Echoing the sentiments of concerned Jamaicans who have been calling increasingly for a crime plan in recent times, retired Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams posed the question: "Have we ever had a crime plan?"Adams, who said ...

Almost two years after four people were murdered, shocking the community of Dover in Kitson Town, St Catherine, residents say they still aren't able to recognise the cheerful community they once called home. The December 10, 2019 incid...

Mark Hansen is Noranda Bauxite's new big man in town and, as he gets ready to sail over the Atlantic and direct traffic from the company's St Ann plant, there are a few things that he is assuring Jamaicans of.One of them is that there w...

The chief executive of the company that operates a bauxite mining partnership with the Jamaica Government has said that there are no plans now to acquire other entities in the local sector.Rather, Mark Hansen wants to concentrate on bui...

Noranda Bauxite Company will continue to play its role as a firm builder of the Jamaican economy in a tangible way, even as some are critical of environmental issues alleged to be associated with it, the firm's chief executive officer ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - An incident last week inside a police station here may invite speculation and provide fodder for the spiritually unorthodox following the collapse and subsequent death of an accused man in the State facility.The ...

Deputy Superintendent of Police Dahlia Garrick wants Jamaicans to know that batons are still very much important tools as part of local policing.Garrick's enlightenment comes with what she has referred to as modernised police equipment ...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Community members in sections of this western Jamaica town are bracing for a spate of reprisal killings, following Saturday morning's shooting death of three individials, including a physically challenged ...

The shame of the NHTThe National Housing Trust (NHT) was not established by the great Michael Manley while he served as Jamaica's fourth prime minister to cater to poor people alone. Let us be clear about that.It was set up to enable Ja...

Worldwide the prevalence of diabetes has increased over the years. In Jamaica, approximately 11.9 per cent of the population 15 years and older have diabetes. Women with gestational diabetes have a three-to-seven-fold increased risk for...

Since its establishment in 2016, Mountain View New Testament Church of God Academy has been providing free Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) classes to adult-students in and around eastern Kingston communities with the message: "Jesu...

A statement from Senate President Tom Tavares-Finson brought a surprisingly abrupt end to the issue of whether Opposition member Floyd Morris's plea for a postponement of the debate on the Road Traffic (Amendment) (RTA) Bill last Friday...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Opposition Leader Mark Golding is reasoning that the looming spending expected to accompany rehabilitation work to infrastructure damaged following the recent flooding in Montego Bay, could have been avoided, had...

Periodontitis is a common chronic inflammatory disease characterised by the destruction of the supporting structures of the teeth (the periodontal ligament and alveolar bone). It is highly prevalent (severe periodontitis affects 10 to 1...

Last week we looked at strategies for improving access and inclusive health-care post-pandemic. We examined ways to improve access post-pandemic; investments in digital health care to enhance the patient relationship and cost-effective ...

TODAY is World Diabetes Day and it provides an opportunity to raise awareness of diabetes as a global public health issue and what needs to be done, collectively and individually, for better prevention, diagnosis and management of the c...

I recently had a conversation with an 81-year-old retiree who feared that she will outlive her money. She was a participant on a virtual retirement seminar where I was one of the presenters.This elderly retiree made a bold decision to i...

YOU may have read the title of this article and thought "Mobile and online gaming for seniors, really?" However, gaming is no longer just for kids or young adults and millions of seniors across the globe and now enjoying the benefits of...

Romarie Bartley's dream of becoming a surgeon is in limbo, as the 2020 to 2021 head boy of St George's College is being hit by heartbreaking financial challenges.Bartley, 19, the national council president for the Anglican Youth Fellows...

Seat belts off and windows down. That's the advice from rescuers to motorists who traverse areas surrounding the Bog Walk Gorge and Flat Bridge in St Catherine.Five men from Kent Village, St Catherine, who were recognised for their cont...

THE family of 14-year-old Jahmila Lawman is making an impassioned plea for her return after she went missing from a State facility in September.According to 25-year-old Antonett Lawman, the older sister of Jahmila, it is the second time...

As the world observes Diabetes Awareness today, the spotlight is placed on the Callums, a close-knit family dealing with the challenges of diabetes.The 77-year-old matriarch Angeleta Callum knew she had 'sugar', type 2 diabetes, but rea...

MARRIAGE and family therapist Dr Sidney McGill believes that hundreds of Jamaicans suffer from depression and are rarely diagnosed because the condition is associated with other physical or psychological problems or they do not want to ...

THE World Health Organization (WHO), in the year 2019, said diabetes was the ninth leading cause of death worldwide with an estimated 1.5 million deaths directly caused by the disease. The diagnosis of diabetes can be daunting for a num...

The top four performers in the 2021 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exams from Greenwich Town Primary and St Andrew Primary schools were recently awarded five-year scholarships by Petrojam Limited. The 2021 scholars, Adagerine Clarke and Ja...

