Kevin Simpson says he spares no effort to share the life-threatening encounters he has had with gunmen while operating his taxi. His aim, he said, is to ensure that his fellow taxi drivers remain vigilant while working, or even in the c...

Opposition Senator Lambert Brown has accused the Government of being lax in advancing the rights of the disabled community and pointed to what he said was an absence of clear provisions to accommodate those individuals for COVID-19 vacc...

The Jamaica Evangelical Alliance (JEA) yesterday described as evil and demonic the deadly religious ritual which reportedly occurred at Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries of Montego Bay on Sunday and said the Christi...

A call this week for the Government to make the Sex Offender Registry open to the public appears to be gaining traction on the streets.Betty Ann Blaine, founder of children's advocacy organisation Hear The Children's Cry, made the call ...

Communications and entertainment provider Flow Jamaica is staging its second Vax Day tomorrow at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston as it continues its support for the Government's national vaccination programme.The initiative c...

J Wray & Nephew (JWN) yesterday said it has asked the Government for an urgent clarification of the policy relating to the alcohol sector contributing to public sector causes.The request came in a response to a directive from Minist...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - British High Commissioner to Jamaica Judith Slater has pledged to support Jamaica with its vaccination efforts.Slater, who was addressing an award and partnership launch ceremony hosted by Manchester's Custos Ga...

COP26, the next annual United Nations climate change conference, has been described by many as the last chance for the world to take a unified position on this looming crisis, and new British High Commissioner to Jamaica Judith Slater i...

LONDON, United Kingdom - The travel and tourism sector in the Caribbean is recovering at a faster rate than any other region in the world, with its contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) expected to increase by just over 47 per ce...

The International Council of Pentecostal Bishops (ICOPB) yesterday denounced the behaviour of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries leader Kevin Smith and confirmed that it had severed ties with him because he has breach...

Up to press time yesterday the police remained tight-lipped about the circumstances surrounding the capture of one of the region's most wanted men, Mario Antonio Palacios, in Jamaica.Palacios, a Colombian, who served as a military offi...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - An investigation has been launched into the conduct of two policemen who provided motorcycle escort for a motorcade for now-disgraced leader of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries Kevin Smith as...

Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, the man who led an attempt to overthrow the Trinidad and Tobago Government in 1990, died last night, the Trinidad Express newspaper reported.Notice of the Islamic leader's passing was posted on the Facebook page o...

Supreme Court judge Justice Lorna Shelly Williams yesterday slapped Fabian Skervin with two life sentences for the 2018 murder of a Jamaican-Canadian couple in Retreat, St Thomas, saying that the evidence in what was clearly a "premedit...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - For an entire month in March of last year, 70 congregants of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, who were told to pay $100,000 each for entry into Kevin Smith's 'ark', slept on concrete floors ...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday said that one of the individuals from whom he drew inspiration when he decided to enter representational politics more than 20 years ago was General Colin Powell, the American son of Jamaican immi...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes, while heaping praises on the law faculty of the University of the West Indies, has urged that body to explore the development of courses within the law degree programme to equip graduates to manage other aspec...

Member of Parliament (MP) for St Thomas Eastern Dr Michelle Charles has called for more technological resources for the police so that they can monitor offenders as part of measures to clamp down on crime.She made the call during her pr...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, (CMC ) - All students in forms four to six have been instructed to return to the classroom next Monday, whether or not they are vaccinated against COVID-19, and all online classes for them will be discontinued, ...

Today is the 295th day of 2021. There are 70 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1918: The Great Influenza Epidemic begins. During World War I, over 18 million people die from the flu virus. OTHER EVENTS1721: Peter the Great takes t...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - A man is reported to have committed suicide after allegedly attempting to murder his common-law-wife last weekend, a few years after his brother died under similar circumstances.The man, who was found hanging on the ...

A vigil to highlight Paul Bogle's contribution to St Thomas has been planned for October 24, 2021 by a foundation named in his honour and headed by a great-great grandson of the national hero.According to Constantine Bogle, who is also ...

Recently accredited British High Commissioner to Jamaica Judith Slater has listed increasing trade and investment between the United Kingdom (UK) and the island as one of her main goals during her tour of duty.In her maiden media inter...

Even hard-back reporters and photographers seemed seriously jealous of the attention that the cute little boy, hardly more than a toddler, was getting from grown women in the editorial department of The Gleaner newspaper.He wasn't overl...

Yesterday, on day two of the Jamaica Observer's Design Week JA 2021, Dezign Diva and Karen Booker Design Group principal Karen Booker enthralled online viewers with an episode of Couch Conversations. The talk show-style programme saw Bo...

