DELAWARE, United States (CMC) — United States President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday tapped a Caribbean American voting rights advocate for a senior US Department of Justice (DOJ) position.In a national television address, Bi...

WHEN Montego Bay's celebrated online mathematics tutor, Richard James, along with Evon Bartley, a teacher from Old Harbour Bay, Elder Carolyn Phillips from Hayes and three other individuals were summoned to meetings in their respe...

INDIAN Diaspora Day 2021 will be celebrated today. The day also commemorates the late political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi's return from South Africa on January 9, 1915.High Commissioner of India to Jamaica Rungsung Masak...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley was last evening rushed to private hospital where he is being treated for a “cardiac issue”.According to a report published in the Trinidad Express n...

As he did in life, so he did in death. Gordon “Butch” Stewart yesterday pulled the nation's political and business leaders, diplomats, as well as family, friends and employees of his group of companies to his final pub...

SIXTEEN fewer people died in traffic crashes last year, when compared to 2019, but it was not enough to reassure head of the Road Safety Unit in the transport ministry, Kanute Hare, that the carnage on the nation's roads is abatin...

MINISTER of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green is aiming to expand the reach of the Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee brand internationally and increase production of coffee locally.

THE implementation of infrastructure that will facilitate the production of digital birth certificates for Jamaicans is now 90 per cent complete.This was disclosed by programme director for the National Identification System (NIDS...

THE Passport and Immigration Agency (PICA) has reported that a total of 2,449 passport fraud cases were detected and prosecuted in Jamaica between 2009 and 2019.

Oshan Martin of Guys Hill, St Catherine, has been selected as the winner of the 2020 Pepsi 'Riddim Mania' promotion.Pepsi, one of the most loved and iconic brands in Jamaica, this week announced that Martin was the grand prize wi...

Victoria Mutual (VM) brought a big surprise and a very merry Christmas to two lucky million-dollar winners of the 'Win with VM' referral promotion.On December 18, VM surprised Rena Reid, sales agent of Gore Developments, and Andre...

THE Government believes it has sufficient measures in place to prevent persons entering the island from the United Kingdom (UK), via transit ports, while the present travel ban is in place.The Jamaica Observer has received reports...

This is the first in a series by our reporters on how they covered the news during the coronavirus pandemic. 

THE Ministry of Education's 'One Laptop or Tablet per Child' initiative received a significant boost yesterday when the Chinese firm Huawei donated 500 devices to be given out to Jamaican students.In accepting the donation, Minist...

HEAD of the Jamaica Employers' Federation (JEF) David Wan says the provisions of the employment termination and redundancy payments law need to be strictly enforced, instead of amending it to deal with issues surrounding entitleme...

Tourism and business icon Gordon “Butch” Stewart will be laid to rest at his Rio Chico property in Ocho Rios, St Ann, tomorrow after a private thanksgiving ceremony to be attended by members of his family only. ...

Dear readers,Due to steady increases in the overall cost of production, which we have absorbed for as long as we could, we have been forced to increase the price of our daily and Sunday papers.Starting on January 16, 2021, the new...

MONTEGO BAY, St James – The longest-serving worker at Sandals, Dalton “Red Youth” Smith, who has grown from a bus boy to become the maitre'd at Sandals Montego Bay, yesterday described Gordon “Butch” ...

In this final of a three-part article previously published in the Sunday Observer , award-winning journalist Desmond Allen, OD shares the high and low moments in the life of Gordon “Butch” Stewart.  ...

Today is the eighth day of 2021. There are 357 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1998: Ramzi Yousef, an Arab of uncertain nationality, is sentenced to life in prison plus 240 years for masterminding the World Trade Center bom...

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Members of the Harbour Street Craft Traders Association on Wednseday paid tribute to hotel mogul Gordon “Butch” Stewart during a brief ceremony at the Harbour Street Craft and Cultural Vil...

GREENWOOD, St James —The St James Municipal Corporation (SJMC) is threatening court action against the property owner of a multimillion-dollar development who has reportedly defied stop orders from the municipality and the N...

POTSDAM, St Elizabeth — Munro College has advanced plans to accommodate students for boarding as the institution prepares to resume face-to-face classes with fewer student next Monday when it officially reopens.Principal of ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Chairman of the 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom), Dr Keith Rowley, the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, says the regional body is “deeply saddened and concerned at the unpreceden...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's role in inciting violence at the Capitol and his long refusal to acknowledge his election defeat is prompting some lawmakers to urge his removal from office through the 25th Amendme...