Commodore Antonette Wemyss-Gorman's phone rang of the hook yesterday after news emerged late Wednesday night that she will be appointed chief of defence staff next January.The appointment will result in Wemyss-Gorman being promoted to t...

Some of the island's religious leaders yesterday expressed pleasure with the Government's move to increase the number of worshippers allowed in churches under the COVID-19 safety measures which the country has been observing since last ...

THE Jamaica National Group yesterday revealed it is gearing up to embark on a comprehensive drive to achieve full immunisation against COVID-19 among its more than 2,000 employees and, by extension, Jamaicans islandwide.Aptly called the...

Taking up where his late dad left off, Adam Stewart, executive chairman of Sandals Resorts International (SRI), last week received the prestigious 2021 Pacesetter Award from the Travel ALLIES Society (TAS), at its annual Young Leaders i...

A wall of silence was erected around premises on Little Kew Road in St Andrew, yesterday as residents refused to comment on a dispute which left one sister dead and another on the run.The police identified the dead woman as 42-year-old ...

FLORENCE HALL, Trelawny - While underscoring that he will not be forcing anyone to take the COVID-19 vaccine, Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday said that mandatory vaccination will become unavoidable when a larger segment of the p...

When Andre "Blackman" Bryan, alleged leader of the One Don faction of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang, "gave orders" for people to be wiped out, no questions were asked of him, a key prosecution witness testified yesterday."He not...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Courtnie Thompson, a third-year medical student of The University of the West Indies, is one step closer to achieving her dream of becoming a paediatrician. She is one of 37 students of secondary and tertiary ins...

Burger King has presented over $4 million in scholarships, bursaries and grants to 30 recurring annual recipients and 23 new students moving up from primary to secondary school and secondary school to university this year.Addressing a p...

STATE minister in the Ministry of Health and Wellness Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn says Jamaica has initiated several programmes to ensure that persons living with HIV are cared for.Delivering the opening remarks at the Treatment, Care and Sup...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Attorney General Marlene Malahoo Forte has sided with employers who have made vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory for staff in an effort to slow the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus. However, she made it...

Today is the 267th day of 2021. There are 98 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2007: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questions the official version of the September 11 attacks and defends the right to cast doubt on the Holoca...

Charles W Mills, distinguished professor of philosophy at City University of New York (CUNY), died on September 20 from cancer in New York. He was 70 years old.Mills was the son of respected academic Professor Gladstone Mills, who was a...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - Although their patience is starting to wear thin, residents in this town are expressing confidence that the Government will deliver on its promise to build a new police facility here in the parish capital.Since the...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - The Ministry of National Security has given assurance that the new police facility being planned for this seaside town will not be downsized, despite major changes to the proposed design.Citing problems with the so...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Seventy people have lost their homes - mostly structures made of wood and zinc - and four have died as a result of 76 fires in this parish since the start of the year, according to data from the local fire...

KINGSTON Mayor Delroy Williams warned this week of increased flooding in the Corporate Area if real estate developers do not practise rainwater harvesting, At the monthly council meeting of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporati...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Residents from this parish have made it clear how much they care about staff from the accident and emergency (A&E) department at the Savanna-la-Mar Public General Hospital.They pooled their resources t...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS giant Flow Jamaica says its team has already started to fix cables affected by theft and vandalism which occurred in recent weeks. In a response to questions from the Jamaica Observer, the company said it was unable t...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister Gaston Browne said Wednesday that the novel coronavirus pandemic has wrecked the economies of the 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom) grouping as the United ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Travellers and authorities from India and some African countries are furious - and confused - about Britain's new COVID-19 travel rules, calling them discriminatory.The British Government announced what it billed a...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - Biden Administration special envoy to Haiti resigned in protest of "inhumane" large-scale expulsions of Haitian migrants to their homeland as it is racked by civil strife and natural disasters, US of...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, September 24, 2021: You are an easygoing, friendly, generous person. You are receptive and cooperative. You are also loyal to others. You appreciate beautiful things. Because this year is more slow-paced, you ...

MIAMI, United States (CMC) - Director general of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) Vanessa Ledesma says while travel advisories have been placed on several Caribbean destinations due to the increase in coronavirus (COVI...

COMMANDING officer for the St Mary Police Division Superintendent Bobette Morgan-Simpson says yesterday's gun attack in Enfield, which claimed the lives of three men and left four other people nursing injuries, may have been a reprisal ...

MINISTER of Education, Youth and Information Fayval Williams has indicated that legal action could be taken against anyone found involved in the messy affairs at Nutrition Products Limited (NPL) which, based on a report from Auditor Gen...

