A teenager aligned to the St Catherine-based Klansman gangsters gave City Puss - allegedly a top lieutenant in the gang who is serving time - credible information about planned searches by warders way ahead of time and also told him who...

TOKYO, Japan (AP) - World leaders sought Wednesday to back up their tough words over Russia's aggression against Ukraine, announcing financial sanctions, trade and travel bans and other measures meant to pressure Moscow to pull back fro...

Jamaican businessman William Massias, who is now living in Ukraine with his family, is not fearful of Moscow's sabre-rattling, but says he's watching the situation closely with an eye on returning to the island if it develops into war....

AS the Russian war drums continue to beat around the Eastern Europe-based Ukraine, the Jamaican Government has moved to allay fears that it has abandoned it citizens, mainly medical students, in that country.Responding to questions at a...

A World Bank/UNICEF review of Jamaica's education sector says that, while the country's spending on education has remained relatively high, it has not resulted in the expected learning outcomes.World Bank Human Development Programme lea...

SEVERAL residents of Trinityville, St Thomas, say their daily lives are being disrupted because the National Water Commission's (NWC) supply to their community is inconsistent. The residents say this makes necessary tasks such as washin...

DESPITE an estimated $200 million in losses, Ray Ray Market vendors on Wednesday offered praises to 33 firefighters from three fire stations in Kingston and St Andrew who managed to control a blaze which destroyed a section of the marke...

The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is reporting that the ward of the State who was shot while attempting to abscond the Metcalfe Street Secure Juvenile Remand Centre has died. The name of the ward is being withheld as he is ...

Today is the 55th day of 2022. There are 310 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2008: Raul Castro replaces brother Fidel as Cuba's president. OTHER EVENTS1525: Spanish army, using muskets for the first time in war, routs French and...

THE joint select committee (JSC) reviewing the country's 2015 cybercrimes law is divided on a proposal by the education ministry for provisions from the Child Pornography Prevention Act to be subsumed into cybercrimes legislation, to br...

SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - A businessman is among people pondering their fate after a pre-dawn fire on Monday ravaged two buildings, leaving an estimated $50 million in losses.The blaze affected a furniture shop and a five-bedroom hou...

Agnes Jones-Graham is considering herself blessed after another birthday found her in good health. Jones-Graham reached 101 years old last Saturday and celebrated with her family and friends at her home in New Works, Westmoreland."Than...

" Policy goal met."That was how Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke responded to Tuesday's finale to his efforts to settle the outstanding 2021/22 pay issues with the Government's employees. Having achieved full ...

EMERGENCY responders in St James were kept busy Sunday and Monday this week having to deal with fatal crashes in the parish.A woman, a child and an adult male are listed among the three fatalities of three motor vehicle crashes that occ...

An increasing number of household workers have fallen prey to sexual harassment on the job during the COVID-19 crisis as more employers are now working from home, according to Shirley Pryce who heads the association that represents thos...

TORONTO, Canada - Canada is easing COVID-19 testing regulations for travellers, the country's health minister announced on Tuesday.Starting February 28, the country will no longer require polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for fully ...

Jamaica has joined a number of countries around the world that have started lifting some COVID-19 restrictions, but the Government is playing cautious by keeping the emergency brake engaged.In a late evening address to the nation on Tu...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Regional operations manager for the Southern Parks and Markets (SPM) Waste Management Limited Edward Muir says the agency has increased its nightly operations working to clear a pile-up of garbage in some commun...

NEW DELHI, India (AFP) - Bibhu Prakash Swain believed in soulmates and true love, or so he told at least 18 women he allegedly married and conned across India before his arrest - weeks before his next two weddings.The diminutive 67-year...

Andre "Blackman" Bryan, the alleged leader of the One Don faction of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang, from behind bars learnt of his crumbling empire, which not only saw his men turning away from him, but also signing a "peace" tr...

Today is the 54th day of 2022. There are 311 days left in the year.TODAY' S HIGHLIGHT2000: Preston King, a black man who refused induction into the Army in the 1960s because the all-white draft board wouldn't address him as "Mr", return...

PRIVATE sector groups have welcomed the increases in the national minimum wage announced on Tuesday, but are prompting the Government to advance steps to determine a liveable wage, and to try to bring the salaries of the country's lowes...

LEADERS in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry have rejected allegations made by employees who said they were experiencing unfair treatment in a slavery-like working environment. The Jamaica Observer's lead story on Monday r...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Shocked by Russian President Vladimir Putin's order to deploy troops to separatist regions of eastern Ukraine, world leaders moved quickly Tuesday to impose as forceful a response as possible in hopes of avertin...

