These scenes outside the Cross Roads Market last week speak to the need for attention to be given to sanitation and waste management.

Today is the 81st day of 2022. There are 284 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1991: High school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of recruiting her teenage lover and his friends to kill her husband, Gregory, is convicted in Exeter,...

MINISTER of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke will respond to fiscal and other issues raised by the Opposition when he closes the budget debate Tuesday afternoon at Gordon House.At end of Dr Clarke's presentation, which is ...

JUNCTION, St Elizabeth - Two political representatives in this south-central parish on Monday condemned the barbaric murder of 29-year-old Jermaine "Jimbo" Green and the sexual assault of his partner during a robbery in Nembhard Town,...

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) - A Russian court on Monday banned Facebook and Instagram as "extremist", part of sweeping efforts by Moscow to crack down on social media during the conflict in Ukraine.The Russian authorities have accused US te...

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) - As Mariupol's defenders held out Monday against Russian demands that they surrender, the number of bodies in the rubble of the bombarded and encircled Ukrainian city remained shrouded in uncertainty, the full extent...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Thirty years after going public with her story of abduction, rape and forced prostitution by Japan's wartime military, Lee Yong-soo fears she's running out of time to get closure to her ordeal.The 93-year-old i...

WASHINGTON,DC, United States - High-risk COVID-19 patients now have new treatments they can take at home to stay out of the hospital - if doctors get the pills to them fast enough.Health systems around the country are rushing out same-d...

BEIJING, China(AP) - A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday, officials said, setting off a forest fire visible from space in the country's worst air disas...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - The Senate Judiciary Committee opened Supreme Court confirmation hearings Monday, with Republicans promising pointed questions for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and Democrats full of praise for the fir...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - After Donald Trump was caught on video bragging about sexually assaulting women, Mike Pence stayed on his ticket. As the novel coronavirus ravaged the US, the then-vice president praised the Administration...

MEDYKA, Poland (AP) - Yulia Bondarieva spent 10 days in a basement as Russian planes flew over and bombs fell on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Having reached safety in Poland, Bondarieva's only wish now is for her twin sister in the be...

THE lobby group Advocates Network has planned a demonstration for the vicinity of the British High Commission in New Kingston today to back its demand for apologies and reparations for slavery from the British Government.The relatively ...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Member of Parliament for Westmoreland Western, Morland Wilson is optimistic that housing developments being planned for the parish will help address some of the social ills plaguing it. Several areas in hi...

THE Court of Appeal on Friday gave its reasons for upholding the sentence and conviction of the former forklift operator who is serving life for clubbing a senior citizen to death before dismembering, burning and leaving her remains on ...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness last Thursday listed a number of new projects which have led to "significant progress" in advancing the protection of the Cockpit Country Protected Area (CCPA).The prime minister told the House of Represent...

Today is the 80th day of 2022. There are 285 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1965: More than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by Rev Martin Luther King Jr begin a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.OTHER EVENTS1500: Fren...

JAMAICANS will definitely not be summoned to vote this year in a local government election.Prime Minister Andrew Holness made that declaration Sunday during an exclusive interview with the Jamaica Observer.The announcement by Holness la...

THE Sagicor Foundation, through the 24th staging of its annual Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run, has surpassed its target of $50 million to raise $52 million for its beneficiary this year - Kingston Public Hospital. The funds raised was anno...

WITH 86 per cent of educators in a recent survey agreeing that "teaching is more demanding" since the resumption of full school as the pandemic wears on, president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) Winston Smith is pledging the...

THE Vale Royal Talks - a mechanism for Jamaica's two major political parties to have bipartisan discussions on critical issues of national importance - resumed late last month, not at the historic Vale Royal property on Montrose Road, S...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has scoffed at claims that his Administration was pressured by "big businesses" to lift the protocols implemented under the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) to prevent the spread of the novel coronaviru...

HUNDREDS of students in early childhood institutions islandwide have stepped into the future of learning with smart boards provided by the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund.Ninety boards have been provided to 35 s...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Yemen's Houthi rebels unleashed one of their most intense barrages of drone and missile strikes on Saudi Arabia's critical energy facilities on Sunday, sparking a fire at one site and temporarily cutti...

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) - The heat on the train was as thick as the anxiety. Ukrainian survivors of one of the most brutal sieges in modern history were in the final minutes of their ride to relative safety.Some carried only what they had at...

A location has been selected in Gregory Park for the construction of a modern market in Portmore, St Catherine.Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie made the disclosure while addressing a community meeting ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Mayor of Mandeville and chairman of the Manchester Municipal Corporation, Donovan Mitchell says the proliferation of used car marts cannot be restricted in the south-central town."... If it is a legal entity tha...

