The Government is being urged to work with the private sector to arrange a staggering of work hours across Jamaica as one measure to reduce the spread of COVID-19.Opposition Senator Damion Crawford made the call recently during an inte...

The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) and the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) have pointed to critical services which will have to be expanded for Portmore as the Government contemplates parish status for the m...

OPPOSITION Senator Damion Crawford is challenging the Government's approach to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.In a question and answer session with the Jamaica Observer this week, Crawford said while he supports some of the...

Vinnate Hall says she wanted to share her COVID-19 experience in the hope that it will help people who are still not taking the virus seriously to start doing so right away. Coronavirus, she warns, is not something to trifle with. Here ...

Financial difficulties spawned by the novel coronavirus pandemic have pushed two funeral homes to collaborate on offering payment plans for burials which, they say, has resulted in increased business.In fact, the initiative has proven ...

Amid the novel coronavirus pandemic at least six major tourism players have invested near US$2 billion (approximately $300 billion) in new developments spanning the next two years, Ed Bartlett stated this week."Our investment climate is...

BUSY as usual, the anti-vaxxers are trying to stir up hysteria about blood clots suspected to be linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine, in the same way they did not wait for a post-mortem on senior journalist Michael Sharpe before spreading...

READER Brenton Baldwin describes himself as a "vaccine veteran", saying he has the scars on his arm to prove that he has been vaccinated over and over. He sent covid capers a photo as evidence."I am in my 70s now and I am very healthy. ...

Today is the 113th day of 2021. There are 252 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1985: The Coca-Cola Co announces it is changing the secret formula for Coke. Negative public reaction forces the company to resume selling the original...

POTSDAM, St Elizabeth - Elias Azan has been lauded for his vision and dedication to Munro College, his alma mater, where he was board chairman up to the time of his passing on Wednesday.Azan, who was 65, had tested positive for COVID-19...

CALGARY, CANADA - Southeast Hope Assembly (SEHA), a Jamaican church in Calgary, has made a donation of clothing, food items, water and toiletries to relief efforts in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), amidst continued eruption of La ...

A group of tertiary students who received the COVID-19 vaccine in the recent vaccination blitz are encouraging other young people to take the jab.Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton, on his Instagram account, said he was ...

Dr Christopher Tufton, the health minister, says that based on the health ministry's epidemiological assessment, there has been some movement in the right direction concerning the novel coronavirus pandemic."Our reproductive rate over t...

MINISTER of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton on Wednesday condemned verbal attacks on the country's health-care workers.In a statement to the House of Representatives, Dr Tufton said that it was necessary to advise the public a...

DEPUTY registrar at the National Children's Registry of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) Warren Thompson is encouraging self-reporting by children who are victims of abuse."We want to encourage children to self-re...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - The leaders of Russia and China put aside their raw-worded disputes with US President Joe Biden on Thursday long enough to pledge international cooperation on cutting climate-wrecking coal and petrol...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC) - Foreign ministers of the 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom) and the US State Department on Wednesday agreed to work together on a number of issues of mutual interest.A Caricom statement, issued following...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Carissa Etienne said Wednesday that misinformation is one of the most serious threats to public health and it is most damaging when it fuel...

 MINNESOTA, United States (AP) - Derek Chauvin is already locked away in Minnesota's only maximum-security prison, held in a single cell for his own safety. But it will be two months before the former Minneapolis police officer learns ...

MINNESOTA, United States (AP) - Daunte Wright, the young black man shot by an officer during a traffic stop in suburban Minneapolis, was not "just some kid with an air freshener," but a "prince" whose life ended too soon at the hands of...

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - Russia's defence minister yesterday ordered troops back to their permanent bases following massive drills amid tensions with Ukraine, but said they should leave their weapons behind in western Russia for another ex...

THE joint select committee (JSC) of Parliament reviewing the Cybercrimes Act, 2015, has extended the deadline for submissions by two weeks due a slow response.Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Daryl Vaz informed the committee a...

SUPREME Court Judge Justice Leighton Pusey will today hear arguments from prosecutors why he should entertain a nolle prosequi being entered by the director of public prosecutions to discontinue criminal proceedings against the seven in...

Sandals Foundation will today continue its quest to plant 10,000 trees by June 2022, intensifying its Caribbean conservation efforts as the world observes Earth Day.The effort forms part of a wider Caribbean tree- planting project coor...

Government and Opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) clashed yesterday over a statement from Justice Minister Delroy Chuck which called for openness in dealing with the trial related to the 15-year-old Trafigura donation scandal."Fift...

