OCHO RIOS, St Ann - A freak accident that claimed the life of a tractor operator at Noranda Bauxite company in Discovery Bay, St Ann, has left his colleagues stunned and in anguish.Fifty-three-year-old Mark Wint died last Thursday after...

A number of essential service workers in Kingston and St Andrew yesterday expressed satisfaction with being able to walk in to fast-food restaurants and make purchases as the country went through the second of this week's three no-movem...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) Chairman Wayne Chen says Jamaica should be vaccinating at least 15,000 people daily and push to have 60 per cent of the population inoculated three months ahead of the M...

Opposition spokesman on commerce, science, and technology Hugh Graham says very little has been done over the summer holiday to improve the education system's technological readiness and ability to facilitate the continuation of online ...

A group of independent public health providers who say they have treated some 300 COVID-19 patients between the ages of 18 and 104, without any dying, is urging the Government to lay off what they call oxygen-centric care which they arg...

Today is the 250th day of 2021. There are 115 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1996: Rapper Tupac Shakur is shot and mortally wounded on the Las Vegas Strip; he dies six days later. OTHER EVENTS1599: Britain's Earl of Essex signs...

THE Urban Development Corporation (UDC) is now searching for a new general manager as Heather Pinnock has resigned the post after just over two years.News of Pinnock's resignation, which takes effect October 31, was circulated to UDC st...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC) - Business establishments in Guyana yesterday began implementing new measures outlined by the Government, including that anyone entering public buildings, as well as private businesses and places of worship, mu...

GETTING their lives back on track was exactly what Kingston-based administrator, Devon and Manchester-based businesswoman, Sheryl had in mind when they entered the Digicel 'Mek Wi Rich Togeddah' Summer promotion. The two are among the f...

ST George's, Grenada, (CMC) - Grenada recorded seven deaths from the novel coronavirus pandemic in a 24-hour period which ended yesterday and appealed to nationals to get vaccinated, noting that none of those who died had been vaccinate...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Chilean health authorities yesterday approved the use of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine for children six years and older, the first Latin American country to take that step. Heriberto García, director of Chile's Pu...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - The European Union's drug regulator said yesterday that it has started an expedited evaluation on whether to recommend a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech.The European Medicines A...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla (AP) - A former United States Marine sharpshooter accused of invading the home of apparent strangers in Florida and fatally shooting a woman, her three-month-old baby, and two others was ordered held without bail du...

The Union of Clerical, Administrative, and Supervisory Employees (UCASE), adamant that the Government has stood by while dozens of workers have been ousted from their jobs because they refuse to be COVID-19-vaccinated, is calling for th...

TOLL GATE, Clarendon - Convinced that work being done on the Clarendon leg of the new highway is behind the recent flooding of their homes, residents of Duke Street in the Toll Gate community last Thursday staged a loud but peaceful pro...

ADMINISTRATORS at Kingston College (KC) last week expressed delight that a one-day COVID-19 vaccination blitz at the high school's North Street campus was a success, moving students one step closer to a return to physical classrooms and...

The number of Jamaicans who have taken the COVID-19 vaccine is inching closer to 600,000 as the Government continues to beseech people to take the jab to stave off the dire consequences of the worst symptoms of the virus.The health and ...

AN expert at Joseph M Still (JMS) Burn Centre in Atlanta, Georgia, where Hanover burn victim Nicola Clarke was flown for surgery in May this year, has underscored the importance of having an equipped burn unit locallyto save lives.Accor...

LITITZ, St Elizabeth - Sixty-year-old Selwyn Myers is grateful that his life was spared during the recent passage of Tropical Storm Ida in what he described as a "freak storm" which battered his family house, removing most of the roof.H...

Christina Williams, still basking in her selection to the European Union Youth Sounding Board, has one message for her fellow Jamaicans - "Take a chance on yourself because you never know who could be watching and could give you an oppo...

LINSTEAD, St Catherine - It has been months since 70-year-old mechanic Egbert Wright, from Darling Spring in St Catherine, vowed to take the COVID-19 vaccine.But Wright, who lives alone, believes he is only one of many older Jamaicans w...

Former Prime Minister PJ Patterson has welcomed the planned Africa-Caribbean Summit to be hosted by Kenya, on September 7.Patterson, the statesman in residence at the Patterson Centre for Africa Caribbean Advocacy, said the summit is "...

JN Bank executive Steve Distant shared his own experience with COVID-19 as he encouraged the island's teachers who have not yet been vaccinated to take the jab."I had every single symptom you could think about, such as headaches, loss o...

A local government official in St Elizabeth who is a member of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has blasted the Ministry of Transport and Mining for repeatedly failing to allocate enough money to repair a road that was badly damage...

Education Minister Fayval Williams has promised to intensify efforts to reach students who the ministry did not make contact with last year after the novel coronavirus pandemic forced school doors shut.The ministry had rolled out a summ...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Seven-year-old Melique Bailey has had enough. He's tired of sleeping in his father's taxi and he wants life to return to the way it was before fire ravaged the house he shared with his parents and three-year-old brot...

Today is the 249th day of 2021. There are 116 days left in the yearTODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2001: The first Air France Concorde plane in more than a year is cleared for commercial flights. The carrier's fleet had been grounded after a Concorde ...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AFP) - Guinean special forces seized power in a coup yesterday, arresting the president and imposing an indefinite curfew in the poor West African country."We have decided, after having taken the president, to dissolve ...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AFP) - Guinea, where a junta seized power in a coup yesterday, arresting President Alpha Conde, is an impoverished West African country despite a wealth of natural resources.Authoritarian regimesThe former French colony...

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 ...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 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, ...