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The Jamaican Government says it will not be using the Cuban antiviral drug Interferon Alpha 2B to treat persons battling COVID-19. The disease has killed five persons, with another 120 testing positive. This development comes even as Washington…
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the Government is working “very quickly” to put in place a protocol to help the 43 heartbroken Jamaican ship workers who were denied landing when they docked south of Port Royal, Kingston two weeks ago…
WESTERN BUREAU: International outsourcing firm Alorica says it is in full compliance with the protocols established by the Jamaican authorities and has rubbished suggestions that negligence on the firm’s part resulted in 52 of its workers being…
Tough restrictions are now in place for business process outsourcing (BPO) operations over heightened concern that call centres are hubs for community transmission of COVID-19 even as it has been revealed that another firm has shuttered because an…
Thousands of healthcare workers across the island’s four regional health authorities are working daily to help treat, trace, and detect cases of the deadly coronavirus across the island. Since Jamaica recorded the first case of the virus that…
Naomi Thompson-Henry boiled with anger as she condemned as malicious a video that has emerged on social media linking her late husband’s death to COVID-19 and potentially putting their lives at risk. In the five-minute video, the voice of a woman…
What should have been a routine trip to have a laboratory test done in the Corporate Area yesterday turned out to be quite a testy trip for St Catherine couple George and Cas Creary as a seven-day lockdown of St Catherine kicked in to contain the…
ARNOLD’S CARIBBEAN Pizza is the latest sitcom added to the local television timetable. Interesting as it may be to watch regional migrants turn their hands in an American pizzeria, local audiences should take pleasure, or be excited to know that…
Grammy award-winning reggae and dancehall artiste, Shaggy, has announced that he is revisiting the classics, and will release Hot Shot 2020, an album which will comprise some of his mega hits and also a few new tracks. This year marks two decades…
Like a salmon swimming upstream, Austria-born singer and songwriter Stefan Prieler is on the long and hard journey of finding the right niche. He wants to be added to the list of respected non-Jamaican reggae and dancehall acts, such as Gentleman,…
