TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2008: Scientists at a US Government weapons laboratory announce they have built the world's fastest computer, capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion operations per second. It will be used to help maintain the US nuclear w...

Dear Mr Brown:You keep recommending college-based programmes and graduate certificate programmes instead of a master's programme. I would like for you to explain the benefits of a college programme. I would think that university would b...

SANDALS Foundation, in collaboration with the Flankers Primary and Junior High School, last week distributed the second tranche of more than 50 care packages to families of students of the learning institution as well as other members o...

CONSUMERS are being encouraged to examine fruits and vegetables before purchase to ensure that there is no visible indication of spoilage or contamination.Speaking in a recent Get the Facts interview on the JIS television programme, Jam...

DIRECTOR of Family Health Services in the Ministry of Health and Wellness Dr Melody Ennis is reminding Jamaicans that the COVID-19 vaccine does not provide protection against other health conditions.In an interview with JIS News, Dr Enn...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness has called on the international community to assist the region in bridging the gaps within the sustainable development goals (SDGs), as small developing nations recover from the pandemic.Speaking at the vir...

TEXAS, United States (AP) - Six years had passed since Glenda Valdez kissed her toddler goodbye and left for the United States - six years since she held Emely in her arms.But here she was, at Texas's Austin-Bergstrom International Airp...

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) - Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretary General Irwin LaRocque says Caribbean countries must be "concerned about the soundings" being made by the Group of Seven (G7) nations that last week announced a landmark ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Criminal gangs divulged plans for moving drug shipments and carrying out killings on a secure messaging system secretly run by the FBI, law enforcement agencies said yesterday, as they unveiled a global sti...

THE management of Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine is denying a report that the death of a baby there last Wednesday was a result of clinical procedures not being followed.In a statement released yesterday by the South East Regiona...

FRIENDS of Ava Thelwell, the 49-year-old woman who is suspected of committing suicide by driving her motor vehicle into the Rio Cobre in St Catherine last week, have expressed sadness at her passing.At the same time, people who did not ...

A St Andrew-based justice of the peace (JP) is now the subject of an investigation by the police after it was discovered that she has had a minor working in a bar she operates.The girl, who is now 17 years old, has claimed that she had ...

THE Jamaica Police Federation, which last month rejected the Government's 2.5 per cent salary increase offer, will be heading to the bargaining table to get the best offer for rank-and-file members of the constabulary and is adamant tha...

DIRECTOR of Tourism Donovan White has downplayed the significance of the recent resignation of two senior Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) managers.Eyebrows were raised yesterday when it was confirmed that JTB veteran Errol Jones was leaving...

THE Clarendon police on Sunday arrested and charged 24 people for breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA). They were stopped during an operation in the vicinity of the Mineral Heights roundabout after the 2:00 pm curfew began....

Just over two weeks after Highway 2000 crash victim Cornelia Montague-Clarke was laid to rest, her family is reeling from another road mishap that has claimed the life of her brother-in-law and left her sister, Susan Smart, unconscious...

THE Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) has called for cybercrime cases in the High Court to be tried without a jury, despite noting concerns among the legal fraternity about the increasing number of matters that are be...

Today is the 159th day of 2021. There are 206 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT632 AD: The prophet Muhammad dies in Medina. He leaves no arrangement for his succession, creating a rift in Islam lasting to this day. OTHER EVENTS17...

A plea for Jamaicans to use their cellphones to help people as a first response to disaster instead of making social media posts has come from 17-year-old Kyla Gaynor, the 2021 Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (O...

JAMAICA'S legendary sportsman, Lindy Delapenha will posthumously receive an English Premier League championship medal, for helping Portsmouth retain the title in 1950, at a time when he was the first black foreigner to play professional...

Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) yesterday closed its St Andrew Revenue Service Centre on Constant Spring Road after an early morning fire damaged a section of the building.The closure, TAJ said, will remain in effect "until further no...

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) - Outgoing Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretary General Irwin LaRocque is suggesting that "another mechanism" be utilised in getting member countries to greater strengthen their existing cooperation and collabo...

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) - Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne says the novel coronavirus pandemic has provided Caribbean governments with the opportunity to implement tax cuts for airline tickets across the region."Now is ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - Government health officials yesterday approved the first new drug for Alzheimer's disease in nearly 20 years, disregarding warnings from independent advisers that the much-debated treatment hasn't be...

PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain (AP) - Spain jump-started its summer tourism season on yesterday by welcoming vaccinated visitors from most countries as well as European tourists who can prove they are not infected with coronavirus. It also r...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - A unanimous Supreme Court ruled yesterday that thousands of people living in the US for humanitarian reasons are ineligible to apply to become permanent residents.Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the co...

