Editorial

News

Sad final trip

BY KASEY WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter kaseyw@jamaicaobserver.com

January 12 12:30 AM

Sad final trip

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

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

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’

News

Public health dept wants more garbage trucks for Portland

Everard Owen Observer Writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com

January 12 12:25 AM

Public health dept wants more garbage trucks for Portland

News

From hurricane escape to flooded fate

Dover residents say flooding worse than Melissa, blame lack of drain cleaning

BY TAMOY ASHMAN Observer staff reporter ashmant@jamaicaobserver.com

January 12 12:24 AM

From hurricane escape to flooded fate

Entertainment, ...

Singer Kenneth Roxborough dies at 78

BY HOWARD CAMPBELL Observer senior writer entertainment@jamaicaobserver.com

January 12 12:24 AM

Singer Kenneth Roxborough dies at 78

News

Adjournment in gang trial might be ‘demanded’, says lawyer

Judge expected to decide on start date today

BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com

January 12 12:22 AM

Adjournment in gang trial might be ‘demanded’, says lawyer

Editorial

The political lynching of Mr Charlie Rangel

August 2, 2010

SINCE its inception in 2009, the United States Office of Congressional Ethics has investigated 10 members of the Congressional Black Caucus, prompting...

Editorial

The blood thirstiness is returning

August 1, 2010

We can dismiss as nothing significant the killing of two policemen in six days — eight since the start of the year — and the videotaped police killing...

Editorial

Why Ms Priya Levers was kicked off the bench

July 31, 2010

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council's 47-page opinion that Ms Priya Levers be removed from the bench of the Grand Court of Cayman for inexcusa...

Editorial

Let’s celebrate our rich tradition in sport

July 30, 2010

JAMAICA, despite its obvious deficiencies, has earned total respect and well-deserved admiration from the sporting world ever since its entrance on th...

Editorial

Is anybody listening to Col Rocky Meade?

July 29, 2010

According to Colonel Rocky Meade, head of communications at the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), the country needs a State of Emergency in order to deal w...

Editorial

China is definitely where it’s at

July 28, 2010

For the foreseeable future, we will all be operating in a tri-polar globe dominated by the United States, the European Union and China. China is forec...

Editorial

We don’t need another closet, Professor Miller

July 27, 2010

THE Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ), according to our Monday edition, is planning to recommend that the upcoming law on party and campaign finan...

Editorial

The wisdom of the Jamaican people

July 26, 2010

Our political parties have always trumpeted their absolute belief and trust in the wisdom of the Jamaican people. But when that belief was tested, it ...

Editorial

Still finding it hard to govern ourselves

July 25, 2010

In eleven days time, we will mark the 48th anniversary of Jamaica's political Independence. Any cursory analysis of how we have managed since 1962 wil...

Editorial

Where there’s a will…

July 24, 2010

At Friday's close of the 18th biennial meeting of the International Aids Conference in Vienna Austria, its chair, Dr Julio Montaner, pointed out that ...

Editorial

Did the ruling JLP outsmart the PNP?

July 24, 2010

There is a view among some Jamaicans that the debacle in parliament, which ended the State of Emergency last week, was the result of clever politickin...

Editorial

Sports a saving grace again

July 23, 2010

It's uncanny that just when the country needed a boost on the international stage, especially after the theatrics involving security and politics, and...

Editorial

Right on Mr Patrick Casserly

July 22, 2010

Mr Patrick Casserly, the president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Industry and Commerce, makes an important point in yesterday's edition of our sister ...

Editorial

1,600 voices speaking from the grave

July 22, 2010

This is a compelling question for the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) and its unconscionable parliamentarians, who have chosen to ignore the ...

Editorial

Are we preparing for the Cuban economic hurricane?

July 21, 2010

The United States policy of an embargo against Cuba has been a comprehensive failure. Castro's administration has survived. The redundant embargo shou...

Editorial

PNP — mere shadow of a once great party

July 21, 2010

Mr Norman Washington Manley, credited as the founder of the People's National Party (PNP), father of the national movement for self-determination, and...

Editorial

Do we dare now have hope?

July 19, 2010

MR Danville Walker, the commissioner of customs, has given us one of the brightest pieces of news we have had in a long time. The customs boss is quot...

Editorial

The PNP’s underwear is showing, and it’s not clean!

July 19, 2010

The People's National Party's (PNP) attempt yesterday to kill off the State of Emergency — by not supporting its extension — is a cynical political pl...

Editorial

Another side to that sports tax issue

July 18, 2010

NO doubt the tax authorities are anxiously seeking ways to secure the estimated $100 million which they say is owed to them annually by tax-dodging Ja...

Editorial

‘It’s bad, and getting more bad…’

July 17, 2010

JAMAICANS have a wise saying: "Wha gaawn bad a mawnin, caan come good a evenin", roughly translated to say what has gone bad in the beginning, can't b...

Editorial

Fraser’s positive test suggests slack management

July 16, 2010

This newspaper is hopeful that Miss Shelly Ann Fraser will not be made to pay too harsh a penalty, having tested positive for a painkiller she neglect...