The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has called upon the United Kindgom Government to bring an end to the widely discredited travel traffic light system.The call came last week after the UK updated its travel restriction list whi...

News last week that Mandeville Regional Hospital (MRH) had exceeded capacity and resorted to placing some COVID-19 patients on mattresses and in makeshift bed spaces in the designated area for outpatients switched many Manchester reside...

SEVERAL heart inflammation complications are being observed in children hospitalised locally for COVID-19.The complications, however, are said to be rare side effects caused by the virus.Dr Tracy Evans Gilbert, consultant in paediatrics...

There is fear among some pregnant couples that taking the COVID-19 vaccine could harm their unborn children, as the health and wellness ministry ramps up its efforts to get most of the population inoculated. This, officials believe, is ...

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says Jamaicans will see a shift in the Government's management of the COVID-19 crisis that has been intensified by a shortage of medical oxygen and logistical weaknesses exposed by an u...

COVID-19 testing has become a cash cow for many local private doctors, some of whom are charging thousands of dollars for a single test, with some even engaged in the business without having the required accreditation from the Jamaica N...

A day by the pool could have ended in tragedy if not for the quick thinking of 10-year-old Parissa Samuels that saved the day and saved a life.Last Sunday, August 29, little Parissa put her swim training to use to rescue her three-year-...

TOKYO, Japan (AP) - A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced a 90-year-old former senior government official to five years in prison for a 2019 car crash which killed a three-year-old girl and her mother, in a high-profile case in a fast-...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Born without an anus, 11-month-old Ariah Turner, who already had one surgery to treat her condition, now needs two more if she's ever to have a normal life.But those procedures will have to wait, her mother Tasho...

The traffic check being conducted by this cop on Maxfield Avenue recently was definitely a chance encounter so the cab driver's message on his window visor - Psalm 27 vs 1-2: "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? th...

Holness should take a vacationIf there was any doubt about the need for Prime Minister Andrew Holness to take a rest and recharge for further work ahead, that evaporated last Monday after he addressed the nation.For it seems that the pr...

THE four per cent rule was created by retired financial planning practitioner William Bengen in 1994. He has since revised the rule to the 4.5 per cent rule. William Bengen is the author of the book Conserving Clients Portfolio During ...

A number of tailors and dressmakers, who usually receive orders for school uniforms, are pinning their economic survival on the majority of the island's children being vaccinated in time for the resumption of face-to-face classes when t...

A wisdom tooth is known as the third molar tooth that is located to the back of the other molars. So, in other words, they're two wisdom teeth at the top and two wisdom teeth at the bottom, making it one on each side. Your wisdom tooth ...

A work family that gets vaccinated together, stays together. That's the thought Douglas Gourzong, CEO of WISE Construction Group Ltd, harboured as he motivated all 30 of his employees to get the jab last month to protect themselves from...

More than 1,000 Jamaicans received COVID-19 vaccines last Friday in a vaccination blitz staged by St Andrew East Rural Member of Parliament Juliet Holness for her constituents.Vaccinations were delivered between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm at t...

Many secondary school principals have expressed support for the Ministry of Education's recent announcement of compulsory sixth form come September 2022, but have indicated uncertainty about the level of resources available to schools t...

NEUROLOGIST and author of The Better Brain Book , Dr David Pelmutter says that by age 40, about two-thirds of people experience some mental decline.This slowdown in mental function typically begins with mild memory problems or "fuzzy t...

We know you sometimes have burning questions that can best be answered by a pharmacist. Get answers by sending your questions to healthandwealth@jamaicaobserver.com.Question: I forgot to refrigerate the antibiotic! It's been off the fri...

I remember a telephone call from a doctor who had recently had a COVID antibody test that was negative, despite having had confirmed COVID-19 and having been vaccinated sometime after. Her expectation, naturally, was that she would have...

RetireMENT can bring with it certain financial realities, one of which is usually a reduction in income. A great way to halt further loss in income after retirement is to try and retire debt-free. However, this is not always possible, ...

ONLY a quarter of countries worldwide have a national policy, strategy or plan for supporting people with dementia and their families, according to the World Health Organization's (WHO) 'Global status report on the public health respons...

THE financial challenges some Jamaicans face with debt have prompted a financial technology company in the Corporate Area to offer what it calls a credit repair service.In fact, since the launch of Tarpa Corporation Limited in May, CEO ...

CRANFORD, New Jersey (AP) - Flood-stricken families and business owners across the US north-east were hauling waterlogged belongings to the curb yesterday and scraping away noxious mud as clean-up from the deadly remnants of Hurricane I...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, September 5, 2021: You are a responsible person who is concerned about basics like family, financial security and establishing a home for yourself. You like the good life. Personally, you are attracted to peop...

