JAMAICA has started discussions with China, Cuba, and India about obtaining COVID-19 vaccines from those countries when they become available.Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton said the Government has met with the respective am...

WAYNE Lewis, the St Elizabeth truck driver who was convicted of the 2014 shooting death of his female bartender friend while he was in a drunken stupor, and had been sentenced to 10 years at hard labour, will be a free man in half...

MAY PEN, Clarendon — Owner of White Sand Beach Seafood Restaurant in Rocky Point Nicholas Graham is threatening legal action against the State after his home was searched and items allegedly damaged by police in his absence,...

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says that almost 30 resorts are now providing their guests with free COVID-19 testing at their properties, which is adequate to facilitate all visitors to the Island. ...

THE pain was evident on their faces as members of the homeless community in downtown Kingston gathered early yesterday morning behind crime scene tape which marked where three of their colleagues had been murdered before dawn. ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — With cases of COVID-19 showing alarming increases here, key stakeholders have welcomed the tighter curfew measures and more restrictions on gatherings announced by Health Minister Dr Christopher Tuft...

Today is the 26th day of 2021. There are 339 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1998: US President Bill Clinton says that he “did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms Lewinsky”. He acknowledges a relations...

We reference the Clovis Toon published by the Jamaica Observer on Monday, January 25, 2021 and wish to acknowledge that the recent find of guns and ammunitions did not take place at Kingston's wharf, but rather in Montego B...

THE Sagicor Foundation charity race event, the Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run, has once again partnered with popular e-commerce platform Gustazos , allowing people who wish to donate to the race to contribute between $250 and $5,000...

SANDALS Montego Bay last Thursday staged a special 'Owning Your Own Home Expo' which provided team members with information on how to access housing units as well as build on land they already own.The expo featured exhibits plus r...

GENERATION 2000 (G2K), the young professional affiliate of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), recently launched a branch in Clarendon, bringing to 14 the number of G2K chapters islandwide.

FLORIDA, United States (AP) — Carnival Cruise Line is cancelling and delaying more US trips, with new cases of COVID-19 averaging about 170,000 per day in the country amid a jumbled roll-out of vaccines. ...

Stanford Cocking, public relations officer at Jamaica Cancer Society, greets Andrea Beckford Wray, following the viewing of the body of her father Gurney Becford, at Romans Funeral home on Dunrobin Aveneue in St Andrew, yesterday....

THE Salem Primary and Junior High School in Beeston Spring, Westmoreland, has been hailed by the parish's health department as a model institution in observing the coronavirus (COVID-19) protocols.The institution resumed face-to-f...

NEBRASKA, United States (AP) — A major winter storm was yesterday expected to blanket a large swath of the middle of the country with snow and disrupt travel, as more than a foot of snow was anticipated in some areas. ...

THE Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has established a National Yam Oversight Committee, which will be responsible for charting the future of yam production islandwide through the development of a national yam strategy. ...

MORE than three months after the Department of Correctional Service (DCS) was faced with 61 cases of COVID-19 in the island's prisons, another outbreak has been reported at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre in Kingston.Co...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — The impeachment case against Donald Trump is heading toward a historic Senate trial, but Republican senators are easing off their criticism of the former president and shunning calls to c...

COMMUNICATION specialist Dania Beckford is advising Jamaicans to make big strategies and not to make them too finite, as they set their goals for 2021. Beckford made the recommendation while addressing a JN Circle Thrive Together ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Hugh Todd yesterday issued a protest note, firmly condemning the illegal detention of the captains and crews of two Guyanese registered fis...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (CMC) — President Chandrikapersad Santokhi has tested positive for COVID-19, while several members of his Cabinet who were in contact with him in recent days are being tested for the highly contagious vi...

ANDRE Arnett, the five-year-old cancer patient whose mother appealed through the Jamaica Observer for assistance to secure him a life-saving bone marrow transplant, has died. Andre passed away last Wednesday at Bustamante Hospital...

THE local media community has been urged to operate without fear or favour, and to do so with integrity and professionalism.Journalists were given that charge yesterday by senior pastor of Hope Gospel Assembly Reverend Dr Peter Ga...

Veteran journalist Ken Allen, who served The Gleaner for more than 60 years, died yesterday at University Hospital of the West Indies after a long illness. He was 87.Allen was appointed editor-in-chief of The Gleaner in 1992 an...

THE 35 Golden Dragon buses which the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) procured for half a billion dollars in 2016 from China have been all but destroyed by overloading coupled with the rigours of the hilly, rural St Andrew rou...