48 hour curfew extended in St Andrew South Division
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48 hour curfew extended in St Andrew South Division
March 27 06:38 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The 48-hour curfew that was imposed in sections of the St Andrew South Police Division, has been extended. The curfew will continu...

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Police seek five for questioning in Unity Lane shootings
Corey Robinson 
October 18, 2007
THE St Andrew South police yesterday said they were seeking five men said to be "persons of interest" in Tuesday night's gun attack in which two perso...
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Air J boss quits
INGRID BROWN, Observer staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 18, 2007
CHIEF executive officer of Air Jamaica Mike Conway yesterday resigned from the national airline with immediate effect, two days after Cabinet approved...
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Gov’t names 5 for MOU evaluation committee
October 18, 2007
GOVERNMENT has named five representatives on the monitoring and evaluation committee of the public sector Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). Those app...
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High-level team to evaluate health service
October 18, 2007
MINISTER of Health and Environment, Rudyard Spencer, says that a "high level" trio of specialists/consultants will be appointed to make a comprehensiv...
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Witness testifies of frequent activities in room near coach’s
KARYL WALKER. Observer staff reporter walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 18, 2007
SWORN testimony by information systems and reservations manager of the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, Loraine Tate, at the inquest into the death of Bob Woolm...
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BSI begins probe in Sandy Gutt shootings
COREY ROBINSON, Observer writer 
October 18, 2007
THE Bureau of Special Investigations has begun an investigation into the controversial police shooting of two men in a house in the Sandy Gutt distric...
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Cop accused of stealing motorcycle arrested
October 18, 2007
MONTEGO BAY, St James - A 22-year-old police constable and two civilians were yesterday arrested for allegedly stealing a motorbike from the Freeport ...
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CDA steps into child-biting incident
October 18, 2007
THE Child Development Agency (CDA), will be investigating the circumstances in which a two-month-old baby was allegedly bitten to death by a four-year...
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Illegal occupants get notices to leave Bourkesfield Heights houses
KIMONE THOMPSON, Observer staff reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 18, 2007
THE National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC) on Tuesday served notices of removal on the illegal occupants of Bourkesfield Heights in Old Harbo...
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Lucky Dube shot dead in South Africa – report
October 18, 2007
Reggae singer Lucky Dube was shot dead in a hijacking yesterday in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, South Africa, the Independent online reported last nig...
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Work permit clampdown
October 17, 2007
GOVERNMENT yesterday gave foreigners working in Jamaica without valid work permits 10 days, from today, to report to the labour ministry and have thei...
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Blazing gunfire kills two, injures seven in Waterhouse
Corey Robinson Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 17, 2007
TWO men were killed Tuesday night and seven others shot and injured during an attack on residents of the inner-city community of Waterhouse in Kingsto...
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A New World of Room Service
Shivani Vora 
October 17, 2007
Goodbye limp French fries, hello fine dining: Room service has woken up from a long, dull nap. Whatever you want, you can get it 24 hours a day at som...
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UN launches global anti-poverty campaign
AP 
October 17, 2007
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Schoolchildren in a Kenyan slum belted out a Bob Marley ballad yesterday as they joined a continent-spanning effort to draw atte...
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News Brief
October 17, 2007
Infant allegedly bites baby to death THE Spanish Town police were yesterday investigating the death of a two-month-old baby who was allegedly bitten t...
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‘Thanks for saving my husband, children’s father’
TANEISHA LEWIS, Observer staff reporter editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 17, 2007
NORMAN Manley, the nephew of former prime minister Michael Manley, is recuperating from injuries he sustained last week after spending nearly two hour...
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Taking a Coffee Break
October 17, 2007
As I write this, I am in Jamaica, it is pouring rain, a nice cool breeze is fanning me through the open windows and the sky is very grey. However, by ...
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Pathologist raps post-mortem technique at Woolmer inquest
KARYL WALKER. Observer staff reporter walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 17, 2007
BRITISH pathologist Dr Nathaniel Carey yesterday back-tracked on aspects of a report he filed earlier this year, in which he concluded that former Pak...
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Cuban envoy tours NE St Elizabeth today
October 17, 2007
SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Cuban Ambassador to Jamaica, Gisela Garcia Rivera, will tour sections of North East St Elizabeth today to explore possibili...
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Dump squatters must now leave five-acre property
KERIL WRIGHT, Observer staff reporter kerilw@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 17, 2007
FALMOUTH, Trelawny - Dump, the five-acre property in historic Falmouth which has been home to some 100 families since 1988, is to make way for a propo...
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Former JLP caretaker shot dead
October 17, 2007
Businessman and former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) caretaker for the New Green Division in Central Manchester, Alvin 'Texas' Smith, was shot and killed...

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