M ANDEVILLE, Manchester - Two men were on Tuesday killed in a crash on the Gutters main road at the foot of Spur Tree Hill near the Manchester/St Elizabeth border.Police named the deceased as 21-year-old Nevardo Brown and 25-year-old Om...

THE long-simmering dispute involving the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) and some gun dealers, which boiled over into the public space last week, is getting hotter.The dispute, which sources say has been ongoing for more than three ye...

MOSCOW (AP) - The East-West face-off over Ukraine escalated dramatically Tuesday, with Russian lawmakers authorising President Vladimir Putin to use military force outside his country and President Joe Biden and European leaders respond...

GENEVA (AP) - The number of new coronavirus cases around the world fell 21 per cent in the last week, marking the third-consecutive week that COVID-19 cases have dropped, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday.In the UN health...

D ear Mr Brown,What happens if the private school that I am attending shuts down? Does it mean that I have to return to Jamaica? I hear that the school is having financial difficulties because of the pandemic and a lot of study permit r...

NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks fell on Wall Street in afternoon trading Tuesday after Russia sent forces into Ukraine's eastern regions, escalating tensions. The US, European Union and the UK responded with sanctions.The S&P 500 was down 0....

CHILDREN'S Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison is supporting a call by the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) for more dedicated and sustained psychological support and intervention for juveniles in the country's penal system."We se...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - As Sandals resorts across the Caribbean continue efforts to care for the physical and mental welfare of their team members, the staff at Sandals Royal Caribbean were recently treated to a special day of rejuvenation ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The Island Traffic Authority (ITA) has vowed to increase its mobile scale operations in order to clamp down on overweight vehicles, which it says are major contributors to deplorable road conditions and motor ve...

THE Ministry of Health and Wellness will be spending more than $2 billion on the Prevention and Care Management of NonCommunicable Diseases (NCDs) Programme in the 2022/23 fiscal year.The programme has an objective of improving the heal...

THE board of Skibo Primary School has secured 13 more tablets for needy students at the Portland-based institutionThe board was informed of the need for tablets for some students at its first meeting by way of a report by the school's a...

House Speaker Marissa Dalrymple-Philibert and her two co-accused are said to be relieved after hearing a judge's ruling that freed them of a charge of illegal dumping, brought under the National Solid Waste Management Act.In handing dow...

THE Government on Monday made a major step towards settling the year-long dispute with thousands of its employees over salary adjustments.After signing a new wage pact with the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), Minister of Finance an...

CHIEF of Defence Staff Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman and Prime Minister Andrew Holness are confident that the recent acquisition of six protected mobility vehicles (PMVs) for the Jamaica Defence Force will help to cauterise the c...

THE relatives of 53-year-old Lloyd Davis, the Bethsalem, St Elizabeth, farmer who was shot dead, allegedly by an off- duty cop in Accompong on January 6, are growing frustrated that the post-mortem has not yet been conducted. Almost two...

LILLIPUT, St James - Howard Fitzgerald was inconsolable on Monday.He had lost his 12-year-old son Jeff Anthony Fitzgerald in the very manner he had tried to prevent. The seventh-grade student at Spot Valley High School in St James, who ...

The damage to roads and other public infrastructure in three parishes due to heavy rain and flooding has left millions of dollars in damage, according to Local Government and Rural Development Minister Desmond McKenzie."The infrastruct...

The man who claims to have served under two administrations of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang has sworn allegiance to the current alleged leader Andre "Blackman" Bryan despite being behind bars for a murder he claimed to have carr...

Littering the stomping ground of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang with dismembered bodies of disloyal gangsters was the ultimate means of sending a message to those who had turned against accused leader Andre "Blackman" Bryan after...

LONDON, England (AP) - Northern Europe was battered by the third major storm in five days, with heavy rains and high winds on Sunday and Monday killing at least two more people, disrupting travel and prompting hundreds of flood alerts a...

LONDON, England (AP) - Scientists warned the British Government on Monday not to weaken the country's ability to monitor and track coronavirus after Prime Minister Boris Johnson ends the requirement for people in England to self-isolate...

Today is the 53rd day of 2022. There are 312 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1997: Scientists in Scotland announce they have succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly". (Dolly, however, was later put dow...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) - US intelligence suggests any Russian invasion of Ukraine would employ a particularly brutal strategy to "crush" the civilian population, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Monday.The White...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - With all eyes on a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is sending his top security envoy to the Balkans where Moscow has been trying to maintain influence mainly through its all...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Irate members of the Rastafarian community have indicated that they are planning to demonstrate in front of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) this week in protest against the decision of DPP...

BUFF BAY, Portland - Staff and students of Buff Bay High School in western Portland are mourning the loss of Nicholas Barnes, a grade 12 student who collapsed and died at the school just over a week ago.Barnes was at training when he c...