Subscribe Login
Jamaica Observer
ePaper
The Edge 105 FM Radio Fyah 105 FM
Jamaica Observer
ePaper
The Edge 105 FM Radio Fyah 105 FM
    • Home
    • News
      • Latest News
      • Cartoon
      • International News
      • Central
      • North & East
      • Western
      • Environment
      • Health
      • #
    • Business
      • Social Love
    • Sports
      • Football
      • Basketball
      • Cricket
      • Horse Racing
      • World Champs
      • Commonwealth Games
      • FIFA World Cup 2022
      • Olympics
      • #
    • Entertainment
      • Music
      • Movies
      • Art & Culture
      • Bookends
      • #
    • Lifestyle
      • Page2
      • Food
      • Tuesday Style
      • Food Awards
      • JOL Takes Style Out
      • Design Week JA
      • Black Friday
      • #
    • All Woman
      • Home
      • Relationships
      • Features
      • Fashion
      • Fitness
      • Rights
      • Parenting
      • Advice
      • #
    • Obituaries
    • Classifieds
      • Employment
      • Property
      • Motor Vehicles
      • Place an Ad
      • Obituaries
    • More
      • Games
      • Elections
      • Jobs & Careers
      • Study Centre
      • Jnr Study Centre
      • Letters
      • Columns
      • Advertorial
      • Editorial
      • Supplements
      • Webinars
    • Home
    • News
      • Latest News
      • Cartoon
      • International News
      • Central
      • North & East
      • Western
      • Environment
      • Health
      • #
    • Business
      • Social Love
    • Sports
      • Football
      • Basketball
      • Cricket
      • Horse Racing
      • World Champs
      • Commonwealth Games
      • FIFA World Cup 2022
      • Olympics
      • #
    • Entertainment
      • Music
      • Movies
      • Art & Culture
      • Bookends
      • #
    • Lifestyle
      • Page2
      • Food
      • Tuesday Style
      • Food Awards
      • JOL Takes Style Out
      • Design Week JA
      • Black Friday
      • #
    • All Woman
      • Home
      • Relationships
      • Features
      • Fashion
      • Fitness
      • Rights
      • Parenting
      • Advice
      • #
    • Obituaries
    • Classifieds
      • Employment
      • Property
      • Motor Vehicles
      • Place an Ad
      • Obituaries
    • More
      • Games
      • Elections
      • Jobs & Careers
      • Study Centre
      • Jnr Study Centre
      • Letters
      • Columns
      • Advertorial
      • Editorial
      • Supplements
      • Webinars
  • Home
  • News
    • International News
  • Latest
  • Business
  • Cartoon
  • Games
  • Food Awards
  • Health
  • Entertainment
    • Bookends
  • Regional
  • Sports
    • Sports
    • World Cup
    • World Champs
    • Olympics
  • All Woman
  • Career & Education
  • Environment
  • Webinars
  • More
    • Football
    • Elections
    • Letters
    • Advertorial
    • Columns
    • Editorial
    • Supplements
  • Epaper
  • Classifieds
  • Design Week
Salada packs over 600 care packages for farmers affected by Hurricane Melissa
Latest News, ...
Salada packs over 600 care packages for farmers affected by Hurricane Melissa
January 6 08:17 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — More than 600 care packages were recently prepared by over 40 Salada Foods staff members at the company's headquarters in Kingston...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
48-hour curfew imposed in sections of Hanover
Latest News, ...
48-hour curfew imposed in sections of Hanover
January 6 07:24 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A 48-hour curfew has been imposed in sections of the Hanover Police Division. The curfew began at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, January 5, a...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
December air traffic rebounds after Hurricane Melissa, still below 2024 levels
Business, ...
December air traffic rebounds after Hurricane Melissa, still below 2024 levels
January 6 06:50 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Air travel through Sangster International Airport increased in December, signalling a partial recovery from the disruption caused ...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Trump considering military options to acquire Greenland
International News, ...
Trump considering military options to acquire Greenland
January 6 06:48 PM
WASHINGTON, United States -- United States President Donald Trump is exploring how to take control of Greenland and using the US military is "always a...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Forest boost survival bid to leave West Ham in turmoil
Latest News, ...
Forest boost survival bid to leave West Ham in turmoil
January 6 06:31 PM
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- Nuno Espirito Santo insisted troubled West Ham can still avoid relegation after Morgan Gibbs-White's late penalty fire...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Cornerstone secures key approvals for JNFM acquisition and Proven partnership
Business, ...
Cornerstone secures key approvals for JNFM acquisition and Proven partnership
January 6 06:10 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Cornerstone Financial Holdings Limited announced on Tuesday it has received regulatory clearance for its Barita Investments Limite...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Champions STETHS, Excelsior dominate all-star team selections
Football, ...
Champions STETHS, Excelsior dominate all-star team selections
January 6 06:02 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) football champions, St Elizabeth Technical High (STETHS) and Excelsior High,...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Winston Dias releases cover of ‘Let’s Keep it That Way’
Entertainment, ...
Winston Dias releases cover of ‘Let’s Keep it That Way’
January 6 05:49 PM
Married for over 55 years, Winston Dias knows when his spouse makes a suggestion, it is usually a good thing. Some years ago, while singing Mac Davis’...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
❮ ❯

