Today is the 60th day of 2022. There are 305 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2008: The USS New York, an amphibious assault ship built with scrap steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center, is christened at Avondale, Louisiana...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russian forces shelled Ukraine's second-largest city on Monday, rocking a residential neighbourhood, and closed in on the capital Kyiv - in a 17-mile convoy of hundreds of tanks and other vehicles as talks aimed at ...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - The Titchfield High School family is now celebrating the life of a stalwart of the institution, former teacher Subhas Ramkeerat, affectionately called Mr Ram, who died on January 25.Ramkeerat was born in Guyana ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - An embattled Ukraine moved to solidify its bond with the West on Monday by applying to join the European Union, while the first round of Ukraine-Russia talks aimed at ending the fighting concluded with no deal but a...

THE aim of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) is to have 75 per cent of children in State care placed in familial environments by 2023, rather than have them remain in a children's home or institution, Chief Executi...

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 ...

Today is the 59th day of 2022. There are 306 days left in the yearTODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1996: Britain's Princess Diana agrees to divorce Prince Charles. (Their 15-year marriage officially ended in August 1996; Diana died in a car crash in Pa...

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 ...

One year almost to the date, the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) this month kicked off the build phase of the August Town zone of special operations (ZOSO), focusing on the troubled communities of African Gardens and Goldsmith Vi...

Jamaican-born American Dr Susan M Collins, who, in July this year will become the first black woman to head a federal reserve bank in the US, was inspired to become an economist by observing social and financial hardships in the land of...

Eight private entities in the health sector last week signed grants totalling US$600,000 with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to continue the roll-out of the health ministry's outsourcing of COVID-19 vacci...

BLENHEIM, Hanover - Assistant general secretary of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) Collin Virgo is calling on the Government to address the vexing issue of contract work which he claims is being used by some employers to ab...

IT has always been Monique Mitchell's dream to become a professional film writer but she fears it might not come true due to financial constraints.Mitchell was accepted at Toronto Film School in Canada last month, to pursue a degree in ...

This is the 19th Jamaica Observer's Entertainment Desk's series for Reggae Month titled Princess Black.One of the women who helped sign many reggae acts to major record companies during the 1990s, Maxine Stowe has music in her blood....

One year after it entered the lucrative gambling industry in Jamaica, Mahoe Gaming Enterprises Ltd (MGEL), which offers the Izizzi games, is excited about its prospects in what it accepts is a very competitive industry,"Year one with Te...

JAMAICAN female students walked away with three of the top five awards in the recently concluded Food4Change Caribbean Story Writing Competition held under The University of the West Indies' Improving Household Nutrition Security and Pu...

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...