APPROXIMATELY 1,500 more Jamaicans will be gaining employment, as global service provider itel sets eyes on opening a new location at Chalmers Avenue, off Molynes Road, St Andrew in May."This year is itel's 10th anniversary and as we co...

THE Government has decided to cushion the impact of the rising cost of electricity fuelled by increased oil prices for more than 457,000 vulnerable Jamaicans.Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke, in making the anno...

Enthusiastic residents of Trench Town, the low-income community that was home to Jamaica's most famous musical star, Bob Marley, on Tuesday extended a warm welcome to Prince William and his wife Kate hours after a number of other Jamaic...

Today is the 82nd day of 2022. There are 283 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2010: In a major triumph for his presidency, a jubilant Barack Obama signs a massive, nearly US$1-trillion health-care overhaul that will for the first ...

DARLISTON, Westmoreland - Friends and family of a 21-year-old man who escaped death during an attack that left two others dead Monday night are adamant that he did not deserve to be shot. His mother is particularly distraught yet thankf...

MEDYKA, Poland (AP) - The president of Poland compared Russia's attacks on Ukraine to Nazi forces during World War II, saying Tuesday that besieged Mariupol looks like Warsaw in 1944 after the Germans bombed houses and killed civilians ...

DROHOBYCH, Ukraine (AP) - The theatre was empty. The seats were covered against dust. But it was a moment of drama that Alla Shkondina had prepared for all her life."There is a saying that when the guns sound, the muses are silent," the...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - As the Government looks towards expanding the recently resumed passenger rail service to more parishes across the country, Minister of Transport and Mining Audley Shaw has issued a warning to those who have built st...

PRINCIPAL of Allman Town Primary School Latoya Nesbeth has commended the young organisers of a book drive from which the students at her central Kingston-based institution have benefited.Cofounders of 'Books For Kids Ja', 17-year-old co...

BERLIN, Germany (AP) - Germany's Parliament on Tuesday paid tribute to Boris Romanchenko, who survived several Nazi concentration camps during World War II but was killed last week during an attack in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. He w...

BERLIN (AP) - Ukrainian refugee Mariia Kerashchenko tightly clasped the hands of her two children as she walked them through the courtyard of a seedy Berlin building, up a graffiti-covered stairway, and into a modern, sunlit classroom.H...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - For the three decades of bauxite mining available from dwindling resources, Minister of Transport and Mining Audley Shaw has cautioned that extracting the ore must be done in a way that does not harm people or the e...

OCHI RIOS, St Ann - Building a solid foundation is what the Sandals and Beaches Resort brand has been doing for many years in Jamaica and the Caribbean. One team member who has committed himself to building and maintaining these standar...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - A drive to vaccinate more than nine million children against polio has been launched this week in four countries in southern and eastern Africa after an outbreak was confirmed in Malawi.The urgent vaccinat...

WITH jury trials on the cusp of resumption, president of the Jamaican Bar Association Alexander Williams is calling for priority to be given to "older murder cases" for which he says a backlog has been created during the pandemic years....

MARTHA BRAE, Trelawny - A week after parents admitted to the Sunday Observer that they encourage their children to take weapons to school to defend themselves while heading home, a 16-year-old grade 10 student at William Knibb Memorial ...

These scenes outside the Cross Roads Market last week speak to the need for attention to be given to sanitation and waste management.

Today is the 81st day of 2022. There are 284 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1991: High school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of recruiting her teenage lover and his friends to kill her husband, Gregory, is convicted in Exeter,...

MINISTER of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke will respond to fiscal and other issues raised by the Opposition when he closes the budget debate Tuesday afternoon at Gordon House.At end of Dr Clarke's presentation, which is ...

JUNCTION, St Elizabeth - Two political representatives in this south-central parish on Monday condemned the barbaric murder of 29-year-old Jermaine "Jimbo" Green and the sexual assault of his partner during a robbery in Nembhard Town,...

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) - A Russian court on Monday banned Facebook and Instagram as "extremist", part of sweeping efforts by Moscow to crack down on social media during the conflict in Ukraine.The Russian authorities have accused US te...

THE relatives and close friends of 15-year-old St Thomas crash victim, Michael Jackson, are elated that the teen emerged from a coma last week Tuesday, following a March 5 motor vehicle crash on the Trinity Ville main road in the parish...

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) - As Mariupol's defenders held out Monday against Russian demands that they surrender, the number of bodies in the rubble of the bombarded and encircled Ukrainian city remained shrouded in uncertainty, the full extent...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Thirty years after going public with her story of abduction, rape and forced prostitution by Japan's wartime military, Lee Yong-soo fears she's running out of time to get closure to her ordeal.The 93-year-old i...