Columns

Columns
Uncle Sam or son of the soil?
With Betty Ann Blaine 
March 8, 2010
HEART TO HEART Dear Reader, The events of the last few weeks ring ominously for our beloved country. It is not only that the security and social fabri...
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Columns
Teacher-pupil ratios
WESLEY BARRETT 
March 7, 2010
Those who have been observing the education scene over many years would not have been surprised about another "flare-up" concerning teacher-pupil rati...
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Neck-deep in denial
Columns
Neck-deep in denial
Jean Lowrie-Chin 
March 7, 2010
"Jamaica is now big in Washington!" I bragged to an American colleague, showing him a photo of then Prime Minister Edward Seaga and Mrs Seaga posing a...
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Aftermath of the Dudus extradition
Columns
Aftermath of the Dudus extradition
MARK WIGNALL 
March 6, 2010
A week or so after the extradition, downtown Kingston, effectively void of its 'protector', has become one vast no-man's land. The outburst of violenc...
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Columns
Republicans setting filibuster record
BY STEVEN R HURST Associated Press writer 
March 6, 2010
THE filibuster — tool of obstruction in the US Senate — is alternately blamed and praised for wilting President Barack Obama's ambitious agenda. Some ...
Telegram
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Columns
Disasters need more than prayers
Ronald Sanders 
March 6, 2010
THE massive earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, which occurred within six weeks of each other, on January 12 and February 27 respectively, revealed the li...
Telegram
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Columns
Cases of ‘bullying’ US politics
Analysis by Rickey Singh 
March 6, 2010
IT would be a pity if the rest of our Caribbean Community governments do not see it necessary to acquaint themselves with the circumstances of the cur...
Telegram
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Columns
Come back, Pony
Tamara Scott Williams 
March 6, 2010
Dear readers, if by chance you see a fabulous, large, black Pony* bag with an azure interior on the shoulder of some 'style queen' in a cloud of exqui...
Telegram
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Young, gifted and black
Columns
Young, gifted and black
March 6, 2010
In the age of Obama, a new type of politician and public servant is emerging in the United States. They are the post-civil rights generation. They are...
Telegram
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Columns
Clarity, Corruption and Censure
James Moss-Solomon 
March 6, 2010
"OH, what a tangled web we weave!" The Daily Observer of Wednesday, March 3 in its headline claims "PM Stares Down US", and the Gleaner headline of th...
Telegram
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Columns
Mr Golding must pull back from the brink
March 6, 2010
PRIME Minister Bruce Golding must quickly find a way to retreat from the precarious perch on which he has positioned himself and let our courts decide...
Telegram
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Columns
India, Pakistan rivalry deepens
BY ELIZABETH ROCHE AFP writer 
March 6, 2010
India and Pakistan, implacable South Asian rivals, are locked in a new struggle for influence in Afghanistan, which is fuelling attacks on Indian inte...
Telegram
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Columns
Thank you
March 5, 2010
Dear Editor, I wish to thank all those who helped present the Reggae Film Festival 2010. I must first express my overwhelming thanks to the Hilton Kin...
Telegram
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Once again the earth shook mightily
Columns
Once again the earth shook mightily
KEEBLE McFARLANE 
March 5, 2010
It wasn't even two months since a powerful earthquake shook the daylights out of Haitians that the same thing happened again seven thousand kilometres...
Telegram
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Columns
Let’s pour new wine into old skin
MARCIA FORBES 
March 5, 2010
Purist Christians may oppose me for seeming to challenge the biblical writing about pouring new wine into old wineskin. Using this as a metaphor with ...
Telegram
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Civil service transformation
Columns
Civil service transformation
Franklin Johnston 
March 4, 2010
WE cannot transform the civil service unless we transform the entire public sector. The government is our largest enterprise. It spends over $1,000b a...
Telegram
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
The eagle vs the doctor bird
Columns
The eagle vs the doctor bird
Barbara Gloudon 
March 4, 2010
IN THIS CORNER - The Big Eagle... In this corner, the little doctor bird fighting for the heavyweight championship of the world... Ding-ding-ding...a ...
Telegram
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
The US tightening the screws
Columns
The US tightening the screws
MARK WIGNALL 
March 3, 2010
AFTER having financed our way of life for too many years, our powerful neighbour to the north, the USA, has decided not just as the one which calls th...
Telegram
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Columns
The inconvenient truth about drug addiction in America
Raulston Nembhard 
March 3, 2010
The savage drug wars which occurred recently in Mexico, especially on the northern border with America, have brought into sharp focus the growing mena...
Telegram
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Wait until the law is changed!
Columns
Wait until the law is changed!
Michael Burke 
March 3, 2010
About three weeks ago, a senior police officer in St Catherine said that men wearing trousers below the waistline would not be allowed to do so in his...
Telegram
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Columns
Changes to improve Jamaica
FRANKLIN W KNIGHT 
March 2, 2010
After 48 years of political independence Jamaica finds itself at a cruel crossroads. The years have not been kind to the bright hopes that captivated ...
Telegram
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Columns
Torture rife in Jamaica
Henley Morgan 
March 2, 2010
TORTURE is rife in Jamaica. Oh yes, though it's difficult for us to associate such a heinous act with a beautiful little island floating in the Caribb...
Telegram
{"website":"website"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Tweets

