Children's Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison has moved to clarify aspects of a story published by the Jamaica Observer yesterday under the headline 'OCA supports new 211 helpline for children'.Harrison pointed out that her comments on th...

The Government's plan to amend the Child Care and Protection Act, 2004, to remove the provision under which a child deemed "uncontrollable" can be placed in a correctional facility by the court is being supported by United Nations Chil...

An Indian woman who shared the gloom that the novel coronavirus pandemic has cast over her home city on Thurday said she wished her country was in a similar situation to Jamaica as it relates to COVID-19 deaths and infections.The 21-yea...

Councillor Carlene Benjamin and members of her team on Tuesday were on the receiving end of a tongue-lashing from taxi operators who are livid at the condition of the Palmer's Cross main road in Clarendon which, they say, is severely af...

The Government will have to foot the tab for additional engineering and consultancy project management services for the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project (SCHIP), which is now costing over US$133.9 million more than budgeted ...

Fabian Skervin, one of the two accused charged in the murder of a Jamaican-Canadian couple in Retreat, St Thomas, just over two years ago, has claimed that he killed the couple on the advice of one of two voices he had heard in his hea...

With the success of her latest single, Go Down Deh, featuring Sean Paul and Shaggy, Spice is on cloud nine as she prepares for the release of her album TEN.Go Down Deh - co-produced by Grammy nominee, Romanian singer/songwriter Costi Io...

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has expressed concern about the abuse of their powers by members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) during stop and search of vehicles on the roads and searches of private pre...

Friday is the 127th day of 2021. There are 238 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1429: Seventeen-year-old Joan of Arc leads French forces to lift the English siege of Orleans, turning the Hundred-Year War to France's favour. The En...

Jamaica Observer team members are still in shock at the sudden passing of retiree Donald Lee who they described as a hard worker, jovial, and great team player.Lee, who worked at the Observer for 22 years, died on Sunday. He was 63.He ...

The head-turning image of four well-chiselled young men, running in full-body blue tights, executing slick, almost flawless baton-changing at high speed, made young girls swoon and men envious.The "Bolts of Lightning", as the CAST, Coll...

Saturday is the 128th day of 2021. There are 237 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2008: During the 2008 race for the White House, Senator Barack Obama got a front-runner's welcome back at the US Capitol, where he was surrounded on...

EIGHTEEN months after its pledge to reintroduce the "Length Man" road programme for unemployed Jamaicans, especially in rural areas, the Government is preparing to start a pilot within months.Minister without portfolio in the Ministry o...

SANDALS Montego Bay recently crowned its top speller as the resort continues to find creative ways for team members' development during the coronavirus pandemic.Apphia Morgan from the front office was crowned champion at a limited atten...

THE Guanaboa Vale police in St Catherine are embarking on a drive to rid the streets of unlicensed motorcycles which have been contributing to disorder in and around the community.Officer in charge of the station, Sergeant Wayne Constan...

Several environmental activities were executed recently at South Coast Resort in Westmoreland.Spearheaded by Sandals Foundation, resort managers, hotel health and safety guardians, team members and guests all took part in a number of co...

OVER the last year the Administrator General's Department (AGD) closed 434 estates and transferred all assets to beneficiaries.This was disclosed by Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck, who stated that the department, which "is one of the ...

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) - The Government has moved the alert at the La Soufriere volcano from Red, the highest, to Orange, the third-highest on the four-level scale.NBC RadioPrime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said on the State-owned on ...

WHILE some legislation exists locally against child pornography, Children's Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison has lamented the non-existence of some critical technology that would help advance cases and secure convictions. Speaking durin...

TEXAS, United States (AP) - The Biden Administration says four families that were separated at the Mexico border during Donald Trump's presidency will be reunited in the United States this week in what Homeland Security Secretary Aleja...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) - International support grew Thursday for a US proposal to waive patents on much-needed coronavirus vaccines, a move strongly opposed by pharmaceutical companies which said it wouldn't fix the supply ...

BRAZZAVILLE, Congo (AFP) - The World Health Organization yesterday warned of a new wave of COVID-19 infections in Africa due to delayed vaccine supplies, a slow roll-out and new variants.The African bureau of the UN agency said the cont...

IDAHO, United States (AP) - A shooting at an eastern Idaho middle school Thursday injured two students and a custodian, and a male student has been taken into custody, authorities said.The victims' injuries were not believed to be life-...

CHICAGO, United States (AP) - When Teri Murray tried to buy her first home in 1968, searching this leafy college town for the perfect place, she thought she was an ideal candidate: married, steadily employed, ample savings.But banks rej...

NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Under order by the Supreme Court, India's Government agreed yesterday to provide more medical oxygen to hospitals in the capital, potentially easing a two-week-old shortage that worsened the country's exploding n...

ROME, Italy (AP) - The family of one of two Americans, both convicted of a fatal stabbing during a scuffle with an Italian police officer, on Thursday blasted the jury for ordering Italy's harshest punishment of life imprisonment, a sen...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - President Joe Biden will push the case for his $2.3-trillion infrastructure plan in the reliably Republican state of Louisiana - directly challenging GOP lawmakers who say that low taxes for corporat...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Carissa F Etienne Wednesday expressed concern at the hospitalisations and deaths of younger people which she said are surging as the novel ...

A decision by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to promote some of its members on the condition that they accept the COVID-19 vaccine has created tension among rank-and-file members, several of whom are threatening to walk off the jo...

THE Government is holding talks with a number of prospective investors on projects that are expected to establish 400 acres of additional special economic zone (SEZ) space across the island, estimated at a value of more than US$1.3 bill...

THE driver of the Clarendon College bus which was involved in Tuesday's crash on New Road in Clarendon succumbed to his injuries yesterday. He has been identified as 56-year-old Keith Dunkley, who resided at Woodhall District in the par...

AFTER decades of announcements and millions of dollars in allocations which petered out to nothing, another Administration is yet again attempting to breathe life into shelved plans to construct a public morgue.A planned $555.9 million ...

After a two-year battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma, 17-year-old Rojea McCook learnt in April that the cancer had returned more aggressively, spreading from his neck to his stomach. Now his mother, Nadine Morris, who had remained optimisti...

This object has been placed at the intersection of Half-Way-Tree Road and Retirement Road in Kingston 5 to prevent motorists from driving over a section of the road which broke away recently. It, however, has been causing traffic to bac...

Today is the126th day of 2021. There are 239 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1937: The hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg burns and crashes in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 people on-board and a navy crewman ...

MALVERN, St Elizabeth - Principal of Hampton School Mahvell Charlton-Brown is heaping praise on the girls' school's past students for their consistent support which has helped the school maintain high standards, even during the current...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - A number of hardware stores in south-central Jamaica are complaining that they have not been able to meet cement demand over recent days because of what some are calling a "shortage" of the vital construction ma...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change Pearnel Charles Jr has promised a comprehensive national housing policy to address Jamaica's complex housing challenges.Making his contribution to the sectoral debate i...

MEMBER of Parliament (MP) for Clarendon northern and member of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Dwight Sibbles has called for urgent attention to be given to allegations of corruption and fraud in the farm work programme, wh...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Former Custos of Manchester Dr Gilbert Allen, who died at age 92, was yesterday interred at the Oaklawn Memorial Gardens following two days of public viewing of the body of the medical doctor.Dr Allen died on Fr...

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) - The Antigua and Barbuda Government has entered into a partnership with a local company in a campaign designed at getting nationals vaccinated as part of the efforts to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus....

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) - A High Court judge will on June 21 sentence Sherman Webb, who has pleaded guilty to the murder of a 23-year-old The University of the West Indies (UWI) student from Barbados more than 10 years ago during an occu...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Union is planning to tighten rules on foreign investment in its 27 members and boost production autonomy for sensitive strategic goods, two measures bound to hit China - amid already precarious rela...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, May 6, 2021: You are warm, charming and sociable. You are also eloquent and persuasive! As your new year begins, you're entering a year of learning and teaching. This is why you will expand your world throug...

Leslie Harrow yesterday denied that he had resigned from the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) as reported by both the Jamaica Observer and The Gleaner, saying that he was shocked when he saw the front-pag...

Students scheduled to sit exit exams this year will, as of May 10, resume face-to-face interactions with their teachers, but their counterparts in lower grades will have to wait a while longer, the Government stated yesterday.This as au...

JUSTICE Minister Delroy Chuck says that both the Government and the public are expecting timely trials, strong pronouncements from the bench, as well as harsh sentences, where appropriate, as the consequences of criminal activities in J...

In three weeks from today, all Jamaican Ephraim Martin will need is half of the Chicago City Council to vote in his favour to rename an iconic street in the Windy City after a black Haitian man, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, its underst...

Jamaicans are to continue under the regime of tightened curfew hours and restrictions for at least another four weeks an apologetic Prime Minister Andrew Holness indicated last evening, even while warning those he said seem "hell-bent"...

Renford Mowen, the taxi driver who died in yesterday's three-vehicle collision on New Road in Clarendon, had a near-death experience a month ago when a car he was driving burst into flames, forcing him to flee, according to one of his ...