired educator and former principal of the Carron Hall High School in western St Mary, Dottlyn Norma Dawes has died. The announce...
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January 7 05:17 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The United States (US) dollar on Wednesday, January 7, ended trading at $159.37, up 5 cents, according to the Bank of Jamaica’s d...
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January 7 04:33 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The National Fisheries Authority (NFA) is ready to accept applications for licences to fish for conch and the allocation of indivi...
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January 7 03:26 PM
Jamaica’s senior men’s football team will face hosts Grenada in an international friendly in St George’s on January 18. With the date falling outside ...
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January 7 03:19 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Ministry of Education has announced sweeping changes to national and regional examinations for the 2025-2026 academic year, ci...
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January 7 03:17 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Waterhouse Football Club have turned to Argentine Javier Ainstein in a bid to re-energise the team and mount a serious push for Co...
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January 7 03:12 PM
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness, has reaffirmed Government’s support for the Maroon communities. “You are part of Jamaica and you ar...
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January 7 01:48 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Worthy Park Estate Limited has launched Powered by Rum-Bar, a community relief initiative aimed at helping restore livelihoods and...
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July 15, 2023
MORANT BAY, St Thomas — With 37 active cases of COVID-19 in the parish and the advent of mosquito-breeding season, public health officials are urging ...
COVID-19, News
July 12, 2023
MINISTER of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has revealed that there has been an uptick in the positivity rate for COVID-19 in Jamaica. The m...
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May 6, 2023
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The COVID-19 pandemic, which killed millions of people and wreaked economic and social havoc, no longer constitutes a glob...
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March 12, 2023
WASHINGTON, USA (AP) — A requirement that travellers to the US from China present a negative COVID-19 test before boarding their flights expired Frida...
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March 11, 2023
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) — The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is calling on countries in the Americas, including the Caribbean, to...
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February 13, 2023
MORANT BAY, St Thomas — Warning that there is once again an uptick in COVID-19 cases in St Thomas, which only has a 16 per cent vaccination rate, the ...
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January 18, 2023
MONTEGO BAY, St James — As COVID-19 makes a resurgence in some countries the local business process outsourcing (BPO) sector is keeping a watchful eye...
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January 16, 2023
LUCEA, Hanover — Dr Kaushal Singh, medical officer of health for Hanover, said while the parish recorded only one COVID-19 case last month, residents ...
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January 15, 2023
CONCERNED about the lack of adherence to COVID-19 measures, health officials are reiterating calls for people to practise personal safety, stating tha...
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January 14, 2023
JAMAICA is among 12 countries set to benefit from a multimillion-dollar vaccine initiative which is expected to strengthen COVID-19 vaccination delive...
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January 12, 2023
Dear Editor, Chief Medical Officer(CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie is encouraging individuals who indulged in self-testing for the novel coronavir...
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January 8, 2023
Following the recent spike in COVID-19 cases in China, former president of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Dr Warren Blake is ...
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January 4, 2023
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States said Tuesday that the requirement of Covid tests for travellers from China was based on science an...
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January 2, 2023
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida– As a growing number of Caribbean destinations continue to set record tourism arrivals, expenditures and hotel occupancies, t...
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December 29, 2022
THE Jamaican Government will not at this time be imposing restrictions on travellers from the People's Republic of China (PRC) despite a surge in COVI...
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December 20, 2022
ROSE HALL, St James — There is optimism after last Thursday's reopening of the White Witch golf course in Rose Hall, St James, after being closed for ...
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December 12, 2022
MORE than half (53 per cent) of men in Jamaica have been experiencing varying levels of depression during the post-COVID-19 period, according to a stu...
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December 12, 2022
TEXAS, United States (AP) — Coronavirus-related hospital admissions are climbing again in the United States, with older adults a growing share of US d...
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December 8, 2022
BELMOPAN, Belize (CMC) — Belize is experiencing a new wave of COVID-19 infections with the Ministry of Health and Wellness releasing a report indicati...
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December 5, 2022
HONG KONG (AP) — China on Sunday reported two additional deaths from COVID-19 as some cities move cautiously to ease anti-pandemic restrictions amid i...
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December 2, 2022
PRIME Minister Andrew Holness on Wednesday charged that the country would have 'certainly collapsed' if it was under the governance of the People's Na...
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November 23, 2022
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Two of the World Health Organization's mos t senior figures in the fight against COVID-19 are quitting next week, accordin...
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January 7, 2026
ST MARY, Jamaica – Retired educator and former principal of the Carron Hall High School in western St Mary, Dottlyn Norma Dawes has died. The announce...
January 7, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The United States (US) dollar on Wednesday, January 7, ended trading at $159.37, up 5 cents, according to the Bank of Jamaica’s d...
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January 7, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The National Fisheries Authority (NFA) is ready to accept applications for licences to fish for conch and the allocation of indivi...
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January 7, 2026
Jamaica’s senior men’s football team will face hosts Grenada in an international friendly in St George’s on January 18. With the date falling outside ...
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January 7, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Ministry of Education has announced sweeping changes to national and regional examinations for the 2025-2026 academic year, ci...
