SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - There is a gathering storm over the appointment of a new board of management for St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS).Members of the STETHS fraternity are incensed that there was no consultation with th...

CALABAR High School and St Jago High School will showdown for the final of the 2022 Schools' Challenge Quiz today. Both team captains - Matthew Aiken of Calabar and Leroy Cassanova of St Jago - are ecstatic their teams have advanced to ...

POLICE investigators along with relatives and close friends of murdered Mighty Diamonds lead singer, Donald Shaw, popularly known as "Tabby Diamond", have the unwanted task of piecing together a puzzle to the mystery behind the shooting...

JAMAICA is set to receive a US$30 million dollar investment after Prime Minister Andrew Holness and US Vice-President Kamala Harris met on Wednesday in the first of several meetings with US top officials in Washington, DC this week.Harr...

Today is the 90th day of 2021. There are 275 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1995: Tejano singing star Selena, 23, is shot to death in Corpus Christi, Texas, by founder of her fan club. Yolanda Saldivar is later convicted of murd...

AMIDST concerns raised by rights watchdog Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) about utterances by Prime Minister Andrew Holness indicating support for the reimposition of the death penalty, Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene M...

Patricia Jenkins Jarrett Wright, affectionately known by many as 'PJ', has died. Wright passed at her Montego Bay home on the morning of Wednesday, March 30. She was 69.Wright, who revolutionised the hair, beauty, fashion and style ind...

TORTUGA International has officially opened its retail kiosk inside Sangster International Airport (SIA) in St James.The opening signifies a culmination of a two-year project which supports the company's new thrust into international ma...

Supreme Ventures Limited (SVL) has signed an agreement with education and technology company EduFocal which will allow its customers to top up their EduFocal accounts through SVL's 'ChargeUp' platform.EduFocal is an online learning and ...

ROGERS Land Development Limited and its director, Richard Rogers, was last week fined $1.9 million in the Sutton Street Tax Court for making a false declaration, a breach of Section 99 (1) of the Income Tax Act.The company and its direc...

CHAPELTON, Clarendon - Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang is optimistic that by providing youngsters with jobs that pay $50,000 weekly, in some cases, the Government will be able to break the cycle of continuous criminal acti...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - With residents of this parish blaming stray animals for everything from traffic mishaps to unwelcome foraging in farmers' fields and eating clothing hung out to dry, one locally elected official is calling...

THREE UN agencies and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) Wednesday launched a new effort to lessen the impact of COVID-19 on the most vulnerable and to enhance Jamaica's social protection system to better respond to futur...

After 13 years as the chief executive officer of the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Donna-Marie Rowe is being sent home as part of what Jamaica Observer sources say is a shake-up of the Government's communication agencies."I can c...

While making it clear that he is not on the side of criminal cops, Jamaica Police Federation Chairman Corporal Rohan James is insisting that the Government has made its employees "susceptible" to illegal activities because of the less t...

Merl Grove High School Principal Dr Marjorie Fullerton has been diagnosed with breast cancer, "frightening news" that coincided with her dismissal by the board of the church-run all-girls institution, impeccable Jamaica Observer source...

SANDALS Resorts International Executive Chairman Adam Stewart and other company executives, alongside local tourism industry partners, held a series of high-level meetings with international airline partners recently as the global trave...

Residents of Maverley in St Andrew believe gunmen capitalised on the absence of street lights last week Thursday when they invaded the community, killing three people and injuring three others.Residents Tuesday claimed the Jamaica Pubic...

JAMAICANS are being urged to support the 'Gift of Life Art Auction' which is being held in collaboration with the Caring for Miracles and Malia Brown Foundation on Saturday. Proceeds from the art auction will be used to purchase life-sa...

FORMER Prime Minister P J Patterson expressed joy on Tuesday as his alma mater, Calabar High School, officially opened its newly constructed entrance named in his honour."This is one of the happiest and proudest days in my entire life,"...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Residents of Redberry, Hampton Road and Trinity in Manchester have continued to disrupt the construction of the US$188-million May Pen to Williamsfield leg of Highway 2000, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHE...

LEONARD Campbell is beloved and known throughout Hertford, Westmoreland, and its environs as the man who raised the community. Surrounded by the very children he raised and other well-wishers, Campbell rang in his 100th birthday at his ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Despite myriad challenges facing the education sector recently, the Ministry of Education has declared a steely resolve to afford students across the island the opportunity to realise their full academic potentia...

TWENTY-FIVE small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will take the journey through a capacity-building experience in the 2022 edition of the Scotiabank Vision Achiever (SVA) Programme.The participants, who represent a cross section of ...

Dear Mr Brown,I heard that Canadians could travel via plane to Canada. However, my friend told me that there is currently a vaccine mandate for travel. Can you advise me please?-DDDear DD:I will do my best to explain what may appear to ...

