11+ hour, 2+ min ago   (567+ words) GRIEF and anger were palpable in the Central Kingston community of Smith Lane on Saturday as it was confirmed that seven-year-old Keriecia Hutchinson and her four-year-old brother Samson Cameron had perished in a mid-morning house fire. Residents remembered the two…...

8+ hour, 23+ min ago   (536+ words) Jamaica Observer Elderly customer left without answers after card mix-up I write on behalf of my 86-year-old father who has an account at the Spanish Town branch of the National Commercial Bank (NCB). He is a debit card holder and…...

10+ hour, 28+ min ago   (437+ words) FORT GEORGE, St Mary — Thirty-one-year-old Michael Baxter’s voice breaks as he describes the morning in August when his world changed. His mother, 51-year-old Natalie Walters, was doused with a caustic substance, allegedly by the man she had lived with for…...

10+ hour, 30+ min ago   (416+ words) MONTEGO BAY, St James — There should be an improvement in garbage collection in St James and fewer fires at the Retirement dump following the fatal shooting of Jason “Squidly” Gallimore by the police last week. Senior superintendent of police in…...

10+ hour, 24+ min ago   (479+ words) MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Police here say they have arrested and charged teenagers as young as 14 years old in connection with serious crimes even as detectives are advancing the clear-up of homicides with 25 murders solved recently, including cases dating back to 2024. Head…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (252+ words) ST MARY, Jamaica — The sleepy seaside community of Robin’s Bay was gripped by shock on Thursday as residents struggled to comprehend a brazen daylight attack that left three local men dead. The victims have been identified as 60-year-old shop operator…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (197+ words) KINGSTON, Jamaica — A St Catherine man has been charged with embezzlement following an alleged scheme at a roofing company on Slipe Road in Kingston on April 30. He has been identified as 42-year-old David Smith, a project manager from Portmore Gardens,…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (196+ words) TRELAWNY, Jamaica — Aston Coke, the father of slain 10-year-old Shani Coke, died Thursday morning at the Percy Junor Hospital after suffering from a prolonged illness. It comes just under two weeks after his daughter was laid to rest. Her partially…...

3+ day, 7+ min ago   (233+ words) KINGSTON, Jamaica — An alleged lottery scammer was shot dead and a firearm seized during a police operation on Oliver Road in Rockfort, Kingston 2, Thursday morning. The man, who police believe to be 30-year-old Faldan Campbell, otherwise called “Chaps”, was said…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (517+ words) Jamaica Observer Prisons must no longer be a liability to justice THE Attorney General’s Chambers has done the country a service by drawing attention to a problem that can no longer be treated as an unfortunate by-product of Jamaica’s correctional…...