Fifty-one-year-old Spanish Town taxi driver Urel Christie's intuition has helped him to avoid countless dangerous situations in his almost two decades on the streets.But on one occassion, a few years ago, Christie did not follow "his m...

PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) Winston Smith is optimistic that the Government will return to the negotiating table with a better wage offer for educators.At a special virtual delegates' conference on Friday, teach...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Acknowledging that there are limitations to the effectiveness of states of public emergency (SOEs) and zones of special operations (ZOSOs), Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang says he is banking ...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Security Minister Dr Horace Chang is expressing concern over the growing trend of contract killings emerging across the island."It is an unfortunate trend that we are seeing emerging," the security ministe...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has assured Westmoreland residents that plans are in train for the establishment of a zone of special operation (ZOSO) to decrease the spiralling murder rate in the parish...

FIFTEEN days into the new year, Jamaica has recorded more than 40 murders, a trend that is worrying to Commissioner of Police Major General Antony Anderson.Anderson has vowed to recruit more members, the use of technology and other crim...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang says the Government will be increasing the penalty for people found with illegal firearms."The Government will be sending a message that it is going to treat ille...

EFFORTS to close the gap on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in Jamaica have received a boost with the Digicel Foundation making a $28-million donation towards the Coding in Schools programme. The found...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Blaming outsiders for the mound of garbage in front of the local high school, councillor for the Little London Division Ian Myles (PNP) is warning that the illegal dump poses a health threat for students a...

A section of the crowd in front of the Portland Parish Court on Thursday as people wait to get inside to deal with traffic violations. The court is located at Bryan's Bay in the Boundbrook section of Port Antonio and the nearby road was...

SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Thursday's introduction of a new parish manager of public cleansing at the National Solid Waste Management Agency (NSWMA) was the last straw for Spanish Town mayor and chairman of the St Catherine Municipal ...

ST ANN'S BAY, St Ann - Members of the St Ann Municipal Corporation are calling on the National Road Operating and Constructing Company Limited (NROCC) to take another look at what is being described as a poorly designed roundabout that ...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - After months of lobbying for repairs to be done to roads in his division that were damaged during two tropical storms last August, councillor for the Borrobridge Division Winston Brown (PNP) is finally getting his wi...

CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) - For the first time in half a year, families on Friday are going without a monthly deposit from the child tax credit - a programme that was intended to be part of President Joe Biden's legacy but has emer...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Questions still swirled up to late Thursday night about the gruesome murder of nine-year-old Gabriel King, which has not only shocked the nation, but has left a top lawman in St James calling for "additional powe...

RESIDENTS of Olympic Gardens in St Andrew said two men killed in the tough community Thursday by gunmen were innocent and hard-working members of the community.Dead are Marlon Madourie, who turned 41 in December, and 48-year-old Wayne S...

Denzmore Harriott has a great deal to be thankful for, and he is crediting the health-care professionals at Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) for helping him recover from the novel coronavirus.The 45-year-old, who has comorbidities, includ...

Today is the 14th day of 2022. There are 351 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1907: An earthquake in Jamaica destroys Kingston, takes 1,000 lives, and leaves 25,000 homeless. It causes fires across the capital and triggers a tsuna...

The Jamaica Education Transformation Commission (JETC) says the examination results at favoured high schools versus those from non-traditional institutions are not reliable because they do not take into account the stark gap in the soci...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - Two brand-new COVID-19 pills that were supposed to be an important weapon against the pandemic in the US are in short supply and have played little role in the fight against the Omicron wave of infec...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny - People's National Party's councillor for the Martha Brae Division Phillip Service is calling on central government to fund the installion of streetlights along the North Coast Highway in the parish.His call comes in...

Rev Sam McCook (left), chairman of National Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB) Committee; Courtney Campbell (second left), president and CEO, VM Group; Pastor Claudia Ferguson,vice-chairman NLPB; and Rev Major (Ret'd) Canute Chambers of...

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - Russia on Thursday sharply raised the stakes in its dispute with the West over Ukraine, with a top diplomat refusing to rule out a Russian military deployment to Cuba and Venezuela if tensions with the United State...

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) - Two US police officers who went off to hunt for Pokemon instead of responding to a robbery have been fired.Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell cruised the streets searching for fantastic creatures in the au...

MINISTER of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange announced Wednesday that the ministry plans to honour 60 women in March this year to mark the observance of International Women's Day and as part of the Jamaica 60 celeb...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness says a monitoring and oversight committee will be appointed by the end of January to publicly report on the roll-out of the recommendations recently put forward by the education transformation commission.Sp...

