Jamaicans yesterday reacted with disgust to the behaviour of Everald Warmington, the minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, who was seen in a video complaining of being disrespected by police of...

THE memorial service for Nattallie Miranda Dawkins - the Clarendon teacher who was abducted March 30 at her home in Four Paths and a body believed to be hers later found in Sandy Bay - will be held Saturday at 11:00 am.A family release ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Police here have listed one man as wanted and 23 others as persons of interest in relation to criminal activity in the community of Comfort near Royal Flat.The community has been on edge following two shootings ...

MOUNT SALEM, St James - Nicola Clarke, the woman who was doused with a flammable substance and set ablaze by a jealous spouse last week Wednesday, was airlifted to the United States late yesterday afternoon to receive reconstructive sur...

Gangsters in Kingston Central have reportedly issued death threats to politicians from the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and Opposition People's National Party (PNP) with one of the targets being told a few weeks ago that her name ...

People's National Party (PNP) executive members emerged from a more-than-two-hour meeting yesterday standing firmly behind embattled General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell."The party stands firm in support of our general secretary as we ...

TransJamaican Highway Ltd (TJH),developers of the east-west leg of Highway2000, is undertaking road resurfacing work onsections of the Portmore leg of the east-westhighway. Here workmen resurface a sectionof the heavily-used road last S...

Today is the 148th day of 2021. There are 217 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1929: The first all-colour talking picture, On with the Show! , produced by Warner Brothers, opens in New York. OTHE EVENTS1533: The archbishop of C...

Relatives and friends of Ambassador Anthony Johnson yesterday shared that, up to the time of his passing, he relentlessly embodied the motto of his alma mater, Kingston College - The brave may fall but never yield - in much the same way...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Following months of suffering from what they claimed was a shortage of cement, hardware operators in Jamaica's south-central parishes are now dealing with an increase in the prices of lumber and steel.The hardwa...

OPPOSITION spokesman on health and wellness Dr Morais Guy says the People's National Party is not pleased with the pace of construction at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St James, despite the assurances from the minister."Despite t...

His name rang from the podium and in every private conversation among the small gathering, walking distance from the beach where he swam as a child and in the shadow of Jamaica's leading tourist attraction, the beguiling Dunn's River Fa...

MINISTER of Transport and Mining Robert Montague says the Maritime Authority of Jamaica (MAJ) is "on the last lap" of privatisation of the country's ship registry."We continue to work with the Development Bank and the Enterprise Team to...

THE Registrar General's Department (RGD) said Friday that all its offices will resume regular business hours, effective Monday, May 31, 2021.Its head office at Twickenham Park in St Catherine will open from 6:30 am to 3:00 pm, whileregi...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Head of Police Area One, Assistant Commissioner Clifford Chambers says a lesson should be learnt from last week's arrest of an American citizen at New York's John F Kennedy International Airport after a handgun, ...

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) - The Dominican Government confirmed yesterday that Indian fugitive Mehul Choksi, who fled Antigua and Barbuda earlier this week, had arrived here illegally and could be sent back to the twin-island nation, amid r...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - A collaboration between the Government of Canada and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is being launched to boost countries' efforts to protect at-risk individuals from COVID-19 in Latin A...

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) - Scientists monitoring the La Soufriere volcano, where seismic activity has remained low for more than a month, Wednesday warned that people would not be allowed into the Red Zone "for the foreseeable" futu...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Viachka Krasulin said he was arrested and brutally beaten all over his body by police in Belarus for attending a rally in August 2020 that challenged the results of an election keeping authoritarian President A...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - Americans are going back to one of their favourite pastimes: store shopping.With more people getting vaccinated and dropping their face masks, retailers from Walmart to Macy's are seeing an eager return to...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, May 28, 2021: You are friendly, assertive and many of you are very stylish. You know how to make an impression. You are knowledgeable, versatile and multitalented, which allows you to pursue many different pat...

PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell is describing the latest allegations of sexual misconduct levelled at him as "well-funded political agenda with the objective of forcing me to resign my position as gene...

EFFORTS by portfolio minister Robert Montague to reassure public transport operators of the Government's commitment to the sector may not have appeased all, as one association has thrown cold water on his sectoral presentation in Parlia...

FITZ Bailey, deputy commissioner of police in charge of the crime portfolio, says investigators are not considering reopening a criminal investigation into allegations of carnal abuse against People's National Party (PNP) General Secret...

STUDENTS who will be sitting Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) examinations next month have responded with mixed views to the two-week postponement announced by the regional examining body yesterday.Instead of the previously announce...

