Derrick Price is happy he escaped with his life from a deadly motor vehicle crash on April 12 on the PJ Patterson Highway in St Catherine.But with constant pain in different parts of his body and the inability since then to fulfill his ...

Nationally, Eugene Kelly's name is not one that would readily resonate among the masses. But it would always echo within People's National Party (PNP) quarters.He, a history and marketing graduate at the tertiary level, and certified re...

At 40, Eugene Kelly will become the youngest vice-president among the four nominated in the Opposition People's National Party when he is ratified at the organisation's annual conference in September.The councillor for the Whitfield Tow...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - In a political career spanning 15 years, Valenton (Val) Wint has thrice contested parliamentary elections on behalf of the People's National Party (PNP), seeking, as he puts it, to represent the "poor, disposs...

THERE is an ongoing feud between Bowla's Car Rentals and the National Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of Jamaica regarding the recall of a loan not in arrears with a maturity date of 2025.Principal of Bowla's Car Rentals Pauline Bowla Andrade...

AT just 23 years old, Paul Hyman is the financial planning and analysis and internal control manager at Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited.Two years before, he was a senior accountant at KPMG Chartered Accountants. And at 20 he made his...

SINCE 2015 over 6,000 children between ages 12 and 18 have been hauled before the courts for serious crimes, data from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) have revealed.The data, which reflects the period 2015 to April 2021, show that ...

Entering the Riverton Meadows community you are met with desperate calls from hustlers seeking a sale on items scrimmaged from the dump.The further in you get, the brighter the picture of poverty becomes, with sights of board houses, pe...

This firefighter's job is over, as he wallks past the administrative building of the Hydel Group of Schools at Ferry, St Catherine that caught fire Thursday morning. The blaze caused damage estimated at $50 million. (Photo: Naphtali Jun...

The Wild West on Spanish Town RoadLast Tuesday evening's 'Wild West' incident along Spanish Town Road in Kingston underlines how far we are from living in peace, comfort and style in this country.Gunmen from nearby Tivoli Gardens, the p...

WITH global attention, at least over the past 15 months, focused on the response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, other health issues have seemingly taken a back seat.Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which accounts for seven of the w...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information is against the idea of secondary schools requesting fees to process transfers for students. "The ministry would like to make it clear that there should be no charge for transfer," it sai...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The 39-year-old St James pastor, his wife, and the mother of a teenaged girl who accused the clergyman of rape are expected to know on Tuesday, September 27 when a trial date will be set for their case.All three,...

LUCEA, Hanover - Medical officer of health for Hanover, Dr Kaushal Singh, has rejected suggestions of a possible correlation between the staging of Mocha Fest at Rick's Café in Negril in May and the spike in COVID-19 cases in Hanover.L...

Attorney-at-law Michelle Thomas is urging the Government to introduce a system whereby every mother under age 18 is registered for monitoring and guidance on parenting.At the same time, social anthropology lecturer at The University of ...

ASHISH Health Care in St Mary will be offering free medicals to students within the community of Highgate on Wednesday, July 28, as part of its assistance with back-to-school preparations.Indian native Dr Nagendra Babu Chandolu, who run...

Shanna Kaye Wright Vaughn, Jamaican youth leader, was selected as one of several speakers at the most recent staging of Voxburner's Youth Marketing Strategy (YMS) ONLINE USA festival.The virtual event, which was held from July 13-15, i...

MONTEGO BAY, St James -The Cornwall College Digital Support Initiative received a major fillip following the donation of 115 Dell Latitude 14-inch laptop computers, valued over $10 million, from the New York, Southern Florida and Canadi...

Dr Yedesney Carmona Linares displays his prize, courtesy of Guardian Group, after being the first person to e-mail the correct answer to a question asked during last Sunday's Your Health Your Wealth webinar hosted by the Jamaica Observe...

Worried and uncomfortable, Kassandra Howell and Fred Caine sought repeated medical advice for their newborn son, Frejaun Caine; whom they suspected wasn't breathing properly.Through a friend, health workers from a clinic visited their h...

May 5, 2021 is a day that Ucal Sinclair will never forget.On that day, fire gutted the house of the 60-year-old on Perth Drive in the Manchester parish capital of Mandeville, forcing him to seek shelter under a tarpaulin which he tied t...

AMID the uncertainties surrounding COVID-19 vaccine supply and access globally, there is one recurring question being hurled at the Jamaican Government: "Why can't Jamaica produce its own vaccine?"At the first in a three-part Your Healt...

WHAT is rental income? It's revenue earned from the rental of property. For many retirees, rental income is a major source of providing retirement income, especially for people who do not have an approved pension plan or who have not sa...

IT'S much easier to recover from financial mistakes when you're young. In your 60s, however, making poor decisions with your money may prove catastrophic. Rose Miller, head of the JN Foundation's BeWi$e Financial Empowerment Programme, ...

