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Senator Sinclair proposes statue and museum to honour Jimmy Cliff
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Senator Sinclair proposes statue and museum to honour Jimmy Cliff
December 6 10:19 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Government Senator Charles Sinclair has suggested that a statue be erected in St James in honour of the late great international r...
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Kevin Downswell reflects on 2025, ready to minister at One Love Jamaica Rebuild concert
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Kevin Downswell reflects on 2025, ready to minister at One Love Jamaica Rebuild concert
BY KEVIN JACKSON Observer Writer 
December 6 10:04 AM
Gospel artiste and minister, Kevin Downswell, in reflecting on 2025, described it as a year of creating new chapters. He made the assertion in an inte...
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Education minister vows ‘intensive remediation’ to tackle learning loss in western Jamaica
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Education minister vows ‘intensive remediation’ to tackle learning loss in western Jamaica
December 6 09:55 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Education Minister Senator Dr Dana Morris-Dixon says the Government will roll out intensive remediation across upcoming school ter...
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Two Canadians detained, cocaine seized in MOCA operation in St Elizabeth
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Two Canadians detained, cocaine seized in MOCA operation in St Elizabeth
December 6 09:37 AM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — Agents from the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) are currently carrying out an anti-narcotics operation...
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Students face new blow
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Students face new blow
After hurricane destroyed uniforms, IDs, schoolers now forced to pay adult fares
Mark Dennis 
December 6 12:30 AM
Students
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Melissa’s hard lesson
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Melissa’s hard lesson
Category 5 storm forces stubborn 81-year-old to finally ditch his zinc roof for concrete
BY DANA MALCOLM Observer online reporter malcolmd@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 6 12:28 AM
Melissa’s hard lesson
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Fee cuts for recovery
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Fee cuts for recovery
Hill announces reductions to help businesses reopen after Hurricane Melissa
BY JEROME WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter williamsj@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 6 12:26 AM
Fee cuts for recovery
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Marcia Griffiths thrills 1st Saturday Night Live at Sky Ultra Lounge
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Marcia Griffiths thrills 1st Saturday Night Live at Sky Ultra Lounge
Howard Campbell 
December 6 12:26 AM
Marcia Griffiths thrills 1st Saturday Night Live at Sky Ultra Lounge
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The Church has turned its back on its gay flock
June 26, 2013
Mark Wignall IN Jamaica, where closeted gays experience the dual trauma of living a lie alongside the fears of discovery; while those who are obviousl...
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CMRC, News, Sports
Duppy told man
June 22, 2013
Crimes that Rocked the Nation THE year was 1962. It was the year that many Jamaicans were thinking about the enormity of what an independent Jamaica w...
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CMRC, Columns, Sports
The politics of the growth agenda in Jamaica
MARK WIGNALL 
June 19, 2013
In the 1950s, when 17-year-old Lloyd Cole sailed on a banana boat from Kingston on the two-week trip to the English port of Southampton, 10 stowaways ...
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CMRC, Columns, Sports
Teaching in the kennel
MARK WIGNALL 
June 8, 2013
As a child I attended a little 'infant' school in Moneague run by an excessively sweet lady, Mrs Winnifred Campbell, then known, before she was marrie...
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CMRC, News, Sports
Arsonist husband watched as flames gut house with wife, infant daughters
May 11, 2013
Crimes that Rocked the Nation HE had planned to leave his young, attractive, 22-year-old wife Ena and their two young daughters Lacy, two, Renee, one,...
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CMRC, Columns, Sports
I support ‘Buy Jamaica’, but…
May 8, 2013
In 1976, my then wife and I walked into a little appliance store on Orange Street and purchased a brand new 10 cu ft Servewell 'frost-free' refrigerat...
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Four types of women
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Four types of women
Tony Robinson 
May 4, 2013
Daddy Oh Women are soft, mild, Pitiful and flexible, Thou stern, obdurate, flinty Rough, remorseless. — Shakespeare, 3 Henry, VI, 1, 4 THEY say that v...
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Businessman beheaded, hands chopped off with ‘unfathomable, unspeakable savagery’
CMRC, News, Sports
Businessman beheaded, hands chopped off with ‘unfathomable, unspeakable savagery’
May 4, 2013
Crimes that Rocked the Nation DARK CLOUDS discolouring the skies on the morning of October 23, 1993 should have been an omen for what was to come late...
