Fear keeps attendance low at Tredegar Park All-Age
CLOSE to a year and seven months after Tredegar Park was rocked by the gruesome murders of eight people in one night, attendance to at least one institution in the crime-ridden St Catherine community...
View ArticleGov't defends board appointments
MINISTER with responsibility for Information Senator Sandrea Falconer has defended the recent appointments of several known People's National Party supporters to State boards, saying that there will...
View ArticlePolice to step up fight against praedial thieves
BUYERS of agricultural produce may soon be required to report all transactions to divisional police heads in the parishes through where the goods are being transported.
View ArticlePolice: New crime measures working in Spanish Town
THE police say new measures introduced recently to arrest crime in problem-plagued Spanish Town and its environs have started to reap success.
View ArticleUS using text messaging to combat sexual violence against youth
WASHINGTON, DC, USA — The United States government is using technology to help combat dating violence and sexual assault of teens and young adults.
View ArticleCorrection
In the story "Storm over Patricia House" carried in last Wednesday's edition of the Observer, Carla Bingham-Ledgister was incorrectly identified as chair of the Council of Voluntary Social Services...
View ArticleInmates' relatives march in Honduras capital to demand remains
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Dozens of relatives of inmates who died when a fire raged through a Honduran prison have marched through the capital to demand the remains of loved ones.
View ArticleOne in three C'bean women to face gender-based violence in their lifetime
WASHINGTON, DC, USA — One in three women will be exposed to and experience gender-based violence in her lifetime, a problem that cuts across all ethnicities, religious groups, classes, education levels...
View ArticlePrince's visit to cost $3 million
IT will cost Jamaica $3 million to host Prince Harry during his four-day visit to the island to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth ll.
View ArticleThis Day in History - March 1
Today is the 61st day of 2012. There are 305 days left in the year.
View ArticleAnother delay in Cuban light bulb trial
THE Cuban light bulb trial involving former junior energy minister Kern Spencer and his former personal assistant Coleen Wright was again stalled when it came up for mention in the Corporate Area...
View ArticleUSAID to expand assistance programmes
Jamaica’s mission director of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Denise Herbol (left) in discussion with Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller during a courtesy call at Jamaica House on...
View ArticleSpanish journalist escapes to Lebanon, Updates toll
DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) — Syrian ground troops launched an assault on a rebel-held district of Homs Wednesday after shelling it for 26 straight days, activists said, as pressure grew for humanitarian...
View ArticleRIDING HIGH
Despite her small size, Yoshiko Townsend, a student of the Primrose Basic School in Eltham Park, St Catherine, shows that she is not afraid as Constable Steven Paul of the Mounted Troop Division leads...
View ArticleStorms damage country music resort town, kill 9
HARRISBURG, Illinois (AP) — Twisters roared through the nation's heartland in the early morning darkness Wednesday, flattening entire blocks of homes in small-town Illinois and Kansas and killing at...
View ArticleSouth Africa's ANC expels youth leader
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — The African National Congress expelled the party's youth leader late Wednesday, the latest attempt to control a figure who has angered his elders with his militant...
View ArticleJackson lashes managers of e-Learning project
SOUTH St Catherine Member of Parliament Fitz Jackson has lashed the drivers of the e-Learning Jamaica Project, charging that they have "deceived the Jamaican public" by not carrying out any activity...
View ArticleIn the news
Oblivious to everything that is happening around them, these men catch up on the day's news Monday morning on a piazza at the corner of Maxfield Avenue and Lyndhurst Road in Kingston.
View ArticleIMF review team coming
INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) officials are to arrive in the island by the middle of the month to conduct reviews, paving the way for Jamaica to enter formal negotiations for a new programme with...
View ArticleFrench leader holes up in bar to escape protesters
BAYONNE, France (AFP) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy took refuge in a bar yesterday after hundreds of Basque separatists and opposition Socialist party supporters mobbed him and some shouted...
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