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KINGSTON, Jamaica -- The Ministry of Health has confirmed the second imported case of chikungunya disease in the island. Director, Emergency, Disaster Management and Special Services, Dr Marion Bullock Ducasse said that in both cases, the…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Fire fighters battling the blaze in the St Andrew hills overlooking Kingston have reported that major sections of the fire are now under control. The blaze, which reportedly started on Saturday, destroyed acres of…

Port of Spain, Trinidad (CMC) -- Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education activist, has praised Trinidad for the stance taken on free education. Malala who arrived here Sunday said her ultimate goal is to ensure education is free. “I…

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (HCNN) -- Haitian President Michel Martelly said Haiti’s carnival is not only an adventure of popular rejoicing and competition among musical groups for best performances, but it is also an event that can bring social…

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) -- A Guyanese man, Talbert McPherson, has begun serving the remaining 20 years of a 25-year prison sentence for raping an eight-year-old girl. The court Friday passed the sentence on the man, for the 2009 crime in…

KINGSTON, Jamaica – A 42-year-old Brooklyn woman was Thursday charged with killing, dismembering and scattering the body parts of a Guyanese woman around Long Island in the United States. Investigators believe that the victim, 27-year-old…

FALMOUTH, Trelawny — The sudden death of a pregnant policewoman, who collapsed while on the job yesterday, has left her colleagues here in western Jamaica in mourning. The Jamaica Observer learnt that the policewoman — Detective Constable…

TAMPA, Florida (CMC) – The United States Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agency says a Jamaican woman has been found guilty of marriage fraud by a US federal jury. On Thursday ICE reported that 32-year-old Nerene Erica Harrison of St Ann's…

(CMC)-- Sandals Resorts International is pumping US$5.5 million into five of the Caribbean's first over-the-water suites and the renovation of 14 suites at Sandals Royal Caribbean in Montego Bay. Dubbed Sandals Royal Caribbean Spa Resort…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – There has been an increase in the number of elderly persons contracting HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases as they venture outside the home seeking romantic encounters, says Cephus Sealey, Chairman…

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Two senior attorneys are to be conferred with the title of Queen's Counsel in a ceremony at the Supreme Court today, July 24. They are noted civil attorney Charles Piper and all-rounder Garth McBean. They were…

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Minister of Tourism, Dr Wykeham McNeill says he is anxiously awaiting completion of renovation work on the Hyatt Ziva Hotel, in Rose Hall, Montego Bay, which is the former Ritz Carlton Rose Hall. That resort, which…

ROSEAU, Dominica -- Ahead of delivering the national budget for the 2014/2015 financial year on Wednesday, Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said that government will not introduce new taxes or increase on taxes. Skerrit told DBS…

Kingston, Jamaica -- The police have charged the father of 10-year-old Meleeka Mitchell whose body was found in Hague, Trelawny on Tuesday, July 15 after she was reported missing just days before. Ronald Mitchell of Norwood, St James now…

St John’s, Antigua -- On Sunday, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Sheikh Tariq bin Faisal Al Qassemi, a member of the ruling family of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE),…