More Jamaicans began showing up at vaccination sites yesterday as the Government rolled out its latest inoculation blitz after the arrival of 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca shot Friday, courtesy of the United Kingdom.The Ministry of H...

The last time that Jamaica's female athletes swept the Olympic 100-metres final was at the 2008 Games in Beijing, China. The trio of Shelly-Ann Fraser, Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart brought untold joy to Jamaicans here and across t...

Renowned migration and human trafficking consultant researcher Dr Cleophas Justine Pierre says he is waiting on the United States (US) State Department to "reveal the data that they claim to have" to support their assertion that some J...

JUST one age group remains to qualify for a COVID-19 vaccine and become part of the target population for the Government's vaccination blitz - young children.With the possibility of the resumption of face-to-face classes come September,...

Following Friday's death of Norman Manley, the attorney-at-law and grandson of National Hero Norman Washington Manley, we reprint an article on him from the award-winning Death Postponed series published on Sunday, November 11, 2012, ou...

There was a "quiet expectation of a sweep" in the women's 100m final at the Olympic Games even before the team left for Tokyo, Japan, says Ian Forbes.The assistant manager for the track and field team, Forbes revelled in the feat on Sa...

Sandals Resorts International (SRI) and Heart Institute of the Caribbean (HIC) yesterday extended gifts of appreciation to the three Jamaican women sprinters who swept the 100m final at the Tokyo Olympics, as well as members of the nat...

At 1:30 every morni ng Agatha Harvey and her niece Anita Harvey are jolted from their sleep. The involuntary action is sparked by the haunting memory of gunshots that shattered the late night silence of their Planters Hill community in...

THE novel coronavirus pandemic has made a vaccinologist out of most of us. By now, we pretty much know what a vaccine is, that no vaccine is 100 per cent perfect, and that being vaccinated isn't licence to throw oneself in harm's way.Wi...

AS people get older it can become difficult for them to manage their financial affairs. Naturally, this can be a major concern for many seniors as their reduced ability to manage their finances and personal business can make them vulner...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) - Four of the world's most prominent health, trade and financial organisations yesterday implored COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers to prioritise doses for poorer countries to combat the "acute and alarming shorta...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Three leading business operators here - Simone Spence-Johnson, Lyden "Trevor" Heaven, and hotelier Peter Campbell - agree that the Government had no choice but to restore strict measures to curb spread of the no...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Following a spate of break-ins, including the Returned Residents Association of Mandeville building on Bonitto Crescent, police here are urging greater community partnership and individual security awareness. ...

IN the US, nearly one in eight couples struggles with infertility. Unfortunately, physicians like me who specialise in reproductive medicine are unable to determine the cause of male infertility approximately 30 to 50 per cent of the ti...

THE overturned Toyota motor car has now been removed from the Lanrumney main road in St Mary where a nurse narrowly escaped serious injury or possible death when it careened off the road and landed in a ditch by the roadway last Wednesd...

Head of the board of the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ), Fay Hutchinson, is heading to court to challenge the accuracy of a number of stories published by The Gleaner recently in relation to the entity's investment in First Rock...

IT'S a simple fact that we all need adequate sleep to function optimally, but this is sometimes overlooked by many people who opt to neglect sleep to get more work done. Then there are those who don't have a choice as insomnia - a sleep...

We know you sometimes have burning questions that can best be answered by a pharmacist. Our feature, Ask Your Pharmacist , seeks to address some of those issues. Send your questions to healthandwealth@jamaicaobserver.com.Question: Are ...

Mind what you say about the prime ministerI had better watch what I say about the prime minister these days, for I might be hauled to the nearest police station and thrown into a cell for the first time, and made to issue an apology, ma...

Generational wealth pertains to the transfer of assets from one generation to the next. Wealth can be transferred while the donor is alive or after his/her death in the form of an inheritance. Forms of assets that are passed from one g...

Dr Owen James and Prof Denise Eldemire-Shearer, addressing a virtual wellness conversation hosted by the Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP) last Wednesday, pointed to moderation in diet, maintaining an active lifestyle and c...

ICREATE Institute, the digital skills training institute which recently launched a multimillion-dollar digital awareness training programme to improve digital proficiency for thousands, is extending the initiative to Jamaican seniors, t...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) - Millions of Americans could find themselves homeless starting today as a nationwide ban on evictions expires, against a backdrop of surging novel coronavirus cases and political finger-pointing.With...

MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) - Hundreds of protesters in Canada's capital called yesterday for a probe into a boarding school system for indigenous children, as outrage built after the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at several of th...

