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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Fellow morticians hail Ferdinand Madden Sr
PATRICK FOSTER, Observer writer 
April 6, 2006
Ferdinand Leslie Madden Sr, the man whose name has become synonymous with burials in Jamaica, was yesterday celebrated in death by fellow morticians, ...
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Former G2K VP wants to run on PNP ticket
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
April 6, 2006
LUCEA, Hanover - Ian Hayles, a former vice-president of the Jamaica Labour Party affiliate group, Generation 2000, who resigned from the party just ov...
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Grandma’s Old-fashioned Easter Bun
April 5, 2006
Ingredients: 1 cup of brown sugar 1 cup of water 1/4 cup of honey 2 tsp of mixed spice 1 tbsp of marmalade or jam 2 tbsp of butter 3 cups of flour 1 e...
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More cops for Spanish Town
Observer Reporter 
April 5, 2006
The police yesterday started deploying extra troops into violence-torn Spanish Town on the same day that an estimated 5,000 persons prayed for an end ...
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‘Hardship’ allowance extended
Desmond Allen | Executive Editor 
April 4, 2006
GOVERNMENT has extended the special "hardship" allowance of $400 and $600 paid to public sector workers by a month, to April 30, 2006, pending the sig...
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Two stolen cars recovered in Vineyard Town
Observer Reporter 
April 4, 2006
TWO men were arrested Monday following the recovery of two stolen cars in Vineyard Town, Kingston. However, their names were not released by officers....
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Woman Inc elects new president
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter 
April 4, 2006
JOYCE Hewett is the new president of the more than two decade-old Woman Inc. Elected at the organisation's annual general meeting last month, Hewett, ...
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Three killed in Priory road accident
Observer Reporter 
April 3, 2006
PRIORY, St Ann - Three people, including two teenagers, were killed yesterday in an early morning road accident along the Seville main road in Priory,...
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BITU unaware of plans to sign new MOU, says Spencer
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
April 3, 2006
PRESIDENT of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) Ruddy Spencer says his union is unaware that a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for pub...
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PM names 12-member ‘B’ team
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
April 3, 2006
PRIME Minister Portia Simpson Miller yesterday completed her ministerial appointments with the naming of 12 junior ministers, who will be working with...
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Custos wants tax break for volunteers
CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter 
April 3, 2006
OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Custos of St Ann R O Walters has urged the government to grant tax breaks for volunteers as a way of acknowledging the important r...
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NEWS BRIEF
April 2, 2006
JLP wants protection for cement buyers THE Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has called on Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller to take immediate ...
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Blythe’s workers unhappy
Observer Reporter 
April 2, 2006
Karl Blythe's constituency workers are unhappy at his omission from the new Cabinet, charging that he has been unfairly treated by the People's Nation...
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Police blame gang feud for Spanish Town flare-up
Paul Clarke 
April 2, 2006
LAST week's shooting death of at least five people in Spanish Town, St Catherine have been blamed on an ongoing feud between the rival One Order and C...
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12 appointed youth ambassadors
April 1, 2006
TWELVE young people were on Tuesday presented with instruments of office, signalling the beginning of their two-year tenure as Youth Ambassadors for J...
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When the ‘war’ is over, what will the warriors do?
BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer Reporter 
April 1, 2006
Last week when the Sunday Observer visited the 'Hot Spot' communities of Kingston where peace is prevailing after long periods of 'war', residents dec...
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Criminals have uptowners cowering
BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer Reporter 
April 1, 2006
Ironically, the fear of crime is more intense in affluent low-crime uptown St Andrew than in downtown Kingston slum communities where bloodletting is ...
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New postal code system before year end
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Sunday Observer writer 
April 1, 2006
Persons sending mail within and to Jamaica will be required to address their letters differently by the end of the year, if a new postal system promis...
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Even his critics give Patterson thumbs-up for job as MP
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
April 1, 2006
Darliston, Westmoreland - His job as prime minister meant that for the great majority in eastern Westmoreland, television presented the only realistic...
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Advisers help parents, kids learn to manage money
BY JANE CLIFFORD Copley News Service 
April 1, 2006
ONE recent morning, while her daughter was in her third-grade classroom, Perla Camarillo was in one of the school's resource rooms with other parents,...

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