Government Senator Kamina Johnson Smith last Friday resurrected the 2014 drama surrounding e-mail threats she had claimed to have received from a colleague across the floor while she was on the Opposition benches.Johnson Smith, who has...

One of the stalwarts of Jamaica's tourism industry and a long-serving executive of Sandals Resorts International (SRI), David Roper, passed away early yesterday morning after ailing for some time. He was 66.Yesterday, SRI described Rope...

The Spectrum Management Authority (SMA) has rejected claims of a conflict of interest when it entered into a commercial transaction with SynCon Technologies in 2017 to provide equipment to help with data security and reduced hardware c...

Opposition Senator Damion Crawford is urging the Government to resume face-to-face classes for students sitting Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) subjects as thousands of Jamaican children struggle to prepare for the external examin...

Jamaicans are again being urged to ensure that they prepare a last will and testament to prevent fights over any assets they leave behind when they die.Since the novel coronavirus pandemic hit the island last March some local lawyers ha...

HEAD of the Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch (PSTEB) Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Gary McKenzie is appealing to non-essential workers to stay home during the curfew hours.The PTSEB boss appeal comes on the heels of ...

The conditional release of seven men accused of murder and other crimes last week has triggered a legal debate between a defence attorney and prosecutors about abuse of process.Peter Champagnie, QC, whose client Andrew "Livity" Coke is...

LEARNING from home has hit the majority of students across the Caribbean region, with the greatest challenge being the difficulty in focusing on schoolwork.A recent study ­- Insult to Injury: The Impact of C-19 on Vulnerable Communitie...

Geneive Belford had her reservations but went willingly to the Portmore HEART Academy vaccination centre in St Catherine on Sunday, April 11, 2021 to accept dose one of the two-dose AstraZeneca inoculation on offer. Four days later, th...

TWO leading attorneys-at-law in Jamaica have said that over the years, there have been numerous instances where allegations of sexual abuse have been made which have ultimately turned out to be false.Unfortunately, the attorneys said th...

THE sisters of Sergeant Duliet McKay, who has been locked up for over a year awaiting trial, are growing impatient and frustrated with the court for refusing to grant her bail. They have also questioned whether her continued detention i...

WASHINGTON, DC, USA - Award-winning international reggae artiste Orville "Shaggy" Burrell will join Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States Audrey Marks as her special guest on the monthly chat series, Let's Connect with Ambassador M...

Fabianique Powell plans to ace the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) this year, even as she grieves the death of her mother in a horrific motor vehicle crash two Mondays ago."My preparation for PEP is going quite well. She is going to always b...

All it takes for something to go wrong is for misinformed 'dark' and dunce individuals to start spreading a rumour and hell breaks loose.The nurse who gave now deceased media practitioner Michael Sharpe his first dose of COVID-19 vacci...

ONE of the greatest anchors to man in turbulence is hope. Hope is that quality that constantly looks for better.In Ancient Greek consciousness, their chief god, Zeus, gifted the first woman, Pandora, a jar or a box. She was told not to ...

A topic often met with shame and silence, erectile dysfunction (ED), also known as impotence, has affected millions of men across all ages and ethnicities worldwide.The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that in 1995, globally, mo...

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has announced that a new dragon will enter the Den for Season 16 of the reality show Dragons Den.Executive chairman and founder of Kingsdale Advisors and founder and chairman of BlackNorth Initi...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Back in 2015, when a spanking new meeting room with related facilities was opened with much fanfare, its relatively confined size and space seemed only a minor issue for political representatives and staff at...

Jamaicans are being encouraged by Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange to write and publish their own stories.Speaking during a virtual celebration of World Book and Copyright Day 2021, last Friday, Grange...

IF someone gets a headache or feels a bit under the weather after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, it's become common to hear them say something like, "Oh, it just means my immune system is really working hard." On the flip side, when peop...

DATA from the Jamaica Family Planning Association (FAMPLAN/JFPA) has revealed that the COVID-19 restrictions faced in 2020 negatively impacted the antenatal care (ANC) services and family planning services the institution offers.Last ye...

THE warmer weather and longer days have inspired reminders to "stay hydrated" and drink eight glasses of water - or about two litres - a day. Not to burst anyone's water bottle, but healthy people can actually die from drinking too much...

Jamaicans now have access to a potential solution to the COVID-19 crisis plaguing the island, one medical official has said in a news release.Ozone therapy, a scientifically proven medical technique, harnesses the power of oxygen to de...

A close-up of Simon Suckie in his new wheelchair with (from left) Corporal Chris  Gordon, who is from Suckie's Cockburn Gardens community; Gordon's Denham Town Police Station colleague Constable Deon Martin; and Wyatt "Spur" Williams, ...

The Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) has collaborated with the Duke Street Refurbishing Project (DSRP), the Kingston Restoration Company (KRC) and Kingston Creative to support the development of a creative city and art district in downt...

SPECIAL needs advocate Melisa Porter has made an impassioned plea to policymakers to make the special education needs policy a priority in order to better serve children with such needs in the education system.In an interview with the J...

JANET Thompson's life was flipped upside down in March 2020 after a troubling medical diagnosis.The 61-year-old of Brainerd, St Mary, noticed swellings around her ankles and began feeling pain in her legs. After multiple trips and tests...

The organisation, American Friends of Jamaica (AFJ) has donated over US$1.75 million ($262 million) to various programmes in Jamaica. The donation was announced at the AFJ's virtual annual Grants Awards ceremony last Tuesday. In a stat...

But now I am cabined,Cribbed, confined,Bound in to saucyDoubts and fears.- ShakespeareEven from those days Shakespeare wrote about being confined, cribbed and suffering from cabin fever - the term given to people who have been confined...

A group of tertiary students who received the COVID-19 vaccine in the recent vaccination blitz are encouraging other young people to take the jab.Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton, on his Instagram account, said he was ...

POTSDAM, St Elizabeth - Elias Azan has been lauded for his vision and dedication to Munro College, his alma mater, where he was board chairman up to the time of his passing on Wednesday.Azan, who was 65, had tested positive for COVID-19...

MINISTER of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton on Wednesday condemned verbal attacks on the country's health-care workers.In a statement to the House of Representatives, Dr Tufton said that it was necessary to advise the public a...

MINNESOTA, United States (AP) - Daunte Wright, the young black man shot by an officer during a traffic stop in suburban Minneapolis, was not "just some kid with an air freshener," but a "prince" whose life ended too soon at the hands of...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Carissa Etienne said Wednesday that misinformation is one of the most serious threats to public health and it is most damaging when it fuel...

Financial difficulties spawned by the novel coronavirus pandemic have pushed two funeral homes to collaborate on offering payment plans for burials which, they say, has resulted in increased business.In fact, the initiative has proven ...

The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) and the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) have pointed to critical services which will have to be expanded for Portmore as the Government contemplates parish status for the m...

Vinnate Hall says she wanted to share her COVID-19 experience in the hope that it will help people who are still not taking the virus seriously to start doing so right away. Coronavirus, she warns, is not something to trifle with. Here ...

Amid the novel coronavirus pandemic at least six major tourism players have invested near US$2 billion (approximately $300 billion) in new developments spanning the next two years, Ed Bartlett stated this week."Our investment climate is...

The Government is being urged to work with the private sector to arrange a staggering of work hours across Jamaica as one measure to reduce the spread of COVID-19.Opposition Senator Damion Crawford made the call recently during an inte...

OPPOSITION Senator Damion Crawford is challenging the Government's approach to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.In a question and answer session with the Jamaica Observer this week, Crawford said while he supports some of the...

BUSY as usual, the anti-vaxxers are trying to stir up hysteria about blood clots suspected to be linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine, in the same way they did not wait for a post-mortem on senior journalist Michael Sharpe before spreading...

READER Brenton Baldwin describes himself as a "vaccine veteran", saying he has the scars on his arm to prove that he has been vaccinated over and over. He sent covid capers a photo as evidence."I am in my 70s now and I am very healthy. ...

Today is the 113th day of 2021. There are 252 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1985: The Coca-Cola Co announces it is changing the secret formula for Coke. Negative public reaction forces the company to resume selling the original...

CALGARY, CANADA - Southeast Hope Assembly (SEHA), a Jamaican church in Calgary, has made a donation of clothing, food items, water and toiletries to relief efforts in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), amidst continued eruption of La ...

Dr Christopher Tufton, the health minister, says that based on the health ministry's epidemiological assessment, there has been some movement in the right direction concerning the novel coronavirus pandemic."Our reproductive rate over t...

DEPUTY registrar at the National Children's Registry of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) Warren Thompson is encouraging self-reporting by children who are victims of abuse."We want to encourage children to self-re...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - The leaders of Russia and China put aside their raw-worded disputes with US President Joe Biden on Thursday long enough to pledge international cooperation on cutting climate-wrecking coal and petrol...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC) - Foreign ministers of the 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom) and the US State Department on Wednesday agreed to work together on a number of issues of mutual interest.A Caricom statement, issued following...

 MINNESOTA, United States (AP) - Derek Chauvin is already locked away in Minnesota's only maximum-security prison, held in a single cell for his own safety. But it will be two months before the former Minneapolis police officer learns ...

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - Russia's defence minister yesterday ordered troops back to their permanent bases following massive drills amid tensions with Ukraine, but said they should leave their weapons behind in western Russia for another ex...