October 2014

MIND,BODY and SOUL Explores Prostate Cancer

October 20, 2014 in National

October is breast cancer month but on Sunday’s edition of Mind,Soul and Body, host Julie Charles and medical practitioner Dr. Garfield Alexander, explored the topic PROSTATE CANCER ,particularly in black men. Prostate cancer is the most common form of male cancer in the Caribbean. It affects...

NERVOUS WATCH: Aussies eyeing Windies crisis

October 20, 2014 in Sports

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – Cricket Australia says it is “deeply concerned” over the West Indies players decision to abandon the tour of India, especially with the Aussies scheduled to tour the Caribbean next year. Wally Edwards, Cricket Australia’s chairman, described the situation as “deeply concerning” and...

Amazing Wayne

October 20, 2014 in Regional

Sylvia Moodie-Kublalsingh, the wife of hunger striker Dr Wayne Kublalsingh, has hit out at critics who believe her husband has been eating and drinking during his second hunger strike in protest over the Debe to Mon Desir section of the extension of the Solomon Hochoy...

John Holt dies

October 20, 2014 in Regional

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Veteran Jamaican reggae singer John Holt died in a London hospital yesterday. He was 69. Copeland Forbes, Holt’s manager since 2006, confirmed the entertainer’s passing. “John died at 2:40 a.m. English time. His [John’s] nephew informed of his death,” Forbes told OBSERVER ONLINE. The cause...