Andrew Simpson, the president and founder of CCA Capital Partners - the entity whose latest contract with Clarendon Alumina Production (CAP) has been embroiled in controversy - says there's "nothing improper" about the contracts, adding...

The Crown's case against four of the accused for a 2018 murder on Jones Avenue in St Catherine, in the ongoing Klansman gang trial, yesterday hit a snag after it was disclosed that, except for a scene of crime photograph and the evidenc...

THE family of 25-year-old Drewsland, St Andrew, resident Leaford Mighty, who was last seen by loved ones on November 5, are nervously awaiting word from the police about the identity of a body found in a barrel in St Mary on November 9....

More than 500 vaccinated Labourities are slated to participate in the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) annual conference this Sunday.The JLP is now putting the final touches to the preparations for what it is describing as 'Jamaica's first...

LE GOSIER, Guadeloupe (AP) - Schools closed across the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe yesterday and France's president warned of a "very explosive" situation in the territory after protests against COVID-19 rules and vaccinations...

Just under $600 million of taxpayers' money has to be found each year to care for the almost 300 Jamaicans who have been discharged from public hospitals but have been left there by relatives unwilling to take them home.The dilemma face...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Not long ago, Ferishta Salihi and her family had enough for a decent life. Her husband was working and earned a good salary. She could send several of her daughters to private schools.But now, after her husband...

LINSTEAD, St Catherine - Member of Parliament for St Catherine North Western, Hugh Graham has called on residents to stop blocking roads in Linstead, adding that he is only willing to address them in an amicable atmosphere about plans t...

THEIR tears could probably fill the gold-coloured urn bearing the cremated remains of recently deceased Sadie Keating, as family members and friends said farewell to the outstanding public servant last Friday at Holy Cross Roman Catholi...

President of the People's National Party (PNP) Mark Golding will have a tough time wooing the electorate by virtue of his complexion being much fairer than that of the average Jamaican.This is the view Millholland Barker, vice-chairman ...

THE smiles are broader these days in the corridors of the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) after its Protection Tribunal awarded a client $7.6 million, the largest-ever compensation granted by the watchdog body.Consumer activist Vernon...

PORTMORE mayoral hopeful Markland Edwards, better known as Action for his radio dispensation, says he has great plans to turn Portmore into a functioning smart parish, after throwing his hat in the ring for the pending municipal electio...

Activists listen to speakers supporting the Ethiopian Government during a protest in front of the White House in Washington,DC, yesterday demanding a stop for what they say is American support for the Tigray People's Liberation Front.To...

Winston Watson (third left),general manager of Petrojam Limited, demonstrating the company's commitment to the environment by gifting over 40 seedlings to staff members of St Andrew Primary School.Latoya Pennant, Petrojam public relatio...

General Manager of Petrojam Limited, Winston Watson firmly secures this ackee seedling in the ground at the St. Andrew Primary School, in observation of National Tree Planting Day and in support of the National Tree Planting initiative ...

JAMAICANS suffering from chronic or end-stage kidney disease must fork out up to $2 million a year for treatment (dialysis) to remove excess fluid and impurities from the bloodstream or face an unthinkable alternative - death. Even at t...

GREEN PARK, Trelawny - The end of the wait for some of the 300 indigent individuals on the list to be admitted at infirmaries across the island could be just around the corner as Government is said to be getting ready to admit new indiv...

JAMAICANS for Justice (JFJ) says it remains opposed to the Government's imposition of states of emergencies (SOE) as a sustainable crime-fighting strategy. "While JFJ is equally concerned about the pervasive crime and violence and the s...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) - Two of the 17 North Americans who had been abducted by a Haitian gang in mid-October have been freed, the church that they were affiliated with said yesterday, reporting that they were "in good spirits"."On...

AS bleak as the facts and figures surrounding chronic kidney disease in Jamaica are, it gets worse, said Dr Barton, a type of kidney disease gladiator who heads the Caribbean Institute of Nephrology."Some children born with conditions l...

New York, USA - The United States Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award is to be bestowed on Jamaican immigrant Rev Dr Marilyn Grant at a ceremony in Connecticut on December 11, 2021.The annual award seeks to hounour people "who ex...

In a rare show of public anger, Ambassador of the European Union to Jamaica Marianne Van Steen and United Nations Resident Coordinator to Jamaica Dr Garry Conille jointly condemned last week's killing at a Spotlight Initiative Workshop ...

COCOA farmers, despite a $300-million backing from the Government, are taking a pounding in their war with the stubborn and deadly frosty pod rot disease, which has wiped out 80 per cent of Jamaica's cocoa production each year since 201...

THE last thing that 38-year-old Kimberly Gibson imagined was that she would become an amputee, blind in her right eye and partially blind in her left eye, all at the same time, from battling diabetes all her life. She also has the added...

You could have missed it if you blinked. But a woman of Jamaican heritage became the first of her gender to act as president of the United States Friday.President Joe Biden briefly transferred power to Vice-President Kamala Harris yest...

WISCONSIN, USA (AP) - Several dozen people gathered below the wind-whipped Wisconsin flag at Kenosha's Civic Center Park yesterday and warmed up with chants for justice before taking to the streets in protest of the acquittal of Kyle Ri...

LONDON, England (AP) - Queen Elizabeth II attended a double christening yesterday for two of her great-grandchildren.The 95-year-old British monarch, who has cancelled several recent public appearances on her doctors' advice, watched th...

PARIS, France (AFP) - A rare manuscript by theoretical physicist Albert Einstein goes under the hammer in Paris tomorrow, with auctioneers aiming for a stratospheric price tag.The manuscript, containing preparatory work for Einstein's k...

Today is the 326th day of 2021. There are 39 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1963: US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as he rides in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Vice-President Lyndon B Johnson becomes the 36th presiden...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) - The United States has joined an annual list of "backsliding" democracies for the first time, the International IDEA think-tank said, pointing to a "visible deterioration" it said began in 2019.Globally, more th...

KANO, Nigeria (AFP) - Air strikes targeting camps of gangs of cattle thieves in north-west Nigeria's Sokoto state, near the border with Niger, killed many people, local sources said yesterday.Nigerian military jets on Saturday bombed tw...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - It took 15 volunteers from the Sandals Foundation a mere four hours to remove 250 pounds of garbage from the shorelines and seabed of Fisherman's Beach in the coastal town of St Ann's Bay, their way to mark Internati...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - Some residents of Frontier Phase 2 on the outskirts of this parish capital are accusing the State-owned Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) of being insensitive to their needs, especially their perennial plight of bein...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - It's been years since Selvin, who lives on the streets of May Pen, has been inside a supermarket. So, when g ood Samaritan Stephen Liao took him to his family's National Self-Serve Wholesale and told him to shop, S...

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...