SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says he has never allowed the views of people who are critical of COVID-19 measures implemented by the Government to paralyse his decision-making .Accordi...

THOUGH thousands of students across Jamaica returned to face-to-face schooling last month, the plight of some 600 of their peers who are already excluded from regular school because of multiple disabilities has worsened as the cash-str...

The shooting death of 14-year-old Jamaican-born Taffash Riley in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, last week has left her relatives and friends in the St Andrew community of Wilton Gardens, popularly known as Rema, puzzled and traumatised.A...

After almost 10 years of living in rusty, rat-infested junk cars in a section of Arnett Gardens, St Andrew, known as Mexico, 60-year-old deaf mute Patrick Duncan now has his own house, thanks to good Samaritans Claude "Big Stone" Sincl...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Transport and gasoline stakeholders are calling on the Government to reduce the taxes on petroleum in order to lower the price, amidst continued increases in the cost of fuel.Last Thursday, motorists saw yet ano...

BROWN'S TOWN, St Ann - Public passenger transport operators who use the covered taxi park in Brown's Town are not amused at its rundown state."The park need fi fix long time," said Everol Smith, who plies the Brown's Town to Discovery B...

Social anthropologist Dr Herbert Gayle has argued that Jamaica has always had a governance issue, especially where it relates to combating crime.Gayle's statement came in the wake of the Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) report that in...

Frailty,Thy name is woman.- ShakespeareFor she had eyesAnd she chose me.- Shakespeare, OthelloAnd with those simple words, men were duped into believing that women were frail, that they were the weaker sex, that they were all delicate ...

Child psychologist Dr Orlean Brown-Earle has proposed that a training and sensitisation programme be implemented in rural Jamaica to aid teachers and parents in understanding and interact with their autistic children.Brown-Earle, in an ...

Green gone clear, but what about Nzinga?I do not accept all the arguments put forward by the Director of Public Prosecutions, but nevertheless respect the outcome of the matter that involves reinstated Cabinet minister and Member of Par...

The continued investigation of a Haitian politician detained by police in St Elizabeth could have led to a sergeant of police forgetting that his 18-month-old child had been left in his car parked at Black River Police Station for seve...

Hospitals based overseas have resorted to recalling COVID-19 positive health-care workers to aid in their response to the virus as the Omicron variant wreaks havoc, even if they are infectious.Jamaica has never been in that position and...

There is still no confirmation of whether or not Governor General Patrick Allen was at his private residence early last week when thieves broke into the house at Gibraltar, near Oracabessa in western St Mary.crime Scene investigators tu...

Chief executive officer of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency, Rosalee Gage Gray (centre) joins overall top girl Kristal Smith, and overall top boy O'Shane Smith (no relation) in a moment of joy at the end of the CPFSA Educ...

IGHRAN, Morocco (AP) - The Moroccan royal palace said Saturday that a five-year-old boy who was trapped in a deep well for four days has died.Moroccan King Mohammed VI expressed his condolences to the boy's parents in a statement releas...

THREE weeks after allegedly being beaten by a district constable, 47-year-old Oneil Williams is still unable to get an X-ray done as a result of public hospitals only accepting emergency cases.As Williams continues to wait, virtually un...

Many young women are given a small pouch to keep pads and other necessities, just in case of unexpected vaginal bleeding. As these young women grow older, the need for this pouch is less, as periods become regular and normal. Yet still ...

Tooth decay is the destruction of tooth structure and can affect both the enamel (the outer coating of the tooth) and the dentin layer of the tooth.Tooth decay occurs when foods containing carbohydrates (sugars and starches), such as b...

The South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) says there is a necessity to test deceased patients for COVID-19, to confirm the cause of death.However, the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) doesn't think this is necessary, cons...

NEBRASKA, United States (AP) - With American hospitals facing a dire shortage of nurses amid a slogging pandemic, many are looking abroad for health-care workers. And it could be just in time.There's an unusually high number of green ca...

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: I am h...

ELECTRONIC protection is more than ever being heavily requested from security companies, as Jamaicans fall victim to fear in the midst of high crime statistics.KingAlarm, Guardsman Group and Sentry Services Security Company have all tol...

Since 2014, Michelle Stewart-Elleston has been responsible for 19 young men from Calabar High School being among the top-performing students in the region, on the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) Merit List for the subj...

Seeing dancehall as a positive aspect of Jamaica's culture, co-curator of Cyah Stall Art Exhibition Dr Winston Campbell declared that it was important that the 20 art pieces displayed at the CreativSpace Art gallery on Windsor Avenue, K...

THE World Health Organization (WHO) has established a new technical advisory group on the measurement, monitoring and evaluation of the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030).This multidisciplinary group of 20 experts will ...

