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January 12 12:26 AM
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Promoter echoes call to honour reggae stalwarts before they pass on
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January 12 12:26 AM
Let them smell their ‘flowers’
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Everard Owen Observer Writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12 12:25 AM
Public health dept wants more garbage trucks for Portland
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Dover residents say flooding worse than Melissa, blame lack of drain cleaning
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January 12 12:24 AM
From hurricane escape to flooded fate
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January 12 12:24 AM
Singer Kenneth Roxborough dies at 78
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January 12 12:22 AM
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SCOTIA Group Jamaica posted net profits of $2.5 billion for the second quarter ending April 30, 2010, an 11 per cent decline from the corresponding pe...
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GRAND ISLE, Louisiana (AP) — Intent on showing firm command of a deepening Gulf Coast crisis, President Barack Obama inspected a fouled beach, took in...
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May 26, 2010
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May 25, 2010
GUARDIAN Holdings Limited (GHL) shareholders will see their stake in the insurer dilute by 13 per cent when a deal with International Finance Corporat...
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May 25, 2010
Michigan, United States — Two Ford Motor Co factories near Detroit will see 170 additional blue-collar jobs in the next two years as the automaker bri...
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SSL in the Money An influential leader's shoes are extremely hard to fill. It not only takes time to find the right man for the job, but it also takes...
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May 25, 2010
OHIO, United States — General Electric Co announced Monday that it plans to harness the power of winds blowing across Lake Erie by developing the worl...
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May 25, 2010
CAIRO, Egypt — Mideast and North African oil exporters will see a "strong recovery" in 2010, pulled ahead by increasing capital inflows and oil prices...
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May 25, 2010
WASHINGTON DC, — United States A now-expired homebuyer tax credit and low mortgage rates helped boost sales of previously occupied homes in April. Th...
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May 25, 2010
JAMMIN Java Corporation, directed by Rohan Marley — son of reggae legend Bob Marley — has offloaded its coffee farm in order to focus on distribution ...
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May 25, 2010
GRACEKENNEDY Limited has posted a 11 per cent decline in first quarter net profit, hurt by a regional consumer market weakened by the ongoing recessio...
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May 25, 2010
Michigan, — United States HE stands all day, bent over noisy machines, cutting giant sheets of steel and feeding them into monster-sized presses so po...
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May 25, 2010
Tankweld Construction has received its second endorsed contract to upgrade the arrival terminal at the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) in K...
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May 25, 2010
Even while security forces continued operations in Western Kingston to execute a warrant to Tivoli strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke and 'unrest and ...
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May 25, 2010
WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES — THE European debt crisis isn't likely to throw the global economy back into a recession, a Federal Reserve official sai...
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May 25, 2010
LIME Jamaica's parent, Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), on Monday announced it has begun building a submarine, fibre-optic cable that will more ...
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May 25, 2010
NEW YORK, United States — INTEREST rates fell sharply in the bond market yesterday as investors sought safety from growing concerns about a global ec...
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May 25, 2010
THE collapse of the energy giant Enron in the United States of America has ensured that business ethics is now an important part of the curriculum of ...
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May 25, 2010
Oil prices continued their three-week slide yesterday, pulled down by falling global stock markets, a declining euro and saber-rattling in Korea. Benc...
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May 25, 2010
Insurance premiums for businesses in downtown Kingston and across Jamaica could increase following the unrest that gripped the nation over the last th...
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May 25, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — IN one of the few offices of Teleco Haiti that survived January's catastrophic earthquake, the customer service agents sit idl...
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May 25, 2010
Higher cost of sales and lower production volumes resulted in a 35 per cent decline in Red Stripe's net profit for the nine months ending March 31, 20...
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Anthony Smith remembered for weighing decisions carefully, balancing firmness and humanity
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12, 2026
Late RJRGleaner CEO did not seek applause
...suggests copying Belize’s Criminal Justice Board
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12, 2026
Lawyer calls for permanent fix
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Promoter echoes call to honour reggae stalwarts before they pass on
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January 12, 2026
Let them smell their ‘flowers’
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January 12, 2026
Public health dept wants more garbage trucks for Portland