ONE of Jamaica's top medical professionals, Dr Guyan Arscott is recommending that the Government indicates, in its daily COVID-19 reports, whether the people who died from the novel coronavirus were vaccinated or unvaccinated."Every day...

CHIEF Justice Bryan Sykes yesterday insisted that all main police stations should be outfitted with remote hearing capabilities after he was forced to adjourn the high-profile trial of 33 people accused of being members of the feared Kl...

The Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) will start reviewing the Government's proposed First Supplementary Estimates 2021/22 today at Gordon House.In addition, Minister of National Security Dr Horace ...

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) - Prime Minister Gaston Browne says Antigua and Barbuda will be entering 2022 with most, if not all of the measures put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, removed, whether or not a signifi...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - Investigators commissioned by the United Nations' top human rights body, including Jamaica's Tracy Robinson, said yesterday that they turned up evidence of possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Li...

SANDALS Resorts International (SRI) yesterday kicked off its 40th anniversary celebrations with the announcement that it will establish the Gordon "Butch" Stewart International School of Hospitality and Tourism in honour of its late fou...

The central bank yesterday received more flak for its decision to increase deposit interest rates by one percentage point with the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) describing it as misguided and insisting that the...

Today is the 278th day of 2021. There are 87 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1947: In the first televised White House address, US President Harry S Truman asks Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thur...

THE Government has refused to budge on requests from the Opposition to increase the period for the first review of the anticipated Sexual Harassment Act beyond the current 18 months.Leader of Government Business in the Senate Senator Ka...

CLOSE to 200 residents of Maverley and surrounding communities in St Andrew on Saturday received COVID-19 vaccines in a drive organised by the Rotary Club of Trafalgar, New Heights.The club partnered with the Ministry of Health and Well...

THE Jamaica Institution of Engineers (JIE) has announced a partnership with Liquefied National Gas (LNG) provider, New Fortress Energy (NFE), that will see three top-performing students from the island's three tertiary institutions whic...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The St Ann police will tomorrow make another push to locate missing teacher Ruchelle Williams.According to Senior Superintendent Dwight Powell, commanding officer for the St Ann Police Division, they have received mu...

PRESIDENT Of the Lupus Foundation of Jamaica, Dr Desiree Tulloch-Reid is calling for increased awareness of the disease, which can lead to early detection and access to treatment.October is being observed as Lupus Awareness Month, under...

"Everybody sad, crying from morning because it is my brother's birthday and he is not even here for us to hug and kiss him - and we can't get no justice for him. Somebody knows something about who hit my brother from his bike and they n...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Jordan's King Abdullah II was meeting with the World Bank president, asking for more financial support for his country's battered economy, just around the time the news broke: A trove of leaked documents revealed the ki...

MENLO PARK, United States (AP) - Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were down across wide swathes of the world yesterday, with Facebook's internal systems used by employees also going down.The company said it was awar...

VOLUNTEERS from Sandals South Coast, representing Sandals Foundation, recently provided children ranging from ages three to 11, from 15 early childhood and primary schools in Westmoreland, with much-needed school supplies, which include...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness on Friday told residents of Tower Hill in his St Andrew West Central constituency that widescale electricity theft cannot continue, as he encouraged them to have their connections regularised.Residents of T...

TOURISM Minister Edmund Bartlett says that the island can expect more than 50 non-stop flights per week between Canada and Jamaica, starting November 1.Speaking from Canada, where he has been having a series of engagements with travel i...

THREE wanted men were arrested by the St Catherine South police over the weekend as they increase operations across the division.The men, who were wanted in connection with several serious offences, were arrested in separate incidents b...

JUST a week after losing a theatre technician, staff members at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) are now mourning the death of a registered nurse who died on Friday night.The nurse, 31-year-old Dominique Stevens, worked in the hospita...

AN overseas company with significant experience in hospital build-out has been brought in to help manage the delay-plagued $4-billion renovation project at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, Health and Wellness Minister Dr...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Not a single hurricane has hit Puerto Rico this year, but hundreds of thousands of people in the US territory feel like they're living in the aftermath of a major storm.Students do homework by the light of d...

Today is the 277th day of 2021. There are 88 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1895: William Robinson Clarke, the first black pilot to fly for Britain was born in Kingston, Jamaica.OTHER EVENTS1830: The provisional Government of Be...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Governor General Sir Patrick Allen, citing statistics that indicate that each night one in six people in Jamaica go to bed hungry, is calling for better distribution of food to alleviate hunger in the society."Th...

LIKE thousands of other students who will be graduating from The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona come November, Brandon Vassell had high hopes of celebrating his milestone with his father and other relatives after successfully...

