The Integrity Commission and the Financial Investigations Division (FID) yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at strengthening both organisations' response to public corruption, money laundering, organised crime, ...

Debate is heating up over the health and wellness ministry's offer of COVID-19 vaccine booster shots against the backdrop of hesitancy continuing to be a major hurdle facing the country, as the Government tries to get just under 1.5 mil...

Steven Causwell, the St Andrew businessman who was sentenced in 2016 to life in prison or the 2008 murder of his girlfriend Nadia Mitchell, has lost his bid to petition the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London.This comes af...

The Government's ambitious plan to establish a mango agro park on approximately 900 acres in Spring Plain, Clarendon, has received a fillip with five investors this week committing a total of almost $100 million to the project.Each of t...

KELLITS, Clarendon - Two families in this small town are making an extra effort to cash in on sales this Yuletide season as they try to recover from a fire that destroyed their neighbouring businesses on the night of September 11.The sm...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Manchester Central Member of Parliament (MP) Rhoda Crawford says she has nothing to hide in relation to funds allocated for roadworks."My work is with the National Works Agency (NWA) and any contractor general, ...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has launched a probe into the sudden death of German Ambassador to Jamaica Dr Stefan Friedrich Keil but up to press time last night there was no suspicion of foul play.Jamaica Observer sources say a...

Progressive Grocers of Jamaica Limited opened its fourth shopping centre on Tuesday and acknowledged that it is in expansion mode.Word from the highly successful supermarket group is that it has set its sights on developing at least th...

TOP performers in the 2021 Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Heritage Competition not only came away with increased knowledge of the nation's rich heritage, but also walked away with meaningful prizes.The annual competition, which is in...

Today is the 351st day of 2021. There are 14 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2005: Anti-globalisation protesters in Hong Kong armed with bamboo sticks rush police and try to storm the convention centre where trade accord negotiat...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) is moving quickly to ensure the tourism sector gets its share of the free COVID-19 self-test kits expected in the island soon. JHTA President Clifton Reader, who s...

EFFECTIVE today, a section of Sommers Town Road in Port Antonio, Portland, will be converted to a one-way corridor, accommodating traffic moving in a southerly direction from Bridge Street towards Norman Lane. This is a seasonal traffic...

THE Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) is reminding shoppers to ensure that they get their receipts when making purchases this Yuletide season.Speaking at a Jamaica Information Service think tank, director of communications, CAC, Latoya ...

THE House of Representatives has approved a 60-day extension of the zones of special operations (ZOSO).The areas are Denham Town, west Kingston; Norwood and Mount Salem, St James; and Greenwich Town and August Town in St Andrew.The Hous...

MONTEGO BAY, St James -Even as news broke Wednesday that the Canadian Government plans to advise against all non-essential travel in an effort to keep Omicron - the newest variant of the novel coronavirus - at bay, regional tourism play...

MINISTER of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange recently opened the second Government-run shelter for victims of domestic abuse, saying she is happy it has become a reality.The minister cut the ribbon, symbolising the...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - The Supermarket Association of Trinidad and Tobago (SATT) Wednesday said its members will not be adopting the 'safe zone' initiative that was rolled out by the Government as part of the efforts to curb th...

THE Caribbean Community (Caricom) has reiterated calls for international bodies to streamline rules governing correspondent banking relationships.Addressing Caricom's year-end regional press conference on Tuesday, secretary general of C...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The diesel fuel needed to produce oxygen for novel coronavirus patients has run out. So have supplies of dozens of essential drugs. The staff, unpaid for months, still shows up for work, but they are struggling...

LONDON, England (AP) - Spiralling infections in Britain, driven in part by the new Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus rattled many in Europe yesterday, fuelling a familiar dread that tighter restrictions will scuttle holiday plans...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A powerful typhoon slammed into the south-eastern Philippines yesterday, toppling trees, ripping tin roofs and knocking down power as it blew across island provinces where nearly 100,000 people have been evacu...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The remaining members of a missionary group who were kidnapped two months ago have been freed, Haitian police and the group said yesterday.The spokesman for Haiti's National Police, Gary Desrosiers, confirme...

THE public will soon have access to self-administered COVID-19 test kits as the Ministry of Health is in the process of importing 150,000 of the devices to be made available free of cost.Health and Wellness Minister Christopher Tufton m...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the National Housing Trust (NHT) has 3,406 housing units and serviced lots earmarked for Manchester as part of the Government's housing target over the next five years.Speaking...

THE National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) has employed an additional 500 sweepers and has also engaged 300 private dumper and garbage trucks to assist in the nation's public cleansing drive. Minister of Local Government and ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Business travel to the Caribbean is bouncing back from the ravages of the novel coronavirus, one of the many reasons regional tourism players are optimistic about the future. But an industry analyst is warning th...