WASHINGTON,DC, United States - High-risk COVID-19 patients now have new treatments they can take at home to stay out of the hospital - if doctors get the pills to them fast enough.Health systems around the country are rushing out same-d...

BEIJING, China(AP) - A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday, officials said, setting off a forest fire visible from space in the country's worst air disas...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - The Senate Judiciary Committee opened Supreme Court confirmation hearings Monday, with Republicans promising pointed questions for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and Democrats full of praise for the fir...

PRESIDENT of the People's National Party (PNP) Opposition Leader Mark Golding has decided to attend the events planned during the official visit of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge Kate despite the party's stance on ditching ...

THE Andrew Holness Administration is adamant that the proposal from the Opposition for a cap on the special consumption tax (SCT) on fuel at US$67.50 per barrel is impractical and one that no responsible Jamaican Government would impose...

NEW YORK, United States (AP) - After Donald Trump was caught on video bragging about sexually assaulting women, Mike Pence stayed on his ticket. As the novel coronavirus ravaged the US, the then-vice president praised the Administration...

MEDYKA, Poland (AP) - Yulia Bondarieva spent 10 days in a basement as Russian planes flew over and bombs fell on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Having reached safety in Poland, Bondarieva's only wish now is for her twin sister in the be...

THE lobby group Advocates Network has planned a demonstration for the vicinity of the British High Commission in New Kingston today to back its demand for apologies and reparations for slavery from the British Government.The relatively ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United Sates (CMC) - Secretary General of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro and Assistant Secretary General Nestor Mendez Monday launched the 2022 Inter-American Week for People of African Descent in the A...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Member of Parliament for Westmoreland Western, Morland Wilson is optimistic that housing developments being planned for the parish will help address some of the social ills plaguing it. Several areas in hi...

ANGLICAN Archbishop of the West Indies Howard Gregory on Sunday asked the nation to guard against the erosion of democracy as the system of governance across the region and wider world, charging that there is danger when the Church avoi...

THE Court of Appeal on Friday gave its reasons for upholding the sentence and conviction of the former forklift operator who is serving life for clubbing a senior citizen to death before dismembering, burning and leaving her remains on ...

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness last Thursday listed a number of new projects which have led to "significant progress" in advancing the protection of the Cockpit Country Protected Area (CCPA).The prime minister told the House of Represent...

Today is the 80th day of 2022. There are 285 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1965: More than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by Rev Martin Luther King Jr begin a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.OTHER EVENTS1500: Fren...

JAMAICANS will definitely not be summoned to vote this year in a local government election.Prime Minister Andrew Holness made that declaration Sunday during an exclusive interview with the Jamaica Observer.The announcement by Holness la...

THE Sagicor Foundation, through the 24th staging of its annual Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run, has surpassed its target of $50 million to raise $52 million for its beneficiary this year - Kingston Public Hospital. The funds raised was anno...

WITH 86 per cent of educators in a recent survey agreeing that "teaching is more demanding" since the resumption of full school as the pandemic wears on, president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) Winston Smith is pledging the...

THE Vale Royal Talks - a mechanism for Jamaica's two major political parties to have bipartisan discussions on critical issues of national importance - resumed late last month, not at the historic Vale Royal property on Montrose Road, S...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has scoffed at claims that his Administration was pressured by "big businesses" to lift the protocols implemented under the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) to prevent the spread of the novel coronaviru...

HUNDREDS of students in early childhood institutions islandwide have stepped into the future of learning with smart boards provided by the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund.Ninety boards have been provided to 35 s...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Yemen's Houthi rebels unleashed one of their most intense barrages of drone and missile strikes on Saudi Arabia's critical energy facilities on Sunday, sparking a fire at one site and temporarily cutti...

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) - The heat on the train was as thick as the anxiety. Ukrainian survivors of one of the most brutal sieges in modern history were in the final minutes of their ride to relative safety.Some carried only what they had at...

A location has been selected in Gregory Park for the construction of a modern market in Portmore, St Catherine.Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie made the disclosure while addressing a community meeting ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Mayor of Mandeville and chairman of the Manchester Municipal Corporation, Donovan Mitchell says the proliferation of used car marts cannot be restricted in the south-central town."... If it is a legal entity tha...

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) - The authorities in Antigua and Barbuda have sentenced a Jamaican man to 10 years in prison on drug-related charges.The police reported that Everton Pinnock was convicted on three drug-related offences followin...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Decisions by the United Kingdom and Canada to remove COVID-19 testing for vaccinated people travelling to their countries have been welcomed by senior advisor and strategist in the Ministry of Tourism Delano Seiv...