PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) Member of Parliament Lisa Hanna has broken her long silence to chastise members of her party whom she accused of "bullying and salacious accusations" against her.Hanna, the PNP spokeswoman for foreign affai...

THE novel coronavirus pandemic has wiped out the investments of a number of people, mainly women, who bought buses to transport children to and from school. Things were going well. Some drivers were making several trips as parents warme...

It's smooth sailing for Jamaica under a little-known 20-year-old United States Coast Guard programme called Quality Shipping for the 21st Century (QUALSHIP 21), which identifies high-quality ships from different countries and provides i...

Jamaican Sashauna Perkins has beaten off the challenge of 40 other hopefuls to win a coveted full £20,000 scholarship to study at Swansea University in the United Kingdom, the institution has announced.The scholarship for the master i...

Jamaican Ephraim Martin and his Black Heroes Matter (BHM) coalition ran into a setback last Wednesday when the Chicago City Council blocked a vote to rename the iconic Lake Shore Drive (LSD) after its black founder Jean Baptiste Pointe ...

SOME public transport operators believe they are being unfairly targeted and abused by members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), but say relations with the Transport Authority has improved.Speaking with the Jamaica Observer, head...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Prior to last Thursday's walk-through by the security forces, political representatives and others in the community of Comfort, the area was not living up to its name following two shooting incidents, one of whi...

THE Paint the City project will continue across communities in downtown Kingston this year to colour graffiti-stained walls and pump life into glum and despondent areas in an effort to transform the city.The Kingston and St Andrew Munic...

A slap in the face of every abused child is how the daughter of a man who sexually violated her when she was a teenager has described the Appeal Court's decision to reduce his life sentence for incest to 15 years.Shaken by the judgement...

THE Government's 'one laptop or tablet per child initiative' has received a further boost with the acquisition of 12 computer tablets, courtesy of Bresheh Limited.The devices, along with protective cases, were handed over to the Ministr...

A Jamaican is leading the technical team at an American satellite service company that will make the World Wide Web truly worldwide, by making connectivity possible from even the most remote parts of the world whether land, sea or air.D...

THE Jamaica Pegasus hotel ballroom was transformed into a place of thanksgiving when Sagicor Group Jamaica hosted its 50th anniversary church service, which was streamed live yesterday.The service was the culminating event for a year-lo...

THE Jamaica Observer can confirm that GraceKennedy (GK) is the local company that will partner with Unit Trust Corporation (UTC) out of Trinidad and Tobago on its entry into the fiercely competitive local unit trust and mutual funds mar...

CARIBBEAN Examinations Council (CXC) Registrar and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Wayne Wesley says the entity will give further consideration to the novel coronavirus pandemic's impact on students sitting external exams during the gr...

Today is the 151st day of 2021. There are 214 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2003: Air France's Concorde returned to Paris in a final commercial flight.OTHER EVENTS1043: Lady Godiva rides naked through the market square in Coven...

GOSHEN, St Elizabeth - The police say they are awaiting an autopsy report to determine the circumstances surrounding the death of 50-year-old police sergeant Lincent Smith.Smith's decomposing body was found in a Toyota Tacoma motor truc...

LIBNAH "Miss Lin" Graham has realised another of her long-time dreams: She finally got the chance to sit in the House of Representatives and hear her son deliver his maiden presentation in the sectoral debate.That moment arrived on Tues...

LOCAL party promoters lashed out at the Government on Thursday for failing to stop the staging of Mocha Fest, a series of parties hosted in Negril last week, which has since ended in controversy.The festival, which began on Monday, came...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Relatives are seeking answers after 37-year-old Sherita "Janice" Dennis, who was expecting her third child, died at the Mandeville Regional Hospital (MRH) Tuesday night after initially entering the Black Rive...

NEGRIL, Westmoreland - Stakeholders in Negril are shocked and angered by the controversial staging of Mocha Fest at Rick's Café in Negril last week, which was in clear breach of the Government's COVID-19 health and safety protocols.Sta...

AT the age of 11 she was raped by a man who believed that virgins could cure the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Today, she is married with two children and undetectable.But the journey to that status was not easy for this Westmorel...

SHE was told to spend time with her baby because the infant did not have much longer to live.Seven-week-old Tiziana Blake, who had spent much of her short life at Bustamante Hospital for Children, needed a ventilator.Her mother, Trishau...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Chukka Caribbean Adventures, Jamaica's largest attraction, with nearly 1,000 employees, says it rejects any notion that it has been violating or operating contrary to the country's Disaster Risk Management Act.Ch...

Two-year-old Nathane Hibbert holds on fiercely to a bell pepper (also called sweet pepper) while on a visit to the farmers' market last Friday on the grounds of the Ministry of Agriclture and Fisheries, Old Hope Road, in St Andrew. (Pho...

