Whenever it rains, some vendors who operate in the Morant Bay Market in St Thomas have to flee from their designated spots to seek shelter for themselves and their produce, due to the decrepit covering of the facility.And just when they...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has called attention to the poor conditions affecting courts in the island's second city and elsewhere, saying that the time has come to settle the question of providing judges with proper courthouses and cour...

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The diplomatic row between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia is aggravating divisions in Lebanon, already reeling from an economic meltdown and social tension. Some are pushing for the resignation of the Cabinet minister w...

ROME, Italy (AP) - President Joe Biden said Sunday a new US and European Union trade agreement would crack down on "dirty steel" that produces carbon emissions that are blamed for climate change and also patch up a transatlantic rift ov...

In a sharp departure from traditional Christian belief, Kevin Smith, the now- deceased leader of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, told his followers that Haile Selassie is God.According to a former congregant, Smit...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has responded to a recent call by the Jamaican Bar Association for lawmakers to rethink certain of the proposed amendments giving the Crown a limited right to appeal not guilty verdicts in criminal cases and to...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Mikaylia Warren is grateful to be alive but still shaken after she and her eight-month-old daughter narrowly escaped injury, possibly death, last Thursday. Her house was among those damaged after a retaining wall col...

The Court of Appeal on Friday gave its reasons for dismissing the appeal of a convicted killer, after a trial that had retired Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams as its sole witness.Christopher Denton was in 2016 found guilty ...

VATICAN CITY, Rome (AP) - Pope Francis on Sunday urged people to pray so that "the cry of the Earth" is heard at the UN climate summit getting underway in Glasgow, Scotland.Francis, in comments to the public in St Peter's Square, on Sun...

LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Canary Islands (AP) - A volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma that has been erupting for six weeks spewed greater quantities of ash from its main mouth Sunday, a day after producing its strongest earthquake to...

ORLANDO, Florida (AP) - Two of Florida's largest school districts are easing up on their masks requirement this week.Starting Monday, Orange County students can stop wearing face masks if their parents provide a note opting them out. In...

PHOENIX, USA (AP) - Health officials in Arizona yesterday reported 2,840 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases and one more death.The latest numbers released by the state Department of Health Services pushed the totals to 1,168,900 cases ...

TOKYO, Japan (AP) - A man brandishing a knife on a Tokyo commuter train on Sunday stabbed several passengers before starting a fire, which sent people scrambling to escape and jumping from windows, police and witnesses said.The Tokyo Fi...

PwC Jamaica, Jamaica's leading professional services firm, has joined the fight against breast cancer with a donation of $200,000 to the Jamaica Cancer Society last week."Health has never been more significant as it is now," stated Caro...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness reiterated that he was impressed with the reconstruction of the Gordon Town Road in St Andrew being completed under budget, as he officially reopened it on Friday.According to Holness, it is not common for ...

The Jamaica Pentecostal Union says it "unreservedly and categorically" repudiates all forms of alleged cultic practices identified in the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in Albion, St James, which operated under t...

At least three farmers' groups are stunned by police statistics that listed farming as the occupation with the third-most charges for serious crimes over the last five years, behind unemployed people and labourers.The Jamaica Observer o...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Health officials here have maintained that the Christiana abattoir, which was shut down in March, will remain closed until public health breaches are addressed by its operator, the Manchester Municipal Corporati...

Citing the public education system as deficient in dealing with displaced and vulnerable youngsters, St John Bosco Vocational Training Centre is calling on the Jamaica Government to aggressively fund and support care facilities.The trai...

Pancheta Morrison is demanding answers about the circumstances surrounding her son's death at the Spanish Town Hospital in September.Morrison told the Jamaica Observer that in September her son, Jamie Henry, had a mental breakdown, whic...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Two months ago the five hospitals in this southern region had over 200 COVID-19 patients, but that number is now drastically reduced.Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) Director Michael Bent told the Jamai...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Newly elected chairman of the 83-year-old People's National Party (PNP) Dr Angela Brown Burke is insisting that yesterday's chairmanship election was a show of comradeship.Dr Brown Burke, the first woman to chai...

Since 2016 more than 4,000 individuals across the island with no source of income have been charged with committing serious crimes. Data obtained by the Jamaica Observer from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) shows that a total of 4...

The Jamaica Association of Certified Embalmers and Funeral Directors wants the home that is storing deceased cult leader Kevin Smith's body to watch out.The move by the organisation comes after word began circulating days ago that loyal...

The long-running battle of alleged Shower Posse member Richard "Storyteller" Morrison over his case for damages resulting from his wrongful extradition to the United States in 1991 is still playing out in the local court system.In an o...

