Today is the 61st day of 2022. There are 303 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1995: The Internet search engine website Yahoo! is incorporated by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo. OTHER EVENTS1678: French forces of King Louis X...

A shipment of IT equipment valued at over $5 million to benefit more than 30,000 Jamaican students in 25 high and primary schools has arrived here just in time for the full resumption of face-face classes after the midterm break. The Co...

TISZABECS, Hungary (AP) - Of the hundreds of refugees gathered on the grounds of a small village school in eastern Hungary, almost all are women and children who left their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons behind to fight in Ukraine...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russian forces escalated their attacks on crowded urban areas Tuesday, bombarding the central square in Ukraine's second-largest city and Kyiv's main TV tower, in what the country's president called a blatant campai...

Dear Mr Brown,I have been hearing about how black people have been discriminated against with everyone fleeing the war against Ukraine by Russia. I know that Canada would want to assist the Ukrainians but wouldn't Canada be contributing...

Having marked February as Safer Internet Month, telecommunications provider Digicel is reporting that more Jamaicans are now empowered to take action and make the Internet a safer, better place for all.The month of awareness activities...

With global anxieties mounting over the ballooning Russia-Ukraine crisis, Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretary General Dr Carla Barnett said on Monday that the issue is not on the agenda of the 33rd inter-sessional meeting of heads o...

Twenty-year-old medical student Esther Thomas cried when she arrived in Jamaica three days before Russia invaded Ukraine last week.The tears, her mother Keisha Thomas told the Jamaica Observer on Monday, sprang from her realisation tha...

CORAL GARDENS, St James - Tears flowed down the cheeks of residents after the body of a well-loved gardener was removed from a cesspit into which he fell while on the job at premises in this community in Montego Bay on Monday.The reside...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - The long-standing issue of broken guard rails on the Lacovia Bridge near here worsened on Sunday following a crash which claimed the life of a 23-year-old man.Police named the deceased as Demarco Deeble, other...

THE House Standing Finance Committee (SFC) will commence its review of the recently tabled 2022/23 Estimates of Expenditure (budget) today, starting at 9:00 am.The budget was tabled by Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Two men were killed in a crash on the Content main road near Williamsfield in this south-central parish on Sunday.Police named the deceased as 25-year-old Adrian Knight and 35-year-old Bernard West, both of Cumb...

Russian aluminum conglomerate UC Rusal is scheduled to meet today with the Union of Clerical Administrative and Supervisory Employees (UCASE) to seek clarity on how sanctions imposed against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine will affe...

THE prosecution on Monday hit a roadblock in its attempt to have information previously withheld by a police witness accepted as evidence in the trial of 33 alleged members of the One Don faction of the Klansman Gang in the Home Circuit...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - After news broke that the 24 Jamaican students who had journeyed from the city of Lviv in Ukraine had made it safely into neighbouring Poland, a Ukrainian man living in Jamaica has offered to assist other Jamaica...

WILLIAM Massias didn't hesitate when he was asked if he would return to Ukraine, the east European country now fighting a deadly war with Russian military invaders that caused him and his family to flee."Yes, I would go back, because I ...

Today is the 60th day of 2022. There are 305 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2008: The USS New York, an amphibious assault ship built with scrap steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center, is christened at Avondale, Louisiana...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russian forces shelled Ukraine's second-largest city on Monday, rocking a residential neighbourhood, and closed in on the capital Kyiv - in a 17-mile convoy of hundreds of tanks and other vehicles as talks aimed at ...

St Ann 4-H Club Assistant Secretary Sonia Tucker (right) and Japan International Corporation Agency volunteer Natsumi Nagarmura (second from right) give secretary at the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) St Ann branch Mari...

JAMAICA Observer readers have defended the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, telling employees who had complained to the newspaper about working conditions that the sector is not as bad as they are saying.Last Monday the Obse...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - Guyana and China unveiled a logo to mark the 50th anniversary of their diplomatic relations with Georgetown, insisting that "there has always been a unified view in Guyana of the One China policy".Beijing has ...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - The Titchfield High School family is now celebrating the life of a stalwart of the institution, former teacher Subhas Ramkeerat, affectionately called Mr Ram, who died on January 25.Ramkeerat was born in Guyana ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - An embattled Ukraine moved to solidify its bond with the West on Monday by applying to join the European Union, while the first round of Ukraine-Russia talks aimed at ending the fighting concluded with no deal but a...

THE aim of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) is to have 75 per cent of children in State care placed in familial environments by 2023, rather than have them remain in a children's home or institution, Chief Executi...

The family of a Jamaican farm worker, 40-year-old Tyrone Lee Jackson, who died while he was in quarantine in Canada, is demanding answers from the Canadian authorities as to the circumstances surrounding his death. But the Ministry of ...