The matter that involves Dr Dayton CampbellThe dirt continues in what purports to be a defence in a civil matter by Karen Cross against Dr Dayton Campbell, the general secretary of the People's National Party (PNP). The matter has not y...

ASTHMATICS are being urged to refrain from using oral steroids, such as prednisone, as their first line of treatment, because the long-term effects outweigh the short-term relief. Speaking to the Jamaica Observer in an interview recentl...

The Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP) has noted with concern complaints that elderly citizens in rural communities have limited access to COVID-19 vaccination.Since they are aware of the shortage of health personnel to assis...

In celebration of Child Month 2021, quick service food giant Restaurants of Jamaica (ROJ) decided to give back to several of the nation's children through the gift of food.As part of the outpouring of love, ROJ, through their KFC and Pi...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The Jamaica Government is being urged by leading retailers to act in defence of the poorest consumers struggling to cope with soaring food prices. Distortions in the international supply chain flowing from the o...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - The St Elizabeth police are probing the death of a colleague whose body was found in a remote section of Goshen, east of here yesterday morning.At close to press time yesterday evening, police were yet to form...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green officially opened Rainforest Caribbean's new, state-of-the-art agro-processing facility in Kingston last Thursday.Rainforest Caribbean, a leading regional food supplier, has invested $60...

ROSE Miller, grants manager at the JN Foundation and head of the JN BeWi$e Financial Empower Programme, says the age-old adage, "health is wealth", is more than a cliché as financial mismanagement can seriously impact one's physical an...

PETERSFIELD, Westmoreland - Opposition Leader Mark Golding says he does not subscribe to claims by the Government that it was not aware of the Mocha Fest party which was staged at the Rick's Café in Negril on Thursday night in clear br...

ORGANISERS of the controversial party series, Mocha Fest, are blaming popular Negril hot spot Rick's Cafe for breaches of the country's COVID19 protocols at one of its events held on Thursday.The staging of the event triggered widesprea...

EVER wanted to have plastic surgery done but didn't want your circle of friends and acquaintances to know? How about having dreams of getting your breasts done and recovering on a beach a stone's throw from your hotel room?Not to worry ...

Former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister Derrick Smith ranks Edward Phillip George Seaga as the best political leader he had experienced in over 40 years in active politics.But, unlike most Jamaicans,...

AHEAD of tomorrow, which will be celebrated as World No Tobacco Day, Your Health Your Wealth selected 15 reasons from the World Health Organization's (WHO's) "More than 100 reasons to quit tobacco", for you to consider.According to the ...

POINTING out that diagnoses for multiple sclerosis (MS) are sometimes overlooked, one local doctor is insisting that there needs to be more awareness about the condition.Neurologist and medical director of Caribbean Neurology Pain and H...

FOUR years ago, what was supposed to be a typical day at the gym for Kai Clarke turned out to be anything but that."I was lifting a dumb-bell with both hands, then only one hand could lift it and the other hand couldn't, as it kept slip...

THE Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) has denied that it has cut the budget of May Pen Hospital in Clarendon, although the institution's acting Chief Executive Officer Eugena Clarke-James has said that its budget "was significan...

EVERY second person in the world is believed to hold ageist attitudes - leading to poorer physical and mental health and reduced quality of life for older people, costing societies billions of dollars each year, according to a United Na...

FAMILY members all have a shared responsibility to talk candidly with grandparents about online dangers, including scams that could cause them to lose everything that they've worked for. Early digital education is key, and it begins wit...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) - United Kingdom newspapers are reporting that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancée Carrie Symonds married Saturday in a small private ceremony in London.The Mail on Sunday and The Sun said the coupl...

Parting is such sweet sorrowThat I shall say,Goodnight til the morrow.- Shakespeare, Romeo and JulietWhen lovers part ways to go to foreign climes, there is always a mixed bag of emotions, fears, doubts, anticipation and sorrow. The pe...

Jamaicans yesterday reacted with disgust to the behaviour of Everald Warmington, the minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, who was seen in a video complaining of being disrespected by police of...

THE memorial service for Nattallie Miranda Dawkins - the Clarendon teacher who was abducted March 30 at her home in Four Paths and a body believed to be hers later found in Sandy Bay - will be held Saturday at 11:00 am.A family release ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Police here have listed one man as wanted and 23 others as persons of interest in relation to criminal activity in the community of Comfort near Royal Flat.The community has been on edge following two shootings ...

MOUNT SALEM, St James - Nicola Clarke, the woman who was doused with a flammable substance and set ablaze by a jealous spouse last week Wednesday, was airlifted to the United States late yesterday afternoon to receive reconstructive sur...

Gangsters in Kingston Central have reportedly issued death threats to politicians from the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and Opposition People's National Party (PNP) with one of the targets being told a few weeks ago that her name ...

People's National Party (PNP) executive members emerged from a more-than-two-hour meeting yesterday standing firmly behind embattled General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell."The party stands firm in support of our general secretary as we ...