Hotelier Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart has died. Stewart was founder of Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts, and their parent company Sandals Resorts International, as well as The ATL Group and The Jamaica Observer. He died Monday in the United...

Tributes have been rushing in for businessman and hotel mogul Gordon 'Butch' Stewart, who died in Miami, Florida Monday after ailing for some time. He was 79. READ: Hotel mogul 'Butch' Stewart has died in the US READ: ...

The Chinese Embassy has rejected remarks made by outgoing United States Ambassador Donald Tapia, accusing China of eavesdropping on his telephone conversations via a Jamaican domestic network. In denouncing the US top diplomat’s comments, Xia...

The contract of former project manager at the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), Elaine Hayden, has not been renewed. Hayden told a parliamentary oversight committee last year that her reputation would “take a beating” after admitting that she...

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, which held the local economy in its stranglehold for much of last year still raging on, a number of business operators in Montego Bay, St James, are looking forward to 2021 with renewed hope and confidence....

More than 1,000 persons with disabilities have been added to the registry of the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD) since March 2020, an influx caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Hundreds of people who reached out to the council...

Farmers and fishers across the island have been seeing a fall in production and productivity as many are unaware that they have been exempted from curfew restrictions to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Yesterday, the Jamaica Agricultural...

The cries for some categories of parliamentary workers to be paid a decent wage are expected to get louder with new revelation that members of the Upper House are paid a stipend of $53,000 per sitting and a similar amount for attending committee...

One of 20 persons who tested positive on the last flights from the United Kingdom (UK) allowed to land in the island before a travel ban took effect has died. According to the health ministry, the deceased is a 77-year-old male of Jamaican decent,.....

It took more than four years, but Jamaica has finally signed off on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the United States (US) that seeks to stamp out corruption at the ports, which has, for decades, facilitated the inflows of guns, drugs and....

The death of North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA) Chairman Tyrone Robinson from COVID-19 in Florida in the United States has sent shock waves throughout the local health sector. The 58-year-old Robinson had been a respected and beloved...

After his motor vehicle suddenly shut down while travelling along the Mandela Highway three weeks ago, Richard Goodall was attempting to go over what he thought was a regular median in the vicinity of the Hydel Group of Schools in St Catherine when....

More than two and a half years since a huge crater forced the closure of Sir John Golding Road in St Andrew, motorists and residents of August Town are hoping they will regain access to the thoroughfare early in the new year. The road had been...

Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Floyd Green is anticipating an excellent year for farming as he spearheads a number of initiatives aimed at insulating the sector against external shocks and extreme weather conditions, having learnt lessons from.....

Despite reeling from a $76 billion loss in earnings and a 2.3 million decline in visitor arrivals, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says not only was 2020 a watershed moment for his industry, but that Jamaica emerged from it the epitome of “touris...

The Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) is embarking on a mission this year to re-energise all its branches islandwide to make it more attuned to the needs of its members and the Jamaican society. Formed in 1895 under the instruction of then...

Chinese operatives are eavesdropping on mobile telephone calls being made by Jamaicans on the Digicel network, the departing top American diplomat here has alleged, opening the door for speculation on what Jamaican authorities may know. But the...

Four cases of the reported highly contagious strain of COVID-19 that recently surfaced in the United Kingdom (UK) have been confirmed in Jamaica, but the authorities here are cautioning against panic. Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton gave the.....

Approximately six and a half hours after midnight on New Year’s Day, 20-year-old Dana Thomas welcomed her son into the world. Thomas was the third mother to give birth at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston on the first day of 2021, with the...

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic came the rise in wearing protective masks, which abruptly excised half of the face from communication, creating a challenge for members of the deaf community. The covering deemed a critical barrier to guard.....