AS people age, the body's physical and mental capacity decreases. Therefore, having access to convenient services can be particularly beneficial to seniors who may not be able to move around as quickly and efficiently as they used to, o...

Recently the University of Maryland reported that they had successfully implanted a porcine (pig) heart into a man with advanced heart failure. This news has suggested a new frontier for the treatment of patients with advanced heart dis...

Although he only became a teacher after his uncle encouraged him to do so, 62-year-old principal at Silver Lake Middle School in Florida Errol Evans wants to see more young men looking to teaching as a viable career.In an interview with...

On Tuesday, February 8, 2022, Jamaica will join the international community to celebrate Safer Internet Day under the theme 'Together for a better Internet'.The safe use of the Internet has become an even more pressing challenge in the ...

Although music was his first love, Mikaido Portuondo, otherwise called Huda Road Star, decided to start operating a taxi in order to make a living.Portuondo, who was 24 years old at the time, recalled driving an illegal, white licence p...

Most Jamaicans would be surprised to know that Portmore's history dates back as far as 900 AD, or to the story of the country's first inhabitants, the Tainos.There is still evidence of Taino presence at places like Port Henderson, Hells...

Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has revealed that approximately 10,000 people have already registered for the groundbreaking Tourism Workers' Pension Scheme since its launch on January 1, 2022. "We reviewed the performance within the ...

FOLLOWING the shocking, gruesome early morning double murder of husband and wife, Cecil and Phyllis Ramsay, allegedly by their 24-year-old son at their Christian Meadows home in Portmore, St Catherine, on Friday, residents are appealing...

A new monetary reward programme to get illegal guns off the streets was announced Friday by Prime Minister Andrew Holness, who said it should also help Jamaicans to get rid of criminals from their communities."The target is to establish...

BEIJING, China (AP) - China, which used its first Olympics to amplify its international aspirations, invited the world back Friday - sort of - for the pandemic era's second Games, this time as an emboldened and more powerful nation whos...

ABLE-DON Foote, attorney-at-law who represented embattled dancehall deejay Rytikal on his gun wrap charge, says he expected his client to walk free from the matter."We certainly expected it, due to the facts of the case. The judge came ...

ANOTHER St Catherine gang, the Umbrella Gang, operating out of Newland and Naggo Head, Portmore, could soon feel the pangs of the anti-gang legislation following Wednesday's charging of two alleged members for the November 4, 2021 shoot...

The Senate on Friday passed legislation to temporarily modify the Representation of the People Act (ROPA) in order to put off local government elections for another year. But Opposition senators categorised the reasons given as akin to...

MORE than 1,600 residents in Aberdeen, St Elizabeth, are now set to benefit from the development of a new state-of-the-art water pumping station.Work for the facility was executed by Rural Water Supply Limited and is set to provide resi...

THE Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ) has sent a strong message that it is not relenting in its advocacy for front-of-package labelling, particularly the black octagon, which will enable Jamaicans to better understand the nutritional va...

ST ANN'S BAY, St Ann - Supporters of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in St Ann North Eastern on Thursday padlocked the constituency office and dumped multiple T-shirts bearing the image of their Member of Parliament (MP) Marsha...

FLORENCE HALL, Trelawny - Two days after Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson told the country that the strategies and intelligence-gathering capabilities being utilised by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) are bearing f...

ALL the gadgets and data storage devices with recorded conversations between alleged gangsters are now properly before the court in the ongoing trial of 33 alleged members of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang.This after the Crown on ...

The staff of the Sandals Royal Bahamian Spa Resort and Offshore Island surprised their boss Adam Stewart last Thursday with a birthday party, featuring Jamaican dancehall star Beenie Man, real name Moses Davis. The party, which brough...

Lawmakers could opt to keep provisions in the 2015 Cybercrimes Act which do not make exceptions for people who unwittingly discover cybersecurity risks on public or private networks, instead of amending the legislation to criminalise o...

SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) - An international coalition of travel-related organisations called on the US Government Wednesday to stop requiring vaccinated passengers to present a negative COVID-19 test before boarding US-bound f...

GRIEF-stricken relatives are still trying to determine what led to the machete attack on a married couple in Buxton Town, St Catherine, on Thursday, which left the wife dead and the husband with life-threatening wounds. The deceased has...

Nassau, The Bahamas, came alive last Thursday with the opening ceremony of the new re-imagined Sandals Royal Bahamian Spa Resort and Offshore Island. Special guests were Bahamian Prime Minister Phillip Davis and Jamaican Prime Minister ...

CHICAGO, United States (AP) - A major winter storm with millions of Americans in its path spread rain, freezing rain, and heavy snow further across the country on Thursday, knocking out power to more than 100,000 homes and businesses an...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) - Britain's Royal Mail said Thursday it has launched an investigation after a viral social media video showed postal workers worse for wear after eating cannabis brownies from an unclaimed package."Today alm...