THERE were jitters yesterday in August Town and surrounding communities following a Court of Appeal order that alleged gang leader Christopher "Dog Paw" Linton be set free after serving more than seven years in prison for illegal posses...

DARLISTON, Westmoreland - Two administrators at the Clifton Boys' Home have been suspended, pending the outcome of a probe by the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) and the police into allegations of corporal punishment...

With almost 400 murders across the island since the start of the year and increasingly louder calls for the Government to introduce drastic measures to deal with the criminals, Prime Minister Andrew Holness remains adamant that there is...

MINISTER of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie says the Jamaican Government is organising support for St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), now being affected by the La Soufriere volcano."Our Government has been in c...

JAMAICAN employers are being warned that they could find themselves on the wrong side of the law if they dismiss any employee who refuses to take the COVID-19 vaccine.The issue was moved to the front burner yesterday after Caledonia Out...

Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang says that the Government is making an effort to reduce rape and other types of sexual violence in Jamaica by improving facilities that deal with them.Dr Chang was opening the debate on a mot...

PUBLIC relations officer of the Lay Magistrates Association of Jamaica (LMAJ) Claudette Bryan is crediting custodes and the organisation's disciplinary committees for maintaining order and discipline among justices of the peace (JPs). B...

JUST four weeks ago, Craig Powe, 25, was isolated at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) battling COVID-19 for the second time and thinking he was going to die.Powe, an entrepreneur, said he had never thought about a will ...

At left, a man and a woman keep themselves busy on their cellphones as they wait at the National Arena in St Andrew on Tuesday to get the COVID-19 vaccine.(Photo: Joseph Wellington) 

The humanitarian and economic crisis unleashed by the eruption of the La Soufriere volcano on the Caribbean island of St Vincent will last months and could extend to nearby islands, a UN official warned yesterday."It is a crisis that wi...

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) - Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves yesterday made an impassioned plea for people to leave the red zone area as the La Soufriere volcano continues to erupt, generating possibly pyroclastic density currents (P...

Today is the 105th day of 2021. There are 260 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1912: The passenger luxury liner SS Titanic sinks and more than 1,500 lives are lost. OTHER EVENTS1862: A Bill ending slavery in the US District of Co...

THE House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the Tobacco Industry Regulations (Validation and Indemnity) (Repeal) Act 2021.Piloting the Bill, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green said the Bill emerged from a decision of C...

HEAD of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Carissa F Etienne has called out countries in the region for relaxation of restriction measures amidst worsening outbreaks of the novel coronavirus.Addressing PAHO's weekly virtual ...

THE Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) is to undertake a competitive bidding process to identify suitable providers of medical insurance and health logistics coverage for purchase by tourists who are visiting Jamaica. This follows Cabinet's ap...

THE zones of special operations (ZOSOs) in Denham Town, West Kingston; Mount Salem, St James; Greenwich Town and August Town in St Andrew, have been extended for a further 60 days.The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved four re...

MORE than 1,000 loyal guests were in Jamaica for the Sandals Select Guest Reunion Week of activities hosted by the hotel chain from April 5 to 9."Sandals Reunion Week is the Caribbean's only annual event of this kind held by an all-incl...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness says the E-commerce National Delivery System (ENDS) is to be expanded to additional areas by next week.The pilot, which commenced in Portmore, St Catherine on March 26, was extended to Kingston and St Andre...

Liberty Academy at the Priory in St Andrew is hosting a number of activities this April - Autism Awareness Month - to promote awareness of autism. Just recently the school hosted a walk for autism at the institution, located at 32 Hope ...

OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) - Canada will grant permanent residency to more than 90,000 foreign students and workers who helped treat patients during the pandemic, the immigration minister announced yesterday.The programme, in effect from May ...

ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC) - The Grenada police said yesterday that elderly men were sexually attracted to minors, most of whom are well known to the perpetrators."A major concern from the data that we collected is accused persons over ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - A new study by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has found that alcohol consumption has been responsible for an average 85,000 deaths annually during a three-year period in the Americas, i...

BUENOS AIRES, Brazil - People hold banners depicting Brazil's President Jair Bolsonado reading "The Bolsonaro strain, world danger" during a protest of members of leftist parties outside the Brazilian Embassy in Buenos Aires, yesterday,...

For the next three weekends, starting this Friday, the Jamaica Observer will be publishing a special edition covering Friday and Saturday.Your Sunday Observer, however, will continue to be published as usual.We thank you for your contin...

Beginning tomorrow, your Daily Observer shares with readers the experiences of Jamaicans who have encountered COVID-19 and lived to tell the tale, in our new feature COVID Capers by Desmond Allen. Also, get the latest in the fight again...

