Today is the 341st day of 2021 There are 24 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1996: After nearly 18 days aloft, the Columbia space shuttle and its astronauts return to Earth, ending the longest space shuttle flight ever. OTHER EVE...

Technology provider Advanced Integrated Systems (AIS) has handed over a Konica Minolta photocopier valued at US$1,400 ($210,000) to Maxfield Park Children's Home through a partnership with the Nexus 101 Optimist Club of Kingston.All-in-...

THE Media Association of Jamaica says it deeply regrets the passing of Arnold Foote, founder of Advertising and Marketing (Jamaica) Ltd, now AdMark."We laud one of the early industry stalwarts, who played a significant role in establish...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - Senior representatives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Transparency International, and the World Bank will join other leading figures from academia, the private sector, law enforcement, and c...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Aung San Suu Kyi, the civilian leader of Myanmar who was ousted in a de facto coup this year, was convicted on two charges yesterday and handed a four-year sentence that was quickly cut in half in proceedings wi...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A religious group based in Ohio announced yesterday that a violent gang in Haiti has released three more hostages, while another 12 remain abducted.The statement from Christian Aid Ministries said the people...

Determined not to be extradited to St Lucia to answer murder and gun charges, 27-year-old Orville Purnell of Belgium Road, Buff Bay in Portland, made an offer of $3 million to police personnel and inmates at Kingston Central Police Sta...

DELEGATES at the Third (Second Quinquennial) Session of the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, held December 1- 2, 2021, re-elected Pastor Everett Brown as president.Brown, who has been serving as head of the church sin...

NEWRY, Maine (AP) - Santa is back to "sleighing" it on the ski slope.More than 230 skiing and snowboarding Kris Kringles took to a western Maine resort on Sunday to raise money for charity.The jolly ol' St Nicks took a break last year b...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana (AP) - The two Indiana-raised turkeys given Thanksgiving pardons by President Joe Biden are now at their new Purdue University home.The turkeys arrived this past week at Purdue and were welcomed by visitors on th...

TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) - Bob Dole, who overcame disabling war wounds to become a sharp-tongued Senate leader from Kansas, a Republican presidential candidate and then a symbol and celebrant of his dwindling generation of World War II veter...

AP - A rush of vaccine-seekin g customers and staff shortages are squeezing drugstores around the U S leading to frazzled workers and temporary pharmacy closures.Drugstores are normally busy this time of year with flu shots and other va...

WASHINGTON. DC (AP) - US health officials said Sunday that while the omicron variant of the novel coronavirus is rapidly spreading throughout the country, early indications suggest it may be less dangerous than Delta, which continues to...

MICHIGAN - A Detroit-area artist, whose studio was where the parents of the Oxford High School student charged in a deadly shooting were found by police, is cooperating with authorities and didn't know the couple had stayed overnight, h...

NEW YORK (AP) - A new allegation of sexual harassment against Chris Cuomo emerged just days before CNN announced it was firing the anchor amid an investigation into work he did defending his brother from similar harassment allegations.A...

Managing Director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) Omar Sweeney says that rehabilitation work on the Mount Salem Primary and Infant School in St James is well underway. The rehabilitation work at the school is in the region ...

NEW Fortress Energy (NFE) Foundation has awarded over $26.5 million in tertiary scholarships to support the academic journeys of 50 brilliant, young men and women who are studying at The University of the West Indies (UWI), University o...

CHIEF Justice Bryan Sykes, the sitting judge in the trial involving 33 alleged members of the St Catherine-based Klansman Gang, on Friday queried whether the police had "taken a policy decision" to not charge self-confessed ex-gang memb...

FLANKER, St James - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang says the $43.7-million project to rehabilitate the Flanker Health Centre is an example of Government's collaborative and coordinated approach to...

A convicted cop killer - who was allegedly nabbed by the police while hiding in a truck with the same gun used in the shooting tucked in his crotch, along with rounds of ammunition - lost his appeal against his conviction and life sente...

NOTING that the police have been flayed for seemingly ignoring some acts which shock the public's conscience, Commissioner of Police Major General Antony Anderson says the blame cannot be laid at the feet of law enforcers but rather on ...

FIREARM Licensing Authority (FLA) Chief Executive Officer Shane Dalling says at least $10 million is now owed to the organisation in legal costs from applicants and firearm holders who lost cases filed against the FLA to reverse decisio...

Anti-tobacco advocate the Jamaica Coalition for Tobacco Control (JCTC) has joined a medical body in proposing that Parliament rejects the donation of scholarships to Jamaican children by cigarette distributor Carreras in its report on t...

As crime rages on, many Jamaicans have turned to churches for a hand in taming what is regarded by many as Jamaica's main problem.Many people have increasingly called on religious groups for guidance, stemming from what has been describ...

