ST MARY, Jamaica - The high turnout of students on Monday breathed new life into Port Maria Infant School, which had been virtually deserted since February 1 when a massive flood inundated the entire coastal town of Port Maria.Principal...

Colin Campbell insisted in the Supreme Court on Wednesday that former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Bruce Golding lied in Parliament in 2006 when he said that $31 million given to the former People's National Party (PNP) Government...

As Jamaica marks two years since the first case of the novel coronavirus was confirmed in the island, Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has accepted that some mistakes were made in dealing with the crisis locally, b...

Today is the 69th day of 2022. There are 296 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1959: The Dalai Lama leads a rebellion against Chinese rule. The revolt fails and the Dalai Lama flees to India. OTHER EVENTS1496: Christopher Columbus...

A retired inspector of police, who was the only witness capable of formally identifying City Puss/Lucifer, five months into the trial of 33 accused members of the Klansman Gang on Wednesday, described how he had to disassociate himself ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The completion date for the delay-plagued Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) has been pushed back by another three years. But minister with responsibility for coordinating special projects and major developments in...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Notorious for the 'lawless' gang named after it, the community of Kings Valley in Grange Hill, Westmoreland, will be going through a social 'reset' in the near future, promised Senior Superintendent of Pol...

THE police have reported that a 16-year-old schoolboy, who was a suspect in a murder, was among four killed in a firefight in the area known as 'Zambia' in Central Village, St Catherine, Wednesday morning.The teenager has been identifie...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - There is still mystery surrounding how and when a war-era bomb got to a property in Mandeville, but the man who found the explosive weapon is thankful that nothing catastrophic happened.Ernest Moodie told the Ja...

STEPHANIE Christie, alias Mumma - the only woman in the ongoing Klansman gang trial - swore on her child's life to a police officer she was trying to bribe that if alleged leader of the gang Andre "Blackman" Bryan, whom she said was her...

"Educated and humble, fearless, a fighter for press freedom, a defender of the poor, and a voice for the voiceless," were some of the descriptions used to lionise Winston "Babatunde" Witter during a service of thanksgiving for his life ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - A Russian airstrike devastated a maternity hospital Wednesday in the besieged port city of Mariupol and wounded at least 17 people, Ukrainian officials said, amid growing warnings from the West that Moscow's invasio...

LINSTEAD, St Catherine - Spanish Town High School student Rihanna Blake missed the morning train to school on Monday, but she's determined that lateness will not prevent her from getting on board in the future. She's among students who ...

NEGRIL, Westmoreland - Sharmika Lloyd could not contain her joy when she watched her four-year-old son, Keandre, being fitted with new leg braces that will change his life."He is a CP [cerebral palsy] child so... I'm trying to give him ...

OPPOSITION Member of Parliament Phillip Paulwell has denied involvement in the payback of $30 million to Dutch oil lifting company Trafigura Beheer after the secret donation to the People's National Party (PNP) was made public by then O...

FINANCE Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has said that there will be no new taxes for a fifth consecutive fiscal year, while sidestepping calls for a reduction in the fuel tax in favour of targeted intervention to help the most vulnerable cope ...

MORE than one year after Donald Tapia ended his tour of duty as the United States (US) Ambassador to Jamaica, the island is finally set to get another top diplomat from that country.Reports reaching the Jamaica Observer on Tuesday indic...

A protruding red handkerchief from a right back pocket, brown Clarks shoes, and a particular hand signal are among the "symbols" a retired lawman with over 30 years' experience in the constabulary said the St Catherine-based Klansman ga...

Today is the 68th day of 2022. There are 297 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1992: A demonstration against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and the war in Croatia gathers 50,000 people in Belgrade. OTHER EVENTS1905: Japan de...

A firefighter tries to bring a blaze under control at a business place on Lyndhurst Road in Kingston 5, Tuesday. The extent of the damage was not ascertained.(Photo: Karl Mclarty)

A day before the world started celebrating the achievements of women, two Jamaican sisters threw caution to the wind when they jumped into the Rio Cobre and saved a motorist from drowning.Zina and Cassandra Slew, while happy that they h...

CHARGED with the mission to save lives and protect properties, an all-woman firefighting team rolled out at York Park Fire Station in Kingston on Tuesday to mark International Women's Day which was celebrated under the theme 'Break the ...

Dear Mr Brown,I am seeing a few advertisements from a travel agency claiming to have a 100 per cent success rate. I just wanted to know if some agencies have special relationships with the embassy and whether you have that relationship ...

It's a world war of sorts as the global community appears to be more united against Russia than against the novel coronavirus, and if nothing else is certain, the clear aggressor against Ukraine will not come out of this unscathed.The b...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - In a rare move, an all-woman crew of 12 firefighters manned the Ironshore Fire Department in Montego Bay on Tuesday and women also assumed command for the entire St James division, a nod to International Women's ...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - Lawyers for Prince Andrew and an American woman who accused him of sexually abusing her when she was 17 formally asked a judge Tuesday to dismiss her lawsuit.The lawyers sent a document to Judge Lewis A Ka...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Jamaican health-care workers have given a ringing endorsement to the initiative of Sandals Resorts Executive Chairman Adam Stewart to extend complimentary vacations to 300 of their members across the Caribbean as rec...

