DRAX HALL, St Ann - Starbucks is on track to open its first drive-through location in Jamaica later this month, its 12th outlet in the country and the second in St Ann. It will be located at Drax Hall, on the outskirts of the resort tow...

The education transformation commission launched by Prime Minister Andrew Holness in July says all members of school boards should be subject to training before they are appointed, and that a pool of potential members should be delineat...

THE board of management of the National Health Fund (NHF) has written to the Jamaica Constabulary Force requesting an investigation into the circumstances leading to the breakdown in the operation of one of its cold rooms.The incident o...

Former Jamaica Prime Minister PJ Patterson on Thursday described James Moss-Solomon as a towering Caribbean personality and said the region will miss his vision, strategic thinking, hands-on approach and world view.Patterson, who was t...

MOUNT SALEM, St James - The clinical coordinator for the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), Dr Delroy Fray, has disclosed that while the region has not seen a surge in hospitalisation from what appears to be an Omicron-induced fo...

PETERSFIELD, Westmoreland - Five men, including one who is believed to be the trigger man, have been taken into custody in connection with Tuesday's killing of two brothers from this rural western community. "They have apprehended all t...

Almost three-and-a-half years after he resigned from the Cabinet, Dr Andrew Wheatley is eyeing a return, but he will not be knocking on the door of Prime Minister Andrew Holness who has said he intends to make changes to the executive ...

EAST Fest, the St Thomas-based music festival organised by the sibling reggae band Morgan Heritage, could be returning to the local entertainment calendar very soon, COVID-19 permitting. Morgan Heritage member Gramps Morgan told the Jam...

General manager of ROK Hotel in Kingston Jaap van Dam greets children at Trench Town Reading Centre during a Christmas treat hosted by the hotel. Twenty children from the community benefited from the treat and were engaged in fun activi...

SCORES of worshippers who participated in high-spirited praise and worship session at Wednesday's National Day of Prayer at Power of Faith Ministries in Portmore, St Catherine, said it was a joyful occasion.For 46-year-old Tanya Edwards...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - There is deep concern over an alarming increase in reported cases of rape in this south-central parish. Police statistics show a 200 per cent increase for the period January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021 with 30 ...

Today is the seventh day of 2022. There are 358 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1999: The US Senate opens the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, the first such trial in 130 years. OTHER EVENTS1537: Alessandro de Medici...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Port Authority and tourism officials were, up to press time Thursday night, unable to provide information on Jamaica's decision to turn away a cruise ship that was scheduled to call on Ocho Rios.More than 1,300 p...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that a record 9.5 million COVID-19 cases were tallied over the last week as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus swept the planet, a 71 per cent increase fro...

SIX more families in Westmoreland are to benefit from Government's social housing programme, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie told a recent meeting of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation.These will ...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness is urging Jamaicans to take more personal responsibility in the fight against COVID-19 as the Government will have to refrain from using shielding measures. The shielding measures, Holness said, includes no...

POISON information coordinator at the Caribbean Poison Information Network (CARPIN), Sherika Whitelocke-Ballingsingh, says the Government's move towards protecting the Jamaican population from exposure to lead in paint is a step in the ...

ANGILEATA Taylor, a 23-year-old mother of three, does not have the resources and a family to turn to, so she is hoping a Good Samaritan can help her rebuild her two-bedroom house in Red Hills, St Andrew, which was destroyed by fire on B...

Prominent business leaders Douglas Orane, Donna Duncan-Scott and Peter Melhado will advocate the combination of spiritual and financial discliplines to achieve prosperity, in what is being dubbed "A 12-week Spiritual Prosperity Adventu...

New York, USA - Buoyed by the success of the ongoing assistance by three groups of United States-based Jamaican medical professionals in the fight against the novel coronavirus in their homeland, Consul General to New York Alsion Roach...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - President Joe Biden accused Donald Trump and his supporters of holding a "dagger at the throat of democracy" in a forceful speech Thursday, marking the anniversary of the deadly breach of the US Capi...

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - Security forces killed dozens of protesters and 12 police died during extraordinarily violent demonstrations in Kazakhstan that saw government buildings stormed and set ablaze, authorities said Thursday. One police...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung isn't bald. But he is enjoying the support of many bald voters over his push for government payments for hair loss treatments.Since his proposal was disclosed e...

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...