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Chief public health inspector for St Ann Leroy Scott has urged residents of the parish to make an effort to clear debris and other items which may become mosquito habitats. Speaking at the monthly sitting of the St Ann Municipal Corporation on Thursday, Scott said assessments done by the health department have shown a significant increase in mosquito breeding.

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Health authorities are issuing an urgent plea for public vigilance as a suspected rise in leptospirosis cases sweeps across communities grappling with days of persistent stagnant water following Hurricane Melissa. Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie confirmed the heightened risk while speaking on Hotline on Radio Jamaica on Friday, noting that the stagnant water conditions are ideal for the deadly disease to spread.

MONTEGO BAY, St James — The tab is still running but losses to State-owned assets in St James now stand at three quarters of a billion dollars and that figure is expected to increase by almost another $100 million by early next year. “The corporation has sustained approximately $750 million in damage to municipal assets,” Mayor of Montego Bay Richard Vernon disclosed in a report delivered during Thursday’s monthly meeting of the St James Municipal Corporation.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — Ethiopia has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the south of the country, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Saturday. Also like Ebola, it is transmitted via contact with bodily fluids and has a fatality rate of between 25 and 80 percent.

fter sustaining heavy damage during Hurricane Melissa, telecoms provider Digicel says it will be assessing the possibility of using more underground fibre systems as part of a broader effort to strengthen its network against future storms.

In sharp contrast to the usual buzz of activities, 83 Lane on Waltham Park Road, St Andrew, was a ghost town Friday afternoon. The lack of activity was understandable as residents, still in shock at the shooting death of two police constables there Thursday night, stayed indoors. “This is a Friday, and you can see the place is scanty,” one man told the Online News inside a bar approximately 30 metres from the spot where constables Charles Stewart and Jemarey Gordon were murdered.

SPALDING, Clarendon — Brandon Maine, the taxi operator implicated in the murder of a St Catherine teacher and her teen daughter, reportedly confessed to a relative that he had committed the double murder, a day after he fled to Tweedside near here in north-west Clarendon.

The non-profit organisation that advocates the welfare of senior citizens says it has netted $800,000 from a fund-raising venture and is using the money to provide relief aid to elderly victims of Hurricane Melissa in Westmoreland and St Elizabeth. Jean Lowrie-Chin, founder and executive chair of the Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP), made the announcement Friday at the organisation’s annual Living Legacy Awards ceremony at Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston.

ENGINEER BESS 100 FM 12 minutes ago 3 min read Principal of Accompong Primary and Infant School Garfield Rowe is considering hosting some classes under tents and implementing a rotation system as he tries to get a phased resumption of learning in the major maroon settlement. “We could have grades four to six on some days and grades one to three on other days.

Jamaica’s Blue Mountain coffee industry, pinned under the merciless grip of inclement weather for the past four years, has been dealt a punishing blow by Hurricane Melissa estimated at losses of $1 billion, according to sector expert Norman Grant. “We had estimated that the crop would be about 270,000 boxes of coffee.