While Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang toured the Greenwich Town fishing village on Friday, this fisherman of the community was all unconcerned, so he decided to take a nap amid the political excit...

SHAVELL Peart will gather her grandchildren around her one day and relate the most terrifying experience she has ever had. The 21-year-old will tell them how Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday, February 24, 2022 - while she was asleep. ...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - The owners and operators of Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO)/ Alpart bauxite are proposing to mine nearly 700 acres of land embraced by 11 communities near here in the Essex Valley region.The areas inclu...

The worst experience that Romardo Rickardo Lyons ever had served to convince him to become a journalist.That the police/military operation in Tivoli Gardens, West Kingston, in May 2010, turned out to be the measuring stick is the unfort...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Mindful that Monday's resumption of classes in a full face-to-face mode will not be perfect, Ministry of Education officials are encouraging parents to shun negativity and send their children back into the classr...

GOLDEN GROVE, Hanover - Vanessa Spence's father will forever regret that he didn't tell his daughter to drive carefully as she left home for a night out on the town on Wednesday. And he will forever wish her effort to save a neighbour's...

AS schools get ready for face-to-face classes after the mid-term break, students and staff at Joseph Royal Educational Centre in Hannah Town, Kingston, are looking forward to sitting in brand new facilities come Monday.The recently comp...

"Donut , donut! Prestige Donuts! Jelly donuts!" are words you hear often along roads in some St Andrew communities by Conrod, the donut man, who walks for miles each day selling the treat to provide for his family.Conrod Grant, 37, is k...

THE latest in the line of personal hygiene products, LifeSavers Wipes, is a set of wipes that can indicate to its user if there are any irregularities in their urine. The specially formulated sheets have the capacity to change colour if...

Colett Ricketts was bamboozled when the National Water Commission (NWC) sent her a bill last December for over $220,000.For starters, she said the two-bedroom apartment in Ironshore, St James, had been vacant since the end of August 202...

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 d...

Thou - Why thou wilt quarrelWith a man that hathA hair more or a hair less,In his beard, than thou hast. Thy head is full of quarrelsAs an egg is full of meat.- ShakespeareAs they say, 'If is egg, we inna de red.' Couples will always qu...

Fearful that his daughter's murderer is still out there, a 54-year-old father is being haunted by sounds of men kicking off his door and entering his home to kill him every night.His daughter, 30-year-old Leona "Kimmy" Salmon, a driver...

AS we strive to bring awareness to the chronic debilitating condition endometriosis, this March, I think it's also important to highlight a closely related disease adenomyosis.In fact, the two are so closely related that they are often ...

WORLD Kidney Day is March 10, 2022 and will be celebrated under the theme "Kidney health for All; Bridge the knowledge gap to better kidney care." Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is common and harmful. Approximately one in 10 adult people ...

THE National Council for Senior Citizens says the guiding principles behind its revised policy provide a foundation that underpins the conceptualisation, context and philosophy of the policy. They include respect for human rights and di...

THE World Health Organization (WHO) says artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have the potential to improve older people's health and well-being, but only if ageism is eliminated from their design, implementation, and use.A new pol...

Holland, St Elizabeth - Farmer Andrew Morris ploughed a section of his leased 10-acre plot at Holland Estate, adjacent to the famous Holland Bamboo Avenue, "six to eight" months ago hoping to plant pumpkins and sweet potatoes.He hasn't ...

AN investor should not sacrifice long-term goals for short-term events. As the saying goes: "Don't jump out of the frying pan and into the fire."It's not unusual for people to panic whenever there is a downturn in the stock market. But ...

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) - G7 foreign ministers warned Friday that Russia would face further "severe sanctions" for its invasion of Ukraine, and called on Moscow to stop its attacks near nuclear power plants."We will continue to impose fur...

PARIS, France (AFP) - The Russian shelling of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine - the largest in Europe - has sparked international outrage and fears over the country's 15 operational reactors.The Zaporizhzhia reactors, appare...

HE is known around St Ann as Shinehead, and that was the only name he was willing to give to the Jamaica Observer as he shared stories from his more than 20 years operating a taxi in the north coast parish.Among his varying stories Shin...

Just three days after Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson announced a doubling of illegal rifle seizures, the authorities on Friday made another big arms bust, snatching three rifles and 18 handguns at a warehouse at the ...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced last month that schools will return to full face-to-face classes after the mid-term break, and with just two days to go many parents in Kingston and St Andrew have indicated their readiness to sen...

Cornelius Robinson, the prominent Westmoreland businessman who in 2015 strangled to death a 14-year-old, whom he had impregnated, and dumped her body under a bridge outside her school, on Friday lost his appeal to have his time behind ...