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP/AP) - The US Supreme Court delivered a blow to President Joe Biden on Thursday, blocking his COVID-19 vaccination-or-test mandate for large businesses.At the same time, the nation's highest court allowed a...

The National Works Agency (NWA) has again been rapped for lacking in its oversight of the restoration of roads after they are dug up to facilitate infrastructure works carried out by the National Water Commission (NWC).Public Defender A...

These two bus sheds (below) on Half-Way-Tree Road near the intersection with Oxford Road, and (above) on Hope Road across from King's House, the official home of the governor general, have each been captured by homeless men who live the...

BEIJING, China (AFP) - Imagine being on a first date you couldn't end? That's what happened to a woman in China whose video blogs about going into a citywide lockdown during a blind date have gone viral.More than 100 virus cases have be...

THE Ministry of Education is yet to pay and the University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica continues to hold on to the degrees of approximately 100 scholarship recipients, making life difficult for them.The teacher graduates say they are...

LONDON, England (AP) - Buckingham Palace said on Thursday that Prince Andrew's honorary military titles and royal patronages have been returned to Queen Elizabeth II with her "approval and agreement".More than 150 navy and army veterans...

SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Despite challenges resulting from the novel coronavirus pandemic, past students of Jose Marti Technical High School joined forces and presented several students and staff members with awards as well as schol...

A group of Canadian scientists has found that a compound in ganja could provide protection against pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19.However, the protection is not by smoking the 'weed' but by extracting synthetic canna...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Marjorie Segree is passionate about news but she's not a journalist. For the past 22 years she's been selling the Jamaica Observer newspaper on the streets of this resort town. Her loyal customers have dubbed her Mis...

MEMBERS of Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) yesterday dismissed explanations from Financial Secretary Darlene Morrison of her office's limited knowledge of how the finance ministry handles transacti...

CHAIRMAN of the Jamaica Police Federation Corporal Rohan James has blasted the Government for shorting the Chaplaincy Branch of the constabulary much-needed funds to tend to the psychological welfare of police officers, a number of whom...

A number of patients in need of oxygen and medical attention at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) in St Andrew Wednesday received care either in a driveway, a corridor, or under a tent in front of the Accident and Emerge...

Today is the 13th day of 2022. There are 352 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1992: Serial killer Jeffrey L Dahmer pleads guilty, but insane, to 15 mutilation killings in Milwaukee, United States. He is killed by a fellow prisoner...

RETIRED rector of the Church of The Ascension, Mona Heights, Canon Peter Mullings died on Tuesday following a brief illness.Mullings was minister for 59 years, serving the Mona Heights congregation for 37 years until his retirement in 2...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Chief executive officer at the Mandeville Regional Hospital Alwyn Miller says the experience of three waves of the novel coronavirus pandemic has put the facility in a better position to cope with the ongoing fo...

DELAYS in reconciliation of the bank accounts of the revenue collection agency have seen potential Government revenue for fiscal year 2020/21 not properly brought to account, according to the findings of the Auditor General Department's...

THE Auditor General's Department (AuGD) says $15.7 billion in financial risk has been uncovered in the Ministry of Finance and Planning in relation to public debt amoratisation and interest charges activities carried out between 2015 an...

Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis is reporting that there was an increase in whistle-blowers during the 2020/2021 financial year, with 34 reports received in comparison to only six that came to the attention of her department in the ...

With face-to-face school now in its second week, Opposition spokesperson on education and training Dr Angela Brown Burke is again calling on the Government to put plans in place for COVID-19 testing in schools."In many other jurisdictio...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Under the Tourism Workers Pension Scheme (TWPS) launched Wednesday, tourism sector workers now 59 and over will get the full $200,000 a year pension pay-out when they retire at age 65. The shortfall in their cont...

Q: Is the Consular Section currently operational in the face of the recent outbreak of COVID-19 and the dramatic up tick in positivity rates?The Consular Section has scaled down its operations somewhat in response to the latest COVID-19...

HEATHFIELD, St Elizabeth- It has been a challenge for Desrene Croff and her son, 13-year-old Leon Gray, to accept that Leon's father, Garnett, is no longer around.On the fourth day of the new year, 60-year-old Gray was chopped to death ...

The Eira Schader Home for the Aged in Trench Town in south St Andrew was in a shabby, run-down state in January 2016 and facing possible closure before it received a lifeline from the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast.Lloyd Ferguson,...

A number of political analysts on Tuesday raised eyebrows at the creation of a Ministry of Legal and Constitutional Affairs by Prime Minister Andrew Holness, expressing concern that it might be a replication of the justice ministry.Thei...