The Supreme Court yesterday told five employees of Cari-Med Group that the company's COVID-19 vaccination policy did not breach their constitutional rights and instructed the employees to seek contractual remedies to their claim.The fiv...

More signs of lingering conflict inside the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) surfaced yesterday with Councillor Venesha Phillips (Papine Division) accusing Comrades of concocting a juvenile scheme to distract from the failures o...

Jamaica and the United States have established a joint task force to go after lottery scammers who are bilking millions of dollars from Americans, mainly senior citizens, each year.There has been no official announcement yet from eithe...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie has pledged to set aside $50 million for the rehabilitation of the Savanna-la-Mar Market in Westmoreland.During a tour of the facility on...

St Mary taxi driver Hopeton Robinson didn't second-guess his colleague when he was told that a woman wearing a yellow dress had entered his vehicle, but was later nowhere to be found.According to Robinson, he is prone to attracting supe...

CORAL SPRING, Trelawny - For the first time since Barbados severed colonial ties with Britain on November 30, Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday commented publicly about calls for Jamaica to follow suit. The move, he said, must not...

The detective sergeant who was the driver of one of two police cars in a 2019 operation to head off armed gangsters who were "going on a shooting spree", yesterday described the grisly scene in which two alleged Klansman gangsters were ...

CORAL SPRING, Trelawny - Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday suggested that, to mark Jamaica's 60th anniversary as an independent country, a training institute should be set up for players in the entertainment and culture sectors. ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - After waiting almost four months to resume making a living, vendors at Melrose Yam Park have been permitted to reopen their stalls following approval by the local health authority.Speaking at yesterday's monthly...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness says that Jamaicans will start receiving digital COVID-19 vaccination certificates as of next Friday, December 17, and has assured that the document will provide all the relevant and required data pe...

Turks and Caicos Islands-based interCaribbean Airways will next month begin a scheduled weekly flight from that territory to Ian Fleming International Airport in St Mary, a development that Transport and Mining Minister Robert Montague...

Despite seizing 80 more firearms and 767 rounds of ammunition in 2021 than it did last year, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) still grapples with murders committed with the use of a gun.Just recently, cops seized eight firearms in o...

Today, Friday, December 10, 2021, is World Human Rights Day. Congregants of Christ Church, Vineyard Town, on Sunday, following the service in recognition of the day, mounted a display to educate the nation on the issues surrounding huma...

Today is the 344th day of 2021. There are 21 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1948: UN General Assembly in Paris unanimously adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Six members of the Soviet bloc, Saudi Arabia and South ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The long-standing issue of traffic congestion in this south-central town is to be reduced in the coming months, with plans advanced for a Greater Mandeville Traffic Management System."There will be more east-wes...

THE National Conservation Trust Fund of Jamaica (NCTFJ) has given grants to six entities whose nature-based proposals will help to pro vide solutions for economic recovery in Jamaica's protected areas. Grantees are The University of the...

MINISTER of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith has sought to dispel fears that the Andrew Holness Administration has not done enough to get well-needed supplies to Jamaican students in Cuba.In a release yesterday Joh...

Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett has announced that his ministry will be implementing a special Winter Tourist Season Capacity Building Support Programme for the island's craft traders. The Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) is spearhea...

The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) says that the new Tobacco Control Bill will create significant challenges for some commercial businesses.According to the chamber's CEO Larry Watson, the Bill appears to be written to deal with com...

The cheerful greetings and bright smiles from vendors selling in recently reopened Red Rose Fish Market at downtown Kingston were indications of how delighted they were with the facility's renovation. They told the Jamaica Observer tha...

LUCEA, HANOVER - HIV/AIDS data from the Ministry of Health and Wellness has painted a worrying trend in which resort parishes account for the highest number of cases, with St Ann showing the biggest jump in 2020. Between January of 1982...

STEER TOWN, St Ann - Jennifer Beckford suffered five strokes, leaving the left side of her body paralysed for over two years. She was confined to bed with no hope of ever being able to walk again. Then she got what she describes as "a v...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - For 51-year-old mechanic Richard Scott, life has been left upside down since receiving a frightening call on Monday that the place he called home for the past 38 years had gone up in flames.Scott, a resident of R...

Jafael Doman, otherwise called ''Bimmer'' of Barrett Hall, St James, who was wanted for murder, was arrested yesterday by detectives assigned to the Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime Investigation Branch during an operation on Dall...

A Jamaican medical centre in London, England, is now using cannabis-based therapies to treat cancer patients.The centre is operated by Apollon Formularies and its medical team, led by Dr Margaret Dingle Spence, is reportedly seeing posi...

