Stella Global Realty (SGR) Jamaica Ltd has officially announced it will host the Dynamic Elevated Lifestyle Open House on Saturday, June 27, 2026. The exclusive, invitation-only event will take place at the newly completed Valley View development in Plantation Heights, St Andrew, marking a definitive shift in how luxury real estate is presented, verified and acquired in Jamaica. Perched 1,000 feet above the Kingston basin, Valley View represents an elite...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says he will be meeting with embattled Minister of Science, Technology and Special Projects Dr Andrew Wheatley after Monday’s cabinet meeting to discuss the troubling investigation report from the Integrity Commission (IC) which found that Wheatley illicitly enriched himself. There have been calls for the prime minister to boot Wheatley from the Cabinet since the report went public after it was tabled...

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Clive Davis, the music mastermind who championed some of the globe's biggest names including Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen and Santana, died Monday aged 94. The industry A-lister and onetime boss of Columbia Records, who embraced genres from rock & roll to early hip-hop and pop, was recently hospitalised with respiratory problems, according to a New York Times report. The Davis family confirmed his death. An...

PORTLAND, Jamaica — Seventeen Haitians arrived in the Passley Gardens area of Port Antonio, Portland on Monday. Observer Online learnt that they were seen sometime after 6:00 am and the police were alerted. They were taken to the Port Antonio Police Station for health and immigration processing. The group reportedly comprises 10 adult males, four adult females and three children. The police are investigating. — Everard Owen

MIAMI, United States (CMC) — The Miami-based United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said that two alleged male “narco-terrorists” were killed in a “lethal kinetic strike” on a vessel operated by “designated terrorist organisations” in the Caribbean Sea. SOUTHCOM did not identify the “designated terrorist organisations” but said the strike was given at the direction of its Commander General Francis L Donovan. SOUTHCOM said Joint Task Force Southern Spear’s intelligence “confirmed...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — A woman has filed a lawsuit against the Barbados Government alleging that she has suffered serious health complications after receiving two doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in 2021. The woman, through her attorney, has named the Office of the Attorney General as the defendant in the 2024 claim, in which she alleges that the Health and Wellness Ministry is liable for injuries she sustained as...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- UK leader Keir Starmer announced his resignation on Monday following months of pressure, kickstarting a process that will see Britain get its seventh prime minister in a decade. Veteran politician Andy Burnham, who secured a return to parliament just last week, appeared poised to succeed Starmer after would-be rival Wes Streeting offered him his support. Starmer's voice cracking during an emotional speech outside 10 Downing...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain will have its seventh prime minister in a decade this year after Labour leader Keir Starmer was ousted on Monday by his own party. The party's self-inflicted wound was a trend set by the Conservatives when they were in office. Starmer announced his resignation on Monday following months of nose-diving poll ratings and manoeuvring by his own Members of Parliament (MP). Veteran Labour politician Andy...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The frontrunner to be the United Kingdom's next prime minister, Andy Burnham, was sworn in as a Member of Parliament Monday, a key step in his bid to replace Keir Starmer. Starmer announced his resignation as prime minister on Monday after fewer than two years in office, as calls mounted for the unpopular leader to step down after Burnham won a vital by-election last week. READ:...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — Kenya's high court found the country's health minister in contempt on Monday over the continued construction of an Ebola facility for United States (US) patients, despite an earlier court order halting the project. Kenyans have strongly opposed the plan and there have been deadly protests since the facility was announced in May for potential US citizens evacuated from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is grappling with...

ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — A decomposing body was found in bushes off Coke Drive in Santa Cruz on Sunday. Preliminary reports are that about 9:00 am, farmers stumbled upon the body and alerted the police. Detectives observed that the body was in an advanced stage of decomposition and believe it is that of a male. This latest incident is the third discovery of a body in just over a week...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The People's National Party (PNP) Women's Movement is demanding answers from the Government amid reports that Jamaica has agreed to participate in a United States (US) third-country nationals (TCN) arrangement. According to the group, reports suggest that a senior Jamaican Government official volunteered Jamaica's participation in the programme, under which the US seeks to remove individuals it wants out of its territory to countries other than their...