Desnoes & Geddes Foundation on Monday presented 10 tablets to St Mary's College to help students with online learning. The presentation was made at the school in Above Rocks, St Catherine."We are very appreciative of this donation ...

Northern Caribbean University (NCU) has congratulated faculty member Professor Mark Harris on being awarded the silver Musgrave Medal for outstanding merit in the field of science by the council of the Institute of Jamaica.Harris is pr...

Today is the 153rd day of 2021. There are 212 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1953: Queen Elizabeth II of Britain is crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI. OTHER EVENTS1815: Napole...

MINISTER of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton says the recently tabled tobacco regulations seek to advance the country's efforts at implementing demand and supply reduction initiatives.The regulations target tobacco products to ...

UNITED NATIONS (CMC) - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned that the number of severely malnourished children under the age of five in Haiti could more than double this year.UNICEF also warned that some of these childr...

Dear Mr Brown:I would like to apply for a visitor's visa. However, I heard that the Canadian High Commission is not processing them now because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Also, I want to know if a single-entry or multiple-entry ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - Home Affairs Minister Wilfred Abrahams has criticised a musical video featuring two of the island's prominent entertainers with pro-gangster explicit lyrics that deliver death threats to gangland informants....

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) - Rivers around the biggest city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest have swelled to levels unseen in over a century of record-keeping, according to data published yesterday by Manaus's port authorities, straining a societ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - In April, the Joe Biden Administration announced plans to share millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses with the world by the end of June. Five weeks later, nations around the globe are still waiting - wi...

Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) President Richard Pandohie wants the Government to eradicate what appears to be a double standard in the enforcement of COVID-19 safety protocols across the island.He made the call ...

The sister of the man who is believed to have committed suicide at the Elletson Road Police Station in Kingston yesterday said her brother had signalled his intention to members of the family. "One a mi sister tell mi say him say 'A di...

A number of primary school teachers yesterday expressed support for the postponement of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) Performance Task examinations for grade four and five pupils, while others were concerned about the lengthy period of...

American business services company specialising in customer engagement and business performance, Concentrix Corporation, yesterday announced that it will have more than 1,000 vacancies in Jamaica over the next six months and has invite...

THE push by the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) to get Jamaicans to dispose their garbage in containers received a boost yesterday with the signing of an agreement for just more than $1.5 million that will see thousan...

A total of 10 tablets were Sunday handed to children in communities near Waltham Park Church of God, as part of the ministry's outreach programme. The tablets were donated by church members from the diaspora in the United States, in add...

A digital device rental scheme, mandatory homework sessions at schools, supervised by teachers, as well as master teachers giving lectures or classes, are among suggestions made by prominent Queen's Counsel Walter Scott as strategies th...

Andrea Gordon, the former National Commercial Bank (NCB) executive who will spend just under eight years in prison for siphoning off $34 million from that entity, is apologising to her two adult children who say they are still caught u...

JAMAICA'S readiness for the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season should be revealed today by Prime Minister Andrew Holness as the island prepares for a season which is projected to be busier than normal, but not as crazy as 2020's record-shat...

In celebration of Child Month 2021, the National Baking Company Foundation and the Nestle Foundation have joined forces to make a donation of food, learning, and play items to the Wortley Home for Girls and the Maxfield Park Children's...

Today is the 152nd day of 2021. There are 213 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2002: Queen Elizabeth II opens Buckingham Palace to 12,000 guests for a four-day national party in celebration of her 50 years on the throne. OTHER EV...

NAIN, St Elizabeth - Stevon Sheriffe is walking on air.The youthful principal of Nain High School, near the closed bauxite/alumina plant of JISCO Alpart, has been on a high for several weeks since the National Water Commission (NWC) co...

ORGANISATIONS are at risk from a toxic combination of increased exposure to cyberattacks and widespread employee reluctance to report potential security incidents, arising from the shift to work from home, a study commissioned by Japane...

Global health and wellness food company Nestlé has announced an expansion of its parental leave for staff, moving the benefit from 14 fully paid weeks to 18.This updated benefit is aligned to the objectives of the global Nestlé Paren...

MINISTER with responsibility for climate change Pearnel Charles Jr is calling for governments to develop policy and enact legislation for socially vulnerable and indigenous groups across the world as a means of addressing the challenges...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has upped the ante, increasing her offer to US$30 million - from the previous US$20 million - to honour the black founder of the city, but sticking to her guns in not naming the iconic Lake Shore Drive (LSD)...

BERN, Switzerland (AP) - More than one-third of the world's heat deaths each year are due directly to global warming, according to the latest study to calculate the human cost of climate change.But scientists say that's only a sliver of...

