EXECUTIVE Chairman of Sandals Resorts International (SRI) Adam Stewart says the Caribbean's leading hotel chain will be forever grateful to late marketing icon Adrian Robinson, the man who came up with the Sandals name. Stewart, paying ...

THE Advertising Agencies Association of Jamaica has added its voice to those mourning the death of marketing and advertising veteran, Adrian Robinson. According to the association's president, Arnold JJ Foote, the passing of Robinson is...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness has cautioned sectoral interests which have been trying to push the Government to make decisions that affect the whole society."I think that after this episode there will have to be a greater balance and un...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness is not happy that only 40,000 students, 12 years and older, have taken the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. There are approximately 204,000 high school students in Jamaica.Responding to questions from the Jamaica O...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Residents of this parish are at their wits' end after being plagued for years by water woes.The most recent cause for concern is the inadequacy of the Bullstord treatment plant which serves six divisions i...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness has urged Jamaicans not to panic despite the sharp spike in the COVID-19 numbers in recent days.Up to Tuesday the island had recorded 68,482 cases of the virus with 1,549 deaths and 18,103 active cases.But ...

IGL Limited yesterday revealed that the country's health authorities, for months, neglected to provide forecasts of the island's need for medical oxygen despite repeated requests from the company.The stunning revelation has shed light o...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - Farmers in the Bog Hole community in the northern end of this parish are avid gamblers. They often lose but they're hooked, ploughing and planting their fields again and again even after their crops are totally deci...

THE House of Representatives is expected to resume sitting on Tuesday, September 14.Both the House of Representatives and the Senate normally go on a summer break close to the end of July, and return by mid-September. This year Members ...

THEY may not come readily to mind when one thinks of heroes on the front line of the COVID-19 fight, but the cleaning staff in overburdened hospitals wear their capes just as well as doctors and nurses.Forty-eight-year-old Michelle Bail...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Stakeholders of two flood-prone areas in this south-central parish are cautiously watching the rising water levels following recent heavy rain associated with tropical storms Grace and Ida.The main road leadin...

Opposition Leader Mark Golding on Tuesday addressed the nation at what he described as "a very perilous and frightening time for our nation. This is a lightly edited version of that address.It is clear that our health-care system has r...

MINISTER of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke has described as an "unfortunate innuendo" questions rehashed since last weekend about the disbursement of US$670 million from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Worl...

HIGHGATE, St Mary - Arlene Thomas is looking forward to her grandson maintaining his perfect attendance record for online classes when the new school year begins. Now that fibre optic cable is being installed in her community, she think...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Deputy mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Richard Vernon, has underscored the role of municipal corporations in local governance. Speaking during a 'Let's Talk' virtual forum on Monday, Councillor Vernon noted that...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - The National Works Agency (NWA) on Monday closed the eight kilometres of roadway between Lionel Town and Mitchell Town in Southern Clarendon after a culvert collapsed in the vicinity of DaCosta, significantly underm...

Today is the 245th day of 2021. There are 120 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1666: Great Fire of London burns for five days, nearly destroying the city, including St Paul's Cathedral, but claims few lives. OTHER EVENTS1773: War...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - In the nearly two months since President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated, Haiti has suffered a devastating earthquake and a drenching tropical storm, the twin natural disasters deflecting attention from the ...

Attorney-at-law Gavin Goffe has sided with Jamaican Bar Association President Alexander Williams in calling for the Government to seek the attorney general's advice and state its position on mandatory vaccines for workers amidst controv...

Education Minister Fayval Williams yesterday reiterated that schools will not be able to hold face-to-face classes at the start of the new academic year scheduled for next week, even as the Government pushes its COVID-19 vaccination pro...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - As one nurse likened her job on the front lines of the COVID-19 fight to a suicide mission and wondered whether it was time to throw in the towel after yet another colleague died on the job, the head of ...

THE Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) yesterday described late former director and board chairman, Adrian Robinson, as a forward thinker and a marketing genius.Robinson, 87, a former radio broadcaster and advertising executive, died in hospit...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - Relatives of an elderly man from the Longwood section of this parish are in mourning after he fell to his death in a gully that runs alongside his yard. The incident, which happened about 6 o'clock on Monday evening...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Having arrested only four people in the past two weeks, the St Ann police are pleased with the level of compliance in the parish during the six no-movement days implemented so far. "We had great compliance. Most of...

SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Patients awaiting surgery at Spanish Town Hospital for weeks are facing a new degree of worry about outsiders infecting them with the dreaded novel coronavirus.The affected patients have been stranded at t...

