The relatives of St Andrew businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore and her taxi driver Winston Walters, who were slain in a 2018 contract killing, say justice was done in the sentences given yesterday to Wade Blackwood, the confessed tr...

A St Catherine councillor is urging Government to educate the public on possible side effects of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.Councillor Sydney Rose (People's National Party, Treadways Division) made the recommendation at yesterday'...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Acting medical officer of health at the Manchester Health Department Dr Shonette Blair-Walters has added her voice to prominent Jamaicans encouraging their compatriots to take the COVID-19 vaccine, even as Mayor...

Long before dawn on Tuesday morning, Garland Dennis thought the constant barking of dogs was alerting him to an intruder in his yard. But when he checked, what he saw frightened him - a section of the premises at 12 East Lane in central...

Opposition spokesman on finance Julian Robinson yesterday urged the Government to be bold and beef up the proposed 2021/22 budget by one per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), or $21.5 billion."The Jamaican economy wil...

"A brazen and cruel act" is how Supreme Court Judge Justice Lorna Shelly-Williams described the 2018 contract killing of St Andrew businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore and her taxi driver Winston Walters before yesterday slapping Wad...

This truck was spotted transporting a boat Monday on Spanish Town Road in Kingston. (Photo: Joseph Wellington)

Bruknell Stewart (centre), CEO of the Kingston Public Hospital, is joined by staff members as they look at some of the medical supplies and equipment donated by the Government of Japan to the Ministry of Health, recently. The items incl...

JAMAICANS for Justice (JFJ) announced Wednesday that it will be launching a gender-based violence (GBV) support group, dubbed Vines: Healing from Violence Together.Starting in April 2021, JFJ will establish a support group to provide th...

THE Ministry of Education, Youth and Information has extended the deadline for grades 10 and 11 students who wish to defer sitting their CXC (Caribbean Examination Council) exams this year. All candidates will be required to indicate t...

Today is the 71st day of 2021. There are 294 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1994: The Church of England ordains its first women priests. OTHER EVENTS641 AD: Chinese Princess Wen Cheng goes to Tibet to marry the Tibetan ruler. T...

WITH the 2019 Jamaica National Crime Victimisation Survey (JNCVS) revealing that only 56.3 per cent of Jamaicans felt safe using an automated teller machine (ATM) on the street, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says financial ...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke says that a policy of fiscal discipline enabled Jamaica to confront the novel coronavirus-driven economic crisis with substantial buffers and confidence."Policy matters, and goo...

JAMAICA is now ready to sponsor the issuance of a catastrophe bond (CAT) to enable the country to transfer some of its hurricane risk to the international capital markets in time for the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. Finance Minister ...

Jamaica is well on its way to operating the first and only dedicated bamboo market pulp mill in the Western Hemisphere.Bamboo Bioproducts Ltd (BBP) is advancing its investment in local bamboo with plans to build on lands in Frome, Westm...

Professor Edwin Jones was yesterday described as a class act and quintessential collegial man by The University of the West Indies (UWI) Vice Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles.Professor Jones, who was ailing for a while, died on ...

CONSTRUCTION of the Montego Bay Perimeter Road Project is expected to begin by late 2022, according to managing director of the National Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC), Ivan Anderson.Anderson, speaking with JIS News, ex...

MINNESOTA, United States (AP) - A judge yesterday granted prosecutors' request to add a third-degree murder charge against a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's death, a move that offers jurors an additional opti...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus a pandemic one year ago yesterday, it did so only after weeks of resisting the term and maintaining that the highly infectious virus coul...

Education, Youth and Information Minister Fayval Williams has announced that there will be an increase in the number of schooldays in this academic year for grade six students who are slated to sit the ability test component of the Pri...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - It was smooth sailing at Mandeville Regional Hospital yesterday as health workers at that institution became the first in this south-central parish to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccination of essential health wo...

DR Peter Phillips, Member of Parliament for East Central St Andrew and former Opposition leader, said yesterday he was saddened by news of the sudden passing of long-time friend and colleague Professor Edwin Jones."Professor Jones was a...

THE coronavirus pandemic has hit the church hard, rendering some outreach ministries severely underfunded. But amid the challenges, the Jamaica Council of Churches (JCC) said holy temples across the country have seen an influx of Christ...

This is part of a series by Jamaica Observer reporters and editors looking at the impact of the novel coronavirus on various sectors of the economy since the first case was reported locally on March 10, 2020.MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Wit...

FORMER prime ministers P J Patterson and Bruce Golding yesterday ignored their political antecedents as they joined hands and endorsed the Ministry of Health's plea for Jamaicans to accept the COVID-19 vaccine.Patterson, Golding and his...

