MONTEGO BAY, St James - It's not unusual for passengers to applaud when the wheels of an aeroplane touch Jamaican soil, but the cheers that erupted Wednesday evening on-board the Eurowings flight from Frankfurt had added meaning. They s...

DESPITE the dilemma being faced by the Jamaican student who left Ukraine but wishes to return home with her cat, she has decided to seek alternatives as she is dissatisfied with import requirements for her pet.The young woman's cat is n...

After over two years of reviewing and tweaking the National Identification and Registration Act (NIDS), minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister Floyd Green expressed optimism on Wednesday that it will receive goo...

HEAD of surgery at Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) Dr Lindberg Simpson is confident that funds raised from this year's Sagicor Sigma Run will help upgrade the hospital's medical equipment to provide better care for patients.The 245-year-...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - By the second week of March, a multi-agency meeting should be held to map out a plan to ensure that crime-plagued areas of downtown Savanna-la-Mar will get the most out of social intervention initiatives p...

NEWLY appointed Minister of Transport and Mining Audley Shaw said Tuesday that the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) will be spending close to $3 billion in 2022/23 to improve the service provided by the public bus company.Shaw told ...

A Jamaican-born American who can claim to be a distant relative of United States Vice-President Kamala Harris has pioneered a new field in crisis management - crisisology - for which he has received an impressive list of accolades.Verno...

THE Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) has extended the deadlines for the submission of entries for its 2022 competitions.This is to facilitate additional time for potential participants to complete and submit their entries,...

Today is the 62nd day of 2022. There are 303 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1999: An estimated 74 million US viewers watch former White House intern Monica Lewinsky confess the details of her affair with US President Bill Clinto...

GUARDIAN Life Limited, the largest indigenous financial services and insurance group in the Caribbean, has joined forces with sports management company Legacy Athletics Limited to provide much-needed support to Leagcy's team of athletes...

The completion of the renovation of the Gloucester section of Victoria main road in Thompson Pen, Clarendon, is being anticipated by motorists and residents who have been terrified of a breakaway on the roadway.The road was badly damage...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The UN General Assembly voted at an emergency special session Wednesday to demand an immediate halt to Moscow's offensive against Ukraine and withdrawal of all Russian troops, with very strong support from the worl...

MONTEGY BAY, St James - Sandals has joined a community member to help shape the lives of a number of young people in the seaside community of White House here in St James.The influential community member, Beulah England-Kelly, in tandem...

WESTMORELAND, Jamaica - Chairman of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Robert Montague has sent councillors and caretakers in JLP Area Council Four out into the field armed with information on winning and holding onto a seat. In a wi...

The police are reporting a doubling of the number of illegal rifles seized than in the last month. At the same time, murders have declined 21 per cent since the start of the year, contributing to a 15 per cent reduction in all major cri...

A mother on Tuesday said she felt as if 10,000 bricks have been lifted from her back after receiving confirmation that her daughter, who was attending university in war-torn Ukraine, is among 21 Jamaican students scheduled to arrive in ...

One firearm code-named Geraldo, which is among five guns linked to 10 murder and shooting incidents for which the police have fingered the St Catherine-based Klansman gang, is connected to a cluster of incidents spanning 18 years, eigh...

MATILDA'S CORNER WAS TOLL GATE Historians have not been able to tell us who Matilda's Corner in Liguanea, St Andrew, was named for. However, what has been recorded is that its original name was Toll Gate, simply because a toll collect...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) - In rare backing for Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday assured Vladimir Putin of his "strong support" in a telephone call, according to a Kremlin statemen...

MINISTER of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke says that while the situation unfolding in Ukraine is likely to impact commodity prices worldwide, the Government expects them to retreat at some point during the year."The pric...

EFFORTVILLE, Clarendon - Eighty-two-year-old Lawson Brown will be able to sleep better at night knowing that his basic needs are covered, thanks to the kindness of neighbours and a businessman who rallied to help.The partially blind sen...

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...

THE United Nations and its Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have appointed Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, vice-chancellor of The University of the West Indies, to the governing Council of the United Nations Univ...

UNITED NATIONS (CMC) - St Vincent and the Grenadines on Tuesday called for an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine, even as it adapted the language of Moscow in describing as a "special military operation" what many countries have ...

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...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - It was a conversation unlike any they had enjoyed in recent weeks so Berilyn Black Hartley and her son, Ryan Parry, were eager, after they spoke on February 23, to spend time with each other. Parry promised to visit ...

The Supreme Ventures Foundation (SVF) has reaffirmed its commitment to national health with a donation of four oxygen concentrators to the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI).The machines will assist the medical staff in provi...

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...

HANOVER, Jamaica - The National Water Commission (NWC) has assured residents of Chester Castle, Haughton Grove, Shettle Wood and nearby communities that they will have water flowing from their pipes by March 10. There has been a disrupt...

RUNAWAY BAY, St Ann - February 26 was the last time relatives of 65-year-old Clyde Taylor saw or heard from him. This has been the longest they have not been in touch with him and it has been an agonising wait for news of his whereabout...

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...

The National Water Commission (NWC) has rubbished the allegation by mayor of Lucea Sheridan Samuels that it is a "menace to the society".During a recent meeting of the Hanover Municipal Corporation, Samuels led the charge as councillors...

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 XIV ...

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 ...