The family of Gayan Williams is plunged into further mourning, after her three-year-old son also succumbed to injuries he sustained in a fire at their home last week Wednesday morning. OBSERVER media tried unsuccessfully to reach out to the grieving family who lost the toddler Jayden...
THE International Finance Corporation (IFC) — a member of the World Bank Group — has appointed Jamaican Judith Green as head of its operations in the English-speaking Caribbean. She will be responsible for coordinating IFC’s programme of investments and advisory services in several countries, including Belize,...
THE Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS) has been given until September 27 to provide a detailed report to the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) on Saturday’s islandwide blackout. A release from the OUR said that,as stipulated in the Electricity Act, 2015, the light and power...
THE Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has decided to accept the outstanding School-based Assessment (SBA) samples of students of Penwood High School in St Andrew. This was disclosed by Minister of Education, Youth and Information Senator Ruel Reid during a back-to-school press conference at the ministry’s Heroes’...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Trinidad and Tobago yesterday celebrated its 54th anniversary of political independence from Britain with the traditional military parade and Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley telling citizens “we have a very bright future ahead of us”. No one, however, will this...