The man who kept Dr Jephthah Ford out of the political winners' enclosure in three general elections, Derrick Smith, last night paid tribute to his former opponent following his death yesterday.A well-known medical doctor, Ford, who re...

AS administration of the COVID-19 vaccine continues, the take-up among nurses has been slow.Dr Sandra Chambers, regional technical director in the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA), told the Jamaica Observer that while health...

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says work to develop a COVID-19 vaccine in Cuba has advanced to the phase three clinical trial stage.Speaking during a recent COVID-19 digital briefing, PAHO's Assistant Director Dr Jarbas Ba...

NEW YORK, USA - Jamaica could soon benefit from a US$10-million Diaspora crime fund which has just been proposed and warmly embraced by some of the main Jamaican groups here, to help slash the murder rate in their homeland.Jamaicans res...

Director of government, enterprise and IT solutions at C&W Business Jamaica Carol Robertson has underscored the importance of leadership and trust as essential to the success of work-from-home arrangements. She spoke recently at th...

Turmeric, a plant related to ginger, is grown in many Asian countries, as well as other tropical areas and is often touted for its medicinal properties in providing pain relief and anti-inflammatory benefits.The plant has been thrown m...

Photo 1: Members of the security forces patrol Princess Street in downtown Kingston yesterday.Photo 2: A security checkpoint along South Odeon Avenue in Half Way Tree yesterdayPhoto 3: A deserted Orange Street in Kingston yesterdayPho...

A petition calling for the legalisation of pepper spray on the Jamaica House Petition online portal gathered speed over the weekend surpassing the 15,000 mark required for petitions to be reviewed.The online appeal, which was launched o...

The new E-commerce National Delivery Solution (ENDS) platform has received mixed reviews from early registrants who participated in a pilot roll-out in Portmore, St Catherine, over the weekend.On one hand, the platform proved to be a li...

AS vaccination to prevent severe illness associated with COVID-19 continues, there are growing concerns about the management and documentation system of those who have already received the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.The conce...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Area One Police here said that Saturday night's fight between two homeless men in Montego Bay, which ended with one being fatally stabbed, was the only major incident to mar the first of the three weekend loc...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - There has been a strong take-up of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine by senior citizens 75 years and older in this south-central parish. Acting officer of health Dr Shonette Blair-Walters told the Jamaica Observe...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - When Sao Paulo city officials put out a call last month for 4,500 public school cleaning jobs, targeting Brazilian mothers affected by the raging pandemic, they were unprepared for the ensuing tsunami. More...

Tivoli Gardens resident Kevaughn Carr is still basking in pride after securing 15 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subjects and two in the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) last year.The 17-year-old Excel...

The novel coronavirus' economic impact is now being felt in the overseas work and travel programme as several placement agencies are having difficulty refunding fees to university students, since last year's disruption of the annual pro...

After vaccinating thousands of babies in her 36-year-long career as a public health nurse, 85-year-old Linnet Gardiner White will come to an awing full-circle moment when she receives her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on April 8. ...

TREASURE BEACH, St Elizabeth - Prominent south coast hotelier Jason Henzell is among those in the tourism industry looking forward to Phase II of the Government's vaccination programme, as he believes the sector is starting to see good ...

Dr Chang should manage Jamaica's COVID-19 effortsThe prime minister still has time to get things right, as far as Jamaica's novel coronavirus fight is concerned, because, let's face it...this disease will be around for much longer than ...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Friday denied rumours suggesting that he did not actually receive a dose of the Covishield-AstraZeneca vaccine in Kingston last Monday."The nurse was highly proficient in administering the shot. I didn'...

PARIS, France (AFP) - Several coronavirus variants with the potential to be more transmissible have caused global concern over whether existing vaccines will still protect the world from a virus that is constantly mutating.Here's what w...

Executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) Audley Gordon has rejected claims that it is to be blamed for the pile-up of garbage in several gullies across the Corporate Area.Responding to a story publishe...

For almost 10 years, Patrick Duncan lived in a rat-infested rusty shell of a motor car on 8th Street in the section of Arnett Gardens that residents call Mexico.For all that time people living in the gritty community were not happy wit...

A few weeks ago, a message popped up in the corner of my screen. "What do you think about people who have recently had COVID-19 getting the vaccine?" A friend of mine was eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine, but she had recently gotten over...

President of the Rotary Club of New Kingston Neville Graham (left) hands over the Gary Grant Vocational Award in the field of information technology to Douglas Halsall, executive chairman of Advanced Integrated Systems for his continued...

