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2025’s final sunset opens the door to a new year
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2025’s final sunset opens the door to a new year
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Lee-Chin misses US$94-m bond deadline, risks Supreme Court lawsuit
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Lee-Chin misses US$94-m bond deadline, risks Supreme Court lawsuit
BY DASHAN HENDRICKS Business content manager hendricksd@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 1 12:18 AM
Lee-Chin misses US$94-m bond deadline, risks Supreme Court lawsuit
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Strictly 2K does the honours
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Alma Mock Yen hailed as distinguished broadcaster and lecturer
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French Finesse & Island Flavour: Fromage debuts new brunch menu
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French Finesse & Island Flavour: Fromage debuts new brunch menu
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Petersfield shelter showdown!
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Petersfield shelter showdown!
McKenzie denies eviction plans as Opposition claims families face displacement
Jerome Williams | Reporter 
January 1 12:06 AM
Petersfield shelter showdown!
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Elderly wife killer heard voice of God
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Elderly wife killer heard voice of God
Farmer confesses to using tools in jealous, rage-filled double murder
Alicia Dunkley-Willis | Senior Reporter 
January 1 12:05 AM
Elderly wife killer heard voice of God
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Towards an emancipated mindset
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Towards an emancipated mindset
By Michael Burke 
August 4, 2010
As we are in the middle of "Emancipendence" week and as we hail our achievements brought by political independence, it is timely to look at some thing...
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Doing regional renovation in Galicia, Spain
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Doing regional renovation in Galicia, Spain
FRANKLIN W KNIGHT 
August 3, 2010
Galicia, one of the 17 legislative regions of Spain, occupies a series of hilly promontories above Portugal on the westernmost frontier of Spain. For ...
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The only one left
Celta Kirkland 
August 3, 2010
1 KINGS 19:9 -10a and10b: "There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the Lord came to him: "What are you doing here, Elijah?" He ...
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Media revolution and woes
Dr Henley Morgan 
August 3, 2010
Jamaica's Broadcasting Commission recently convened its 2010 Regional Forum on Policy and Regulation in the electronic media sector. From all indicati...
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New Independent Commission of Investigations
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New Independent Commission of Investigations
KEN CHAPLIN 
August 2, 2010
PRIME Minister Bruce Golding has kept his 2007 election campaign promise in appointing a special prosecutor to investigate fatal and other shootings b...
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Politics over people – again
With Betty Ann Blaine 
August 2, 2010
Head to Head Dear Reader, If there were persons left in the country who for some reason genuinely believed that the politicians on both sides of the f...
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A cycle of dependence
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A cycle of dependence
Lloyd B Smith 
August 2, 2010
IF there is one thing both the Jamaica Labour Party and the People's National Party and those of us who continue to blindly vote for them are guilty o...
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Reclaiming our independence by becoming independent
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Reclaiming our independence by becoming independent
Christopher Burns 
August 1, 2010
Jamaica's political independence was never meant to become a conduit, lubricated or not, to socio-cultural stagnation, political apathy, economic inju...
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Jamaica lost its independence
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Jamaica lost its independence
Mervin STODDART 
August 1, 2010
As August 6 approaches when Jamaicans worldwide take time to celebrate their country's 1962 Independence from Great Britain, this writer cannot help b...
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The White House’s latest ‘lesson’
BY BEN EVANS Associated Press Writer 
July 31, 2010
The Obama White House is back to a teaching moment on race, once again playing the student. This time, it tried so hard to steer clear of a black-whit...
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Critical look at USA/Caricom
RICKEY SINGH 
July 31, 2010
Agenda on 'Crime and Security' LAST week's fleeting three-nation visit to The Bahamas, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago by US Assistant Secretary of St...
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Politics and taxes
James Moss-Solomon 
July 31, 2010
Following many years of debate, the Electoral Advisory Commission (EAC) is ready to propose a methodology for electoral contributions and party fundin...
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Golding is one smart cookie
MARK WIGNALL 
July 31, 2010
I am convinced more than ever that Prime Minister Bruce Golding did indeed arrange to set the deck and did so in the recent vote in the House on exten...
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Chavez – savvy political strategist?
BY CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER Associated Press Writer 
July 31, 2010
Venezuela's diplomatic fight with Colombia comes at an opportune time for Hugo Chavez, who could benefit politically if he manages to shifts voters' a...
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Columns
The Return of the Silly Season
Howard Gregory 
July 31, 2010
Each year one can expect to see the drama unfold among several stakeholders in education in Jamaica. The script has become so standardised that, like ...
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Columns
No Trade Without Help on Undeniable Climate Change
Sir Ronald Sanders 
July 31, 2010
Climate change is now undeniable, according to a new study that was headed by the US National Oceans and Atmospheric Administration. It is already hav...
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Columns
These bottles are the message
KEEBLE McFARLANE 
July 30, 2010
One of the devices the older folks employed to engage our imagination as children was to imagine going to the beach and finding a bottle with a piece ...
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Time to allow the deaf to drive
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Time to allow the deaf to drive
By N Anthony Aiken 
July 30, 2010
Early in 2009, the government announced that deaf people would soon be able to get a driver's licence. The deaf community was very excited and the goo...
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Education at what price?
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Education at what price?
July 30, 2010
THERE has been the common view that it is not in the best interest of either the Jamaica Labour Party or the People's National Party for Jamaica to ha...
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Columns
Uncle Sam comes calling
Barbara Gloudon 
July 29, 2010
UNCLE Sam wants you. That is the catchphrase on a recruiting poster for the US Armed Forces. It's being used flippantly round our town these days as i...
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Truth and reconciliation
with Celta Kirkland 
July 29, 2010
Reflections in prayer 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17-18: "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things have passed away; behold all things ...
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Political party funding, Electoral Commission, transparency
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Political party funding, Electoral Commission, transparency
Franklin Johnston 
July 29, 2010
POLITICAL parties have noble ideals. Ours are a bit tarnished but fresh blood can restore them. You should join one. Why? This is how we form governme...
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