Nine of Versan ’s top male scholars, who won places at American Ivy League schools based on near-perfect SAT scores, pose for the Sunday Observer’s cameras — (standing from left) Mark Levy, Andrei Riley, David Young, Phillip Pryce, Graeme Welds and
Twenty-eight-year-old Newton Marshall became the first Jamaican musher to complete the gruelling Yukon Quest, a 1000-mile international dog sled race between Alaska and Yukon on February 26, 2009, finishing 13th out of 29 racers.
In frigid temperatu
An announcement made by Redjet chief executive officer Ian Burns on Monday morning, revealed that
HAVANA, Cuba, Wednesday April 13, 2011 (By Dalia Acosta) - Mariana García is a child of the 1990s, when Cuba was in the grip of the severe crisis that hit the island after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the East European socialist bloc. She gre
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, Thursday April 14, 2011 – The small Dutch-speaking island of Curacao will be catapulted into history when it becomes the launch pad for a Dutch business venture into space.
A group of Dutch businessmen are to offer space trips
Denise Hendrie did not set out to become a jewelry designer; it was purely accidental. As a jewelry lover she always found it difficult to find accessories at the stores that suited her bold style. To her, everything looked ordinary. But then again,
With a huge military parade and amid high
You don't look Jamaican is something I have heard in Africa, London, just this week Haiti. I mean European people straight outta Ukraine say you look American. Bwoy and from me start travel them no ramp fe welcome me back home to the US. I find it u
By way of introduction pageant director Joan Johnson, founder of Miss Universe St Lucia, said it was with sheer enthusiasm organizers were staging this year’s pageant, not only because of the eight capable and super elegant ladies vying for the crown
Preliminary results in Haiti's presidential election suggest musician Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly won the runoff vote on 20 March.
He defeated ex-senator and former first lady Mirlande Manigat, officials quoted by news agencies say.
Turnout in the
If you are Food Network junkie, as is half of this country’s female population, then you would have followed Jamika Pessoa in the 2009 Next Food Network Star right up to her elimination. The self-described island girl who was really born in Alabama,
T&T’s thriving agriculture sector and the seasonality and abundance of fresh local ingredients have inspired a new food magazine. Called Dougla In Season, the quarterly glossy captures the richness and diversity of local food in its 120 full colour p