JAMAICAN-AMERICAN Alison Smith, who has smashed a near century-old tradition in Florida's Broward Country Bar Association (BCBA) by becoming the first black woman to be elected president since its founding in 1925, is preparing to take ...

On a sultry Saturday evening, the last rays of the sun burst through the waning clouds to beam down on the lush plains of St Elizabeth, as seen from the Spur Tree Road at the weekend. The idyllic view was captured by amateur photographe...

Even in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic, 18,000 workers travelled from Jamaica to support the US agriculture and services sectors last year; a record for US Embassy Jamaica. The top 10 states that employ H-2 Jamaican worker...

THE word 'nuclear' often triggers fear. However, there are comforting prospects in atomic power, which many countries have started to tap into. In Jamaica, there is the International Centre for Environmental and Nuclear Sciences (ICENS)...

Today is the 89th day of 2022. There are 276 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTOTHER EVENTS1822: Florida becomes a United States territory.1842: Ether is used as anaesthetic for the first time, by Dr Crawford Long in the US.1867: U...

BERLIN, Germany (AP) - The world must take "radical action" to shift away from fossil fuels, including investing US$5.7 trillion annually in solar, wind and other forms of clean power this decade to ensure that global warming doesn't pa...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russia announced Tuesday it will "fundamentally" scale back military operations near Ukraine's capital and a northern city, as talks to end the grinding war brought the outlines of a possible deal into view.Deputy D...

HORDYNIA, Ukraine (AP) - Planting season has arrived in Ukraine. Boot marks stamped in the frozen earth have thawed. But the Pavlovych family's fields remain untouched in a lonely landscape of checkpoints and churches.Over a week ago, t...

Nielsen is being acquired for $16 billion, including debt, about a week after the media measurement company rejected a US$9-billion offer.Viewing data collected by Nielsen plays a big role in determining where billions in advertising do...

Rohan Marley (second left), entrepreneur and son of late reggae icon Bob Marley, is in good spirits with (from left), Steve DeAngelo, a celebrated American cannabis business tycoon and reform activist; Douglas Gordon, founder of Canex &...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Opposition Leader Mark Golding, who has described the Government's decision to delay the local government elections as "undemocratic", has called on the ruling party to call the vote as soon as possible."I...

The months-long dispute that has rocked Jamaica College (JC) deepened on Monday when the secretary of the past students' association fired back at accusations of misappropriation of millions of dollars levied against it by the school b...

 WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - A federal judge on Monday asserted it is "more likely than not" that former President Donald Trump committed crimes in his attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election, ruling to order th...

There will be no sitting of the House of Representatives today as Parliamentarians take a break from what has been one of the liveliest budget debates in decades.However, legislators will return to work next Tuesday, April 5, when Mini...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Imogene Johnson on Monday admitted that when gunmen ran amok in the Warrica section of Norwood, St James, last Saturday morning, she initially thought the deafening explosions she heard were firecrackers."We were...

THE island's teachers are fuming over non-payment of monies owed to them, and the president of their union, Winston Smith, on Monday issued a warning to the Government that his colleagues will not endure what he termed "disrespect" for ...

KERIECEAN Frankson is still demanding answers from Spanish Town Hospital about what led to the death of her baby in October last year.The 37-year-old woman, who was expecting her first child, told the Jamaica Observer on Monday that she...

PROPER fiscal management will be key to navigating the choppy financial seas facing Jamaica this year, states Senator Don Wehby, who, in the debate on the Appropriations Bill on March 25, noted headwinds which "must be carefully managed...

Today is the 88th day of 2022. There are 277 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2006: Charles Taylor is flown to Sierra Leone, opening the way for the former Liberian president to become the first African head of State tried for war...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Accusations by doctors that internal politics at the executive level is contributing to inadequate health care being delivered at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) have been denied by CEO Charmaine Williams-Beckfo...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - President Joe Biden said Monday that he would make "no apologies" and wasn't "walking anything back" after his weekend comment that Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power", attempt...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton is hoping the delay-plagued rehabilitation of the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) will be completed before 2025, the last timeline provided. "It is very early days and so...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - With its aspirations for a quick victory dashed by a stiff Ukrainian resistance, Russia has increasingly focused on grinding down Ukraine's military in the east in the hope of forcing Kyiv into surrendering part of ...

ROCK, Trelawny - Attorney at law Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert, who is also the Speaker of the House of Representatives and Member of Parliament for Trelawny Southern, says her client, the 16 year-old accused of fatally stabbing his school...

THE National Land Agency (NLA) will today distribute more than 350 certificates of title to residents of Flagaman, Berlin, Potsdam, and Exton in St Elizabeth.The titles will be issued under the agency's Systematic Land Registration Prog...