The publication was owned by Butch Stewart (now deceased), who chartered the paper in January 1993 as a competitor to Jamaica's oldest daily paper, The Gleaner.

[1] At the time, it became Jamaica's fourth national newspaper.

[2] The Jamaica Observer began as a weekly newspaper in March 1993, and in December 1994 it began daily publication.

The paper moved to larger facilities as part of its tenth anniversary celebrations in 2004.

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