JAMAICANS top the number of migrants making their way to Canada from the Caribbean region, data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has revealed.Some 21,215 Jamaicans have acquired permanent resident status in the N...

EVEN after going through six rounds of chemotherapy procedures and surgery to remove a part of her colon, 28-year-old Shaunice Dean is enjoying the happiest period her life. In fact, she believes that by December, after her final surger...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - For decades, restaurants, roadside eateries, bars and vending spots in Clarendon and Manchester have been go-to places and rest stops for commuters travelling between Kingston, Mandeville and other points west a...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - There are increased rumblings among some stakeholders in the construction industry in the western region and elsewhere, who claim that their businesses are being negatively impacted by the shortage of cement from...

FORMER Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade AJ Nicholson has denied a report by Leader of Government Business in the Senate and Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith that he sent her threatening e-mail in 2018.Nicholson...

NEWS of the expected eruption of La Soufrière volcano in St Vincent and the Grenadines came as a shock to several Jamaicans who settled in the eastern Caribbean island, some more than a decade ago.Vincentians and foreigners were warned...

A fuss has started in the House of Representatives and elsewhere about how the Montego Bay Perimeter Project ought to be administered. But based upon what has transpired in the construction industry in recent years, only one company sho...

When Earl Hemans was growing up in the Allman Town/Woodford Park part of Kingston, Jamaica, the farthest thing from his mind was that one day he would end up serving in the diplomatic service and then eventually launch an export busines...

DESPITE complaints by residents for over a decade, the stench of blood mixed with raw sewage continues to permeate the air of some areas in central Kingston.Those affected have claimed that their cries for help have fallen on deaf ears ...

THE Rotary Club of Kingston increased the number of community outreach projects it executed during the past administrative year, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.Among the major projects completed between July 2020 and April 2021 wer...

AT age 16, Rynola Fraser is steadily charting a path to success by becoming the first black and Jamaican woman from the Martin Van Buren High School in New York to be selected as a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in...

Fabian Skervin, the farmer charged with murder in the deaths of a Jamaican-Canadian couple in Retreat, St Thomas, just over two years ago, is to undergo assessment by an independent forensic psychiatrist and a report presented to the co...

Already a major shareholder, businessman Ian Levy increased his holdings in Supreme Ventures Ltd by purchasing an additional 10 million shares, each valued at $19.The transaction was effected early Friday morning on the Jamaica Stock E...

FOR one family, hypertension - one of the leading causes of illness and death in the Jamaican population - has been a triple threat as three sisters are all now living with the condition.The youngest, Beatrice Lowe, 69, has been living ...

DID you know that some individuals who are otherwise okay can have elevated blood pressure when they visit a doctor?A phenomenon known as the "white coat effect", consultant cardiologist Dr Andrene Chung, in an interview with the Jamaic...

FOR some Jamaicans, the thought of experiencing nocturnal hypertension - which is elevated blood pressure during sleep - is terrifying. Abigail Atkinstall, 22, a final-year student at The University of the West Indies, Mona (UWI), is on...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - She is renowned as the mother and widow of three of Jamaica's former parliamentarians, but her story spanning 100 years is also filled with colourful events including service to her native Britain during World W...

CHAIRMAN of the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA) Professor Elizabeth Ward is concerned that the novel coronavirus pandemic has diverted attention from more serious and violent crimes against children.This follows data which indicates ...

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. Get answers by sending your questions to healthandwealth@jamaicaobserver....

ACCORDING to the American Heart Association it is a myth that people with high blood pressure will experience symptoms like nervousness, sweating, difficulty sleeping, or facial flushing. The truth is that hypertension is a largely symp...

VACCINES are some of the safest and most effective medicines that save two to three millions lives annually and have been in use for more than 200 years. Vaccines prevent the spread of contagious, dangerous and deadly diseases like smal...

Call her dressmaker, chef, poet, or club president. Unfazed by age, 104-year-old Hazel Espeut is doing it all. In fact, she is now single-handedly organising an annual children's treat in her East Kingston community for Child Month, whi...

This thing of darknessI acknowledge mine,There is nothing more confiningThan the prisonWe don't know we are in.- Shakespeare, The TempestSo many people are living in penal institutions even though they never were arrested, never went t...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, May 16, 2021: You are reserved, and yet you have an appealing, almost dashing style that impresses others. You are likable in a friendly way; nevertheless, people know you're serious about what you are doing. ...

HEAD of the corruption watchdog agency, National Integrity Action (NIA), Professor Trevor Munroe has called on the Integrity Commission to launch a probe into the award of the Montego Bay perimeter project to Chinese Harbour Engineering...

