PRESSURE is mounting on Prime Minister Andrew Holness to name a dedicated minister for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries following the resignation of Floyd Green, with Jamaica Observer sources saying the Member of Parliament for...

Lloyd McFarlane, the attorney assigned to represent Andre "Blackman" Bryan, accused leader of the feared Klansman gang, yesterday, on behalf of a miffed team of defence lawyers, appealed for a review of the sums being paid to the attor...

The prosecution will be relying heavily on the testimonies of two self-confessed members of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang to make its case against the 33 accused gangsters whose trial got under way yesterday in the Home Circuit D...

Ahead of today's much-anticipated hearing, suspended principal of Merl Grove High School Dr Marjorie Fullerton has received the support of important stakeholders - a group of teachers, including the acting vice-principal of the upper sc...

NEW YORK, USA - A massive drive, supported by more than 14 of the main Jamaican organisations in the United States, is underway to mobilise assistance in the fight against the [novel coronavirus] pandemic in their homeland.A range of ch...

Stephanie Christie, the sole woman among the 33 accused now on trial in the just-started Klansman gang case, was yesterday described by prosecutors as the "liaison officer" between incarcerated members of the criminal outfit and those ...

A week ago nine-year-old Jabari Fogo was seen during school hours sitting on the sidewalk in his community on Orange Street accessing Internet service from a nearby business for online classes. Now he will be sitting comfortably in his ...

Today is the 264th day of 2021. There are 101 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1996: The Carib cinema, one of Kingston's most famous landmarks, is destroyed by fire. OTHER EVENTS1327: Edward II of England is murdered at Berkely...

BUSTAMANTE Industrial Trade Union Assistant General Secretary Colin Virgo is headed to court to seek damages for what he says is a defamatory media report that he was among a group of people seen at a party held on a no-movement day at ...

JOHN'S HALL, St James - Scores of public transportation operators who service the route between Montego Bay and John's Hall in St James withdrew their service yesterday in protest over the deplorable state of the road and have threatene...

Jamaica's Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton yesterday emphasised the importance of strengthening multilateral cooperation and addressing current weaknesses in the global public health system in order for countries to r...

IT once looked impossible, but the prayers of Odain Graham have been answered as the former security officer turned bellman is now training to become a butler at Sandals South Coast.While Graham's story is still being penned, thanks to ...

BOSTON, Portland - Euval Williams used to have sleepless nights whenever it rained. Not any more. Neighbours and police personnel from his community, aptly named Friendship, got together to replace the leaky roof of the visually impaire...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - The US said yesterday it will ease airline restrictions this fall on travel to the country for people who have vaccination proof and a negative COVID-19 test, replacing a hodgepodge of rules that had...

Seventeen media associations in the Americas and other regions today called, through a public statement, for a "fair and reasonable" remuneration for the publication of journalistic content on digital platforms.The institutions compris...

TEXAS, United States (AP) - The US is flying Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland and b locking others from crossing the border from Mexico in a massive show of force that signals the beginning of what could be ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, September 21, 2021:You are energetic, friendly and always witty. You love mysteries and are a skilled and original communicator. You are also confident in your ability to put your own spin on things. This is ...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - Prosecutors at the R Kelly sex trafficking trial ended their case yesterday after calling dozens of witnesses over the past month who detailed sweeping allegations against the singer in lurid detail.Severa...

WASHINGTOIN, DC, United States (AP) - COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-1919 Spanish flu pandemic did - approximately 675,000. And, like the worldwide scourge of a century ago, the novel coronavirus may never e...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - In parts of Ethiopia's Tigray region, people now eat only green leaves for days. At a health centre last week a mother and her newborn, weighing just 1.7 pounds, died from hunger. In every district of the more than...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Last year no leaders came. This year will be quite different - sort of. With the novel coronavirus pandemic still raging in many parts of the world, leaders from more than 100 nations are heading to New York this w...

WITH the trial of the 32 men and one woman alleged to be at the heart of the vicious, St Catherine-based Klansman gang set to begin in the Home Circuit Division of the Supreme Court in downtown Kingston this morning under heightened sec...

Today is the 263rd day of 2021. There are 102 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1990: The East German and West German Parliaments each ratify the treaty governing the legal aspects of a German reunification.OTHER EVENTS480 BC: Gree...

The man charged with leading Jamaica's efforts to get sufficient quantities of the COVID-19 vaccines, National Health Fund (NHF) Chairman Howard Mitchell, is confident that the island is past the time of a general shortage of vaccines,...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - A young firefighter, Nicholas Nelson, broke down in tears as he recounted the final moments he spent with two colleagues who lost their lives in a motor vehicle crash minutes after they dropped him home and he wished...

