Jamaica News

GOVERNMENT is being urged to do something to address the waning support for Labour Day, celebrated on May 23 each year to recognise the achievements of workers.

The Totally Male team comprising of Nathania Graham-Haynes, Andrene Meeks, Tanikka Ukkyuellyue and CEO Sandra Samuels-Reid provided makeovers for male patients on Ward 17 as company's Labour Day project.

The migration of the Reverend Stanley Redwood, former president of the Senate, along with his family, once again brings into sharp focus the question of leadership.

Dress designer Florence Powell explains the usage of material which is known as interlining in Jamaica but in England is called Stay Flex.

Teachers in St Elizabeth are calling for Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller to reign in the Education Minister Ronald Thwaites, or appoint a minister of state to handle their issues.

Jamaica-born reggae/pop singer Nyla premiered her debut single Stand Up recently on LargeUp.com. This is Nyla's first release under Konfrontation Muzik, the new record label founded by reggae star Ky-Mani Marley.

Where the conservative crooner made early rock and roll "safe" in the '50s by taking all the edge of out of songs like "Tutti Frutti," Sanchez has made a career of refashioning the schmaltziest pop and R&B songs into dangerous, seductive dancehall and reggae.

AS the Jamaica National Building Society kicked off celebrations in the UK to mark 25 years of operations there, General Manager Earl Jarrett has affirmed that the organisation has remained true to its original mission of building a financial bridge between Jamaicans in England and Jamaica, and creating channels to address the need, both locally ... (more)

On Wednesday, however, the three - all wards of the State - each received cheques from a New York-based charity in the value of US$4,000, enough to pay the year's. "I wasn't planning on applying to Students' Loan Bureau or anything, but I didn't know where was going to come from," Haynes told the Jamaica Observer after the presentation which took ... (more)

Prominent Montego Bay-based attorney-at-law Nathan Robb became the new president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday and immediately warned the police that the chamber would be quite vocal when matters of concern arose.

Tomorrow, downtown Kingston will get more than it's fair share of international glamour when celebrity designer Cesar Galindo showcases his two main lines for the first time in the Caribbean at CITYSTYLE.

Stony Brook University sweethearts Tara and Frank settled into an 11th floor apartment with views of the ocean after graduation.

By Derrick A Scott ATLANTA, USA -- Mayor of Atlanta, Kasim Reid, is to lead a trade delegation to Montego Bay, Jamaica, comprising 12 of Atlanta top business executives, in an effort to deepen the trading relationship between the two sister cities.

Looks like some gigs from the Lights Out tour have already been called off before it even started.

Business partners Alvin McBean and Ruedal Johnson of Wi Deh Ya Productions. The duo is responsible for the Sax Appeal jazz show in Montego Bay, St James.

The late Honourable Joyce Lilieth Robinson , who died on Sunday, May 12, aged 87, was essentially two persons - the dedicated public servant who stamped her brand on empowerment through education, and the devoted family member and friend for whom no favour was too difficult or inconvenient to grant.

Administrator at the home, Jacinth Bonner, said a number of roofs to the cottages need repair as very often they would leak.

Locally owned businesses continue to operate at a significant disadvantage, as a direct result of misguided government policies which allow for tax incentives and waivers to multinationals while taxing the local operations mercilessly.

Prime Minister Michael Manley announcing plans for a workers resort development to a press conference at Jamaica House on May 22, 1974.

COMING British female rap artiste Amplify Dot created a stir in sections of the resort city of Montego Bay last week, during a video shoot to promote her latest single, I'm Good, a collab with Busta Rhymes, which features Buju Banton's Walk Like a Champion.