ANDRE Arnett, the five-year-old cancer patient whose mother appealed through the Jamaica Observer for assistance to secure him a life-saving bone marrow transplant, has died. Andre passed away last Wednesday at Bustamante Hospital...

THE local media community has been urged to operate without fear or favour, and to do so with integrity and professionalism.Journalists were given that charge yesterday by senior pastor of Hope Gospel Assembly Reverend Dr Peter Ga...

Veteran journalist Ken Allen, who served The Gleaner for more than 60 years, died yesterday at University Hospital of the West Indies after a long illness. He was 87.Allen was appointed editor-in-chief of The Gleaner in 1992 an...

THE 35 Golden Dragon buses which the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) procured for half a billion dollars in 2016 from China have been all but destroyed by overloading coupled with the rigours of the hilly, rural St Andrew rou...

A multi-agency probe is now underway into the crash-landing of an aircraft in Rocky Point, Clarendon, Saturday evening.Police and civil aviation officials spent yesterday trying to locate the pilot of the aircraft, as well as dete...

Senior pastor of Hope Gospel Assembly and one of the country's foremost church leaders the Reverend Dr Peter Garth has suggested that the national figures for abortions may be deliberately inflated to give impetus to the argument...

The streets of the market district in downtown Kingston are cleared of many illegally erected wooden stalls and makeshift shacks that dotted them.This following a demolition exercise carried out by the Kingston and St Andrew Muni...

When the tourism industry collapsed in the wake of the global spread of the novel coronavirus last year, the economic wheels of a number of suppliers to the sector also came to a grinding halt.Campbell's Egg Farm was one of the le...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth — After 13 years of trying, it is getting to the stage where many others would simply give up, but Cetany Holness, councillor for the Junction Division in St Elizabeth, says he remains totally commi...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is taking steps to provide insurance coverage for the island's farmers through partnership with the private sector.Addressing farmers at the Albert Town High School in Trelawny last Frida...

The Jamaica National (JN) Group is deepening its investment in, and deployment of, technology to improve services to its members and employees, while increase operational efficiency.In the past year the JN Group has been deploying...

OPPOSITION spokesperson on national security, Senator Peter Bunting, is not backing down in his call for an external oversight committee to investigate the claims of sexual misconduct at the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) that have c...

SINCE Brown's Town, St Ann resident Devon Hall introduced Colloidal Silver to Jamaica over nine years ago, Jamaicans have been swearing by its effectiveness in curing a litany of ailments.

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Tasheca Graham is forever grateful for the swift response of two police constables who came to her rescue on the night of January 9, as she was on the brink of delivering her son while stranded in a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Joe Biden took the oath of office as the 46th president, he became not only the oldest newly inaugurated US chief executive in history but also the oldest sitting president ever.Biden was born November...

RETIRED Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Colonel Allan Douglas says the solution to crime remains the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), but the entity has no credibility.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation for a half-century, lived a colourful life up t...

Military expert and retired Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Colonel Allan Douglas has expressed disappointment over claims of misconduct by an army officer accused of sexual harassment of his junior. Colonel Douglas told the Jamaica O...

The Victoria Mutual (VM) Foundation in partnership with the Group ICT donated 20 all-in-one computers to Jamaica College at the school last Thursday, under its 'Refurbished for Change' initiative. Here Naketa West, manager, VM Fou...

Each of us only gets one body in this life, so we need to value it and treat it well. With each passing day comes an opportunity to be good to our bodies. People tend to value and work hard to maintain material things. There shou...

Commish Anderson, it's crime, not headlines why we suffer soIt appears that Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson now seems to think that the media are responsible in some way for creating some of the crimes being comm...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change Pearnel Charles Jr has urged the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) to carry out its mandate with creativity and urgency.

The Microcredit Act, 2021, that aims to license and regulate microcredit institutions that provide financing to individuals and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), was approved in the Senate on Friday. ...

Jamaica yesterday welcomed the entry into force of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.The treaty, which came into effect on Friday, January 22, is the first legally binding international agreement to c...

THE Sean Paul Foundation (SPF), in partnership with Flow Foundation, distributed 100 tablets to 14 schools across the island.The handovers began on Tuesday, January 12 at Drews Avenue Primary and Infant in Kingston and closed out ...