DUNCANS, Trelawny — Thirty-nine-year-old Nadeen Geddes yesterday pleaded guilty in the Hillary session of the Trelawny Circuit Court to the murder of her sister, 36-year-old Tamara Geddes, who was shot in her bedroom in the ...

THE Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS) says 92 arrests were made last year for electricity theft. Of these, 67 took place in the parishes of Kingston and St Andrew, and 10 in St Catherine. And since the start of 2021 th...

SERIOUS about revolutionising how mathematics is taught and approached in Jamaica, Jemar Green has formed a team of roughly 12 members that has created My Vle Play, a company that invents computer games geared towards sharpening m...

Despite some expressions of distrust of vaccines, a few elderly Jamaicans have told the Jamaica Observer that they are eagerly counting the days to getting vaccinated against COVID-19 given that they are within the group more vuln...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — Evidence is mounting that having COVID-19 may not protect against getting infected again with some of the new variants. People also can get second infections with earlier versions of the nov...

One of Jamaica's foremost public health experts, Professor Peter Figueroa, is confident the development regarding the delayed roll-out of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine in South Africa will not negatively impact the Worl...

THE annual celebration of the life and legacy of former Vice Chancellor Emeritus Professor Rex Nettleford of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) might this year be shadowed by the novel coronavirus pandemic, but it will ha...

THE National Parent-Teacher Association of Jamaica (NPTAJ) says it is deeply concerned about the spike in COVID-19 cases.According to the NPTAJ, the concern is even further heightened against:1. Ongoing face-to-face classes;2. Pla...

THE Court of Appeal has given its reasons for denying the appeal of a man who was charged and convicted for the 2011 abduction and rape at gunpoint of a woman from the waterfront in downtown Kingston.

BISHOP of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands Howard Gregory on Sunday offered appreciation for the ministry of Robert Thompson, the recently retired bishop of Kingston, but charged that this was just a transition to another mode of se...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth – Principal of St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS), Keith Wellington says the institution has temporarily suspended face-to-face classes pending the outcome of an assessment of risks associat...

THE education sector has been the biggest beneficiary of interventions implemented under the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) Programme. Now in its ninth cycle, the programme (BNTF IX) is finance...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP/CMC) — The struggle over Haiti's presidency intensified yesterday as Opposition politicians named their own leader of the country in an effort to drive out President Jovenel Moise, whose term they ...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny — The pastor of Agape Christian Fellowship Church in Falmouth, Trelawny, where 51-year-old Andrea Lowe-Garwood was shot dead last Sunday, said her murder was collateral damage in the warfare against evil a...

A man who fled the United States just over 20 years ago after pleading guilty to vehicular homicide and was hiding in Jamaica has been extradited to Miami, a release dated February 5 from Florida State Attorney Katherine Fernandez...

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Underscoring that not all fatal shootings by the security forces are of questionable nature, Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says it is unfair to classify fatal shootings collectively. ...

MINISTER of National Security Dr Horace Chang has identified the south-eastern belt of the Corporate Area as the real problem crescent for the security forces at this time.“If you take the border from Bull Bay and come acros...

The Jamaica Observer's 284-page reflection on the life and legacy of Gordon “Butch” Stewart, published with yesterday's Sunday Observer, proved a massive hit among the reading public, so much so that at 9:00 am only a ...

Jamaica's response to the novel coronavirus pandemic has won praise from Appliance Traders Group Executive Chairman Adam Stewart whose suite of companies includes Sandals and Beaches resorts that have been hard hit by the global d...

It's distinct light blue dome is, for many, like the north point on a compass, confirming one's location in Kingston, Jamaica. But, for a whole flock of Christians the Holy Trinity Cathedral is “mother” church. And, Fe...

Carib Cement Company Ltd has donated vouchers, valued at $5.1 million, for the provision of technology and general school supplies to 44 students.The beneficiaries are drawn from communities in proximity to the company's plant an...

The National Water Commission's slogan 'Water is life' is being scoffed at by some residents of Longville in Clarendon as, for the past 10 years, piped water inside their homes has been a distant memory.

NEW YORK, United States (AP) — The north-eastern United States braced for a major snowstorm yesterday, less than a week after a storm dumped as much as two feet on the region.The National Weather Service predicted around up ...

Today is the 39th day of 2021. There are 326 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1942: Alexander Bustamante is released from Up Park Camp after 17 months of detention for alleged violation of the Defence of the Realm Act.OTHER ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) — President Joe Biden anticipates the US rivalry with China will take the form of “extreme competition” rather than conflict between the two world powers.Biden said in an excer...