THE Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) says it is in full support of Government's decision to reopen the entertainment sector, saying it is a win for both the entertainment and tourism industries.According to the hoteliers, an...

THERE is a prevalence of risky sexual practices among children who work, hustle, or live on the island's streets, with boys being propositioned by men for sex, and some girls seeing prostitution as a means of survival, insisting that th...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Conroy Barrett, financial controller for Rick's Café in Negril, is expected to know on August 9 if the Westmoreland Parish Court will drop charges laid against him by the police for the illegal hosting of...

VISA applicants are required to provide detailed information about themselves in the electronic application form and during the consular interview. It is imperative applicants are entirely truthful during the application process, as del...

THOUGH the number of students participating in this year's BridgeUSA programme is nowhere near pre-pandemic level, some local placement agencies are grateful for the upward trend after things plummeted last year amid COVID-19."It is a b...

PASTORS yesterday expressed pleasure with the number of worshippers that will now be allowed in churches, following the relaxation of COVID-19 measures announced by Prime Minister Andrew Holness in Parliament.Holness told the House that...

WITH Jamaica inching back to normality amidst Government's decision to further relax COVID-19 restrictions, Prime Minister Andrew Holness last night warned the country not to abandon caution, stressing that a spike in infections this su...

Dear Mr Brown:I heard that Canada will soon reopen its border for international travellers so that we won't have to quarantine any more. Please confirm whether this is true.- AFDear AF:Starting July 5, 2021, Canada will be lifting most ...

Minister of National Security Horace Chang was caught in repose during yesterday's sitting of the House of Representatives. Among the discussions in Gordon House yesterday was the announcement by Prime Minister Andrew Holness of an easi...

FORMER Government Member of Parliament George Wright took a back seat on the Opposition benches yesterday, paying little attention to the raucousness circulating around him, as he formally returned to the House of Representatives after ...

AS Nestlé Anglo Dutch Caribbean continues its efforts to attain zero greenhouse gas emissions across its operations and to make its packaging either recyclable or reusable by the year 2025, the company highlighted some of its achieveme...

HIGHGATE, St Mary - While his death came as a shock, family and friends of 27-year-old Kristoff Murray were not surprised to learn that he died while trying to save others. The young father got into difficulty in Florida on June 12 whil...

Sarah Cooper, the merciless Donald Trump impersonator who almost drove the former United States president to ban TikTok from the US, has won Adweek's Digital Creator of the Year 2020 award, Hollywood Reporter said Monday.The publication...

PEOPLE'S National Party councillor for the York Town Division, Uphel Purcell is appealing to criminals to desist from perpetrating acts of violence in the division. The appeal came hours after a resident was murdered in the Four Paths c...

THE son of 53-year-old Dean Cooke, who was arrested by authorities in Pompano Beach, Florida last week Thursday for attempting to enter the United States of America illegally by boat, is claiming that his father is being unfairly and in...

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel received a Moderna coronavirus vaccine as her second jab, after getting AstraZeneca as the first, a spokesman said yesterday.The 66-year-old took her first dose of AstraZeneca's va...

PARIS, France (AFP) - The pandemic and climate change is testing as never before the delicate balance of human co-habitation with the natural world.As an Australian prison is evacuated after it was overrun by the plague of mice ravaging...

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...