Polls

Recent Posts

Salada packs over 600 care packages for farmers affected by Hurricane Melissa
Latest News, ...
Salada packs over 600 care packages for farmers affected by Hurricane Melissa
January 6, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — More than 600 care packages were recently prepared by over 40 Salada Foods staff members at the company's headquarters in Kingston...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
48-hour curfew imposed in sections of Hanover
Latest News, ...
48-hour curfew imposed in sections of Hanover
January 6, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A 48-hour curfew has been imposed in sections of the Hanover Police Division. The curfew began at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, January 5, a...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
December air traffic rebounds after Hurricane Melissa, still below 2024 levels
Business, ...
December air traffic rebounds after Hurricane Melissa, still below 2024 levels
January 6, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Air travel through Sangster International Airport increased in December, signalling a partial recovery from the disruption caused ...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Trump considering military options to acquire Greenland
International News, ...
Trump considering military options to acquire Greenland
January 6, 2026
WASHINGTON, United States -- United States President Donald Trump is exploring how to take control of Greenland and using the US military is "always a...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Forest boost survival bid to leave West Ham in turmoil
Latest News, ...
Forest boost survival bid to leave West Ham in turmoil
January 6, 2026
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- Nuno Espirito Santo insisted troubled West Ham can still avoid relegation after Morgan Gibbs-White's late penalty fire...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}

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
  • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Health
  • Auto
  • Business
  • Letters
  • Page2
  • Football
Categories
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Entertainment
  • Page2
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Entertainment
  • Page2
Ads
img
Jamaica Observer, © All Rights Reserved
  • Home
  • Contact Us
  • RSS Feeds
  • Feedback
  • Privacy Policy
  • Editorial Code of Conduct