The family of a Jamaican farm worker, 40-year-old Tyrone Lee Jackson, who died while he was in quarantine in Canada, is demanding answers from the Canadian authorities as to the circumstances surrounding his death. But the Ministry of ...

Independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Westmoreland Central George Wright was reportedly asked to leave a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Area Council 4 annual meeting in Westmoreland on Sunday after showing up unannounced.Just before 2:...

"Problem after problem," a distressed parent lamented to the Jamaica Observer on Sunday following an update from her son in Ukraine that he, along with 23 other Jamaican students, had been forced to embark on a nine-hour walk to the Po...

The developments surrounding Russian hostilities in Ukraine and the regional approach to the situation is expected to be among the issues discussed at the 33rd inter-sessional meeting of Caricom Heads of Government set for Belize on Ma...

Jovan Johnson, who was named the 2021 Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) journalist of the year, says a major part of the shaping of his career is his upbringing in the hilly farming community of Red Hills, Clarendon, an experience whic...

Vendors in the Oxford Market in downtown Kingston are seeking assistance from the Government to restart their businesses after fire razed the facility Sunday morning leaving millions of dollars in losses.According to the vendors, they ...

OK Melhado, a key member of the campaign team that helped make Michael Manley prime minister of Jamaica in 1972, says his controversial policies made him the perfect leader for the country at that time.Melhado, 83, spoke to the Jamaica ...

Go easy on policeman, Ms DPP(Paula Llewellyn)Many will frown on it, but the police sergeant in St Elizabeth who forgot his 18-month-old daughter in his vehicle which led to her demise, should be shown some leniency.Frankly, based upon a...

Minister of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Leslie Campbell (left) joins Japanese Ambassador to Jamaica Masaya Fujiwara in a toast to Japan's Emperor Naruhito, whose 62nd birthday was celebrated by local offic...

A total stranger on Saturday prevented Jamaican William Massias and his family from spending a second night outdoors in freezing temperature after their attempt to get into Poland from war-torn Ukraine failed at the overcrowded border.M...

Ukraine has turned to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for additional funding, the multilateral financier said on Friday, adding that it is exploring all options to help the war-torn country.Kristalina Georgieva, managing director...

As Sandals resorts across the Caribbean continue efforts to care for the physical and mental welfare of their team members, the staff at Sandals Royal Caribbean were recently treated to a special day of rejuvenation and love.Sandals re...

They sat on a sidewalk on Tuesday in Morant Bay Square, St Thomas, amidst the noise - blaring car horns, sound systems and the loud chatter of passers-by - practising mathematics timetables. They are 21-year-old security guard Dorian S...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian defence forces put up fierce resistance Saturday, slowing the advance of the larger and better-armed Russian military closing in on Kyiv, the capital. European nations and the US rushed assistance to the c...

Some bars and liquor stores think they've found a potent way to punish Russia for invading Ukraine - they're pulling Russian vodka off their shelves and promoting Ukrainian brands instead."I woke up yesterday morning and I saw that Rus...

SPICY HILL, Trelawny - A four-year-old girl, who was believed to have been abducted by unknown attackers who shot and killed her mother and injured another woman here Saturday afternoon, was found abandoned on a roadway hours after the ...

The Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA) has teamed up with Sistren Theatre Collective, Groots Jamaica, Island Coffees, and peace ambassadors to launch 'Creatives For Peace'.It is an initiative that will enable young people to become pos...

IRONICALLY, when some parents find out their children have been engaged in activities that aren't age appropriate on social media, they choose to punish them via the same media. This may include posting a video on their children's socia...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - The families of hundreds of Pakistani students stuck in Ukraine following the Russian invasion are urging their Government to help bring them home.At a media briefing late Friday, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Q...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - A respected Swiss newspaper is reporting that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked his Swiss counterpart on Saturday to act as a neutral mediator between Ukraine and Russia to help work toward a cease...

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - As Russian troops were closing in on the Ukrainian capital, more and more Russians spoke out Saturday against the invasion, even as the Government's official rhetoric grew increasingly harsher. Street protests, alb...

Economists say small and medium-sized businesses form the engine room of a properly functioning economy. They should account for the lion's share of growth and employment and should be a snapshot of the economic health of a country.But...

PORTLANDER Elsie Evadney Samuels, born on January 6, 1922, recently celebrated her 100th birthday at a small ceremony at her home.A graduate of Fort Elementary School, now the site of Titchfield High School, she operated her own small b...

As Digicel closes Safer Internet Month, the focus shifts to using digital money safely. A casual scroll through social media pages these days will show a plethora of posts and adverts about investing in cryptocurrency, Blockchain and o...

Jamaican students landed in the middle of a horrifying war between Russia and Ukraine all because they were ambitious enough to pursue a higher education at a more affordable cost.The medical students had to choose between Jamaica, the ...

