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All 27 COVID-positive farm workers in Vermont U.S. are Jamaicans

The 27 migrant farmer workers who reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus at an apple farm in Vermont in the United States last weekend...

Many Jamaicans worried as they return to their workplaces today

(Jamaica Observer) With many Jamaicans expressing fear of returning to their workplaces today amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic, professor of psychiatry Wendel Abel says...

200 Jamaicans back home, official warns of possible COVID-19 spike

JAMAICAN health authorities are bracing for a spike in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases locally, following yesterday’s arrival of more than 200 stranded...

Jamaicans stranded in Barbados lambast authorities for not assisting them to come home

Several Jamaicans who are stranded in Barbados due to COVID-19 have lambasted the Government for not doing enough to rescue them from starvation...

Jamaicans still flocking to overseas employment programme despite COVID-19

Almost 300 Jamaicans are to leave the island this weekend to take part in the seasonal farm work programme in the United States...

Repatriating 5,000 Jamaicans could cost taxpayers $822m

Taxpayers will fork out $64 million to pay for accommodation and food for 330 Jamaicans stranded overseas by the COVID-19 pandemic who will arrive...

17 Jamaicans Farm Workers among 47 others Contract Coronavirus In Canada

Seventeen Jamaicans are among 47 workers employed to Greenhill Produce in Chatham-Kent, Canada, who have contracted the coronavirus disease and have been placed in...

Holness says all Jamaicans could get COVID-19

Prime Minister Andrew Holness was blunt. “The possibility is that all of us, at some point in time, will get it,” he said...

Jamaicans aboard cruise ship denied landing in Portugal

It’s the last thing they had hoped for: two rejections in as many weeks. But that’s the reality for a group of 45 heartbroken...

Jamaican man attempts suicide as UK Group Head Set To Deport 50 Jamaicans

A United Kingdom's pressure group head has enjoined the Andrew Holness led administration to deport 50 Jamaicans back to their island after one of...
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Barbados recorded 37 new COVID-19 cases

There were 37 new positive COVID-19 cases on Sunday, out of the 1,436 tests conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory. They comprised both...

A Visitor form UK died in Jamaica of COVID-19

Jamaica on Monday recorded one more COVID-19 death, pushing the tally to 305. The deceased is a 77-year-old male from the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, there were...

Sandals founder Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart dies aged 79 following ‘short battle with illness’

Travel pioneer Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, who founded Jamaica's Sandals resort, has died. Stewart was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1941. He grew up on...

Barbados Confirms 161 New COVID-19 Cases

Barbados has announced 161 cases of COVID-19 at the Island’s Dodds prison. The discovery has prompted a massive contact tracing exercise. Authorities say the cases relate...