A 2019 report commissioned by United Women and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) projected that the poverty rate for women would increase by 9.1 per cent due to the fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic.UNDP Administ...

If you are a regular or even occasional reader of this section, you should be no stranger to the terms cyber threat or data protection. You would have also gained a working understanding of why seniors need to be mindful of the sites t...

Petal James, chief of branches at JN Bank, says senior citizens can qualify for mortgage loans just like everyone else."It all depends on their income, credit score, and their ability to service the loan. Even seniors into their 70s can...

WHITEHOUSE, Westmoreland - "Holy buckets, the playmakers tonight were awesome! Marton has some serious pipes." That is what one guest said about Marton Thorbourne, guest activities agent (playmaker) in the entertainment department at Sa...

AGGRESSIVELY pulling bodies from vehicles and rushing victims to hospitals are often done by passers-by in an attempt to save lives. But could they be causing more damage?First responders are often called upon to extract victims after e...

EVEN though Jheneall Barnaby is fighting breast cancer she is encouraging fellow breast cancer 'warriors' to remain positive and continue to push through the odds to beat the dreaded disease.Barnaby was speaking at the final in a three-...

Miami, Florida - Approximately one in every 50 individuals in the population has a brain aneurysm, which are balloon-like outpouchings that form due to weakness within the walls of arteries. According to the Brain Aneurysm Foundation, a...

SIMECA Alexander always had desires of becoming a paediatric surgeon, but whilst in grade nine she was introduced to nutrition and never looked back. She is now turning her attention to the diets of mothers and newborns in the role of a...

A diagnosis of breast cancer is certainly not welcome news. The reality is harsher for pregnant women, and for women who wish to become pregnant. One of the obvious concerns is for the health of the baby, especially if breastfeeding is ...

Yaaayyy! So, you have finally done your mammogram and it was not the horror show you thought it would have been. What's next?Your images will now be interpreted by the specialist, the radiologist and a report will be done. That report w...

PRESSURE is mounting on World Homes Jamaica Limited to deliver the remaining houses in Phases Two to Five of Foreshore Estates, which were slated to be completed in 2019.The delay in completion has angered purchasers, two of whom are de...

Quick service food giant Restaurants of Jamaica has donated 1,000 KFC meals to non-profit organisation Food for the Poor (FFP) Jamaica's national care package outreach programme.The donation was made through KFC's Add Hope outreach prog...

HANDS Across Jamaica for Righteousness has assisted record producer and philanthropist Claude "Big Stone" Sinclair by donating $50,000 towards his medical expenses, following heart surgery in September. In August, Sinclair donated $50,0...

WASHINGTON DC, USA - Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States Audrey Marks has lauded the St George's Society of New York for its donation of some 400 scholarships valued at US$1 million to students of Commonwealth heritage throughout ...

Lucius: Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?Aaron: Ay, that I had not done a thousand more,As kill a man, or else devise his death,Ravish a maid, or point the way to do itAccuse some innocent, and forswear myself,Set deadly enmit...

The strangeness of a pastor's deathThe understatement of the century would be to suggest that there is something fishy about the circumstances which led to the demise of unorthodox church leader Kevin Smith, and Police Constable Orlando...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The health department has given the owner of the property that houses Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries 24 hours to clean up the filthy, stench-ridden location now infamous as the place where ...

ANDRE "Blackman" Bryan, the man accused of being leader of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang, had no qualms about taking out any of his followers who had crossed him, a former member of the criminal organisation turned State witness ...

THE idea of dating gangsters is not being embraced by some Jamaican women, even if the criminals have the ability to meet their every need. Their views come in the wake of a social media post a few weeks ago by Leah Tavares-Finson, the ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Police here are awaiting an autopsy report to determine the circumstances that led to the death of a mentally-ill man who was found lying in a pool of blood under a bus shed on Manchester Road yesterday.The poli...

Robert Baker makes an uncanny link with his taxi driving job and the multiple relationships he has with women: "Mi show everybody respect because we are all humans," he says.While it may be difficult for the average person to make the c...

The Government is urging more public servants to accept the current salary and benefits offer agreed to yesterday by 11 major trade unions and clear the way for talks on the more fundamental compensation review benefits.Minister of Fina...

The drab grey silo at Carib Cement Company in Rockfort, Kingston, is being transformed into an impressive mural.Set to be officially unveiled as part of the island's 60th anniversary of Independence celebrations next year, the work is b...

After living in squalor for more than three years, former national footballer Miguel Blair breathed a sigh of relief Thursday as teams from Food For the Poor (FFP) and Bert's Auto Parts started to construct a two-bedroom house for him o...

A senior police officer yesterday explained that the constabulary's announcement on Wednesday that late Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries leader Kevin Smith has been charged with murder was really an accounting proce...