The attorney for Andre "Blackman" Bryan, the accused leader of the feared Klansman gang, yesterday painted the Crown's key witness as a lying desperado who turned prosecution witness to escape facing the music for his own role in the St...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - As lawmen yesterday defended the choice of route taken to transport Kevin Smith, leader of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, to Kingston to face charges of murder and illegal possession of fi...

The popular site just above the town clock in Old Harbour, St Catherine, known to many as the Old Harbour Market, is getting a much-needed facelift.According to Councillor Steve Graham (Jamaica Labour Party, Old Harbour Central Division...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The police have charged a member of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in St James with murder.He has been identified as 37-year-old André Ruddock.Ruddock was charged yesterday afternoon at th...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - School leaders in Manchester and St Elizabeth are preparing for the possibility that the Government will approve the resumption of face-to-face classes soon.This follows last week's submission from the Ministry ...

In the latest bizarre twist to a saga that began two Sundays ago with what is being called a human sacrifice ritual, Kevin Smith, leader of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, yesterday died in a three-vehicle crash. ...

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed yesterday forming a high-powered partnership agreeing to establish the Gordon "Butch" Stewart International School of Hospitality and Tourism that will train the next generation of Caribbea...

CHIEF Justice Bryan Sykes, the trial judge in the case involving 33 people accused of being members of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang, has ordered a full medical report into the condition of the Crown's main witness on whose accou...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Reactions from former members of the Kevin Smith-led Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries yesterday ranged from joy, disbelief that he had died, to concern that he had not had a chance to repent ...

There was little sympathy for Kevin Smith, the so-called cult leader of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, in Linstead, St Catherine, where he died after an unmarked police car in which he was being taken from Monteg...

Approximately 200 female nurses from the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) will receive PINK gift packages - as part of a breast cancer initiative - in recognition of the work they do to care for patients and to remind them ...

Today is the 299th day of 2021. There are 66 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1960: Gordon House becomes the offical meeting place of the Jamaican Government, replacing Headquarters House. OTHER EVENTS1795: The first jackasses ar...

Leader of Government Business in the Senate Kamina Johnson Smith has admitted that the Administration did not give priority treatment to people with disabilities in the early stages of the delivery of COVID-19 vaccinations.But, accordin...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - October 4 was supposed to be a regular day for 22-year-old Daniel Wright and his friend, 26-year-old Oshane Mowatt. However, that night, the motorcycle they were driving collided with a car in Paradise, We...

The fervent prayers and nervousness of the diminutive mother of Nekia Thompson were palpable last Thursday as she paced the floor outside courtroom number four of the Supreme Court in downtown Kingston."Jesus, wi beg yuh have mercy, ple...

Senior lay magistrate of St Andrew Lorraine Ross Clunie (left) talks with Constable Monique Anderson as she receives her COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Kathy-Ann Wilson Bryan at a 'Vax Day' held by the justices of the peace at Half-Way-Tre...

Family members of a man whose head was delivered to his house on Sherlock Crescent in Duhaney Park on Saturday are refusing to comment on what is believed to be a deadly warning from people in the criminal underworld.The man, who Jamai...

The Hunt's Bay Police have named two men as wanted in connection with the murder of 5-year-old Denique Salmon on Riverside Drive, New Haven, in Kingston 20 on Thursday, October 7. One of the men has been identified by the police as 30-...

Digicel Group Holdings Limited (DGHL) has announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell Digicel Pacific Limited (DPL), its wholly owned subsidiary, to a subsidiary of the Australian telecommunications company Telstra Corporat...

Sandals Resorts International (SRI) has embarked on a multimillion-dollar renovation of its Sandals Royal Bahamian resort and offshore Island in Nassau that the company says will represent its profile for the future.Set to reopen and we...

The Cabinet could decide today on a timetable for the resumption of face-to-face classes in public schools.The Ministry of Education last week submitted a plan for the consideration of the Cabinet for the return to face-to-face classes...

The Yamaye Council of Indigenous Leaders (YCOIL) has rejected the cult practice at Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in Paradise, St James, which resulted in the death of three people just over one week ago.The throa...

A Jamaican homeowner has filed a $3-million lawsuit against the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) for unpaid rent on a furnished house she had leased the State to house Cuban doctors and nurses brought to Jamaica to help with...

Jennifer Brown could barely find the words to express her jubilation after emerging as the winner of this year's Supreme Ventures Foundation 'Supreme Heroes' programme."I am elated," the 53-year-old told the Jamaica Observer at the clo...

