Stony Hill teen on wounding rap after stabbing incident
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Stony Hill teen on wounding rap after stabbing incident
December 21 04:40 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A 17-year-old student of Temple Heights district, Stony Hill, St Andrew, has been charged with wounding with intent following an i...
Labourer charged with 2011 double murder in St Elizabeth
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Labourer charged with 2011 double murder in St Elizabeth
December 21 03:04 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — A 41-year-old labourer has been charged in connection with the murder of two men in Middle Quarters, St Elizabeth in 2011. The...
Carl Meeks rides timeless beats with ‘Classeeks’
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Carl Meeks rides timeless beats with ‘Classeeks’
December 21 01:29 PM
Classeeks , the second album for 2025 from singer Carl Meeks, was released on December 12. It is produced by Cedrik “Kiko” Ynesta of France for the Ru...
‘Why I backed the JLP’s crime plan?’
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‘Why I backed the JLP’s crime plan?’
Keith Duncan says he was sold on strategy presented by Dr Chang
Lynford Simpson | Observer Writer 
December 21 01:18 PM
Government Senator Keith Duncan has moved to explain why he backed the crimefighting plan of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Administration, revealing ...

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That Marlon Samuels return
May 14, 2010
AMID the quick-fire excitement of the World Twenty/20 Championships and the disappointment at the West Indies' exit short of the semi-finals comes the...
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Time to ship out, Prime Minister?
May 13, 2010
How convenient it would be if we could just brush aside the unpleasant things in life and keep moving right along! There'd be no need for any of the s...
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JSE proposal makes a lot of sense
May 11, 2010
THE signal of urgency sent by Finance Minister Audley Shaw to the Jamaica Stock Exchange's proposal to have Government bonds traded on the secondary m...
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Gordon Brown will be missed
May 11, 2010
It was said of a particularly austere prime minister of Britain that his smile was like a silver plate on a coffin, but he was one of Britain's best p...
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Dear mother…
May 8, 2010
AS Jamaica and other countries across the globe celebrate mothers today, we would like to record our very best wishes for their happiness, because eve...
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It will be costly, but new stadium needed
May 7, 2010
The organisers of the seventh JN Jamaica International Invitational meet, held on May 1 at the National Stadium, must be given credit. Despite wrangli...
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Of pigs and politicians…
May 6, 2010
Eric Arthur Blair, better known to the world as George Orwell, pens a compelling final scene in his classic allegory, Animal Farm. In it the pigs, who...
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If you can read this, thank a teacher, but…
May 4, 2010
Teachers are among the three main groups -- nurses and police included -- for whom we have a really soft spot in this space, because we consider them,...
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Usain Bolt’s track and the UWI’s vision
May 3, 2010
Naturally, like Mr Usain Bolt, Racers Track Club, and the University of the West Indies (UWI) administrators, we are delighted at the installation by ...
Editorial
Teachers should reconsider
May 2, 2010
Like the education minister, Mr Andrew Holness, this newspaper hopes that the strike by public sector teachers planned for today and tomorrow will not...
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Close the gate…
May 1, 2010
IT'S easy to level condemnation at the heartless brutes who shot up the Salmon family, killing five-year-old Christiana and hospitalising her father a...
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Jamaica and the Caribbean need to cash in on sport
April 30, 2010
WE have said it in this space previously. So this newspaper has no difficulty applauding the call by Mr Robert Bryan, the ICC World Twenty20 tournamen...
Editorial
Questions the Government needs to answer
April 29, 2010
WE thought everyone had come to realise by now that there is no such thing as being almost pregnant. But the statements made by Mr Karl Samuda, the Ja...
Editorial
Make us believe again, Bruce
April 28, 2010
Mr Bruce Golding made believers out of Jamaicans when he declared in 1995 that he would walk a new and different path in leadership; he would eschew g...
Editorial
Good move on Palisadoes Road work, but…
April 27, 2010
The launch last week of long overdue rehabilitation work on the Palisadoes Road has given us a small degree of satisfaction. Small because it has take...
Editorial
Capitalism versus ‘criminalism’
April 26, 2010
Jamaica is at the tipping point of parallel governance systems: one legal and the other illegal, one elected and the other self-selected, one constitu...
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Communities should organise to protect themselves
April 25, 2010
WE are at one with the editorial view of the Sunday Observer that dirt "at the head of the stream" is facilitating the sort of attitude that will lead...
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Colbeck’s a sign…
April 24, 2010
According to our Friday edition, Agriculture Minister Christopher Tufton intends to "enter into discussions with the Inter-American Development Bank (...
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Seeking global dominance for Jamaica’s netball
April 23, 2010
Another Caribbean netball tournament has come and gone and once again the results have shown Jamaica way ahead of the regional competition. At the rec...

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