Leader of the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) Mark Golding pledged his party's commitment to righting societal injustices in Jamaica and ensuring that anti-corruption laws work effectively."The way in which the current prime mi...

THE Jamaican flag flew high and proud once again as the United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken honoured Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) nurse sister, Antonia Richards-Stewart for outstanding work on the COVID-19 front line.Stewa...

A disabled Jamaican US Air Force veteran living in Connecticut is thanking everyone who made it possible to get his Portmore, Jamaica-based daughter to Connecticut for a crucial surgery that could save his life.Martin Goodrich, 59, had ...

SANTIAGO, Chile - Executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Alicia Bárcena says cooperation between China and Latin America and the Caribbean offers an opportunity to reduce global asymm...

In a desperate cry for unity, former leaders of the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) P J Patterson and Dr Peter Phillips yesterday issued a strong charge to the beleaguered political organisation to mend its internal fractures ...

In his message marking National Heroes' Day, which is celebrated today, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has paid tribute to the front line workers, several of whom have died from COVID-19, describing their service as akin to the sacrifice...

Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP), the advocacy group for Jamaica's seniors, has donated $500,000 to Food For the Poor (FFP) to assist in the preparation of food and personal care packages for elderly shut-ins. The packages...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has said the resource and staffing challenges, which have contributed to the late production of transcripts in the high courts and the parish courts much to the angst of the Court of Appeal, are being remedied....

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) - A Russian actress and a film director returned to Earth yesterday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) shooting scenes for the first movie in orbit.Yulia Peresild, 37, and Klim Shipenko,...

LLUIDAS VALE, St Catherine - A pall of gloom blanketed a section of this rural community on Thursday when residents, for the first time in recent memory, witnessed a single funeral being held for two relatives from the same household in...

PARIS, France (AFP) - Facebook yesterday announced plans to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to build the "metaverse", a virtual reality (VR) version of the Internet that the tech giant sees as the future.Facebook CEO Mark Zucke...

MADRID, Spain (AFP) - Spain's leftist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez vowed yesterday to "abolish" prostitution in the country, saying it "enslaves" women.Speaking at the end of a three-day congress of his Socialist party, Sanchez highligh...

JAMAICAN-BORN Ephraim Martin, chair of the Chicago-based Black Heroes Matter (BHM) Coalition and president of Martin's International, has chalked up another victory for black Haitian founder of the Illinois city, Jean Baptiste Pointe Du...

People's National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding has rejected assertions by Prime Minister Andrew Holness that he was included in talks associated with the national vaccination programme.Addressing the private session of the PNP's 8...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - There is a 21 per cent reduction in murder here, but head of the Manchester police, Superintendent Lloyd Darby says the south-central parish is seeing an increase in three categories of crime since the start of ...

In sickness, in health, and in higher education. It's the tale of two graduates - husband and wife.Michelle Paul-Thompson, 44, and Richard Thompson, 46, have been married for 14 years and are both graduating from The University of the W...

Former Mayor of Montego Bay Shalman Scott wants Prime Minister Andrew Holness to step in and stop the bleeding that has been affecting the Cornwall Regional Hospital.His demands follow the five-year delay of the $4-billion renovation pr...

The Jamaican Bar Association wants lawmakers to rethink certain amendments to two Bills giving the Crown a limited right to appeal not guilty verdicts in criminal cases.Parliament's Upper House, the Senate, last week gave the nod to the...

AS residents of Bath, St Thomas, basked in the fact that nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia has been found alive after being kidnapped on Thursday, they were again plunged into dismay after learning of the disappearance of another girl, 13-y...

After restless nights, days of searching and worry, the pain experienced by Korian Prussia, father of nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia vanished when he saw his daughter alive and heard her calling out for him."As she see mi, she say 'Dada...

Italian postgraduate master's student, 27-year-old Jacopo Butti thwarted disappointment when he jumped at an opportunity to complete a school-required internship in Jamaica.The Bergamo, Italy, native was supposed to have completed his ...

Consistent with its promise to reward Jamaica's workers, J Wray & Nephew Limited will continue its JWN Cares Intervention with a $21.7-million cash award set to benefit 434 front line workers.Managing director of JWN, Jean-Philippe ...

Since the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic misinformation has clouded the judgement of many. In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) says it has sourced various myths from Google ' s most-searched questions, some of which ...

Executive director of the National Council for Senior Citizens (NCSC), Cassandra Morrison says greater effort needs to be made to integrate older people within their families and the society as a whole, and called for more intergenerati...

As a result of increased smartphone usage among seniors and the growth of silver tech (technological innovations, products, and services developed for seniors), many older people are turning to mobile technology to simplify one of the ...

