MINISTER of Agriculture and Fisheries Pearnel Charles Jr is reporting that the recent heavy rains in sections of the island did considerable damage to crops, and said farmers will be assisted by his ministry.He said while several parish...

 KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him that Moscow would not further escalate the Ukraine crisis.Macron also said it would take time to find a diplomatic solut...

CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) - St Lucia Tuesday said that its tourism sector is "flourishing" and the island is looking to open a number of hotels with several international brand names committed to the island.Tourism Minister Dr Ernest Hil...

THERE are indications that Jamaican students are seeing some return to normality as a number of institutions push to have students back in the classroom five days per week, with guidance from the education ministry for a minimum of two ...

ONE month since a zone of special operations (ZOSO) was declared in Parade Gardens, Kingston Central, rival gangsters appear to be engaging on friendlier terms with each other, organising football matches and other community events amon...

Q: There are several messages about safety, COVID, and crime on the embassy webpage. What is the difference between a travel advisory and an alert?A: Travel advisories are issued by the State Department for every country in the world an...

THE National Water Commission (NWC) says the cause of a sewage problem in the vicinity of the meat market in Cross Roads, St Andrew, is a damaged sewer lateral, which the entity is not responsible for fixing.Andrew Cannon, the NWC's com...

Today is the 40th day of 2022. There are 325 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1962: British empire announces that Jamaica will be granted Independence effective August 6. Other Events1801: Peace of Luneville between Austria and F...

COUNCILLOR for the Papine Division in St Andrew Eastern Venesha Phillips has blamed the poor state of the road in front of the Papine market as the reason for the stagnant run-off water from the facility, which she says should be of gre...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - Audrey's Distributors has no insurance to fall back on after losing more than $3.8 million worth of goods one week ago when flood waters swept through Port Maria's commercial hub, leaving havoc in its wake.A simil...

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) - Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has temporarily suspended production at a key plant manufacturing the COVID-19 vaccine, The New York Times reported Tuesday.The facility in the Dutch city of Leiden halte...

DOSQUEBRADAS, Colombia (AFP) - At least 11 people died and 35 were injured in a mudslide triggered by heavy rains in Colombia on Tuesday, the national disaster agency said.The early morning rains touched off a landslide on a mountain in...

JAMAICANS For Justice (JFJ) on Tuesday welcomed the decision by the Access to Information (ATI) Appeal Tribunal shared on Friday, January 28, 2022, which charged that several withheld and redacted documents regarding the 2009 tragedy at...

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) - Canadian lawmakers expressed increasing worry Tuesday about the economic effects of disruptive demonstrations after the busiest border crossing between the US and Canada became partially blocked by truckers protes...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Jamaica Bauxite Mining Limited (JBM) will be undertaking a multimillion-dollar commercial and industrial park development project in Lydford, St Ann, where the entity's main activities are concentrated. Minister ...

Government Senator Charles Sinclair says he is in favour of local government elections being delayed, and held simultaneously with the next general election, as a cost-saving measure.In the debate on changes to the Representation of the...

Custos Rotulorum for St Catherine Icylin Golding (left) converses with host pastor of Hagley Park Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kingston Rev Omar Oliphant (right) during the Ministry of Justice's Restorative Justice Week 2022 closing ...

GOING further than a group of prominent Jamaicans who have slapped Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton for discriminating against the unvaccinated, reggae singer Tanya Stephens has called on the embattled minister to resi...

PROSECUTORS were yesterday thrown another curve ball regarding the recorded conversations between alleged gangsters, which were last week entered into evidence in the ongoing trial of 33 alleged members of the St Catherine-based Klansma...

SPRING GARDENS, Westmoreland - The criminals who shot dead two people and wounded six others at an illegal party in Spring Gardens, Westmoreland, Sunday night, had conducted a reconnaissance of the venue hours before, a survivor of the ...

A suspect linked to last December's double murder of a Chinese couple in Bellevue, near Southfield, St Elizabeth, had been on the police's radar for crimes committed in at least two other divisions, police sources say.The male suspect, ...

SEAMAN'S VALLEY, Portland - Heather Scott and the members of her family are homeless and left picking up the pieces following a fire that gutted their home on Saturday afternoon.Scott said she was at the river when her daughter broke th...

PLANS for the admissions of new resi dents to the island's infirmaries have been put on pause because of the latest wave of COVID-19 infections.Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie says late last year ther...

Today is the 39th day of 2022. There are 326 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1924: The first US execution by gas takes place at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City. OTHER EVENTS1517: Captain Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba, a ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - A Biden Administration task force on organised labour on Monday issued a set of recommendations that could make it easier for federal workers and contractors to unionise.The report submitted to Presi...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) - The abductors of Pastor Lochard Rémy, a popular evangelical singer, are demanding a two-million-dollar ransom for his release, according to his wife, Yolie Rémy.She told local media that the kidnappers, s...

