CLARENDON, Jamaica - Sylvia McKay, the mother of Tasheika McKay whose throat was slashed by her boyfriend Markland Hayles on Sunday afternoon, says she is relieved at police reports that he had taken his own life. "Mi feel a likkle bett...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Regional operations manager for Southern Parks and Markets (SPM) Waste Management Limited Edward Muir says the pile-up of garbage affecting communities in Mandeville and its environs will be cleared this week."A...

PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) caretaker for the Kingston Central constituency, Imani Duncan-Price said yesterday she is angry that Prime Minister Andrew Holness has failed to implement a zone of special operations (ZOSO) in crime-plague...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The zone of special operations (ZOSO) declared in Norwood, St James, on Sunday has already started to yield results following yesterday's recovery of two illegal firearms by members of the security forces.The sec...

SENIOR communications strategist of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), Dennis Brooks has confirmed reports that the force is restricting the training of new recruits to people who have received COVID-19 vaccination.According to Brook...

JAMAICA has recorded close to one million visitors since reopening the doors to its tourism sector in June 2020, Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett revealed yesterday.According to the minister, a total of 816,632 tourists have visited ...

THE Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has asked the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) for an adjustment to its rates, which if approved would see residential customers' bills going up by 3.8 per cent, and small businesses by 2.2 p...

A taxi operator of the El Shaddai taxi service was shot in the face on Addington Drive in St Andrew yesterday afternoon.It was reported that about 3:40 pm the taxi operator was sitting in his motor car when he was approached by a man, w...

Today is the 173rd day of 2021. There are 192 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2010: After a month-long manhunt, accused Jamaican strongman Christopher "Dudus" Coke is apprehended by police on Nelson Mandela Highway in St Catherin...

MY experience with COVID-19, which I call COVID-21 (after all I had it in the year 2021) and COVID-teous-19. This disease is real, it is no joke. Feeling is believing, not that I ever doubted or disbelieved.On Friday, March 19, I starte...

WITH many businesses transitioning to the online space, Flow Business is continuing to empower small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) on their digital journey by helping them to seamlessly make the transition - including arming them wi...

CYRILINE McFarlane is not your regular senior citizen. The sprightly 90-year-old of Nightingale Grove, St Catherine, recently celebrated her birthday in fine style with children, grandchildren and other relatives at a function held in P...

MINISTER of Tourism Edmund Bartlett has expressed confidence that Jamaican producers will be better able to meet the demands of a revived tourism industry after the novel coronavirus pandemic. According to Bartlett, the Ministry of Tour...

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) - Prime Minister Gaston Browne has brushed aside concerns being raised by the main Opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) over plans to extend the state of emergency (SOE) by a further three months.The Parlia...

FISHERFOLK in Manchioneal, Portland, are begging for help from the Government as they claim they have been hit hard by the economic hardships associated with the novel coronavirus pandemic.The Jamaica Observer visited Manchioneal recent...

Addis Ababa , Ethiopia (AFP) - Ethiopia voted Monday in an election billed as the most democratic yet in Africa's second-most populous country, but taking place as famine blights its war-torn Tigray region.It was the first electoral tes...

PARIS, France (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron invited music fans to a socially distanced techno party at the presidential palace yesterday, reviving a pre-COVID event to mark the country's annual street music festival.France ce...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, June 22, 2021: You are a determined perfectionist. You have enormous dedication and perseverance in whatever you do. You are also charming, warm and sensitive. This year you must be responsible because you ar...

TOKYO (AP) - Thousands of Japanese companies began distributing COVID-19 vaccines to workers and their families yesterday in an employer-led drive reaching more than 13 million people that aims to rev up the nation's slow vaccine roll-o...

COVID-19 deaths in the United States have dipped below 300 a day for the first time since the early days of the disaster in March 2020, while the drive to put shots in arms approached another encouraging milestone Monday: 150 million Am...

A concern that Jamaicans who have been vaccinated with the Oxford-AstraZeneca (COVID-19) vaccine may encounter difficulty accessing some services internationally is being challenged by expert physician Professor Peter Figueroa, who is i...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - There was overwhelming appreciation among residents for the zone of special operations (ZOSO) declared yesterday in the tough Norwood community of this western Jamaica city by Prime Minister Andrew Holness.But, d...

TAXI driver Michael Swaby and his sidekick Dwayne Edwards - the duo behind a horrific string of kidnappings, robberies and rapes across the capital city - were on Friday found guilty of 20 of the 21 charges they were slapped with in the...

Some 110 fathers were celebrated Saturday morning in Duhaney Park, St Andrew, ahead of Father's Day yesterday. The event, put on by the Duhaney Park Community Development Committee, honoured fathers who were deemed dependable and invol...

