Today is the 307th day of 2021. There are 58 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1992: Bill Clinton defeats President George H W Bush in US presidential election. OTHER EVENTS1394: Charles VI orders Jews expelled from France.1534: E...

Head of the Jamaica Stock Exchange Dr Marlene Street Forrest will deliver the keynote address today at the Office of Utilities Regulation's (OUR ) 5th Annual Symposium on Customer Service and Complaints Handling, themed 'Excellent Cust...

Team Jamaica has made an exciting new find to boost its chances in international weightlifting competition, with the addition of Chloe Whylie, a grand niece of the late Professor Rex Nettleford, who has been getting attention in Britain...

Chief executive officer of the Mandeville Regional Hospital Alwyn Miller is lauding the Japanese Government for its decision to provide funding for an ambulance to meet the travel needs of patients."We are elated and very grateful to th...

Whether you are a fan of online shopping or in-store browsing, the Jamaica Observer Takes Style Out (TSO) had something for you. With three glorious days of non-stop shopping (plus a bonus 24-hour cyber event to kick things off) Jamai...

JN Foundation, through its JN Money School Assist programme, has moved to improve the water supply at Lloyds Basic School, which is based in the district known as Lloyds, some three miles from Yallahs in St Thomas.The school recently re...

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) - United States President Joe Biden argued yesterday that historic progress on addressing global warming was achieved at the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, and expressed optimism for a sim...

Dear Mr Brown,I want to know what the policy is regarding remote work in Canada. With increased vaccination, I am wondering if people will continue working from home or if they will be forced to return to the workplace?VCDear VC,Employe...

More macabre details of the operations of the Klansman gang yesterday tumbled from the lips of the second gang member turned State witness in the ongoing trial of 33 people accused of being part of the criminal organisation at the Home ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Scores of people who turned up for their second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine after waiting over a month to be fully vaccinated were yesterday upset with the slow pace at Mandeville Regional Hospital.There...

Today is the 306th day of 2021. There are 59 days left in the yearTODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2003: The US Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire installs as its bishop Reverend V Gene Robinson, consecrating the first openly homosexual Anglican bishop...

Health officials say day one of the anxiously anticipated second roll-out of Pfizer vaccines got off to an encouraging start, as Jamaicans turned up yesterday at vaccination sites across the island to receive their second jab.Some 80,00...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is facing strong criticism from personnel in the health sector over the slow pace of its COVID-19 testing programme, even as allegations surface that it breached government policy by allowing the impo...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday delivered a sobering message at the World Leaders Summit at the start of the global climate conference in Glasgow, telling delegates the same urgency with which the world has responded to the nove...

GLASGOW, United Kingdom (AFP) - Rich countries' failure to cough up a promised US$100 billion a year to help vulnerable nations cope with climate change has deadly consequences, the prime minister of Barbados said yesterday at the COP26...

Jermaine Robinson, the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) member on trial for being part of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang, was agitated that the gang was losing ground after its alleged leader Andre "Blackman" Bryan was locked up, a pr...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - St James Fire Department Superintendent Dolfin Doeman says Sunday night's fire at Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in Albion was not the work of arsonists.According to the superintendent, t...

British-Jamaican journalist Kuba Shand-Baptiste can't wait to start her one-week visit to Jamaica, part of the prize for being the first winner of the Barbara Blake-Hannah Award (BBH), named for another Jamaican journalist, in the covet...

Less than six months after Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett announced that Jamaica and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had agreed to sign a document of intent to aid in boosting air connectivity between the Middle East and the Caribbean ...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Almost two years into the novel coronavirus pandemic and the sale of masks is brisker than ever in this resort town. This stems from a combination of the entrepreneurial spirit of some residents and the realisation t...

Whenever it rains, some vendors who operate in the Morant Bay Market in St Thomas have to flee from their designated spots to seek shelter for themselves and their produce, due to the decrepit covering of the facility.And just when they...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has called attention to the poor conditions affecting courts in the island's second city and elsewhere, saying that the time has come to settle the question of providing judges with proper courthouses and cour...

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The diplomatic row between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia is aggravating divisions in Lebanon, already reeling from an economic meltdown and social tension. Some are pushing for the resignation of the Cabinet minister w...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has responded to a recent call by the Jamaican Bar Association for lawmakers to rethink certain of the proposed amendments giving the Crown a limited right to appeal not guilty verdicts in criminal cases and to...

The Court of Appeal on Friday gave its reasons for dismissing the appeal of a convicted killer, after a trial that had retired Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams as its sole eyewitness.Christopher Denton was in 2016 found guil...

Food for the Poor (FFP) has been forced to turn down scores of applicants for houses due to frequent land ownership issues that hamper some of their operations.Presently, FFP says it can easily build up to 60 houses per month, but due t...