THE People's National Party (PNP) finds itself in a pickle today as senior party members are reportedly at odds over its response to the allegations brought against its general secretary, Dr Dayton Campbell.Reports reaching the Jamaica ...

It's a new story but it's an old story, with a US$230 million twist that will give Sandals its latest ultra-modern resort - the Sandals Dunn's River - put thousands to work and likely signal the recovery of Jamaica's pandemic-battered t...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness (centre) and Sandals Resorts International Executive Chairman Adam Stewart (third left) turning the sod for the development of the new Sandals Dunn's River, near Ocho Rios, St Ann, at a ground-breaking cere...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness says his Government is committed to protecting the Montego Bay coastline.Under the ongoing Montego Bay Waterfront Rehabilitation Project, groynes are being built and rehabilitated to reduce the loss of beac...

THE police have confirmed that two people are dead, and two others nursing injuries after several men armed with guns fired at people standing near a food stall around 6:00 pm in Gordon Town, St Andrew on Tuesday.Dead are are 27-year-ol...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - The father of the 15-year-old boy who is accused of the accidental shooting death of his six-year-old cousin while playing with an illegal gun in Westmoreland last week Monday, says he is still in shock.Th...

Today is the 147th day of 2021. There are 218 days left in teh year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2011: The acquisition of Air Jamaica is completed, making Caribbean Airlines the national airline of Jamaica. OTHER EVENTS1647: The first recorded Ame...

IN an effort to make forensic science the new frontier of law enforcement for swift and sure justice, the Government will soon break ground for Jamaica's first autopsy suite in the capital of Kingston. Minister of National Security Dr H...

 PEARLINE Bryan was forced to take drastic action to pull her daughter, Satria McLean, from regular classes at a primary school in Kingston ahead of the 2021 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations and opted for her to be schooled at h...

TRADE unionist Vincent Morrison says employers should be making arrangements to repay workers who had taken paycuts at the start of the COVID-19 crisis to help keep companies afloat. He told the Jamaica Observer that employers should tr...

DANIEL Wint, a grade six student at Salt Savannah Primary School in Clarendon, is one of the 400 beneficiaries of tablets and SIM cards, to facilitate Internet access for remote learning, from the JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation. In giving ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Belarus's authoritarian president lashed out yesterday at Europe for trying to "strangle" his country with sanctions over the diversion of a passenger jet, and he accused a dissident journalist arrested after the fl...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - President Joe Biden yesterday asked US intelligence officials to "redouble" their efforts to investigate the origins of the novel coronavirus, including any possibility the trail might lead to a Chin...

CALIFORNIA, United States (AP) - An employee opened fire yesterday at a California railyard serving Silicon Valley killing eight people. The suspect is also dead, authorities said.Santa Clara County sheriff's spokesman Deputy Russell Da...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday described as a moral failure the stockpiling of COVID-19 vaccines by wealthier countries at the expense of poor black nations which many of them victimised on their way to the top.At the same time...

Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has issued a warning to permanent secretaries that her appearance at the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to answer questions about the operations of her department does not give them a free pass as in...

Absolutely necessary, but way too late. That is how some school leaders yesterday responded to a call made by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) to make adjustments to this year's s...

Scotland's new Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville is being pressured to order the return of a £1.7-million ($357 million) north-east education fund to Jamaica, after the money was linked to profits from the slave trade. The be...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday said there are significant opportunities for lucrative trade, investment and tourism links between Africa and the Caribbean, arguing that connectivity is the greatest link between the region and ...

Three men were shot in Gordon Town, St Andrew, late yesterday afternoon, but up to press time police on the scene had not confirmed any fatalities.Residents told the Jamaica Observer that about 6:00 pm gunshots were heard near the sect...

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is under more fire from members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) today after the police oversight body issued an erroneous statement on three cops involved in a fatal shootin...

People's National Party (PNP) activist Karen Cross is mounting a stout defence in the defamation suit filed against her by the party's General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell.Cross's defence also includes signed statements, witnessed by j...

Outstanding Jamaican educator Janet Walsh-Davis, a former principal of St Andrew Preparatory School, has won a Duthoy scholarship to pursue a graduate degree at William Howard Taft University, Lakewood, Colorado.The university announce...

Jamaican-American Vincent Bish, 21, a budding orator, is one of three Harvard students who will deliver speeches at the virtual ceremony to honour the Class of 2021, the Harvard Gazette announced yesterday.All three were selected in ...

National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang yesterday said the Government has developed a comprehensive social investment structure which will play a critical role in reducing crime and violence.According to Dr Chang, the initiative wil...