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) - US President Joe Biden announced yesterday it's "time to end" America's longest war with the unconditional withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, where they have spent two decades in a bloody, increasin...

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) - US Vice-President Kamala Harris said yesterday she will visit Mexico and Guatemala as part of her mission to address the "root causes" of an influx in migrants at the southern border.Speaking with repor...

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) - A pause on all US vaccinations with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 shot will continue for at least another week after members of a Government-convened expert panel said yesterday they needed more ti...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Prime Minister Joseph Jouthe has announced his resignation with President Jovenel Moïse saying that his departure "will make it possible to address the glaring problem of insecurity" in the French-speaking Carib...

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) - Bernie Madoff, mastermind of the largest financial scam in history that unravelled during the 2008 economic crisis, died in jail yesterday, US prison officials said.He was 82.Madoff had been suffering fro...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness has declared that his Administration is moving to systematically address the problem of acquaintance violence which is plaguing Jamaica.Speaking with the Jamaica Observer two days before a video went viral ...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness has made a plea to countries that have been stockpiling doses of COVID-19 vaccines to release their surplus to Jamaica and other states with a high demand for supplies.Making the call in the House of Repres...

BARROUALLIE, St Vincent (CMC) - The people of St Vincent and the Grenadines needed no reminder yesterday of the 42nd anniversary of the 1979 eruption of the La Soufriere volcano.It did so itself. At around 6:30 am the volcano erupted, t...

A senior health official reiterated yesterday that people who contracted the novel coronavirus should still get inoculated, as the vaccine helps to boost the body's immunity.Speaking at a media briefing yesterday, director of Family Hea...

AHEAD of National Child Month in May, the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) has revealed that it received almost 10,000 reports of abuse against children last year."In 2020 the CPFSA received 9,800 cases of abuse again...

The police yesterday said two men held in connection with the death of 44-year-old Clarendon teacher Nattallie Dawkins have confessed to the killing and have been charged with murder and other offences.Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP...

Rohan Knight couldn't suppress his anger and sorrow at witnessing his older brother, 38-year-old Ruel Knight, being shot dead by their father on Monday morning at the family business - Knight's Meat and Food Distributors Ltd - on Gordo...

ANYA Schnoor, executive vice-president for the Caribbean, Central America and Uruguay at Scotiabank, has charged its latest cohort of The University of the West Indies (UWI) scholarship recipients to maximise opportunities to realise th...

It was instant relief for Cleopatra Manderson when high-speed in-home Wi-Fi was switched on for the first time at her house in the quiet farming community of Leith Hall in St Thomas, recently.The businesswoman and mother of three was a ...

The measure restricting movement in an effort to reduce spread of the novel coronavirus which expired yesterday will continue for another three weekends ending May 4, but with some ease.Prime Minister Andrew Holness made the announceme...

Today is the 104th day of 2021. There are 261 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1993: On International Women's Day, a Chinese newspaper asks 100 women what they would like to be. Sixty say they want to be men. OTHER EVENTS1629: Pe...

A range of international speakers has been confirmed for KingstOOn Animation Conference and Film Festival, scheduled virtually for April 21-25.this year's staging has pinpointed 'Diversity in Animation' as the central theme. Three sessi...

THE University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) and the National Commercial Bank Group (NCB) will today, at 10:00 am, host the inaugural UCC/NCB Memorial lecture in honour of the late Dr Rickert Allen, a former senior executive at bo...

MANDEVILLE, Jamaica - Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) is now in mourning as one of its students died in Monday's deadly minibus crash on Highway 2000.The student has been identified as 20-year-old Janelle Maitland.At least four pe...

Beginning this Friday, your Daily Observer shares with readers the experiences of Jamaicans who have encountered COVID-19 and lived to tell the tale, in our new feature COVID Capers by Desmond Allen. Also, get the latest in the fight ag...

Dear Mr Brown:Thank you for assistance with admission to college and the study permit. I will be travelling to Toronto soon, but I heard that I have to pay to stay at a hotel to quarantine (CAD$2,000.00). I am not sure if I can afford t...

Q: I am thinking about applying for a visa to go to the United States as a temporary worker. I am worried, though, about being so far from home and about how I will be treated. What should I expect?  A: Great question! The temporary w...

MINNEAPOLIS, United States (AP) - Former o fficer Derek Chauvin's lawyer suggested yestreday that George Floyd may have suffered from "excited delirium" or what a witness described as a potentially lethal state of agitation and even su...

MINNESOTA, United States (AP) - A white Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb and the city's chief of police resigned yesterday, moves that the mayor said he hoped would help...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) says it has told Member of Parliament for Westmoreland Central George Wright to "immediately make himself available to the police" who yesterday named him as a person of inte...