Today is the 59th day of 2022. There are 306 days left in the yearTODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1996: Britain's Princess Diana agrees to divorce Prince Charles. (Their 15-year marriage officially ended in August 1996; Diana died in a car crash in Pa...

Independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Westmoreland Central George Wright was reportedly asked to leave a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Area Council 4 annual meeting in Westmoreland on Sunday after showing up unannounced.Just before 2:...

"Problem after problem," a distressed parent lamented to the Jamaica Observer on Sunday following an update from her son in Ukraine that he, along with 23 other Jamaican students, had been forced to embark on a nine-hour walk to the Po...

The developments surrounding Russian hostilities in Ukraine and the regional approach to the situation is expected to be among the issues discussed at the 33rd inter-sessional meeting of Caricom Heads of Government set for Belize on Ma...

Jovan Johnson, who was named the 2021 Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) journalist of the year, says a major part of the shaping of his career is his upbringing in the hilly farming community of Red Hills, Clarendon, an experience whic...

Vendors in the Oxford Market in downtown Kingston are seeking assistance from the Government to restart their businesses after fire razed the facility Sunday morning leaving millions of dollars in losses.According to the vendors, they ...

OK Melhado, a key member of the campaign team that helped make Michael Manley prime minister of Jamaica in 1972, says his controversial policies made him the perfect leader for the country at that time.Melhado, 83, spoke to the Jamaica ...

One year almost to the date, the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) this month kicked off the build phase of the August Town zone of special operations (ZOSO), focusing on the troubled communities of African Gardens and Goldsmith Vi...

Jamaican-born American Dr Susan M Collins, who, in July this year will become the first black woman to head a federal reserve bank in the US, was inspired to become an economist by observing social and financial hardships in the land of...

Eight private entities in the health sector last week signed grants totalling US$600,000 with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to continue the roll-out of the health ministry's outsourcing of COVID-19 vacci...

BLENHEIM, Hanover - Assistant general secretary of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) Collin Virgo is calling on the Government to address the vexing issue of contract work which he claims is being used by some employers to ab...

IT has always been Monique Mitchell's dream to become a professional film writer but she fears it might not come true due to financial constraints.Mitchell was accepted at Toronto Film School in Canada last month, to pursue a degree in ...

This is the 19th Jamaica Observer's Entertainment Desk's series for Reggae Month titled Princess Black.One of the women who helped sign many reggae acts to major record companies during the 1990s, Maxine Stowe has music in her blood....

One year after it entered the lucrative gambling industry in Jamaica, Mahoe Gaming Enterprises Ltd (MGEL), which offers the Izizzi games, is excited about its prospects in what it accepts is a very competitive industry,"Year one with Te...

JAMAICAN female students walked away with three of the top five awards in the recently concluded Food4Change Caribbean Story Writing Competition held under The University of the West Indies' Improving Household Nutrition Security and Pu...

Go easy on policeman, Ms DPP(Paula Llewellyn)Many will frown on it, but the police sergeant in St Elizabeth who forgot his 18-month-old daughter in his vehicle which led to her demise, should be shown some leniency.Frankly, based upon a...

Minister of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Leslie Campbell (left) joins Japanese Ambassador to Jamaica Masaya Fujiwara in a toast to Japan's Emperor Naruhito, whose 62nd birthday was celebrated by local offic...

A total stranger on Saturday prevented Jamaican William Massias and his family from spending a second night outdoors in freezing temperature after their attempt to get into Poland from war-torn Ukraine failed at the overcrowded border.M...

Ukraine has turned to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for additional funding, the multilateral financier said on Friday, adding that it is exploring all options to help the war-torn country.Kristalina Georgieva, managing director...

As Sandals resorts across the Caribbean continue efforts to care for the physical and mental welfare of their team members, the staff at Sandals Royal Caribbean were recently treated to a special day of rejuvenation and love.Sandals re...

They sat on a sidewalk on Tuesday in Morant Bay Square, St Thomas, amidst the noise - blaring car horns, sound systems and the loud chatter of passers-by - practising mathematics timetables. They are 21-year-old security guard Dorian S...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian defence forces put up fierce resistance Saturday, slowing the advance of the larger and better-armed Russian military closing in on Kyiv, the capital. European nations and the US rushed assistance to the c...

Some bars and liquor stores think they've found a potent way to punish Russia for invading Ukraine - they're pulling Russian vodka off their shelves and promoting Ukrainian brands instead."I woke up yesterday morning and I saw that Rus...

SPICY HILL, Trelawny - A four-year-old girl, who was believed to have been abducted by unknown attackers who shot and killed her mother and injured another woman here Saturday afternoon, was found abandoned on a roadway hours after the ...

The Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA) has teamed up with Sistren Theatre Collective, Groots Jamaica, Island Coffees, and peace ambassadors to launch 'Creatives For Peace'.It is an initiative that will enable young people to become pos...