Today is the 166th day of 2021. There are 199 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1998: Nigeria's new military leadership releases nine of the country's most prominent political prisoners, including General Olusegun Obasanjo who be...

The Jamaica Observer Table Talk Food Awards committee is delighted to announce that Dr Jessica B Harris, lecturer, consultant, culinary historian and narrator/author of the book on which the acclaimed Netflix documentary series High ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, June 15, 2021: People love you, and you love to entertain. You are fast, witty and a caring person. You function best (personally and professionally) in a partnership. In a nine-year cycle, this is an eight y...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - NATO leaders yesterday declared China a constant security challenge and said the Chinese are working to undermine global order, a message in sync with President Joe Biden's efforts to get allies to speak out wit...

The package of hugely successful tourism protocols which have kept staff and visitors safe from the COVID-19 disease, at an astounding positivity rate of under one per cent, is now at the disposal of the events and entertainment industr...

THE violence producers driving Jamaica's high homicide figures are individuals whose mental ill health issues were neglected during childhood, says one school psychologist, warning that worse is yet to come if troubled children continue...

Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) businessmen and women will climax a week of activities on Saturday, June 19, 2021 with a sermon from Dr Barry Black, the current chaplain of the United States Senate, speaking on the theme 'Break Out of Your ...

It was not just because of her striking beauty that Barbara Blake-Hannah was hired to criss-cross the island selling the coming Jamaica Daily News, or as the publicist for the people's mayor, Kingston's Ralph Brown in the early 1970s.Bl...

A red curtain drawn to reveal a light shining in darkness, is depicted on the cover of Bishop Dr Romeon Facey's book, which he suggests is symbolic of authentic principles outlined to overcome demonic strongholds.Facey who heads the Fre...

THE conclusion is being drawn that since no deaths or major incidents have been reported from out-of-control trucks going north downhill on the Edward Seaga Highway, the facility might well have been saving lives."If we have no fataliti...

Twenty-six year old forklift operator Trevor Christie was discovered swinging from a belt in his Corporate Area apartment on Saturday evening in what the police are treating as a case of suspected suicide.The body of Christie was report...

A hot-off-the-press review by a top public health specialist has given rare commendation to Jamaica's politicians for their outstanding role in the country's management of the devastating novel coronavirus pandemic at the community leve...

Today is the 165th day of 2020. There are 200 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1993: Tansu Ciller becomes Turkey's first female prime minister after being elected leader of the centre-right True Path Party.OTHER EVENTS1775: The Co...

Castries, St Lucia-The novel coronavirus pandemic contains within its belly a cruel twist of fate. While it forced Caribbean countries to isolate quickly for their own safety, it is now making it difficult for them to come back together...

(From left) Kiwanis Club of West St Andrew (KCWSA) President Courtney Morgan, KCWSA PR Chairperson Marshalyn Rose, Kiwanian Jacqueline Bennett and Red Hills Golden-Agers Citizens' Association President Evelyn Satchell greeting each othe...

Two outstanding achievers, veteran journalist Desmond Allen, and security industry titan Ralston Pessoa, received the "Men of Might" awards from the Kingston Chapter of the Cornwall College Old Boys' Association (CCOBA), at a virtual aw...

CARBIS BAY, United Kingdom (AFP) - G7 leaders yesterday vowed to start delivering one billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines and to step up action on climate change in a US-led summit call to arms that also took on China and Russia.In a fin...

JERUSALEM (AFP) - A motley alliance of Israeli parties on yesterday ended Benjamin Netanyahu's 12 straight years as prime minister, as Parliament voted in a new Government led by his former ally, right-wing Jewish nationalist Naftali Be...

Former Senator and Member of Parliament for St Elizabeth North Eastern Kern Spencer is saddened by the lack of unity in the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) of which he remains a member.Spencer, 46, who has served as MP for the ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Embattled Member of Parliament for Westmoreland Central George Wright, who returned to Parliament last Tuesday after taking leave of absence amidst allegations of him assaulting a woman, said he used the time awa...

THE board of the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) is reportedly dissatisfied with the preliminary report on the controversial circumstances surrounding the death of 26-year-old Shanique Armstrong's baby girl.The report, whic...

THE office of the justice of the peace (JP) is by law a voluntary service, but several JPs have turned their duties into fully fledged businesses, charging as much as $40,000 to notarise documents.A probe by the Jamaica Observer reveale...

A document that formed the wage and fringe benefits agreement between the Jamaica Government, and the University of Technology Jamaica Staff Union (UTASU), for the 2015 to 2017 contract period, gave clear guidelines regarding how matter...

He is heading back into the political ring.Kern Omar Spencer, now a seasoned businessman who turns 47 exactly a week from now, is lacing up his boots for a return to elective politics, after spending a decade outside of Gordon House, h...

A woman is still fuming and asking obvious questions after she said her car was part-scrapped on the compound of a police station recently.And as she awaits answers from the police, Sherida Collins continues to scratch her head in disbe...

