MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton yesterday reiterated that the Government's position is that parental approval must be given in relation to COVID-19 vaccines being administered to children."We ...

While Jamaica Police Federation officials were in court yesterday dealing with a claim for overtime pay owed to rank and file cops, many of whom were outside the building protesting for their money, the head of the Police Civilian Over...

An admission by the lead police investigator in the case against the 33 individuals who stand accused of crimes committed by the St Catherine-based Klansman gang that he had not placed any identifying mark on a rifle taken from the boso...

JAMAICA College (JC) Parents Teachers' Association (PTA) President Collin Greenland is fuming over a Wednesday-night hospital visit by a JC board member, whom he says has been the source of recent public discontent among the board, the ...

Opposition Leader Mark Golding says he agrees with the position of Integrity Commission chairman, retired Justice Seymour Panton, that the auditor general's position as one of five commissioners of the commission poses no threat of a co...

President of the Senate Tom Tavares-Finson last night severely criticised an order which requires the Government to win over at least a single vote from the Opposition to pass legislation with constitutional implications.Tavares-Finson...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The protest over arrears for overtime work staged by police in Kingston and St Andrew yesterday received strong support from their colleagues in St James who also complained about less than adequate working condi...

Three of the passengers on the Nieuw Statendam cruise ship seem to be celebrating their arrival at PortRoyal yesterday. The Holland America vessel is the largest cruise ship to date to visit Port Royal. It has acapacity of approximately...

THE US Embassy in Kingston has partnered with Junior Achievement Jamaica (JA Jamaica) to provide tablets for students in need at the primary and high school levels.This initiative, valued at $3.7 million, is tied to two flagship program...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny - With over 1,300 murders reported across the 19 police divisions since the start of the year, prime minister and Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Andrew Holness is expected to address the country's worrying crime pr...

HUMAN rights group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) is urging people who have experienced gender-based violence (GBV) to consider getting legal support in order to claim their rights and access justice.GBV is a human rights violation and peo...

Pastor of the Constant Spring Road Church of God Rev Winston George Lewis says men and boys need be retrained to respect and protect women and girls."If we are going to have safer spaces for our women and girls, there must be a retrain...

As the observance of Black Friday shopping celebrations continues to take off locally, Scotiabank says it is making the period more festive for its credit cardholders as they make use of the planned specials on household and personal ...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - As her mother battled renal failure, which would eventually claim her life in 2013, a then 16-year-old Tiffany Cox took solace in the support and care provided by a nurse. Though she cannot remember the medical care ...

The Forestry Department and the National Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to reforest land in St James to restore tree cover that may be affected during the construction of ...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Flash mobs, church hops, catchy jingles and phrases were all part of the creative ways the North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA) used to encourage vaccination against the novel coronavirus. Not only did their ...

THE message of controlling diabetes rang loudly on World Diabetes Day, which was celebrated on November 14.As part of its corporate responsibility and to commemorate the day, Portmore-based Joong Pharmacy, located on Newland Road, held ...

THE Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is worried that measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have been lifted or are being relaxed in many densely populated areas of the region, even though vaccination numbers remain low."This...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Opposition spokesman on housing, transport and works Mikael Phillips is appealing to the Government for urgent rehabilitation of Jamaica's south coast road network, between May Pen and Westmoreland, saying that ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Demonstrators chant slogans during a protest against gender-based violence on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, in Istanbul, yesterday. (Photo: AFP) 

LONDON, England (AP) - The deaths of at least 27 people in the English Channel is fuelling tensions between the UK and France over how to stop migrants from crossing the world's busiest waterway in small boats.Despite a pledge from Brit...

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) - Five years after Fidel Castro's death the revolution he started in 1959 appears to be at an impasse, with Cuba's economy battered and an ever-larger part of its population clamouring for change.The communist island ...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) - Britain said yesterday it would ban travel from six southern African countries, after South Africa detected a new COVID-19 variant with a large number of mutations."The early indication we have of this var...

PARIS, France (AP) - France is launching a new process for women to formally report domestic violence and sexual and other abuse, circumventing police stations where many victims feel uncomfortable filing such complaints.The measure com...

CHAIRMAN of the Integrity Commission retired Justice Seymour Panton staunchly defended Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis's membership on the commission, dismissing arguments that it is a conflict of interest."That is not so. There has...

THE Integrity Commission (IC) says it is not backing down from its position that the gag clause in the legislation which governs its operations be removed to allow it to announce and comment on ongoing investigations.Arguing that a gag ...

