Today is the 334th day of 2021. There are 31 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2000: South and North Korean relatives, separated for half a century, are reunited in the North Korean capital Pyongyang. OTHER EVENTS1652: Dutch defea...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Taking an act-now-ask-questions-later approach, countries around the world slammed their doors shut again to try to keep the new Omicron variant at bay yesterday as more cases of the mutant coronavirus emerged a...

Jamaica continues to shine brightly among the countries of the world and all because of the talent, skill, prowess, and reputation of many Jamaicans who have impacted and inspired people globally.Dr Dawkins Brown is one such person. He ...

A local medical school official has charged that 85 per cent of Jamaica's trained nurses migrate after completing their training and the situation has been made worse by the novel coronavirus pandemic.Executive dean at Caribbean School ...

Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Prime Minister Andrew Holness is in no rush to head to the polls despite his confidence that his party would sweep the next local government elections.The election ought to be held no later than...

Under pressure over questions surrounding a controversial contract at the Clarendon Alumina Production (CAP), Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) chairman and Minister of Transport and Mining Robert Montague yesterday downplayed the significanc...

Former prime minister and once leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Bruce Golding, has warned party supporters about the danger of them being involved in any corrupt activities.In a thought-provoking address to the JLP's 78th annua...

Two women grab a ride on a bike taxi near the Clarendon/Manchester border last week.(Photo: Karl Mclarty)

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Despite 4,328 cases of serious crimes reported since the start of this year, Minister of National Security Horace Chang is confident that the Andrew Holness-led Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Administration is compet...

Today is the 333rd day of 2021. There are 32 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1961: Enos the chimp is launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbits Earth twice before returning.OTHER EVENTS1580: ...

SUNDAY afternoons would usually see 14-year-old Omar McIntosh in his backyard doing chores but thanks to procrastination and his mother letting him off the hook, he cheated death.At approximately 12:10 yesterday afternoon the driver of ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says the health sector must shift its focus to include other critical areas which have been cast in the shadows due to the attention being given to the country's COVID-19 re...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) - On a rainy night in Hong Kong in 1997, Prince Charles read a message from his mother Queen Elizabeth II, as Britain handed back sovereignty of the territory to China after more than 150 years of UK rule.To...

BRAZZAVILLE, Congo (AFP) - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Africa yesterday urged countries to follow the science rather than imposing flight bans in a bid to contain the new Omicron novel coronavirus variant."With th...

PRETORIA, South Africa (AFP) - A South African doctor who raised the alarm over Omicron said yesterday dozens of her patients suspected of having the new variant had only shown mild symptoms and recovered fully without hospitalisation.A...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - For decades students and teachers of the Fullerswood Primary and Infant School, about 30 minutes drive south-west of here, had to contend with stray cattle and other animals invading the open corridors of the ...

VENDORS in the Spalding and May Pen markets in Clarendon are pleading with the Clarendon Municipal Corporation (CMC) to address their selling space, the improper drainage system that causes major flooding in the facilities and results i...

Goosebumps covered all who watched as Gilonie Merchant opened her eyes to see her wish granted- a car.Merchant, a patient care attendant at the National Chest Hospital, was surprised during her shift last Friday morning, by National Com...

A life-sized rotating trophy titled We Did It was enough to lead Southern Parks and Markets (SPM) to the top prize in the annual Waste to Art Competition staged by the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA)The winners from SP...

WARDS of the State aged 18 and older, who no longer qualify for traditional State care, are set to benefit from an improved transitioning experience.This was made possible by a multi-year partnership between the Child Protection and Fam...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny - Using his own challenges to highlight the severe impact the novel coronavirus pandemic is having on the country's young people, deputy youth mayor of Clarendon Denver Smith has called on the Government to give great...

Almost 270,000 more people have left Jamaica, in comparison those who have chosen to return, and foreigners who choose to move to the island over an 18-year period.According to data provided by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (Sta...

Policewoman Harviette Donaldson went home after her shift on the night of Thursday, October 14 and immediately learned that her nine-year-old neighbour was abducted from their Bath, St Thomas, community.Before Donaldson could even react...

THE Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) is reporting an increase in new HIV cases among youngsters under 24 years who access the entity's treatment sites.JASL, the country's main advocacy group in the fight against HIV, told reporters ...

More concerns over the chain of custody of the second of two firearms, along with 32 rounds of ammunition taken from accused Klansman gangsters prevented the items from being admitted into evidence Friday in the ongoing trial of 33 alle...

Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) President Winston Smith is asserting that had the Government answered the call to provide educators with technological devices years before the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic, online teaching...

