Jamaica Observer workers were yesterday still mourning the loss of their colleague, Vera Levy whom they described as a warm and special woman who always spared a thought for the less fortunate.Levy, who, on her retirement on May 1...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny — Two of the three men accused of the murder of 51-year-old Andrea Lowe-Garwood at a church on Market Street, Falmouth in Trelawny on January 31, were remanded when they appeared in the Trelawny Parish C...

PORT Henderson Primary School in Portmore, St Catherine, is the first school to receive handwashing stations under the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Food for the Poor Resilient Schools Programme, for which Scotiabank...

JUNCTION, St Elizabeth — Former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament (MP) for St Elizabeth South Eastern Cecil Roy July died at age 76 yesterday at the University Hospital of the West Indies after suffering from a...

CALABAR High School middle and long distance track and field Coach Errol Messias says he was left puzzled when he heard yesterday of the murder of colleague Nicholas Neufville.

Another Jamaican church leader has weighed in on the abortion debate, arguing that legalising the controversial procedure is not the solution, especially considering the country's high murder rate.

MOST students who are lucky or good enough to receive scholarships tend to go through school on one endowment. Nineteen-year-old Crystina Perkins is an exception.

Today is the 47th day of 2021. There are 318 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1959: Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista. OTHER EVENTS1804: US Marines slip into Tripoli harbour and b...

THE University of the West Indies, Mona (UWI) has announced a partnership with New Fortress Energy (NFE) to introduce a cryogenics engineering course in the Faculty of Engineering. This course, said the UWI, is testament to the na...

Human rights advocate Maria Carla Gullotta is praising the Government's decision to remove 26 children, deemed uncontrollable, from the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre in St Catherine, but has advised that relocating them i...

Lifespan Spring Water has announced the signing of Dr Alfred Dawes as its new medical spokesman. Dr Dawes, a bariatric and laparoscopic surgeon, and a former Jamaica Medical Doctors Association president, joins singer Denyque as a...

THE Victoria Mutual (VM) Foundation through a new 'Refurbish for Change' initiative, recently donated 130 fully restored computers to educational and community development institutions across the island.

NEW YORK, United States (CMC) — New York Attorney General Letitia James says she has led a coalition of 16 attorneys general from across the United States in fighting alongside US President Joseph Biden to protect undocument...

AUSTIN, United States (AP) — A frigid blast of winter weather across the US plunged Texas into an unusually icy emergency yesterday that knocked out power to more than two million people, closed dangerously snowy and slick h...

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — After a week-long bus ride from Honduras, Isabel Osorio Medina arrived in northern Mexico with the hope President Joe Biden would make it easier for people like him to get into the United States. ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — Donald Trump took in the win at Mar-a-Lago, surrounded by friends and family. His lawyers celebrated with hugs and smiles. One joked, “We're going to Disney World!” ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has granted an emergency authorisation to the coronavirus vaccine made by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, a move that should allow the company's partners to ship m...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, February 16, 2021: Spirited, courageous and demonstrative, you rebirth yourself several times in this one lifetime. This year, a new beginning proves to be amazingly successful and you win accolades. If...

New chief executive officer of Digicel Jamaica Ltd Abdujabor “Jabbor” Kayumov is big on customer service.

CHAIRMAN of the Crime Monitoring Oversight Committee (CMOC), Lloyd Distant Jr has expressed concern that the Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) drive to recruit and enlist over 1,000 men and women by March 2021 has fallen way off ...

The decision to extend the closure of all cays except the Morant Cay and Pedro Cay in light of the recent surge in COVID-19 cases became effective February 12 and will go until February 26. But this has angered small business ope...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Jamaica's Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce (MIIC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have launched a landmark partnership to help informal operators in the agriculture and ...

A haven where children can do their homework and be surrounded by positive influences, in the form of the police, is what Waterhouse, St Andrew, resident Leonna Miller envisions the new, multi-storey Olympic Gardens Police Station...

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Kalina Collier, the United States airline worker who, after testing positive for the novel coronavirus, reportedly faked that she was kidnapped in Jamaica and was being trafficked by a local hotel acc...