KINGSTON, Jamaica – Veteran Jamaican reggae singer John Holt died in a London hospital yesterday. He was 69. Copeland Forbes, Holt’s manager since 2006, confirmed the entertainer’s passing. “John died at 2:40 a.m. English time. His [John’s] nephew informed of his death,” Forbes told OBSERVER ONLINE. The cause...
NATION of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan yesterday visited National Heroes Park in Kingston to lay wreaths at the monuments of the country's national heroes. Farrakhan, who is in the island for Sunday's 19th anniversary celebration of the Million Man March,' which he started, said it was...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – “Effective immediately,” Antigua & Barbuda has instituted a travel ban on people coming from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the three West African countries currently stricken with a significant number of cases of the deadly Ebola virus. In an exclusive interview last...
Prime Minister Gaston Browne, in the strongest terms, has given his government’s commitment to the regional push to secure reparations for slavery. His endorsement was announced at the second Regional Conference on Reparations, which the nation hosted this week. “Just imagine what our region would have been...
News Americas, MIAMI, FL, Weds. Oct. 15, 2014: The first death in the Caribbean of the 2014 hurricane season was recorded in St. Maarten Tuesday as Hurricane Gonzalo, now a category three storm, continued its path towards Bermuda. Gonzalo was blamed for the death of an...