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CMRC, Sports
Say I love you
April 27, 2013
She will die, If he love her not; And she will die, Ere she makes her love known. — Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, 11, 3 She will also die if he...
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Girl, 6, strangled to death, mother bludgeoned, but murderer not found
CMRC, News, Sports
Girl, 6, strangled to death, mother bludgeoned, but murderer not found
April 27, 2013
Crimes that Rocked the Nation WHAT could a six-year-old girl child have done so terrible that a grown man or woman could strangle her to death while s...
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CMRC, Columns, Sports
Are the times too challenging for the PM?
April 24, 2013
In this age of rapid advancement in robotics and nanoscience, as applied to machinery and humans, change as an accepted philosophy of political govern...
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CMRC, Entertainment, Sports
Sexual timing
April 20, 2013
Make use of time; let not advantage slip, Beauty within itself should not be wasted. Fair flowers that are not gathered in their prime Rot and consume...
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CMRC, Lifestyle, Local Lifestyle, ...
Temptation
With Tony Robinson 
April 13, 2013
Daddy Oh Your charm so strongly works 'em, That if you now beheld them, Your affections Would become tender. — Shakespeare, The Tempest, V, 1 Charm an...
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What makes you a political diehard
CMRC, Columns, Sports
What makes you a political diehard
MARK WIGNALL 
April 13, 2013
When rabid religionists criticise so-called atheistic and very brutal regimes like Stalin in what was then the USSR, the Khmer Rouge's Pol Pot, Mao in...
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CMRC, News, Sports
A really good woman
April 6, 2013
She's beautiful And therefore to be woo'd; She is woman, Therefore to be won. -- Shakespeare, 1 Henry, VI,V,3 Men will always go after women, woo them...
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Night of horror for farmer, girlfriend who were abducted, shot and burnt
CMRC, News, Sports
Night of horror for farmer, girlfriend who were abducted, shot and burnt
April 6, 2013
Crimes that Rocked the Nation A traumatised girlfriend recounted for the Home Circuit Court a tale of horror on the night of May 15, 1983 when she and...
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Auto, CMRC, Sports
JA racers hit with woes
November 17, 2011
IT was not perfect picture for Jamaican contingent in the third-and-final leg of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) at the South Dakota R...
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CMRC, Sports
Doug’s Audi Takes Guyanese Track Record
November 12, 2011
Doug Gore and his famed Audi TT DTM travelled far and wide to the East Bank of the Demarara in Guyana and demolished the South Dakota racing circuit t...
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CMRC, Sports
Reggae Racers Pilot South Dakota
Kesi Asher | Paginator 
November 11, 2011
The Reggae Racers had a productive day of testing on Friday, despite some members of the team receiving their vehicles late from the containers. David...
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Auto, CMRC, Sports
Reggae Racers off to Guyana for CMRC final leg
November 10, 2011
UPBEAT and eager, Jamaica's Reggae Racers left on Wednesday for the final leg of the 2011 Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) to be held in Guy...
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Auto, CMRC, Sports
Controversial CMRC night race to be re-run
Kesi Asher | Paginator 
September 8, 2011
Jamaica wants results to stand THE Barbados Auto Racing League (BARL) has said that the controversial Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) race...
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Controversy reigns in Barbados
September 1, 2011
Muddy conditions, dangerous night race mar CMRC meet CONTROVERSY surrounded the final Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) race in Barbados, wh...
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December 6, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Government Senator Charles Sinclair has suggested that a statue be erected in St James in honour of the late great international r...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Kevin Downswell reflects on 2025, ready to minister at One Love Jamaica Rebuild concert
Entertainment, ...
Kevin Downswell reflects on 2025, ready to minister at One Love Jamaica Rebuild concert
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December 6, 2025
Gospel artiste and minister, Kevin Downswell, in reflecting on 2025, described it as a year of creating new chapters. He made the assertion in an inte...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Education minister vows ‘intensive remediation’ to tackle learning loss in western Jamaica
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Education minister vows ‘intensive remediation’ to tackle learning loss in western Jamaica
December 6, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Education Minister Senator Dr Dana Morris-Dixon says the Government will roll out intensive remediation across upcoming school ter...
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Two Canadians detained, cocaine seized in MOCA operation in St Elizabeth
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Two Canadians detained, cocaine seized in MOCA operation in St Elizabeth
December 6, 2025
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — Agents from the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) are currently carrying out an anti-narcotics operation...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Students face new blow
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