THERE were mixed feelings among 27 Jamaican citizens and residents who had been stranded in the United Kingdom (UK) since December due to a ban on flights from that nation following discovery of a more infectious strain of the novel cor...

JAMAICA'S political directorate and the main entity which represents media workers, the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ), were beaming yesterday after the country was described as "almost flawless" in the 2021 World Press Freedom Inde...

United States Chargé d'Affaires John McIntyre (left) and Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change Pearnel Charles Jr (second right), along with their families, plant two trees at the lawns of the embassy in St...

THE cash-strapped Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), which is faced with a net operating loss of some $8 billion this year, appears to be getting a handle on its overtime expenses - a major expense. Last July, Auditor General Pamela ...

Today is the 112th day of 2021. There are 253 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHGLIGHT1978: The One Love Peace Concert is held at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica. The aim was to bring together Kingston's politically divided co...

MINISTER of Tourism Edmund Bartlett says his ministry will be focusing on reducing instances of visitor harassment and poor solid waste management practices during the post-COVID-19 period."We will be placing special focus on reducing i...

OPPOSITION spokesperson on foreign affairs and foreign trade Lisa Hanna is urging the Government to join hands with the Opposition and the private sector to seek growth solutions by pushing a foreign policy which focuses on economic dev...

MONTEGO BAY St James - The Irwin High School fraternity has been mourning the death of seventh grade student Hemmecia Greenwood, who perished in a fire that destroyed her grandparents' home at Potosi Drive in John's Hall, Monday afterno...

NEW YORK, United States (CMC) - In a case that gripped global attention, Caribbean and other elected officials have welcomed Tuesday's conviction of white former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, in the May 25, 2020 death of bl...

A total of 315 farmers from 11 districts in St Thomas and St Andrew have benefited from irrigation equipment and techniques to boost crop production under the Irrigation Systems Consultancy Project.The consultancy was executed through a...

BUSINESS relationship and sales manager at JN Bank, Dr Ransford Davidson, says the new work-from-home model, which has been adapted by several organisations across Jamaica due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, is the future of work.Dav...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Trelawny police say they have been working with residents to target criminals seeking refuge in the parish. In an interview with JIS News, head of the Trelawny police, Superintendent Carlos Russell, said resi...

WASHINGTON, DC, United Sates (AP) - President Joe Biden is convening a coalition of the willing, the unwilling, the desperate-for-help and the avid-for-money for a global summit Thursday aimed at rallying the world's worst polluters to ...

THE 2021 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) shows that journalism, the main vaccine against disinformation, is completely or partly blocked in 73 per cent of the 180 countries ranked by the organisatio...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, April 22, 2021: Stable, determined and creative, the world is your oyster as you embrace all possibilities. This year, you make even a humdrum job innovative and interesting. Your balance sheet continues to ...

COMING on the heels of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clearing people who are fully vaccinated for travel, and inoculation programmes picking up steam in major markets, a number of countries are starting to welcome to...

PERMANENT secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security Colette Roberts Risden yesterday pointed to a runaway oversight system in the relationship between the National Insurance Fund (NIF) and its resort management company (NI...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - President Joe Biden said yesterday the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd "can be a giant step forward" for the nation in the fight against s...

VETERAN Jamaican journalist Michael Sharpe was yesterday remembered as one who was fearless while on the job and who was never afraid to give young people a shot at success in journalism.Sharpe, who spent close to 40 years in the profes...

MINNEAPOLIS, United States (AFP) - "Guilty!" As the jury's murder conviction against white ex-policeman Derek Chauvin was relayed on a loudspeaker yesterday, the anxious crowd in front of the Minneapolis courthouse erupted in joy and ex...

Member of Parliament for Westmoreland Central George Wright, who has been embroiled in controversy regarding a video showing a man beating a woman, has been granted leave of absence from the House of Representatives pending a conclusion...

AFTER nearly 17 years of trying, Cabinet minister Everald Warmington says he welcomes the opportunity to grill the auditor general about her department's expenditure issues, as she has been doing to other government ministries, departme...

Q. I heard that there are currently no available appointments for regular tourist visas at the US Embassy. I've had a non-immigrant B1/B2 visa in the past, but it is expired. Is it still possible to get a visa?A. YES! The non-immigrant...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness is among two Caribbean heads of Government who have been invited to attend the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate which will take place from Thursday to Friday this week.United States President Joseph Biden,...

THE Caribbean Urological Association (CURA) says there isn't sufficient evidence and research to suggest that there is a clinical link between the novel coronavirus and erectile dysfunction (ED)."COVID-19 is a new infection, so you're n...