Ex-crime-fighter Clive "Karate Georgie" Lawrence, who lost a son to crime in 2019, is deeply saddened by the current situation in Jamaica. The revered officer who retired from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) in 2013, lamented that...

Peter Bunting wants Jamaica to invest heavily in an effective closed-circuit television system, just like many of the developed nations have done.The Opposition spokesman on national security, in a direct response to the imposition of a...

Opposition spokesman on national security Peter Bunting wants law-abiding Jamaicans to have easier access to owning firearms.Against the background of riveting crime, Bunting, who served as minister of national security between 2012 an...

"Duhaney Park hot!" Many residents have uttered those same three words, convinced that the State of Public Emergency (SOE) instituted in the St Andrew South Division last Sunday was long overdue.Residents pointed to a series of events o...

At age 10 Jevonnie Codlin struggled with the death of his parents.His mother and father died two weeks apart, and he was raised under the guidance of his grandmother, Viviah Green, in Tivoli Gardens, west Kingston.A Tivoli Gardens High ...

THE May to August period each year accounted for the most murders across Jamaica between 2015 and 2020. The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) tallied 6,960 murders across the five-year period. Further, sample data obtained by the Jamaica...

Ruel Reid yesterday resigned as Jamaica College (JC) principal, bringing to an end months of turmoil between stakeholders of the all-boys' high school and the Ministry of Education triggered by corruption charges he is facing in court.N...

Sherene Palmer-Caesar's life started plunging when she became pregnant with her first child at just 16 years old.Four years later she had another baby, making her existence - already framed by low self-esteem, no solid educational back...

Trishanna is a 28-year-old female who gave vaginal birth to a healthy six-pound girl. During her delivery she received an episiotomy to her perineum to aid with the safe delivery of her daughter. Episotomies are fairly common during del...

Digicel officially rings in the start of the Christmas season by giving customers More Ways to Win cash and prizes this Christmas. From left: 2019 Digicel $10 million Christmas promotion prize winner Anthony White joins Digicel Brand Ma...

AJamaican-American woman is fuming over the alleged handling of a break-in at her RIU Negril Hotel room earlier this month. The woman, Daneile Buchanan, in an e-mail to the Jamaica Observer said she travelled to Jamaica to visit her ill...

"Driving innovation is what gives us a competitive advantage," said Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett at Thursday's launch of the 2021 iteration of the Jamaica Food and Drink Festival (JFDF). At the behest of the novel coronavirus pandem...

Last month the United States Preventative Services Task Force became the latest of several organisations to suggest decreasing the use of aspirin as an agent for primary prevention. We have had several of our patients ask whether this i...

Ruel Reid-JC saga... a welcome endWord late yesterday that Ruel Reid stepped down as principal of Jamaica College (JC) was the kind of welcome news that many wanted to hear.Before then, nobody seemed capable of suggesting to Reid just...

WITH more and more consumers shopping or doing business online, debt management is now a primary focus for seniors and retirees. From the comfort of one's home, purchases can be easily made as online advertising has increased with the a...

With nothing less than a grade one in 14 subjects across the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) Unit 1 level thus far, and 10 straight A profiles, 18-year-old Rober...

THE novel coronavirus pandemic has forced us all to change the way we live and interact, even more so for the elderly who are often subject to stricter social distancing measures than the general population.Seniors who enjoy going to th...

DEATH may be a certainty; however, the stress associated with the costs of a funeral does not have to be if plans are put in place to ease the financial burden, says Othneil Blagrove, senior manager, sales and service, JN Life Insurance...

Our quality of life is fully intertwined with how healthy we are to live it. Men, in particular, are less likely to get their health checked than women, often missing or ignoring key risk factors.International Men's Day was celebrated ...

Could you count on one hand the number of people you know with diabetes in Jamaica? Are you one of these people? Diabetes is one of the most common illnesses affecting the Jamaican population today. Telemedicine provides a great opport...

At age four, Newton Coote's father wrapped his hands with newspaper, poured kerosene on them, and set them ablaze.This would see Coote being uprooted from his family home and placed at Maxfield Park Children's Home, where he stayed unt...

ULSTER SPRING, Trelawny - Stakeholders in the Cockpit Country have been reminded that Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners will not consider mining bauxite in the protected area."Let me just say as well that there is a Cockpit Country desig...

In 2005 Tasson Perry's life changed for the better when he got employment with Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners.Prior to his enrolment as an equipment operator, Perry struggled to make ends meet, bouncing from one unreliable source of i...

Suewhen Stewart, member service officer at JN Bank, Morant Bay, knows too well how speeding can negatively impact one's life. She remembers vividly a motor vehicle crash that could have claimed her life and that of her unborn child thr...

