An appeal for Jamaicans to be careful of phoney leaders and regain their focus on morality as the country approaches its 60th anniversary of Independence was Wednesday made by Prime Minister Andrew Holness.Holness, who was speaking at W...

FRUSTRATED residents of Denver Crescent and nearby areas in Maverley, St Andrew, are threatening to block sections of Washington Boulevard to protest against what they describe as excessive electricity bills from Jamaica Public Service ...

JUST over 60 per cent of primary and secondary schools opened their doors this week, with 173 primary and 120 secondary institutions remaining online as the education ministry attempts to get students back into the classroom, following ...

JAMAICA Observer's All Woman magazine completed its first donation drive in aid of the Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF) Spanish Town centre Tuesday, with the handover of items collected for the adolescent mothers and their ba...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - President of Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Dr Lincoln Edwards says Jamaicans are set to benefit from basic bleeding control techniques, which will reduce loss of lives."Whenever there is an accident anywhe...

THERE is confusion this morning over whether former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education Dean-Roy Bernard and the woman who acted after he was shifted, Dr Grace McLean, will be asked to pay surcharges relating to $124 millio...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness Wednesday expressed his distress at the country's violent crimes, which he said has sidelined peace in communities and posed a challenge for him to sleep peacefully at nights. Holness shared this at the Na...

Today is the sixth day of 2022. There are 359 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1942: The Pan American Airways Pacific Clipper arrives in New York after making the first round-the-world trip by a commercial aeroplane. OTHER EVENTS...

Children in Franklin Town, St Andrew, were among scores of youngsters who were selected by Digicel employees to participate in employer-funded Christmas treats. Under a Digicel Foundation Employee Community Christmas Funding programme, ...

Mandeville , Manchester - Fear is on the rise in the border communities of southern Manchester and St Elizabeth in the wake of a spate of gun crimes including the murder of a construction worker on vacation from Cayman on Monday night.P...

SAGICOR Bank Jamaica has awarded three of its new Star Savers account holders with tuition grants valued at $150,000 each, and another three with "learning corners" complete with desks, chairs, laptops, and bookshelves to support their ...

Some primary school administrators in the Corporate Area are appealing to the Government to help them balance face-to-face classes with online classes by providing them with reliable Internet and Wi-Fi connectivity.With many schools sa...

The Supreme Ventures Foundation has again showed its commitment to improving national health with a $15-million commitment to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI).The donation w...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - The Portland Rehabilitation Management (PRM) Centre is now more equipped to care for the homeless and mentally ill who roam the streets of the parish.On December 30, CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank, throu...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Audrey Sutherland-Grant has been doing the extraordinary, showing up at school since last September to directly supervise some of her students for whom she thinks learning online while at home was not a good fit. "I ...

JAMES Moss-Solomon was Tuesday hailed as a patriot and independent thinker who made significant contributions to Jamaica's development in the areas of industry, academia, and public advocacy.Moss-Solomon, who had undergone surgery at Un...

SOME medical practitioners are reporting a surge in the number of people requesting COVID-19 tests, and an increase in positive results, mirroring the rise in the national numbers.Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton hi...

The United States Justice Department Tuesday debunked claims by local and international media that Colombian mercenary Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, who is implicated in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, would r...

PETERSFIELD, Westmoreland - The discovery early Tuesday morning of two brothers who had been fatally shot a few feet from their respective homes has left this community reeling and one of the dead men's partners pleading for a sit-down ...

Today is the 5th day of 2022. There are 360 days left in the year.TODAY IN HISTORY2000: US Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner Doris Meissner rules that six-year-old Elian Gonzalez "belongs with his father" and must be r...

COMMUTERS who depend on Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) buses to get to their various destinations in the Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region are fuming over the lengthy waiting times to get on a bus, which some say will get wor...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - One of three men who are to appear before the court on February 1 after being held in this parish has been linked to late St Andrew-based gangster Christopher "Dog Paw" Linton. According to the police, he was be...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - The Caribbean Community (Caricom) has condemned the armed attack on Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry and urged the Haitian authorities to address "this prevailing untenable security situation with urgency".A...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Even as hundreds of students returned to the classroom Monday for face-to-face classes in primary and secondary schools in Manchester and St Elizabeth, some administrators in both parishes have delayed the resum...

SCORES of children across the island were the happy beneficiaries of Christmas cheer last month as Burger King (BK) partnered with its individual and corporate customers to provide meals at various venues.In one of the collaborations wi...

