THE committee appointed by the People's National Party (PNP) to review its crushing defeat in the 2020 General Election has identified eight main reasons for its loss and provided a slew of recommendations which, it believes, could lead...

Many esteem it to be the city of love, but for 20-year-old Tarec Francis, it is the city of his dreams.An aspiring chef, Francis hosted a series of fish-fry fund-raisers every Friday or every other Friday to raise money for his tuition...

THE Evaluation Committee of the Opposition People's National Party has suggested an end to the system that allows its senior officers to be challenged annually.This is an apparent move to prevent the bloodletting that stained four of th...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Two young men died and another is in hospital after a car in which they were travelling overturned on the YS Falls main road, close to the popular YS Falls attraction, about 10 miles north-west of Santa Cruz l...

DALLAS, Texas - Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has shared that the US-leg of his stakeholder engagement tour to increase arrivals to the destination, as well as foster further investment in the tourism sector, has so far been a major ...

TREASURE BEACH, St Elizabeth - Jakes Hotel and Jack Sprat Restaurant and Bar have become the first such operations in Jamaica's tourism sector to have all staff vaccinated against COVID-19, c hairman Jason Henzell told the Jamaica Obse...

Every time Sheryl Williams' cellphone rings, she hopes she will hear the words: "We have found your daughter" when she answers.Her only daughter, 34-year-old Ruchelle Williams, a teacher of Goshen district in St Ann, has been missing fo...

With his only shelter being a tarpaulin under a mango tree inside the Daytona housing scheme in Greater Portmore, St Catherine, Nigel Reid is appealing for help to live somewhere comfortable, which he can call his own.The Jamaica Observ...

A key prosecution witness in the trial of 33 alleged members of the notorious Klansman gang detailed the planning and implementation of at least three gruesome murders in St Catherine, during testimony on Friday.In continuing to his day...

DARLISTON, Westmoreland - Chairman of the Cilfton Boys' Home, Rev Hartley Perrin, has described as regrettable the allegations of physical abuse which led to the arrest and charge of three workers - a senior citizen and two of her close...

WASHINGTON DC, USA - Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States, Audrey Marks, wants better cooperation among ministers of labour in the region to achieve productive employment and economic recovery.Marks, who is also chair of the Organi...

TABOO sex talk is something medical officials believe is standing in the way of good health. As part of Nestlé's first-ever 'Nestlé Live Well Virtual Health Fair', health officials shed light on some shunned, yet necessary, conversati...

SEPTEMBER 29 is recognised globally as World Heart Day and this year The Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ) will be leading the charge locally with a public education campaign, under the theme 'Use heart to Connect'.The theme, coined by ...

HEART disease accounts for 30 per cent of yearly deaths in Jamaica and it is estimated that the situation will worsen if locals do not adopt a much healthier lifestyle.While prevention is better than cure, it is important to understand ...

The data shared by Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS) Project Director G Dwight Pusey was startling.More than 14,000 public transport owners and operators, he said, had been pushed out of business over the past...

ALTHOUGH it is straightforward to diagnose and relatively easy to treat the condition with low-cost drugs, a World Health Organization (WHO) study has revealed significant gaps in diagnosis and treatment. In fact, about 580 million peop...

A social pension is a non-contributory cash income that is given by the Government to the elderly. In July of this year, the Jamaican Government launched an $800,000,000 social pension geared at providing guaranteed income to senior cit...

BRUSHING and flossing are the best ways to help prevent cavities, but it's not always easy to clean every nook and cranny of your teeth, especially those back teeth you use to chew (molars). Molars are rough, uneven and a favourite plac...

J Wray & Nephew Foundation (JWNF), the outreach arm of J Wray & Nephew Limited (JWN), has this year provided more than 400 scholarships and financial grants to students in the communities across Jamaica.The 204 scholarships and ...

SELLING a house is always a huge stress, and for seniors it can be even more stressful."In many situations, seniors are faced with selling their home to boost their retirement savings or to downsize their home and its upkeep. Whatever t...

A time might come when the Jamaican Government will not be able to spend dollars for doses, health officials have warned.As new COVID-19 variants create mischief in public health and the necessity of vaccination becomes clearer with eac...

Our previous articles have discussed laying down of cholesterol in the arteries of the heart as a cause of cardiovascular disease. What many of our patients fail to recognise is that the laying down of cholesterol in arteries (atherosc...

St Mary-based charity Icons of Annotto Bay again teamed with local and international sponsors to ease the burden on some individuals and one institution recently.Icons founder and President Wyatt "Spur" Williams; secretary Odette Smith...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago (CMC) - The police are reporting that quick action by officials attached to the Homicide Bureau of Investigations (HBI) Region II has resulted in the arrest of a suspect in the triple homicide that occ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - The Ministry of Health on Friday ordered the closure of several mosques following reports that several members had contracted the novel coronavirus.According to the island's Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth ...