Having approved the provisions of the National Identification and Registration Act (NIRA) after a lengthy debate last Friday, the Senate will now refocus on the issues of the latest states of emergency (SOEs) which were approved in the ...

SEVERAL Jamaicans, particularly those at the policy level, failing to make the link between violence against women and the spread of HIV/AIDS has led to calls for emergency action by the island's leading non-governmental organisation tr...

JOY Crawford, co-founder and executive director of the female support group Eve for Life, is urging the Government to begin to view violence against Jamaica's women and girls as a pandemic and treat it similar to how it has approached C...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Even as three leading schools here mobilised students for a COVID-19 vaccination blitz hosted by the Jamaica National (JN) Foundation yesterday, one principal complained about the undermining effect of vaccine h...

THE police investigator regarded as a linchpin witness in the prosecution's case against 33 alleged members of the notorious St Catherine-based Klansman gang now on trial, yesterday listed 13 scene of crime locations where detectives ha...

Designer Tamia Carey (centre) is flanked by current JAMPRO President Diane Edwards (left), and former President Pat Francis for the official ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the launch of the Tamia Carey Shoe Collection. The ceremony too...

Today is the 329th day of 2021. There are 36 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1999: Five-year-old Elian Gonzalez is rescued at sea after a boat capsizes during a voyage from Cuba, killing his mother and 10 others. Elian is turned ...

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) - Three white men were found guilty of murder yesterday for shooting dead an African American man after chasing him in their pickup trucks, following a racially-charged trial in the southern US state of G...

Member of Parliament (MP) for St Catherine North West Hugh Graham has assured residents of the Orangefield community in his constituency that the National Water Commission (NWC) has committed to completing improvement works to their wa...

MINISTER of Tourism Edmund Bartlett says he is very encouraged by the planned start of flights between Sweden and Jamaica later next year. VING, operated by Sunclass Airlines, will run direct flights between Stockholm, Sweden and Monteg...

THE increasingly worried relatives and friends of missing 25-year-old Leaford "Chubby" Mighty, a resident of Drewsland, St Andrew, will have to wait a little longer to find out if the body of a male found in a barrel in St Mary on Novem...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Dancehall artiste Xklusive, who recently donated much-needed supplies to students of his alma mater, Clydesdale Primary in St Ann, plans to make an even bigger impact next year. "I still have a lot of masks at home a...

FOR almost two months not even a drop of water has run through the household taps of scores of residents in some communities in St Andrew West Rural.These include Padmore District and Rock Hall, where residents have been struggling dail...

A: There are four types of documentation you will need to bring with you to your immigrant visa interview: identification, civil, financial, and relationship.IdentificationA valid, unexpired passport (good for at least six months beyond...

Dear Mr Brown,I heard that ICCRC is no longer regulating professional immigration consultants. Why is it being replaced?- IHDear IH,As of yesterday, the new regulator of Immigration Consultants in Canada is the College of Immigration an...

A man died yesterday afternoon after the motorcycle he was driving collided with another motorbike on Chisholm Avenue, St Andrew.The identity of the dead man was not ascertained up to press time; however, a man who who gave his name as ...

Prosecutors in the trial of the 33 alleged members of the Klansman gang were yesterday, for the second day in a row, railroaded in their attempt to have several pieces of evidence authenticated and entered as exhibits into the court's r...

The head of the teachers' union yesterday rejected the notion that educators are greedy and unreasonable as he equated the Government's four per cent wage offer to a show of pity for professionals who deserve to be properly compensated...

Former Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips says the version of the Westminster parliamentary democracy which Jamaica inherited is outdated, and ways must now be devised to ramp up and enhance the role of the legislature to, among other ...

Member of Parliament for St Andrew East Central and former Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips says the condition of life of the average Jamaican has not been substantially and fundamentally transformed despite the efforts of administr...

Government is being accused by chairman of the Jamaica Police Federation Corporal Rohan James of playing with the national security by refusing to pay salaries owed to rank and file members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force for overtime...

Today is the 328th day of 2021. There are 37 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2005: In a potential blow to Caribbean markets, the European Union agrees on a major overhaul of its sugar subsidy programme, cutting prices by 36 per c...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) yesterday gave credit to a new unit in its coast guard for a $1.1-billion cocaine bust off the coast of Black River on Monday night that resulted in three men being arrested.Th...

The Jamaica Labour Party vice-chairman for the St Catherine North Western constituency Mr Millholland Barker has taken flak from Jamaica Observer readers for saying that President of the People's National Party (PNP) Mark Golding will h...