Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Tuesday denied Opposition Leader Mark Golding's accusation that he influenced the decision to place the image of late Prime Minister Edward Seaga with that of his late political rival Michael Manley on t...

Today is the 75th day of 2022. There are 290 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2014: Fireworks explode and Russian flags flutter above jubilant crowds after residents in Crimea vote overwhelmingly to secede from Ukraine and join Ru...

BRUSSELS (AP) - Pure-bred horses, truffles, a soccer club owner and a media company chief.They were among the targets of new European Union (EU) sanctions against Russia on Tuesday that sought to deny oligarchs their love of luxury and ...

THE Barita Foundation has donated 310 tablets and 15 laptops, valued at $10 million, to schools under the Ministry of Education's 'One laptop or tablet per child' initiative. The schools to benefit from the donation are Tivoli Gardens H...

THE Alpha School of Music at the Alpha Institute will expand its training programme with the addition of a newly funded building by the Digicel Foundation in honour of the late, great Lennie Hibbert.The building will house the school's ...

The Jamaican Economy Panel (JEP) in its latest round of monthly discussions has said that making the country's food system more sustainable will require greater levels of investment in training and infrastructure.The JEP, through its pa...

BEIJING, China (AP) - Chinese authorities on Tuesday tightened antivirus controls at ports, raising the risk of trade disruptions after some auto and electronics factories shut down as the Government fights novel coronavirus outbreaks.S...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - In the wake of increased visitor arrivals, which are on par with pre-COVID-19 figures for the month of March, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says a number of stakeholders who were negatively impacted by the nov...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - The sight and sound of motor vehicles whizzing past the main entrance at Port Maria Primary School are stark reminders of how paramount, yet risky, is Phillip Brown's job.And the 60-year-old doesn't take it lightly...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Homer Davis, the minister with responsibility for coordinating special projects and major developments in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), says there could be a traffic nightmare for motorists over the thr...

NEGRIL, Westmoreland - Hotelier and president of the Negril Chamber of Commerce, Richard Wallace, is keeping a watchful eye on rising prices spawned by the ongoing conflict in the Ukraine, and is hoping the fighting will be short-lived....

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - As a child, an impressionable Levor "Willie" Bryan dreamed of being many things but a shoemaker was never one of them.All that changed when he was 16. That's when he got a summer job working with a well-known shoemak...

CHILD psychologist Dr Orlean Brown-Earle is warning parents and teachers to be on the lookout for signs of separation anxiety in children as face-to-face classes resume.Brown-Earle told the Jamaica Observer that this type of anxiety may...

SYLVIA Lyn celebrated her 100th birthday last Wednesday, but the sprightly centenarian said she feels half her age."I feel the same way as if I would be in my 50s; it's just that the legs can't carry me like before but I don't mind," Ly...

Guardian Life's Akeem Robinson (left), estate officer of Guardian Life's Facilities Department, plays guardian angel to a student of the Gregory Park Basic School as he eagerly reaches out for a package of sanitation supplies while his ...

AFTER numerous complaints about a sewage nuisance that was affecting stores, streetside vendors and pedestrians on Half-Way-Tree Road in the vicinity of the Cross Roads Meat Market, the authorities have finally effected the repairs.The ...

Teachers who have returned to school for face-to-face classes voiced serious concerns ranging from a difficulty to get back on track, personal safety, students' work attitude, poor Internet connection, and inadequate resources, accordi...

The Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) on Monday said it has served notice of industrial action by unionised staff at Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) unless certain issues are addressed.According to the union's Vice-President...

A former lawman who in 2017 bartered with an alleged top flight member of the Klansman gang for two of the criminal outfit's best rifles in return for the release of reputed leader Andre "Blackman" Bryan on Monday defended his actions, ...

SECURITY expert Robert Finzi-Smith has recommended that Sunday morning's armed robbery of Ibex Global employees on a staff bus in St Andrew be used as a prompt to reopen doors to the strategic utilisation of decoy special operations pol...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - One of Trinidad and Tobagos's leading writers, researchers and political scientists, Professor Selwyn Ryan, has died.According to local reports, Professor Ryan passed away on Sunday morning.Following news...

Today is the 74th day of 2022. There are 291 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1937: The world's first blood bank is established at Chicago's Cook County Hospital by Dr Bernard Fantus. It is a breakthrough for surgical procedures a...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Melrose Hill Yam Park, popularly known for roast yam and salt fish sold by vendors, is expected to undergo major renovation and expansion following the signing of a management contract on Friday.The Manchester...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Tired of seeing abandoned cars littering this parish, one councillor has suggested that the State-run waste collection agency partner with scrap metal companies to find a solution. During last Thursday's monthly ...

