KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The Judicial Review Court has reserved judgement in an application seeking to quash an order of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) preventing an attorney from prosecuting her former employer, the Trinidad-based Caribbean Airlines (CAL). The three-member Review Court...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica says regional Small Island Developing States (SIDS) must place high on the agenda of next year’s SIDS conference, the issue of highly indebted countries being categorised as middle income countries. Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change Minister R...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer - IT is hardly necessary to say it, but for emphasis, the economic recovery of the Caribbean Community must be a priority among the myriad problems and issues on the agenda of the Caricom Heads of Government meeting taking place in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – American Courtney Tatar was among two people killed in a vehicular accident along the Bustamante Highway in Mineral Heights, Clarendon on Monday, police said. They said the 35 year-old from North Carolina and 36 year-old Christopher Burke of Clarendon died when the veh...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - FOR the next two days, stakeholders from the region gathered at a high-level meeting in Kingston will discuss a range of issues common to the Caribbean, including sustainable energy, social policy, macroeconomics and trade, climate change, and natural resource protec...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Representatives of several Caribbean countries will meet here on Tuesday as they seek to ensure that the concerns of the region are articulated at the 2014 Conference of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Samoa next September. The three-day meeting here will det...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica says it will provide technical assistance to Burkina Faso in preventing adolescent pregnancies and supporting adolescent mothers. Information Minister Sandrea Falconer made the disclosure following a study tour of the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica -Describing it as the most far-reaching piece of public health policy undertaken in recent times, Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson has announced that as of July 15, no smoking will be permitted in public spaces across Jamaica. In making the announcement in the House of Represent...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - PREMIER Rufus Ewing of the Turks and Caicos Islands yesterday responded to the Jamaica Observer’s June 21, 2013 editorial which criticised the British Overseas Territory for its treatment of Beaches resorts and Jamaicans generally. Ewing acknowledged the vast contribution o...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE current trade concerns, discussed by Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago, represent the growing pains within the regional trading environment after 40 years of endeavour and investment intended to arrive eventually at a viable common economic and cultural space. We will then be...