Health officials are expressing concern over the fact that just under 80 per cent of Jamaicans are yet to receive even one dose of any of the available COVID-19 vaccines with the busy Christmas season fast approaching.Speaking during l...

Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has cautioned against the Integrity Commission's recommendation that it be authorised to announce the start of, and comment on ongoing investigations, arguing that this approach could prove prejudicial and ...

Sandals Resorts Executive Chairman Adam Stewart has been formally invited to join the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) Executive Committee, a move that the organisation said "represents the actionable change and strides forward m...

PwC Jamaica has donated $500,000 to Boulevard Baptist Church's Student Affairs Programme to help 50 needy students seeking support to return to the classroom this semester.Leighton McKnight, territory leader for PwC Jamaica, says the c...

Four secondary school students have been identified as possible game changers in the field of science, and to help them on this path they have been awarded scholarships from Technological Solutions Limited (TSL).The students are Faith C...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - As questions swirled as to how a courthouse building on the compound of the police station here was broken into yesterday, head of the St Elizabeth police, Superintendent Nada Simms, suggested it could have be...

CALDERWOOD, St Ann - Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday made it clear that no one will be forced to take the COVID-19 vaccine, even as he finally put a timeline on when his Government will roll out what he has now labelled a vaccin...

"The countries that have the highest burden of mental health conditions are usually the ones that are in fact investing the least in mental health."This was the message brought to a Jamaican audience on Monday, by the Pan American Healt...

Today is the 288th day of 2015. There are 77 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1968: Guyanese lecturer Walter Rodney is barred by the Jamaican Government from re-entering the country. OTHER EVENTS1529: Suleiman I, Sultan of Turkey...

The House of Representatives has approved the extension of the five Zones of Special Operations (ZOSOs) currently in force.Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang piloted the motions on Wednesday evening to extend the operation o...

The wait will finally be over for hundreds of thousands of students who sat the 2021 Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) examinations, as they can expect their results today. Speaking at the release of results ceremony in Guyana yeste...

VILLE, Manchester - The Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) is reporting a sharp increase in the number of mentally ill people needing help in region. Regional director of SRHA Michael Bent told the Jamaica Observer that there has...

As some international airlines suffer from pilot shortage, Christopher Gooding, co-founder and a director of the Aeronautical School of the West Indies at the Tinson Pen Aerodrome in St Andrew, is urging Jamaicans to gear up to fill tha...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - It has been a seven-year journey to a place of self-acceptance for Nadia Melville who is now living with one breast, after losing the other to cancer. Following the surgery, Melville simply did not feel beautiful any...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - After experiencing a frightening third wave of the novel coronavirus pandemic, this parish is now seeing a drastic reduction in its COVID-19 cases, according to data from the Ministry of Health and Wellnes...

CAMBRIDGE, St James - For head girl of Cambridge High School, 17-year-old Oriel Spence, her role is more than just keeping her peers in line and helping teachers with classes. For her, it also means helping fellow students who are in ne...

Washington, United States (AP) - United States health advisers said yesterday that some Americans who received Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine at least six months ago should get a half-dose booster to rev up protection against the coronavir...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - For half of his life, 60-year-old Malichi Sinclair has been a taxi operator in this south-central parish.Yesterday, he was among Jamaicans who turned up at the Manchester Health Department's COVID-19 vaccination...

MORANT BAY, St Thomas - Residents of St Thomas are hoping the Government's ambitious US$746-million tourism plan will transform it from the "forgotten parish" and spark a long-awaited rebirth. "We need at least US$205 million of public ...

SIX fathers at Jamaica College (JC) are asserting that they have what they believe is part of the answer to the island's struggle to return to in-person learning.The group is led by Collin Greenland, who is vying for the post of preside...

Former People's National Party (PNP) Vice-President Dr Angela Brown Burke has confirmed that she is throwing her hat into the ring to become the first female chair of the 83-year-old political party.In recent days there have been incre...

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says it is working hard to source COVID-19 vaccines for countries, such as Jamaica, that are lagging behind with vaccinating their populations, but is urging those countries to make the necess...

Nearly 30 months after an initial draft Bill was rejected by the Constitutional Court, the National Identification and Registration Act, commonly called the NIDS Bill, was unanimously approved by the House of Representatives yesterday.T...

Acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education Dr Grace McLean has been sent on leave ahead of an investigation into the use of $124 million from Government coffers highlighted in an alarming audit report in which two senior c...

Edmund Bartlett yesterday forecast Jamaica welcoming a total of 1.5 million visitors this year and earning more than US$2 billion from tourism.Bartlett, the tourism minister, made the prediction yesterday while giving a parliamentary up...