Creating equal employment opportunities for Jamaicans living with disabilities was the central focus during the recent Digicel Foundation-hosted virtual conversation entitled 'Why is workplace inclusion so important?'. The robust discu...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Even with half their faces covered by masks, it was easy to see how happy four students from Bethel Town were to be at the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) on Thursday. They were there to receive l...

Shamara Morrison is a jovial, fun-loving, and very frank person and on any given day, Morrison enjoys making people laugh and caring for children in her role as a registered nurse at the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC). Having s...

In keeping with Breast Cancer Awareness Month and to mark World Mammogram Day celebrated on October 15, the Sandals Foundation donated a total of 100 mammograms valued at $500,000 to women in St Ann and St Mary.The donation made to the ...

One of the major developments in the field of cardiovascular medicine over the past 40 years has been the treatment of narrowing in arteries of the heart by non-invasive means, that is, without the need to surgically open the chest and ...

Viagra , Cialis, Strong Back are commonly touted as the holy grail for improving sexual performance among men in our society. In fact, there are numerous medications and home-made tonics that have been proposed as the solution to reduci...

He was remembered by close friend Dr Ray Fraser as a man of many qualities, which led many to see and love him as if he were a "tourist attraction."It was a notation that set the scene at St James Anglican Church, Hayes, Clarendon, last...

As the debate continues over the recently passed legislation to give Jamaican prosecutors a limited right to appeal court rulings, the Jamaica Observer has compiled the main arguments from both sides.Arguments in support of the prosecut...

Jhanelle Crawford swoons at the thought of roads, bridges, design, construction and maintenance. She is a woman on a mission in a male-dominated field. The 21-year-old is graduating from The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, w...

'Dog Paw' failed Jamaica, not the other way aroundEnvironmentalist Diana McCaulay's utterances on Nationwide Radio last Tuesday, suggesting that Jamaica failed now-deceased gangster Christoper "Dog Paw" Linton, would have been, for her ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - Many Americans believe their communities are doing a good job meeting the needs of older adults, but white people may be better equipped than people of colour to age within their communities, accordi...

Love me or hate me,Both are in my favour,If you love me I'll always be in your heart,If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.- ShakespeareThere really is a thin line between love and hate, with both at times merging, conflating, bon...

Korian Prussia and Latoya Dyer haven't slept since Thursday night when their nine-year-old daughter Phylisa Prussia was abducted from her home in St Thomas by a man who police say is before the court on rape and illegal possession of f...

Residents of Bath in St Thomas expressed anger yesterday as they continued searching for nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia, whose abduction from her house in the community Thursday evening by a man was captured on closed circuit television ...

Well over a week after five-year-old Denique Salmon was killed in her sleep by a stray bullet as rival gunmen engaged in an early morning battle on the streets of New Haven, St Andrew, her father, Michael Salmon, is still hoping that so...

Jamaicans have given mixed responses to Prime Minister Andrew Holness's indications that mandatory vaccination could be inevitable, based on the slow take-up of COVID-19 vaccines.While some people have expressed disapproval, others beli...

ROME, Italy (AFP) - In one Rome hospital, the vast majority of COVID-19 patients in intensive care are unvaccinated - and many are urging Italian anti-vaxxers to get the jab.A 41-year-old patient at the ICC- Casalpalocco COVID hospital,...

ROME, Italy (AFP) - Thousands of people protested at Italian ports and across towns and cities yesterday, against the introduction of one of the world's toughest COVID pass regimes, but fears of widespread disruption failed to materiali...

MORANT BAY, St Thomas - The St Thomas Renaissance Foundation is making a big push to include youngsters from the parish in this year's commemoration of the Morant Bay uprising during Heroes' Month."The event is held in commemoration of ...

LEIGH-ON-SEA, United Kingdom (AFP) - British counter-terrorism officers are leading the investigation into the killing yesterday of lawmaker David Amess, police said, as they probe the second death of a UK politician while meeting voter...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) - A British lawmaker since 1983 from the Conservatives' right wing, David Amess was a maverick but courteous Euro-sceptic long before the party leadership embraced all-out opposition to the European Union (E...

Mark Lamont has had many frightening experiences during the 15 years he has worked as a taxi driver, but one which he is unable to erase from his memory is the night two Caucasian men, he believed to be homosexuals, tried to kidnap him....

Health officials are expressing concern over the fact that just under 80 per cent of Jamaicans are yet to receive even one dose of any of the available COVID-19 vaccines with the busy Christmas season fast approaching.Speaking during l...

Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has cautioned against the Integrity Commission's recommendation that it be authorised to announce the start of, and comment on ongoing investigations, arguing that this approach could prove prejudicial and ...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - As questions swirled as to how a courthouse building on the compound of the police station here was broken into yesterday, head of the St Elizabeth police, Superintendent Narda Simms, suggested it could have b...