Concerned about the build up of traffic and the spread of the novel coronavirus in Ocho Rios, St Ann, Councilor Michael Belnavis (Ocho Rios, Jamaica Labour Party) is urging the police to clear the streets of the resort town of what he s...

Commodore Antonette Wemyss-Gorman (left) participates in Wednesday's rehearsal at Up Park Camp, headquarters of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), ahead of Friday's chief of defence staff change of command. She will become the first woman...

Chief public health inspector for St Mary, Rupert Stephens, has appealed for councillors in this parish to help him lobby for the re-engagement of 60 temporary workers to assist in tackling the parish's mosquito problem.According to St...

Adam Stewart (centre), executive chairman of ATL Automotive Group, cuts the ceremonial ribbon at the launch of ATL Automotive Bodyworks in Montego Bay, St James, Wednesday. From left: Patrick Wilson, group managing director at ATL Autom...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - A change of routine may well have resulted in the tragic death of a one-year-old girl after she was left for hours unattended in her father's car.A relative who asked not to be named told the Jamaica Observer...

MEMBER of Parliament (MP) for St Andrew East Rural Juliet Holness has demanded an apology for former chairman of the HEART/NSTA Trust Edward Gabbidon for what she believes is the injustice meted out to him in the court of public opinion...

The Port Antonio Hospital has received another defibrillator from the Lions Club of Port Antonio.The donation was made last Thursday after the club received a donation from a Jamaican who now lives overseas.In making the presentation, ...

THE employment contract of Dr Janet Dyer, former head of the HEART/NSTA Trust, which has been at the centre of controversy in recent months, was not renewed after she admitted to authorising salaries in April 2020 for senior management ...

A man was injured following a drive-by shooting which took place on Rousseau Road in St Andrew Wednesday afternoon.According to a police source, the man was taken to hospital after the incident, which occurred in front of Wilso's Saloon...

QUICK action from firefighters from the Half-Way-Tree, York Park and Trench Town fire stations i n Kingston and St Andrew wasn't enough to save Best Radiator from being destroyed by fire at Bronstorph Square in Washington Boulevard, St ...

THE new headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, located at 2 Port Royal Street, downtown Kingston, was officially named The Hugh Lawson Shearer Building, in honour of the late former prime minister, on Wednesd...

Jamaica is expected to start receiving three flights per week from the European countries of Belgium and the Netherlands.Flights are scheduled to land in Montego Bay, St James, by TUI Belgium and TUI Netherlands by April of this year.T...

SEVERAL schools in the Corporate Area are pushing ahead with face-to-face classes despite the sharp rise of COVID-19-positive cases in the past two weeks. Some parents, as well as doctors, have, however, questioned whether physical clas...

With just under 1,400 people vaccinated over the past three months through its series of immunisation drives, the JN Foundation will commence a new round of efforts to encourage and assist to increase the numbers of Jamaicans vaccinate...

Today is the 20th day of 2022. There are 345 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1998: Dr James Robl at the University of Massachusetts and Dr Steven Stice of Advanced Cell Technology Inc announce that they have successfully cloned t...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) - Face masks will no longer be mandatory in public places and COVID-19 passports will be dropped for large events as infections level off in most parts of the country, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sai...

BROWN'S TOWN, St Ann - The police in this parish will be keeping an eye out for certain models of cars as they step up efforts to curb crime and dampen the increasing number of fatalities on the roads. "We are trying to do traffic enfor...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - More than 1,000 pregnant women in Trinidad and Tobago have contracted COVID-19 since the first case linked to the pandemic was detected here two years ago, a senior medical official said Wednesday.The dire...

LUCEA, Hanover - The police high command is now investigating allegations that a senior cop, attached to the Hanover Police Division, hosted a party in the parish recently."I can't say if this happened but I will definitely look into it...

Corporal Rohan James, chairman of the Jamaica Police Federation, has said it appears the current Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Government has broken the promise it made when in Opposition in 2016, of ensuring proper remuneration for rank ...

ST Catherine Member of Parliament Dr Andrew Wheatley said Tuesday that the Government is convinced that the municipality of Portmore deserves the right to become Jamaica's first new parish in 155 years."I am not a sentimental man but as...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - The Black River Hospital (BRH) has benefited from donations aimed at improving health care in rural Jamaica. On Wednesday, January 12, the hospital received two phototherapy lamps for its Paediatric Unit from...

THE Integrity Commission has referred a report to the Attorney General's Department and the Ministry of Finance for action to be taken against the chief executive officer of the St Ann Municipal Corporation for breaches of government gu...

NEWLY minted Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte says her ministry will take on the task of fixing the current "chaos" in the legislative process, which has, among other things, seen significant lag in the...

STRATHBOGIE, Westmoreland - Seven-year-old Nayla often prayed God would keep her mother, 25-year-old Shadae Foster, safe. Now the young girl and the rest of her family are looking to Him for strength to cope with Foster's gruesome murd...

