Julian Robinson, a member of the Joint Select Committee of Parliament examining the National Identification and Registration Act, 2020, has recommended that the proposed National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) should be...

Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, the man who built an all-inclusive hotel empire which spanned the Caribbean despite having no prior experience in that sector, hung up his sandals on Monday and has walked off into the sunset with footprints of a legacy l...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaican craft merchants have credited Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart’s intervention in their lives, with the success their children have had in accessing university education. “Sandals was the first hotel to welcome craft traders on...

Undaunted by the failure of several newspapers prior to the birth of the Jamaica Observer in 1993, businessman Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart invested heavily in its growth and later supported the establishment of two radio stations to diversify the loc...

A true Jamaican patriot, visionary leader, tourism mogul extraordinaire and the greatest marketer tourism has ever seen. That is how tourism giant 79-year-old Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, who passed on Monday in the United States, is remembered by......

The St Andrew Central police are probing a suspected case of suicide after a former superintendent of corrections was found hanging from a sheet in his Beverly Hills Hotel home in St Andrew on Monday. Dead is 69-year-old Leroy Fairweather....

Twelve caregivers at the Maxfield Park Children’s Home in St Andrew have tested positive for COVID-19, the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) confirmed yesterday. Public health officials had visited the home between December 13 an...

Berrydale, Portland: The Portland police have ramped up efforts to clamp down on operators of bars and entertainment venues who have been flouting orders made under the Disaster risk Management Act (DRMA) to curb the spread of the coronavirus on...

An extraordinary man from ordinary means who did extraordinary things is how many Jamaicans in the diaspora recall businessman Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, who died in the United States on Monday from an undisclosed illness at age 79. The founder and...

Hotelier Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart has died. Stewart was founder of Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts, and their parent company Sandals Resorts International, as well as The ATL Group and The Jamaica Observer. He died Monday in the United...

Tributes have been rushing in for businessman and hotel mogul Gordon 'Butch' Stewart, who died in Miami, Florida Monday after ailing for some time. He was 79. READ: Hotel mogul 'Butch' Stewart has died in the US READ: ...

The Chinese Embassy has rejected remarks made by outgoing United States Ambassador Donald Tapia, accusing China of eavesdropping on his telephone conversations via a Jamaican domestic network. In denouncing the US top diplomat’s comments, Xia...

The contract of former project manager at the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), Elaine Hayden, has not been renewed. Hayden told a parliamentary oversight committee last year that her reputation would “take a beating” after admitting that she...

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, which held the local economy in its stranglehold for much of last year still raging on, a number of business operators in Montego Bay, St James, are looking forward to 2021 with renewed hope and confidence....

More than 1,000 persons with disabilities have been added to the registry of the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD) since March 2020, an influx caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Hundreds of people who reached out to the council...

Farmers and fishers across the island have been seeing a fall in production and productivity as many are unaware that they have been exempted from curfew restrictions to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Yesterday, the Jamaica Agricultural...

The cries for some categories of parliamentary workers to be paid a decent wage are expected to get louder with new revelation that members of the Upper House are paid a stipend of $53,000 per sitting and a similar amount for attending committee...

One of 20 persons who tested positive on the last flights from the United Kingdom (UK) allowed to land in the island before a travel ban took effect has died. According to the health ministry, the deceased is a 77-year-old male of Jamaican decent,.....

It took more than four years, but Jamaica has finally signed off on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the United States (US) that seeks to stamp out corruption at the ports, which has, for decades, facilitated the inflows of guns, drugs and....

The death of North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA) Chairman Tyrone Robinson from COVID-19 in Florida in the United States has sent shock waves throughout the local health sector. The 58-year-old Robinson had been a respected and beloved...