CHRISTIANA, Manchester - Taxi operators who on Monday blocked a section of the Succeed main road in protest over the lack of a transport centre will have to contend with the inadequate parking spaces issue on Wildman Street in this sout...

Q. Are there different types of J-1 visas? Do J-1 visas qualify for interview waiver?A: Yes, there are 15 exchange categories that qualify for J-1 "exchange visitors" visas to include au pair, camp counsellor, intern, international visi...

ZAHONY, Hungary (AP) - On International Women's Day, the global celebration of women, many fleeing Ukraine felt only the stress of finding a new life for their children as husbands, brothers and fathers stayed behind to defend their cou...

WASHINGTON, United States (AP) - A Texas man was convicted on Tuesday of storming the US Capitol with a holstered handgun, a milestone victory for federal prosecutors in the first trial among hundreds of cases arising from last year's r...

NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks gained ground, oil prices jumped, and the price of nickel surged so much that trading for it was shut on Tuesday as the US banned imports of oil from Russia and the economic fallout from its invasion of Ukraine ke...

Departmental representatives of the Jamaica Observer's staff gather to cut the cake celebrating the company's 29th anniversary on Monday.From left are Linnette Reynolds Phillips, human resources; Novia McDonald Whyte, editorial; Shaniqu...

NEGRIL, Westmoreland - The resumption of face-to-face classes on Monday showed just how wide the learning gap is among some students. During visits to four schools in Hanover and Westmoreland, educators signalled the issue as a major ch...

CLARK'S TOWN, Trelawny - When the novel coronavirus pandemic forced the closure of the nation's schools in March 2020, it also brought Dianne Livingston's bustling vending business outside Clark's Town Primary School to a grinding halt....

Veteran attorney KD Knight, obviously annoyed that questions being posed to People's National Party (PNP) witnesses in the Trafigura case were being replicated, described the mater as a "rubbish proceeding" as the long-awaited hearing ...

School leaders and students on Monday expressed joy at being back in school for full face-to-face classes, but there are already concerns about the six-feet physical distancing required under COVID-19 protocols, as well as dissatisfacti...

The high-ranking policeman who took the decision not to charge a self-confessed criminal and former gangster turned Crown witness in the ongoing Klansman Gang trial, despite being raked over the coals on Monday, said if the police had ...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - Taxi operators in this parish on Monday complained of fewer-than-expected passengers and heavy traffic, disappointed that the expected windfall from the first day of islandwide resumption of classes did not material...

Today is the 67th day of 2022. There are 298 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS2011: The European Union adopts a plan to double its efforts to boost energy efficiency in order to cut greenhouse gases, partly by producing better ho...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - The excitement among students at Port Maria Primary School belied the chronic shortage of classroom space and furniture that left even the institution's principal without a proper desk to use on Monday. The school ...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - In case students have forgotten about how to safely use the roads and remain safe in challenging situations, police in St Ann on Monday marked the resumption of islandwide face-to-face classes with refresher courses....

D r Nigel Clarke is scheduled to open the 2022/23 annual budget this afternoon at Gordon House full of confidence that the economic decline, which started in 2020/21, has ended.According to Clarke, despite the anticipated negative effe...

A team from Sandals Resorts International (SRI), led by Executive Chairman Adam Stewart, paid an official visit to the Dominican Republic February 16-17, the Jamaican hotel chain stated on Monday.The SRI executives met with Dominican Re...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - While other principals eagerly welcomed all their students back to full face-to-face classes on Monday morning, Principal Kingsley Bailey could only accommodate roughly half of the 820 children enrolled at Irwin ...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - The official global death toll from COVID-19 is on the verge of eclipsing six million - underscoring that the pandemic, now entering its third year, is far from over.The milestone is the latest tragic reminder o...

THE Caribbean School of Nursing (CSON), College of Health Sciences, University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) received a nursing mannequin from alumni of the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) Teaching Department, an early predecessor to th...

NEW ORLEANS, United States (AP) - Chris Kinney, a resident of Rapides Parish in central Louisiana, has seen his electricity disconnected eight times in the past two years for falling behind on his energy bills to Cleco Power.His family ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - As the prospect of a red wave grows, a series of Republican missteps - including recruiting stumbles, weak fund-raising, and intense infighting - is threatening the GOP's path to the Senate majority....

The Women's Leadership Initiative (WLI) on Sunday staged a forum and exhibition designed to give women the financial and security tools to empower them in their chosen professions.Titled 'Power Woman Lessons' the event, held at AC Mari...