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Anthony Smith remembered for weighing decisions carefully, balancing firmness and humanity
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January 12 12:28 AM
Late RJRGleaner CEO did not seek applause
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...suggests copying Belize’s Criminal Justice Board
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January 12 12:26 AM
Lawyer calls for permanent fix
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Promoter echoes call to honour reggae stalwarts before they pass on
BY HOWARD CAMPBELL Observer senior writer entertainment@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12 12:26 AM
Let them smell their ‘flowers’
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Everard Owen Observer Writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12 12:25 AM
Public health dept wants more garbage trucks for Portland
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Dover residents say flooding worse than Melissa, blame lack of drain cleaning
BY TAMOY ASHMAN Observer staff reporter ashmant@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12 12:24 AM
From hurricane escape to flooded fate
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BY HOWARD CAMPBELL Observer senior writer entertainment@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12 12:24 AM
Singer Kenneth Roxborough dies at 78
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Judge expected to decide on start date today
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12 12:22 AM
Adjournment in gang trial might be ‘demanded’, says lawyer
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June 25, 2010
SATURDAY, JUNE 26 Magic City -- The Club eXperience @ The Quarry, Bustamante Highway, Clarendon. Featuring: ZJ Rush, Dj Wah Wa, CodeRed Sound and Dark...
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June 25, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) — A year after Michael Jackson's death caused a worldwide outpouring of shock, tears and tributes, the anniversary of his passing was be...
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June 25, 2010
Naomi's sudden departure from the Great House has left a void in the housekeeping department. Nobody believes that Joyce can be persuaded to come out ...
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June 24, 2010
After a one-month hiatus, the Live at Studio 38 concert series returns this Sunday, at the Pulse Center, Trafalgar Road, with the inimitable John Holt...
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BY STEVEN JACKSON Observer staff reporter 
June 24, 2010
Jamaica needs to prodcue its own films, stakeholders say Jamaica was arguably snubbed in the Hollywood film Knight and Day as the delicate beach scene...
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June 24, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The estate of Michael Jackson is taking issue with a documentary that is to debut in Japan on the anniversary of the pop star's dea...
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AP 
June 24, 2010
CULVER CITY, California (AP) — Dr Dre and Timbaland went back to school Wednesday night. The rapper-producers shocked students when they appeared at a...
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By Basil Walters Observer staff reporter 
June 24, 2010
The Jamaican theatre fraternity has lost another giant with the passing of veteran actor Fitz Weir, who died on Sunday at the age of 77. The retired c...
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June 24, 2010
A fair-sized gathering mainly of members of the media fraternity converged on the grounds of the town office of Irie FM last Friday evening for a cand...
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June 24, 2010
The organisers of the Smirnoff Dream Weekend were in high spirits at the party's launch held at the Redbones Cafe Wednesday night. Dream Weekend will ...
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June 24, 2010
The 2010 Tony Awards Ceremony held in New York City at historic Radio City Music Hall on June 13, officially brought the 2009-2010 New York theatre se...
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June 23, 2010
SINGER Bar-Bee flew to Jamaica over the weekend to be featured in Sean Kingston and Nicky Minaj's video shoot for their hit single Letting Go. She sai...
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June 23, 2010
TALENTED Jamaican singer and songwriter Tarrus Riley delivers a powerful socio-conscious message renouncing the scourge of violence on his latest rele...
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June 23, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Academy Awards organisers are talking about moving up the date of the show, possibly as early as January. At a Tuesday meeting, the...
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June 22, 2010
With a brand new title sponsor and what the promoters promise will be "seven of the best parties", the popular Dream Weekend series returns to fulfil ...
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June 22, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) — They are show business royalty, heirs of the King of Pop. Someday, they will be very rich. But a year after their father Michael Ja...
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By Tameka Coley Observer staff reporter 
June 22, 2010
"I am very happy to see that Fathers Incorporated is putting national focus on the critical role of fathers in our society," said Minister of Youth, S...
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June 21, 2010
There is that inextricable link between music and fashion. The simplest way to explain it is that fashionistas love music, and artistes seem to have t...
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Kevin Jackson 
June 21, 2010
I Octane completes video shoot for My Life Reggae artiste I Octane who is currently climbing the charts with the songs Lose a Friend and Think a Littl...
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June 20, 2010
Veteran reggae artiste Hopeton Lindo is spearheading a song project commissioned by the Jamaican Diaspora Movement in South Florida, entitled I Am Jam...
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June 20, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) -- Korn's Jonathan Davis is urging artistes to boycott troubled oil giant BP over the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. In a sta...
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BY STEVEN JACKSON Observer staff reporter 
June 20, 2010
The Jamaica Symphony Orchestra (JSO) played to a sold-out Courtleigh Auditorium in Kingston two Sundays ago at the concert Beethoven Meets Bob Marley,...
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