All things that were ordained festival,Turn from their office to black funeral,Our instruments to melancholy blues,Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,Our bridal flowers serve for a bridal c...

SOME Jamaicans are convinced that Prime Minister Andrew Holness could be trying to frustrate the nation into taking the COVID-19 vaccine by his recent announcement that the series of three-consecutive no-movement days will continue unti...

JAMAICANS in the north-eastern United States caught a scare midweek as Hurricane Ida hurled post-tropical cyclones throughout the area and induced devastating flooding, leaving more than 60 people dead across several states, including N...

On one fateful night, 36-year-old taxi driver Omar aka Drankrow didn't expect that he would be thrust into the middle of a domestic dispute when he was making his regular rounds on Old Harbour Road, St Catherine.Omar, who has been a tax...

FINANCIAL and other challenges, made worse by the novel coronavirus pandemic, have forced the closure of seven private schools, with Government fighting to save an additional three from going under as preparations for the reopening of s...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Dr Newton Cleghorne has been lauded for his exemplary leadership, dedication, and vision at Northern Caribbean University (NCU), where he was vice-president of student services up to the time of his passing yest...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has promised to examine the possibility of providing additional support to the Savanna-la-Mar Public General Hospital, which is currently buckling under p...

FOR this family, one skill has been passed down through three generations. It's the tale of two fathers and a passion for craft, which began decades ago when the now 47-year-old Henry Morris was at the receiving end.He learnt the art of...

Dream Entertainment, the promoters of Dream Weekend, has rejected claims that the party series staged from August 5 to 9 is to be blamed for the third wave of the novel coronavirus now impacting the island. In a lengthy response, Dream ...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - Police went door to door in search of more possible victims and drew up lists of the missing as the death toll rose to 49 yesterday in the catastrophic flooding set off across the north-east by the remnant...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Fresh from successfully beating COVID-19, independent Member of Parliament George Wright on Thursday joined the Government's pro-COVID-vaccination tour on its whistle stop at Manning's School in Savanna-la...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A small group of Afghan women protested near the presidential palace in Kabul yesterday, demanding equal rights from the Taliban as Afghanistan's new rulers work on forming a Government and seeking internationa...

SOME Jamaicans yesterday said they expected an extension of the no-movement days due to the surge in COVID-19 cases but argued that the Government should implement new initiatives to assist the needy.A produce vendor at the Half-Way-Tre...

If you are in arrears with your water bill, a debt collector may be knocking on your door soon.That's the word from the National Water Commission (NWC), which yesterday revealed that it plans to sell a portion of debt owed by its custo...

NEW FOREST, Manchester - Farmers in Manchester and St Elizabeth are counting their losses following crop devastation by wind and heavy rain associated with tropical storms Grace and Ida in recent weeks. They are predicting higher prices...

THE Opposition People's National Party (PNP) yesterday threw the blame of the COVID-19 crisis being experienced by the country at the feet of Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton, and called for his sacking."The minister of health must...

NEW YORK, USA - A section of a popular street in the New Jersey city of Patterson, United States, is to be renamed Jamaica Way at a ceremony planned for tomorrow as part of celebrations to mark the American Labour Day weekend."The renam...

THE Real Estate Board is getting tough on registered dealers who have failed to complete and submit its Anti-Money Laundering Risk Assessment Survey Questionnaire which is designed to reduce money laundering in the sector. Thirteen real...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness yesterday denied that it had neglected to provide supply forecasts to medical oxygen supplier IGL and said it has revised its policy directive to ensure diversification in sourcing the life-saving pr...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Even as Black River Hospital mourns the death of a health-care worker, Chief Executive Officer Diana Brown Miller says the facility is coping as best as it can with the current surge of COVID-19 cases. She sa...

SCOTIABANK Jamaica on Wednesday hosted COVID-19 vaccination drives in Kingston and Montego Bay where more than 200 people received both first and second doses of the jab.The bank, in a release yesterday, said it has also implemented sev...

Today is the 246th day of 2021. There are 119 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT:1939: Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland; in a radio address, Britain's Kin...

REGIONAL technology company Growth Tech Limited has inked a multimillion-dollar deal with development company Real Equity Limited. The agreement will see the outfitting of all data and network for the Real Equity's various development p...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green says the country's Praedial Larceny Prevention Unit (PLPU) has been reaping success recently, in curtailing acts of praedial larceny across the country."We saw ov...

SALT MARSH, Trelawny - Everald Warmington, the minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, on Wednesday announced the allocation of $324 million to rehabilitate roads in northern Trelawny, which he de...