THERE is one man, inspired by the spirit of Jamaica, who insists that he wants to be a part of the island's fabric.He is French. But it doesn't matter, for Jean Philippe Beyer - the managing director of spirits giant J Wray & Nephew...

Another giant of the Jamaican industry has made his strong support of the COVID-19 vaccine programme public.Managing director of J Wray & Nephew Ltd, and chairman of J Wray & Nephew Foundation, Jean Philippe Beyer, has fully end...

HOWARD Gregory, Anglican archbishop of the West Indies and bishop of the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, received his first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, March 11, 2021 in keeping with a passionate app...

AS concern continues to swirl regarding the safety of the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine, local doctors and the Ministry of Health and Wellness have thrown their full support and confidence behind its continued use on the population.Dr ...

Claudette Grant is near breaking point. Her greatest wish, she confessed, is for her nine-year-old daughter, Hannahlisa Hall, to get over her illness and be well again.In the last three years Hannahlisa has suffered four strokes, and t...

SINCE the pandemic began, a black market has opened up selling all things COVID-19 from protective gear to antigen tests - and now vaccines.The Jamaica Observer has learnt that the unauthorised sale of COVID-19 vaccines is being done by...

Peter Perry is living proof that the funeral industry is anything but a dead business.He is, of course, the CEO of Perry's Funeral Home, the rising organisation that is now in the spotlight for not only offering final care services for...

A crowd of people gather outside St Joseph's Hospital yesterday waiting patiently to access the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine being administered to select groupsin the population. The hospital is administering vaccines primarily to priva...

What's the state of the PNP now?It has become fashionable to highlight one's achievements after his assumption of office in the first 100 days. But for People's National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding, more than 130 days have now sl...

Sandals/ATL Group Executive Chairman Adam Stewart has announced the promotions of three of his senior executives in a move designed to strengthen the company for continued growth and expansion.The three are Jordan Samuda, who will assum...

JORAN Sterling, 13, has autism. But his health diagnosis does not limit his capabilities, especially when it comes to throwing on his chef's apron and whipping up a meal.Though he is a boy of few words, when the Jamaica Observer visited...

THE Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation (JANAAC) has reported an increase in applications for the Pre-Accreditation Approval Programme (PAAP) that allows unaccredited medical and testing laboratories and point-of-care testing (POC...

CROWDED teeth, also called overcrowding or dental crowding, is when there is not enough space in the mouth for permanent teeth to grow in straight.As a result, people with this form of malocclusion (misalignment) have crooked teeth that...

IN the words of one colleague, we are living in "covidious" times.Many feel trapped, as the world is literally on the edge in the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic. A deadlier strain of the virus is here. Some have done all they ca...

PARIS, France (AFP) - Hailed as a cheap, easy to store, not-for-profit vaccine, the AstraZeneca shot has suffered its fair share of hiccups. In the latest, blood clots suffered by some of those vaccinated prompted a number of countries ...

P ARIS, F rance (AFP) - From the first cases in C hina to worldwide lockdowns and vaccination drives, here are the 10 key moments since the coronavirus pandemic was declared a year ago by the World Health Organization (WHO).First deaths...

With all that is happening in the w orld, there are still people who want to make a difference in the lives of others and five-year-old Justin McKane is one of them. He is the son of 25-year-old Sasha McKane and grandson of 54-year-old...

North American wellness firm Silo Wellness has pledged to contribute a percentage of its product sales from a new partnership with the family of the late Jamaican megastar Bob Marley to a local charity.The announcement came amidst conf...

STUDIES representing nearly two million adults worldwide show that eating about five daily servings of fruits and vegetables, in which two are fruits and three are vegetables, is likely the optimal amount for a longer life, according to...

NOVAMED founder and medical doctor, David Walcott is the only Caribbean native to be appointed among Young Global Leaders (YGL) by the World Economic Forum.The announcement was made last Wednesday.Dr Walcott is among the 112 people sele...

I hold him for a foolThat will endanger His body for a girlThat loves him not.- Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of VeronaOnly a foolish man imposes himself upon a girl who does not love him back. What am I saying, she doesn't even have ...

MINISTER of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke says the Administration will be engaging trade unions representing Government workers during 2021/22, to fine-tune the public sector compensation review.Opening the 2021/22 Budg...

MINISTER of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green says that the Government's move to formalise the operations of fishers and farmers is critical in ensuring the sustainability of the agriculture sector.He said that, through formalisatio...

"Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and above all, of living and working for others" - Robert Green IngersollThe Rev Dr Carmen Stewart, OJ was an extraordinary woman who was a source of great inspiration to me and I wish t...

CONCERNS by defence attorneys over "fresh" details contained in a victim impact statement from the father of the man allegedly murdered by Dantay Brooks - son of dancehall artiste Mavado - and co-accused Andre Hinds yesterday interrupte...

