MONTEGO BAY, St James - When Reverend Howard Nelson was six years old, his father put a gun in his hand and let him pull the trigger during a new year's salute. His father, said the man who now shepherds members at Lilliput New Testamen...

On Thursday the Jamaica Observer identified this woman, Keisha Cunningham, as a relative of the late Donald "Tabby Diamond" Shaw, lead singer of reggae group Mighty Diamonds, in our story about his murder. The Observer has learnt that M...

Gordon "Butch" Stewart did not live to see his dream realised, but the first major world airline will touch down in seven months' time at Ian Fleming International Airport in St Mary, named after the famous author of the fictional Jame...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Faced with a shortage of trained workers and a boom expected in the local hospitality industry over the next three years, the tourism ministry is offering free certification courses as it pulls out all the stops ...

Today is the 91st day of 2022. There are 274 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2004: Google launches Gmail, and five years later the number of people using the e-mail service surpassed one billion. OTHER EVENTS1572: Start of Dutch...

Responding to a Jamaica Observer expose on "depressed cops", the Seventh-day Adventist Church has presented a cheque for $300,000 to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Chaplaincy branch to help meet the psychological, emotional, mora...

"Swimming against the tide" is how the youth arm of the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) - the PNPYO - has described a Jamaica Observer editorial cautioning against removing the United Kingdom Privy Council as Jamaica's final c...

WITH less than three weeks for the recommendation of mask-wearing in enclosed spaces to be lifted, teachers and students have shared mixed responses about adhering to the novel coronavirus pandemic protocol in classrooms. Since March 18...

Former Police Commissioner Hardley Lewin has urged the Government to rethink imposing states of public emergencies (SOEs) for extended periods and to instead focus on seriously disrupting the migration of criminals."We have carefully n...

Don't play chicken with politiciansThe agriculture ministry has called for interested people to apply for permits to import chicken backs and legs. No politician should be granted any permits to import chicken parts. We have had a bad h...

ACCORDING to the latest edition of the Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions (JSLC), poverty rates at the national level had remained stable up to 2019.The survey revealed that both the national prevalence of poverty and extreme (food) po...

MILE GULLY, Manchester - With prostate cancer being the leading cause of death among Jamaican men in the cancer category, more males are being encouraged to have regular checks for abnormalities in the prostate.Speaking at the Mile Gull...

Residents of Cedar Grove Estate in St Catherine are opposing to the construction of a market near to the community, saying it will pose safety and health risks.Cedar Grove Estate Citizens' Association said it received confirmation from ...

MONTPELLIER, St James - Cuba's Ambassador to Jamaica Fermîn Gabriel Quiñones Sanchez says his country remains committed to supporting the people of Jamaica despite the effect the six-decade-long US embargo has had on the Spanish-speak...

MAY PEN, Clarendon - Regional operations manager for the Southern Parks and Markets (SPM) Waste Management Edward Muir says the prevalence of crime in this south-central town is affecting the removal of solid waste.On Tuesday, Muir told...

AGRICULTURE and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr on Tuesday departed the island to participate in the 37th Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean, which is bei...

THE Geneva-based International Labour Organization (ILO) has announced the election of the first African, Gilbert F Houngbo of Togo, to head the United Nations agency as its next director general.Houngbo is currently president of the In...

REAR Admiral Hardley Lewin, a former commissioner of police, who also served as chief of staff of the Jamaica Defence Force, said "it is no secret that there are criminals in the constabulary force", and called Wednesday for a "clean sw...

CALABAR High School and St Jago High School will showdown for the final of the 2022 Schools' Challenge Quiz today. Both team captains - Matthew Aiken of Calabar and Leroy Cassanova of St Jago - are ecstatic their teams have advanced to ...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - There is a gathering storm over the appointment of a new board of management for St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS).Members of the STETHS fraternity are incensed that there was no consultation with th...

POLICE investigators along with relatives and close friends of murdered Mighty Diamonds lead singer, Donald Shaw, popularly known as "Tabby Diamond", have the unwanted task of piecing together a puzzle to the mystery behind the shooting...

JAMAICA is set to receive a US$30 million dollar investment after Prime Minister Andrew Holness and US Vice-President Kamala Harris met on Wednesday in the first of several meetings with US top officials in Washington, DC this week.Harr...

AMIDST concerns raised by rights watchdog Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) about utterances by Prime Minister Andrew Holness indicating support for the reimposition of the death penalty, Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene M...

CHAPELTON, Clarendon - Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang is optimistic that by providing youngsters with jobs that pay $50,000 weekly, in some cases, the Government will be able to break the cycle of continuous criminal acti...

Patricia Jenkins Jarrett Wright, affectionately known by many as 'PJ', has died. Wright passed at her Montego Bay home on the morning of Wednesday, March 30. She was 69.Wright, who revolutionised the hair, beauty, fashion and style ind...

