THEY used their bodies as human shields for their two injured colleagues who were shot by alleged cop killer Damion Hamilton on June 12 last year.A year later, that selfless act saw their country, on the day it celebrates its heroes, nu...

AMONG the items on Wayne Messam's bucket list was to meet General Colin Powell. The current mayor of Miramar in South Florida never fulfilled that dream but had an enduring admiration for the former United States secretary of state whos...

NEW YORK, USA - The pall of gloom which descended yesterday over the Jamaican communities across the United States was palpable, as news hit home that an illustrious son of Jamaican parents and a symbol of the successful immigrant story...

Former Jamaican ambassador to the United States Dr Richard Bernal remembers General Colin Powell as a charismatic and confident personality who quickly absorbed "an enormous amount of complex information and get to the gravamen of the m...

There were obvious signs that Tammara Logan was tired. But the joy she felt at finding her 13-year-old daughter Winshae Barrett alive yesterday was visible in her eyes."Relief, that is what I feel right now. Relief is the correct word,...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The chilling scene of a fellow congregant's throat being slashed sent one woman scurrying from Pathway International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in Albion, St James, Sunday night. The woman, who asked not to b...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Councillor of the Borobridge Division in St Ann South Western Winston Brown has called for an agile approach in reconstructing roads in the division that were destroyed by heavy rain associated with tropical storms G...

Today is the 292 day of 2021. There are 73 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1992: African National Congress President Nelson Mandela acknowledges that prisoners in congress military camps had been tortured during the 1980s and ear...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Colin Powell, the barrier-breaking soldier and diplomat who served Democratic and Republican presidents in war and peace but whose sterling reputation was stained by his faulty claims to justify the United States (US) ...

With the annual revival of the debate about appointing a new national hero, thanks to the National Heroes' Day celebrations, Jamaicans have continued to be divided in their views, with some saying the country is ready for a new national...

THE Jamaican flag flew high and proud once again as the United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken honoured Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) nurse sister, Antonia Richards-Stewart for outstanding work on the COVID-19 front line.Stewa...

LUCEA, Hanover - Stacy Ann Allen Brown, a registered nurse at the Noel Holmes Hospital who helped Hanover's first recorded COVID-19 patient come to grips with being infected, was among 20 health-care workers honoured during this year's ...

A disabled Jamaican US Air Force veteran living in Connecticut is thanking everyone who made it possible to get his Portmore, Jamaica-based daughter to Connecticut for a crucial surgery that could save his life.Martin Goodrich, 59, had ...

Leader of the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) Mark Golding pledged his party's commitment to righting societal injustices in Jamaica and ensuring that anti-corruption laws work effectively."The way in which the current prime mi...

SANTIAGO, Chile - Executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Alicia Bárcena says cooperation between China and Latin America and the Caribbean offers an opportunity to reduce global asymm...

In a desperate cry for unity, former leaders of the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) P J Patterson and Dr Peter Phillips yesterday issued a strong charge to the beleaguered political organisation to mend its internal fractures ...

In his message marking National Heroes' Day, which is celebrated today, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has paid tribute to the front line workers, several of whom have died from COVID-19, describing their service as akin to the sacrifice...

Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP), the advocacy group for Jamaica's seniors, has donated $500,000 to Food For the Poor (FFP) to assist in the preparation of food and personal care packages for elderly shut-ins. The packages...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has said the resource and staffing challenges, which have contributed to the late production of transcripts in the high courts and the parish courts much to the angst of the Court of Appeal, are being remedied....

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) - A Russian actress and a film director returned to Earth yesterday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) shooting scenes for the first movie in orbit.Yulia Peresild, 37, and Klim Shipenko,...

Today is the 291st day of 2021. There are 74 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1995: The United States announces it will grant Fidel Castro a visa, permitting the Cuban president to address the United Nations.OTHER EVENTS1648: Bost...

LLUIDAS VALE, St Catherine - A pall of gloom blanketed a section of this rural community on Thursday when residents, for the first time in recent memory, witnessed a single funeral being held for two relatives from the same household in...

PARIS, France (AFP) - Facebook yesterday announced plans to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to build the "metaverse", a virtual reality (VR) version of the Internet that the tech giant sees as the future.Facebook CEO Mark Zucke...

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) - The Golden Globes will go ahead despite NBC 's decision not to broadcast the Hollywood award ceremony over concerns about its record on diversity and transparency, organisers said on the weekend.The H...

MADRID, Spain (AFP) - Spain's leftist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez vowed yesterday to "abolish" prostitution in the country, saying it "enslaves" women.Speaking at the end of a three-day congress of his Socialist party, Sanchez highligh...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) - Haiti's already fragile Government faces a serious new crisis after one of the island's increasingly brazen criminal gangs kidnapped a large US missionary group.There has been little official reaction in Ha...