FIVE gunmen were yesterday shot dead in a gunfight with members of the security forces in Bedward Gardens, St Andrew, bringing immediate relief to some residents of nearby August Town, who claimed that men from that area have been terro...

Medical doctor Nagendra Babu Chandolu was the first individual in St Mary yesterday to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.Here he is joined by public health nurse Veronica Hamilton in giving the thumbs up after he got the jab at the Annotto B...

Sandals Royal Caribbean's new general manager, Dawn Smith (centre), hands over Managers of the Month awards for February to Hermione Hennings-James (left)of the Loyalty and Travel Department, and Carlene England, sales manager. The awar...

Attorney-at-law Gavin Goffe is urging the Government to reform its labour laws.Speaking yesterday at the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) virtual Economic Series, aimed at making Jamaica investor-friendly through labour ref...

Today is the 70th day of 2021. There are 295 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2008: The Belgian Government and banks agree to pay US$170 million (euro110 million) to Holocaust survivors, families of victims and the Jewish communit...

EFFECTIVE April 1, 2021, students seeking a loan from the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB) will now only require one guarantor instead of two.This was announced by Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke, who said this is ...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange says issues affecting women must be tackled in the process of recovering gains lost under the novel coronavirus pandemic.Addressing the opening of a European Union (EU)...

THE Jamaica Pubic Service (JPS) has reported that since the commissioning of the Michleton Halt Substation in St Catherine, at the end of 2019, Linstead and surrounding communities have seen a 37 per cent improvement in reliability. The...

CHIEF public health inspector for Westmoreland Steve Morris says take-up of the COVID-19 vaccine in several countries has shown efficacy in reducing hospitalisations and the rate of infections.Speaking in an interview with JIS News, Mor...

MONIQUE French, chief credit officer at CIBC FirstCaribbean, is the winner of the 2021 WeQual Award.She aced 24 female executives of some of the biggest companies in the Americas identified as having the leadership traits for top-level ...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - No one has been untouched.Not the Michigan woman who awakened one morning, her relative = dead by her side. Not the domestic worker in Mozambique, her livelihood threatened by the virus. Not the North Caro...

MANDALAY, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar security forces on Wednesday raided a neighbourhood in the country's largest city that houses state railway workers who have gone on strike to protest last month's military coup.Police sealed off the Min...

FLORIDA, United States (AP) - Maria Ortiz left Venezuela almost four years ago when she realised her job opportunities were nonexistent. Freshly graduated from college with a degree in petroleum engineering, she boarded a plane and trad...

Exactly one year to the day when the very first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Jamaica, Sandals Resorts International has announced its intention to gift 300 health-care workers across the region with complimentary two-night stays at it...

Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke says while the country is at the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 health crisis, the same cannot be said for the economic predicament, but sound pre-pandemic policies have created buffers which will...

This is part of a series by Jamaica Observer reporters and editors looking at the impact of the novel coronavirus of various sectors of the economy since the first case was reported locally on March 10, 2020. See Entertainment and Busin...

The Spectrum Management Authority (SMA) has extended the deadline for submission of the requests for proposal (RFPs) for a licence in the 700 MHz spectrum (band 13) to March 23, 2021 at 1:00 pm.Managing director of the SMA, Dr Maria Mye...

Two-term People's National Party (PNP) councillor for the Papine Division, Venesha Phillips, who was defeated in her quest to represent St Andrew Eastern as Member of Parliament (MP) in the 2020 General Election, is indicating that she ...

Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke yesterday said that despite planning to spend billions of dollars on economic recovery through a robust infrastructure programme, as well as extending the State's social responsibilities in the face of ...

The Government says Jamaicans will have access to digital currency by next year as the Holness Administration advances on strategies to transform the nation into a digital society.Making the announcement in his presentation to open the ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretary General Irwin LaRocque on Monday called on the region to intensify efforts to address the obstacles faced by women, in a message to mark International Women's Day.Even a...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The Sydney L Blake Basic School was recently refurbished with cubicles for students to promote social distancing amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic.The school located in north-west Manchester was adopted by t...

The money raised from this year's Sigma Corporate Run moved closer to the $50-million target as the organisers, Sagicor Jamaica, reported that it now has $48,510,453.07 that will go towards providing improved health services at Annotto ...

A researcher is calling for nutrition labels that provide consumers with information that can be easily read, so they can make healthier food choices.In an interview with JIS News, winner of the Award for Best Student Oral Presentation ...

A key utility company has pivoted to step up customer service using digital tools. Jamaica Public Service (JPS) has notified its customers that a number of their face-to-face offices will close as of April 1 and be replaced with online ...