LIBNAH "Miss Lin" Graham has realised another of her long-time dreams: She finally got the chance to sit in the House of Representatives and hear her son deliver his maiden presentation in the sectoral debate.That moment arrived on Tues...

LOCAL party promoters lashed out at the Government on Thursday for failing to stop the staging of Mocha Fest, a series of parties hosted in Negril last week, which has since ended in controversy.The festival, which began on Monday, came...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Relatives are seeking answers after 37-year-old Sherita "Janice" Dennis, who was expecting her third child, died at the Mandeville Regional Hospital (MRH) Tuesday night after initially entering the Black Rive...

NEGRIL, Westmoreland - Stakeholders in Negril are shocked and angered by the controversial staging of Mocha Fest at Rick's Café in Negril last week, which was in clear breach of the Government's COVID-19 health and safety protocols.Sta...

AT the age of 11 she was raped by a man who believed that virgins could cure the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Today, she is married with two children and undetectable.But the journey to that status was not easy for this Westmorel...

SHE was told to spend time with her baby because the infant did not have much longer to live.Seven-week-old Tiziana Blake, who had spent much of her short life at Bustamante Hospital for Children, needed a ventilator.Her mother, Trishau...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Chukka Caribbean Adventures, Jamaica's largest attraction, with nearly 1,000 employees, says it rejects any notion that it has been violating or operating contrary to the country's Disaster Risk Management Act.Ch...

A Jamaican yellow-billed parrot examines its surroundings from the comfort of a tree before pushing off to conduct other business at Hope Gardens on Friday. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)

Two-year-old Nathane Hibbert holds on fiercely to a bell pepper (also called sweet pepper) while on a visit to the farmers' market last Friday on the grounds of the Ministry of Agriclture and Fisheries, Old Hope Road, in St Andrew. (Pho...

The matter that involves Dr Dayton CampbellThe dirt continues in what purports to be a defence in a civil matter by Karen Cross against Dr Dayton Campbell, the general secretary of the People's National Party (PNP). The matter has not y...

ASTHMATICS are being urged to refrain from using oral steroids, such as prednisone, as their first line of treatment, because the long-term effects outweigh the short-term relief. Speaking to the Jamaica Observer in an interview recentl...

The Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP) has noted with concern complaints that elderly citizens in rural communities have limited access to COVID-19 vaccination.Since they are aware of the shortage of health personnel to assis...

In celebration of Child Month 2021, quick service food giant Restaurants of Jamaica (ROJ) decided to give back to several of the nation's children through the gift of food.As part of the outpouring of love, ROJ, through their KFC and Pi...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The Jamaica Government is being urged by leading retailers to act in defence of the poorest consumers struggling to cope with soaring food prices. Distortions in the international supply chain flowing from the o...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - The St Elizabeth police are probing the death of a colleague whose body was found in a remote section of Goshen, east of here yesterday morning.At close to press time yesterday evening, police were yet to form...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green officially opened Rainforest Caribbean's new, state-of-the-art agro-processing facility in Kingston last Thursday.Rainforest Caribbean, a leading regional food supplier, has invested $60...

ROSE Miller, grants manager at the JN Foundation and head of the JN BeWi$e Financial Empower Programme, says the age-old adage, "health is wealth", is more than a cliché as financial mismanagement can seriously impact one's physical an...

PETERSFIELD, Westmoreland - Opposition Leader Mark Golding says he does not subscribe to claims by the Government that it was not aware of the Mocha Fest party which was staged at the Rick's Café in Negril on Thursday night in clear br...

ORGANISERS of the controversial party series, Mocha Fest, are blaming popular Negril hot spot Rick's Cafe for breaches of the country's COVID19 protocols at one of its events held on Thursday.The staging of the event triggered widesprea...

EVER wanted to have plastic surgery done but didn't want your circle of friends and acquaintances to know? How about having dreams of getting your breasts done and recovering on a beach a stone's throw from your hotel room?Not to worry ...

Former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister Derrick Smith ranks Edward Phillip George Seaga as the best political leader he had experienced in over 40 years in active politics.But, unlike most Jamaicans,...

AHEAD of tomorrow, which will be celebrated as World No Tobacco Day, Your Health Your Wealth selected 15 reasons from the World Health Organization's (WHO's) "More than 100 reasons to quit tobacco", for you to consider.According to the ...

POINTING out that diagnoses for multiple sclerosis (MS) are sometimes overlooked, one local doctor is insisting that there needs to be more awareness about the condition.Neurologist and medical director of Caribbean Neurology Pain and H...

FOUR years ago, what was supposed to be a typical day at the gym for Kai Clarke turned out to be anything but that."I was lifting a dumb-bell with both hands, then only one hand could lift it and the other hand couldn't, as it kept slip...