MOORE PARK, St James - It was a very solemn thanksgiving service at Hillview Memorial Gardens here for Taneka Gardner, who was, on Sunday, October 17, 2021, killed during a ritual at Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries...

Today is the 19th day of 2022. There are 346 days left in the yearTODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2004: A Japanese team that returns from a mission to investigate the United States' first confirmed case of mad cow disease warns that American and Canad...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Police here say they are responding with intelligence-driven operations to concerns about migrant criminals committing crimes in the south-central parish.Speaking at last Thursday's monthly meeting of the local ...

THE finance ministry is mulling over whether surcharge action is to be taken against responsible officers, in the loss of $8.6 million in overpayments by the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA), to five former employees between May and Oc...

OPPOSITION spokesman on health Dr Morais Guy says the health conditions of people with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) will worsen with public hospitals being restricted to deal with only emergency cases.The Ministry of Health and Well...

As many of the 3,449 Jamaicans left homeless due to fires between 2020 and 2021 can attest, recovering from a blaze that consumed almost everything you own is not easy.Invariably, after a fire, there are anguished appeals for help and a...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - The fast-moving Omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, but COVID-19 deaths in the US are climbing and modellers forecast 50,000 to 300,000 more Americans could die by the time the ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Councillors from both political sides of the Manchester Municipal Corporation are in disagreement over the proposed reopening of the Waltham abattoir, a slaughterhouse and meat processing facility in Mandeville,...

LOCAL placement agencies could see more students participating in this year's BridgeUSA programme when compared to the last two years which have been impacted by the novel coronavirus pandemic.But Cavalee Freeman, public relations offic...

NOT a day goes by without Louise Lawrence giving her crops a warm greeting before tending to them at her greenhouse in Watt Town, St Ann.Conversing with the plants, she believes, will help them to produce in abundance."I tell them 'Good...

RAPOSA SERRA DO SOL, Brazil (AP) - The mining encampment that stretches across a mountainside in Brazil's Amazon is dotted with plastic tarpaulin covers. Under them, dozens of men toil in rocky pits, excavating sacks of ore to be transp...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - THIRTY-FIVE junior managers and supervisors who recently completed the leadership bootcamp at Sandals Montego Bay have given a thumbs up to the groundbreaking development programme.The intensive 12-week initiativ...

Retired Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police Newton Amos wants cops to automatically qualify for private gun licences, and for it to be mandatory for civilians seeking to become legal gun owners to formally become part of the country...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - The police say they are reaping success in sections of the Savanna-la-Mar South area of this parish which is currently in its second day under a zone of special operations (ZOSO). More than 20 persons of i...

LOCAL businesswoman Kareema Muncey has called on the Government to implement a no-discrimination policy in the workplace and in schools to protect the rights of women who identify themselves as Muslims in Jamaica.Muncey, the chief execu...

THE South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) has frozen all leave applications and directed health-care workers on non-essential leave to return to work as its facilities buckle under the weight of the fourth wave of the novel coron...

SENIOR defence attorney Lloyd McFarlane has disputed talk that there is bias amongst defendants towards jury trials, instead asserting that dates for judge alone trials are being taken up rapidly.In an interview with the Jamaica Observe...

Today is the 18th day of 2022. There are 347 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2007: A woman who disappeared in the jungles of north-eastern Cambodia is found 19 years later. The woman - identified as Rochom P'ngieng, 27 - does not...

COMMISSIONER Of Police Major General Antony Anderson says the seventh zone of special operations (ZOSO) declared in Parade Gardens, Kingston, is yielding some results.The ZOSO was declared by Prime Minister Andrew Holness on January 9. ...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Even as the country faces an upsurge in murders, new head of the St Elizabeth police Superintendent Dwight Daley is confident that the south-central parish will continue to benefit from the gains of his prede...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - Councillor for the Hayes Division, Scean Barnswell (PNP) has expressed doubt in this parish's May Pen and Lionel Town hospitals' ability to take on the additional patient load by the time the fourth wave of the pand...

NEW YORK, United States (CMC) - New York police have arrested and charged a Jamaican-born man in the deadly shooting of a 19-year-old restaurant manager in East Harlem, Manhattan.Police have detained, without bail, Winston Glynn, 30, ch...

GOVERNMENT Senator Kavan Gayle says that flexible work arrangements (FWA) have become more relevant to Jamaica's labour relations since the current COVID-19 crisis, than they has ever been.Pushing for increased reference to these arrang...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - Forced to take pictures to prove her team is working so she could hold on to her job, National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) Zonal Manager Opal Samuels has hit back at constant criticism from the Clarendo...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - The Guyana Government Monday confirmed that 15 children have died as a result of the novel coronavirus, since the country recorded its first case of the virus in March 2020.Overall, Guyana has registered 1,905...