Dear Mr Brown:Can you give me an update regarding the state of Omicron in Canada? I am hearing all kinds of conflicting information as to whether I can even travel to Canada and the restrictions in Ontario. - STDear ST:Canadian province...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - When regulations are tabled in Parliament for the amendments to the Road Traffic Act, a move expected this month, it will pave the way for heavier reliance on technology to nab those who break the law."We will be l...

FELLOWSHIP, Portland - The district of Fellowship in the Rio Grande Valley of Portland is blessed with three centenarians living within half a mile of each other.They are O'Neil McKenzie, 102; David Williams, 100; and Eulalie Campbell w...

Evidence that the deadly feud between the Darksyde and Genasyde gangs in the Kingston Central constituency since the 2020 General Election has damaged children psychologically is now emerging in how they relate to each other and the dr...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Educators at Godfrey Stewart High School in Savanna-la-Mar are hoping that when face-to-face classes officially resume there on January 10 the more than 50 per cent of their students who have not been regu...

Students of York Castle High School in St Ann make their way home after about two hours of orientation on Monday. They continue with online classes on Wednesday. School administrators will use this week to prepare for the resumption of ...

Today is the 4th day of 2022. There are 361 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1974: US President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. OTHER EVENTS1762: Brit...

Administrators at a number of primary schools in the capital city beamed with joy Monday as their students returned for face-to-face learning that was disrupted by the novel coronavirus pandemic.The administrators said that they, along ...

CHILDREN, teachers and parents were excited Monday as some some schools in St Catherine reopened for face-to-face classes yesterday at the start of the Easter term, following a directive given last week by the education ministry.The wea...

SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Even as many schools delayed resumption of face-to-face classes, the Jamaica Railway Corporation's (JRC) much-trumpeted train service for St Catherine students did not begin rolling on the first Monday of th...

PRELIMINARY numbers by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) have shown 1,463 murders committed across the island last year. This was 132 or almost 10 per cent above the murder total for 2020.The troubled St Andrew South Police Division,...

MARIO Antonio Palacios Palacios, the Colombian who is wanted in Haiti after being linked to the July 7, 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, was deported to his home country on Monday based on a Supreme Court ruling last Frid...

LONGWOOD DISTRICT, Clarendon - Seventy-one year-old Sylvina Burke and four other relatives in this rural community are homeless after a New Year's Eve fire swept through their two-bedroom house. The family is short on food, an envelope ...

New York, USA - He was only three years old when he had his first encounter with an aeroplane, but it would leave an indelible impact on his young mind and later help define his life for a career in aviation.Now, 35 years later, First ...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport (MCGES) Olivia Grange says that the Jamaican Diaspora will be playing a major role in this year's Diamond Jubilee celebration of Independence."The Jamaican Diaspora will be fully enga...

Acc ording to the language of the streets, the Christmas treat for the children of Waterhouse in Kingston 'shat', as was evident in the screams of delight and the joy on the faces of the young ones enjoying the annual affair on Boxing ...

THE Kiwanis Club of West St Andrew (KCWSA) was in full swing over the Christmas holidays, hosting a number of treats reflective of the spirit of giving synonymous with the Yuletide season and to spread Christmas cheer to young and old. ...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness said the country was breathing a sigh of relief that "we made it through one of the most challenging years, globally, nationally, and personally, in our lifetimes". In his New Year's Day message, Holness s...

THE Opposition People's National Party (PNP) has expressed deep sadness at the passing of firebrand women's rights activist, Dr Glenda Simms.In a statement Sunday, Senator Scott-Mottley, Opposition spokesperson on justice and gender Aff...

MIRAMAR, United States - One day before she celebrated her 100th birthday, Keturah Wright longed for a pack of cheese trix and a drink of kola champagne soda, obviously not worried about the many warnings about unhealthy things to avoid...

Today is the third day of 2022. There are 362 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2003: Street protests turn deadly in Caracas, Venezuela, as police struggle in vain to separate battling supporters and opponents of President Hugo Cha...

The Kiwanis Club on North St Andrew's (KCNSA) Mentorship and Skill Development Programme at Matthew 25:40, operated by the Mustard Seed Communities, recently hosted Christmas celebrations.The members of KCNSA, along with representative...

THE women of the maroons of Jamaica have called for recognition of their rights as indigenous people and said much healing of the rifts and divisions now has to be done.In a joint statement issued on New Year's Eve, the Maroon Indigenou...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - The remains of Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, were interred early yesterday during a private family service at the city's Anglican cathedral.Archbish...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AFP) - A huge fire destroyed a large part of South Africa's parliament yesterday as police said a suspect will appear in court in the week and firefighters struggled to bring the blaze completely under control.D...