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January 2 05:45 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica—General manager of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC), Robert Honeyghan, says the staging of the inaugural fireworks displa...
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January 2 04:58 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The United States (US) dollar on Friday, January 2, ended trading at $159.47, down 26 cents, according to the Bank of Jamaica’s da...
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January 2 04:44 PM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)—Tesla's sales fell in 2025, the company reported Friday, ceding its position as the world's biggest electric vehicle m...
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January 2 04:25 PM
BELMOPAN, Belize (CMC)—The Belize Postal Service (BPS) on Friday announced the resumption of all outbound shipments to the United States, effective Ja...
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January 2 03:45 PM
ST THOMAS, Jamaica – The 'Fireman' Capleton and ‘Dunce Man’ Jamal electrified fans at Old Pera in St Thomas to ring in the new year at the annual Ango...
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January 2 03:43 PM
CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP)—President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro on Thursday dodged a question about an alleged US attack on a dock in Venezuela but sai...
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January 2 03:19 PM
ST ANN, Jamaica—The National Works Agency (NWA) is advising road users in the eastern parishes of St Mary, Portland as well St Ann to exercise caution...
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January 2 02:58 PM
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP)—A 6.5-magnitude earthquake rattled Mexico's capital and a tourist hotspot on the Pacific coast on Friday, killing at least o...
Entertainment, Movies
February 6, 2018
The principal at a Massachusetts high school cancelled a screening of the 1993 movie Cool Runnings , saying it contains “racially insensitive” depicti...
Entertainment, Movies
February 3, 2018
Search for a young Jamaican for Stacey McKenzie movie Plans are moving along in earnest to commence production on the biopic of Jamaican-born, Canada-...
Entertainment, Movies
January 22, 2018
Jamaica-born model, singer, actress Grace Jones will add another accolade to her collection when she receives the Lifetime Achievement Award during th...
Entertainment, Movies
January 20, 2018
Stacey McKenzie's story for the big screen Stacey McKenzie (Photo: Alex Evans)
Entertainment, Movies
January 20, 2018
Production to start on biopic of J'can-born model The story of Kingston-born, Toronto-based supermodel Stacey McKenzie is to make it to the big screen...
Entertainment, Movies
December 27, 2017
2017 Entertainment Highlights The Jamaica Observer's Entertainment Desk continues its daily year in review of people who made an impact during 2017. T...
Entertainment, Movies, Music
December 10, 2017
Bruk Out! A Dancehall Queen Documentary, directed by Cori Wapnowski and co-produced by Jay Will, Janet Ginsburg and Stacy Frankel, has been making the...
Entertainment, Movies
December 9, 2017
Jamaican actress to be honoured in The Bahamas Jamaican actress, singer, songwriter and supermodel Grace Jones will be honoured with the Career Achiev...
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December 4, 2017
2017 ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS The Jamaica Observer's Entertainment Desk continues its daily year in review of people who made an impact during the yea...
Entertainment, Movies
November 29, 2017
SEASON 8 premiere of VH1's Love & Hip Hop: New York (LHH New York ) landed the second-highest spot in the Monday cable ratings published recently. The...
Entertainment, Movies
November 19, 2017
ACTOR/comedian Tony “Paleface” Hendriks believes one sure way of tackling the issue of child abuse is to “talk”. “In Jamaica, constant communication i...
Entertainment, Movies
November 3, 2017
LONDON (AP) — London police are investigating an alleged 2008 sexual assault reportedly linked to Kevin Spacey in the latest setback for the House of ...
Entertainment, Movies
October 29, 2017
THE name Marguerite Gordon (nee LeWars) may not immediately resonate with fans of James Bond movies. However, her beauty and charm helped lay the grou...
Entertainment, Movies
October 25, 2017
BORN in South Florida to Haitian parents, Edson Jean and Joshua Jean-Baptiste are film-makers determined to produce projects that reflect their Caribb...
Entertainment, Movies
October 25, 2017
NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Guillaume, who played the sharp-tongued butler in the TV sitcoms Soap and Benson , has died at age 89. Guillaume died at home T...
Entertainment, Movies
October 7, 2017
The mother of Jamaican-born entertainer and model Grace Jones has died. The New York Daily News reports that Marjorie Jones, mother of the former Bond...
Entertainment, Movies
October 7, 2017
Sean Connery and Ursula Andress in scenes from the first James Bond film, Dr No, in Ocho Rios, Jamaica.
Entertainment, Movies
October 7, 2017
Last Thursday was the 55th anniversary of the release of Dr No. The first of the James Bond movies, it was largely filmed in Jamaica in 1961 and relea...
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October 3, 2017
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — The family of jailed Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius said yesterday that it would pursue legal action over a com...
Entertainment, Movies
October 2, 2017
Leading American film company Amazon Studios will produce a television show based on Jamaican author Marlon James' award-winning book, A Brief History...
Entertainment, Movies
September 24, 2017
Traffick Blocking, a 30-minute docu-film creating awareness around human trafficking, premiered at the Palace Cineplex in Sovereign Centre, Liguanea, ...
Entertainment, Movies
September 18, 2017
Rockers, the star-studded reggae movie, celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2018. To honour that milestone, an American independent company will releas...
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January 2, 2026
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica—General manager of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC), Robert Honeyghan, says the staging of the inaugural fireworks displa...
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January 2, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The United States (US) dollar on Friday, January 2, ended trading at $159.47, down 26 cents, according to the Bank of Jamaica’s da...
International News, ...
January 2, 2026
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)—Tesla's sales fell in 2025, the company reported Friday, ceding its position as the world's biggest electric vehicle m...
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January 2, 2026
BELMOPAN, Belize (CMC)—The Belize Postal Service (BPS) on Friday announced the resumption of all outbound shipments to the United States, effective Ja...
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January 2, 2026
ST THOMAS, Jamaica – The 'Fireman' Capleton and ‘Dunce Man’ Jamal electrified fans at Old Pera in St Thomas to ring in the new year at the annual Ango...