PEPLO, Greece (AP) - As the world begins to travel again Europe is sending migrants a loud message: Stay away! Greek border police are firing bursts of deafening noise from an armoured truck over the frontier into Turkey. Mounted on the...

OKLAHOMA, United States (AP) - Hundreds gathered yesterday for an interfaith service dedicating a prayer wall outside historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church in Tulsa's Greenwood neighbourhood, on the centennial of the first ...

PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) Member of Parliament Lisa Hanna has broken her long silence to chastise members of her party whom she accused of "bullying and salacious accusations" against her.Hanna, the PNP spokeswoman for foreign affai...

THE novel coronavirus pandemic has wiped out the investments of a number of people, mainly women, who bought buses to transport children to and from school. Things were going well. Some drivers were making several trips as parents warme...

It's smooth sailing for Jamaica under a little-known 20-year-old United States Coast Guard programme called Quality Shipping for the 21st Century (QUALSHIP 21), which identifies high-quality ships from different countries and provides i...

Jamaican Sashauna Perkins has beaten off the challenge of 40 other hopefuls to win a coveted full £20,000 scholarship to study at Swansea University in the United Kingdom, the institution has announced.The scholarship for the master i...

Jamaican Ephraim Martin and his Black Heroes Matter (BHM) coalition ran into a setback last Wednesday when the Chicago City Council blocked a vote to rename the iconic Lake Shore Drive (LSD) after its black founder Jean Baptiste Pointe ...

SOME public transport operators believe they are being unfairly targeted and abused by members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), but say relations with the Transport Authority has improved.Speaking with the Jamaica Observer, head...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Prior to last Thursday's walk-through by the security forces, political representatives and others in the community of Comfort, the area was not living up to its name following two shooting incidents, one of whi...

THE Paint the City project will continue across communities in downtown Kingston this year to colour graffiti-stained walls and pump life into glum and despondent areas in an effort to transform the city.The Kingston and St Andrew Munic...

A slap in the face of every abused child is how the daughter of a man who sexually violated her when she was a teenager has described the Appeal Court's decision to reduce his life sentence for incest to 15 years.Shaken by the judgement...

THE Government's 'one laptop or tablet per child initiative' has received a further boost with the acquisition of 12 computer tablets, courtesy of Bresheh Limited.The devices, along with protective cases, were handed over to the Ministr...

THE usual festivities surrounding Teacher's Day were absent due to the novel coronavirus pandemic restrictions but that did not deter Sandals South Coast from celebrating teachers in unique ways.Throughout the month of May, the resort p...

A Jamaican is leading the technical team at an American satellite service company that will make the World Wide Web truly worldwide, by making connectivity possible from even the most remote parts of the world whether land, sea or air.D...

THE Jamaica Pegasus hotel ballroom was transformed into a place of thanksgiving when Sagicor Group Jamaica hosted its 50th anniversary church service, which was streamed live yesterday.The service was the culminating event for a year-lo...

THE Jamaica Observer can confirm that GraceKennedy (GK) is the local company that will partner with Unit Trust Corporation (UTC) out of Trinidad and Tobago on its entry into the fiercely competitive local unit trust and mutual funds mar...

CARIBBEAN Examinations Council (CXC) Registrar and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Wayne Wesley says the entity will give further consideration to the novel coronavirus pandemic's impact on students sitting external exams during the gr...

Today is the 151st day of 2021. There are 214 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2003: Air France's Concorde returned to Paris in a final commercial flight.OTHER EVENTS1043: Lady Godiva rides naked through the market square in Coven...

GOSHEN, St Elizabeth - The police say they are awaiting an autopsy report to determine the circumstances surrounding the death of 50-year-old police sergeant Lincent Smith.Smith's decomposing body was found in a Toyota Tacoma motor truc...

FLORIDA, United States (AP) - Two people died and an estimated 20 to 25 people were injured by gunfire in a shooting outside a banquet hall in South Florida, police said.The gunfire erupted early Sunday at the El Mula Banquet Hall in no...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) - The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico's "hugs, not bullets" policy with a policy of its own: The cartel kidnapped several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, t...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced yesterday that his country will return to stricter lockdown measures in the face of a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases that indicate the virus is "surging agai...

BOSTON, United States (AP) - A pair of military vets navigate the hilly, meandering paths in a historic cemetery in Boston searching out soldiers' graves and planting American flags in front of them.About 10 miles away, scores of other ...

JERUSALEM, Israel (AP) - The head of a small hard-line party yesterday said he would try to form a unity Government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's opponents, taking a major step toward ending the 12-year rule of the Israeli le...