Jamaican-born Gabrielle McCallum is a part of the small percentage of women who are certified airline pilots.Just about seven per cent of women pilots are certified, according to a study by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AO...

SOME of the most important barriers to developing good public policy on ageing are pervasive misconceptions, negative attitudes and assumptions about older people, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).It said that although t...

When I said I would die a bachelor,I did not think I could live Till I were married.- ShakespeareThere are certain men who enjoy being alone, they love to be able to push their key into their own door, walk around in their own space, da...

PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) Clifton Reader says the sector has been doing all it can to prevent spread of the novel coronavirus."Since reopening last June, our hotels, attractions, tourist transportatio...

DARLISTON, Westmoreland - "This is a classic case of mistaken identity," attorney-at-law Michael Erskins told investigators at the Westmoreland Parish Court. His client, Dwayne Raffington from Highgate in Darliston, had been hauled befo...

NEGRIL, Westmoreland - Key players in this parish are adamant that the Government should not entertain the thought of another lockdown. Hanover and Westmoreland account for the bulk of the novel coronavirus cases making up the latest sp...

THE Senate yesterday approved the regulations and rules associated with the Microcredit Act - the Microcredit Fees Regulations, the Microcredit Requirements for Grant of Licence Regulations and the Microcredit Licence Form of Applicatio...

OPPOSITION Senator Floyd Morris yesterday welcomed the tabling of regulations for the Disabilities Act, which has been practically dormant since being passed in Parliament in 2014.Senator Morris, at the same time, indicated the possibil...

LILLIAN Lewis McDonald was yesterday named 2021 Nurse of the Year, while Alicia Vickers was crowned Student Nurse of the Year."I am just giving God thanks. I rely on him just to be that example, that teacher, and voice. God has given me...

PETERSFIELD, Westmoreland - Residents of this community were yesterday mourning the fatal stabbing of 45-year-old Pastor Garnett Foster.The pastor's son has since been taken into police custody for questioning.Verona Foster, mother of t...

CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) - The body of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was returned to his hometown yesterday for a private funeral amid heavy security, following violent protests and fears of political volatility in the country.H...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - They panic if a balloon pops. They hold dying family members. They push their wounded bodies to heal and scroll longingly through photos and videos of their lost loved ones. Behind the statistics and...

THE Government is being urged to establish a regulatory regime for ride-sharing service from California-based company Uber, or possibly face a situation where those who are now bound by the requisite licences to provide hackney services...

OUTGOING British High Commissioner to Jamaica Asif Ahmad says plans for Jamaica to operate the first and only dedicated bamboo market pulp mill in the Western Hemisphere remains on the cards despite the slower than expected pace of the ...

DAYS after the Ministry of Education disclosed where students were placed based on their performance in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP), scores of parents have embarked on the seemingly annual ritual of trying to get their children into ...

NOT having a functioning device for online learning and forced to care for her very ill mother, 14-year-old Petashaey Hall missed more than a year of classes at Tarrant High School in St Andrew, and was poised to miss another.However, a...

LUCEA, Hanover - Medical officer of health for Hanover Dr Kaushal Singh has rejected suggestions of a possible correlation between the staging of Mocha Fest at Rick's Café in Negril in May - which was in clear breach of the Government'...

TWO leading Members of Parliament (MP) - hailing from both sides of the House of Representatives - have accused Jamaican criminals living in the Diaspora of flooding volatile communities here with weapons and ammunition.Minister of Nati...

PRINCIPAL of Hydel High School in Ferry, St Catherine Samara Salmon is breathing a sigh of relief that the fire that engulfed the administrative building early yesterday morning did not spread to other buildings.Salmon said she was not ...

Having faced several challenges during the 2020/2021 fiscal year with the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the leadership of the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) has moved to ensure that it provides all the su...

SHAKEN by the news that four-year-old Nashawn Brown from St Catherine was allegedly beaten to death by his stepfather, Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Tuesday said he would be pushing to bring a halt to the use of corporal punishment a...

Jamaican -American David Black who said he learnt at the feet of the late Gordon 'Butch Stewart, has been appointed president of Sky-Tours USA, continuing his 26-year climb up the hospitality industry, according to Islander News.Sky-tou...

Jamaican attorney Khadeen Palmer has been appointed the British Virgin Islands' (BVI) newest magistrate, pledging to faithfully carry out her duties, as she took the Oath of Office administered by Governor John J Rankin last week, the ...

The home where Jamaica's international reggae superstar Bob Marley first lived when he went to London, England, to seek fame and fortune is now up for sale at the whopping ask of £1.65 million, or about J$349.8 million.Ridgmount Garde...

PROFESSOR of psychology at the Northern Caribbean University, Dr Orlean Brown-Earle, is proposing that the island's judicial system implements mandatory clinical psychological assessments of individuals who are convicted of violent crim...

WITH the green paper on a National Health Insurance Plan for Jamaica having to take a back seat because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says the issue of sustainable health-care financing cannot ...