PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Flooding triggered by torrential rain in Haiti left four people dead and one missing, authorities said Tuesday.Violent weather affected at least 20 districts across Haiti in recent days, flooding more than 2,500 ...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Local sporting officials Wednesday night welcomed an earlier revelation by Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton that the Cabinet has given favourable consideration to a recommendation to allo...

TEACHERS who practise their craft without being licenced and registered with the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) could find themselves facing up to a half-million dollars in fines, or jail time.This is one of the provisions in the JTC Bi...

A Jamaica Public Service (JPS) contract technician was injured Wednesday while working on a power line was still being treated in hospital last night. However, it could not be ascertained how serious his condition was.The light and powe...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - Face-to-face classes have been suspended indefinitely at Port Maria Primary School as administrators ponder the cumbersome task of clearing classrooms and the school compound of silt and debris dumped there Tuesd...

Head of the Duhaney Park Police Station Deputy Superintendent Coleridge Minto is pleased with the reduction of murders in the community since the start of this year when compared to the same period last year.Minto told the Jamaica Obse...

HEAD of the St Ann Police Division Senior Superintendent Dwight Powell and his team have introduced several measures to reduce gridlock on major roads in the parish in recent times.Motorists are currently facing lengthy delays when trav...

Today is the 34th day of 2022. There are 331 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1962: US President John F Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba. OTHER EVENTS1112 Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting th...

The joy of receiving technological devices were evident on the faces of children and educators at Salvation Army School for the Blind in St Andrew on Wednesday. The institution was presented with 21 computers, a multipurpose printer an...

A senior official in Jamaica's health and wellness ministry is assuring that the country has no worries, at this time, over its capacity to handle the additional loads of medical waste resulting from its response to the novel coronaviru...

SPUR TREE, Manchester - Two road safety experts say inexperienced drivers, overweight and defective vehicles are among the main causes for fatalities on the crash-prone Spur Tree Hill main road in Manchester.The crucial road links Mande...

ST ANN, Jamaica - While the authorities in this parish continue their assessment of the damage caused by flooding on Tuesday, they are blaming illegal dumping and the improper disposal of construction material for much of the woes exper...

THE prosecution in the ongoing trial involving 33 alleged members of the Klansman gang Tuesday managed to regain its footing with the evidence being marshalled, relating to the 2018 murder of a deported Rastafarian man on Jones Avenue, ...

Displaying a seized AK-47 rifle at a news conference on Tuesday afternoon, Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson made the point that local criminals are well-equipped with "weapons of war", but said that strategies and inte...

Today is the 33rd day of 2022. There are 332 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1999: Hugo Chavez takes office as Venezuela's president, seven years after he tried to overthrow the government in a military coup. OTHER EVENTS1535: A...

HEAD of Nutrition Products Limited (NPL) Andrew Narine says when it restarts operations in April, the company will be providing reformulated products for the nation's public school children, and that it is also working to include a line...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - Major flooding in the seaside town of Port Maria on Tuesday morning left residents and the authorities grappling with a massive clean-up bill and reignited calls for an improved drainage network to help lessen the ...

REGULATIONS for the new Road Traffic Act finally made their way to Parliament on Tuesday, after three years since the passage of the Bill, which had seen Government and Opposition at loggerheads up to November.The Administration and the...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke yesterday assured the House of Representatives that the reconstruction process at the Government's part-owned bauxite/alumina company JAMALCO is on track.Responding to questions...

PIGGERY, Portland - Heavy rains and winds in eastern Portland between Monday night and Tuesday morning left several roads, farms and about eight houses flooded, downed trees, and knocked out electricity in the communities of Bellevue, W...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - AS far as to-do lists go, preserving Jamaica's physical size and shape as we know them is a big-ticket item for Senator Matthew Samuda in his new role as minister with responsibility for the climate change agenda.Sam...

THE Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has commenced an investigation into the discharge of a firearm by the police observed in a social media video highlighting a high-speed chase of a motorist along Manning's Hill Road...

Liberty Academy at the Priory student Lianna Burgess (seated) gives a thumbs up with (L-R) Sagicor Life financial advisor Nicolene Taylor; Liberty Academy at the Priory staff members Suzanne Williams, founder and executive director, and...

URGENT calls were made on Monday by youth parliamentarians to enhance the educational support for marginalised children who are suffering immensely from learning loss since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic.Representing St Tho...

RESIDENTS of Pembroke Hall, St Andrew, are confident there will be a cutback in disputes and violent crimes with the presence of the restorative justice centre in the area.The centre was officially opened on Tuesday as part of activitie...

TORONTO, Canada (AP) - In a scene at odds with Canadians' reputation for niceness and rule-following, thousands of protesters railing against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions descended on the capital over the weekend, de...

