Health authorities have indicated that there could be a further reduction of COVID-19 restriction measures if positivity rates continue to trend down, but stressed that any such move will be based on a number of factors."We don't antici...

WRB Energy is urging the Government to eliminate the right of first refusal (ROFR) clause in its arrangement with Jamaica Public Service (JPS) company, as the provision is stifling competitiveness in the electricity market.The renewable...

A strike over wages by gravediggers and other staff at Meadowrest Memorial Gardens in St Catherine yesterday resulted in closure of the cemetery, leaving Jamaicans who had gone there to bury relatives angry and frustrated.Police worked ...

"Weh mommy and daddy deh, and what happened?" Romario Manning repeatedly asked as he lay in a bed at May Pen Hospital. "You met in an accident," members of his family replied.The 26-year-old Manning is experiencing short-term memory lo...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Angered by Tuesday's Jamaica Observer editorial focusing on the rampant chaos and total lack of regard for public order that now exists in Mandeville, Mayor Donovan Mitchell yesterday defended the municipal corp...

Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang has linked the continuing bloodletting in sections of St James to educated, well-funded, and heavily armed gangsters in the parish, but he remains convinced that the security forces are pre...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness has reiterated Jamaica's commitment to protecting the environment through the continuous strengthening of management policies that are designed to be comprehensive and sustainable."Over the last few years, ...

THE Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has opened a probe into the fatal shooting of 30-year-old Steven Brown by an off-duty policeman on Irish Town Road, St Andrew.According to INDECOM, the cop had reported that on Frid...

THE team examining the national identification system (NIDS) is warm to the idea of having citizens' national identification number (NIN) linked to their taxpayers registration number (TRN), whenever the National Identification and Regi...

THE US Government yesterday announced that it is providing approximately J$130 million to support Jamaica's response to COVID-19.The funding, provided under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), is aimed at mitigating the impact ...

THE Public Procurement Commission (PPC) has renewed its commitment to playing a significant role in helping to reduce waste in the public sector.The commission, which noted that public procurement accounts for approximately 30 per cent ...

Today is the 162nd day of 2021. There are 203 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2009: The World Health Organization says swine flu is now formally a pandemic, a declaration that speeds vaccine production and spurs government spendi...

ST THOMAS - It was the 107th no that did it. When no one would hire him Dimmitri Munroe decided it was time to make his way back to his dream of running his own business. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in media and communicat...

The Democratic Party has selected a black woman to face Jamaican-born Winsome Sears, a fiercely pro-Trump backer and the first black woman to get the Republican nod to run for lieutenant governor of Virginia.It means that whether the De...

Jamaican and Distinguished Kiwanis Governor Hope Markes was last month elected the first black woman to the Kiwanis International Board. She is a member of the Kiwanis Club of Hopewell, Hanover.Kiwanis is a global organisation of volunt...

ST IVES, England (AP) - US President Joe Biden called on global leaders Thursday to join him in sharing coronavirus vaccines with struggling nations around the world after he promised the US would donate 500 million doses to help speed ...

CLARK'S TOWN, Trelawny - Stephina "Apple" Ralston was yesterday nonplussed when she did not get an opportunity to speak with her "partner", 34-year-old Anthony Bailey, whom she is adamant she has forgiven for brutally attacking her with...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The police yesterday charged pastor of the New Life Apostolic Church in Montego Bay with raping a 15-year-old member of the church.The man of the cloth has been identified as 39-year-old Jason Omar Rose, who is a...

LOGWOOD, Hanover - A joint military/police patrol was deployed to this community yesterday in response to rising tension after two people were shot dead and two others injured. Sixteen-year-old student Radray Martinez from Orange Bay ...

THE Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has recommended that the Government negotiates with Jamaica Public Service (JPS) to provide a licence amendment which would exclude electric vehicle (EV) charging from an activity that would be c...

ONLY eight per cent of Jamaican children are having their mental-health needs met because of the inability to attract professionals to care for them due to low wages and poor working conditions, according to the findings of a Caribbean ...

THE early morning peace at Rae Town Fishing Village in Kingston was disrupted by gunfire about 6:30 yesterday morning when three armed men reportedly entered the area, opened fire and shot four people - three men and a woman.The men - a...

President of the Kiwanis Club of Stony Hill Leighton James (left) presents a printer to SergeantAdrian Clarke of the Stony Hill Police Station in St Andrew. At right is the club's DistinguishedPresident Nadeen Francis. The presentation ...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange says changes coming to the Domestic Violence Act, which will include a new definition of domestic violence.Grange told the House of Representatives, in her sectoral deb...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Throughout the years, those attending monthly meetings of the St Elizabeth Parish Council have grown accustomed to complaints about services offered by electricity provider, Jamaica Public Service Company (JP...

