Sad final trip
News
Sad final trip
BY KASEY WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter kaseyw@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12 12:30 AM
Sad final trip
Late RJRGleaner CEO did not seek applause
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
Lawyer calls for permanent fix
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
Let them smell their ‘flowers’
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’
From hurricane escape to flooded fate
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
Singer Kenneth Roxborough dies at 78
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
Adjournment in gang trial might be ‘demanded’, says lawyer
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

News

News
Woman cop among three facing fraud charges
Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter 
August 22, 2006
THREE people, including a special constable, are facing fraud charges in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court after allegedly participating i...
News
Woman cop among three facing fraud charges
Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter 
August 22, 2006
THREE people, including a special constable, are facing fraud charges in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court after allegedly participating i...
News
UN says mideast truce fragile, but possible
AFP 
August 21, 2006
JERUSALEM, Israel (AFP) - UN special envoy Terje Roed Larsen said yesterday he was optimistic that a fragile truce ending 34 days of warfare betwe...
News
Alleged drug trafficker ordered to hospital
Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter 
August 21, 2006
ALLEGED international narcotics trafficker, Jeffrey Lewis, 78, who is reportedly afflicted by a series of illnesses, including obesity, was yesterday ...
News
Cops detain prison warder, two inmates under probe
Observer Reporter 
August 20, 2006
A prison warder was detained by the police yesterday, while two inmates were being investigated for allegedly smuggling ganja into the high-security S...
News
NWU president faces challenge
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
August 20, 2006
Clive Dobson, the president of the National Workers Union (NWU), is to be challenged for the leadership of the powerful trade union when it holds its ...
News
Sandals/Beaches brand excites North American travel agents
Desmond Allen | Executive Editor 
August 19, 2006
Atlantic City, USA - Watching the unbridled enthusiasm of the travel agents at the two most recent Sandals and Beaches Ultra Resorts Convention in Atl...
News
Sandals awards 22 scholarships
BY KERIL WRIGHT Observer staff reporter 
August 19, 2006
Negril, Westmoreland - Twenty-two students from rural Jamaica will this year benefit from the Sandals Community Scholarship Fund, with awards totallin...
News
The face of Male Ego is female
August 19, 2006
For a young Jamaican couple, what started out as a means of earning extra money to help them through university - selling jeans to students - has beco...
News
32 students benefit from ALPART scholarships
August 19, 2006
ESSEX VALLEY, St Elizabeth - Alumina Partners of Jamaica (ALPART) has awarded academic scholarships, valued at $240,000, to 32 students from 17 All-Ag...
News
To hell and back
August 19, 2006
Leila Younis is Lebanese by birth and Jamaican by choice. She describes herself as fiercely warm and loving and someone who enjoys the simpler things ...
News
Police kill four alleged gunmen in Clarendon
August 19, 2006
Police sharp-shooters outgunned four men, killing all of them in an alleged firefight at dawn yesterday in the quiet Clarendon district of Alexandria....
News
Volunteerism still alive, but with less passion
BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer staff reporter 
August 19, 2006
In the 1970s, during what some people recall with nostalgic fervour as the 'good ole days' of voluntary service, Jamaicans turned out in droves to dev...
News
44 AIDS activists arrested
AFP 
August 18, 2006
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AFP) - South African police yesterday arrested 44 activists from the country's main AIDS lobby group for staging a protest ov...
News
Portmore welcomes branch of Registrar General’s Dept
Observer Reporter 
August 18, 2006
RESIDENTS of Portmore in St Catherine no longer need to travel to Spanish Town to process documents such as birth and death certificates, marriage lic...
News
‘No mud lake strike’
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
August 17, 2006
THE US$800-million Jamalco expansion received a boost Wednesday when the trade unions, representing workers involved in the mud lake expansion, signed...
News
Two J’cans get life for London triple murder
Observer Reporter 
August 17, 2006
TWO Jamaican men have been jailed for life in Britain after being found guilty of murdering three members of a family in a revenge shooting in northwe...
News
Situation in Sudan critical, says UN envoy
AFP 
August 17, 2006
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) - A top UN envoy expressed serious concern yesterday about the "critical" human rights situation in the strife-torn Darfur regio...
News
Water woes in the capital city
Observer Reporter 
August 17, 2006
SOME of the capital city's water storage facilities fell lower yesterday, forcing the state-run National Water Commission to institute further lock-of...

Polls

Recent Posts

Sad final trip
News
Sad final trip
BY KASEY WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter kaseyw@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12, 2026
Sad final trip
Late RJRGleaner CEO did not seek applause
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, 2026
Late RJRGleaner CEO did not seek applause
Lawyer calls for permanent fix
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, 2026
Lawyer calls for permanent fix
Let them smell their ‘flowers’
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, 2026
Let them smell their ‘flowers’

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