Today is the 328th day of 2021. There are 37 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2005: In a potential blow to Caribbean markets, the European Union agrees on a major overhaul of its sugar subsidy programme, cutting prices by 36 per c...

JAMAICA Agricultural Society (JAS) has expressed concern about a recent call by president of the Jamaica Association of Public Health Inspectors Karen Brown for small poultry farmers to obtain a butcher's licence."While we understand th...

THE JN Foundation, through the JN Circle, is inviting members to submit proposals for projects which will improve their communities and to access grant funding of up to $1.5 million to address issues related to health and safety, and ed...

EWARTON, St Catherine - While presenting his four new candidates to contest the next local government election in St Catherine North Western, Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) caretaker in the seat Newton Amos urged his colleagues not to under...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - It's been three weeks since four-year-old Aliekia Linton first sat in a classroom, and the thrill still hasn't worn off. The huge grin on her face said it all, she was happy to be in the same space as her teachers an...

THE Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP) will pay tribute to outstanding Jamaican seniors tomorrow in its 2021 Living Legacy Awards function.The ceremony, which will take place at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel and be streamed live ...

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) - Sir James Mitchell, the second prime minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, died yesterday, his family has confirmed. He was 90 years old.His death has brought to an end an era in the history of St Vi...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - Santa is back this year, but he pleads caution as he continues to tiptoe through the pandemic."Be smart. Be caring. If you have the tiniest tickle in your throat, the tiniest feeling, worry about yourself ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - A bus carrying tourists back to North Macedonia crashed and caught fire in western Bulgaria early yesterday, killing at least 45 people including a dozen children, authorities said.The bus apparently ripped throug...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - The United States is facing its second Thanksgiving of the pandemic in better shape than the first time around, thanks to the vaccine, though some regions are seeing surges of COVID-19 cases that cou...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - The World Health Organization's (WHO) Europe office says projections show its 53-country region could face another 700,000 deaths in the novel coronavirus pandemic by next spring, topping two million in total....

A: There are four types of documentation you will need to bring with you to your immigrant visa interview: identification, civil, financial, and relationship.IdentificationA valid, unexpired passport (good for at least six months beyond...

A man died yesterday afternoon after the motorcycle he was driving collided with another motorbike on Chisholm Avenue, St Andrew.The identity of the dead man was not ascertained up to press time; however, a man who who gave his name as ...

Prosecutors in the trial of the 33 alleged members of the Klansman gang were yesterday, for the second day in a row, railroaded in their attempt to have several pieces of evidence authenticated and entered as exhibits into the court's r...

The head of the teachers' union yesterday rejected the notion that educators are greedy and unreasonable as he equated the Government's four per cent wage offer to a show of pity for professionals who deserve to be properly compensated...

Former Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips says the version of the Westminster parliamentary democracy which Jamaica inherited is outdated, and ways must now be devised to ramp up and enhance the role of the legislature to, among other ...

Member of Parliament for St Andrew East Central and former Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips says the condition of life of the average Jamaican has not been substantially and fundamentally transformed despite the efforts of administr...

Government is being accused by chairman of the Jamaica Police Federation Corporal Rohan James of playing with the national security by refusing to pay salaries owed to rank and file members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force for overtime...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) yesterday gave credit to a new unit in its coast guard for a $1.1-billion cocaine bust off the coast of Black River on Monday night that resulted in three men being arrested.Th...

The Jamaica Labour Party vice-chairman for the St Catherine North Western constituency Mr Millholland Barker has taken flak from Jamaica Observer readers for saying that President of the People's National Party (PNP) Mark Golding will h...

Andrew Simpson, the president and founder of CCA Capital Partners - the entity whose latest contract with Clarendon Alumina Production (CAP) has been embroiled in controversy - says there's "nothing improper" about the contracts, adding...

The Crown's case against four of the accused for a 2018 murder on Jones Avenue in St Catherine, in the ongoing Klansman gang trial, yesterday hit a snag after it was disclosed that, except for a scene of crime photograph and the evidenc...

Today is the 327th day of 2021. There are 38 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1998: The European Union lifts a worldwide export ban on British beef. The ban was imposed after experts announced a possible link between "mad cow" dis...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The Manchester Parish D evelopment Committee (PDC) recently affirmed its commitment to empowering citizens in 426 districts to quell domestic disputes plaguing the parish through the launch of a domestic violenc...

THE family of 25-year-old Drewsland, St Andrew, resident Leaford Mighty, who was last seen by loved ones on November 5, are nervously awaiting word from the police about the identity of a body found in a barrel in St Mary on November 9....

More than 500 vaccinated Labourities are slated to participate in the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) annual conference this Sunday.The JLP is now putting the final touches to the preparations for what it is describing as 'Jamaica's first...

