A 22-year-old Jamaican native who has been studying medicine in Camagüey, Cuba for the past three years, has found himself in a frenzy in recent times.It follows a shortage of food and medicine across the Spanish-speaking island, and w...

When it rains, 80-year-old Stanley Morrison has to sit in a chair in his one-room board dwelling with no electricity or water until his bed dries. His roof is made mainly of tarpaulin and is riddled with holes and sunburn.Morrison has ...

"Hypocritical" is how retired Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams refers to the United States after learning that its State Department underscored a concern that some members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) could be inv...

Outgoing British High Commissioner to Jamaica Asif Ahmad has labelled his failure to help Jamaica significantly reduce its murder figures as one of the most disappointing aspects of his four years in the post.In an exit interview with ...

EIGHTEEN-year-old Lacsena Edwards from Fort George, St Ann, a community which borders Clarendon, had her sights set on becoming a nurse.But the impact of COVID-19 forced her to drop out of school and has left her scrambling to determin...

TWO brothers - a six and a 12-year-old - are left to heal after one of their most fundamental rights as children was grossly violated, leaving their parents devastated. That being their right to protection from abuse as reflected in the...

PEOPLE'S National Party President Mark Golding is keeping quiet, publicly, about the situation that has left the 83-year-old party struggling to fend off further criticism about its quest to achieve unity, following the resignation of i...

DURING the novel coronavirus pandemic, millions of people worldwide lost their jobs and had to quickly find new ways of survival.Locally, from Croft's Hill, Clarendon, two women have been tilling the soil through their farms and produci...

Should racists be given attention?The highly racist society that is England was on colourful display last Sunday in the final of Euro 2020.It is public knowledge that three black members of the England football squad were subjected to r...

THE Kiwanis Club of New Kingston (KCNK), in collaboration with artists from Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA), have completed and unveiled a mural on Mark Lane, downtown Kingston, which is expected to encour...

Richard Buchanan decided that the theft of his pan and tent from his place of business in Hendon, Norwood, in St James will not deter him from earning a living.The three-year pan chicken vendor has risen from the ashes to continue his p...

AFTER the National Works Agency (NWA) closed the dilapidated First Bridge in Pedro, Clarendon, which was on the brink of collapsing, residents took it up on themselves to reopen the bridge despite warnings of danger and incomplete const...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - From age five Dominique Reid wanted to be a dentist.She was so fascinated by the idea that she dressed like one every year for careers' day at school. Now, the 25-year-old has achieved her desire and wants to im...

OVER the past year and a half 'vaccine' has become a buzzword. This is not because the term is new to us, but it has become somewhat of a lifeboat as the world continues to grapple with the novel coronavirus pandemic.At the onset of the...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Born on July 7, 1921 in this south-central parish, Alice Isabella Plummer recently celebrated her 100th birthday with a few family and friends at the United Church Senior Citizen's Home in Mandeville.Plummer, wh...

THERE is a widely held misconception that advanced technology is best suited for the young.However, increasingly, we are seeing where technology is helping to improve the lives of our senior citizens. One of the great perks of the ever-...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth -Educator Kerene Nelson, who was the Lasco Teacher of the Year for 2016/2017, operates on the basis of a simple philosophy. "It is my belief that education is the bridge that gets you on the other side; thus, he...

WELL known educator, author and former British Broadcasting Corporation journalist, Trevor Fitz-Henley is dead.He passed away yesterday, two days after his 77th birthday. Fitz-Henley, who died in hospital, had been battling illness for ...

THE CONVERSATION) - Now that two-thirds of all adults in the United States have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of mid-July 2021, life seems to be returning to some semblance of pre-pandemic times. People are again t...

A new World Health Organization (WHO) report confirms that HIV infection is a significant independent risk factor for both severe/critical COVID-19 presentation at hospital admission and in-hospital mortality.Overall, nearly a quarter (...

TECHNOLOGY is easier, but the risks of mishaps are just as real. That's why data security and web hosting expert Trevor Forrest has joined the drone delivery debate, warning against the possible leak of customers' personal information. ...

SINCE the novel coronavirus pandemic began, researchers, scientists, doctors, and the general population have all sought to figure out this unexpected and unpredictable virus.The huge gaps in explaining the novel coronavirus may have ad...

ROSE Miller, grants manager at the JN Foundation and head of the JN BeWi$e Financial Empowerment Programme, says there is a growing need for more senior citizens to be exposed to financial education programmes, so that they can better p...

THE United Nations Committee on World Food Security says food security "means that all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meet their food preferences and dietary ...

VISITING the late Bob Marley's Tuff Gong Recording Studio in Kingston may not be as exciting as it was when the "Gong" reigned. But, it is intriguing enough just considering who you might bump into.It is not only a music haven for veter...