A 48-hour curfew has been imposed by the Police in sections of August Town in St Andrew. The curfew began at 2:00 pm yesterday, June 20 and will remain in effect until 2:00 pm on Tuesday, June 22. The boundaries of the curfew are:North:...

Five-year-old Shannalee Carter plants a kiss on the cheek of her father, Kenute Carter, after she, along with mom Shanese Carter, made a special presentation to him in appreciation of his contribution to his family.It took place at the ...

Minister of Local Government Desmond McKenzie (centre) cutting a ribbon with councillor for the John's Hall Division, Faith Sampson (second right); Manchester North Western Member of Parliament Mikael Phillips (third right); councillor ...

SECONDARY school principals are contending that examination deferrals are not a gateway to repeating grade 11. Therefore, thousands of students who have deferred their Caribbean Secondary School Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The secretary general of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), Zurab Pololikashvili, will arrive in Jamaica for the 66th meeting of the UNWTO Regional Commission for the Americas to be held on Th...

It was the time for dads yesterday, as some were pampered by their children on Father's Day across the Corporate Area. Here are some of the highlights:Daughter Shasya Brown sticks to dad Damaine along Brentford Road in St Andrew yester...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Sunday said that the decision to impose a zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Norwood, St James, stemmed from the steady rise in crime and violence in the community.Holness said since the start of 2021 ...

Esli Folkes of New Jersey, United States, has a burning desire to invest in Jamaica. The 26-year-old was born in the US to Caribbean parents - a Haitian mother and a Jamaican father. He has since been compelled by his West Indian roots...

GRANVILLE, St James - Opposition Leader and President of the People's National Party (PNP) Mark Golding is bemoaning what he says is the country's late vaccination response while at the same time claiming that Jamaica is one of the leas...

Inmates in remand and rehabilitation centres in Jamaica are now at a greater risk of developing psychosocial problems, according to minister without portfolio in the Ministry of National Security, with responsibility for prisons, Matth...

Athletics great Usain Bolt celebrates Father's Day with Don Creary (left) and son Christopher at Ribbiz Barbican yesterday. 

The Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education Fund (CHASE) has partnered with St Catherine High School to construct a performing arts centre by contributing $53.9 million for phase one of the project.The centre is said to seat over 80...

LOS ANGELES, United States (AP) - The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard struck the top box office target.The Lionsgate film starring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson and Salma Hayek brought in US$11.6 million domestically to claim the number o...

Today is the 172nd day of 2021. There are 193 days left in the year.Today's Highlight2008: The Olympic torch winds through the streets of Tibet's capital Lhasa, the scene of bloody riots in March that helped fuel demonstrations at some ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran's hard-line judiciary chief won a landslide victory in the country's presidential election, a vote that both propelled the supreme leader's protege into Tehran's highest civilian position and saw ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - The US sent 2.5 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan on Sunday, tripling an earlier pledge in a donation with both public health and geopolitical meaning. The shipment arrived on a China Airlines...

ATLANTA (AP) - Tropical Depression Claudette claimed 12 lives in Alabama as the storm swept across the south-eastern US, causing flash flooding and spurring tornadoes that destroyed dozens of homes. Ten people, including nine children, ...

NORTH BEND, Oregon (AP) - A man sought in the killings of his father and two other people in a small Oregon city forced a woman to drive him more than 2,000 miles (3,219 kilometres) to Wisconsin, where he surrendered to police, authorit...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australia's suppression of information, seen as pivotal to a free and open media, is at the centre of accusations that the country has become one of the world's most secretive democracies.Last week, a former A...

If her parents never had confidence in her, Krishna Jayasankar would not have travelled to Jamaica.But for the last six months, this north Caribbean island has been her energiser at dawn, her strength by midday, and her pillow at night...

A disagreement over permission to play football led a 15-year-old boy to flee his home for a few days.In another case a 14-year-old ran away from home as the sight of his mother crying, because she was facing financial difficulties and ...

MICHAEL Sutherland has no biological children, but he has moulded the minds and positively transformed the lives of numerous who have crossed his path.Over the course of his 28 years as an educator Sutherland has mentored many students ...

Vice-president (VP) of the young professional arm of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Generation 2000 (G2K), Tia Ferguson, is calling for an end to the stigma surrounding mental-health issues.Ferguson cited that the recent case...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Following his tour of the Mount Salem Zone of Special Operations (ZOSO) on Friday, Opposition Leader Mark Golding has fully supported some of the residents' call for a more rapid rotation of members of the securi...

WHEN Elorine Smith heard that a motor car and a minibus had collided in the Bog Walk Gorge on June 8, she called her mother, Valerie Ennis, to alert her to the possibility of a traffic delay.Ennis, who lived in Angels, St Catherine, had...

TWO weeks after confirming that there were enough COVID-19 vaccine doses to complete the process for individuals who received their first shot in March and April, the Ministry of Health and Wellness has made an about-turn regarding that...