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) - France's ambassador to Belarus has left the country after the authorities in Minsk demanded he leave by today, the embassy said.The spokeswoman who made the announcement did not say why the Belarusian authorities ...

JAMAICAN-BORN Ephraim Martin, chair of the Chicago-based Black Heroes Matter (BHM) Coalition and president of Martin's International, has chalked up another victory for black Haitian founder of the Illinois city, Jean Baptiste Pointe Du...

Barbara Blake-Hannah, journalist and reparations advocate, looks back 20 years on the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa, which she attended as a member of the Jamaican delegation. Her reflections, publ...

IN the romantic setting of a church campfire, teenagers Tashana Clarke and Lemarc Allen lost their hearts to each other. But several years would subsequently intervene during which they would pursue their separate lives before being dra...

People's National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding has rejected assertions by Prime Minister Andrew Holness that he was included in talks associated with the national vaccination programme.Addressing the private session of the PNP's 8...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - There is a 21 per cent reduction in murder here, but head of the Manchester police, Superintendent Lloyd Darby says the south-central parish is seeing an increase in three categories of crime since the start of ...

In sickness, in health, and in higher education. It's the tale of two graduates - husband and wife.Michelle Paul-Thompson, 44, and Richard Thompson, 46, have been married for 14 years and are both graduating from The University of the W...

Former Mayor of Montego Bay Shalman Scott wants Prime Minister Andrew Holness to step in and stop the bleeding that has been affecting the Cornwall Regional Hospital.His demands follow the five-year delay of the $4-billion renovation pr...

The Jamaican Bar Association wants lawmakers to rethink certain amendments to two Bills giving the Crown a limited right to appeal not guilty verdicts in criminal cases.Parliament's Upper House, the Senate, last week gave the nod to the...

AS residents of Bath, St Thomas, basked in the fact that nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia has been found alive after being kidnapped on Thursday, they were again plunged into dismay after learning of the disappearance of another girl, 13-y...

After restless nights, days of searching and worry, the pain experienced by Korian Prussia, father of nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia vanished when he saw his daughter alive and heard her calling out for him."As she see mi, she say 'Dada...

Italian postgraduate master's student, 27-year-old Jacopo Butti thwarted disappointment when he jumped at an opportunity to complete a school-required internship in Jamaica.The Bergamo, Italy, native was supposed to have completed his ...

Consistent with its promise to reward Jamaica's workers, J Wray & Nephew Limited will continue its JWN Cares Intervention with a $21.7-million cash award set to benefit 434 front line workers.Managing director of JWN, Jean-Philippe ...

Since the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic misinformation has clouded the judgement of many. In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) says it has sourced various myths from Google ' s most-searched questions, some of which ...

Executive director of the National Council for Senior Citizens (NCSC), Cassandra Morrison says greater effort needs to be made to integrate older people within their families and the society as a whole, and called for more intergenerati...

As a result of increased smartphone usage among seniors and the growth of silver tech (technological innovations, products, and services developed for seniors), many older people are turning to mobile technology to simplify one of the ...

Creating equal employment opportunities for Jamaicans living with disabilities was the central focus during the recent Digicel Foundation-hosted virtual conversation entitled 'Why is workplace inclusion so important?'. The robust discu...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Even with half their faces covered by masks, it was easy to see how happy four students from Bethel Town were to be at the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) on Thursday. They were there to receive l...

Shamara Morrison is a jovial, fun-loving, and very frank person and on any given day, Morrison enjoys making people laugh and caring for children in her role as a registered nurse at the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC). Having s...

In keeping with Breast Cancer Awareness Month and to mark World Mammogram Day celebrated on October 15, the Sandals Foundation donated a total of 100 mammograms valued at $500,000 to women in St Ann and St Mary.The donation made to the ...

One of the major developments in the field of cardiovascular medicine over the past 40 years has been the treatment of narrowing in arteries of the heart by non-invasive means, that is, without the need to surgically open the chest and ...

Viagra , Cialis, Strong Back are commonly touted as the holy grail for improving sexual performance among men in our society. In fact, there are numerous medications and home-made tonics that have been proposed as the solution to reduci...

He was remembered by close friend Dr Ray Fraser as a man of many qualities, which led many to see and love him as if he were a "tourist attraction."It was a notation that set the scene at St James Anglican Church, Hayes, Clarendon, last...

As the debate continues over the recently passed legislation to give Jamaican prosecutors a limited right to appeal court rulings, the Jamaica Observer has compiled the main arguments from both sides.Arguments in support of the prosecut...