MORANT BAY, St Thomas - With drivers they are trying to hire failing to pass the driving test and mechanical issues hitting trucks hired from the private sector, Metropolitan Parks and Markets (MPM) Waste Management Limited is having a ...

SPALDING, Clarendon - Knox College has fast-tracked plans to construct a $200-million state-of-the-art building due to an increase in demand for its sixth-form programme, according to Principal Alexander Bourne.The infrastructure is to ...

Lasana Turner-Francis, the stepmother of Morant Bay High School student Michael Jackson, has issued a desperate plea for blood donations to help save the 15-year-old who has been in intensive care at Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) sinc...

Today is the 72nd day of 2022. There are 293 days left in the year.TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS1964: A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin of US President John F Kennedy, in November 196...

Amidst raging debate over the images of national heroes and late prime ministers on new banknotes set to be released this year as the country marks its 60th anniversary of Independence, one bill has found favour with Rastafarians and P...

The town Black River in St Elizabeth was the first in the island to receive electricity in 1893 in a house named 'Waterloo' owned by the Leyden family. This was long before many homes in the United States had electric power. In fact, h...

MORE than 50 teams participated in the inaugural staging of Sigma's Team 'Bubble' Run on Sunday, giving the organisers reason to declare it a success."We are elated that we got to do this in an even bigger way this year. And even though...

FINAL year law students at University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) are on tenterhooks due to the uncertainity of the assessment method to be used for their matriculation to Norman Manley Law School (NMLS).Former representative for the...

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) - Russian police detained more than 800 people for protesting Moscow's "military operation" in Ukraine Sunday, as the conflict continues for a third week.OVD-Info, which monitors arrests during protests, said police...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) - Bermuda says it is suspending certification of Russian planes licensed in the British overseas territory due to sanctions on Moscow, likely impacting hundreds of Russian commercial aircraft around t...

Petrojam has said that all efforts are being made to ensure uninterrupted fuel supply during the Russia-Ukraine war.According to General Manager Winston Watson, current supply arrangements remain intact and the refinery is actively purs...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - St Mary Municipal Corporation Chairman Councillor Richard Creary has instructed his team to start demolishing illegal buildings at an early stage of construction, instead of merely serving notices on the owners."Th...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - There's another attempt being made to have a footbridge swinging once again across the Otram River, which runs through this coastal town and sometimes contributes to widespread flooding.The previous pedestrian brid...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - After an unsuccessful attempt to pass a resolution that would see central Government withholding payments to the State-run National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), People's National Party (PNP) councillors...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Police here are reporting a 32 per cent increase in major crimes committed in this south-central parish between January 1 and March 9 when compared to the corresponding period last year.Speaking at last Thursday...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) - Barack Obama has tested positive for a mild case of COVID-19, US president said on his Twitter account Sunday."I've had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise," Obama t...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) - UN agencies on Sunday called for an immediate ceasefire and an end to attacks on health-care professionals and facilities in Ukraine, which have killed a dozen people, describing them as acts of "unconscionab...

One thought was foremost in Jadyn Francis's mind as she participated in the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Achievers' Function last Friday. "I thought about how grandma would feel. I know she would be very proud of me for pushing ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Jamaicans are being encouraged to do yearly screenings as part of a regime to maintain awareness of their risk of getting kidney disease.Nephrology nurse manager at Mandeville Regional Hospital Marika Davis-Mill...

KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) - Conflict talks between Russia and Ukraine are set to resume today, negotiators and the Kremlin have said, after both sides hailed progress at earlier rounds aimed at ending more than two weeks of fighting.The talks...

While this farmer is probably not able to boast about his 'Four Gros Michel, an' four Lacatan', like the banana man in Evan Jones' famous poem, he is no doubt proud of his plantains as he walks home in Walkers Wood, St Ann, last week.(P...

Farming is a legitimate source of income that has helped many Caribbean families out of financial struggles over the past decades. However, today, climate change casts a dark cloud over agriculture where water security is concerned.Car...

Dr Courtney Palmer (right) is congratulated ahead of his installation as the new district grand master of The District Grand Lodge of Jamaica on Saturday by Grand Master Mason William Ramsay McGhee, head of The Grand Lodge of Scotland. ...

The family of 12-year-old Phylisa Prussia is disappointed.It follows a report coming out of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) that information obtained in respect of the abduction of a female student last Thursday...

There had been calls for his resignation, but when Robert "Bobby" Montague announced it late Friday night, many were surprised.Even a WhatsApp message that he sent to those in his group was met with cynicism, some even saying that it w...

It is costing the Government over half a billion dollars annually to feed inmates at the island's correctional facilities.Figures obtained by the Jamaica Observer showed that in 2020 it cost $13,000 to feed one inmate per month and the ...