MONTEGO BAY, St James - With Jamaica's tourism sector steadily rebounding, Director of Tourism Donovan White said, if all things should go as planned, the island may welcome up to 4.3 million visitors by the third quarter of 2023.White,...

FINANCE Minister Nigel Clarke on Thursday tabled a $912 billion spending plan for the 2022/23 fiscal year, and outlined in a short speech that it will "facilitate moving the country beyond the novel coronavirus pandemic towards sustaina...

The children's advocate's decision to clamp down on the use of children in age-inappropriate content on popular social media apps like TikTok is being supported by experts in cybercrime, child protection, and information technology.The ...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny - Muschett High School is implementing additional programmes in a bid promote unity and proper conflict resolution skills among its students, Principal Leighton Johnson told the Jamaica Observer on Thursday.The move, ...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has backed a recent statement by Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton that the Government plans to allow people vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend some upcoming public events.Dr Tufton has...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has put the country on notice that the measures imposed under the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus will come to an end within weeks."The DRMA has reached it...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Government Senator Charles Sinclair has called out the St James Police Division for what he described as a lack of transparency regarding the current investigation into last month's gruesome murder of nine-year-o...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has laid the blame for the hiccups being experienced by the prosecution in getting the court to hear the secretly captured recordings of conversations between alleged members of the Klansman gang squarely at th...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - With inflation going only higher, stocks fell on Wall Street Thursday as expectations build that the Federal Reserve will have to get more aggressive about removing the tremendous support it's given the ec...

Today is the 42nd day of 2022. There are 323 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1990: African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela is released after 27 years in South African prisons. OTHER EVENTS1254: The British Parliament fir...

Individuals caught using, trading, making, or stockpiling illegal guns of any kind will face harsher penalties under a new firearms regulation regime.The Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction and Regulation) Act, 2022 is now before Parliam...

TRANSPORT Minister Audley Shaw has announced that, during the next few years, airports across the island are set to benefit from significant upgrades that will cost over US$200 million.Shaw, who recently took over the reins of the minis...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Vendors at the Melrose Yam Park say since the facility was reopened last December, following a four-month closure, business has been coming in slowly.The yam park had been ordered closed last August after the Ma...

The Andrew Holness Administration has given the clearest indication yet that it intends to start work to change Jamaica's constitutional monarchy status.The hint came from viceregal head of state Governor General Sir Patrick Allen in th...

C HIEF executive officer (CEO) of the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) Dr Theresa Rodrigues Moodie is calling for all clawed back areas to be included in Special Mining Lease (SML) 173, amid indications that some legal protection is comi...

IT is no secret that the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) is faced with many challenges.That is why Natalie Whylie, the hospital's acting chief executive officer, is pleased that organisers of the Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run decided to ha...

The Centers for Disease Control and prevention (CDC) Caribbean Regional Office's regional partner, Global Laboratory Epidemiology Systems Strengthening Network (GLESSN), procured two biosafety cabinets valued at US$30,095 through US Pr...

The Government will continue to promote the use of mediation, instead of litigation, to resolve disputes, avoid community conflicts, and reduce the burden on the court system.This was stated by Governor General Sir Patrick Allen as he d...

NZINGA King, who alleged that she was forcibly trimmed by a cop while in custody, could face charges for creating public mischief following a ruling handed down by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) on Wednesday. W...

THE Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has put a halt on approving the building and planning application for The Ascent at Oxford Road, New Kingston, which was proposed to be the tallest building in the country if cons...

THE rapid increase in the number of TikTok videos featuring Jamaican children has drawn the attention of Children's Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison, who says her office will be moving to clamp down on parents and children involved in w...

RESIDENTS of Grange Hill were left in shock Wednesday when brazen gunmen killed a man in front of a basic school in the Westmoreland community.According to the police, Javaine Lue, 26, of Patrick Drive in the area, was shot six times af...

Today is the 41st day of 2022. There are 324 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2009: US and Russian communication satellites collide in the first-ever crash of its kind in orbit, shooting out a pair of massive debris clouds. OTHER...

PRESIDENT of the Guild of Students at The Mico University College in St Andrew, Shavoy Lyons, has appealed for increased police presence in the vicinity of the institution amid concerns that students are being abducted and robbed there....

SALT SPRING, St James - The security forces have removed three more illegal firearms, including a high-powered rifle, from the hands of criminals during Wednesday morning's joint police-military operation in the tough Salt Spring commun...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - Police Wednesday said they are treating as a "murder investigation" the death of a 48-year-old housewife, whose body was found hanging from a mango tree in her yard at Yarrowkabra, along the Soesdyke/Linden Hi...

IT has been a bumpy ride for the operators of the St Mary-based Harth of Nature, which produces wines and spirits from local produce, including guava and naseberry, but with the help of the Social Development Commission (SDC) the compan...

ABOUT 200 small ruminants are to be imported under the Small Ruminant Development Programme by the end of March, to be distributed to farmers for expansion of the sector.In his address at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries press ...

Top global personalities including former United States Vice-President Mike Pence and former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will headline a world summit highlighting the long-running campaign for reconciliation on the Kore...

Charmaine Daniels, CEO of Digicel Foundation, pushes this young man to "greater heights" during activities on the second official Play Day JA on February 2, 2022. The Digicel Foundation partnered with Special Olympics Jamaica to encoura...

INFORMATION Minister Robert Morgan has defended Government's handling of corruption in the public sector, arguing that the Holness Administration has over the years taken on some of the recommendations made by the anti-corruption bodies...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - United States Senate Majority Leader Charles "Chuck" Schumer has introduced Jamaican-born New York City Assemblyman Nick Perry to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee as the nominee for US amba...

SANKLE BAY, Portland - Vernon "Culture" Sewell left his house in Sankle Bay Beach, near the San San Old Road, in good condition on January 11 to tend to his nearby farm, but it was a nightmare when he returned home.Sewell had to force h...

LUCEA, Hanover - Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) President Clifton Reader is of the view that it may not be necessary to continue with stringent COVID-19 measures at this time, given that the Omicron variant of the novel co...

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...

Dear Mr Brown,My wife wants to apply for a study permit. However, I have overstayed my time in Canada for three years. I want to know whether that would affect my wife's application.-BADear BA:To answer your question, I will state that ...

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 ...