I recently interviewed an entrepreneur who has a small business. When asked about his earnings he responded that he doesn't have a salary and all the earnings are used to pay personal bills. Therefore, there was no saving and little or ...

THE novel coronavirus pandemic has exposed significant frictions and fault lines in the global health-care value chain. It will forever change the way the world operates. It has also allowed us to innovate and re-engineer the health-car...

GENEVA, Switzerland - More than half of parents and pregnant women (51 per cent) surveyed for a new WHO/UNICEF report say they have been targeted with marketing from formula milk companies, much of which is in breach of international st...

The University of the West Indies ( The UWI), Mona Campus - working in close collaboration with the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) and the Ministry of Health & Wellness (MOHW) - has for the first time in Jamaica, est...

NUMBERS matter! They tell how well your favourite football team is performing or how your child has done on an exam. They even tell you how well a business is doing. The the same can be said where medicine is concerned. Numbers in medic...

FARMING is heavily promoted in Jamaica with the admonition to "Grow what you eat and eat what you grow", but officials warn that improper or unsustainable farming practices in the Caribbean pose a serious threat to the environment.The O...

Education is often seen as the great equaliser, in which people from low-income families can enter career fields that would have otherwise been impossible.For thousands of Jamaicans on May 2, 1973 when the country's fourth Prime Ministe...

FARMERS of St Ann and St Mary paraded their agricultural crops for members of the political directorate recently, following a tour of properties in St Ann and St Mary.The tour was led by Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Pearnel Cha...

American low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines will be offering fares as low as US$79, when it begins its new non-stop flights to Kingston on May 5.The event will mark the first time that the airline will be servicing the capital city and,...

THE Jamaica Cuban Friendship Association (JCFA) will hold a Motorcade Solidarity Caravan this morning to show support for Cuba and its struggles amidst the blockade imposed by the United States over 60 years ago.Members of the group wi...

Refrain tonight, And that shall lead a kind of easiness,'To the next abstinence, The none more easy;For use almost can change,The stamp of nature.- ShakespeareRefrain tonight and that shall lead to the next abstinence. Ha, some people h...

The remaining handful of gangsters aligned to the One Don faction of the Klansman gang were growing increasingly agitated after rival criminals, emboldened by the absence of alleged leader Andre "Blackman" Bryan from their midst, began ...

PARIS, France (AFP) - Russia's attack on Ukraine could herald a Cold War revival in Europe with two blocs armed to the teeth pointing nuclear weapons at each other across an iron curtain, politicians and experts say.Ukrainian President ...

Errol "Daddy" James is known as a man of principle in his St Ann community and that principle has extended to the taxi he operates as he demands order from his passengers.Plying the St Ann's Bay to Ocho Rios route, James is doing his pa...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Yurii Zhyhanov woke before dawn to his mother's screaming and found himself covered in dust. On the second day of Russia's invasion, shelling on the outskirts of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, struck their residential bui...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - President Joe Biden on Friday nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the US Supreme Court, making her the first black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her...

Scary , sad, overwhelming were the three adjectives that Kavaun Chambers used to describe his experience as a foreigner caught in the middle of Russia's deadly military invasion of Ukraine.At 1:00 am on Saturday, Ukraine time (6:00 pm F...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) - Andrey Rublev made a plea for peace after notching an eighth-consecutive victory on Friday to move into his second final in as many weeks with a 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7/5) win against Hubert Hurkacz in Dubai...

LENNOX BIGWOODS, Westmoreland - Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie has bemoaned the deplorable condition of the road network in Westmoreland Eastern, which he said has been neglected over the years.Westm...

TWO correctional officers and four inmates have been given the opportunity to improve their academic qualifications by pursuing associate of science degrees with the award of scholarships to them this week.The scholarships, valued at $3...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Jermaine Walker and his two daughters, ages six and three, are struggling to cope following last December's disappearance of his spouse, 33-year-old Angela Gayle, from her relative's home in Porus, Manchester.Wa...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Thirty-six young people from communities in north-west Manchester were recently recognised for their achievement in the Central Jamaica Social Development Initiative (CJSDI).Speaking at the recent graduation cer...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Member of Parliament for Manchester North Western Mikael Phillips says the proliferation of used car marts in this south-central parish is affecting the expansion of legitimate business opportunities and spoilin...

BOSTON, United States (AP) - America's first newspaper dedicated to ending slavery is being resurrected and reimagined more than two centuries later as the nation continues to grapple with its legacy of racism.The revived version of Th...

William Massias is today trying to get out of war-torn Ukraine with his wife and five children. But while their trek from Lviv to the border with Poland is about a two-hour drive, the Jamaican businessman estimates that they won't get t...