KINGSTON, Jamaica—A former police constable was sentenced to 22 years and six months for manslaughter and 20 years and three months for using a firearm to commit a felony in connection with the fatal shooting of 20-year-old D'Jonnay Graham in June last year. Constable Patrick Walters was sentenced in the Home Circuit Court in October 2026. His sentences are to run concurrently. Graham was fatally shot on June 25, 2025,...

ST JAMES, Jamaica — First Vice-President of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), Kerry Ann Quallo Casserly, is calling for more work to be carried out at night to help ease traffic congestion along the Rose Hall main road. "More work needs to be done during the night periods to accelerate the progress," Quallo Casserly told Observer Online. During peak periods, traffic lines stretch for several kilometres in either...

HANOVER, Jamaica — Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is elated that Jamaica’s tourism resilience campaign will take centre stage at Abu Dhabi Finance Week (ADFW) 2026, where the inaugural Global Tourism Resilience Award will be launched in December. Bartlett said an announcement on the first contributions to the proposed Global Tourism Resilience Fund is expected during the December 7 ceremony in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital. ADFW 2026 runs from...

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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Neins, Hay & Leighton Engineering Limited has been fined $650,000 for failing to provide Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) with requested books and records within the required timeframe. According to a release from TAJ, the company was prosecuted by the authority’s Intelligence, Investigation and Enforcement Unit and Legal Team for breaching Section 17IA of the Revenue Administration Act, which requires people served with a notice by the Commissioner...

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (AFP) — Hurricane Simon killed one person, damaged property and triggered flooding as it inched along Mexico’s Pacific coast, authorities said Monday. The storm did not make landfall and weakened to Category 2 on the five-point Saffir-Simpson scale. The victim was a 71-year-old man who “died when a wall collapsed in Chilpancingo” in the southern state of Guerrero, Governor Evelyn Salgado said during the daily presidential press...

THE Rotary Club of Trafalgar New Heights and the Rotary Club of Montego Bay have donated two 2,000-gallon water tanks to aid residents of Maroon Town and nearby communities in St James with maintaining access to stored water in the event of disasters. The tanks were provided along with rainwater harvesting devices. Both were installed in the Vaughnsfield housing scheme, where their location will allow them to serve residents across...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — The Trinidad and Tobago Government says it intends to restart the Petrotrin oil refinery that was officially shut down on November 30, 2018, by the Keith Rowley administration due to billions of dollars in debt and operational losses. The previous government had said that the 101-year-old refinery had accumulated an estimated TT$12 billion (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) in debt and lost about TT$8 billion over...

LUCEA, Hanover — The majority of councillors in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) have rejected what they see as a revision of plans to use reinforced concrete to surface the heavily trafficked Seaview Drive in the parish capital. The councillors were upset after they were told that the asphaltic concrete will be used instead to repair the road. “Why can’t Hanover get the concrete [road] just like Fern Gully and...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday forecast that global growth in 2026 would slow less than previously expected due to advanced economies’ “resilience” in the face of war-fuelled energy prices, but warned that low-income countries remained vulnerable to the supply shock. In its World Economic Outlook (WEO) released at the organisation’s annual meetings in Bangkok, the fund raised its 2026 global growth forecast by 0.1...