News

News

Sprint domination

Douglas, East storm to Class 1 and 2 100m glory

March 26 12:20 AM

Sprint domination

News

Champs 100 years ago

March 26 12:18 AM

Champs 100 years ago

Entertainment, ...

IMC impacting future

Alpha students leverage 2026 conference exposure for industry insight

March 26 12:16 AM

IMC impacting future

News

More than just teachers

Award-winning educators highlight nation-building inside the classroom

Jerome Williams | Reporter

March 26 12:14 AM

More than just teachers

News, ...

Jamaicans urged to step up in tree recovery effort

Holness calls for national volunteer push

Horace Hines | Observer Writer

March 26 12:04 AM

Jamaicans urged to step up in tree recovery effort

News, ...

NSWMA to do one-time cleaning of MoBay South Gully

March 26 12:03 AM

NSWMA to do one-time cleaning of MoBay South Gully

News, ...

TEF presses ahead with nicer Negril

Anthony Lewis | Observer Writer

March 26 12:02 AM

TEF presses ahead with nicer Negril

News

From coastlines to crops…

US$10-m Adaptation Fund Programme leaves lasting mark on Jamaica’s climate resilience

BY RENAE OSBOURNE Observer staff reporter osbourner@jamaicaobserver.com

March 26 12:01 AM

From coastlines to crops…

News

Groups discuss jobs hazardous to children at kingston workshop

TANEISHA DAVIDSON, Observer staff reporter

February 3, 2006

A list of hazardous jobs that children are prohibited from engaging in, which will ultimately be a part of the Child Care and Protection Act, was disc...

News

Is he Hitler or Jose Marti?

VANESSA ARRINGTON, Associated Press Writer

February 3, 2006

HAVANA (AP) - The Bush administration may consider Hugo Chavez to be a budding Adolf Hitler, but the Venezuelan president was being celebrated yesterd...

News

Son of PNP councillor on murder, gun charges

PAUL CLARKE, Observer staff reporter

February 3, 2006

RICARDO Lawrence, the 21-year-old son of Ned Lawrence, People's National Party (PNP) councillor for the Dela Vega City Division in St Catherine, has b...

News

‘Richie Poo’ gets life

Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter

February 3, 2006

KEVIN 'Richie Poo' Tyndale, the reputed leader of the feared Papine-based Gideon Warriors gang, and his accomplice Brenton Fletcher, were both sentenc...

News

‘Richie Poo’ sentencing delayed

Observer Reporter

February 2, 2006

ADMINISTRATIVE bungling yesterday forced the court to postpone sentencing of Kevin "Richie Poo" Tyndale, the reputed former leader of the Gideon Warri...

News

The ‘new gourmands’

Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content

February 1, 2006

AS is our wont, we took the pulse of our younger bon vivants with respect to Jamaica's dining landscape. We broke bread recently with some 15 new gour...

News

Cabinet approves appointment of land and environment bodies

Observer Reporter

February 1, 2006

CABINET on Monday approved the appointment of the Land Development and Utilisation Commission, and the Advisory Board to the National Environment and ...

News

Two cops under bribery probe for dropping gun charges

T K WHYTE, Observer staff reporter

February 1, 2006

TWO Clarendon cops are under investigations for allegedly taking a $500,000-bribe from two offenders to drop a charge of illegal possession of firearm...

News

Cabinet wants change to law after Privy Council ruling

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

January 31, 2006

CABINET has approved the drafting of legislation expected to remove the ambiguity surrounding murders committed by persons who breach the sanctity of ...

News

Cabbies complain of victimisation from traffic police

DESIREE MCEACHRANE

January 31, 2006

ABOUT 35 taxi operators yesterday demonstrated outside the Office of the Commissioner of Police on Old Hope Road in Kingston, claiming they were being...

News

Murders the target

Observer Reporter

January 31, 2006

Declaring that Jamaica's 1,674 homicides last year was way too high, Commissioner Lucius Thomas said the police force has implemented an action plan t...

News

Unease about move to limit tax credit on losses

Camilo Thame

January 31, 2006

Company executives and analysts have characterised as anti-investment, and counter-productive, government's move to place a cap on the number of years...

News

DOWN AND OUT!

Garfield Myers | Observer Writer

January 30, 2006

Innswood, St Catherine - The effort left the small but lively crowd smiling, but in the end Jamaica were condemned to last place in the 2005/06 Carib ...

Environment, News

Pleasing Pleasure

January 30, 2006

A Pleasure Aneta Noble, Observer TEENage writer Tuesday, January 31, 2006 It's brown, soft and mushy It comes in all shapes and sizes It fulfils some ...

News

Flood waters in Moneague now tourist attraction

CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter

January 30, 2006

MONEAGUE, St Ann - There's new life in this usually quiet southeastern St Ann town. Ever since the perennial ponds in the nearby district of Swamp swe...

News

Council cracks down on illegal garages in St James

Mark Cummings | Observer Writer

January 30, 2006

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The St James Parish Council will this week begin a clampdown on unregistered motor mechanic garages that are operating in the ...

Environment, News

Pleasing Pleasure

January 30, 2006

A Pleasure Aneta Noble, Observer TEENage writer Tuesday, January 31, 2006 It's brown, soft and mushy It comes in all shapes and sizes It fulfils some ...

News

Thomas shuffles police officers

Observer Reporter

January 30, 2006

A number of police officers have been reassigned by Commissioner Lucius Thomas in a move that Observer sources say is designed to improve proficiency ...

Environment, News

Pleasing Pleasure

January 30, 2006

A Pleasure Aneta Noble, Observer TEENage writer Tuesday, January 31, 2006 It's brown, soft and mushy It comes in all shapes and sizes It fulfils some ...

News

‘Richie Poo’ found guilty of murder

Observer Reporter

January 30, 2006

KEVIN 'Richie Poo' Tyndale, the man who allegedly led the Papine-based Gideon Warriors gang after the capture of its former leader Joel Andem, was yes...

Environment, News

Pleasing Pleasure

January 30, 2006

A Pleasure Aneta Noble, Observer TEENage writer Tuesday, January 31, 2006 It's brown, soft and mushy It comes in all shapes and sizes It fulfils some ...