CONSTRUCTION work is now slated to begin at the breakaway on Gordon Town Road in St Andrew after Cabinet's approval of a $187-million contract to fix the section of the roadway that collapsed after heavy rains last November. ...

On a sultry night in 2006 Gordon “Butch” Stewart and 15 guests were on his sport fishing boat — Sir Jon II — in the quiet waters one mile off the north coast of Providenciales — the main economic ce...

THE Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) has given a high rating to Commissioner of Police Major General Antony Anderson, but low ranking to politicians in the fight against serious crimes.PSOJ President Keith Duncan told...

CABINET has approved the implementation of a new social pension programme that will see non-pensioners, aged 75 years and older, receiving $3,400 per month with immediate effect.Minister of Education, Youth and Information Fayval ...

SANDALS Resorts International (SRI) aims to create more than 5,000 additional jobs across the Caribbean over the next five to seven years through a continued multimillion-dollar investment in planned new developments even as the r...

TEVIN Steve Hutchinson is a very unlucky man. Just a month after losing his driver's licence, instead of turning it over to the police or tax collectorate, someone has copied it and placed his information on social media and, wors...

This is the final part of the series by our reporters on how they covered the news at the onset of the novel coronavirus last year.

A stick, aplastic cup and old tyres have been used to indicate to motorists the danger of a massive hole on Slipe Pen Road in the Corporate Area. (Photo: Joseph Wellington) 

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — There is growing concern that illegal parties and other forms of indiscipline are fuelling a continuing surge of COVID-19 cases in the central Jamaica parish.Acting medical officer of health, Dr Shon...

NEW YORK (AP) — British-based beer and spirits maker Diageo is giving a combined US$10 million to 25 historically Black colleges and universities across the United States, continuing an up swell of giving to the institutions...

Today is the 35th day of 2021. There are 330 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2011: President Barack Obama appeals to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to focus on his legacy and begin an orderly process to relinquish the pow...

Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Everald Warmington, has outlined a raft of polices that will guide how roads and infrastructure are maintained, repaired and constructed across the i...

The Jamaica Observer's Sharlene Hendricks and Sherdon Cowan were named among the winners in the 2020 National Journalism Awards presented by the Press Association of Jamaica last Saturday night.Hendricks was named Young Journalist...

PAUL “Yellow” Simpson, one of the St Ann residents who last week voiced their disgust with the increased incidents of rape in St Ann the parish, is facing a backlash after his picture was included in a story published ...

THE Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) says it is disappointed with the decision taken by the Government to discontinue the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) ridership arrangement, which has benefited thousands of first r...

CARIBBEAN and Latin American countries are being called on to use the novel coronavirus pandemic as a catalyst to address the pervasive problem of gender inequities in the region.Head of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)...

The JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation has embarked on the donation of approximately 400 tablets to 32 primary schools islandwide to assist vulnerable students to fully participate in online learning.

REDBERRY, Manchester—Residents in the quiet rural district are adamant that the lack of potable water be addressed before work resumes on the US$188-million May Pen to Williamsfield leg of the east-west corridor of Highway 2...

MOUNT ARLINGTON, NJ (AP) — This week's winter storm appears to have broken a 122-year-old record for the most snow in a New Jersey community from one storm.Mount Arlington, in the northern part of the state, got 35.5 inches ...

OREGON, United States (AP) — Police say a woman was shot five times while in bed at her north-east Portland home early Tuesday.A woman called Portland police around 3:15 am and said that she woke to gunfire coming into her b...

London , England (AP) — AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine does more than prevent people from falling seriously ill — it appears to reduce transmission of the virus and offers strong protection for three months on just a s...

THE chief accountable officer in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) found herself under sustained fire yesterday as the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) sought to get to the bottom of the reasons for the ministry's n...

In one of his first initiatives as Sandals Resorts International (SRI) executive chairman, Adam Stewart has announced the creation of The Gordon “Butch” Stewart Tourism and Hospitality Scholarship designed to develop ...

The Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) is to this week release the details of all approved private sector laboratories that can legitimately test for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

THE Jamaica Public Service (JPS) said its recent and new scientific methods are proving effective in helping to keep vegetation off the company's lines. This latest move, it said, is part of a series of initiatives which resulted ...