THE World Heath Organization (WHO) says a new advocacy brief has shown that social isolation and loneliness among older people are widespread globally.The novel coronavirus pandemic and the resultant physical distancing measures have ex...

DEL RIO, Texas (AP) - The Texas border crossing where thousands of Haitian migrants converged in recent weeks will be partially reopened late Saturday afternoon, US Customs and Border Protection said.Federal and local officials said no ...

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - Violene Marseille, her husband and two children were on a bus heading north through central Mexico when they received messages warning them their destination on the US-Mexico border was no longer a safe place to...

Time is very slow for those who wait,Very fast for those who are scared,Very long for those who lamentVery short for those who celebrateBut for those who love, time is eternal.- ShakespeareHow you manage time is so important, yet many...

TORONTO, Cananda (AP) - China, the US and Canada completed a high-stakes prisoner swap with joyous homecomings for two Canadians held by China and for an executive of Chinese global communications giant Huawei Technologies charged with ...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - President Joe Biden is losing support among critical groups in his political base as some of his core campaign promises falter, raising concerns among Democrats that the voters who put him in office may fe...

AP - Billions more in profits are at stake for some vaccine makers as the US moves toward dispensing COVID-19 booster shots to shore up Americans' protection against the virus.How much the manufacturers stand to gain depends on how big ...

MADRID, Spain (AP) - The airport on the Spanish island of La Palma shut down Saturday because of an ash cloud spewing out of a volcano that has been erupting for a week, and scientists said another volcanic vent opened up, exposing isla...

Juliet Holness would be a good choice; Crawford her deputy (Juliet Holness, Rhoda Crawford) LAST Tuesday's Jamaica Observer carried a speculative article on the longer-term choice to replace Floyd Green as minister of agriculture and ...

LINSTEAD, St Catherine - Of the more than 450 incidents involving the mentally ill that the police have responded to in the Corporate Area and St Catherine so far this year, lethal or deadly force was used six times, according to Police...

LINSTEAD, St Catherine - The country's deficiency in the management of mentally ill people yesterday screamed through the grief that permeated this town, where a mentally challenged man was shot dead by cops after he killed one of their...

Just one year after his visa was revoked by the United States, Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Daryl Vaz has been granted a one-year visitor's visa by the Americans.Vaz yesterday told the Jamaica Observer that he welcomed th...

OPPOSITION Senator Peter Bunting says the Government should take responsibility for the island's spike in COVID-19 deaths because it has not implemented a meaningful vaccination plan, but is rather focused on public relations-driven str...

FLORIDA, United States (AP) - The images - men on horseback with long reins, corralling Haitian asylum seekers trying to cross into the US from Mexico - provoked an outcry. But to many Haitians and black Americans, they're merely confir...

FLORENCE HALL, Trelawny - Prime Minister Andrew Holness has debunked the notion that COVID-19 vaccines have debilitating effects on the male sexual organ, one of the falsehoods about the jab making the rounds currently.The prime ministe...

JAMAICAN parents have given mixed responses to Monday's announcement by American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech that clinical trials have shown that their vaccine is safe and effective for children ages five...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - With cascading crises casting a pall over the proceedings at this year's United Nations General Assembly, Slovakian President Zuzana Caputová had this reminder on the first day of debate: "We cannot save ...

BEING a taxi driver for more than 20 years has proven to Richard Joseph that with every passenger he picks up, he is risking his life.The Linstead, St Catherine-based Joseph told the Jamaica Observer that he learnt this lesson the hard ...

Commodore Antonette Wemyss-Gorman's phone rang of the hook yesterday after news emerged late Wednesday night that she will be appointed chief of defence staff next January.The appointment will result in Wemyss-Gorman being promoted to t...

Some of the island's religious leaders yesterday expressed pleasure with the Government's move to increase the number of worshippers allowed in churches under the COVID-19 safety measures which the country has been observing since last ...

THE Jamaica National Group yesterday revealed it is gearing up to embark on a comprehensive drive to achieve full immunisation against COVID-19 among its more than 2,000 employees and, by extension, Jamaicans islandwide.Aptly called the...

Taking up where his late dad left off, Adam Stewart, executive chairman of Sandals Resorts International (SRI), last week received the prestigious 2021 Pacesetter Award from the Travel ALLIES Society (TAS), at its annual Young Leaders i...

A wall of silence was erected around premises on Little Kew Road in St Andrew, yesterday as residents refused to comment on a dispute which left one sister dead and another on the run.The police identified the dead woman as 42-year-old ...

FLORENCE HALL, Trelawny - While underscoring that he will not be forcing anyone to take the COVID-19 vaccine, Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday said that mandatory vaccination will become unavoidable when a larger segment of the p...

When Andre "Blackman" Bryan, alleged leader of the One Don faction of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang, "gave orders" for people to be wiped out, no questions were asked of him, a key prosecution witness testified yesterday."He not...