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The death toll from COVID-19 in Jamaica has risen to 101, the island having recorded an additional eight fatalities related to the coronavirus on Monday, according to the Ministry of Health and Wellness. Six of the eight deceased have St Catherine addresses. They are a 28-year-old female, a 65-year-old male, a 96-year-old male, a 65-year-old male, a 78-year-old male and a 59-year-old male. The other two d...

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="460"] Men in face masks walk past a hair product billboard on the street in Soweto, South Africa. The coronavirus pandemic has fractured global relationships as governments act in the interest of their citizens first, but John Nkengasong, Africa’s top public health official, has helped to steer the continent’s 54 countries into an alliance praised as responding better than ...

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1024"] In this October 27, 2012 file photo, Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals performs during The Voodoo Experience at City Park in New Orleans. Hibbert died on Friday, September 11, 2020. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)[/caption] Toots Hibbert, the late legendary reggae singer and frontman of the Maytals, has grabbed the pole position on the reggae iTunes top 1...