Fish vendors Namdi Thompson and his brother Jahmall wore broad smiles yesterday when a 220-lb June fish was delivered to them at their Rae Town Fishing Village shop on Norman Manley Boulevard, Kingston.The fish, which the Jamaica Obser...

In a report now before Parliament, the Portmore parish joint select committee has concluded that although the municipality does not currently have all the facilities of existing parishes, it should be given parish status.The committee ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Police in this parish say they are trying to use less lethal force when dealing with mentally challenged people, but there are times when the only option is the opposite. "There is sometimes some apprehension w...

AS it looks to further grow its client base across its banking and investment segments, JMMB Group (JMMB) will be launching its long-awaited mobile app, along with a suite of other digital offerings, to complement its operations for its...

Minister of state in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Robert Morgan, has promised that Jamaica will have a new Child Care and Protection Act within the next 18 months.Making his contribution to the State of the Constitu...

Petrojam Limited was one of 45 companies that came together to construct a COVID-19 field hospital at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), in order to enhance service delivery to COVID-19 patients admitted at the facility...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - When Patrick Green shared the story of how he escaped extortionists and began a new life, he never expected that it would resonate with so many people. Since the story was published in the Jamaica Observer in July, h...

Today is 287th the day of 2021. There are 78 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1999: The monuments to the Right Excellent Nanny of the Maroons and Samuel Sharpe are dedicated in National Heroes' Park in Kingston, Jamaica. OTHER EV...

Private guarding and security solutions company the Guardsman Group last Saturday partnered with the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) to host a COVID-19 vaccination blitz in Kingston. The pop-up blitz, which forms a part of the group's vacc...

UNITED STATES (AFP) - Star Trek actor William Shatner finally became a real space traveller on Blue Origin's second crewed mission yesterday, calling it the most profound experience of his life."It was unbelievable," said the 90-year-...

WASHINGTON, United States (AP) - The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is wrestling with whether and when to offer another dose of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, while a new study out yesterday ra...

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - Russia is ready to provide up to 300 million doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative, a top Russian official promoting the shot says, even though the World Health Organization (...

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) - Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretary General Dr Carla Barnett will address the United Nations Security Council on Friday when it meets to discuss the ongoing situation in Haiti, St Vincent and the Grenad...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Scores of farmers across Jamaica are reeling from rising prices for fertiliser, crop seedlings, and seeds, which have significantly hiked their production costs.President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - Those wishing to honour the memory of former police commissioner and former custos of Portland Roy Thompson may express written condolence in a book that will be opened today at the Port Antonio Library. Thompso...

Sagicor Group Jamaica team members pause on Friday, October 8 to remind Jamaicans to get their breasts screened for abnormalities. Team members across the conglomerate will wear pink every Friday in Breast Cancer Awareness Month, in sol...

Whipping out numbers showing that the COVID-19 disease had taken a heavy toll on the company, NCB Financial Group President and CEO Patrick Hylton yesterday told the bank's staff they would henceforth have to be fully vaccinated."Unfor...

In a damning report tabled in Parliament yesterday, Auditor General Pamela Monroe-Ellis called on Education Minister Fayval Williams to refer the findings of a probe into the operations of the Joint Committee for Tertiary Education (JCT...

The hearing into the suspension of Merl Grove High School (MGHS) Principal Dr Marjorie Fullerton was adjourned after just over an hour yesterday to allow the MGHS Personnel Committee to review and respond to documents submitted by Fulle...

A day after police cut down gangster Christopher "Dog Paw" Linton tension yesterday remained high in Tavern and Bedward Gardens, two of the gritty St Andrew communities that were under his control and where residents painted him as eith...

An afternoon of fun and enjoyment for a group of young people turned into a nightmare Monday when one of the teenagers got into difficulties and drowned in a section of the Rio Minho in Clarendon.The Jamaica Observer was told that short...

AS a pre-teen growing up in Portland, Jamaica, the words: "BBC News with Marion Marshall", accompanied by a sweet-sounding voice at the end of a radio newscast, was Andrea Chisholm's cue to leave home in the mornings for primary school....

Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke last night won full support from parliamentary colleagues for his $33-billion health and economic rescue plan supplementary budget designed to help Jamaicans cope with the economic effects of the novel c...

One year after the education ministry launched virtual learning , and five months shy of two years since public school doors closed due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, about 26 per cent of the school population is still not showing ...

The Resilient Islands project team in Jamaica recently planted mangroves in Old Harbour Bay, St Catherine, as part of its efforts to protect communities against the impacts of climate change by promoting the use of coastal habitats to ...