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Race against time!
Charities trying to beat Dec 31 deadline for hurricane relief supply waivers
BY HAROLD G BAILEY Observer writer 
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Race against time!
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Rastas express mixed views on cannabis exec order in US
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December 22 12:28 AM
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Davie Community Worship Center, Florida, donates $1 million to aid Melissa-hit churches
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Davie Community Worship Center, Florida, donates $1 million to aid Melissa-hit churches
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Two die in Manchester crashes; two-month-old among four hospitalised
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Two die in Manchester crashes; two-month-old among four hospitalised
BY KASEY WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter kaseyw@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 22 12:24 AM
Two die in Manchester crashes; two- month-old among four hospitalised
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JN Money spreading ‘Holiday Hope’
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JN Money spreading ‘Holiday Hope’
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December 22 12:22 AM
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Krystle Thorpe: Building a life of purpose, one client at a time
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Corruption, Trust and Law Enforcement
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Corruption, Trust and Law Enforcement
February 13, 2010
One of the most troubling relationships which one can encounter is that of a marriage in which there has been a breakdown of trust. This breakdown of ...
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To sir, with love
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To sir, with love
Tamara Scott Williams 
February 13, 2010
The sheer volume of personal stories that colleagues, members of the media, esteemed persons from the educational, social, cultural and political land...
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Shameless and Graceless
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Shameless and Graceless
John Maxwell 
February 13, 2010
HENRY Kissinger once said that the United States had no friends, only interests. Watching the US intervention in Haiti makes it clear that the US, in ...
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Gardeners have a sense of humus
KEEBLE McFARLANE 
February 12, 2010
"All gardening is landscape painting." - Alexander Pope, 18th century English poet THERE is no doubt that the harshness of the climate is the reason p...
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True worship
Celta Kirkland 
February 11, 2010
Reflections in Prayer JOHN 4:24: "God is Spirit, and His worshippers must worship Him in Spirit and in truth." In the context of this verse Jesus was ...
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Answers to unasked questions
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Answers to unasked questions
Barbara Gloudon 
February 11, 2010
THE GOVERNMENT is pleased that the IMF Agreement to provide budgetary support (aka a loan) has been finalised. A full-page advertisement posted by the...
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Congratulations, Bruce! Ready, steady, grow!
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Congratulations, Bruce! Ready, steady, grow!
Franklin Johnston 
February 11, 2010
After a lifetime in politics and two years in office, Bruce is at the starting gate of our economic miracle. The pieces are in place, mistakes are beh...
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Too many guns in this town
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Too many guns in this town
MARK WIGNALL 
February 10, 2010
The recent haul of 19 guns, including high-powered ones and about 10,000 rounds of ammunition, which were said to have been surreptitiously removed fr...
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Nettleford, Huie and Norman Manley
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Nettleford, Huie and Norman Manley
Michael Burke 
February 10, 2010
ONE has to understand the vision of Norman and Edna Manley to understand what made Rex Nettleford tick. To a large extent the same was true of the gre...
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Columns
Jamaica’s trade policy
Anthony GOMES 
February 9, 2010
In view of the dire economic challenges facing the government, a review of Jamaica's trade policy has become urgent, if only to stem the decline of ma...
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Columns
Japanese assistance to Jamaica significant
By Ken Chaplin 
February 8, 2010
CHARACTERISTICALLY, Japanese are humble people and do not like to publicise themselves. Yet Japan's contribution to Jamaica's development has been sig...
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Columns
From Finsac to IMF
With Betty Ann Blaine 
February 8, 2010
HEART TO HEART Dear Reader, So the deal with the International Monetary Fund is signed and sealed, and one gets the feeling that there is a virtual mo...
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An assignment to finish
Jean Lowrie-Chin 
February 7, 2010
I wondered how I would weave the passing of two great Jamaicans with my plan to write on the protection of Jamaica's children. Then I realised that th...
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Further thoughts on primary education
WESLEY BARRETT 
February 7, 2010
IN my previous article, which encouraged revisiting and checking the goal of primary education, I suggested that there is a need in 2010/11 to develop...
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Columns
Dancing to Caribbean Drums: An Appreciation of the life of Rex Nettleford
Sir Ronald Sanders 
February 6, 2010
THIS commentary is being written in the first blush of news that Rex Nettleford has died. I was overcome by a profound and deep sense of loss, which I...
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Jamaican Mahogany
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Jamaican Mahogany
John Maxwell 
February 6, 2010
THERE are lots of places in this world where, for weeks or months to come, people will be turning to other people and saying, "Let's ask Rex what he t...
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Changing the World
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Changing the World
James Moss-Solomon 
February 6, 2010
I cannot deny my love for history. It provides a background and understanding of many things that happened in our world, which still affect us today. ...
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Emotion can’t pay Haiti’s bills
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Emotion can’t pay Haiti’s bills
February 6, 2010
TWO Fridays ago when I was privileged to be the guest host on Betty-Ann Blaine's talk show, On the Agenda, a caller who I happened to know was a JLP s...
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Questions on the Future of Caricom’s Youth
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Questions on the Future of Caricom’s Youth
RICKEY SINGH 
February 6, 2010
After big ‘no-shows’ by Heads of Gov’t at Suriname summit HOW serious are our Caribbean Community Heads of Government in moving, collectively, to fost...
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Auntie Mary’s One Cent and the Finsac Commission
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Auntie Mary’s One Cent and the Finsac Commission
Howard Gregory 
February 6, 2010
WHEN I was a seminary student preparing for ordination as a priest, I was under the supervision of the late Rt Rev Sehon Goodridge. From time to time ...
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A Beautiful Mind
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A Beautiful Mind
DIANE ABBOTT 
February 6, 2010
YEARS ago I was privileged to see Rex Nettleford perform in his masterwork "Kumina". He was in his sixties at the time. If you knew nothing about him ...
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Rex Nettleford and the Jamaican project
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Rex Nettleford and the Jamaican project
CLAUDE ROBINSON 
February 6, 2010
RALSTON 'Rex' Nettleford deserves every superlative used to describe this extraordinary man who, for more than 50 years, gave his enormous intellect, ...
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Davie Community Worship Center, Florida, donates $1 million to aid Melissa-hit churches
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UDC expands fireworks fest to St Bess, Westmoreland
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UDC expands fireworks fest to St Bess, Westmoreland
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Two die in Manchester crashes; two-month-old among four hospitalised
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