O mischief, thou art swift,To enter in the heart Of desperate men.- ShakespeareMaybe that quote should have said desperate women instead of desperate men based on the statistics that I've seen about people who get drawn into the convol...

International Men's Day 2021 will forever be etched in the minds of these young men - former wards of the SOS Children's Village, Stony Hill - now in transition to adulthood.They were hosted by CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank to ...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - An estimated 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in one year, a never-before-seen milestone that health officials say is tied to the novel coronavirus pandemic and a more dangerous drug supply.Overdos...

Fourteen bargaining units yesterday inked a wage agreement with the Government giving public sector workers a four per cent increase for a year.However, Senior Uniform Officers Association President Leslie Campbell said, while it is a p...

That the day news broke of the murder of a man believed to have appeared in a viral video drinking blood from a goat's skull was the same day a Crown witness in the trial of the 33 accused members of the Klansman gang detailed a similar...

Colleagues and friends of award-winning local journalist Kirk Wright have been praying for and wishing him a speedy recovery after he was stabbed during what the police suspect was a domestic dispute in St Catherine yesterday. Up to pr...

Government backbencher Heroy Clarke's plan to take to Parliament a motion calling for DNA paternity testing at birth is being embraced by some Jamaicans who have indicated concern that "too much jacket a run" - a reference to the prac...

Manchester taxi driver Kirk was having one of his usual days - transporting passengers to and from the taxi stand in Mandeville - when tragedy of the worst kind hit him so hard that he is still shaken, three months later.On that da...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - Guyana is open to the use of the Pfizer COVID-19 pill Paxlovid, once it receives approval, and private sector pharmaceutical companies could possibly manufacture it here.Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony sai...

STATE minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information Robert Nesta Morgan says Jamaicans can and should do more to protect each other's children.In his message to mark World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse yesterday, ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - At a busy market in a poor township outside Harare this week, Nyasha Ndou kept his mask in his pocket as hundreds of other people, mostly unmasked, jostled to buy and sell fruit and vegetables displayed on wooden...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Jamaica is stepping up efforts to get a share of the US$4.3-trillion global health and wellness tourism market by promoting the country as the number one health destination in the region. "In global tourism, heal...

YOUNG men are being encouraged to cultivate a mindset of excellence in all that they do and to always focus on the positives.These words of encouragement came from acting policy analyst and focal point for the Men and Masculinity Progra...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) says it will host a virtual town hall to address concerns from regional stakeholders about COVID-19 vaccination for children in the five- to 11-year-...

OLD Bay Fishing Beach in Whitehouse, Westmoreland, now has a fresh look, thanks to Sandals Foundation volunteers who turned their attention to the south-east coast during International Coastal Clean-up Day, recently.International Coasta...

WILLIAMSFIELD, Westmoreland - Mabel Forbes, the mother of trainee police Constable Duvaughn Brown who was shot dead in this community Wednesday night, said she was on the verge of meting out jungle justice on one of three men accused of...

Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) has refuted the majority of the main findings of a special audit on its operations between 2016 and 2021 carried out by the Auditor General's Department (AuGD).The report, tabled in the House of Representat...

The attorney representing Stephanie Christie, the sole woman among 33 people now on trial accused of being members of the feared Klansman gang, yesterday went to great lengths to present his client as a dedicated church and community wo...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says he has asked Mining Minister Robert Montague for a report of the controversial developments at Clarendon Alumina Partners (CAP), also known as Jamalco, and has directed that a contract at the centre o...

Chairman of the board of Jamaica College (JC) Michael Bernard has denied media reports surrounding the continuation of special leave for embattled principal and former education minister Ruel Reid, who is before the court on criminal c...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - With $1.4 billion spent and five years of delays, taxpayers will have to find an additional $1.6 billion for the penultimate phase of work being done on problem-plagued Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in this ci...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday claimed that, but for Westmoreland, the states of emergency (SOEs) that were declared in seven police division across the island on Sunday have been having a "dampen...

FLOWER HILL, St James - A stickler for good education up to 2017 when he died, Oscar Rhoden would have been proud of the academic feats of his son Adrian.The youngster left Cornwall College in St James this year with grade one - the bes...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - With the deadline for local government elections just three months away, p resident of the People's National Party (PNP) Mark Golding says its campaign is intensifying.Amendments to the Representation of the Pe...

Today is the 323rd day of 2021. There are 42 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1862: Castleton Botanical Gardens in St Mary is established. OTHER EVENTS1919: The US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles, one of the peace treatie...

Chairman of Jamaica National (JN) Foundation Parris Lyew Ayee Sr says the country is at risk of not meeting the national objective of universal access to water for all Jamaicans by 2030 without an integrated water resources management p...