WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Top Road in Ulster Spring, Trelawny, are now in a state of bewilderment as they try to come to grips with the mysterious disappearance of two sisters from the community, who went missing last Wednesday. The sisters, 14-...
WESTERN BUREAU: The business process outsourcing (BPO) landscape in Montego Bay, St James, has been expanded by an additional 17,000 square feet of office space, thanks to the expansion of Omni Nearshore, based at Barnett Tech Park in the western...
WESTERN BUREAU: TRANSPORT AND Mining Minister Audley Shaw has announced that 15 new immigration kiosks will be installed at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay by December this year, to improve the airport’s flow of passengers seeking...
Fifty-seven-year-old Clarendon bus driver James Davis is the parish’s first public passenger vehicle (PPV) driver fatality since the start of the year. Davis, also known as ‘Prento’, and the lone passenger aboard his bus were killed in a three-...
Retired St Mary teacher killed The St Mary police are pursuing leads into the fatal shooting of a retired teacher in Gayle, St Mary, Monday afternoon. Dead is Dennis Anthony Mattar Edwards, 69, of Farm Pen district in the parish. Reports are...
Growing up at Martha’s Vineyard, jumping off the Jaws bridge is a rite of passage for many youngsters during the summer months. So says Dr Vanessa Alleyne, who grew up on the island. “Growing up in Martha’s Vineyard, it was a rite of passage to...
Danah Cameron may be recognised by many as a public relations professional with a great personality and a pretty face. Looking at her, one would have trouble imagining her getting her nails dirty, tackling the grimy work of changing tyres or...
THE COMMUNITY of Cross Keys in southern Manchester is poised to boost production of plantain chips at its agro-processing facility following the donation of new equipment. Two pieces of equipment, a deep fryer and commercial slicer, were donated by...
WESTEN BUREAU: In a move designed to grow the sector and provide additional jobs, the Government is now looking at expanding the work-from-home policy in the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector, which could result in some 30 per cent of the...
THE BANK of Jamaica (BOJ) says high inflation could dampen domestic consumption and derail its projection for economic growth of between 2.5 per cent and 4.5 per cent for the 2022-23 fiscal year. Speaking during the BOJ’s quarterly media briefing...
A typical Sunday at the Palmers Cross New Testament Church of God in Clarendon would see brothers Tavaris and Tavaughn flanked by their sisters, or other youth, belting out sweet melodious tunes. On Sunday, however, it was rather doleful tunes and...
WESTERN BUREAU: OVER 100 children from Salt Spring and neighbouring communities in St James have benefited from the social interaction and educational opportunities gleaned during a recent summer camp held by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF)...
Dear Mrs Walker-Huntington, My husband was a green card holder at 10 years old. He was, however, sent back to Jamaica at age 14 by his father. It has now been 24 years. He was denied a visiting visa twice when they asked why he was out of the...
Dear Ms Powell, I am engaged to someone in Canada. What are the requirements to get Canadian citizenship? Do I get citizenship automatically after marrying a Canadian citizen? What if our child is born outside of Canada, will our baby get...
Dear Mr Bassie, I understand that persons with a UK Visas and Immigration account will have to update their details. I am hoping that you can explain this to me. HH Dear HH, Persons will have a UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) account if...
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness has said Jamaica is in need of more visionaries and entrepreneurs who are willing to take risks towards advancing the country’s development agenda. Holness said he has admired with great interest the...
WESTERN BUREAU: HAVING proven its resilience amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry is on target to employing 75,000 persons by 2025. Gloria Henry, vice-president of BPO and logistics at the Port Authority of...
NASSAU, Bahamas – With Haiti mired in turmoil more than a year after the unsolved assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, former Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson said on Saturday an important way that CARICOM countries can help...
EACH OF us ought to have a general idea about our bodies. You may even already know that you have high blood pressure or high cholesterol, or that your blood sugar is elevated. But do you know exactly when those levels are high and what it means...
THE MINISTRY of Health and Wellness is redoubling efforts to tackle a lesser known pandemic among the Jamaican population: non-communicable diseases (NCDs). NCDs are also known as lifestyle diseases and can be chronic. These include hypertension (...
UTERINE FIBROIDS (leiomyomas) are the most common non-cancerous tumours that affect women of childbearing age. Uterine fibroids usually grow inside the uterus (womb), but in some instances, they can grow on the surface of the uterus or in the...
HAEMOGLOBIN IS a protein in your red blood cells. Your red blood cells carry oxygen throughout your body. If you have a condition that affects your body’s ability to make red blood cells, your haemoglobin levels may drop. Low haemoglobin levels may...
IRON DEFICIENCY anaemia occurs when your body doesn’t have enough iron to produce haemoglobin. Haemoglobin is the part of red blood cells that gives blood its red colour and enables the red blood cells to carry oxygenated blood throughout your body...
For most, high blood pressure, or hypertension, can be attributed to family history or lifestyle. For some, however, high blood pressure is the result of either an overactive or underactive thyroid. An overactive thyroid, known as hyperthyroidism...
Having high blood pressure is a key risk factor in developing heart disease, stroke and other complications. Blood pressure means the pressure of blood in your arteries as it is being pumped by the heart. Very high blood pressure or rapidly rising...
