More Jamaicans will be able to get inoculated against the novel coronavirus as 11 private facilities have joined the national vaccination programme in an effort to help achieve the goal of herd immunity.The development comes in response...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - Residents of Andrew Hill in Clarendon north western are breathing a sigh of relief following the completion of a $5-million road rehabilitation project there. The 600 metres of road links communities such as Nine Tu...

The United States Embassy in Kingston has reportedly issued a five-year diplomatic visa to Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Daryl Vaz even as controversy swirls around an annotation implicating that he was suspected of being ...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - R Kelly, the R&B superstar known for his anthem I Believe I Can Fly , was convicted yesterday in a sex trafficking trial after decades of avoiding criminal responsibility for numerous allegations of m...

SAGICOR Foundation has partnered with Boss Furniture to donate 30 new beds to St Joseph's Hospital in Kingston, which will increase the hospital's capacity to aid in the fight against COVID-19.St Joseph's hospital has been operating as ...

THE Scotia Jamaica Foundation will be supporting 1,000 students who will be sitting the CSEC examinations in 2022, through a partnership with One on One Educational Services Ltd. The bank said 75 per cent of the available spaces will be...

The ultimate reprisal of the ruthless Klansman gang against a defiant Spanish Town bus driver who they say was causing them not to collect "the right amount of extortion money" was to send an assassin dressed in school uniform aboard t...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - Since moving to Clarendon to work in May Pen Hospital's COVID-19 isolation ward last November, medical doctor Joshua Daye has been steadily losing his possessions to thieves. A few months ago, while he worked to sav...

Samantha Fletcher yesterday created local horse racing history when she became the first-ever female jockey to win three races on a single race programme.Fletcher achieved the significant milestone in the final event on the Gresford Sm...

Today is the 271st day of 2021. There are 94 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2017: The Donald Trump Administration says its relief efforts in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria were succeeding, though people on the i...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, September 27, 2021:This year you become much more independent, but find less of a need to demonstrate this quality. You are fiery and full of enthusiasm. People rarely will say "no" to you. Do your best not t...

THE field hospital at University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) is ready to begin accommodating COVID-19 patients, Dr Carl Bruce, consultant neurosurgeon and medical chief of staff, said last week while giving IGL Managing Director ...

THE revised National Policy for Senior Citizens, to provide adequate social safety net protections, has been approved by Cabinet and is to be tabled in the Houses of Parliament shortly.Labour and Social Security Minister Karl Samuda mad...

UNITED NATIONS (CMC) - St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says the raging novel coronavirus pandemic has put the world in a "veritable tailspin, even as the roll-out of the vaccines has eased the strain some...

LONDON, England (AP) - The British Government put dozens of soldiers on standby yesterday to help easy fuel supply problems caused by a shortage of truck drivers, a situation that has spurred panic buying of gasoline across the country....

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - Hospitals and nursing homes around the US are bracing for worsening staff shortages as state deadlines arrive for health-care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19.With ultimatums taking effect this w...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban yesterday banned barbershops in a southern Afghanistan province from shaving or trimming beards, claiming their edict is in line with Sharia, or Islamic, law.The order in Helmand province was issued...

Quick service food giant Restaurants of Jamaica (ROJ) is part of the group of private sector partners celebrating the near-completion of a project to construct a 48-bed field hospital at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI)...

Jonelle Llewellyn (left), research associate at the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA) presents care packages to Julius Roye (second left), Leroy Thompson (second right), and O'Neal Beaver, residents of Cassava Piece.The donation of the...

MEDICAL officials in Jamaica are keeping a close eye on the elderly who have contracted COVID-19 as global research suggests millions could face increased or accelerated risk of dementia as a result of long-term complications.Dementia i...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) were engaged in an intense gun battle with heavily-armed gangsters who went on a shooting and arson rampage which left two men dead and three houses torched in Gran...

Member of Parliament for St Catherine South Eastern Robert Miller says residents of Myrtle Way in Portmore, St Catherine, will soon have access to electricity and potable water in their homes.Making his contribution to the State of the...

Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has said that the below-zero infection rate in the tourism resilient corridor is proof that Jamaica has the capacity to better manage the SARS-COV-2 infection rate which is now just under 30 per cent."We...

Mayor of Kingston Senator Councillor Delroy Williams, says steps are being taken to address the problem of flooding in several Corporate Area communities due to overflowing of the Chalky River. Speaking at the monthly meeting of the Ki...

The Union of Clerical Administrative and Supervisory Employees (UCASE) is calling on the Government to refer the management of China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC) to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for cr...

Nestlé Jamaica has launched the 'Nestlé Cares for our Health Care Heroes' initiative to show gratitude to Jamaica's health-care professionals who are on the front line in the fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic. The organisa...

