MONTEGO BAY, St James - The health department has given the owner of the property that houses Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries 24 hours to clean up the filthy, stench-ridden location now infamous as the place where ...

ANDRE "Blackman" Bryan, the man accused of being leader of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang, had no qualms about taking out any of his followers who had crossed him, a former member of the criminal organisation turned State witness ...

THE idea of dating gangsters is not being embraced by some Jamaican women, even if the criminals have the ability to meet their every need. Their views come in the wake of a social media post a few weeks ago by Leah Tavares-Finson, the ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Police here are awaiting an autopsy report to determine the circumstances that led to the death of a mentally-ill man who was found lying in a pool of blood under a bus shed on Manchester Road yesterday.The poli...

Robert Baker makes an uncanny link with his taxi driving job and the multiple relationships he has with women: "Mi show everybody respect because we are all humans," he says.While it may be difficult for the average person to make the c...

The Government is urging more public servants to accept the current salary and benefits offer agreed to yesterday by 11 major trade unions and clear the way for talks on the more fundamental compensation review benefits.Minister of Fina...

The drab grey silo at Carib Cement Company in Rockfort, Kingston, is being transformed into an impressive mural.Set to be officially unveiled as part of the island's 60th anniversary of Independence celebrations next year, the work is b...

After living in squalor for more than three years, former national footballer Miguel Blair breathed a sigh of relief Thursday as teams from Food For the Poor (FFP) and Bert's Auto Parts started to construct a two-bedroom house for him o...

A senior police officer yesterday explained that the constabulary's announcement on Wednesday that late Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries leader Kevin Smith has been charged with murder was really an accounting proce...

Amidst increasingly louder calls for the Sex Offender Registry to be open to the public, the Government has given the clearest indication yet that this could be considered."We believe that consideration needs to be given to making the ...

Today is the 302nd day of 2021. There are 63 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1996: Thousands of paintings, sculptures, coins and other objects plundered by the Nazis from Jewish homes in Austria go on sale in a special auction to...

Stephanie Christie, the sole female accused in the trial of 33 alleged members of the deadly Klansman gang, was worried that Andre "Blackman" Bryan - who police say is the gang boss - would have lost his grip on the St Catherine commun...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - They are not quite an ark full, but the almost 30 chickens, 12 ducks, a head of cattle, and the few goats rescued from the grounds of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries are posing quite a chall...

THE St Thomas police have vowed that there will be no let-up in their search for Davian Bryan, the man suspected of having abducted two girls in Bath, St Thomas, some two weeks ago."We have not yet apprehended him but our search continu...

The communities of Rivoli and Waterloo Lane in St Catherine were the seats of the ruthless Klansman gang's kangaroo court at which errant gang members could be beaten within an inch of their lives or even killed at the displeasure of t...

Jamaica College (JC) board Chairman Michael Bernard says Acting Principal Wayne Robinson has not been overpaid for the over five years that he has been in the post at the all-boys high school.Bernard spoke with the Jamaica Observer yest...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - No longer of interest to the police, the fate of the building that houses Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries is now in the cross hairs of the health department.A team from the St James health s...

Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett says a series of important cruise investment meetings with DP World, a major multinational logistics company based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have been very fruitful."I am very happy to announ...

Nearly four in 10 Jamaicans aged between 18 and 30 have been sexually assaulted while complying with official stay-at-home orders imposed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 over the past 19 months.That is according to a survey conducted...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Leaders of primary schools in Manchester and St Elizabeth say they are relieved and elated over news that the way is now clear for the resumption of face-to-face classes come November 8.This follows Tuesday's an...

The fifth year of Design Week JA came to a stylish close on Wednesday, October 27, with a virtual event - Love It - hosted by Ashley Furniture HomeStore. The event saw Ashley Furniture Director of China Merchandising & International...

Digicel Jamaica has joined forces with the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) to push the use of the 211 helpline for reporting child abuse. The partnership involves the use of the telecommunications company's vast net...

FORMER commissioner of police and custos rotulorum of Portland, Roy Edward Thompson was taken home and laid to rest on Wednesday afternoon beside his great-grandparents and his mother at their family home in Kensington, Portland.The fun...

Sandals Montego Bay has launched an innovative Leadership Bootcamp to arm its next wave of potential managers with the tools to succeed, as well as instilling in them the principles that governs effective leadership.The 12-week programm...

President of the Jamaica Association of Public Health Inspectors (JAPHI) Karen Brown is encouraging backyard poultry farmers to obtain a butcher's licence.Speaking at a Jamaica Information Service think tank at the agency's regional of...