DIGICEL Foundation has delivered on its promise to fund grants in each parish with $28 million in funding through the Build Jamaica grant programme. Nine of the 14 community-based organisations received cheques for $2 million each las...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Shane Munroe, chief executive officer the MBJ Airports Limited, the company which operates the Sangster International Airport (SIA), has announced that plans are in place to implement customer experience training...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC) - Minister of Education Priya Manickchand announced Wednesday that, when the next school term begins in January 2022, all students in grades 8 to 12 will be expected to return to full-day face-to-face classes, ...

WASHINGTON, United States (AP) - United States health authorities said yesterday that 16 and 17 year olds should get a booster dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine once they're six months past their last shot.The US and many other nations ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - United States President Joe Biden sounded an alarm about a global slide among democratic institutions yesterday as he convened the first White House Summit for Democracy. He called for world leaders to "lock arms" to s...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africa's regulatory authority has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as a booster shot, opening the way for third doses to be administered to battle the current surge driven by the Omicron variant. South Afri...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - A Chilean law permitting same-sex couples to marry and adopt was signed into law yesterday by President Sebastián Piñera in a ceremony attended by activists for LGBTand broader human rights.The ceremony came a l...

CHIEF Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor McKenzie says there is enough oxygen supply to manage a possible fourth wave of COVID-19.The CMO, addressing a Jamaica Observer Press Club at Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston yester...

MINISTER of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton says the Government is not harbouring any fears at this time that the introduction of booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines will aggravate hesitancy among those who have rejected the ja...

THE detective sergeant who was the driver of one of two police cars in a deadly 2019 operation to intercept armed gangsters aligned to the St Catherine-based Klansman gang, who were aboard a motor vehicle in the old capital, yesterday b...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The calls came swiftly yesterday for the resignation of councillor for the Montego Bay South Eastern Division Arthur Lynch, who was suspended by the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) after being charged with ille...

HEALTH Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says a review and reform of the maintenance schedule for hospitals will have to be implemented to prevent a recurrence of sick buildings within the public health sector.His comments come against the...

LEGENDARY Jamaican bass player Robbie Shakespeare was yesterday described as "one of a kind" by keyboardist Robbie Lyn, one of the many artistes and musicians who rode Sly and Robbie's Taxi label and had a front-row seat to Shakespeare'...

HEALTH-CARE workers across the island are complaining of shortage in supplies at hospitals, blaming the scarcity and lack on the health ministry's payment arrears with hospital suppliers.Workers who spoke with the Jamaica Observer said ...

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President Mauricio Claver-Carone (right) is met on arrivalat Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston yesterday by Ambassador Ricardo Allicock.Claver-Carone and a team from the IDB are in the...

DIGITA Global Marketing Limited (DGM), one of the Caribbean's fastest-growing digital solutions agencies, has signed an agreement with JMMB Group's Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Resource Centre (SMERC) to provide digital marketing a...

Today is the 343rd day of 2020. There are 22 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1995: In India, 75 million children get polio vaccines in an attempt to eradicate the crippling disease. OTHER EVENTS1625: England and United Provinces...

ST ANN'S BAY, St Ann - Two defence lawyers suggested yesterday that it would be a waste of the court's time to proceed with the case of illegal dumping brought against Speaker of the House of Representatives Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert a...

The Integrity Commission has increased its push for changes to Sections 53 and 56 of the legislation governing its operation.The entity says its commissioners and legal advisers have reviewed and considered the Integrity Commission Act ...

TWENTY-FIVE nurses from five hospitals in Kingston, St Andrew, and St Catherine were elated on Tuesday when the Sanmerna Foundation and the Sanmerna Paper Products Limited hailed them for their dedicated hard work before and during the ...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Natalie Scott-Douglas is still struggling to find comfort during what she describes as the "hardest time of her life", having lost her husband and their son five days apart. Karl Douglas, 55, died at St Ann's Bay Reg...

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) - With more than two dozen states poised to ban abortion if the United States Supreme Court gives them the okay next year, California clinics and their allies in the state legislature yesterday revealed a pla...

PROVIDENCE, R I (AP) - The number of Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 reached 200 million yesterday amid a dispiriting holiday-season spike in cases and hospitalisations that has hit even New England, one of the most highly i...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - At least 23 travellers were killed in north-west Nigeria in an attack by the same armed groups blamed for killing thousands this year in Africa's most populous country.Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said he is...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - A man was charged with arson and other crimes yesterday for setting fire to a 50-foot (15-meter) Christmas tree in front of Fox News headquarters in midtown Manhattan, police said.The artificial tree outsi...