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) - The authorities in Antigua and Barbuda have sentenced a Jamaican man to 10 years in prison on drug-related charges.The police reported that Everton Pinnock was convicted on three drug-related offences followin...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Decisions by the United Kingdom and Canada to remove COVID-19 testing for vaccinated people travelling to their countries have been welcomed by senior advisor and strategist in the Ministry of Tourism Delano Seiv...

APPLICATIONS for mining licences, export permits, and other search, tracking and coordination functions of the minerals industry in Jamaica have now gone digital with the launch of the Jamaican Mining Cadastre (JAMinCAD).Officially laun...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness says there has been a concerted attempt by "many with political motives" to spread misinformation regarding the environment and climate change work his Administration has undertaken, locally and internation...

Each year in the Lenten season, Escarpment Road New Testament Church in St Andrew commits to a spiritual journey called Renewal of the Mind (ROTM), a 45-day journey that started on Ash Wednesday and will end on Good Friday, that facilit...

SINCE the novel coronavirus pandemic there has been an uptick in art sales, via the expansion of digital galleries, primarily in Kingston, with the use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).An NFT is a digital asset that represents tangible obj...

AGEING is defined as biological changes that result in the body losing minerals and nutrients. This process causes physical, emotional, and psychological changes within the human body. Depending on your skin type, this can result in age...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Even though she's one year past the century mark, lost her sight and doesn't hear so well at times, Louisa Harris McDonald still wants to cook and feed her entire community. It's what she did when she was younger. He...

INTERNATIONAL Women's Day, celebrated globally under the theme 'Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow', brings into sharp focus inequality in employment and retirement.How much is the society aware of the implications of gend...

THIS year marks the second anniversary of the first identified case of the novel coronavirus in Jamaica and it's safe to say that many people's lives do not look the same as it did before the pandemic.Michael Andre Collins, manager of t...

McIntosh Bedding Company Limited has offered free therapy sessions and a bed to 21-year-old Shavell Peart after reading her detailed recount of her experience in Ukraine two weeks ago in the Sunday Observer.Noting that the company wishe...

DUNCANS, Trelawny - The police have attributed speeding and reckless driving as the causes of Friday night's vehicular crash which resulted in the death of three people in this north-western town.The deceased have been identified as 31-...

AS a newly married woman, I was looking forward to starting a family and living happily ever after. However, those dreams were soon shattered as in 2012, my husband David was diagnosed with multiple myeloma - a new type of cancer that w...

Thursday, March 10 was observed as World Kidney Day under the theme 'Bridge the Knowledge Gap to Better Kidney Care'.The World Kidney Day Joint Steering Committee has declared 2022 to be the year of "Kidney Health for All". Chronic kidn...

THE average life expectancy for women in Jamaica is about 76 years, and the the average age of menopause in Jamaica is 51 years old. That means our women spend around 25 years in this period after menopause commences. The transition int...

It's been a quarter of a century since the shutters came down at the Goodyear Tyre manufacturing plant on the outskirts of Morant Bay in St Thomas.For many residents of the rural town it has been akin to a doctor switching off a life su...

HOPEWELL, Hanover - Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Pearnel Charles Jr left this western seacoast town last Thursday morning full of praise for students of Hopewell High School who excelled in their examinations despite the chall...

Have you ever noticed the way everyone who struggles with a mental illness in Jamaica is categorised as "mad"? It begs the question, what does mad even mean? The dictionary itself seems uncertain and has varying definitions... insane or...

THREE lucky D'Music app users with the most streams of Shenseea's chart-busting album, ALPHA, will win an all-expenses-paid trip for two to see her live in concert in Miami on May 30.Dubbed the D'Music Shenseea Stream to Win competition...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - "If I could give one piece of advice to my younger self, it would be to get all the skills and education you can" - words from newly minted Executive Chef at Sandals Royal Caribbean, Junior Mowatt.Mowatt's rise t...

HOUR-LONG seizures, vision loss in the right eye, and failure to complete sentences are among the challenges that 54-year-old Valrie Anderson has been battling for the last 20 years. These problems stem from a condition called pituitary...

Constant you are, and yet a woman,And for secrecy, no way closer,For I well believe, thou will not utter,What thou dost not know.- ShakespeareA secret can be a very heavy burden to bear, most times being released by the way of conscienc...

THERE is strong support in the chamber for more interested and qualified women to seek firearm licences. This follows statistics from the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) that 898 of the 1,560 female applicants over the past five years...