The Bustamante industrial Trade Union (BITU) has accused the management of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) of ignoring a multiplicity of issues, which could escalate into a serious industrial relations dispute at the Government...

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) - The head of the Lebanese Forces Christian group, Samir Geagea, has been summoned for questioning over deadly violence that erupted at a Shiite rally last week, a judicial official said yesterday.Seven people were...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The leader of the 400 Mawozo gang that police say is holding 17 members of a kidnapped missionary group was seen in a video released yesterday saying he will kill them if he doesn't get what he's demanding.T...

Havana , Cuba (AFP) - Havana's public prosecutor's office yesterday publicly warned the organiser of a banned rally that he faces "criminal consequences" if the march for change and against violence goes ahead.Yunior Garcia, a 39-year-o...

New York, USA (AP) - On the corner of East Avenue and West Yates Street in East Syracuse, New York, sits Emmanuel Episcopal Church. The quaint building, with its bright white exterior and cherry red doors, is the home to not one, but t...

OKLAHOMA CITY, USA (AP) - Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt and other Republican leaders expressed outrage yesterday after learning the State Department of Health issued a birth certificate this year with a non-binary gender designation.The...

California, USA (AP) - A Northern California man was sentenced to 11 years in prison for the 2016 drowning of his four-year-old daughter in the baptismal pool of a Catholic church.Gerardo Mendoza, 47, had been smoking methamphetamine fo...

IRONSHORE, St James - The police appear to treading cautiously in building their case against a key player of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, where two congregants were killed on Sunday, allegedly as part of a biz...

The Caribbean and Latin American region is being urged to keep its COVID-19 surveillance systems on high alert, notwithstanding the drop in cases in some countries, and an increase in vaccination coverage.Addressing the Pan American Hea...

Family and friends of the two girls who were abducted last week now fear that real chances of getting justice have slipped through their fingers after the now eight-day hunt for Davian Bryan - the man police named as the suspect in the...

A number of church leaders yesterday denounced the gruesome acts committed at Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in St James on Sunday and urged Jamaicans to be mindful of demonic strongholds and put their faith in Go...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - For the past five weeks Simone Cuthbert has been left to ask one painful question, "What about Damion?"Damion Scott was the third victim in the tragic September 14 motor vehicle crash on Laughlands Highway in St Ann....

The International Council of Pentecostal Bishops (ICPB), a Canada-based religious organisation, appears to have dropped Kevin Smith, the pastor of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in St James, from its membership.U...

HEART Institute of the Caribbean (HIC), Jamaica's only heart hospital, is embarking on a multimillion-dollar expansion that will give Jamaicans increased access to first-world cardiovascular care.The institution, which is also the premi...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - All suppliers doing business with the St Mary Municipal Corporation (SMMC) must have a valid trade licence by November 1.This was announced by corporation's chairman and Mayor of Port Maria Richard Creary during it...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Councillor for the Rose Hall Division Anthony Murray has called for more support for the police to allow them to tackle the crime problem in the Barrett Town area of his division."Barrett Town area needs proper p...

A more than two-year-long campaign by businessman and sports enthusiast Clive "Busy" Campbell to build a house for 66-year-old former national footballer Miguel Blair has started to bear fruit through a partnership involving Food For th...

Today is the 294th day of 2021. There are 71 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1865: George William Gordon - later Jamaican national hero - is sentenced to death.OTHER EVENTS1797: The US Navy frigate Constitution, also known as Old...

Traditionally, paper is used to celebrate a five-year anniversary. So, it's fitting that for this year's staging of Design Week JA, its fifth anniversary, the theme is Eco (is) Essential. Understanding that the country is still in a pan...

On October 11, 2021 Jamaica Observer Limited published an article with the following statement:Ecomarine Energy Company Limited and EcoPetroluem Limited have also been barred from carrying out commercial business similar to WIPL or Isla...

The grandson of the elderly woman who was found dead at her home in Allside district, Warsop, Trelawny, on Monday, October 18 has been charged with murder.Charged is 26-year-old Jermaine Powell, otherwise called Man, of Allside distric...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) has been taken to task over its inefficiency in Clarendon, with frustrated councillors grilling the agency's representative as they sought a solution. During her...

President of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) Winston Smith says he is not surprised by the less than stellar performance of Jamaican students in this year's Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) sitting.Following the release of t...

Jamaica continued its dominance at the annual World Travel Awards taking the Caribbean's Leading Destination and Caribbean's Leading Cruise Destination trophies at this year's staging in Dubai.The country was also victorious in two new ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - With tests showing a worrying mosquito nuisance and indications there is a massive infestation of rodents, the St James Health Department will be undertaking two major programmes to rid the parish of these diseas...