Today is the day 187th day of 2021. There are 178 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2005: New York Times reporter Judith Miller is jailed for refusing to divulge a confidential source to a grand jury investigating the George W Bush...

FACILITATING a quick response to those most in need, JP Tropical Foods Limited has provided the medical and support staff at the Bustamante Hospital for Children with a nutritional boost through its donation of more than 1,300 kilograms...

WASHINGTON,United States (CMC) - The World Bank says the 2020 Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks' Climate Finance indicates that climate finance to low- and middle-income economies, such as those in the Caribbean, rose to US...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Emergency shelters were empty here for much of Sunday while several homeless people milled about the forlorn streets during persistent rainfall associated with Tropical Storm Elsa.A handful of them flatly told the Ja...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The popular Little Dunn's River beach corridor in this resort town is coming back to life and vendors are thrilled. They anticipate that things will only get better now that tourists, whose purchases they depend on, ...

ATAMI, Japan (AFP) - Rescuers were holding out hope of finding at least 64 people buried under the mud and wreckage of a Japanese holiday town that was hit by a devastating landslide, with teams set to resume the desperate search for su...

LONDON (AP) - Britain plans to scrap laws requiring face masks and social distancing later this month Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed yesterday, even as he acknowledged that lifting the restrictions will drive surging coronavirus...

Although Tropical Storm Elsa brought no more than showers to Jamaica, the residents of Bamboo River in St Thomas are anxious and fearful of what the rest of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season holds for their flood-prone community.Yester...

RESIDENTS in sections of Old Harbour, St Catherine, had anxious moments yesterday as the rain associated with Tropical Storm Elsa left some areas flooded."The water came inside the house and damaged a lot of personal belongings," Dwayne...

MBJ Airports Limited, operators of the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James, yesterday reported that two flights were cancelled and at least eight delayed due to Tropical Storm Elsa. According to MBJ's manager, commer...

The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has cautioned the Government against major legislative changes that could create uncertainty and adverse consequences in the power generation market. The light and power company told a joint sel...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Tourism stakeholders are upbeat this morning following yesterday afternoon's arrival of Air Canada's Dreamliner flight from Toronto, Canada, at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James.Shortly afte...

Jamaica was yesterday spared the worst effects of Tropical Storm Elsa with only a few parishes experiencing hours of heavy rains, something of a disappointment for some Jamaicans, and a relief for others, who had braced for severe weat...

As Jamaica's tourism sector continues to rebound, Montego Bay will this evening welcome the first of once weekly flights from one of the world's richest countries, Switzerland. The flights are operated by Edelweiss Air, a Swiss leisure...

The United States (US) State Department has expressed concern that some members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force could be involved in human trafficking.In its 2021 Trafficking in Person Report, released late last week, the State Depar...

HAVING suffered sexual abuse Crystal Witter is determined to help other Jamaican females who are victims of the crime of human trafficking.Witter, 24, who hails from Manchester, recently launched a non-profit organisation which she has ...

Jamaica will today welcome the most senior United Kingdom (UK) Cabinet member since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic some 15 months ago. Alok Sharma, president for COP26 - the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, i...

Caribbean Community (Caricom) Heads of Government will have the novel coronavirus pandemic and the region's response high on the agenda for their 42nd Regular Meeting to be held online today and tomorrow,The impact of recent natural dis...

PETERSFIELD, Westmoreland - The People's National Party (PNP)-controlled Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) has placed a stop order on the construction of a house for which PNP President Mark Golding carried out a much-publicised ...

Photo 1: A flooded section of New Haven in the Corporate Area (Photo: Joseph Wellington)Photo 2: A vendor in deserted downtown Kingston secures her goods yesterday, during a break in the heavy rianfall from Tropical Stom Elsa. (Photo: J...

HAVANA (AP) - Cuba evacuated 180,000 people amid fears yesterday that Tropical Storm Elsa could unleash heavy flooding after battering several Caribbean islands, killing at least three people.The Cuban Government had opened shelters and...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) - The role played by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), in shaping and sustaining the region has been lauded with the unveiling of six wax figures of eminent Caribbean people last Saturday, during a special c...

THOUSANDS of Jamaican students will today begin summer school under the Ministry of Education's Recover Smarter - National School Learning and Intervention Plan (NSLIP).According to acting chief education officer in the Ministry of Educ...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Winston "Tammo" Thompson spent most of his years working as a bellman at a hotel in Ocho Rios, St Ann. He did his job well, but his heart was elsewhere. He dreamed of being a chef. "I can remember being at work in th...

Residents of the eastern section of Portland are eyeing with delight the planned development of an integrated business complex at the Boundbrook Industrial Estate.The planned development will involve the build-out of 100,000 square metr...