The Oncology Unit at Bustamante Hospital for Children has received a number of critical equipment and resources from Sandals Foundation in conjunction with the family of late tourism and Sandals Resorts International (SRI) stalwart Davi...

WEST PROSPECT, St Catherine - Janell Mannings has come a very long way. Once living with her two children in a run-down shack, unemployed, depressed and uncertain about their future, the 26-year-old now has a job and a house. Grateful f...

GB Energy-Texaco Jamaica recently became the latest corporate company to join the Forestry Department's National Tree Planting Initiative (NTPI), where the goal is to plant three million trees in three years.The partners have started vi...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Public hospitals in the western end of the country will be ready, if or when, a fourth wave of the novel coronavirus hits, says chairman of the Western Regional Health Authority, Eric Clarke. "We want to m...

WASHINGTON, USA (AP) - Families of nine victims killed in a racist attack at a black South Carolina church have reached a settlement with the Justice Department over a faulty background check that allowed Dylann Roof to purchase the gun...

ROME, Italy (AP) - The Vatican yesterday abruptly cancelled the planned live broadcast of US President Joe Biden meeting Pope Francis, the latest restriction to media coverage of the Holy See that sparked complaints from White House- an...

An erupting volcano in the Spanish island of La Palma continued to emit vast amounts of magma, gases, and ash yesterday after two days of intense seismic activity and more than five weeks since it erupted.

ALBANY, USA (AP) - A criminal complaint filed by a police investigator with a court in Albany has accused former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of committing a misdemeanour sex crime, though there were reports yesterday that the documen...

HAMILTON, Bermuda, (CMC) - Bermuda's deaths from the novel coronavirus pandemic have hit the grim milestone of 100 with two more fatalities linked to the disease, but active cases have fallen to double figures and some restrictions are ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - Thousands of restaurant owners, chefs, waiters and bartenders took to the streets yesterday in cities across Bulgaria to protest the Government's decision to impose a mandatory COVID-19 health pass on all people s...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - After pleading guilty and paying a total of $1.17 million in fines, all 39 members of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries hauled before the court yesterday have escaped serving time for breaches...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Death has not spared Kevin Smith the humiliation of being slapped with murder charges in connection with the horror that played out at the organisation he led, Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministrie...

Justice Vinnette Graham-Allen yesterday halted court proceedings against André Ruddock as the murder accused was unrepresented in the Home Circuit Court.Ruddock is before the court to answer to one count of murder and one count of wou...

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is shelling out several million dollars each year to repair buses damaged in stone throwing incidents.Yesterday corporate communications manager at the JUTC Cecil Thoms told the Jamaica Observer...

Government Members of Parliament (MP) closed ranks yesterday to prevent Education Minister Fayval Williams from giving definitive answers to whether disgraced former education minister and principal of Jamaica College (JC) Ruel Reid wil...

An American entity that specialises in helping people adversely affected by or interested in cultic and other high-control groups, is offering assistance to Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries congregants who are stil...

The joy at being back in classrooms was patently obvious on the faces of children and educators at some infant schools in the Corporate Area on Tuesday, four days after the education ministry announced a phased resumption of face-to-fac...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Two men died in a two-vehicle crash on the outskirts of Mandeville near Marshalls Pen yesterday evening.A relative named one of the deceased as Marvin Thompson of Seven Corners near Santa Cruz in St Elizabeth.Th...

A second Crown witness in the trial of 33 people alleged to be members of the Klansman gang took the stand for the first time yesterday and testified that in 2018, while in the presence of detectives from the Criminal Investigations Bra...

Hundreds of residents living in Above Rocks, and surrounding communities in St Catherine, will now benefit from improved health care at the Above Rocks Health Centre which received a facelift after years of operating in a less than acc...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The future of headline-grabbing Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries appears uncertain with two members of its hierarchy saying they have no clue who, if anyone, will replace its deceased leader ...

On Wednesday, October 27, Ashley Furniture HomeStore drew the curtains on the fifth staging of Design Week JA. The "beautiful, affordable furniture" purveyor hosted a virtual event, entitled Love It, moderated by event conceptualiser No...

Each year, as it nears the anniversary of her son's death, Taneisha Gopaul falls into a state of depression and grief that threatens her mental health.Saturday, October 23, 2021, was two years to the day of her son's death and there wer...

Managers and other senior officials across the island are being targeted for a gender relations training session scheduled for November 4. The training is being provided in an effort to increase knowledge of sexual harassment among oth...

"JOY and Mikada were the most amazing butlers. They attended to every one of our needs - which were a lot - and they are both assets to Sandals," said one guest of Sandals South Coast."I cannot say enough great things about our butlers ...