A modern market will be constructed in the municipality of Portmore, says Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie.He said that two locations are being considered to situate the facility.Minister McKenzie was ...

UNICOMER Jamaica Limited has donated $200,000 to the Jamaica Cancer Society to assist with its health education programme. "Unicomer Jamaica is committed to improving the lives of all Jamaicans, not just our customers. We want to add va...

THE Ministry of Justice is looking to roll out more virtual services in the administration of justice across the island as more courts now have broadband connectivity. Speaking during the sitting of the Standing Finance Committee on Thu...

A new Bail Act is to be brought to the Houses of Parliament shortly for consideration."A new bail law is far advanced and should be coming before the Parliament within another month or so," Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs M...

NEAR THE UKRAINE BORDER, Undefined (AFP) - On a runway near the Ukrainian border, 14 wide-body aircraft arrive on average each day - a carefully calibrated operation mounted at top speed to deliver tons of Western military assistance to...

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed into law a bill introducing jail terms of up to 15 years for fake news about the Russian army, as Moscow pushes forward with its invasion of Ukraine.The bill, adop...

SUPREME Ventures Foundation (SVF) has officially unveiled the newly refurbished doctors' lounges at Kingston Public Hospital (KPH).The project, valued at $13 million, was done through funds donated by SVF in December 2021 to upgrade the...

THE Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is still trying to determine circumstances behind the shooting of a policeman by his colleague at Vale Royal, St Andrew, on Monday. The injured policeman, who is assigned to the Pub...

MALI (AFP) - A blogger in Mali who proclaimed himself president ended his satirical video post by pleading, "Don't send the police after me! It's just a joke."Unfortunately, they did."I have decided to officially announce myself as pres...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Eighteen Cambridge High School students who excelled academically despite the challenges of studying during a pandemic were recognised during a ceremony held recently at the school. The list included seven studen...

Gwaan my girl, ShenseeaEmerging dancehall superstar Shenseea is making us girls proud and feeling our girl power, as she keeps showing up on the international scene. She just needs to avoid the social media tracing matches which the dan...

Today is the 63rd day of 2022. There are 302 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1965: Syria orders nationalisation of nine oil companies, including affiliates of two US concerns. OTHER EVENTS1789: The Constitution of the United Sta...

The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, said it is willing to open its doors to Jamaican medical students who fled Ukraine after Russia launched a full-scale military invasion on that Eastern European country.However, Cam...

STATE Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Senator Leslie Campbell has recommended that Jamaicans living in the Diaspora register with the country's diplomatic offices abroad.Senator Campbell said that the problems raised in t...

FORENSIC analysis of ballistics retrieved from 10 crime scenes between St Catherine and St Andrew allegedly involving members of the Klansman Gang has revealed that at least 11 firearms were in play during those times.Those firearms, ac...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - One of the 20 local tertiary students who on Wednesday arrived at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay on a Eurowings flight from Frankfurt, Germany, after fleeing war-torn Ukraine has said that they wou...

JAMAICA and Jamaicans have had a very long history of world firsts. Many of those feats have been achieved in sports, while others are by outstanding Jamaicans in academia and governance in other jurisdictions.Did you know, though, that...

THE Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ) is calling for greater importance to given to prevent obesity in children as World Obesity Day is observed today.One in two Jamaicans aged 15 and older are overweight or obese, according to the Jama...

Digicel Business and Symptai Consulting last Friday presented a sobering picture to business leaders about making cybersecurity a top priority.Speaking at a Cybersecurity Workshop at the Hyatt Ziva Hotel in Montego Bay, St James, genera...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - Delano Tucker, the Guy's Hill High School student whose heartbreaking story of need captivated Jamaica's attention this week, intends to make the most of the outpouring of support he and his family have received. T...

After undergoing an extensive renovation through last year, Susie's Coffee Bar, now simply Susie's, located in the Shoppes at Southdale, boasts not only a new look and expanded menu, but has also introduced a happy hour - more like six ...

Health-care workers at Duhaney Park, Waterford and Lincoln health centres were recently recognised for their dedication to duty by H&L which presented them with $400,000 in H&L gift cards valid for use at H&L Rapid True Val...

Country manager and associate vice-president for Sutherland Global Services Claude Duncan has added his voice to other leaders in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry who have rejected claims of poor treatment of employees. ...

PRZEMYŚL, Poland (AP) - Russia's invasion of Ukraine has forced more than a million people to flee the war in just a week, an exodus so swift it almost matches the number of people who sought refuge in Europe in a whole year during...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - An Amsterdam museum said Thursday it has cut its close links to the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and UNESCO warned of damage to Ukraine's cultural heritage, as international cultural institutions stepp...