Supreme Ventures Limited (SVL) has signed an agreement with education and technology company EduFocal which will allow its customers to top up their EduFocal accounts through SVL's 'ChargeUp' platform.EduFocal is an online learning and ...

ROGERS Land Development Limited and its director, Richard Rogers, was last week fined $1.9 million in the Sutton Street Tax Court for making a false declaration, a breach of Section 99 (1) of the Income Tax Act.The company and its direc...

THREE UN agencies and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) Wednesday launched a new effort to lessen the impact of COVID-19 on the most vulnerable and to enhance Jamaica's social protection system to better respond to futur...

TORTUGA International has officially opened its retail kiosk inside Sangster International Airport (SIA) in St James.The opening signifies a culmination of a two-year project which supports the company's new thrust into international ma...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - With residents of this parish blaming stray animals for everything from traffic mishaps to unwelcome foraging in farmers' fields and eating clothing hung out to dry, one locally elected official is calling...

Today is the 90th day of 2021. There are 275 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1995: Tejano singing star Selena, 23, is shot to death in Corpus Christi, Texas, by founder of her fan club. Yolanda Saldivar is later convicted of murd...

After 13 years as the chief executive officer of the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Donna-Marie Rowe is being sent home as part of what Jamaica Observer sources say is a shake-up of the Government's communication agencies."I can c...

While making it clear that he is not on the side of criminal cops, Jamaica Police Federation Chairman Corporal Rohan James is insisting that the Government has made its employees "susceptible" to illegal activities because of the less t...

Merl Grove High School Principal Dr Marjorie Fullerton has been diagnosed with breast cancer, "frightening news" that coincided with her dismissal by the board of the church-run all-girls institution, impeccable Jamaica Observer source...

SANDALS Resorts International Executive Chairman Adam Stewart and other company executives, alongside local tourism industry partners, held a series of high-level meetings with international airline partners recently as the global trave...

Residents of Maverley in St Andrew believe gunmen capitalised on the absence of street lights last week Thursday when they invaded the community, killing three people and injuring three others.Residents Tuesday claimed the Jamaica Pubic...

JAMAICANS are being urged to support the 'Gift of Life Art Auction' which is being held in collaboration with the Caring for Miracles and Malia Brown Foundation on Saturday. Proceeds from the art auction will be used to purchase life-sa...

FORMER Prime Minister P J Patterson expressed joy on Tuesday as his alma mater, Calabar High School, officially opened its newly constructed entrance named in his honour."This is one of the happiest and proudest days in my entire life,"...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Residents of Redberry, Hampton Road and Trinity in Manchester have continued to disrupt the construction of the US$188-million May Pen to Williamsfield leg of Highway 2000, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHE...

LEONARD Campbell is beloved and known throughout Hertford, Westmoreland, and its environs as the man who raised the community. Surrounded by the very children he raised and other well-wishers, Campbell rang in his 100th birthday at his ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Despite myriad challenges facing the education sector recently, the Ministry of Education has declared a steely resolve to afford students across the island the opportunity to realise their full academic potentia...

TWENTY-FIVE small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will take the journey through a capacity-building experience in the 2022 edition of the Scotiabank Vision Achiever (SVA) Programme.The participants, who represent a cross section of ...

Dear Mr Brown,I heard that Canadians could travel via plane to Canada. However, my friend told me that there is currently a vaccine mandate for travel. Can you advise me please?-DDDear DD:I will do my best to explain what may appear to ...

JAMAICAN-AMERICAN Alison Smith, who has smashed a near century-old tradition in Florida's Broward Country Bar Association (BCBA) by becoming the first black woman to be elected president since its founding in 1925, is preparing to take ...

On a sultry Saturday evening, the last rays of the sun burst through the waning clouds to beam down on the lush plains of St Elizabeth, as seen from the Spur Tree Road at the weekend. The idyllic view was captured by amateur photographe...

Even in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic, 18,000 workers travelled from Jamaica to support the US agriculture and services sectors last year; a record for US Embassy Jamaica. The top 10 states that employ H-2 Jamaican worker...

THE word 'nuclear' often triggers fear. However, there are comforting prospects in atomic power, which many countries have started to tap into. In Jamaica, there is the International Centre for Environmental and Nuclear Sciences (ICENS)...

Today is the 89th day of 2022. There are 276 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTOTHER EVENTS1822: Florida becomes a United States territory.1842: Ether is used as anaesthetic for the first time, by Dr Crawford Long in the US.1867: U...

BERLIN, Germany (AP) - The world must take "radical action" to shift away from fossil fuels, including investing US$5.7 trillion annually in solar, wind and other forms of clean power this decade to ensure that global warming doesn't pa...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russia announced Tuesday it will "fundamentally" scale back military operations near Ukraine's capital and a northern city, as talks to end the grinding war brought the outlines of a possible deal into view.Deputy D...