THE Island Traffic Authority (ITA) is to join the Road Safety Unit (RSU) and the police in an effort to restrict the growing number of road deaths, especially at nights.Director of the authority, Kenute Hare, says that he is aware that ...

Motorists and pedestrians say they fear for their lives when traversing the Gloucester section of Victoria main road in Thompson Pen, Clarendon.Following heavy rains from Tropical Strom Ida last week, more than half of the road crumble...

Dear Mr Brown,I would like to know whether an employer in Canada can make it mandatory for employees to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Wouldn't that infringe on constitutional rights of the employees? I am interested in migrating there. How...

Today is the 244th day of 2021. There are 121 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1957: The worst railway disaster in Jamaica's history, known as the Kendal crash, takes place. OTHER EVENTS1494: France's King Charles VIII invades It...

THEIR response is described as immediate, calculated, and direct, and is carried out in an effective manner. They are the trained investigators assigned to the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) First Responder Programm...

Hector's River , Portland - The accolades keep coming at Seaside Primary School, one of two Portland schools that bucked the trend with boys outperforming girls in this year's Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exams. Past student Maureen O'Con...

THE Real Estate Board (REB) will be rolling out a social media marketing course for local professionals as it joins thousands of other industries in leveraging the platform to market their services."The course will be launched under the...

NEW ORLEANS, United States (AP) - c ommunities beginning the huge task of clearing debris and repairing the damage inflicted by Hurricane Ida are facing the dispiriting prospect of weeks without electricity in the oppressive, late-summ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) - With the Taliban in possession of Kabul's airport after the United States completed its withdrawal yesterday, the focus will now shift from the mammoth Western evacuation operation seen in the past two weeks...

Hundreds of Jamaicans turned up at COVID-19 vaccination sites across the country yesterday, placing strain on the health authorities' ability to efficiently administer the vaccines and resulting in people being diverted from the Nationa...

Some 200 health-care workers have responded to the health and wellness ministry's Mayday last week for retired and active nurses and doctors to participate in "sessional service" in public health facilities as COVID-19 infections and d...

More than 70 per cent of the inmates in the island's penal system have refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine despite repeated offers from the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) for them to be vaccinated.The Jamaica Observer has co...

MOUNT SALEM, St James - A whopping 99 per cent of COVID-19 patients admitted to the four public hospitals in western Jamaica in the last three weeks were not vaccinated, according to Dr Delroy Fray, clinical coordinator for the Wester...

Quick action by one of the occupants of a house at Teak Way in Barbican Terrace, St Andrew, yesterday resulted in the property being spared major damage when a fire broke out in one of the bedrooms, destroying most of the items inside.N...

Well over 1,100 Jamaicans yesterday received COVID-19 vaccines at Flow Jamaica's vaccination blitz held at Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston.Although the blitz was held for Flow staff, their family, friends, registered employees of ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) President Winston Smith has asked for further private sector assistance with the donation of tablets and other tools to aid online teaching and learning as schools prepare to s...

The Jamaica Umbrella Group of Churches (JUGC) is staging a National Day of Prayer and Fasting today in light of the rising cases of COVID-19 in the country.Being held under the theme 'Living Wisely: Exercising Sound Judgement in Comple...

Today is the 243rd day of 2021. There are 122 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1971: Cuba terminates the airlift that had brought 246,000 Cuban refugees from Havana to Florida since December 1965. OTHER EVENTS1290: Jews are exile...

Almost a month before Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton signed the import permit to allow stocks of Ivermectin into Jamaica, two foreign medical research groups wrote the Jamaican Government urging use of the anti-para...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (CMC) - The Court Martial of Suriname yesterday confirmed the 20-year jail sentence that had been imposed on former Suriname President Desi Bouterse for the murder of 15 people while he had ruled the Dutch-speaking ...

SA GICOR Group Jamaica, in partnership with the Private Sector Vaccine Initiative (PSVI), successfully rolled out day one of its 'Vax Day' programme last Friday.According to Sagicor, the initiative saw more than 350 of the financial con...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) said yesterday that it will legally challenge the decision by the authorities to lock out nurses and other government employees who have not been vaccinated or refuse to ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, August 31, 2021: People are attracted to you because you have a strong personality and you are very charming. You have excellent social skills. You also have strong values when it comes to security and stabil...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - America's 20-year war in Afghanistan entered its final hours yesterday with the last Americans seeking to be evacuated and the US military preparing to end its airlift and depart the Taliban-controll...

NEW ORLEANS, United States (AP) - Rescuers yesterday set out in hundreds of boats and helicopters to reach people trapped by flood waters, while utility repair crews rushed in after a furious Hurricane Ida swamped the Louisiana coast an...