THE Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) on Thursday launched an initiative targeting 136 schools across the island, to identify and provide intervention for students with whom these institutions have not had contact duri...

OHIO, United States (AP) - The inseparable sisters always stood out - identical twins from Twinsburg, Ohio, whip-smart students from the side of town with unpaved streets and no sidewalks, excluded from the gifted track because they are...

Shantez Stewart, the attorney representing two of six males accused of buggering a 13-year-old girl in St Ann, says one of his clients intends to file a defamation suit against the complainant, who has retracted her initial report. He s...

RAE Town, Kingston Central, Councillor Rosalie Hamilton has called for stronger police action in the constituency in light of the increased gang violence in that section of the city.In fact, Hamilton, who last year attempted to bring ga...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny - Commissioner of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) Stewart Beckford says another unit has been assigned to the Falmouth Fire Station to replace the one which was destroyed by a bush fire in the parish Thursday afternoon...

Javier Brown of Jamaica College (JC) broke the Class One 400m hurdles record of 49.94 seconds when he ran 49.86 seconds to win the final event on day four of the Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association/GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls' ...

SENATE majority leader Senator Kamina Johnson Smith yesterday confirmed that the threatening series of e-mail she had referred to in her Senate statement last month originated with former Senator A J Nicholson.She said that the police c...

FIFTEEN fishing beaches will be redeveloped over the next five years, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green has announced.He said that the redevelopment process will include three beaches per year at an estimated cost of $2....

MORE than 200 students in five West Kingston communities are receiving improved access to virtual learning spaces and equipment under a combined $11.6-million investment in tablets and technology centres donated by agencies of the Unite...

THE United States Embassy in Kingston on Thursday launched the US/Jamaican EdTech Women POWER Connect at a virtual event attended by Charge d'Affaires John McIntyre and Minister of Education, Youth and Information Fayval Williams. Women...

Jamaicans 50 years and older are now able to register to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton announced yesterday evening. Tufton made the announcement during this week's COVID Conversation n...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness yesterday reminded Jamaicans in the high-risk age groups of the danger of vaccine hesitancy, as nine weeks into the national COVID-19 vaccination programme only a small percentage of them have taken t...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The police in this south-central town have reiterated that they will not hesitate to prosecute anyone for breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) as the number of people they have now sanctioned for ...

"From the time my family arrived in America from Jamaica, we have realised and appreciated the opportunity that the US provided us," said an exultant Winsome Sears, after beating out five others for her party's nod to run for lieutenant...

Principals of some early childhood institutions are worried that their graduating pupils will not be ready to make the transition to the primary level come September.Paulette Cunningham, principal at Padmore Early Childhood Centre in St...

Roderick "Ricky" Francis Jr yesterday described as the "ultimate betrayal" the actions of Carlos Batista who, despite being brought to Jamaica in the 1980s and offered a job by his father, Roderick "Bunny" Francis, was the same man who...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - In a major step toward returning to pre-pandemic life, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eased mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people yesterday, allowing them to stop we...

Michelle Meghie, a Jamaica living in Mississauga, Canada, who has three decades of work experience in children services and social services under her belt, hopes to become the Brantford-Brant, Ontario Liberal candidate in the next feder...

The Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) is seeking an expansion of the activities covered under the five-year-old Cybercrimes Act which are being reviewed.In a submission to yesterday's meeting of the joint select co...

The Kingston Chapter of Cornwall College Old Boys' Association (CCOBA) will be honouring two Cornwallians who have distinguished themselves in their professional fields and contribution to the wider society.They are media giant Desmond ...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny - Peoples National Party (PNP) councillor for the Ulster Spring Division in Trelawny Southern, Dr Pauline Foster has attributed Sunday's murder of 29-year-old Nickiesha Keeling, allegedly by her jealous common-law hus...

PAN American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Dr Carissa Etienne says reports from 18 Latin American and Caribbean member countries indicate that 1.5 million health-care workers in these territories are now fully vaccinated against t...

MINISTER of Industry, Investment and Commerce Audley Shaw has reiterated that subsistence farmers will play a key role in the development of the local cannabis industry."Jamaica has some of the most experienced and knowledgeable local c...

NURSES across the island started International Nurses' Day off on a sweet note on Wednesday, with fresh-baked donuts gifted to them by Honey Bun.It was the second-consecutive year of the baking company's 'Donuts for Nurses' initiative w...

WORKERS' Week 2021 will be highlighted by the staging of a labour industrial relations webinar on Wednesday, May 19, under the theme 'Advancing Flexible Work Arrangements in Jamaica'.Divisional director for industrial relations and alli...