LONDON, England (AP) - Gun salutes rang out in London and Edinburgh on Monday to mark the official start of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee year, as the 95-year-old monarch prepared for a busy season of public duties.Britain's lon...

ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC) - Grenada is celebrating its 48th anniversary of political Independence from Britain on Monday with Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell noting the impact that the novel coronavirus pandemic is continuing to have ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - A High Court judge Monday sentenced a 48-year-old man to more than 38 years in jail after he was found guilty of raping the wife of a close friend in 2018.Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, sitting at the Suddie...

JAMAICANS are making their mark in the Compete Caribbean Project with a conch cluster designed to ensure the sustainable economic growth of the country's queen conch business.Compete Caribbean is a private sector development programme t...

The HEART/NSTA Trust, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Youth, Jamaica Library Service (JLS), and Junior Achievement Jamaica (JAJ), will host activities marking National Career Awareness Week 2022, from February 6 to 1...

NEW YORK, United States - A United States-based Jamaican watchdog group is urging parents of young girls to be on the alert for human traffickers who are using different methods of attracting females for their illicit trade.Sandra Gipso...

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - International efforts to defuse the stand-off over Ukraine intensified Monday, with French President Emmanuel Macron holding talks in Moscow and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington to coordinate policies as...

Four months after the Jamaica Observer highlighted the deplorable state of the Papine market in St Andrew the situation has worsened, with raw sewage and other liquid waste running from inside the market on to John Golding Road, deterio...

Today is the 38th day of 2022. There are 327 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1962: US President John F Kennedy imposes a full trade embargo on Cuba.OTHER EVENTS1301: Edward of Caernarfon (later Edward II) becomes the first (Engli...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says he has never allowed the views of people who are critical of COVID-19 measures implemented by the Government to paralyse his decision-making .Accordi...

THOUGH thousands of students across Jamaica returned to face-to-face schooling last month, the plight of some 600 of their peers who are already excluded from regular school because of multiple disabilities has worsened as the cash-str...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness extends condolence to Robbie Shakespeare's widow, Marion, while Entertainment and Culture Minister Olivia "Babsy" Grange (second right) and Dr Kurdell Espinosa Campbell, acting director of emergency medical...

The shooting death of 14-year-old Jamaican-born Taffash Riley in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, last week has left her relatives and friends in the St Andrew community of Wilton Gardens, popularly known as Rema, puzzled and traumatised.A...

Senators ended their 2021/22 parliamentary engagements on a high note Friday at Gordon House after agreeing to cancel debating the report from a triennial review of the zones of special operations (ZOSOs).The report was tabled in the Ho...

After almost 10 years of living in rusty, rat-infested junk cars in a section of Arnett Gardens, St Andrew, known as Mexico, 60-year-old deaf mute Patrick Duncan now has his own house, thanks to good Samaritans Claude "Big Stone" Sincl...

Using the results of a Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ) screening survey done last year to point out that many Jamaicans are at a high risk of noncommunicable diseases and do not know, Deborah Chen, that organisation's executive direct...

Food trucks loaded with a full kitchen and parked beachside or poolside are the latest from a deep well of innovative ideas which have kept Sandals Resorts at the pinnacle of the global hospitality industry. The food trucks, brainchild ...

Vendors at the St Ann's Bay market have praised the authorities for ensuring that the facility is clean. However, they are complaining about poor lighting and unbearable heat.According to 39-year-old Juliet Newell, who said she has been...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Transport and gasoline stakeholders are calling on the Government to reduce the taxes on petroleum in order to lower the price, amidst continued increases in the cost of fuel.Last Thursday, motorists saw yet ano...

BROWN'S TOWN, St Ann - Public passenger transport operators who use the covered taxi park in Brown's Town are not amused at its rundown state."The park need fi fix long time," said Everol Smith, who plies the Brown's Town to Discovery B...

KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) - Ukraine on Sunday pushed back at "apocalyptic predictions" over a potential Russian invasion, after officials in the United States sounded dire warnings that Moscow had stepped up its preparations for a major incur...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) - Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday became the first British monarch to reign for seven decades, announcing her "sincere wish" that Camilla, the wife of her heir Prince Charles, should ultimately be known as Quee...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP) - The African Union (AU) has condemned a recent "wave" of military coups that has seen an unprecedented number of member states suspended from the bloc, a senior official said Sunday, the last day of its annu...

Social anthropologist Dr Herbert Gayle has argued that Jamaica has always had a governance issue, especially where it relates to combating crime.Gayle's statement came in the wake of the Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) report that in...