News

News

Encore to a great soul

Jimmy Cliff carried Jamaica far beyond its shores, says PM Holness

Shereita Grizzle | Observer Staff Reporter

December 18 12:20 AM

Encore to a great soul

News

Support us!

Coffee farmers appreciative of intervention, but want more help

BY RENAE OSBOURNE Observer staff reporter osbourner@jamaicaobserver.com

December 18 12:18 AM

Support us!

Entertainment, ...

A fitting musical farewell

Gov’t, artiste fraterity honour legacy of Jimmy Cliff at official funeral

BY HOWARD CAMPBELL Observer senior writer entertainment@jamaicaobserver.com

December 18 12:16 AM

A fitting musical farewell

News

Cold shoulder

Labelled delinquents, some Child Diversion Programme participants struggling to reintegrate

Alicia Dunkley-Willis Senior Reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com

December 18 12:14 AM

Cold shoulder

Basketball, ...

UNDERDOGS NO MORE

Jamrockers head coach speaks on coming of age of national basketball programme

Daniel Blake | Sports Writer | blaked@jamaicaobserver.com

December 18 12:12 AM

‘No pie in the sky’

Food, ...

CHRISTMAS @ One Park

December 18 12:10 AM

Foodie News...Foodie News...Foodie News...

News

Boost for bars

Red Stripe, J Wray & Nephew providing ‘restart packs’ to help operators hard hit by Melissa

December 18 12:07 AM

Boost for bars

News

No piecemeal work

Gov’t will take studied approach to rebuilding Black River, other seaside towns, says Green

Dana Malcolm | Observer Online Reporter | Malcolmd@jamaicaobserver.com

December 18 12:06 AM

No piecemeal work

News

FBI joins Indiana sniper investigation

July 24, 2006

MUNCIE, Ind (AP) - The FBI joined the investigation yesterday into the sniper attacks that killed one person and wounded another along two Indiana int...

News

…Gorstew sets the record straight

July 23, 2006

As project manager of the Sandals Whitehouse project, the state-run Urban Development Corporation (UDC) was clearly responsible for completing the pro...

News

A Bioethics Society at last

Desmond Allen | Executive Editor

July 23, 2006

Jamaican family physician Dr Derrick Aarons is head of a new Caribbean organisation that will concern itself with bioethical and often controversial i...

News

Foreigners stream out of Lebanon

AP and AFP

July 23, 2006

BEIRUT, Lebanon - British and American officials said their evacuations from Lebanon were wrapping up, as ships continued to carry foreigners away to ...

News

Foreigners stream out of Lebanon

AP and AFP

July 23, 2006

BEIRUT, Lebanon - British and American officials said their evacuations from Lebanon were wrapping up, as ships continued to carry foreigners away to ...

News

It’s a hard road to travel for two young girls…

BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Observer staff reporter

July 23, 2006

It has been a year since their mother left them promising to return on 'Tuesday'; to this day Tuesday has not arrived and they are not sure when it wi...

News

Kingfish questioning ‘Rooster’ over US ammo find

July 23, 2006

Kingfish investigators are now in Florida, United States questioning Jamaican gangster and 'Shower Posse' member, Anthony 'Rooster' Patterson, in conn...

News

‘When I bring it on, I hope you can take it,’ Portia tells JLP

BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer

July 22, 2006

Firing back at the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) which dared her Friday to call general elections, prime minister and People's National Party ...

News

President Bush’s initiative bears fruit

By Carl Gilchrist Sunday Observer reporter

July 22, 2006

An education initiative announced by United States President, George W Bush at the April 2001 Summit of the Americas, in which teachers in the Caribbe...

News

Filthy Old Harbour Bay fishing beach

BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer staff reporter

July 22, 2006

You can find it all - Snapper, Parrot, Butter, Jack - almost every kind of fish, it seems, is available at the Old Harbour Bay fishing beach in St Cat...

News

Three to stand trial for Harbour View triple murder

Paul Henry

July 22, 2006

The three men charged in the 'reprisal' killing of three Bayshore Park, Harbour View residents last year are to stand trial for murder on Monday, Octo...

News

Health care and education top … if you can cut it

July 22, 2006

Are you ready to take care of someone, or teach someone? It's not easy, but if you are, the time is right. Service-producing, as opposed to good-produ...

News

PM ‘satisfied’ with first 100 days

BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer

July 22, 2006

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller yesterday expressed satisfaction with her first 100 days at the head of the Jamaican government, pointing to agri...

News

Young and fresh but not Green in the kitchen

Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content

July 22, 2006

Really, who'd have guessed? Who could have predicted a decade ago that the culinary landscape would now be attracting so many eager youngsters hell-be...

News

‘I’m worse off now than I was before’

BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Sunday Observer staff reporter

July 22, 2006

Some days she can still hear the keys jangling and the harsh summons of the bell marking the dreaded check-off hour. The haunting memories don't leave...

News

Messy sectoral debate

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

July 22, 2006

The annual sectoral debate continued Tuesday and Wednesday with at least eight contributions, without the Speaker or his deputy present, but with the ...

News

NYS Summer Programme to employ 4,600 youth

Observer Reporter

July 22, 2006

For three weeks this summer, 4,600 secondary and tertiary level students will be gainfully employed, working at summer jobs provided under the Nationa...

News

Sex trade dangers

by Ingrid Brown Sunday Observer staff reporter

July 22, 2006

WITH statistics showing that one in seven adult men buy sex, and with the lucrative profits to be gained by the multi-million dollar industry, more yo...

News

PO Box Trench Town

Desmond Allen | Executive Editor

July 22, 2006

Most of Dr Henley Morgan's staff, clients and close associates thought he had gone stark staring mad two years ago when he decided to relocate the hea...

News

New AIDS dilemma

by Ingrid Brown Sunday Observer staff reporter

July 22, 2006

Fifteen years ago, to be diagnosed with HIV/AIDS was akin to a death sentence as persons simply waited to die. Today, with increased accessibility to ...

News

Louisiana doctors outraged at murder accusation in Katrina deaths

July 22, 2006

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) - To Louisiana's attorney general, the doctor and two nurses arrested this past week are murderers. But many in the local ...