Today is the 270th day of 2021. There are 95 days left in the yearTODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2008: Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang completes China's first spacewalk.OTHER EVENTS1540: Pope Paul approves Ignatius of Loyola's proposal to create the S...

Minister of state in the Ministry of Transport and Mining J C Hutchinson, has expressed his disappointment with the slow progress in the resettlement and issuing of land titles to people living in the bauxite mining areas.However, he s...

The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has described as erroneous social media posts that have been circulating which allege that it had purchased military equipment recently.In a statement yesterday, the JDF said that it had purchased no suc...

Merl Grove Board of Management Chairman David Hall has taken issue with the Jamaica Observer's coverage of the imbroglio at the high school, particularly a report last week stating that he was absent from a planned disciplinary hearing...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - Cheers rang out, hugs were exchanged, and rainbow-coloured flags waved overhead across Switzerland as the Swiss resoundingly voted to allow same-sex couples to marry, the final results of a nationwide referend...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has described what he says is "an increase in the number of women attorneys in significant criminal matters over time" as "a good development".The chief justice, who is presiding over the trial of 33 individual...

LONDON, UK (AP) - Thousands of British gas stations ran dry Sunday, an industry group said, as motorists scrambled to fill up amid a supply disruption due to a shortage of truck drivers.The Petrol Retailers Association, which represents...

WHITEHOUSE, Westmoreland - Some of the most beautiful talents in people are hereditary. They become even more refined when sharpened on the iron of professional training, experience, and exposure. There is also a select few who have bee...

NEW YORK, USA - The Jamaica Progressive League (JPL), one of the oldest of the activist Jamaican organisations in the United States, is throwing off its mantle as an affiliate of the People's National Party (PNP) to embrace the wider C...

Dushyant Savadia, founder and CEO of the Amber Group, has been accepted into Forbes Technology Council. The council is an invitation-only community for world-class technology leaders across the world, and the move is seen as a major wi...

BERLIN , Germany (AP) - Germany's centre-left Social Democrats were locked in a very close race Sunday with outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right bloc, which was heading toward its worst-ever result in the country's pa...

THE committee appointed by the People's National Party (PNP) to review its crushing defeat in the 2020 General Election has identified eight main reasons for its loss and provided a slew of recommendations which, it believes, could lead...

Many esteem it to be the city of love, but for 20-year-old Tarec Francis, it is the city of his dreams.An aspiring chef, Francis hosted a series of fish-fry fund-raisers every Friday or every other Friday to raise money for his tuition...

THE Evaluation Committee of the Opposition People's National Party has suggested an end to the system that allows its senior officers to be challenged annually.This is an apparent move to prevent the bloodletting that stained four of th...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Two young men died and another is in hospital after a car in which they were travelling overturned on the YS Falls main road, close to the popular YS Falls attraction, about 10 miles north-west of Santa Cruz l...

DALLAS, Texas - Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has shared that the US-leg of his stakeholder engagement tour to increase arrivals to the destination, as well as foster further investment in the tourism sector, has so far been a major ...

TREASURE BEACH, St Elizabeth - Jakes Hotel and Jack Sprat Restaurant and Bar have become the first such operations in Jamaica's tourism sector to have all staff vaccinated against COVID-19, c hairman Jason Henzell told the Jamaica Obse...

Every time Sheryl Williams' cellphone rings, she hopes she will hear the words: "We have found your daughter" when she answers.Her only daughter, 34-year-old Ruchelle Williams, a teacher of Goshen district in St Ann, has been missing fo...

With his only shelter being a tarpaulin under a mango tree inside the Daytona housing scheme in Greater Portmore, St Catherine, Nigel Reid is appealing for help to live somewhere comfortable, which he can call his own.The Jamaica Observ...

A key prosecution witness in the trial of 33 alleged members of the notorious Klansman gang detailed the planning and implementation of at least three gruesome murders in St Catherine, during testimony on Friday.In continuing to his day...

DARLISTON, Westmoreland - Chairman of the Cilfton Boys' Home, Rev Hartley Perrin, has described as regrettable the allegations of physical abuse which led to the arrest and charge of three workers - a senior citizen and two of her close...

WASHINGTON DC, USA - Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States, Audrey Marks, wants better cooperation among ministers of labour in the region to achieve productive employment and economic recovery.Marks, who is also chair of the Organi...

TABOO sex talk is something medical officials believe is standing in the way of good health. As part of Nestlé's first-ever 'Nestlé Live Well Virtual Health Fair', health officials shed light on some shunned, yet necessary, conversati...

SEPTEMBER 29 is recognised globally as World Heart Day and this year The Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ) will be leading the charge locally with a public education campaign, under the theme 'Use heart to Connect'.The theme, coined by ...