Forex: $159.32 to one US dollar
Latest News
Forex: $159.32 to one US dollar
January 6 04:52 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The United States (US) dollar on Tuesday, January 6, ended trading at $159.32, down 14 cents, according to the Bank of Jamaica’s d...
Lord Coe to help high schools during visit to Jamaica
Latest News, ...
Lord Coe to help high schools during visit to Jamaica
January 6 04:22 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — World Athletics boss Lord Sebastian Coe who arrived in Jamaica on Sunday says he will be placing emphasis on assisting schools dam...
Police confirm gunfight in Black River
Latest News, ...
Police confirm gunfight in Black River
January 6 04:01 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — Police have confirmed that there is an active gunfight in Black River. Observer Online understands that the mid-afternoon gunf...

News

News
Chronology of sorrows (pt 2)
May 18, 2008
"The only way to deal with RIU is to do something in the media that will embarrass them. Otherwise, they are not going to budge." - Minutes of the Ext...
News
Chronology of sorrows
May 17, 2008
"The only way to deal with RIU is to do something in the media that will embarrass them. Otherwise, they are not going to budge." - Minutes of the Ext...
News
Sandals, Beaches Resorts treat 500 teachers
May 16, 2008
MORE THAN 500 educators in the parishes of St James, Hanover, Westmoreland, St Ann and St Mary, were on Teachers' Day last week treated in style at lu...
News
Signing of EPA with Europe delayed
RICKEY SINGH, Observer Caribbean correspondent 
May 14, 2008
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - There is to be a further delay in the proposed signing in Barbados of the Caribbean region's Economic Partnership Agreement (EP...
News
Parents board flight, forget toddler at airport
AFP 
May 14, 2008
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) - Tickets, check. Passports, check. Luggage, check. Baby ... oops. A family boarded a flight on Monday in westernmost Canada, and...
News
Bunting issue goes to Ethics C’ttee
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
May 14, 2008
Speaker Delroy Chuck has called an emergency meeting of the House of Representatives' Ethics Committee for Monday morning to discuss Finance Minister ...
News
PM heads delegation to Peru, UK
May 14, 2008
PRIME Minister Bruce Golding will head a delegation to Lima, Peru from May 15 to 17 for the Fifth European Union, Latin American and the Caribbean sum...
News
Intruder stabs student in classroom at Marcus Garvey Tech
Carl Gilchrist, Observer staff reporter gilchristc@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 13, 2008
OCHO RIOS, St Ann - A Grade 11 student at the Marcus Garvey Technical High School has been admitted to the St Ann's Bay Hospital in serious condition ...
News
Jamaica, no problem
PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer senior reporter williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 13, 2008
JAMAICA'S tourism players have shot down suggestions that the introduction of casino gaming will prompt a further increase in crime on the island. "Ca...
News
Friday mention for human trafficking case
May 13, 2008
THE trial of Donovan Jones, the former deacon of the Church Dayton Diamond Ridge who is alleged to have supervised the repeated sexual assault of a 13...
News
Mercy calls for Lyn-Sue
ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 13, 2008
LAST week's decision by Political Ombudsman Bishop Herro Blair to petition Governor-General Sir Kenneth Hall to grant a pardon for convicted policeman...
News
Minister MacMillan
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer virtuee@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 12, 2008
Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday increased his eight-month-old Cabinet to 20 members by confirming that former police commissioner and soldier C...
News
Minister MacMillian
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer virtuee@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 12, 2008
Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday increased his eight-month-old Cabinet to 20 members by confirming that former police commissioner and soldier C...
News
Farmer sees St Elizabeth factory transforming agriculture
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
May 11, 2008
Mandeville, Manchester - For decades it has annoyed and irritated Tony Freckleton - an itch that won't go away. Why, he wondered, should the communiti...
News
Woman cop among four murdered on weekend
COREY ROBINSON, Observer staff reporter robinsonc@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 11, 2008
Police yesterday identified a woman who was found at North Parade in downtown Kingston on Saturday as a member of the Island Special Constabulary Forc...
News
Coping with spiralling food prices
BY KERRY MCCATTY Sunday Observer staff reporter mccattyk@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 10, 2008
Duane Lowe has heard of the world food crisis and has noticed the increase in prices at the store. But the whole thing has not affected him much becau...
News
Babette’s Feast
May 10, 2008
Elizabeth Robertson has always embraced art. Little surprise, therefore, that her culinary skills incorporate design, colour, texture and most importa...

Polls

Recent Posts

Forex: $159.32 to one US dollar
Latest News
Forex: $159.32 to one US dollar
January 6, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The United States (US) dollar on Tuesday, January 6, ended trading at $159.32, down 14 cents, according to the Bank of Jamaica’s d...

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