In a sharp departure from traditional Christian belief, Kevin Smith, the now- deceased leader of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, told his followers that Haile Selassie is God.According to a former congregant, Smit...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Mikaylia Warren is grateful to be alive but still shaken after she and her eight-month-old daughter narrowly escaped injury, possibly death, last Thursday. Her house was among those damaged after a retaining wall col...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness reiterated that he was impressed with the reconstruction of the Gordon Town Road in St Andrew being completed under budget, as he officially reopened it on Friday.According to Holness, it is not common for ...

Prominent neurosurgeon Dr Roger Hunter has condemned what he says is a recent "malicious and defamatory" television report pegging him as operating a medical facility at his St Andrew home.The report, termed 'Medical facility operating...

PwC Jamaica, Jamaica's leading professional services firm, has joined the fight against breast cancer with a donation of $200,000 to the Jamaica Cancer Society last week."Health has never been more significant as it is now," stated Caro...

The Jamaica Pentecostal Union says it "unreservedly and categorically" repudiates all forms of alleged cultic practices identified in the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in Albion, St James, which operated under t...

Today is the 305th day of 2021. There are 60 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1981: The Caribbean islands of Antigua and neighbouring Barbuda form an independent State, ending nearly 350 years of British rule.OTHER EVENTS1512: Mic...

ROME, Italy (AP) - President Joe Biden said Sunday a new US and European Union trade agreement would crack down on "dirty steel" that produces carbon emissions that are blamed for climate change and also patch up a transatlantic rift ov...

ORLANDO, Florida (AP) - Two of Florida's largest school districts are easing up on their masks requirement this week.Starting Monday, Orange County students can stop wearing face masks if their parents provide a note opting them out. In...

VATICAN CITY, Rome (AP) - Pope Francis on Sunday urged people to pray so that "the cry of the Earth" is heard at the UN climate summit getting underway in Glasgow, Scotland.Francis, in comments to the public in St Peter's Square, on Sun...

LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Canary Islands (AP) - A volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma that has been erupting for six weeks spewed greater quantities of ash from its main mouth Sunday, a day after producing its strongest earthquake to...

PHOENIX, USA (AP) - Health officials in Arizona yesterday reported 2,840 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases and one more death.The latest numbers released by the state Department of Health Services pushed the totals to 1,168,900 cases ...

TOKYO, Japan (AP) - A man brandishing a knife on a Tokyo commuter train on Sunday stabbed several passengers before starting a fire, which sent people scrambling to escape and jumping from windows, police and witnesses said.The Tokyo Fi...

Scores of Jamaicans yesterday supported a COVID-19 vaccine blitz on Harbour Street, downtown Kingston, as private sector companies offered incentives to those who took the jab.Here are some pictorial highlights:Photo 1: Some of the peop...

Standing in front (from left) Andrea McCurdy, chairperson Human and Spriitual Value Committee member, and Andrea Roberts, president of the Kiwanis Club South St Andrew, share a moment with Kiwanis members and cancer survivors to recogni...

At least three farmers' groups are stunned by police statistics that listed farming as the occupation with the third-most charges for serious crimes over the last five years, behind unemployed people and labourers.The Jamaica Observer o...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Health officials here have maintained that the Christiana abattoir, which was shut down in March, will remain closed until public health breaches are addressed by its operator, the Manchester Municipal Corporati...

Citing the public education system as deficient in dealing with displaced and vulnerable youngsters, St John Bosco Vocational Training Centre is calling on the Jamaica Government to aggressively fund and support care facilities.The trai...

Pancheta Morrison is demanding answers about the circumstances surrounding her son's death at the Spanish Town Hospital in September.Morrison told the Jamaica Observer that in September her son, Jamie Henry, had a mental breakdown, whic...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Two months ago the five hospitals in this southern region had over 200 COVID-19 patients, but that number is now drastically reduced.Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) Director Michael Bent told the Jamai...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Newly elected chairman of the 83-year-old People's National Party (PNP) Dr Angela Brown Burke is insisting that yesterday's chairmanship election was a show of comradeship.Dr Brown Burke, the first woman to chai...

Since 2016 more than 4,000 individuals across the island with no source of income have been charged with committing serious crimes. Data obtained by the Jamaica Observer from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) shows that a total of 4...

The Jamaica Association of Certified Embalmers and Funeral Directors wants the home that is storing deceased cult leader Kevin Smith's body to watch out.The move by the organisation comes after word began circulating days ago that loyal...

The long-running battle of alleged Shower Posse member Richard "Storyteller" Morrison over his case for damages resulting from his wrongful extradition to the United States in 1991 is still playing out in the local court system.In an o...