Snippets of the Independence Day ceremony held yesterday on the grounds of King’s House
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Independence Day ceremony
Little Shinnia Porteous is about to get a new lease on life, after Paymaster Limited last week stepped in to sponsor a pacemaker, which the seven-year-old desperately needed to replace the old device, that has helped to regulate her heartbeat since she was 11 months old.
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Paymaster joins Shinnia Porteous on mission to stay alive
He’s just a few months shy of his 12th birthday, but Mona Heights Primary student Mikhail Morris is already quite clear about the career he wants to pursue.
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Math whiz wants to help students pass the subject
He’s just a few months shy of his 12th birthday, but Mona Heights Primary student Mikhail Morris is already quite clear about the career he wants to pursue.
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Math whiz wants to help students pass the subject
IF it was only for the meagre salary that he receives fortnightly, Joseph Bolt would have given up a long time ago.
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Love for children inspires Joseph Bolt
PARLIAMENT is heavily burdened and constrained by its lack of resources. However, despite the limitations it has been able to host two very important international conferences this month.
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Parliament reactivates oversight committee for its commissions
JERICHO, St Catherine — More assistance has come for 82-year-old Rosalvo Patterson, the blind man whose fortune changed earlier this year after the Jamaica Observer highlighted the squalid conditions in which he existed in a fowl coop.
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J’cans in New York provide further help for blind man who lived in chicken coop
IT is probably more than co-incidental that INDECOM, after being heralded by the United Nations’ Human Rights Committee, has come under serious scrutiny by Parliament.
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INDECOM’s oversight issue
JAMAICA Observer Deputy Circulation Manager Conrad Hunt was a man who lived in service to his family, friends and community. Scores of those whom he so faithfully served were present at Glad Tidings Open Bible Church in Spanish Town to bid him goodbye yesterday morning.
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Conrad Hunt remembered as selfless gift from heaven
THE Supreme Court has denied Jamaica’s largest financial institution, the National Commercial Bank (NCB), leave to apply for a Judicial Review in the matter involving a former senior manager and the bank.
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Jennings beats NCB again
THE Ministry of Health has embarked on a series of training activities that will look specifically at the Zika Virus but more broadly on sustained integrated vector control.
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Health ministry tackles Zika Virus
MONTEGO BAY, St James — A teacher assigned to a high school in western Jamaica is under probe by school officials after she was accused of using expletives to a student and subsequently pulling a knife from her waist in a flex of power and might.
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Teacher accused of pulling
knife, using expletives at student
Chief Executive Officer of the Spanish Town Hospital, Petakaye Sinclair Hamilton (left) leads a group of employees in painting the Kataie Hoo Haemodialysis Unit of the Spanish Town Hospital yesterday. The effort marked Labour Day 2015, which is usually observed on May 23 of each year, but which is being officially recognised tomorrow. Looking on are Shirlene Marshall Davis (right), Director of Nursing Services at the hospital, and Sadia Small Powell, nurse manager in charge of the Katie Hoo Haemodialysis Unit. (PHOTO: GARFIELD ROBINSON)
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PHOTO: Beautifying a hospital