THE Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says there is no evidence at this time that current COVID-19 vaccines do not protect against the Omicron variant of the virus, and has stressed that Delta remains the dominant strain in the re...

JUST under 100 hardened inmates at Metcalfe Street Juvenile Remand Centre in Kingston were officially handed a ticket out of a life of crime and delinquency yesterday through the opening of Black Diamond Recording Studio at the facility...

Ahead of the delivery of a subpoena to force its hand to deliver critical call data records and cell site details linked to recorded conversations and several confiscated handsets in the case against 33 alleged members of the Klansman G...

The United States Government yesterday donated a third tranche of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines to Jamaica, consisting of 204,750 doses, bringing the US donation to date to 617,760 doses. The US Embassy in Kingston said since the start of th...

Government Senator Kavan Gayle has lauded the claimants in the case brought against Cari-Med Group, challenging the implementation of a COVID-19 vaccination policy."I am of the agreement that matters of this nature should have been test...

Today is the 350th day of 2021. There are 15 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1773: American colonists, dressed as Indians, dump 342 chests of tea overboard from a British ship in Boston Harbor, staging a protest against British t...

More than 300 residents of Maverley, St Andrew, have a fighting chance against COVID-19 amid fears of a fourth wave and a swifter-spreading Omicron variant, following two vaccination drives by the Rotary Club of Trafalgar New Heights i...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the country needs to examine the manner in which public bodies are run, as failures do not only occur at the board level, but also at the staff level, and are oftentimes difficult to address due to the...

THE Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has underscored that no permits have been granted for the hosting of parties during the Christmas season. Speaking at a recent JIS think tank, head of the JCF Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Br...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Councillor for the Bellefield Division Mario Mitchell (People's National Party) has accused Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Manchester Central Member of Parliament Rhoda Crawford of making mischief following her comm...

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, as head of the Commonwealth, has recognised Amashika Lorne, representing Jamaica, as the 207th Commonwealth Point of Light in honour of her voluntary service creating a free children's colouring book to h...

Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretary General Dr Carla Barnett said she anticipates that other countries will cut ties with the British monarchy, once they see it fit to do so. Barnett, who was addressing Caricom's virtual year-end r...

BRISBANE, Australia (AFP) -An Australian couple plans to shell out tens of thousands of dollars hiring a private jet to fly their stranded dog home from New Zealand in time for Christmas.Munchkin, a former Bali street dog, is stuck in N...

NEW YORK, United States (CMC) - A New York man faces a maximum of 30 years in prison after he pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of New York to sexually assaulting a five-year-old child on the Caribbean island of Grenada.According t...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - One man died on the Spur Tree Hill main road, while an elderly man was mowed down and seriously injured in Porus in two road crashes yesterday, hours after the Road Safety Unit released data showing that up to y...

Police sources have shared two theories, one of them jealousy, which could have led to the murder of 26-year-old Shantiva Griffiths on Orange Street in downtown Kingston on Monday about 6:30 pm.Griffiths was pregnant at the time she wa...

Responding to the call to equip thousands of students across the island to take advantage of the new multimodal approach to learning, Sandals Foundation and Rainforest Seafoods yesterday provided digital tablets to students at St Mary's...

Andrew Azar admits he's always had a preference for investing in real estate."I like to see the concrete. I like to walk on it," he told the Jamaica Observer on November 24, the day his latest investment - Shoppes at Southdale - had a ...

GRANGE HILL, Westmoreland - Rodale Jones has no idea how to tell his six-year-old that her grandfather is dead.Just a few days ago, 65-year-old Henry Jones had asked to see the child, whom he loved dearly, for Christmas. Like her grandf...

A detective corporal from the Major Investigations Division of the police force yesterday detailed the grim sight and horrid smell of burnt human flesh that greeted investigators who were called to the scene of a double murder allegedly...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Monday evening's staging of the St James Municipal Corporation's (SJMC) annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony and concert saw scores of people demanding to be allowed inside the venue as health and security per...

State minister for education, youth and information Robert Morgan (left) presents a tablet to Shanelle Grandson of Lister Mair Gilby High School for the Deaf, May Pen Unit. He was participating in the handover of eight tablets to studen...

Today is the 349th day of 2021. There are 16 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1983: The People's National Party of Jamaica boycotts the country's general election, awarding the ruling Jamaica Labour Party all 60 seats of House of ...

FOR almost six decades, the remote rural community of Quick Step in the hills of St Elizabeth, at its border with Trelawny, had seen no infrastructural improvements to Quick Step Basic School.The small structure, with very limited facil...