Andre "Blackman" Bryan, alleged honcho of the Klansman gang, went the extra mile to keep the hands of his brother and cousin - who are accused of being members of that criminal organisation - gore free, a former gang member testified ye...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - With a significant number of roads damaged by heavy rain from a stationary front across the island on Sunday night, Government Senator Charles Sinclair is calling on the St James Municipal Corporation (SJMC) to e...

Witness number 1, the second ex-member of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang to take the stand in the ongoing trial of 33 accused members of that outfit, yesterday claimed that his decision to work with the police to bring down the ga...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Yesterday's monthly meeting of the Manchester Municipal Corporation was marked by anger and unease over the prolonged closure of Melrose Yam Park. The facility was ordered closed by the health department on Au...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Claudette Wilmot is yearning for closure. That will only come, though, after she knows how her brother, 55-year-old Everett Wilmot, lost his life.Everett was a tour guide at Nature Blue attraction in the Lodge area o...

The split among Maroons in Accompong was even more evident yesterday as supporters of embattled Chief Richard Currie tried to intimidate journalists and bluntly told them to get out of the village, while others maintained that the man ...

The scene was all too familiar - a mother wailing as the cold, lifeless body of her son lay in the street.Yesterday Karlene Brown was that mother. She and her daughter, Nickey Simpson, were inconsolable as they stood behind police yello...

JAMAICA Public Service (JPS) customers in Port Royal and surrounding areas are likely to have their power restored by today as teams work to repair the damage done by contractors working on behalf of the Airports Authority of Jamaica.A ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - Barbados is close to making a decision on administering the Pfizer vaccine to children five to 11 years old, Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George said on Wednesday.The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) an...

NEW DELHI, India (AFP) - A left-wing Indian Opposition party has launched a perfume with what it calls the "fragrance of brotherhood, love and socialism" that will "end hatred".The product was unveiled on Tuesday by the Samajwadi Part...

The Jamaica Ex-Soldiers Association (JESA) was on Wednesday presented with a cheque for £4,000 ($826,000) by the United Kingdom chapter of the association. The money will be used to assist ex-servicemen who reside at the Curphey Home i...

Today is the 316th day of 2021. There are 49 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2011: A chorus of Handel's Alleluia rings out as Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Italian premier, ending a tumultuous 17-year political era and setting in ...

One Jamaica Observer reader is willing to offer a kidney to Edward Seaga's first son, Christopher, who has suffered stage four kidney failure and now urgently needs a kidney transplant. A second, an ambassador, has offered to aid in the...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - An adoptive mother, Merle Cohen-Green, is clinging to her faith as law enforcers intensify their probe into the disappearance of her 21-year-old son, Javier Green, from Exchange district in Ocho Rios. When she last s...

THE SickKids-Caribbean Initiative (SCI), funded in part by Scotiabank, continues to improve access to health services for children in six Caribbean countries who have been diagnosed with cancer and blood disorders.SickKids Foundation wa...

JAMAICA'S Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change Pearnel Charles Jr has underscored the importance of data in responding to climate change, and hailed the value of the predictive climate risk assessment plann...

PARIS, France (AP) - A Maryland high school English teacher, who has worked to open up college education for her students, has won the $1-million Global Teacher Prize, the Varkey Foundation announced Wednesday.Keishia Thorpe, who teache...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - The Bahamas, Belize and Jamaica are among 50 countries that have joined a global initiative to develop climate-resilient and low-carbon health systems during the UN climate summit in Glasgow (COP26)...

THE Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has partnered with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to analyse the manufacturing potential of the region of the Americas, under the recently launched Regional Platfor...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - FW de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa's last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country's white minority rule, has died aged 85.Frederik Willem de...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Chinese President Xi Jinping warned yesterday against letting tensions in the Asia-Pacific region cause a relapse into a cold War mentality.His remarks on the sidelines of the annual summit of the Asia-Pa...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...