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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
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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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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 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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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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June 20, 2010
Fluffy Caribbean divas can now boast their own CFW collection and hopefully look forward to more couture moments. Celebrated local designer Sandra Ken...
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June 20, 2010
Pulse continues to inject musical entertainment into the offering at its annual staging of Caribbean Fashionweek. R&B crooner, Johnny Gill, was this y...
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June 20, 2010
GULF SHORES, Alabama (AP) -- Jimmy Buffett and a few of his friends plan to give a free concert on the Alabama coast to show support for the Gulf regi...
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BY CHARLES H.E. CAMPBELL 
June 19, 2010
Groundins There are a few statistics that starkly define our current social environment. When he was head of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ),...
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BY CECELIA CAMPBELL-LIVINGSTON Observer staff reporter 
June 19, 2010
When it comes on to music, Lincoln 'Sugar' Minott eats, sleeps and breathes it. He has a passion that sees him grooming one generation to the next. Th...
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June 19, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) — Battle-scarred rap mogul Marion 'Suge' Knight and volatile hip-hop star Kanye West faced off Friday over a beef involving a bullet — w...
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June 19, 2010
BIRTHDAY celebrations for Caribbean Fashion Week's 10th anniversary commenced Friday night with elegant ladies of the region swanning into the Nationa...
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June 18, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) — John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to the final song on the classic Beatles album, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band were purchased b...
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June 18, 2010
LAS VEGAS, USA (AP) — Michael Jackson memorabilia, including furniture, stage clothes and handwritten lyrics, are up for sale as part of a celebrity a...
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June 18, 2010
THE annual MultiCare Foundation Lunch Hour Concert staged last Thursday at the Institute of Jamaica once again featured several high-class performance...
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June 17, 2010
It will be educational. It will be informative. It will be entertaining. That is what Grennell's Driving School has promised patrons who attend the se...
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June 17, 2010
THE bell at the Jamaica Stock Exchange has been rung to open the markets as Pulse kicked off its Caribbean Fashionweek 10th anniversary this week. Coc...
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June 17, 2010
Digicel Jamaica, a main sponsor of Reggae Sumfest since 2001, has partnered with the talented and versatile producer, Demarco to create a hot, new rid...
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June 17, 2010
The highly anticipated festival album 2010 entitled True Jamaican Patriot, produced by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) was official...
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June 17, 2010
Recently, the 13 parish queens in the TVJ Miss Jamaica Festival Queen competition were "glitzed and glammed" for a photo shoot held at the historic an...
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June 17, 2010
In the frenzy of preparation for a promised-to-be blockbuster of a Styleweel 2010, July 9-11, the Saint International camp is now celebrating yet anot...
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June 17, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death had requested lifesaving gear and a nurse from the concert promoter organising the s...
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By Basil Walters Observer staff reporter 
June 17, 2010
One thing cannot be said: female jazz performers are an endangered species. The Opening Jazz Day at the Pegasus Hotel Gardens on Sunday to mark the st...
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June 16, 2010
Morgan Heritage stars Gramps Morgan and his sibling, Una, will both make solo appearances at CFW 2010 on the Sunday night of the event. While Gramps h...
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June 15, 2010
FASHION and lifestyle magazine Ocean Style, has confirmed some of the models being flown in for their upcoming Dulce de Leche swimsuit and lingerie fa...
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