CHAIRMAN of the parliamentary committee (JSC) reviewing proposals for making Portmore Jamaica's 15th parish, Dr Andrew Wheatley says that the report will be tabled next week in Parliament.Wheatley confirmed the date after last Thursday'...

GOVERNMENT Senator Aubyn Hill is recommending that the transmission and distribution portion of the Jamaica Public Service jamaica Public Service company Limited's (JPS) operations be split off into a special purpose vehicle, and traded...

MINISTER of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change Pearnel Charles Jr says individuals displaced during the passage of hurricanes Ivan and Dean have received first preference at a subsidised cost, to relocate to the Harb...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - The Biden Administration has announced new immigration enforcement priorities amid the Haitian migration crisis.US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N Mayorkas said the new Guidelines for the...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - A new currency with six fewer zeros debuted last week in Venezuela, whose currency has been made nearly worthless by years of the world's worst inflation.The highest denomination until now was a $1-million boli...

CONNECTICUT, United States (AP) - She lived a life of adventure that spanned two continents. She fell in love with a World War II fighter pilot, barely escaped Europe ahead of Benito Mussolini's fascists, ground steel for the US war eff...

OCHO Rios, St Ann - Five months into vaccination blitzes being relied on to protect large swathes of the country's population against the novel coronavirus, nurses in St Ann have developed a range of coping mechanisms. Among the tools t...

The novel coronavirus has claimed many lives around the world, and while Jamaica has already recorded 1,869 deaths so far, many well known names are listed.Some of them are famous Jamaican singer,Frederick "Toots" Hibbert, former Cabine...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Daphne Holmes, who served as People's National Party (PNP) councillor for the Brae's River Division, as well as mayor of Black River and chairman of what was then the St Elizabeth Parish Council in the 1990s a...

Organisers of the historic Nestlé Caribbean Youth Summit are insisting that their target of finding new jobs for a minimum 1,000 youth under age 30 within three years will be met.The two-day virtual event, set for Tuesday, October 5, a...

Lionel Myrie, the man announced on Friday to act as interim executive director of the State agency, Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo), will not take up the post.Instead, Georgeia Robinson, TPDCo's director of corporate servic...

J Wray & Nephew Ltd is responding to numerous appeals for assistance from Jamaica's hospital network by launching a $45-million intervention called JWN Cares. The money will be spread across 12 institutions and donated through the ...

Patient grievance rages on at Cornwall Regional Hospital in St James, the main health service provider in Jamaica's western region. For the last five years the 10-storey, 400-bed capacity hospital has been undergoing over $3.5 billion ...

"It's DJ Cane, the baddest blind DJ alive." That's how 38-year-old Damion "DJ Cane" Rose starts his gigs before giving his audience a delightful musical experience.Rose was born with glaucoma and lost his sight completely at age two. Bu...

It has been almost 18 years since Richard Plummer has been a dedicated member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).Whilst doing his job, he has been passionate about being a true representation of the JCF's motto, 'Service above self...

Rev Sharron Thompson (right), campus pastor of Celebration Church, Portmore, presents a care package to Alvarol Morrison during the handover of care packages to residents of Portmore last Friday at the church campus. Looking on is Saman...

This dog sticks its head through a hole in a zinc fence in Drewsland, St Andrew, on Friday to bark at our photographer as he walked by on an assignment. The animal's protest did not last long and thankfully, the effort did not leave him...

 In the distant past when reasoning and common sense were applicable, people influenced by their religion, education or cultural values, trusted respected and knowledgeable community figures to offer sensible advice.The sick in Jamaic...

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.Q: Do I really need to take vitamin and mineral supplements?A: The supp...

Unlike most chronic conditions, lupus is considered a disease of the young, with the average onset age being 22 years and up to 20 per cent of people diagnosed being children. With this in mind, the Lupus Foundation of Jamaica (LFJ) ch...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness has said that there have been no deaths due to vaccinations against COVID-19 in Jamaica, in the six months since the island has been administering doses. In a statement yesterday, the health ministry...

Manchester leads the way with the highest number of centenarians in the latest list of those who had reached age 100 and more, put out by the National Council for Senior Citizens to coincide with Senior Citizens' Week which ended yester...

Considering the widespread issue of mental health in prisons, consultant psychiatrist and therapist Dr Wendel Abel has said that a mental health-care programme in Jamaica's penal system is long overdue.This comes as Matthew Samuda, mini...

OCTOBER is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and each year approximately 300 women die locally from the disease. Breast cancer is a disease in which cells in the breast grow out of control. There are different kinds of breast cancer. The ki...