CHIEF Justice Bryan Sykes is batting for a fully integrated legal system similar to East Africa's Rwanda, whereby prosecutors, defence attorneys, and judges have access to all the material relevant to an investigation on a single platfo...

THE Mico University College has conferred an honorary doctoral degree on one of the island's leading philanthropists and co-founder of the Phillip and Christine Gore Family Foundation, Christine Gore.She was invested with the 2021 Docto...

ABOUT 150 residents of Ewarton, St Catherine, and surrounding areas will soon benefit from a greenhouse and water-harvesting project spearheaded by the Ewarton Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) Joint Council and Benevolent Society. Of the...

RELIGIOUS leaders have rejected the notion that Jamaica's current crime situation demands a national state of emergency (SOE) to rectify it.The debate among the church folk follows a pronouncement made by criminologist Dr Jason McKay la...

Amid his call for Jamaica to move towards becoming a republic, retired Jamaica Prime Minister P J Patterson also wants the nation's constitution to be, as he puts it, "brought home".Expanding on his midweek letter to Prime Minister And...

Long retired Jamaica Prime Minister P J Patterson has suggested the establishment of another committee to decide on the merits of having additional national heroes.Simultaneously though, Patterson, Jamaica's lead policymaker from 1992 ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Even as the island continues to grapple with the effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic Jamaicans are moderately happy, according to the findings of a survey conducted by Northern Caribbean University (NCU) r...

Jamaica has entered a fresh round of debates about replacing the British monarch and implementing a republican system of Government after Barbados last Monday night declared itself a republic, ending England's centuries of influence, in...

JAMAICANS who received the Johnson and Johnson vaccine will soon have access to booster shots, says health minister Dr Christopher Tufton.He was responding to the jitters and concerns of the wider public that booster shots should be mad...

LESS than half of the over 6,500 rape cases that were reported in the last 10 years have been 'cleared up', officials have said.According to data provided by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (Statin) and the Jamaica Constabulary For...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Calyssa Walker, the 10-year-old girl shot and injured by gunmen during a daring daylight shootout in October, has received financial assistance of $250,000 from the St James Municipal Corporation.Calyssa was one ...

Former Kingston College star footballer and retired national representative Derrick "Shastri" Denniser (left) accepts the popular BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) schoolbag that his friend, classmate, and staunch supporter Fr...

The holiday season is upon us and in the midst of our joy and gathering, we are reminded that COVID-19 is still a real threat. On November 24, 2021, South African health officials raised the alarm about a new mutated version of the COVI...

Rihanna has nothing over Marley, but...So now, Barbados has officially ditched Queen Elizabeth II, thanks to the energy and commitment of the brightest and most progressive leader in the English-speaking Caribbean - Mia Mottley.But the ...

The global services sector recently recognised C&W Wireless Business Jamaica as a trailblazer in the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector by presenting the company with one of its Industry Pioneer awards.According to the Globa...

Over 15,000 Jamaicans were deported from all countries between 2011 to 2018.A total of 15,373 deportations were recorded within the period, with 10,652 coming from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada, according to data provided...

The joy of helping needy HIV patients to earn a living is the reason Nilfia Hazel Anderson loves her job at Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL). Hazel Anderson, who is JASL's regional programme manager in St Ann, recently shared how h...

At age 19, after graduating from Knox College, Romario Grandison was steadfastly pursuing becoming a member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF). He had gone through all necessary procedures and patiently awaited his life-changing call f...

We know you sometimes have burning questions that can best be answered by a pharmacist. Our feature, Ask Your Pharmacist , seeks to address some of those issues. Send your questions to healthandwealth@jamaicaobserver.com.Question: Can ...

NAIN, St Elizabeth - Four months after losing their mother, Jacquneil and Asheki Spooner are again in a state of despair after fire ravaged their family home in Warminster (south of Santa Cruz) last Monday. The fire has left the sisters...

ONCE more the implications of climate change came into focus at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) held in Glasgow, Scotland.European Council President Charles Michel said, "Humanity has waged a war agai...

OTHNEIL Blagrove, senior manager, sales, JN Life Insurance, says there are insurance products available for seniors, contrary to what many may believe.The insurance executive explained that seniors can purchase insurance products that c...

THE National Council for Senior Citizens (NCSC) recently awarded the Flow Foundation with its Corporate Service Award, in recognition of the organisation's work in creating and enabling a supportive environment for seniors. The presenta...

THE Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing (CCHA), a forum of global experts that advances research and clinical practice related to healthy ageing, established by World Health Organization (WHO) in 2015, met last month.The consortium's ...

Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dryStray lower,Where the pleasant fountains lie.- ShakespeareNow, if that isn't an invitation from a lady to come hither, then nothing is. Can you just imagine a woman looking you straight in your...

VENDORS who trade in and around Coronation Market in downtown Kingston are fearful and even more as the Christmas season approaches.According to the vendors, gang feuds many of them have had to take cover under stalls, while shoppers ha...