In yesterday's story headlined 'Bishop: I am no Obeah man' we incorrectly stated that Raleigh Christie, a bishop in a revival church, is the head of the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica.We regret the error.

BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) - Cybersecurity teams worked feverishly yesterday to stem the impact of the single biggest global ransomware attack on record, with some details emerging about how the Russia-linked gang responsible breached t...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson will provide an update today on plans to ease COVID-19 restrictions in England, amid speculation that he will scrap rules that require people to wear masks in many public settin...

WASHINGTON, United States (AP) - After nearly six months in office, grappling with a pandemic every step of the way, President Joe Biden was determined to party."This is a holiday weekend," Biden declared last Friday as he parried jour...

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica - As they kept a watchful eye out for inclement weather brought on by the approaching Tropical Storm Elsa, more than 60 volunteers still managed to remove more than 200 pounds of garbage from the Old Hospital Park B...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, (CMC) - The authorities in Haiti have confirmed reports of six people being killed when a small plane went down last Friday evening en route from an airport in Port-au-Prince to the southern coastal city of Jacmel...

RED HILLS, Westmoreland - People often associate the word century with things that are old and outdated but, surrounded by family and well-wishers, Lesford McNeil put those assumptions to rest last Thursday. He sat on his veranda alert...

With an estimate of over 1,500 local burials since the start of the year due to murders, COVID-19, and road fatalities alone, officials are foreseeing psychological issues that may arise hereafter. This comes as many families have had ...

CLASS is in session and Nickesha Lynch is in full control. Lynch, a Jamaican educator teaching in Cayman Islands, has not one or two, but all of nine students in the top 10 of the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) 2020 merit list for ...

JAMAICAN-BORN nurse Dr Sandra Lindsay has been recognised by United States President Joe Biden for being the first American to get the COVID-19 vaccine and for her dedication to her work, at a naturalisation ceremony Friday at the White...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - With Jamaica recording 234 road fatalities as of June 30, director at the Road Safety Unit (RSU) Deidre Hudson-Sinclair is pushing for a safe systems approach to reduce serious injury and death resulting from cr...

GOOD HOPE, Trelawny - Buoyed up by an uptick of tourist arrivals, Chukka Caribbean Adventures, Jamaica's biggest attraction company, on Friday reopened its newly-transformed eco-adventure outpost here, which was shuttered for over a yea...

FROM he was a baby, Yakeev Morris - the medical intern who collapsed and died while on duty last year - declared he would be a doctor, his sister Ornella Morris said.But Ornella, her parents and siblings are incensed and fuming over wha...

An under-fire chairman of a primary school board in St Thomas has stoutly declared that he is no Obeah man, and said that he would continue to serve in that capacity, despite opposition.Tension rose at Grant's Pen Primary and Infant Sch...

FATHER Richard Ho Lung, known and highly respected for helping the poor and dispossessed for most of his adult life, marks his 50th year in the priesthood today. But his celebration has a tinge of sadness as he has been stuck in The Phi...

PLEAS from Prime Minister Andrew Holness for Jamaicans to prepare for the effects of the now downgraded Tropical Storm Elsa have seemingly been ignored by people living in some flood-prone areas, in particular, sections of the south-eas...

A repeat of the flooding that happened last year would be catastrophic, the people of New Haven, St Andrew pleaded to the Jamaica Observer yesterday as they braced for the effects of Tropical Storm Elsa.As heavy rain from Tropical Storm...

TRAVERSING the Corporate Area yesterday, queues outside supermarkets were lengthy, with shoppers waiting side by side to stock up on precautionary hurricane supplies. With cashiers barely getting a break and items like water, flashlight...

The United States Embassy in Kingston last Wednesday hosted a small reception commemorating the 245th anniversary of America's Independence ahead of the official celebration scheduled for tomorrow.American Independence Day is today, J...

AN emergency fund refers to a financial safety net that protects against future unexpected expenses. It's often the case that an emergency fund is mistaken for the stashing away of funds for "a rainy day". An emergency fund is necessary...

OLIVER Samuels, veteran Jamaican actor and comedian, says he has been enjoying the benefits of digital banking and has urged senior citizens like himself to be more open to the idea.Speaking as a guest presenter during the Scotiabank, S...

HAVE you just retired, working on reduced hours or stopped working for a while? You know sitting at home is not an option and so, now you are contemplating your next move. You thought about volunteering or even giving some time to your ...

JAMAICANS 75 years and older will start receiving benefits from Government's social pension programme announced in April this year.Karl Samuda, the social and security minister, announced in the House of Representatives that the progra...

OUR kidneys are vital organs located above the waist, on both sides of the spine.Though small in size, the reddish-brown, bean-shaped organs filter blood to remove impurities, excess minerals, salts, and extra water. Therefore, we all n...

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: Why...