SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER LAST YEAR'S PREDICTION BY A U-S RELIGIOUS GROUP THAT THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT.

... WOULD END.

NOW, THE IDEA OF DOOMSDAY IS RESURFACING AGAIN

.THIS TIME

, THE PREDICTION IS BASED ON THE MAYAN CALENDAR.

 NEWSWATCH'S MELISSA NAKHAVOLY HAS THE STORY.

SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER LAST YEAR'S PREDICTION BY A U-S RELIGIOUS GROUP THAT THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT.

... WOULD END.

NOW, THE IDEA OF DOOMSDAY IS RESURFACING AGAIN

. THIS TIME, THE PREDICTION IS BASED ON THE MAYAN CALENDAR.

 NEWSWATCH'S MELISSA NAKHAVOLY HAS THE STORY.

It looks like the sands of time maybe running out... at least according the Mayan calender which claims the endof the world is

sooner than we expect.

 The big day - December 21.

but whether this theory has any merit can be argued.

 Dr. Richard Ascough

Has been studying the subject for the past three decades.He says most doomsday theories are all about cracking codes.

 "The Mayan calender as I understand it from what they written has suggested - as with Biblical text - there's no real way to crack the code so it's vague and rather unlikely that it is predictive - the way that popular culture will have us believe it to be."

The code consists of certain alignments, constellations

and disastrous events.

like superstorm sandy - which left thousands in the Caribbean and in the United States homeless. some even lost their lives.

 Richard Ascough

" Each generation tries to link it to certain things like tsunamis like Sandy. Every single time they've been wrong. I don't see why they would be right this time."

 And this Queen's student, unsure about the Mayan prediction - won't rule it out.

 "All the things that start comes to an end. Everything that we see today... nothing has an infinite amount of life span."

 Melissa Nakhavoly

"Many theorists have argued that 2012 doomsday scenario will involve several astronomical phenomenons- while others believe that the end of the Mayan calender is just a start to a new cycle. And although we can't predict what will happen some Kingstonians feel they won't be throwing all their eggs in one basket just yet "

"I've been here now almost 70 years and it's just not my thing to believe in"....

"I think if it was going to happen I would have already taken a month off work"...

"I guess we'll just have to wait and see if it actually come true".

 Ascough

"My suggestion with all apocalyptic movement whether they're Christian or Mayan is don't quit your job, don't give away all your savings. If they're right, which i doubt they are, there's not much loss in the sense that by doing other things different really."

Melissa Nakhavoly CKWS Newswatch Kingston.