AS the prospect of death becomes more real with each passing day, Jamaica has lost great value to its human capital because of the coronavirus pandemic.It has been a litte over a year since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Ja...

A big question among parents and teachers is when their children will be vaccinated against COVID-19. Some have wondered whether the vaccine is even necessary for children.Dr James Wood, a paediatrician and assistant professor of paedia...

"No temptation has taken you except what is common to men. But God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but along with the temptation he will also make the way out in order for you to be able to endu...

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,My love is deep, the more I give to thee,The more I have,For both are infinite.- Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 2, 1Can you imagine hearing those vows spoken to you at your wedding? What profound and...

Shrubbery grows apace in the Sandy Gully near to the Spanish Town Road industrial complex which houses some of Jamaica's leading companies. Operators of businesses in the area have complained about the lack of gully cleaning, pile-up of...

Executive chairman of Supreme Ventures Gary Peart (third left) talks with executives of the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) during a tour of the intensive care unit. Supreme Ventures donated a mobile ultrasound unit to ass...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Saturday, March 27, 2021:Independent, spirited and temperamental, the fast-paced lifestyle you love may need to slow down just a little. This year, you pay attention to details that will serve you well on the professi...

The police have detained a 50-year-old man in connection with the death of 20-year-old Khanice Jackson, a St Andrew High School for Girls alumna and accountant clerk of Manchester Avenue, Independence City, in Portmore, St Catherine.Ja...

Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton says there could be a fallout in the schedule for the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to the island over the next month and a half, but is assuring that there are sufficient supplies o...

TO combat the spike in phishing scams, Digicel is stepping up its efforts to block bogus online offers to its customers. The company is also educating customers about how to spot fake, unsolicited offers for them to win cash or other pr...

With many university students at risk of having to pause, or completely stop pursuing their degree when the novel coronavirus pandemic hit last year, the National Baking Company Foundation recognised the challenges and moved quickly to ...

Owners and operators of gaming machines and prescribed premises are being reminded by the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) to renew their licences by April 1, 2021.Application forms are available on the BGLC website at ww...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Like many other low-income earners, Orandy Brown is worried about how he will support his family amid tighter restrictions including three-successive weekend lockdowns imposed by the Government to curb the sprea...

THE go-to home remedy for treating ailments in Jamaica is often a cup of tea brewed by grandparents.It is often scoffed at by medical personnel, who charge that only herbs scientifically proven to cure or help in the management of illne...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Shoppers across western Jamaica stocked up on a wide range of grocery items Friday afternoon in preparation for the weekend lockdown announced by Prime Minister Andrew Holness. The lockdown was among a raft of ne...

A Jamaican man who in 2019 pleaded guilty to distributing sexually explicit photos and video footage of his former girlfriend will be going to prison despite a partly successful appeal.Donovan Powell committed the act on American televi...

As the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to highlight the need for increased digitalisation, more local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the manufacturing and service sectors are showing an increased level of interest...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - The sentencing of 26-year-old Jermaine Miller of Hopeton in Manchester, who had previously pleaded guilty to killing his former girlfriend, 27-year-old Nevia Sinclair, at her parents' home on January 12 last ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The Government is being pinned against the ropes by rising COVID-19 cases that have exhausted bed spaces on COVID wards at four of the five hospitals in the southern region and India's decision to temporarily ha...

TWO weeks before Phillip Gibson, a Christian father of two, was killed he called his younger brother and told him to be careful in Tivoli Gardens, a tough community in west Kingston.So, when his family learnt of Phillip's own death on W...

THE parliamentary committee contemplating the proposed sexual harassment legislation on Wednesday found itself hung on the question of whether the tribunal which will be appointed to hear complaints brought by victims should be empowere...

When four-year-old Kelecia Gayle made a public appeal for a "little" house last September, people thought she was referring to a doll-house.However, Sasha-lee Lounds, founder of Right to Life Foundation, after visiting Kelecia, her two...

Leon Hines, the 23-year-old driver of the getaway car in the January 31, 2021 murder of banker Andrea Lowe-Garwood at a church in Trelawny, is a Cornwall College graduate who has six Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subj...

Today is the 85th day of 2021. There are 280 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1997: The bodies of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate techno-religious cult, who committed suicide, are found inside a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif...

CHIEF public health inspector for St Elizabeth Everod Lewis says the Aedes aegypti mosquito population in the parish has been reduced to seven per cent as vector control measures continue in a bid to counter the spread of dengue fever.S...

THE Legal Aid Council (LAC) is reiterating its commitment to providing legal representation, especially to persons incarcerated who are mentally ill.This forms part of the mandate of the council which was established to administer an ef...