Use every man after his desert,And who would escape whipping.- ShakespeareA good whipping will always keep a bad boy in line. That was the saying back in the day, and I daresay it still applies in many quarters to this very day. But the...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness says the proposed national identification system (NIDS) will help to identify the nation's elderly population who should benefit from the social pension programme. "The NIDS will be the basis on which progr...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Norman Douglas Manley was yesterday remembered by two of his colleagues in the legal fraternity for his exemplary work as an attorney.Manley, a grandson of National Hero Norman Washington Manley and the son of D...

With an aim to return August Town in St Andrew to the status of zero murders for an entire year, which it achieved in 2016, and also to maintain overall peace in the community, 20 volunteers of the police's supervised curfew monitors pr...

TOKYO (AP) - For decades, they were told to shake it off or toughen up - to set aside the doubt, or the demons, and focus on the task at hand: Winning. Dominating. Getting it done.For years, Simone Biles was one of the very best at that...

BLUEFIELDS, Westmoreland - Having grown weary of being a handyman and bagging pig feed for a company, 28-year-old Garfield "Benjamin" Billings decided to become a nail technician at age 18.For years he has endured raised eyebrows from t...

THE E-commerce National Delivery Solution (ENDS) has now come to the end of phase one of the pilot programme and is undergoing a major overhaul in preparation for an official launch for phase two.The Private Sector Organisation of Jamai...

DEPUTY commissioner of police (DCP) in charge of crime, Fitz Bailey, has dismissed an assertion made in the media that Jamaica has four human trafficking hot spots across the country, saying careless utterances with no supporting data d...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Despite invitations being sent and chairs reserved for all Members of Parliament and councillors in the parish, Westmoreland Western and Eastern MPs and Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillors were notably ...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Detectives from the Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) are now seeking a Westmoreland man for questioning in relation to the alleged rape of his 11-year-old daughter.The g...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Police here say they are closely monitoring entertainment events being hosted in the parish following Prime Minister Andrew Holness's announcement of adjusted curfew hours on Monday."We have adjusted our times, ...

The University of the West Indies (The UWI) yesterday said its community is filled with great pride to have yet another member of its alumni - Philip J Pierre - assuming the high office of prime minister in the Caribbean region.In a re...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - New evidence showing the Delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox and may be more dangerous than other versions has prompted US health officials to consider changing advice on how the nation figh...

CALIFORNIA, United States (AP) - President Joe Biden is sounding the alarm about the need for more resources to fight a series of wildfires in western states, as climate change has worsened the spread and ferocity of the blazes. "Our re...

OPPOSITION spokesman on national security Peter Bunting is blaming antiquated laws for the embarrassing, and possible costly decision, by the police to detain a St Ann man who aimed a foul-mouthed tirade at Prime Minister Andrew Holness...

JAMAICA has been placed on high alert for African swine fever (AFS), following a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) report of July 28, 2021 confirming the disease in samples collected from pigs in the Dominican Republic.A re...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - Caribbean Community member nations Barbados and Guyana are considering mandatory vaccination for COVID-19. Barbados is also giving consideration to the possibility of mandatory testing for the virus which ha...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - A taxi operator was yesterday taken into police custody after allegedly battering another cabbie during a dispute near Mandeville Regional Hospital.The injured taxi driver remains hospitalised in stable conditio...

A woman died in a fire at her home on West Avenue in Kingston Gardens yesterday and her relatives are tight-lipped due to uncertainty surrounding whether the blaze was the work of gangster arsonists or the result of an electrical proble...

The Crime Monitoring and Oversight Committee (CMOC) has again rapped the Government for its failure to meet several of the agreed deadlines under the almost one-year-old National Crime Consensus Agreement.Addressing a CMOC quarterly bri...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Volunteers from the Barbary Hill Seventh Day Church of God in Murray Mount, St Ann have transformed the house of worship into a place where children lagging behind in their schoolwork can catch up.Once decked out wit...

Today is the 211th day of 2021. There are 154 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1945: The USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian, is torpedoed by a Jap...

The Ministry of Education's multimillion-dollar arrangement with Western Hospitality Institute has come under sharp scrutiny based on budgetary allocations made to the institution since 2016 to administer associate degree programmes und...

Public health nurse Karen Smith delivers the first COVID-19 vaccine under the Private Sector Vaccine Initiative (PSVI) to Jamaica Producers Group Executive Assistant Vanessa Samuels at Girl Guide Headquarters in St Andrew, yesterday. Sa...

CLAREMONT St Ann - When Errol Webb heard explosions coming from his younger brother Orlando's house next door, it never crossed his mind that it was his sibling being murdered. But when he went to check at 6:15 am Wednesday, he stumbled...

THE Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation will be undertaking repairs to road infrastructure in St Ann at an estimated cost of more than $400 million.More than $200 million will be spent to carry out works on several roads, drain...