Custos of Manchester Garfield Green (right) is assisted by an employee of the Forestry Department in planting a fruit tree at last Thursday's launch of the Manchester Tree Planting Programme at Percy Junor Hospital. Under the programme,...

Dwayne Francis (left), CEO at Spanish Town Hospital, joins Lisa Belnavis (second left), human resource manager, Food For the Poor; Lorraine Brown Wright (second right), CEO, Port Maria Hospital, and Pastor Everett Smith, director of Adv...

 From left, Marsha Evans representing the Class of 1991; Helen Hamilton-Richards, book roomadministrator; students Kay-Janae Foster and Kevin Rodgers; and Annmarie James-Pusey, vice-principal of St Mary's College, pose for the lens aft...

That messy Spanish Town Hospital affair WHAT happened to Ms Shanique Armstrong at the Spanish Town Hospital recently, again highlights the many struggles that bleeds Jamaica's public health-care system. And, the first thing you hear fro...

The Kiwanis Club of New Kingston (KCNK) yesterday launched its 2019-2020 administration major project which will see a mural painted at the intersection of Mark Lane and Harbour Street in Kingston to promote wellness and empowerment thr...

DESPITE not having any success so far, local hypnotist Sean Davidson believes, if the conditions are right, people can quit smoking with hypnosis.Davidson, more popularly known as Sean Michaels, uses hypnosis - which he describes as an ...

NINETEEN years ago, Franklyn White saw the difficulties his stepmother faced when she was in dire need of blood. A few years later, he watched as his sister died at Spanish Town Hospital after being stabbed by unknown assailants. She, t...

IF there's ever an oral health problem you might want to avoid, it would be an impacted wisdom tooth.Unfortunately, you can't control the size of your mouth or how your wisdom teeth grow. Since impacted wisdom teeth are most often cause...

THE fallout among People's National Party (PNP) members in St Ann South Eastern deepened last week with the resignation of Ian Bell, councillor for the Beecher Town Division in the constituency, from the party's executive body there.In ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The burgeoning business process outsourcing (BPO) sector, now operating in 12 of the 14 parishes across Jamaica, is poised for further growth to come from the over US$70 million in projects being prepared by inte...

In July, the Caribbean Global Network (CGN) Group, operators of New York-based IRIE Jam Radio , will launch Jamaica's newest radio station, The Bridge 99 FM . The Bridge will simulcast to the sister station IRIE Jam Radio, 93.5 FM - ...

Retired President of Jamaica's Court of Appeal, Justice Seymour Panton, one of five judges who dismissed an appeal last Tuesday, lodged by former Bosnia and Herzegovina tyrant Ratko Mladic in The Hague, Netherlands, has praised the expe...

In 2011, Tashanna Walker of Trench Town, Kingston, and Henkel Valentine of Rio Grande Valley, Portland, both took a step in faith and enrolled at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, not knowing how their tuition would be cove...

One year after the emergence of the novel coronavirus pandemic, local health-care innovation business Novamed is making significant strides with its Virtual Innovation Lab to explore innovative solutions and opportunities in health car...

THERE is no 'typical' older person. Some 80-year-olds have physical and mental capacities similar to many 20-year-olds. Other people experience significant declines in physical and mental capacities at much younger ages. A comprehensive...

ARE you thinking of what to do in your retirement or advancing years? Think music. Music lessons are not only enjoyable for senior citizens, but can be quite beneficial.The brainMusic is wonderfully complex and so singing even the simpl...

IN today's digital world, it is almost impossible to get by without a mobile phone, a fact that is true even for senior citizens. While younger and more tech-savvy consumers may be obsessed about camera specs and lightning-fast performa...

FOR the first time in history, most people can expect to live into their 60s and beyond, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). According to the WHO, by 2050, the world's population aged 60 years and older is expected to tota...

DALLAS, Texas (AP) - The airline industry's recovery from the pandemic passed a milestone as more than two million people streamed through US airport security checkpoints on Friday for the first time since early March 2020.The Transport...

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro led a throng of motorcyclist supporters through the streets of Sao Paulo on Saturday - and got hit with a fine for failure to wear a mask in violation of local pandemic restrict...

CARBIS BAY, England (AP) - Leaders of the world's largest economies unveiled an infrastructure plan Saturday for the developing world to compete with China's global initiatives, but they were searching for a consensus on how to forceful...

Fortune is merry,And in this moodWill give us everything.- ShakespeareMoods are so important in our lives, and yet, many people often do not take them all that seriously, unless they're involved with someone who has a vast spectrum of ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, June 13, 2021: You are bright, clever, fun-loving and spontaneous. You like to plan ahead; nevertheless, you are excellent at adapting to change. You live by your own unique moral code. This year, your idealis...

At just age two, Anselm Dewar was on his father's work computer flying digital planes and dreaming of actually becoming a pilot when he got older.Thirty-two years later, Anselm, who was raised by adoptive Jamaican parents, surprised his...