Since the establishment of four domestic violence intervention (DVI) centres last March under the European Union-United Nations Spotlight Initiative aimed at eliminating violence against women and girls, 704 cases have been seen, leadin...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Despite Wednesday afternoon's car chase through the streets of Montego Bay that ended with three dead and five injured, assistant commissioner of police for Area One Clifford Chambers says the police are in "full...

Energy Minister Daryl Vaz yesterday scolded the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) over the manner in which it has been managing premature failure of its transformers, lines and other equipment triggered by electricity theft.According...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Member of Parliament for Manchester Central Rhoda Crawford yesterday asked for the public's assistance and cooperation following the murder of a man in Royal Flat.This follows an appeal from the Manchester polic...

The Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology and the United States Embassy in Kingston have confirmed a Jamaica Observer report that Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Daryl Vaz will lead a high-level ministerial and technical...

After weeks of saying his Administration is not yet at the stage of implementing mandatory COVID-19 vaccination, Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday left no doubt that some form of vaccine mandate could be imposed by the start of N...

A blood-stained pillow, pictures, clothing and memories are all Cary Salmon has left of her five-year-old daughter who was hit by a stray bullet while fast asleep in her home at New Haven, Duhaney Park in St Andrew.According to the 39-y...

Diana Brown-Miller (centre) CEO of the Black River Hospital accepting a symbolic cheque from Gary Robinson (left) and Glenton Barham, members of Munro College Class of '92. 

Fifteen people were left homeless in Montego Bay yesterday after a fire razed houses in the densely packed Coombs Lane community. Four fire trucks responded to the call but many residents lost everything. One of those residents, Stacy L...

Sandals Montego Bay, the flagship property of the Sandals Luxury Included Brand, and Sandals Royal Caribbean have been named by Condé Nast Traveler as being among the Top 12 Resorts in the Caribbean in its Annual Readers' Choice Award....

Today is the 281st day of 2021. There are 84 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1871: The Great Chicago Fire starts, supposedly when a cow kicks over a lantern in a barn. Most of the city is razed. OTHER EVENTS1858: The "Arrow Inci...

Playing its part to strengthen Jamaica's vaccination efforts, Jamaica Producers Group (JP), through its partnership with the Private Sector Vaccine Initiative (PSVI), successfully hosted its COVID-19 JP Vaccination Day last Thursday, S...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Work on three major road rehabilitation projects in central Manchester, with a combined value of $169 million, is reportedly progressing smoothly.Almost six weeks ago minister without portfolio in the Ministry o...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith has welcomed news that come Monday, the vaccination certification carried by Jamaicans entering the United Kingdom will be recognised. The UK Department of Transport ye...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - Over a two-day period, more than 100 people felt the brunt of the Clarendon police's efforts to ensure the laws are obeyed. Those allegedly flouting traffic rules and failing to obey the Disaster Risk Management Act...

Approximately 950 teachers are yet to receive payments for summer school work which they completed under the Ministry of Education's Recover Smarter - National School Learning and Intervention Plan."I can't say every single payment has...

The Ministry of Education has identified targeted dates for the sitting of the grade 6 component of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examination for this school year.Having cancelled the grades four and five PEP examinations for the 2021...

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is urging countries in the region to be on the alert for, and to strengthen their surveillance systems against high-risk pathogens to prevent the spread of other diseases that can jump from a...

PELHAM, Alabama (AP) -Terrified drivers climbed out of swamped cars and muddy flood water flowed through neighbourhoods after a stalled weather front drenched the US state of Alabama for hours, leaving entire communities under water yes...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Abortions quickly resumed in some Texas clinics yesterday after a federal judge halted the most restrictive abortion law in the United States, but doctors across the state did not rush to resume normal operations wi...

Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang yesterday announced plans to realign members of the elite Protective Services Division to front-line crime-fighting.In a statement to the House of Representatives Dr Chang said the repositio...

Three of the island's leading private sector groups - the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC), Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), and the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) - have issued a call on their col...

Jamaica Union of Tertiary Students President Christina Williams is calling for a revision of the curricula used for online learning as tertiary students are falling through the cracks as much as their secondary and primary counterparts....

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - With reports that missing St Ann teacher Ruchelle Williams was yesterday seen entering a truck headed to Moneague, the police and her colleagues fanned out across the parish hoping to find her and take her home. But ...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Police here up to late yesterday were yet to establish a motive for Tuesday's abduction and wounding of a primary school teacher who remains hospitalised.Police said the woman's ordeal started sometime Tuesd...

Dunstan Bryan yesterday defended the health and wellness ministry's decision to give doses of the Pfizer vaccine to adults, despite criticism that it may have negatively impacted the State's intention to prioritise the vaccination of c...