IN the wake of new data suggesting increased alcohol consumption among local consumers, the National Parent-Teacher Association of Jamaica (NPTAJ) and the Desnoes and Geddes (D&G) Foundation are amplifying their drive to reduce alco...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - When security guards on the job at Clarendon College heard what sounded like gunshots Sunday night they assumed it came from beyond the facility's gates. They had no idea 37-year-old Roydell Senior, who maintained t...

LE GOSIER, Guadeloupe (AP) - Schools closed across the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe yesterday and France's president warned of a "very explosive" situation in the territory after protests against COVID-19 rules and vaccinations...

Just under $600 million of taxpayers' money has to be found each year to care for the almost 300 Jamaicans who have been discharged from public hospitals but have been left there by relatives unwilling to take them home.The dilemma face...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Not long ago, Ferishta Salihi and her family had enough for a decent life. Her husband was working and earned a good salary. She could send several of her daughters to private schools.But now, after her husband...

LINSTEAD, St Catherine - Member of Parliament for St Catherine North Western, Hugh Graham has called on residents to stop blocking roads in Linstead, adding that he is only willing to address them in an amicable atmosphere about plans t...

BUFF BAY, Portland - The finishing touches are being put on the long-awaited Buff Bay Police Station, which is expected to be ready by Christmas."The soon-to-be-delivered police station is far advanced and is supposed to be ready to be ...

THEIR tears could probably fill the gold-coloured urn bearing the cremated remains of recently deceased Sadie Keating, as family members and friends said farewell to the outstanding public servant last Friday at Holy Cross Roman Catholi...

President of the People's National Party (PNP) Mark Golding will have a tough time wooing the electorate by virtue of his complexion being much fairer than that of the average Jamaican.This is the view Millholland Barker, vice-chairman ...

THE smiles are broader these days in the corridors of the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) after its Protection Tribunal awarded a client $7.6 million, the largest-ever compensation granted by the watchdog body.Consumer activist Vernon...

PORTMORE mayoral hopeful Markland Edwards, better known as Action for his radio dispensation, says he has great plans to turn Portmore into a functioning smart parish, after throwing his hat in the ring for the pending municipal electio...

Activists listen to speakers supporting the Ethiopian Government during a protest in front of the White House in Washington,DC, yesterday demanding a stop for what they say is American support for the Tigray People's Liberation Front.To...

Winston Watson (third left),general manager of Petrojam Limited, demonstrating the company's commitment to the environment by gifting over 40 seedlings to staff members of St Andrew Primary School.Latoya Pennant, Petrojam public relatio...

General Manager of Petrojam Limited, Winston Watson firmly secures this ackee seedling in the ground at the St. Andrew Primary School, in observation of National Tree Planting Day and in support of the National Tree Planting initiative ...

JAMAICANS suffering from chronic or end-stage kidney disease must fork out up to $2 million a year for treatment (dialysis) to remove excess fluid and impurities from the bloodstream or face an unthinkable alternative - death. Even at t...

GREEN PARK, Trelawny - The end of the wait for some of the 300 indigent individuals on the list to be admitted at infirmaries across the island could be just around the corner as Government is said to be getting ready to admit new indiv...

JAMAICANS for Justice (JFJ) says it remains opposed to the Government's imposition of states of emergencies (SOE) as a sustainable crime-fighting strategy. "While JFJ is equally concerned about the pervasive crime and violence and the s...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) - Two of the 17 North Americans who had been abducted by a Haitian gang in mid-October have been freed, the church that they were affiliated with said yesterday, reporting that they were "in good spirits"."On...

AS bleak as the facts and figures surrounding chronic kidney disease in Jamaica are, it gets worse, said Dr Barton, a type of kidney disease gladiator who heads the Caribbean Institute of Nephrology."Some children born with conditions l...

New York, USA - The United States Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award is to be bestowed on Jamaican immigrant Rev Dr Marilyn Grant at a ceremony in Connecticut on December 11, 2021.The annual award seeks to hounour people "who ex...

In a rare show of public anger, Ambassador of the European Union to Jamaica Marianne Van Steen and United Nations Resident Coordinator to Jamaica Dr Garry Conille jointly condemned last week's killing at a Spotlight Initiative Workshop ...

COCOA farmers, despite a $300-million backing from the Government, are taking a pounding in their war with the stubborn and deadly frosty pod rot disease, which has wiped out 80 per cent of Jamaica's cocoa production each year since 201...

THE last thing that 38-year-old Kimberly Gibson imagined was that she would become an amputee, blind in her right eye and partially blind in her left eye, all at the same time, from battling diabetes all her life. She also has the added...

You could have missed it if you blinked. But a woman of Jamaican heritage became the first of her gender to act as president of the United States Friday.President Joe Biden briefly transferred power to Vice-President Kamala Harris yest...