CARACAS, Venezuela, Friday September 2, 2016 – Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claimed to have mobilized a million demonstrators in the biggest rally in decades yesterday, vowing weekly mass protests to demand a referendum on ousting him from power. Police deployed in their hundreds to...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Thursday September 1, 2016 – At the Mirebalais Hospital in Haiti’s central plateau, Dr. Louise Ivers and Dr. Roman Jean-Louis are examining a baby girl who was born in early July with microcephaly, a smaller-than-normal skull often associated with Zika infections. The baby, named...
The family of Gayan Williams is plunged into further mourning, after her three-year-old son also succumbed to injuries he sustained in a fire at their home last week Wednesday morning. OBSERVER media tried unsuccessfully to reach out to the grieving family who lost the toddler Jayden...
THE International Finance Corporation (IFC) — a member of the World Bank Group — has appointed Jamaican Judith Green as head of its operations in the English-speaking Caribbean. She will be responsible for coordinating IFC’s programme of investments and advisory services in several countries, including Belize,...
THE Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS) has been given until September 27 to provide a detailed report to the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) on Saturday’s islandwide blackout. A release from the OUR said that,as stipulated in the Electricity Act, 2015, the light and power...