THE influential joint Merl Grove High School past students' associations of Canada, the United States and Jamaica have warned that they are prepared to withdraw all support of their alma mater unless suspended Principal Dr Marjorie Full...

Police personnel based at the Hunt's Bay station in St Andrew were in mourning following the shooting death of one of their colleagues, Sergeants Averel McCollin.He was gunned down around 1:25 am Sunday on Cottage Drive in Gregory Park...

DEL RIO, Texas (AP) - The United States acted yesterday to stem the flow of migrants into Texas by blocking the Mexican border at an isolated town where thousands of Haitian refugees set up a camp, and American officials began flying so...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the appointment of Gordon Brown, former prime minister of the United Kingdom, as WHO ambassador for global health financing. Brown is widely credited with preventing a second Great Depr...

The constant teasing that Omarie Ferron, his two siblings and their mother Natesha Fearon endured for roughly a decade, due to them living in an abandoned bathroom on 2nd Street in Trench Town in St Andrew Southern, has now changed to a...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The Ocho Rios Fire Station is set to get an urgent facelift following instructions given by Minister of Local Government Desmond McKenzie, who has ministerial responsibility for the Jamaica Fire Brigade. "I come here...

JAMAICA'S Charlyne Smith, the first black woman to earn a PhD in nuclear engineering from a predominantly white university in the United States, has her gaze firmly set on the nuclear research reactor called Slowpoke at The University o...

ETTA Walker, principal of Portmore Missionary Preparatory & Kindergarten School, is on a drive to make her school a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) powerhouse.The 47-year-old St Catherine-based institution h...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Shadeed Harvey's faith in the goodness of others has paid off. Offers of help have flooded in since the Jamaica Observer highlighted her family's struggle after fire gutted their Cave Valley, St Ann house, leaving th...

MERCY and Truth Ministries Television (MTM TV) has moved to expand its operations, broaden its reach and expand its footprint across the Caribbean and other parts of the world with the recent acquisition of a building to permanently hou...

AT 82 years old, Noel Wallace has fond memories of a Jamaica that was kinder, gentler and much more peaceful.Wallace remembers walking from his yard, on Steven Lane in Rae Town, to The Student's Union on the Mona campus of The Universit...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - When 41-year-old Paulette Jackson received her first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a visit to Canada, she did not anticipate the trouble she would face in Jamaica in getting the second jab to become...

Floyd Green's tough lesson to learnFloyd Green was seen by some in the ruling Jamaica Labour Party as fit and proper to become leader of the political organisation, and ultimately prime minister.He can still achieve both.But for now, th...

WITH COVID restrictions in place in Jamaica, the Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP) has been arranging meetings and activities for members online.More than 170 CCRP members gathered on Zoom recently for a fun-filled talent ev...

INSOMNIA is a common sleep disorder that can make it hard for you to fall and/or stay asleep. It can also cause you to wake up earlier than you wish and not be able to get back to sleep.If you are suffering from insomnia, you most likel...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Opinions varied, with ambivalence, regret, sympathy, and outrage being dominant themes, as constituents of former Cabinet Minister Floyd Green responded in recent days to his fall from grace.Green, 39, resigne...

AS allegations about untrained funeral home operators transporting COVID-19 bodies in public passenger vehicles swirl, the long-promised legislation to govern the funeral industry remains on ice, making it difficult to proceed with pros...

WHEN he was just 11 Jerome Jackson lost his sight. For a while he was able to see blurred colours - until that changed. Now, he only sees light.Jackson is the fifth individual in his family to experience such a loss. Prior to him, his g...

Though student nurses say they are not placed on COVID-19 wards at the major hospitals to complete clinical rotations, they explained that they still endure tough challenges caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic.However, the nursing ...

FORMER Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Floyd Green has received the backing of someone he would least expect to be in his corner at a time like this.The embattled Member of Parliament (MP) for St Elizabeth South Western, who quit as ...

Public Defender Arlene Harrison Henry has said that the only recourse for children under age 16, who want to get vaccinated against COVID-19 but don't have parental consent, is the introduction of legislation that will allow minors to ...

At age 15, Anthony Parker missed almost one year of school while he battled acute lymphatic leukaemia. Parker had to sit out three terms - the last two terms of grade nine and the first term of grade 10 - at Calabar High School and gra...

PAUL Bogle has always been seen as a highly controversial national figure, and even when the disputes may not be his fault they usually stick with his name.There has been controversy over the date of his birth; his statue in Morant Bay,...

TUESDAY, September 21 is World Alzheimer's Day and will be celebrated under the theme 'Know Dementia, Know Alzheimer's', as part of an international campaign led by Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) to raise awareness about dement...

Some residents of three political constituencies were beneficiaries of food packages on Friday as the J Wray and Nephew Foundation (JWNF) continued its objective to ease the burden of economic challenges, further worsened by recent lock...