GHOTKI, Pakistan (AP) - An express train barrelled into another that had derailed in Pakistan before dawn yesterday, killing at least 45 people, authorities said. More than 100 were injured and rescuers and villagers worked throughout t...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, June 8, 2021: You are witty, curious and high-energy in your approach to life. You are also determined, hardworking and courageous when going after what you want. You will feel very independent this year beca...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has claimed that local players in the entertainment sector have earned some $0.5 billion for the provision of services to hotels over the first five months this year."I am very pl...

HARD-WORKING, decisive and level-headed are a few of the words that have been used to describe Sandals South Coast's newly minted cost manager and 2019 Diamond Team Member, Jahabrie Clarke.The 26-year-old Jahabrie never saw himself work...

Executive director of the National Road Safety Counci l, Paula Fletcher is continuing the push for driver education to be included in secondary school curricula. According to Fletcher, this could result in benefits to the economy by re...

A Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) private was among five people murdered across the island Saturday night into Sunday morning.Police sources yesterday told the Jamaica Observer that a top level investigation is now underway into the fatal s...

MAISE Green Learning Centre has received more help from General Accident Insurance Company (Jamaica) (GenAc) following a facelift on Labour Day 2019.The educational institution based in Grants Pen, St Andrew, has been gifted by the staf...

THE United States-based global management consulting firm, Avasant is moving to help Jamaican entrepreneurs discover new locations for the delivery of services and attract investments through its investment exchange platform, Global Equ...

After months of lockdown under the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA), public beaches and rivers were reopened last Thursday and hundreds of Jamaicans dived into the waters yesterday, the first Sunday after the restrictions had been l...

AS a seventh-grade student just starting her high school journey, Natalia Clarke never thought that the arrival of the man she called father into her life would leave her permanently scarred.But what should have been a bonding relations...

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW and talk show host, Khadine "Miss Kitty" Hylton has implored female cops not to shirk from pursuing top jobs in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). "The women of the JCF have to rise up and take their place without fea...

Nordian Thompson is finally ready and equipped to revolutionise her online business. The small business owner was the first user to download The Honey Bun Foundation's Gapp App and complete the app's survey, which identifies gaps in a ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - The death toll from floods and mudslides following heavy rains in Sri Lanka rose to 14, with another two missing, officials said yesterday.Ten districts on the Indian Ocean island have been under heavy rainfall...

TOKYO, Japan (AP) - Japanese sexual minority groups and their supporters staged a rally outside Tokyo's iconic Shibuya Station yesterday calling for equal rights and public support for the enactment of a long-sought equality law before ...

PARIS, France (AP) -French health authorities are racing to contain scattered cases of the more contagious delta virus variant, as France prepares to reopen its borders to vaccinated visitors and celebrates plunging COVID-19 infection a...

Today is the 158th day of 2021. There are 207 days left in the yearTODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1970: Voters in Switzerland reject proposal to force almost one third of a million aliens to leave that country.OTHER EVENTS1099: The First Crusade reac...

THE president of the People's National Party could easily have told his detractors, who say he is invisible, that he has been 'working, working, working' - words used before by former party boss, Portia Simpson Miller. But he has gone f...

FOR those who want a clean-shaven political leader in the form of one Mark Golding, Esq, they can, to borrow a phrase used by former Prime Minister PJ Patterson, "Faget it."Looking back, he is the only one to have headed the People's Na...

TECHNOLOGY business leader Dean Nevers has pushed deep into his pocket to provide a $5-million boost to potential entrepreneurs.Nevers, who heads telecommunications service provider, Konnexx Services Ltd, told the Jamaica Observer in a ...

ALMOST 4,000 people have been charged under the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) at the end of the first quarter of 2021.This was disclosed by the Court Administration Division (CAD) following a request from the Jamaica Observer.The ...

SHANIQUE Armstrong visited Spanish Town Hospital for a recurring cough but ended up delivering her baby on her own in the company of strangers.The 26-year-old woman, who went into pre-term labour while on a bed in the waiting area of th...

The big question surrounding Member of Parliament for Clarendon Northern Dwight Sibblies is whether or not he has been collecting two State salaries, or has opted for the higher of two, while he also retains his job at the University of...

Just in case a member of the People's National Party (PNP) feels like challenging incumbent President Mark Golding, he has three words for that individual: Bring it on.The Opposition leader and head of the 83-year-old political organisa...

Nurse Duncan Ward administers the second dose of the Aztrazenica vaccine to centenarian Lucille Hopkins at the National Arena yesterday as part of the blitz for individuals who had already received their first dose of the vaccine. (Phot...