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2025’s final sunset opens the door to a new year
January 1 12:20 AM
2025’s final sunset opens the door to a new year
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Lee-Chin misses US$94-m bond deadline, risks Supreme Court lawsuit
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Lee-Chin misses US$94-m bond deadline, risks Supreme Court lawsuit
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January 1 12:18 AM
Lee-Chin misses US$94-m bond deadline, risks Supreme Court lawsuit
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Strictly 2K does the honours
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Alma Mock Yen hailed as distinguished broadcaster and lecturer
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January 1 12:12 AM
‘Whisper’ blames external forces
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French Finesse & Island Flavour: Fromage debuts new brunch menu
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French Finesse & Island Flavour: Fromage debuts new brunch menu
January 1 12:10 AM
French Finesse Island Flavour:
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Petersfield shelter showdown!
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Petersfield shelter showdown!
McKenzie denies eviction plans as Opposition claims families face displacement
Jerome Williams | Reporter 
January 1 12:06 AM
Petersfield shelter showdown!
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Elderly wife killer heard voice of God
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Elderly wife killer heard voice of God
Farmer confesses to using tools in jealous, rage-filled double murder
Alicia Dunkley-Willis | Senior Reporter 
January 1 12:05 AM
Elderly wife killer heard voice of God
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BirdLife Ja conducts pelican count on Earth Day
Observer Reporter 
April 29, 2001
A survey of Refuge Cay, a mangrove island near Port Royal within Kingston Harbour which is an important nesting site of the regionally endangered Brow...
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FAO’s millennium forest findings
Observer Reporter 
April 22, 2001
A report from the United States Food and Agricultural department said that the tropics continue to lose 13.5 million hectares of natural forest each y...
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Hurricane hunting
ARLENE MARTIN, Observer staff reporter 
April 22, 2001
LAST Wednesday, a team of hurricane specialists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) and hurricane hunters from the United Sta...
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Wondrous wetlands
ARLENE MARTIN, Observer staff reporter 
April 15, 2001
THEY are among the most beautiful places on earth, and have inspired artists, travellers, poets, and photographers for generations. Wetlands, or where...
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Study to assess sand quarrying effect
Observer Reporter 
April 15, 2001
MINISTER of Mining and Energy, Robert Pickersgill, and a representative of the British Geological Survey, David Harrison, recently signed a memorandum...
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‘They will disappear … like Dinosaurs’
April 8, 2001
That is the dire warning sounded by a leading Chinese expert on the Tibetan Antelope. These rare and beautiful animals are being slaughtered by the th...
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Manufacturers go EAST
March 25, 2001
THE Environmental Audits for Sustainable Tourism (EAST) model that has been defining the "greening" of the Jamaican hotel industry for the past three ...
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Marine Sciences Centre to monitor coral reefs
Observer Reporter 
March 18, 2001
THE Centre for Marine Sciences (CMS) at the University of the West Indies, Mona has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Caribbean Planning f...
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Community wins Gov’t support for environmental initiative
Observer Reporter 
March 11, 2001
What would you do if your community was overrun with garbage -- domestic waste- This was a question that was top of mind when residents of four commun...
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Teachers welcome environmental education workshops
Observer Reporter 
March 11, 2001
APPROXIMATELY 300 teachers from 185 schools recently attended 12 workshops across the island to share their successes and try to solve some of the cha...
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Students fight to save Kingston Harbour
March 4, 2001
The following is an edited version of Kingston Harbour facts, compiled by the Students Environment Network (SEN) as part of their 'Save Kingston Harbo...
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Environment, News
US firefighters aid Jamaica in bush fire response
February 18, 2001
AT the request of the government of Jamaica, a fire fighting team from the United States Forest Service (USFS) recently visited Jamaica. The team, whi...
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CWIP gets new chief
February 11, 2001
DR Scott McCormick is the new chief of Party for the Coastal Water Quality Improvement Project (CWIP), a bilateral initiative between the Government o...
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Meteorologists meet to discuss Caribbean climate change
February 4, 2001
EIGHTEEN meteorological data managers across the Caribbean region and beyond met recently at the University of the West Indies, Mona, to examine issue...
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Honouring keepers of the environment
January 21, 2001
SUSTAINABLE environmental management cannot be achieved without the assistance of communities all over Jamaica who must be made aware of their role in...
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Caribbean lizards inspire new research
January 14, 2001
ENN -- A discovery that remarkably similar lizard communities have evolved independently on different islands in the Caribbean is shedding new light o...
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Environment, News
Scientists smitten by Jamaican tree crab
January 7, 2001
GENETIC analysis has revealed that a tiny crab, that lives in the trees of Jamaica, made a rapid evolutionary transformation from its large and rugged...
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Environment, News
Using skits to teach green lessons
December 17, 2000
THE recently launched Greening of Negril Solid Waste Management and Recycling Project has commenced the staging of a series of drama skits across Negr...
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Environment, News
Animal Day a success at Serenity Park
December 10, 2000
GUARDSMAN Serenity Fishing and Wildlife Sanctuary staged their first Animal Day, coinciding with World Animal Day 2000 two Sundays ago at their Bushy ...
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Negril will emerge green destination — Dickie
December 10, 2000
IN order to obtain the goal for a 'greener' Negril, the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, is proposing an integrated approach...
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Environment, News
Reaching the teachers
December 3, 2000
OVER 300 teachers from 177 schools recently attended 11 workshops across the island to discuss the Schools' Environment Programme (SEP). SEP is a join...
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Negril to go fully green
November 19, 2000
NEGRIL will be green by December 2001 if the private sector, environmental and community-based organisations and public sector agencies based in this ...
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