Three months ago, 70-year-old Byron Pusey's life took a turn for the worse when his family sold the house he was living in, ultimately leaving him homeless.Pusey told the Jamaica Observer that the house belonged to his father who died a...

A man loves the meat in his youth,That he cannot endure in his age.- ShakespeareWhat a man loves to chew on when he's young might just prove too much for him later in his life, and may even choke him. As the old saying goes, craven chok...

THE Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) has started discussions which could lead to major improvements to the security of its staff, passengers and even the buses which it operates.The decision follows recent incidents which have left ...

A former member of the Klansman gang yesterday rebuffed suggestions from a defence attorney that his motivation for turning State witness against the criminal organisation was to avoid prison time. "If I wanted to save myself, I would b...

Opposition Senator Sophia Frazer-Binns says Government must move urgently to remove the 60-year provision in law that people who have been squatting on Crown lands must satisfy before they can pursue legal ownership.She issued the appe...

Andre Francis is quite aware that service is a requirement of his job. After all, happy customers translate into more business and, indeed, profits. But Francis is firm that he won't endure disrespect just to make a dollar."Mi nuh tek d...

SOME Jamaicans say if they are allowed to carry pepper spray it could help to protect lives, but believe such a privilege could be abused on a wide scale. On Tuesday, Leader of Opposition Mark Golding brought two Bills to Parliament whi...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - Councillors in Clarendon are again calling on the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development to make funding available for the rehabilitation of flood-damaged roads. The minister responsible for roads Everal...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Government Senator Charles Sinclair has called on Western Parks and Market Waste Management Limited (WPM), the regional arm of the State's National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), to shut down an illega...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A court in military-ruled Myanmar yesterday sentenced US journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison with hard labour, the maximum penalty under three charges, despite calls by the United States and rights gr...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - Americans quit their jobs at a record pace for the second-straight month in September, in many cases for more money elsewhere as companies bump up pay to fill job openings that are close to an all-ti...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - A 15.5 per cent fully vaccinated rate and a decrease in the number of COVID-19 cases in Westmoreland has provided little comfort to councillor for the Grange Hill Division Lawton McKenzie (People's Nationa...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - The ban imposed on unvaccinated individuals wishing to attend meetings at the St Mary Municipal Corporation (SMMC) has influenced higher take-up of COVID-19 vaccines among stakeholders, according to chairman of the...

LUCEA, Hanover - Mayor of Lucea Sheridan Samuels has blasted the roads and works department of the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) for its failure to maintain a park in the parish even though workers are being paid to do the job.He...

After his friend Phillip Campbell, who roasted yams for a living, passed away, Vincent Frazer was determined to keep the small business alive.The 32-year-old, who lives in Crooked River, Clarendon, and is commonly referred to as 'Yam Bo...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Yesterday's monthly meeting of the Manchester Municipal Corporation was marked by anger and unease over the prolonged closure of Melrose Yam Park. The facility was ordered closed by the health department on Au...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Claudette Wilmot is yearning for closure. That will only come, though, after she knows how her brother, 55-year-old Everett Wilmot, lost his life.Everett was a tour guide at Nature Blue attraction in the Lodge area o...

The split among Maroons in Accompong was even more evident yesterday as supporters of embattled Chief Richard Currie tried to intimidate journalists and bluntly told them to get out of the village, while others maintained that the man ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - With a significant number of roads damaged by heavy rain from a stationary front across the island on Sunday night, Government Senator Charles Sinclair is calling on the St James Municipal Corporation (SJMC) to e...

Witness number 1, the second ex-member of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang to take the stand in the ongoing trial of 33 accused members of that outfit, yesterday claimed that his decision to work with the police to bring down the ga...

Andre "Blackman" Bryan, alleged honcho of the Klansman gang, went the extra mile to keep the hands of his brother and cousin - who are accused of being members of that criminal organisation - gore free, a former gang member testified ye...

The scene was all too familiar - a mother wailing as the cold, lifeless body of her son lay in the street.Yesterday, one such mother and her daughter were inconsolable as they stood behind police yellow tape on Molynes Road, at the entr...

One Jamaica Observer reader is willing to offer a kidney to Edward Seaga's first son, Christopher, who has suffered stage four kidney failure and now urgently needs a kidney transplant. A second, an ambassador, has offered to aid in the...

PARIS, France (AP) - A Maryland high school English teacher, who has worked to open up college education for her students, has won the $1-million Global Teacher Prize, the Varkey Foundation announced Wednesday.Keishia Thorpe, who teache...

The Jamaica Ex-Soldiers Association (JESA) was on Wednesday presented with a cheque for £4,000 ($826,000) by the United Kingdom chapter of the association. The money will be used to assist ex-servicemen who reside at the Curphey Home i...