BELLEFIELD, Manchester — Despite supporters shouting “You can’t go nuhweh”, Peter Bunting, who lost the Manchester Central seat in one of the biggest political upsets in the 2020 General Election, told his fellow…
PNP/JLP politicians say farewell to ‘Dico’
LATE councillor for the Islington Division in St Mary Lincoln “Dico” Dixon was eulogised as a dedicated family man and friend to all during a thanksgiving service for his life last Saturday at…
ATM distress
The repercussions of the attempted robbery of a Beryllium security team in St Thomas Saturday morning, snowballed over the weekend, through to Monday, as unserviced automated teller machines (ATMs) left many Jamaicans cashless…
Tax Administration hauls GCT cheats before courts
TAX Administration Jamaica (TAJ) says between late 2018 and this year it has hauled 10 businesses before the courts for collecting General Consumption Tax (GCT) from customers without being registered to do so,…
Execution-style double murder rocks MoBays Peoples Arcade
MONTEGO BAY, St James – Monday’s execution-style double murder in Montego Bay’s People’s Arcade has left family and friends of victim Ricardo Green reeling. One of his colleagues told the Jamaica Observer that…
JPS power plant cuts emissions 59 per cent
THE new liquefied natural gas (LNG) power plant at Old Harbour, St Catherine, has helped reduced the carbon footprint from power generation in Jamaica by almost 60 per cent and will go a…
First Republic Bank seized, sold in fire sale to JPMorgan
Regulators seized troubled First Republic Bank early Monday, making it the second-largest bank failure in United States history, and promptly sold all of its deposits and most of its assets to JPMorgan Chase…
Students encouraged to ‘pay it forward’ through Acts of Kindness
NORTHERN Caribbean University (NCU) Media Group will kick off the eighth season of its Acts of Kindness School Tour today as the nation starts its annual observance of Child Month. This year’s tour,…
It’s a beautiful day!
These little ones from Brooks Level Basic School sing It’s a Beautiful Day for the congregation of Bethel United Church of Jesus Christ (Apostolic), Stony Hill, Sunday, during the church’s Platinum Jubilee 70th…
Argument over blocked lane turns violent in Seaview
A dispute about a vehicle blocking a lane in Seaview Gardens, St Andrew, left a man nursing stab wounds and his ex-girlfriend with an injury on her left ear, the Kingston and St…