THE Government is closer to making good on years of warning that it will start taking people before the courts for abandoning their relatives in hospitals, where these patients continue to occupy critically needed bed space for months a...

THE Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) will be capitalising on the country's legacy with the James Bond films to build out an experience for destination Jamaica.Tourism Director Donovan White made the disclosure during a media breakfast hosted...

CORAL SPRINGS, Trelawny - The final touches are being added to the 431 adults-only suites at Eden Bay, the latest addition to Ocean by H10 Hotels, nestled in Coral Springs, Trelawny.One already completed wing of the suites began welcomi...

THE Appeal Court last week released the judgement it had reserved in the case involving a St Andrew man, who was in 2014 sentenced to life in prison for allegedly murdering a sleeping child at a Chisholm Avenue in St Andrew in 2010.The ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Two of the three people who were charged with murder in relation to the November 2020 stabbing of 63-year-old businesswoman Marcia Chin-you were freed in court yesterday.Shacquel Perkins, a carpenter of Woodlawn...

SOCIOLOGIST Dr Herbert Gayle says he will not support any call in Parliament for mandatory DNA paternity testing at birth as the solution to stemming the scourge of domestic violence locally.Dr Gayle, a university researcher, was respon...

COLONEL Richard Currie is rejecting claims that he is running Accompong like a dictator amid growing tension over his leadership of the historic Maroon village in the hills of St Elizabeth a mere nine months after his election. The accu...

New York, USA - A 15-member team of United States-based Jamaican medical personnel is preparing for a third mission to the island in their quest to boost the fight against the novel coronavirus in their homeland.An advance team, compri...

Today is the 315th day of 2021. There are 50 days left in the yearTODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2011: Veteran journalist Mortimer "Tino" Geddes dies. OTHER EVENTS1500: France's King Louis XII and Ferdinand of Aragon secretly sign the Treaty of Gran...

JAMAICAN-BORN Chicago resident, Ephraim Martin, it would seem, doesn't know how to stop making progress.From a previous life as a copy boy - the equivalent of a messenger - in a Jamaican newsroom, to an enterprising freelance photograph...

EDUCATION Minister Fayval Williams said Tuesday that her ministry will not be leaving school attendance to chance as students in public schools start returning to face-to-face classes.In a statement updating her colleagues in the House ...

NOT all the students at the secondary schools were given approval to attend face-to-face classes, but the leaders of those institutions given the green light were happy to have their children back.The Government recently granted the per...

Poet Amanda Gorman's The Hill We Climb begins with a question: "When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade?" Though related to the goings-on in the US, the "never-ending shade" can be related to ...

MIAMI, United States (AP) - A businessman accused of siphoning off millions in State contracts from Venezuela met secretly with US law enforcement to provide intelligence against Nicolás Maduro's Government prior to being charged in 20...

CALIFORNIA, United States (AP) - US food banks already dealing with increased demand from families sidelined by the pandemic now face a new challenge - surging food prices and supply chain issues walloping the nation. The higher costs a...

NEW YORK, USA - America's premier space agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is currently reviewing proffers from two Jamaicans that could lead to the licensing of two inventions with the potential to be use...

The late Edward Seaga's children by Mitsy Seaga, along with their mom, have made a desperate appeal for a kidney for his first son, Christopher, who has been on dialysis for the last two years and appears to be losing the battle after ...

When the police, between 2018 and 2019, scooped up "a whole heap" of alleged members of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang, the outlaws had no idea exactly who had turned them in. They knew, though, that it was an inside job.That was ...

Deputy Superintendent of Police Raymond Wilson received minor injuries yesterday morning after the vehicle in which he was travelling crashed before landing in the sea along Sir Florizel Glasspole Highway in east Kingston.Wilson, who fo...

Transport Minister Robert Montague yesterday sought to reassure the country that the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) and Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) will not be rushing to sell their plummeting 28.5 million shares in...

The health ministry is not concerned with the track record of importers of antigen COVID-19 test kits, only the integrity of the devices, Dr Christopher Tufton told the House of Representatives yesterday.At the same time, Dr Tufton, who...

Late Jamaica Observer Photo Editor Bryan Cummings was finally laid to rest on Monday in the colombarium at Sts Peter and Paul Catholic Church in St Andrew.The rite of inurnment, held on the 58th anniversary of his birth, was delayed bec...

NEWPORT, Manchester - Residents of the deep-rural farming community of Blenheim are questioning the circumstances of an attempted robbery that allegedly led to the murder of 54-year-old Lorna Lake, last Friday.This follows an initial re...

DIRECTOR general of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Dr Wayne Henry says several valuable lessons have emerged from the novel coronavirus pandemic that can potentially aid in bolstering stakeholder preparedness for similar or fu...

