SCIENCE, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) are often thought to be challenging areas of study and career pursuits. However, the Scientific Research Council (SRC) is seeking to change this narrative through the launch ...

Today is the the 33rd day of 2021. There are 332 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1999: Hugo Chavez takes office as Venezuela's president, seven years after he tried to overthrow the Government in a military coup. OTHER EVE...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Government has made it clear that it will only have bilateral discussions with Venezuela once the Nicolas Maduro Administration releases the Guyanese fishermen illegally detained in the Spanish-spe...

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's military staged a coup yesterday and detained senior politicians including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi — a sharp reversal of the significant, if uneven, progress towards democrac...

Mikiela Gonzales-Campbell always had an inkling that her passion was teaching but what she did not expect was that this passion would lead to the opening of an academy in the midst of a pandemic.

The last place Andrea Lowe Garwood would have expected to be gunned down was inside a church, and certainly not as she sang and prayed in worship. Surely, hell had no place in this holy sanctuary.

New York , USA — As of today, the Jamaican Consulate here will be closed to the public, temporarily, after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19, a release late Friday from consul general to New York Alison Wilson said...

Montego Bay's Janice Allen has a sharp elbow and the first person likely to feel it is Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett as the freshman People's National Party (PNP) senator tries to create space for herself within tourism and wes...

The police theorise that a contract killing stemming from a domestic dispute triggered yesterday's horrific death of a woman who was brutally gunned down as she worshipped at Agape Christian Fellowship Church on Market Street in ...

This is another in a series by our reporters on how they managed to cover the news at the onset of the novel coronavirus in 2020.LUCEA, Hanover — The novel coronavirus which first touched ashore the island in March 2020, acc...

REDBERRY, Manchester — Work is set to resume this week on the US$188-million May Pen to Williamsfield leg of the east-west corridor of Highway 2000 after being disrupted last week by angry residents protesting dust and noise...

Kiwanis Club of West St Andrew (KCWSA) President Courtney Morgan (right) hands over an Amazon Fire tablet to Shantae Turner, a grade six student at George Headley Primary School in Kingston on Friday.Turner, a member of the school...

New York, United States — It has been a widely held view that United States Vice-President (VP) Kamala Harris, who was sworn into office on January 20, is the first person with direct Jamaican connection — her father ...

The Consular Affairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade is seeking to make contact with relatives, friends or anyone who knows the person in the accompanying photograph, who goes by either the name Jan...

With a number of schools reopening for face-to-face classes since January, only to shutter days later because of the novel coronavirus in their midst, president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association Jasford Gabriel says this could...

Treasure Beach, St Elizabeth — He knows the three-month suspension of Canadian airline flights to Jamaica and the wider Caribbean because of COVID-19 will bring great pain for local tourism interests, but Treasure Beach hot...

Today is the 32nd day of 2021. There are 333 days left in the yearTODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1960: Four black college students begin a sit-in protest at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, where they'd been refus...

For some people, it was merely reading the news online or hearing about it on social media or perhaps on a radio broadcast. For most people, it was reading about him in magazines or getting glimpses of him at a Sandals or Beaches ...

CHENEL-LEE Jones says she can't remember exactly when she developed a love for domestic animals. All the Port Royal resident could tell the Jamaica Observer is that from her childhood days, she has loved and cared for pets. ...

RESIDENTS of St Ann are rebuking the recent spate of rapes that have been taking place in the “garden parish” since the start of 2021.New commanding officer of the St Ann Police Division, Superintendent Dwight Powell, ...

Cuban Government is ready to have dialogue and discussion with the new United States Administration led by President Joe Biden, if such a situation arises, the Spanish-speaking island's senior envoy in Jamaica has said. ...

Retired president of the Court of Appeal Justice Seymour Panton and wife Carla Maxine marked 50 years of marriage yesterday, January 30. The two were wed also on a Saturday – January 30, 1971 – at the Port Antonio Me...

Legendary Jamaican actress, singer, producer and activist Sheryl Lee Ralph along with WALKGOODLA donated 15 tablets to the Chantilly Primary School in Manchester last Wednesday.

Good comeback by JDF boss Rocky MeadeLt General Rocky Meade, like the once popular action movie character with a moniker that matched his Christian name, came out in a blaze of glory last Wednesday.

THERE is a hunt on for two men suspected to be serial rapists, who have been committing sex crimes on women and girls in St Ann communities.According to a medical doctor at St Ann's Bay Hospital, medical personnel have noticed a s...