Edwin Allen High School past student Calvin Taylor (front left) shakes hands with the school's track and field Head Coach Michael Dyke, while presenting a US$2,000 cheque to help the track and field programme for the girls' team on Tues...

Council of Voluntary Social Services (CVSS) Programmes Manager AnnMarie Kirlew Williams (left), and Executive Director Nancy Pinchas accept a symbolic cheque for $250,000 from Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) Executive Di...

NEGRIL, Westmoreland - A distraught mother whose pregnant 24-year-old daughter was among three people killed in two western parishes Wednesday night wants to see the resumption of hanging in Jamaica. At the same time, she says she will ...

THE board of management of Merl Grove High School (MGHS) has voted to dismiss Principal Dr Marjorie Fullerton after a recommendation by the school's Personnel Committee, Jamaica Observer sources said Thursday night.The vote was taken at...

Former Haitian Senator Joseph Joel John on Thursday agreed to be extradited to the United States but expressed concern about leaving his wife and children behind.However, through an interpreter, it was explained that he will not be sen...

RACE COURSE, Clarendon - Collin Walters struggled to accept that his two granddaughters, mere toddlers, had died inside what was supposed to be a safe place - their house in Race Course, Clarendon. The fact that he lives next door has o...

DURHAM GAP, Portland - Residents of Duraham Gap breathed a collective sigh of relief on Thursday after news spread that the police had captured Davian Bryan, the man labelled as the parish's most wanted and the suspect in last October's...

THE official visit to Jamaica by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, which sparked a protest by scores of people in front of the British High Commission in St Andrew on Tuesday, ended on Thursday without a formal apology from Prince Will...

Today is the 84th day of 2021. There are 281 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1958: The first Federal Elections Are held in the West Indies. OTHER EVENTS1305: The Arena (or Scrovegni) Chapel, containing frescoes by Giotto, is con...

A prince unmaskedI was somewhat bemused watching the visiting Prince William and Duchess Kate doing the rounds of their tour here without masks. Interestingly, nobody seemed to care. If I'm being honest, I don't have a problem with it. ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - With nearly half of the police youth clubs in this south-central parish dormant plus a worrying crime trend, young people are being recruited as members to strengthen the crime-reduction initiative.Manchester ha...

MINISTER of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke says that the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), without prompting, had raised his interest in upgrading the local banknotes."The Bank of Jamaica, in its independent view and without prompt...

MINIwe said yesterday that no amount of "protestation or posturing" can make Opposition Leader Mark Golding's claim of a $99- billion projected tax revenue windfall in 2022/23 accurate."The Opposition leader stated in his budget present...

SISTERS Janet and Johan Ferguson have lived through traumatic experiences that started when they were as young as six years old and which resulted in teenage pregnancies and homelessness.Like it was yesterday, Janet remembers, at that t...

FAIRY HILL, Portland - Users of Winnifred Beach didn't mince words during a recent meeting with the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) to discuss plans for developing their beloved beach that has a certain rustic charm.Area residents, forei...

HIGHGATE, St Mary - Special needs students have not been left out of a recruitment drive to boost the ranks of the Jamaica Combined Cadet Force (JCCF), which now has between 3,000 and 4,000 cadets in high schools across the country and ...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - With this south-central parish having the highest rate of deforestation in the country, a 10-acre arboretum is to be established on lands at the Jamaica Deaf Village in Shooters Hill, a few miles north-east of h...

Less than one week after he told Parliament that an advisory committee is to be established to lead Jamaica away from its status as a constitutional monarchy, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has sent a direct message to Windsor Castle tha...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Doctors at the State-run Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay have expressed fright at the low levels of productivity there due to a "chronic shortage of nurses"."The nurses are leaving like flies; they are ...

Today is the 83rd day of 2022. There are 282 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1603: Crowns of England and Scotland are joined under James VI of Scotland, who begins reign as James I upon death of Queen Elizabeth I. OTHER EVENTS12...

ChannelPro has partnered with the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) as a business development organization (BDO) under the Voucher for Technical Assistance (VTA) and the DBJ Serve Jamaica programmes.The DBJ, through the Ministry of Fina...

CHIEF Justice Bryan Sykes on Wednesday chided the police and the Crown, in the trial involving 33 alleged members of the deadly Klansman Gang, for bungling its case in the handling of cellular phone call data records, which are being co...

AFTER being overworked for roughly two years during the novel coronavirus pandemic, star-struck nursing staff at the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine on Wednesday experienced euphoria during a historic visit to the institution by t...

IT was a birthday to remember for four-year-old Natalia Young, who interacted with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Prince William and Kate during their visit to Shortwood Teachers' College in St Andrew on Wednesday.While Natalia, who ...

Grenada on Tuesday announced a lifting of some restrictions under its Quarantine COVID Regulations that will ease requirements for travellers to that eastern Caribbean country.Effective April 4, 2022, both vaccinated and unvaccinated t...

POLICE investigators are now awaiting the results of a post-mortem as they probe the death of a days-old infant in Portmore, St Catherine.Jamaica Observer sources say that on Monday the police were called to a store in the Portmore Mall...

The Integrity Commission has cleared Minister of Culture Olivia "Babsy" Grange of any wrongdoing in the awarding of a multimillion-dollar contract to the business partner of one her special advisors for Jamaica's 55th birthday Independ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States(AP) - Madeleine Albright, a child refugee from Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated eastern Europe who rose to become the 1st female US secretary of state and a mentor to many current and former American statesm...

MADRID, Spain (AP) - Across Europe, governments are slashing fuel taxes and doling out tens of billions to help consumers, truckers, farmers and others cope with spiking energy prices made worse by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.But it's ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - NATO estimated on Wednesday that 7,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in four weeks of war in Ukraine, where ferocious fighting by the country's fast-moving defenders has denied Moscow the lightning vic...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge William and Kate try their hands at drumming during a session with the Binghistra drummers at Trench Town Culture Yard on Tuesday. (Photo: Joseph Wellington)Jawari Deslandes waves two flags as he partic...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny - Commander of the Trelawny Police Division Superintendent Carlos Russell has issued a stern warning to students at William Knibb Memorial High School not to take revenge for the fatal stabbing of 16-year-old student ...

Sharply contrasting reactions emanated from Jamaicans in the capital city on Tuesday as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge William and Catherine, arrived here for a three-day visit that has brought to the fore the extent to which the cou...

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...

A 21-gun salute signalled the approach of the Royal Airforce VIP Airbus carrying the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Prince William and his wife Kate Tuesday at Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston.The final round in the salute...

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 ...

TAX revenues, says Dr Nigel Clarke, are projected to grow by $65 billion during 2022/23, and not the $99 billion announced by Leader of Opposition Mark Golding in his budget presentation in Parliament last week Thursday.Dr Clarke, minis...

English professional footballer Raheem Sterling (left) is taken on a tour of JN Group's corporate office on Belmont Road, St Andrew, Tuesday morning by JN Group CEO Earl Jarrett.Sterling, who was born in Jamaica to Jamaican parents, was...

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is predicting that the country could experience similar tragedies to Monday's killing of a 16-year-old grade 10 student in Trelawny by his peer if mental health issues, which will be th...

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...

Dear Mr Brown,I heard that Canada has stopped demanding COVID-19 tests to enter Canada. I am wondering if that applies to non-vaccinated persons as well.-TLDear TL:The Government of Canada recently announced that effective April 1, 2022...

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...

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...