SILO Wellness is celebrating the success of its first 'Jamaica Haven Psilocybin-Facilitated Retreat' held at the Coral Cove (Wellness resort) in Westmorland, recently.The six-day, transformative experience provided the perfect set and s...

JEHOVAH'S Witnesses are now advising Jamaicans to look out for e-mail, phone calls and even WhatsApp messages, as gathering restrictions due to the novel coronavirus pandemic have forced them to shift from their usual door-to-door min...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Police here are reporting a 26 per cent reduction in major crimes recorded since the start of this year, in comparison to the corresponding period last year Head of the Manchester police division, Superintendent...

Guardsman Limited on Thursday launched its latest company, iProtect, which provides wireless security and monitoring systems for homeowners and business operators. Guardsman executives told the virtual launch, held in partnership with ...

The Jamaica Institute for Financial Services (JIFS), in collaboration with the University of the West Indies, Mona Banking League, a student-led organisation, provides an annual learning grant to a student in the Faculty of Social Scien...

Jamaica will continue to administer AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, notwithstanding reports out of some other countries of serious adverse effects in people who have received the booster. Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tuf...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on Thursday announced what it described as "a first-of-its-kind initiative" that would help Latin American and Caribbean countries better compete to obtain ...

Dental assistant at St Jago Health Centre in Spanish Town, St Catherine Annette Douglas (seated) is given her coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine by public health nurse Lavern Daley, on Thursday.The exercise formed part of the Government's C...

LONDON, England (CMC) - The creation of climate-smart farms not only got Grenadian Bevon Chadel Charles the attention of the Commonwealth but earned her an award at the Commonwealth Youth Awards this year.Two other regional youth - Dr C...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) - She still gets surprised when people want to hug her at the supermarket, but her studious media appearances analysing the pandemic have suddenly made Dr Margareth Dalcolmo famous in coronavirus-ravaged Bra...

WASHINGTON DC, United States (AP) - President Joe Biden's Administration is stockpiling tens of millions of doses of a COVID-19 vaccine whose authorisation in the US remains uncertain, frustrating US allies who say those doses should be...

The relatives of St Andrew businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore and her taxi driver Winston Walters, who were slain in a 2018 contract killing, say justice was done in the sentences given yesterday to Wade Blackwood, the confessed tr...

A St Catherine councillor is urging Government to educate the public on possible side effects of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.Councillor Sydney Rose (People's National Party, Treadways Division) made the recommendation at yesterday'...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Acting medical officer of health at the Manchester Health Department Dr Shonette Blair-Walters has added her voice to prominent Jamaicans encouraging their compatriots to take the COVID-19 vaccine, even as Mayor...

Long before dawn on Tuesday morning, Garland Dennis thought the constant barking of dogs was alerting him to an intruder in his yard. But when he checked, what he saw frightened him - a section of the premises at 12 East Lane in central...

Opposition spokesman on finance Julian Robinson yesterday urged the Government to be bold and beef up the proposed 2021/22 budget by one per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), or $21.5 billion."The Jamaican economy wil...

"A brazen and cruel act" is how Supreme Court Judge Justice Lorna Shelly-Williams described the 2018 contract killing of St Andrew businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore and her taxi driver Winston Walters before yesterday slapping Wad...

This truck was spotted transporting a boat Monday on Spanish Town Road in Kingston. (Photo: Joseph Wellington)

Bruknell Stewart (centre), CEO of the Kingston Public Hospital, is joined by staff members as they look at some of the medical supplies and equipment donated by the Government of Japan to the Ministry of Health, recently. The items incl...

JAMAICANS for Justice (JFJ) announced Wednesday that it will be launching a gender-based violence (GBV) support group, dubbed Vines: Healing from Violence Together.Starting in April 2021, JFJ will establish a support group to provide th...

THE Ministry of Education, Youth and Information has extended the deadline for grades 10 and 11 students who wish to defer sitting their CXC (Caribbean Examination Council) exams this year. All candidates will be required to indicate t...

Today is the 71st day of 2021. There are 294 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1994: The Church of England ordains its first women priests. OTHER EVENTS641 AD: Chinese Princess Wen Cheng goes to Tibet to marry the Tibetan ruler. T...

WITH the 2019 Jamaica National Crime Victimisation Survey (JNCVS) revealing that only 56.3 per cent of Jamaicans felt safe using an automated teller machine (ATM) on the street, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says financial ...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke says that a policy of fiscal discipline enabled Jamaica to confront the novel coronavirus-driven economic crisis with substantial buffers and confidence."Policy matters, and goo...

JAMAICA is now ready to sponsor the issuance of a catastrophe bond (CAT) to enable the country to transfer some of its hurricane risk to the international capital markets in time for the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. Finance Minister ...