Police had counted the number of wounds in the heinous November 8 stabbing incident of a woman by her jealous ex-lover as 20. Now, make that 30.The medical report confirmed that Nalia Dennis, now 21, who is miraculously alive to talk a...

Latoya Dyer wears a smile today that you would not have seen a few weeks ago. That's because she knows her nine-year-old daughter is now safe and sound.But occasionally, her joy fades as Davian Bryan, the man who is accused of abductin...

Mark Golding's skin, and a horrible manTHERE is good reason for Milholland Barker's two losses in local government elections - he clearly lacks a brain.For how else can you explain what would have driven the Jamaica Labour Party officia...

ONLINE shopping is gradually becoming more popular in Jamaica, and with the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic, many local retailers have been forced to consider providing the option to their customers. "There's no denying that if ...

Criminologist Dr Jason McKay prefers the imposition of a national state of emergency (SOE) instead of concentrating the anti-crime activity on geographical regions.McKay, who is also a Sunday Observer columnist, said that such a move wo...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny - Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie says one of the conditions being mulled for the restart of admitting new indigents into infirmaries is that they must be fully vaccinated.The ban on admission at infirmarie...

Twenty years ago, a Jamaican doctor picked up the habit of smoking cigarettes. It didn't take him long to decide that he needed to quit. "It was not very hardcore but I did realise that it was affecting my health so I slowed down, but I...

FOR World AIDS Day, which will be celebrated on December 1, UNAIDS is highlighting the urgent need to end the inequalities that drive AIDS and other pandemics around the world.Without bold action against inequalities, the world risks mi...

HUMAN immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and HIV/AIDS can lead to certain dental symptoms.Symptoms such as bleeding gums, fungal and candida (yeast) infection and herpes sores...

THE updated UNAIDS targets for 2025 (95-95-95) aim for 95 per cent of those living with HIV to know their status, 95 per cent of those who know their status to be on treatment and 95 per cent of those on treatment to be virally suppress...

HARTFORD, Westmoreland - Even as one community in this western parish grappled with Thursday night's attack that left a teenager dead and injured three others, including a toddler, an unidentified motorcyclist was shot dead by another r...

Security guards employed at Shalk Electronic Security Company are unhappy with what they say is the manner in which they are treated by their managers, whom they described as "dismissive" when they complain of late pay or being underpai...

Christina Blake has always had plans to pursue law at a United Kingdom-based university. However, she did not expect that she would be afforded that opportunity until at least another three years.Without even applying for the programme,...

Securing a scholarship was Kevon Waller's only shot at tertiary education due to financial struggles that stemmed from as early as primary school. He applied for a Chinese Government scholarship to study nursing and was shortlisted.But ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Supreme Ventures Limited (SVL) officially opened a multimillion-dollar flagship store at Fairview Shopping Centre in this western Jamaica city last week.It is the gaming company's second of its kind super gaming ...

World Health Organization's (WHO) latest HIV Drug Resistance Report gives an in-depth picture of the extent to which drug resistance is growing, and the steps that countries are taking to ensure people will receive effective medicine to...

THE dynamic and expansive nature of the Internet makes it easier for consumers of information and services to communicate and do business. This rapidly evolving landscape has stimulated a growing demand for Internet-enabled technologica...

SPALDING, Clarendon - She credits her longevity and daily blessing to the Lord, spanning 100 years filled with immense spiritual reward as a Christian.Dorcas McPherson, affectionately called "Mother Mac", born in Alston (north-west Clar...

EVERY person has the right to a life that is free from ageism, said the World Health Organization (WHO)."Throughout the ages, change-makers around the world joined forces to spread the message, and we're inspired by what we've been able...

LONDON (AP) - The UK tightened up rules Saturday on mask-wearing and on testing of international arrivals after finding two cases of the new potentially more contagious Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus that was identified just a...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Worried scientists in South Africa are scrambling to combat the lightning spread across the country of the new and highly transmissible Omicron novel coronavirus variant as the world grapples with its emergence. In t...

That all love's pleasureShall not match his woe.It shall be fickle, false, and full of fraud.Bud and be blasted in a breathing-whileThe bottom poison, and the top o'erstraw'd.- ShakespeareThere are so many different types of fraud, and ...

The Senate resumed sitting yesterday in a much-improved atmosphere following Thursday night's rancour over a vote to extend the existing states of emergency. But the session was brief, in keeping with a long-standing political protocol...

Residents of some Corporate Area communities in which states of emergency (SOEs) are in force yesterday gave mixed views on the security measure.While some said they saw no benefit to the SOEs, others told the Jamaica Observer that the...