LINTON PARK, St Ann - Thirteen years of marriage ended in distress for TraceyAnn Harris on Tuesday. That was the day her husband Richard died. He had, as usual, responded to a neighbour's appeal for help, leaving his family at home to g...

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) on Tuesday told Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) that it has revised upwards its growth outlook for the rest of fiscal 2021/22, from the 4-8 per cent suggest...

LUCEA, Hanover - Western Parks and Markets (WPM) is poised to continue its tree-planting drive in Westmoreland this week when 16 saplings will be added to the landscape. Next up will be Trelawny where another 25 saplings will be planted...

Lifespan Spring Company continued its support of the Hope Zoo last Saturday when it hosted "Lifespan Day at the Zoo"The event was aimed at bringing awareness to the crisis the zoo has been facing while providing entertainment for select...

Today is the 280th day of 2021. There are 85 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1993: African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela and South African President F W de Klerk are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their effo...

LLUIDAS VALE, St Catherine - Malik Hamilton is packing away his army fatigues and taking up music for good.With head held high, he's leaving the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) on October 16 after serving his country for six years.The 25-ye...

The United States Embassy in Kingston - through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - yesterday announced an additional J$45 million (US$300,000) to support Jamaica's uptake to COVID-19 vaccines and reduce tr...

The phrase "overcoming the odds" is an understatement for 24-year-old Joshua Burgess. Though born with congenital rubella syndrome, which has caused him to face a number of health challenges over the years, he continues to scale barrie...

Members of the Housekeeping Department at Sandals Montego Bay showed off another side of their personality recently when they were treated to an afternoon paint & sip session.The team, led by Executive Housekeeper Patricia Grant an...

Several leaders in the education system have indicated their support of the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) comprehensive teachers' mentorship programme. The programme, which is called the Mentors Association of Jamaica Ltd, was designe...

Attorney-at-law Mikael Lorne, who is representing four people arrested following an incident in Riverton Meadows in St Andrew on July 20 in which three alleged gunmen were fatally shot by the police, says lawsuits are being filed agains...

VATICAN CITY, Italy (AP) - Pope Francis expressed "shame" for himself and the Roman Catholic Church yesterday for the scale of child sexual abuse within the church in France and acknowledged failures in putting the needs of victims firs...

Government Member of Parliament (MP) for St Andrew West Rural Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn has defended the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), dismissing what she says have been attempts to peg it as a bribery pool by politicians to snare vo...

Four years after the Agricultural Loan Societies and Approved Organisations Act was passed, the House of Representatives yesterday gave the nod to regulations that will make the Act operational.The Act is aimed at streamlining the proce...

 Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke on Tuesday that requests for applications for the award of Integrated Resort Development (IRD) orders will be opened on Wednesday, October 6.Under the Casino Gaming Act, the m...

THE Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF) has pointed to difficulties with online learning, brought on by the novel coronavirus pandemic, as a reason for the decline it has seen in the number of adolescent mothers enrolled at the ...

BROWN'S TOWN, St Ann - A search for two men, which began on Monday night, ended with the discovery of their bodies on a footpath along a lonely stretch of road in Home Castle, Brown's Town, one tied with rope, both shot to death. The tr...

One of Jamaica's leading legal luminaries has appealed to the Government to dismiss a request for vaccinated people to attend upcoming Fifa World Cup qualifiers at the National Stadium, saying that Jamaicans need to understand that the...

Today is the 279th day of 2021. There are 86 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1927: In the United States, the era of talking pictures arrives with the opening of The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, a movie which features both sil...

The anticipation had been mounting since the first announcement of the NOW Nestlé Caribbean Youth Summit weeks ago. Nestlé's self-prescribed mandate - to increase employment and employability and give youth the opportunity and drive ...

For the second consecutive year Citi has been recognised as the Best Corporate/Institutional Digital Bank in Jamaica by Global Finance magazine.The publication was staging its 22nd annual 'World's Best Digital Corporate/Institutional...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The US Government will have to wait until a man, whom they say is a wanted fugitive, pays his $8,000 fine or spend one month in a St Ann jail before they can get him back on American soil to answer charges of murder ...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - The case involving two men accused in the Nattallie Dawkins murder has been rescheduled to Thursday, October 7. The matter, initially set for Monday, September 13, had to be rescheduled after that date was later des...

Shortly before 15-year-old Domonick "Papa Bear" Deerr was stabbed to death in Kingston's gritty Dunkirk community last Friday morning he was watching his favourite television series, Lucifer."I was inside with him on Friday and him go o...