Dear Mr Brown, Scotia Group Jamaica has announced that it will close branches and convert others to a digital operating model. The truth is that Scotiabank Canada is undergoing a restructuring exercise as it is looking to move away from...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Sixteen young men from at-risk communities in Manchester have benefited from entrepreneurship training and support through the philanthropic efforts of Young Women/Men of Purpose (YWOP/YMOP), a non-profit organi...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester North Western Mikael Phillips is calling on the Government to focus more on early childhood education instead of the proposed Sixth-Form Pathways programme.Regarding the ...

Due to space limitations the following is an edited version of the ruling in the Floyd Green matter by the Office of Director of Public Prosecutions.BackgroundThis matter involves an alleged birthday celebration which is believed to hav...

A number of Jamaicans in the capital city on Monday give mixed responses to the ruling by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) that no criminal charges ought to be brought against former agriculture minister, Floyd G...

NEW DELHI, i ndia (AP) - It's mandatory to wear a mask in India. And police are out on the streets, watching people to make sure they are in place.People caught without wearing a mask are fined. Some local governments, like the one in ...

WASHINGTON, USA (AP) - US regulators are urging drugmaker Pfizer to apply for emergency authorisation for a two-dose regimen of its COVID-19 vaccine for children 6 months to 5 years old while awaiting data on a three-dose course, aiming...

Lelieth Lennon thanked God for extending mercy to her and her family Monday evening as firefighters from Half-Way-Tree Fire Station put out a blaze that destroyed her six-bedroom house and a home-based business run by herself and her da...

GREEN TOWN, Trelawny - Up to late Monday afternoon the Trelawny police were seeking a man in connection with the brutal murder of his estranged lover who was hacked to death on her yam farm here Monday morning.The deceased has been iden...

A detective corporal and forensic crime scene photographer on Monday admitted to being unable to account for photographs he took while processing the scene of the February 2018 slaying, allegedly by members of the Klansman gang, of a ma...

YOUTH parliamentarians on Monday charged that family homes have transformed into lions' dens instead of havens and simultaneously called for heavier fines to be applied to domestic violence and assault cases that appear before the court...

Vilores "Sister Vi" Goodman, matriarch of the Twelve Tribes of Israel Rastafarian organisation, died at her home in Kingston Monday. She was 85 years old.Her daughter, Tashai Carrington, who confirmed Goodman's death, said her mother ha...

IT'S been a good start to 2022 for St James resident Byron Walker.Last Thursday, Walker, who is physically challenged, was gifted with a new wheelchair courtesy of Sandals Royal Caribbean repeat guests John and Ann Bechthold.What makes ...

BROWN'S TOWN, St Ann - The ongoing $40-million facelift this town is receiving is expected to be complete by March, but its impact is expected to last a lot longer."I want Brown's Town to be a legacy in terms of Jamaica 60 [Independence...

BANKS are issuing assurances that they have introduced products which will allow customers to save on fees.Scotiabank has also delayed planned fee increases for six months, while Jamaica National Bank indicates that fees that were imple...

THE Urban Development Corporation (UDC) has appointed Robert Honeyghan as its new general manager. Honeyghan, who took up duties on Monday, replaces Heather Pinnock who resigned from the post effective October 31, 2021, having served tw...

Amid the row between customers and commercial banks on the increase in fees amid the slow economic recovery and inflationary environment, JMMB Group Limited has welcomed the dialogue on fees charged by deposit-taking institutions (DTI)...

MINISTER of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie has reaffirmed Government's commitment to complete work to enhance information transmission before, during, and after a disaster under the Project for Improvement of Em...

Today is the 32nd day of 2022. There are 333 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1960: Four black college students begin a sit-in protest at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, where they'd been refused se...

ST LOUIS, United States (AP) - Angela Stamps won't drink water from her faucet, showers less and no longer takes the baths she once found relaxing. She doesn't cook with tap water and sometimes skips rinsing her produce.Even though the ...

St Elizabeth native Keturah "Grammie" Wright was the toast of the South Florida city of Miramar, United States, on January 26, 2022, following a January 3 Jamaica Observer story which highlighted the celebration of her 100th birthday.Th...

MINISTER without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister Floyd Green will not face criminal charges for his alleged participation in a birthday party on a no-movement day last September.Green, the Member of Parliament for St Eliza...

THE Mico University College Alumni Association (MOSA) Sunday honoured 99-year-old member, Roxie Stephenson, at its 100th anniversary service.Stephenson - a dedicated teacher for most of her life - spent the last 15 years of her career a...

Evangelist Althea Stoddart (right) ministers to Opal Clarke at the 2022 Woman Ignite Success Summit at the Courtleigh Auditorium in New Kingston on Saturday.(Photo: Jason Tulloch)