World War ll veteran Peter Xavier Williams pins a poppy on Deputy Speaker Juliet Holnessoutside the House of Representatives yesterday. The poppy flower, is worn by ex-servicemenwho fought in the World War II to commemorate their milita...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - President of the Manchester-based Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Dr Lincoln Edwards says the institution is awaiting the Government's lead on a COVID-19 vaccine mandate while trying to persuade his staff an...

Today is the 314th day of 2021. There are 51 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS2013: Typhoon Haiyan leaves thousands dead in the Philippines. OTHER EVENTS1871: American journalist Henry Stanley finds African explorer Dr David Liv...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny - Chukka Adventures is betting big on the return of cruise ships pumping millions of dollars into getting ready to welcome passengers."We are spending half-a-million US dollars on upgrades and restoration for the comi...

St James Municipal Corporation says it is actively working on a disaster plan to mitigate the effects of flooding and other natural disasters on the parish.Deputy Mayor of Montego Bay Councillor Richard Vernon made the disclosure at a ...

JAMAICA yesterday begin the administration of Pfizer first dose to children 12 years and older.The roll-out will take place predominantly in schools, the Ministry of Health said.The ministry, meanwhile, said it was continuing to adminis...

Senior defence counsels Peter Champagnie and Alexander Williams say they are in full support of the call made by Attorney General Marlene Malahoo Forte for lawyers in the public sector to receive more pay.Both attorneys, however, have e...

Dear Mr Brown:I keep hearing about labour shortages in Canada and wondering what opportunities there would be for me as a Jamaican in Canada. My relatives in Canada are also telling me that Canadians are looking for work and not getting...

Q: What are the latest CDC requirements for travel to the United States?A: Effective November 8, 2021, non-US citizens who are not immigrants to the US will be required to be fully vaccinated and provide proof of their vaccination statu...

After being rescheduled three times due to the pandemic, We Inspire Women's b runch was finally staged Saturday last at Talk of the Town, Jamaica Pegasus. Under the theme "Resolve to Rise" the affair saw a room of sister queens dressed...

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) - The United Nations climate summit in Glasgow has made "some serious toddler steps" toward cutting emissions but far from the giant leaps needed to limit global warming to internationally accepted goals, two new ...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - On the first day back, school administrators in Westmoreland were excited for the resumption of face-to-face classes yesterday.More than 300 primary and infant schools across the island were given the gr...

ROEHAMPTON, St James - Staff and students of Roehampton Primary School in southern St James were excited yesterday as they returned to face-to-face classes. "I am extremely elated to be physically at school. Even though we were engaged ...

These students, the first to arrive yesterday at their class at McCooks Pen Primary in St Catherine, give thumbs up to our photographer.(Photo: Nikel Innerarity)

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - After a whirlwind global blitz, the tourism ministry's aggressive marketing of Brand Jamaica continues this week - this time on local soil.A group of about a dozen international - Europe, Canada, the US, and Barbados...

The second ex-member of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang-turned-State witness yesterday described the years since he started working with the police to bring down the gang as "hard"."Over the few years I've been through a lot, keepi...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - A stationary front across Jamaica dumped heavy rain on the western end of the island Sunday night into early yesterday morning triggering heavy flooding that damaged roads and other infrastructure and had many se...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Parents, teachers, and school administrators alike were yesterday euphoric at the resumption of face-to-face classes at some primary schools in Manchester and St Elizabeth.Julia Baker, whose two daughters attend...

Pleasure at being back in classrooms was the general consensus across the Corporate Area yesterday as the country began a phased resumption of face-to-face classes after almost two years of online learning, induced by the novel coronav...

Nicholas Cummings (right) watches as his brother Adam places the urn with the remains of their father, the late Jamaica Observer Photo Editor Bryan Cummings, into the colombarium at Sts Peter and Paul Church in St Andrew yesterday on th...

  THE Fisherman's Co-operative Beach in Montego Bay received a much-needed facelift when Sandals Foundation ambassadors from Sandals Montego Bay and Sandals Royal Caribbean Resorts cleared more than 700 pounds of garbage and discarded...

UNITY HALL, St James - The National Works Agency (NWA) is reporting that heavy rainfall between Sunday and yesterday caused flooding on roads between St James and Hanover, leaving some impassable.Janel Ricketts, the NWA's community rela...

THE Jamaica Combined Cadet Force (JCCF) observed its Founder's Day on Sunday with a church service at Holy Trinity Cathedral on North Street, downtown Kingston.The JCCF website states that the organisation came into being on November 1,...

Today is the 313th day of 2021. There are 52 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1976: The UN General Assembly approves resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterising the white-ruled Government as "ill...

Dr Romario Simpson, a young doctor specialising in internal medicine at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), might as well have been given the middle name 'Service'.Just over a fortnight ago when he was appointed a justice...

The World Health Organization (WHO) last month flagged Jamaica as one of two countries in the region which had imported COVID-19 test kits which were substandard.This was disclosed by Cynthia Lewis-Graham, director of the Ministry of H...