Family members of a man whose head was delivered to his house on Sherlock Crescent in Duhaney Park on Saturday are refusing to comment on what is believed to be a deadly warning from people in the criminal underworld.The man, who Jamai...

The Hunt's Bay Police have named two men as wanted in connection with the murder of 5-year-old Denique Salmon on Riverside Drive, New Haven, in Kingston 20 on Thursday, October 7. One of the men has been identified by the police as 30-...

Digicel Group Holdings Limited (DGHL) has announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell Digicel Pacific Limited (DPL), its wholly owned subsidiary, to a subsidiary of the Australian telecommunications company Telstra Corporat...

MIAMI (AP) - Florida's top health official was asked to leave a meeting after refusing to wear a mask at the office of a state senator who told him she had a serious medical condition. Florida Senate leader Wilton Simpson, a Republican,...

A Jamaican homeowner has filed a $3-million lawsuit against the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) for unpaid rent on a furnished house she had leased the State to house Cuban doctors and nurses brought to Jamaica to help with...

With less than a third of the population of Westmoreland immunised against COVID-19, the JN Foundation will roll out its immunisation drive, in partnership with the American Friends of Jamaica (AFJ), in Petersfield in the parish this w...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The abandoned courthouse in this resort town is being restored, and will be transformed into an art gallery and coffee shop.Work started at the location last week and has already been cleared of shrubs with several p...

Sandals Resorts International (SRI) has embarked on a multimillion-dollar renovation of its Sandals Royal Bahamian resort and offshore Island in Nassau that the company says will represent its profile for the future.Set to reopen and we...

Jennifer Brown could barely find the words to express her jubilation after emerging as the winner of this year's Supreme Ventures Foundation 'Supreme Heroes' programme."I am elated," the 53-year-old told the Jamaica Observer at the clo...

The Cabinet could decide today on a timetable for the resumption of face-to-face classes in public schools.The Ministry of Education last week submitted a plan for the consideration of the Cabinet for the return to face-to-face classes...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti's capital has been brought to the brink of exhaustion by fuel shortages, after staggering along despite an earthquake, the assassination of the president, gang violence and mass kidnappings.More than t...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A powerful storm roared ashore yesterday in northern California, flooding highways, toppling trees and causing mud flows in areas burned bare by recent fires, as forecasters predict record-breaking rainfall.Drenchin...

The Yamaye Council of Indigenous Leaders (YCOIL) has rejected the cult practice at Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in Paradise, St James, which resulted in the death of three people just over one week ago.The throa...

VICTORIA, British Columbia (AP) - A fire burned in several containers aboard a cargo ship off Canada's Pacific Coast province of British Columbia yesterday, and authorities said hazardous materials in two containers could pose a risk to...

Today is the 298th day of 2021. There are 67 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1983: US Marines and Rangers, assisted by soldiers from six Caribbean nations, invade Grenada at the order of US President Ronald Reagan, who says the a...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - The Government of Barbados is set to receive another shipment of Pfizer vaccines from the United States.Speaking during a recent press conference, Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who pleaded with Barbadians to g...

Local farmers and farming interests are encouraged to explore compost production for personal use and income generation while reducing dependence on inorganic fertilisers, assisting in waste reduction and protecting the marine environme...

Jenise Reece could only manage to write a sentence, while all her peers would have completed a paragraph during some assignments at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona.She would have to request extra time to finish her examina...

After a rigorous selection process involving scores of candidates, ground was broken yesterday at 13 Ashley Road in south-west St Andrew for the construction of a dream house by Christmas for Tashana Mallett and her family.Mallett, her ...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - The funeral for former police commissioner and custos of Portland Roy Thompson has been set for October 27 at Saxthorpe Methodist Church in St Andrew.This is to be followed by his burial at Kensington in Portlan...

The fervent prayers and nervousness of the diminutive mother of Nekia Thompson were palpable last Thursday as she paced the floor outside courtroom number four of the Supreme Court in downtown Kingston."Jesus, wi beg yuh have mercy, pl...

THE police must also be blamed for the workings of under-pressure cult-like church, Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, one former member insists.The ex-member said that police continually disregarded reports made abo...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - For over eight years, congregants of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries here were hoodwinked into handing over the first pay cheque that they received each year.Speaking to the Jamaica Observer...

One woman whose role in the struggle against the eradication of polio from Jamaica was pivotal has been reflecting on the island's journey with the disease and the lessons that the population can learn from it.As Jamaica and the world ...

Declaring, "We are not out for blood," two daughters of the elderly Jamaican-Canadian couple murdered in 2018 have expressed satisfaction with the sentence handed down on Thursday by Supreme Court judge Justice Lorna Shelly Williams to ...