THE Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) has denied that it has cut the budget of May Pen Hospital in Clarendon, although the institution's acting Chief Executive Officer Eugena Clarke-James has said that its budget "was significan...

EVERY second person in the world is believed to hold ageist attitudes - leading to poorer physical and mental health and reduced quality of life for older people, costing societies billions of dollars each year, according to a United Na...

FAMILY members all have a shared responsibility to talk candidly with grandparents about online dangers, including scams that could cause them to lose everything that they've worked for. Early digital education is key, and it begins wit...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) - United Kingdom newspapers are reporting that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancée Carrie Symonds married Saturday in a small private ceremony in London.The Mail on Sunday and The Sun said the coupl...

Parting is such sweet sorrowThat I shall say,Goodnight til the morrow.- Shakespeare, Romeo and JulietWhen lovers part ways to go to foreign climes, there is always a mixed bag of emotions, fears, doubts, anticipation and sorrow. The pe...

Jamaicans yesterday reacted with disgust to the behaviour of Everald Warmington, the minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, who was seen in a video complaining of being disrespected by police of...

THE memorial service for Nattallie Miranda Dawkins - the Clarendon teacher who was abducted March 30 at her home in Four Paths and a body believed to be hers later found in Sandy Bay - will be held Saturday at 11:00 am.A family release ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Police here have listed one man as wanted and 23 others as persons of interest in relation to criminal activity in the community of Comfort near Royal Flat.The community has been on edge following two shootings ...

MOUNT SALEM, St James - Nicola Clarke, the woman who was doused with a flammable substance and set ablaze by a jealous spouse last week Wednesday, was airlifted to the United States late yesterday afternoon to receive reconstructive sur...

Gangsters in Kingston Central have reportedly issued death threats to politicians from the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and Opposition People's National Party (PNP) with one of the targets being told a few weeks ago that her name ...

People's National Party (PNP) executive members emerged from a more-than-two-hour meeting yesterday standing firmly behind embattled General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell."The party stands firm in support of our general secretary as we ...

TransJamaican Highway Ltd (TJH),developers of the east-west leg of Highway2000, is undertaking road resurfacing work onsections of the Portmore leg of the east-westhighway. Here workmen resurface a sectionof the heavily-used road last S...

Today is the 148th day of 2021. There are 217 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1929: The first all-colour talking picture, On with the Show! , produced by Warner Brothers, opens in New York. OTHE EVENTS1533: The archbishop of C...

Relatives and friends of Ambassador Anthony Johnson yesterday shared that, up to the time of his passing, he relentlessly embodied the motto of his alma mater, Kingston College - The brave may fall but never yield - in much the same way...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Following months of suffering from what they claimed was a shortage of cement, hardware operators in Jamaica's south-central parishes are now dealing with an increase in the prices of lumber and steel.The hardwa...

OPPOSITION spokesman on health and wellness Dr Morais Guy says the People's National Party is not pleased with the pace of construction at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St James, despite the assurances from the minister."Despite t...

His name rang from the podium and in every private conversation among the small gathering, walking distance from the beach where he swam as a child and in the shadow of Jamaica's leading tourist attraction, the beguiling Dunn's River Fa...

MINISTER of Transport and Mining Robert Montague says the Maritime Authority of Jamaica (MAJ) is "on the last lap" of privatisation of the country's ship registry."We continue to work with the Development Bank and the Enterprise Team to...

THE Registrar General's Department (RGD) said Friday that all its offices will resume regular business hours, effective Monday, May 31, 2021.Its head office at Twickenham Park in St Catherine will open from 6:30 am to 3:00 pm, whileregi...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Head of Police Area One, Assistant Commissioner Clifford Chambers says a lesson should be learnt from last week's arrest of an American citizen at New York's John F Kennedy International Airport after a handgun, ...

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) - The Dominican Government confirmed yesterday that Indian fugitive Mehul Choksi, who fled Antigua and Barbuda earlier this week, had arrived here illegally and could be sent back to the twin-island nation, amid r...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - A collaboration between the Government of Canada and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is being launched to boost countries' efforts to protect at-risk individuals from COVID-19 in Latin A...

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) - Scientists monitoring the La Soufriere volcano, where seismic activity has remained low for more than a month, Wednesday warned that people would not be allowed into the Red Zone "for the foreseeable" futu...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Viachka Krasulin said he was arrested and brutally beaten all over his body by police in Belarus for attending a rally in August 2020 that challenged the results of an election keeping authoritarian President A...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - Americans are going back to one of their favourite pastimes: store shopping.With more people getting vaccinated and dropping their face masks, retailers from Walmart to Macy's are seeing an eager return to...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, May 28, 2021: You are friendly, assertive and many of you are very stylish. You know how to make an impression. You are knowledgeable, versatile and multitalented, which allows you to pursue many different pat...