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January 9 10:16 PM
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January 9 09:08 PM
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Anger over Minneapolis shooting probe fuels protests
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January 9 08:57 PM
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Fire guts multi-storey Manchester home
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January 9 07:49 PM
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Firefighters are now conducting a cooling-down operation after fire gutted the top floor of a multi-storey house in Hope Village...

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Portia — from Wood Hall to Jamaica House… again
BY HG HELPS Editor-at-large helpsh@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31, 2011
RUNNING around as a skinny, shy young girl at Marlie Hill Primary School in what is now the constituency of North Central St Catherine, Portia Simpson...
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Tufton loses on recount
Vernon Davidson | Executive Editor, Publications | davidsonv@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31, 2011
DR Christopher Tufton lost his St Elizabeth South West seat by 13 votes to the People's National Party's (PNP's) Hugh Buchanan in the recount complete...
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Portia earns respect
CLAUDE ROBINSON 
December 31, 2011
PORTIA Simpson Miller earned the political respect, long denied her by various elements of Jamaican society, by leading the People's National Party (P...
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Gambling on the wrong horse
BY JANICE BUDD Associate Editor ? Sunday buddj@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31, 2011
ONE analyst and researcher has said that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) battering at the polls Thursday could have been worse. Anthropologist of socia...
Columns, Elections Candidates
When Jamaican voters surprised pollsters
RICKEY SINGH 
December 31, 2011
ANALYSIS LAST Thursday's landslide parliamentary victory by the People's National Party (PNP) that crushed the incumbent Jamaica Labour Party (PNP) wi...
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Jamaicans set education goals this New Year
December 31, 2011
IT is the start of a new year and with it has come the time for resolutions. Career & Education took the streets last Friday to talk to Jamaicans in t...
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The PNP won, now what?
BY INGRID BROWN Sunday Observer senior reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31, 2011
The machine of government keeps rolling until new administration installed ALTHOUGH the Portia Simpson Miller-led People's National Party (PNP) is the...
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Voters prove me horribly wrong. JLP soundly rejected
MARK WIGNALL 
December 31, 2011
WIGNALL’S WORLD ALTHOUGH I knew and wrote that voter apathy was widespread, latching onto the conventional view that the election would have been clos...
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Clean sweep for PNP in Hanover
BY PAUL A REID Observer writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 30, 2011
SANDY BAY, Hanover — A sudden swift shower of rain just after the close of voting at 5:00 pm did little to dampen the spirits of voters in the Eastern...
Elections Candidates, News, Politics
PNP outsmarted us: G2K member
Jamaica Observer 
December 30, 2011
A member of Generation 2000 (G2K), the young professional affiliate of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) says the People's National Party (PNP) outsmarte...
Elections Candidates, News, Politics
It’s Portia! – PNP delivers crushing 41-22 seat defeat to JLP
Vernon Davidson | Executive Editor, Publications | davidsonv@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 29, 2011
THE People's National Party (PNP) sent the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) back into Opposition after scoring a crushing 41-22-seat victory in yesterday's ...
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2 Cabinet ministers lose seats
December 29, 2011
TWO Cabinet ministers, Robert Montague and Clive Mullings, were among the big casualties in yesterday's general election. Montague, who was the minist...
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One of the most peaceful elections, say cops, parties
BY KIMMO MATTHEWS Observer staff reporter matthewsk@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 29, 2011
AT the official 5 o'clock close of polls yesterday there were no reports of any major election-related violence, prompting the police and spokesperson...
Elections Candidates, News
Security strong for polls in crime-hit Sav
BY PAUL RODGERS Observer business editor rodgersp@jamaicaobserever.com 
December 29, 2011
DESPITE a gang-related fatal shooting at a Jamaica Labour Party rally on the eve of the polls, voting in Central Westmoreland was quiet yesterday. Sol...
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The maturing of the electoral process
December 29, 2011
YESTERDAY'S polling in our 16th general election since 1944 marked, in our view, the undoubted maturing of the Jamaican electoral and political proces...
Elections Candidates, News, Politics
EOJ won’t comment on poll until recount
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Observer senior reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 29, 2011
OFFICIALS of the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) have reserved comment on last night's general election results until after the official recount whi...
Elections Candidates, News
Some complaints, but smooth voting in Corporate Area
December 29, 2011
VOTING went smoothly in several constituencies across the Corporate Area yesterday, despite complaints from electors of lengthy delays. At several pol...
Elections Candidates, News, Politics
Holness bubble bursts – Shine rubs off young PM
BY INGRID BROWN Senior Staff Reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 29, 2011
Dudus/Manatt episode cost JLP dearly, says Samuda JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) campaign director Karl Samuda last night said the Dudus/Manatt episode ha...
Elections Candidates, News
Relaxed atmosphere, moderate voting in St Elizabeth
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
December 29, 2011
SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — A relaxed atmosphere and a sense of moderate rather than heavy voting prevailed on election day in St Elizabeth. All across...
Business, Elections Candidates, News
Businesses not worried about low commercial activities
Julian Richardson | Online Content Manager 
December 29, 2011
THE local business community was not concerned about a fall-off in commercial activities arising from yesterday's general election, according to Jamai...
Elections Candidates, News
Slow but peaceful voting in St. Andrew
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Observer senior reporter douglasl@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 29, 2011
A slow electronic identification system marred an otherwise relatively uneventful election day in South East and North East St Andrew on Thursday, two...

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