Retired Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams says the 'cut-throat' religion practised at the Montego Bay-based Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries should not come as a surprise.Adams, unyielding in his view, h...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - It was seven long years of hell for a man who was shot and stabbed during last Sunday's human sacrifice rituals at Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries here.So bad was his experience that he deci...

A member of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries has shared a graphic and chilling account of last Sunday night's events at the church that spiralled into the killing of two congregants in what has been described as a h...

THE recent abductions of nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia and 13-year-old Winshae Barrett are affecting another St Thomas minor, who finds it hard to stay at home alone.Sidia Crockshank, 13, is the one facing that challenge.With smartphone...

The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has confirmed an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases among the inmate population at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre in recent weeks. In a statement yesterday, the DCS said th...

When Tara Playfair-Scott discovered a lump in her breast in 2016, the first thing she did was take to Google to research and self-diagnose.The marketing and public relations consultant, who was speaking at the second in a three-part ser...

Melbourne Flake, the 81-year-old Jamaican-Canadian who was murdered with his wife Etta in 2018, loved Jamaica and defended it every chance he got, rejecting any notion of it being "the murder capital" of the world.That he and his 70-yea...

THIS week's column will address several critical and intersecting health-care indices that closely correlate with patient outcomes but are poorly understood by the public. Efficient and high-quality health-care delivery requires a robus...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) - Queen Elizabeth II turned down a prize celebrating the elderly, assessing that at 95 she did not meet the criteria, The Oldie magazine said last week.The publication wrote to palace officials in July to as...

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is important for health providers to meet the specific needs of the older population.It listed:1) training for health professionals in providing care for older people;2) preventing and managin...

The past six months have been agonising for Kumar Bent and Sashagay Harris-Bent.The couple has been left to wonder why their son, Kaleb, died just two days after being born. In fact, they say they haven't been able to properly move pas...

THE news of a breast cancer diagnosis tends to throw women out of balance.For breast cancer survivor Dr Elorine Turner Pryce, this happened to be true in more ways than one. The 55-year-old remembers feeling as though she had been hit b...

A former St Ann Festival Queen has joined the fight against breast cancer.Chantalle Bryan, in a bold good Samaritan move, is donating part proceeds from the sale of her business' T-shirts to the Ocho Rios branch of the Jamaican Cancer S...

While filling customers' bags with vegetables and ground provision, 31-year-old Petagay Pinnock, a market vendor, filled her bag with Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subjects.As she served customers and made change aft...

Lying does not suit Thompson-HerahElaine Thompson Herah is one of athletics' great sprinters of all time. Anyone who can win back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the 100 and 200 metres must be included in the hall of greatness.But there ...

BIRTH control is any method used to prevent pregnancy. There are less reliable methods such as the 'pull out technique' and others such as condoms, intrauterine devices (IUDs), birth control pills, the rhythm method, tubal ligation and ...

Little did Stephanie Thompson know that her routine bath by the river in her community of Copper's Lane, Bath, in St Thomas, would result in her fighting off an attack from a man hell-bent on raping her.Thompson, 45, told the Jamaica Ob...

OCTOBER is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and as the month rolls on you will get a great deal of information on how to identify the signs and symptoms of breast cancer and how to make sure you can catch it early. Understanding what route...

Sandals Resorts International (SRI) has congratulated three stalwarts of the luxury resort chain who were honoured for their outstanding contribution to tourism at both the national and parish levels during the honours and awards cerem...

THE infrastructural and cultural changes necessary to facilitate universal access in corporate Jamaica was the main topic of discussion during Digicel Foundation's high-level conference on 'Overcoming Challenges to Workplace Inclusivity...

IN recent times Mandeville Regional Hospital has been seeing much better days, says chief executive officer at the facility, Alwyn Miller. The hospital, with 120 doctors and which suffered a bed dilemma two months ago, resumed elective ...

Wretched in this alone,That thou mayst take all this away, And me most wretched take.The only thing that makes me miserable Is the thought that you might one day reject me....And that would make me even more miserable.- ShakespeareREJEC...

A Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) financial stability report stated that the Jamaican economy suffered a drastic decline in economic activity in 2020 due to the pandemic. Both consumer and business confidence were low. Household debts recorded gr...

Kevin Simpson says he spares no effort to share the life-threatening encounters he has had with gunmen while operating his taxi. His aim, he said, is to ensure that his fellow taxi drivers remain vigilant while working, or even in the c...

Opposition Senator Lambert Brown has accused the Government of being lax in advancing the rights of the disabled community and pointed to what he said was an absence of clear provisions to accommodate those individuals for COVID-19 vacc...