LOCAL Government Minister Desmond McKenzie yesterday urged Jamaicans to continue to blowing the whistle on entities conducting illegal events in breach of COVID-19 restrictions, declaring that the Government will not be playing favourit...

Today is the161st day of 2021. There are 204 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1940: Jamaican-born pan-African nationalist Marcus Garvey dies in London at 52. OTHER EVENTS1898: US Marines invade Cuba in Spanish-American War.1935: ...

Government is implementing a range of policy, legislative, and institutional measures that will support the management of coastal and marine environments, says minister of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Se...

KEVIN Peart, father of 14-year-old Ferncourt High School student Kelvin Peart, who has been conducting classes to help primary school children in the community of Queenhythe in St Ann, has called on fathers to be pillars of support and ...

THE National Association of Deans of Discipline (NADD) will host the final of four virtual behaviour expositions tomorrow.The exposition, according to organisers, seeks to engage more than 5,000 high school students from across Jamaica ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - Director 0f the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Carissa F Etienne has called on authorities in the Caribbean to be fully prepared for the 2021 hurricane season.Dr Etienne warned that the ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, June 10, 2021: You are mentally sharp and creative, and you love music. You are independent and persistent. You are also generous. You are entering a busy, fast-paced year full of many different kinds of act...

A mere four days after 49-year-old Ava Thelwell drove her car off Flat Bridge into the Rio Cobre and drowned, another woman died in the waterway yesterday after the passenger bus in which she was travelling crashed with a motor car in t...

Susan Smart lost her battle to stay alive yesterday, plunging her family into further grief.Smart was on life support in Cornwall Regional Hospital in St James after suffering injuries in a car crash in Hanover on Sunday, just over two ...

"I am not an obeah man," insisted "Sean Michaels".The resoluteness in the 24-year-old Jamaican hypnotist's voice was obvious. The young man, whose real name is Sean Davidson, cognisant of what some Jamaicans think of hypnotism, told the...

The Government is rolling out a Conditional Cash Transfer for the Vaccinated (CCTV) subprogramme to encourage more Jamaicans over the age of 60 to get fully vaccinated.Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke told the ...

FOR some children, farming has been a nurtured passion, and not just a hobby developed amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.Numbered among those children are four who, with support from their parents, are on a course to pursue farming as...

The Integrity Commission has recommended that criminal charges be pursued in relation to the circumstances surrounding the granting and issuance of permits for the construction, renovation and operation of Blue Diamond Hotel Group's Roy...

The police are probing five more allegations of sexual assault against children among them three boys who have reportedly been molested and buggered by a 38-year-old man.The oldest of the boys is 12 years old, while the youngest is nin...

THROUGHOUT the novel coronavirus pandemic there has been several factors affecting the processing of immigrant visas causing extended delays for many cases.It is, however, important that applicants continue to maintain contact with the ...

TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2008: Scientists at a US Government weapons laboratory announce they have built the world's fastest computer, capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion operations per second. It will be used to help maintain the US nuclear w...

Dear Mr Brown:You keep recommending college-based programmes and graduate certificate programmes instead of a master's programme. I would like for you to explain the benefits of a college programme. I would think that university would b...

SANDALS Foundation, in collaboration with the Flankers Primary and Junior High School, last week distributed the second tranche of more than 50 care packages to families of students of the learning institution as well as other members o...

CONSUMERS are being encouraged to examine fruits and vegetables before purchase to ensure that there is no visible indication of spoilage or contamination.Speaking in a recent Get the Facts interview on the JIS television programme, Jam...

DIRECTOR of Family Health Services in the Ministry of Health and Wellness Dr Melody Ennis is reminding Jamaicans that the COVID-19 vaccine does not provide protection against other health conditions.In an interview with JIS News, Dr Enn...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness has called on the international community to assist the region in bridging the gaps within the sustainable development goals (SDGs), as small developing nations recover from the pandemic.Speaking at the vir...

TEXAS, United States (AP) - Six years had passed since Glenda Valdez kissed her toddler goodbye and left for the United States - six years since she held Emely in her arms.But here she was, at Texas's Austin-Bergstrom International Airp...

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) - Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretary General Irwin LaRocque says Caribbean countries must be "concerned about the soundings" being made by the Group of Seven (G7) nations that last week announced a landmark ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Criminal gangs divulged plans for moving drug shipments and carrying out killings on a secure messaging system secretly run by the FBI, law enforcement agencies said yesterday, as they unveiled a global sti...

THE management of Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine is denying a report that the death of a baby there last Wednesday was a result of clinical procedures not being followed.In a statement released yesterday by the South East Regiona...