Digicel is giving its new and existing customers chances to win up to $10 million to get things done. This follows the move by Jamaicans to put plans on hold over the past year due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.The life-changing gr...

Youth is full of sport;Age's breath is short;Youth is nimble;Age is lame; youth is hot and bold;Age is weak and cold;Youth is wild and age is tame.- ShakespeareIf you're up in age, have seen many summers, or approaching your twilight ye...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, July 18, 2021: You are energetic and forceful. You are also compassionate and caring; nevertheless, you're not afraid to make a first move. Issues matter for you! This year the pace will be faster. It's a happ...

THERE was a slight decline from 60 per cent to 52 per cent in the average students' performance for the 2021 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) Grade Six Ability Test this year, when compared to last year, it was announced yesterday.The officia...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Guardsman Group Ltd has shut down rumours that 30 of its guard dogs were recently quarantined with COVID-19. The company says the dogs, contrary to persistent rumours to the contrary, had kennel cough - which is ...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) - The Haitian Government yesterday announced that assassinated President Jovenel Moise will be buried on July 23.It will be held in the city of Cap-Haïtien, north of here, where the 53-year-old former head o...

CHAIRMAN of the Integrity Commission Justice Seymour Panton, in response to yesterday's Jamaica Observer lead story, says allegations made are false.Below is the statement from the commission which has been lightly edited:The article qu...

MINISTER of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Senator Kamina Johnson Smith yesterday announced the appointment of Janice Miller as Ambassador of Jamaica to the Caribbean Community (Caricom), effective June 30."I am pleased with the appo...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Bemoaning the too-frequent cases of justices of the peace displaying unsavoury behaviour, Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has warned 43 newly-appointed JPs in St Ann that he will not hesitate to act if they do not live...

THE façade the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) had erected to convince Jamaicans that it was united, and a Government in waiting, came crumbling down yesterday with an ear-piercing bang that had scores of Comrades shivering.Th...

The family story of 10-year-old Jahiem Bogle, who succumbed yesterday morning to injuries he sustained after being shot in the head during a drive-by shooting in a section of Arnett Gardens called Top Jungle, Thursday afternoon, has be...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Dental surgeon Dr Kimberly Freeman has been installed as president of the Rotary Club of Mandeville for 2021-2022. She succeeded veteran educator Dr Garth Anderson.Freeman is the daughter of Linval Freeman, past...

GLENN Tuttle, co-manager of boatwatch.org, says men on the ill-fated Falling Star lobster fishing vessel could all have been rescued had the boat been equipped with an emergency position-indicating radio beacon (EPIRB). Ten of the 15-...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The St James Municipal Corporation (SJMC) is reporting that 156 vendors wishing to ply their wares on the streets of Montego Bay signed up during the local authority's three-day pre-registration blitz which ended...

MINISTER of Education, Youth and Information Fayval Williams says schools must make it their mission to rank among the best institutions globally. "We must get to that point in our evolution as a Jamaican people, in which we are known g...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - So much for Donald Trump's quest for "perfect" hair. The Biden Administration is reversing a Trump-era rule approved after the former president complained he wasn't getting wet enough because of limi...

LONDON, England (AP) - The UK recorded more than 50,000 new coronavirus cases for the first time in six months yesterday amid a warning from the British Government's top medical adviser that the number of people hospitalised with COVID-...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Standing before a looted mall and surrounded by soldiers, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa vowed yesterday to restore order to the country after a week of violence set off by the imprisonment of ...

THE health ministry is concerned that some food labels contain misleading information, and do not give consumers accurate data on the amount of trans fat - the most dangerous type of fat - that these items contain. Health Minister Dr Ch...

Businessman and sport enthusiast Alva Anderson died early yesterday morning. Anderson, who was 83 years old, became ill about a year ago with a medical condition that had proved resistant to treatment.A director of TM Traders Ltd, Ande...

GRANVILLE, St James -Councillor for the Granville Division in St James Michael Troupe, who represents the People's National Party, is calling for a zone of special operations (ZOSO) to be declared in the community following Wednesday ni...

JERMAINE Miller, who was accused of the stabbing death of his ex-lover, 27-year-old Nevia Sinclair, at her family home in Brinkley, St Elizabeth, last year, was yesterday sentenced to life in prison.His attorney, Queen's Counsel Peter C...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Donovan Mitchell withdrew his resignation as mayor of Mandeville and chairman of the Manchester Municipal Corporation, reportedly at the urging of at least one senior member of the Opposition People's National P...

THE Integrity Commission has turned its spotlight on some of Jamaica's most senior civil servants, some with decades of service, sending shock waves throughout the leadership of the island's public sector.The Jamaica Observer has confir...

At least 10 of the 15 Honduran crew members from the Falling Star lobster fishing vessel, who had been reported missing at sea last week Tuesday, are now rescued.Five members of the crew are still unaccounted for, but the Jamaica Obser...