MINISTER of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change Pearnel Charles Jr says that while increased climate ambition is necessary, it is useless without predictable, accessible and equitable financing. Charles was representi...

THE Government says it will have to spend approximately $2 billion to restore the agricultural sector, which took a $1.7- billion hit from tropical storms Grace and Ida in August.Portfolio Minister Audley Shaw announced yesterday that $...

After using his swanky home to host alleged members of the notorious Klansman gang, including reputed faction leader Andre "Blackman" Bryan, stash their extortion cash and their rented getaway cars, a prosecution star witness yesterday...

PRESIDENT of the little-known United Independent Congress (UIC), Joseph Patterson declared yesterday that he will be taking legal action against the police for what he believed was very aggressive and forceful handling of people who par...

Today is the 266th day of 2021. There are 99 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1980: Bob Marley performs his last show at the Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. OTHER EVENTS1518: During the reign of Great Britain's King ...

CHILDREN were yesterday urged to report cases of abuse any time of the day by calling the 211 helpline to get the necessary help.The 24-hour helpline, which has been operational since June, is the first of its kind in Jamaica and can be...

RESIDENTS of Portmore are likely to end up with at least three political constituencies, whenever the community emerges as Jamaica's 15th parish.This was indicated by Dr Andrew Wheatley, chairman of the Joint Select Committee (JSC) of P...

IDENTITY information not available on persons in the course of police investigations will be obtainable through the courts when the National Identification and Registration System (NIDS) takes effect.The 2017 National Identification and...

In celebration of International Housekeeping Week, September 12-17, Sandals Ochi Beach Resort (SOBR), Sandals Royal Plantation (SRP) and Beaches Ocho Rios (BOR) lauded and celebrated all members in their housekeeping departments with so...

Past students of the beleaguered Merl Grove High School (MGHS) said yesterday they were left aghast at the non-appearance of board Chairman David Hall at a disciplinary hearing into actions by suspended Principal Dr Marjorie Fullerton.T...

Boys living in inner-city communities account for 70 per cent of the school dropout rate, providing fertile ground for criminal gang recruitment, according to Dr Horace Chang, the island's minister of national security.Chang, who was a...

BROWN'S TOWN, St Ann - Members of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) have vowed to continue searching for 34-year-old mathematics teacher Ruchelle Williams who has been missing since September 15. "We are committed to searching for...

Government Senator Natalie Campbell Rodriques wants colleagues who are not vaccinated against the novel coronavirus restricted to online engagements of the joint select committee reviewing the proposal to make Portmore the country's 15t...

THE Jamaican Bar Association (JBA) says it does not believe that requirements for mandatory vaccination, whether by employees or the State, contravene the constitutional rights of Jamaicans."A scheme requiring mandatory vaccination is n...

An information technology audit of the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) has uncovered critical information security weaknesses which could put records and people's identity at risk for theft.A report on the informati...

The trial of 33 alleged members of the Klansman gang, which was yesterday halted prematurely, should resume this morning with evidence being given by at least one of two gangsters turned Crown witness.Prosecutors on Monday, in outlining...

THE School of Computing and Information Technology (SCIT) in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing at the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) has moved a step closer to establishing a state-of-the-art Internet of Things (IoT) l...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The Jamaican Deaf Community is expected to be better able to communicate with the police following the recent training and certification of 35 cops in basic sign language.The law enforcement officers assigned to...

Today is the 265th day of 2021. There are 100 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1989: F W De Klerk takes over as president of South Africa. OTHER EVENTS1550: Holy Roman Empire fleet captures vessel Port-of- Africa at Mehedia in Tu...

THE Lupus Foundation of Jamaica says a number of lupus patients are still holding off on being vaccinated against COVID-19 because they are waiting to have questions answered or to get permission from their doctors. In a release yesterd...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has announced that cruise shipping will fully return to Jamaican ports shortly and has implored craft vendors and other players who are complaining that they are being denied thei...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Minister of Local Government Desmond McKenzie said he is mulling the possibility of providing transportation for firefighters travelling home after long hours on the job, adding that his ministry intends to establish...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - Farmers in Northern Clarendon are united in their call for a dedicated minister of agriculture following last week's resignation of the former minister Floyd Green. The farmers say the ministry, which is being toute...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, September 22, 2021: You are an optimist who is fair-minded, independent and self-sufficient. You have a natural grace and elegance. You are a hard-working perfectionist capable of self-discipline. This year...