Meta urges Australia to change teen social media ban
International News, ...
Meta urges Australia to change teen social media ban
January 12 08:06 AM
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Tech giant Meta urged Australia on Monday to rethink its world-first social media ban for under-16s, while reporting that it...
Gold hits record high, dollar falls as US targets Fed
International News, ...
Gold hits record high, dollar falls as US targets Fed
January 12 07:56 AM
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The dollar weakened and gold hit a record high Monday as investors digested news that the United States (US) Justice De...
MBU and Treasure Beach score wins in second round of JPL
Football, ...
MBU and Treasure Beach score wins in second round of JPL
January 12 07:44 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Leaders Montego Bay United (MBU) and Treasure Beach were the only winners in Sunday’s set of second-round games in the Jamaica Pre...
Sad final trip
News
Sad final trip
BY KASEY WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter kaseyw@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12 12:30 AM
Sad final trip
Late RJRGleaner CEO did not seek applause
News
Late RJRGleaner CEO did not seek applause
Anthony Smith remembered for weighing decisions carefully, balancing firmness and humanity
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12 12:28 AM
Late RJRGleaner CEO did not seek applause
Lawyer calls for permanent fix
News
Lawyer calls for permanent fix
...suggests copying Belize’s Criminal Justice Board
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12 12:26 AM
Lawyer calls for permanent fix
Let them smell their ‘flowers’
Entertainment, ...
Let them smell their ‘flowers’
Promoter echoes call to honour reggae stalwarts before they pass on
BY HOWARD CAMPBELL Observer senior writer entertainment@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12 12:26 AM
Let them smell their ‘flowers’

Columns

Columns
Has the Caribbean benefited from EPA with Europe after a year?
Ronald Sanders 
April 17, 2010
The European Commission (EC) will be holding a symposium on April 22 and 23 on the year-old Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European ...
Columns
Mout mek fi talk
Tamara Scott Williams 
April 17, 2010
Dr Peter Phillips is right: "If we back up and go into our houses, we would have surrendered our rights to criminals." He's right. He's just a little ...
Resilient Poland is not defeated
Columns
Resilient Poland is not defeated
KEEBLE McFARLANE 
April 16, 2010
'Jeszcze Polska nie zgine ?a' - opening words of the Polish national anthem THE Polish people have an interesting way to describe winning - "not losin...
Columns
Cut out the selective media reporting
April 16, 2010
AT the recent United Nations Donor Conference on Haiti, Cuba announced a programme to rebuild the country's entire National Health Service. Although t...
Showering with the enemy
Columns
Showering with the enemy
Barbara Gloudon 
April 15, 2010
LOOK HERE NOW... You know how many days I have yearned - yes, yearned - to hear that much-overlooked phrase, "Scattered showers over high ground?" But...
Columns
It’s only money!
Franklin Johnston 
April 15, 2010
I first heard this phrase as a young worker, obeyed my heart and helped a friend; I lost my savings and my friend. He convinced me that "it's only mon...
Columns
True friendship
Celta Kirkland 
April 15, 2010
JOHN 15:12-14: "This is my commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you. You are my friends, if you do whatsoever I command you. "Friend...
Columns
Too many Jamaican men are sexual predators
MARK WIGNALL 
April 14, 2010
The alerts on my phone buzz with increasing regularity and the pattern has become quite plain. Usually the girl missing averages 14 years old and the ...
Columns
Unacceptable no matter who does it
Michael Burke 
April 14, 2010
Paedophilia and wilful homosexual practice are sins and totally unacceptable no matter who does it or where it happens. The international media has bo...
Columns
The new scramble for Africa
FRANKLIN W KNIGHT 
April 13, 2010
FOR the past decade there has been a new scramble for Africa. Scrambling for Africa is nothing new. It reached its apogee in 1884 when 13 European pow...
Columns
We need a productive, creative private sector
H Dale ANDERSON 
April 13, 2010
At this critical stage in the life of our country there is an overwhelming national dependence on the business sector as "the engine of growth". As th...
Columns
The reality of faith
Celta Kirkland 
April 13, 2010
Reflections in Prayer HEBREWS 11:1-2: "What is faith? It is the confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen. It is the evidence of th...
Politricks or politics?
Columns
Politricks or politics?
Lloyd B Smith 
April 12, 2010
It is not that politics is a bad thing in itself. It is that politicians have corrupted it. Confused? So am I every time I hear some of our politician...
Columns
Mr Prime Minister, stop the intellectual skylarking
Chris Burns 
April 11, 2010
COME to think of it, it was not so long ago that Bruce Golding accused his predecessors of gross incompetence and whipped them into schoolboyish submi...
Bev Manley and her seers
Columns
Bev Manley and her seers
Jean Lowrie-Chin 
April 11, 2010
The news of the day is the stuff of suspense and high drama, and our media houses have been doing a pretty good job of capturing it. We should remembe...
Columns
Support Obama: It’s in our interest
Ronald Sanders 
April 10, 2010
US President Barack Obama is showing that he is worthy of the Nobel Prize for Peace that he received late last year amid criticism that he had done no...
Columns
Nostalgia: memories of a softer lifestyle
James Moss-Solomon 
April 10, 2010
I am writing this from Canada, where making an adjustment in lifestyle is not an easy task. No-smoking zones are respected and people speak quietly no...
Columns
US-Russia nuclear treaty focuses on the past threats
BY ROBERT BURNS AP National Security writer 
April 10, 2010
The new US-Russian atomic weapons treaty, hailed by both sides as a historic step in arms control, focuses on relics of the past and not the suitcase ...
Columns
PNP revving its engine, but going nowhere
MARK WIGNALL 
April 10, 2010
If we should assume that the widespread perception of poor performance by the present administration is a bitter pill that we will have to swallow for...
Columns
That 800-pound gorilla in the room, again
CLAUDE ROBINSON 
April 10, 2010
JUST when we thought the case of lawyers not knowing who their clients are couldn't get any 'curious-er', Information Minister Daryl Vaz and attorney-...
Columns
A Matter of Public Policy
BY DR DERRICK AARONS 
April 10, 2010
AFTER hearing numerous submissions on the issue, the Parliamentary Committee examining the recommendations by the Abortion Policy Review Advisory Grou...

Polls

Recent Posts

Sad final trip
News
Sad final trip
BY KASEY WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter kaseyw@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12, 2026
Sad final trip
Late RJRGleaner CEO did not seek applause
News
Late RJRGleaner CEO did not seek applause
Anthony Smith remembered for weighing decisions carefully, balancing firmness and humanity
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12, 2026
Late RJRGleaner CEO did not seek applause

Archives

Logo Jamaica Observer
Breaking news from the premier Jamaican newspaper, the Jamaica Observer. Follow Jamaican news online for free and stay informed on what's happening in the Caribbean
Featured Tags
Categories
Ads
img
Jamaica Observer, © All Rights Reserved