Today is the 39th day of 2022. There are 326 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1924: The first US execution by gas takes place at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City. OTHER EVENTS1517: Captain Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba, a ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - A Biden Administration task force on organised labour on Monday issued a set of recommendations that could make it easier for federal workers and contractors to unionise.The report submitted to Presi...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) - The abductors of Pastor Lochard Rémy, a popular evangelical singer, are demanding a two-million-dollar ransom for his release, according to his wife, Yolie Rémy.She told local media that the kidnappers, s...

LONDON, England (AP) - Gun salutes rang out in London and Edinburgh on Monday to mark the official start of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee year, as the 95-year-old monarch prepared for a busy season of public duties.Britain's lon...

ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC) - Grenada is celebrating its 48th anniversary of political Independence from Britain on Monday with Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell noting the impact that the novel coronavirus pandemic is continuing to have ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - A High Court judge Monday sentenced a 48-year-old man to more than 38 years in jail after he was found guilty of raping the wife of a close friend in 2018.Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, sitting at the Suddie...

JAMAICANS are making their mark in the Compete Caribbean Project with a conch cluster designed to ensure the sustainable economic growth of the country's queen conch business.Compete Caribbean is a private sector development programme t...

The HEART/NSTA Trust, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Youth, Jamaica Library Service (JLS), and Junior Achievement Jamaica (JAJ), will host activities marking National Career Awareness Week 2022, from February 6 to 1...

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - International efforts to defuse the stand-off over Ukraine intensified Monday, with French President Emmanuel Macron holding talks in Moscow and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington to coordinate policies as...

Four months after the Jamaica Observer highlighted the deplorable state of the Papine market in St Andrew the situation has worsened, with raw sewage and other liquid waste running from inside the market on to John Golding Road, deterio...

Today is the 38th day of 2022. There are 327 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1962: US President John F Kennedy imposes a full trade embargo on Cuba.OTHER EVENTS1301: Edward of Caernarfon (later Edward II) becomes the first (Engli...

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...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness extends condolence to Robbie Shakespeare's widow, Marion, while Entertainment and Culture Minister Olivia "Babsy" Grange (second right) and Dr Kurdell Espinosa Campbell, acting director of emergency medical...

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...

Senators ended their 2021/22 parliamentary engagements on a high note Friday at Gordon House after agreeing to cancel debating the report from a triennial review of the zones of special operations (ZOSOs).The report was tabled in the Ho...

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...

Using the results of a Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ) screening survey done last year to point out that many Jamaicans are at a high risk of noncommunicable diseases and do not know, Deborah Chen, that organisation's executive direct...

Food trucks loaded with a full kitchen and parked beachside or poolside are the latest from a deep well of innovative ideas which have kept Sandals Resorts at the pinnacle of the global hospitality industry. The food trucks, brainchild ...

Vendors at the St Ann's Bay market have praised the authorities for ensuring that the facility is clean. However, they are complaining about poor lighting and unbearable heat.According to 39-year-old Juliet Newell, who said she has been...

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...

KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) - Ukraine on Sunday pushed back at "apocalyptic predictions" over a potential Russian invasion, after officials in the United States sounded dire warnings that Moscow had stepped up its preparations for a major incur...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) - Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday became the first British monarch to reign for seven decades, announcing her "sincere wish" that Camilla, the wife of her heir Prince Charles, should ultimately be known as Quee...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP) - The African Union (AU) has condemned a recent "wave" of military coups that has seen an unprecedented number of member states suspended from the bloc, a senior official said Sunday, the last day of its annu...

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...