Senior medical officer (SMO) of the Kingston Public Hospital, Dr Natalie Whylie, is appealing to ordinary Jamaicans to opt for cloth masks instead of surgical and medical grade N95 mask respirators which she says are not unlimited in supply and should be left for health care workers who need them more. “I see a lot […]
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THOUGH restricted in movement by the COVID-19 pandemic, Cuba-based Jamaican medical student Oraine Darren Lynch is biding his time, as he prepares for a final-round push towards a mission that will decide his future. On the verge of completing six years of a seven-year programme that would see him acquiring his bachelor’s degree in medicine […]
DAMION Omar Coleman Hamilton, the man who was shot dead by cops Friday after being identified as the main suspect in a deadly attack on a police patrol in St Catherine, is the son of a retired policeman, the Jamaica Observer has been reliably informed. Hamilton, who was deported from Canada, was killed in what […]
GOVERNMENT is seeking to lease a seven-acre plot of land at Holywell in the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park, a protected area which was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2015. Bid documents obtained by the Jamaica Observer indicate that the property is being offered for the purpose of a single-family […]
Gordon “Butch” Stewart has praised Jamaica’s tourism employees for their “extraordinary resilience” in facing the COVID-19 pandemic, and wished them an even better future, as the industry slowly begins to reopen. Stewart, the Sandals Resorts International founder and chairman, was in a reflective mood as he himself hit the marketing trail, saying “we’re back at […]
APPROXIMATELY two months after the completion of the autopsy for Jodian Fearon, the first-time mother who died after being denied access to health care at several hospitals in April, her family is yet to receive a copy of the report. The revelation was made by Fearon’s mother Portia Haughton, who has expressed disappointment in the […]
Olivia “Babsy” Grange, the minister who has responsibility for gender issues, says while Jamaicans were in retreat for the past three months trying to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, Members of Parliament were fielding calls from desperate women trapped in abusive situations. “Mr Speaker, we got the calls, we got the calls; but […]
A resolution to observe the visit to Jamaica of slain US civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr more than five decades ago is the source of a quarrel between Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and People’s National Party (PNP) councillors at the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation. Despite the resolution being moved by […]
The young man many have fingered as the individual who spread COVID-19 in a St Thomas community recently has stepped forward to flatly deny the claim. Earlier reports linked the young man to the spread, with allegations swirling that he had gone to the eastern Jamaica parish for seek spiritual healing from the virus, but […]
THE mother of the three-year-old boy, who last week sparked public outcry after he was seen in a widely circulated video smoking and drinking at the urging of adults, according to her attorney, is “very remorseful”. Attorney Maisha Wilson Campbell yesterday argued successfully for her client’s release on bail before the St Catherine Parish Court. […]