Local farmers and farming interests are encouraged to explore compost production for personal use and income generation while reducing dependence on inorganic fertilisers, assisting in waste reduction and protecting the marine environme...

Jenise Reece could only manage to write a sentence, while all her peers would have completed a paragraph during some assignments at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona.She would have to request extra time to finish her examina...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The abandoned courthouse in this resort town is being restored, and will be transformed into an art gallery and coffee shop.Work started at the location last week and has already been cleared of shrubs with several p...

After a rigorous selection process involving scores of candidates, ground was broken yesterday at 13 Ashley Road in south-west St Andrew for the construction of a dream house by Christmas for Tashana Mallett and her family.Mallett, her ...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - The funeral for former police commissioner and custos of Portland Roy Thompson has been set for October 27 at Saxthorpe Methodist Church in St Andrew.This is to be followed by his burial at Kensington in Portlan...

MIAMI (AP) - Florida's top health official was asked to leave a meeting after refusing to wear a mask at the office of a state senator who told him she had a serious medical condition. Florida Senate leader Wilton Simpson, a Republican,...

With less than a third of the population of Westmoreland immunised against COVID-19, the JN Foundation will roll out its immunisation drive, in partnership with the American Friends of Jamaica (AFJ), in Petersfield in the parish this w...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti's capital has been brought to the brink of exhaustion by fuel shortages, after staggering along despite an earthquake, the assassination of the president, gang violence and mass kidnappings.More than t...

Today is the 298th day of 2021. There are 67 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1983: US Marines and Rangers, assisted by soldiers from six Caribbean nations, invade Grenada at the order of US President Ronald Reagan, who says the a...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - The Government of Barbados is set to receive another shipment of Pfizer vaccines from the United States.Speaking during a recent press conference, Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who pleaded with Barbadians to g...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A powerful storm roared ashore yesterday in northern California, flooding highways, toppling trees and causing mud flows in areas burned bare by recent fires, as forecasters predict record-breaking rainfall.Drenchin...

VICTORIA, British Columbia (AP) - A fire burned in several containers aboard a cargo ship off Canada's Pacific Coast province of British Columbia yesterday, and authorities said hazardous materials in two containers could pose a risk to...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, (CMC) - The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says four men from the Dominican Republic appeared before the US District Court, where they faced criminal charges after the US Border Patrol ag...

Tunis , Tunisia (AFP) - Three people have died in floods in Tunisia after heavy rain storms battered the North African nation, a spokesman for the civil protection agency said yesterdayIn Thala, a town in north-west Tunisia, two people ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Hurricane Rick headed for Mexico's southern Pacific coast yesterday and is forecast to reach land by today.The United States National Hurricane Center said Rick had winds as high as 85 miles per hour (140 kph) and was...

THE police must also be blamed for the workings of under-pressure cult-like church, Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, one former member insists.The ex-member said that police continually disregarded reports made abo...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - For over eight years, congregants of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries here were hoodwinked into handing over the first pay cheque that they received each year.Speaking to the Jamaica Observer...

One woman whose role in the struggle against the eradication of polio from Jamaica was pivotal has been reflecting on the island's journey with the disease and the lessons that the population can learn from it.As Jamaica and the world ...

Declaring, "We are not out for blood," two daughters of the elderly Jamaican-Canadian couple murdered in 2018 have expressed satisfaction with the sentence handed down on Thursday by Supreme Court judge Justice Lorna Shelly Williams to ...

Retired Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams says the 'cut-throat' religion practised at the Montego Bay-based Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries should not come as a surprise.Adams, unyielding in his view, h...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - It was seven long years of hell for a man who was shot and stabbed during last Sunday's human sacrifice rituals at Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries here.So bad was his experience that he deci...

A member of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries has shared a graphic and chilling account of last Sunday night's events at the church that spiralled into the killing of two congregants in what has been described as a h...

THE recent abductions of nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia and 13-year-old Winshae Barrett are affecting another St Thomas minor, who finds it hard to stay at home alone.Sidia Crockshank, 13, is the one facing that challenge.With smartphone...

The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has confirmed an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases among the inmate population at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre in recent weeks. In a statement yesterday, the DCS said th...

When Tara Playfair-Scott discovered a lump in her breast in 2016, the first thing she did was take to Google to research and self-diagnose.The marketing and public relations consultant, who was speaking at the second in a three-part ser...

Melbourne Flake, the 81-year-old Jamaican-Canadian who was murdered with his wife Etta in 2018, loved Jamaica and defended it every chance he got, rejecting any notion of it being "the murder capital" of the world.That he and his 70-yea...