Maduro says Venezuela open to talks with US, amid pressure
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Maduro says Venezuela open to talks with US, amid pressure
January 2 03:43 PM
CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP)—President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro on Thursday dodged a question about an alleged US attack on a dock in Venezuela but sai...
6.5-magnitude quake shakes Mexico City and beach resort
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6.5-magnitude quake shakes Mexico City and beach resort
January 2 02:58 PM
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP)—A 6.5-magnitude earthquake rattled Mexico's capital and a tourist hotspot on the Pacific coast on Friday, killing at least o...
Brazilian miners die in Guyana after pit collapses
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Brazilian miners die in Guyana after pit collapses
January 2 02:50 PM
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – The Guyana Police Force on Friday said that two Brazilian gold miners died after a mining pit collapsed at Chenapou, North ...

Jamaica 50

Jamaica 50, News
Symbols of pride
August 4, 2012
ON the occasion of our country's first Independence Day, the State distributed keepsakes among the citizenry as a means of ensuring that they not only...
Jamaica 50, Olympics 2012, Sports
Shelly-Ann, VCB create pandemoniun at Jamaica 50 Jubilee Village
August 4, 2012
Pandemonium broke loose at the Jamaica 50 Jubilee Village on the grounds of the National Stadium yesterday afternoon as scores of Jamaicans celebrated...
Jamaica 50, News
Joyful Jubilee, but J’cans look to the next 50
August 4, 2012
TOMORROW, August 6, will be 50 years since Jamaica gained independence. While some of the country's leaders have been assessing the country's progress...
Jamaica 50, News
Welcome home! – Mayor greets Jamaicans home for Ja50
TANESHA MUNDLE 
August 4, 2012
SCORES of Jamaicans who live overseas have been returning home over the past few weeks excited about experiencing Jamaica50 Independence anniversary c...
Jamaica 50, News
Proud to be Jamaican
BY KIMONE THOMPSON ?Features editor ? Sunday ?thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com 
August 4, 2012
Independent Jamaica's first native chief justice — Sir Colin MacGregor DEBBIE and Judith were tots when their granddad Sir Colin MacGregor retired as ...
Jamaica 50, News
Observer joins Independence celebrations
August 3, 2012
THE Jamaica Observer yesterday joined in celebrating the country's 50th anniversary of Independence with a flag-raising ceremony at the newspaper's he...
Jamaica 50, Lifestyle, Local Lifestyle, ...
Happy Independence and hail our athletes
August 3, 2012
Rock the Cloth We had our article all set for this week until we ran into Aleen Bailey here in London and just thought it perfectly fitting for her to...
Entertainment, Jamaica 50
Mello Go Roun’ in fine style
August 3, 2012
WHAT seemed like an impromptu performance threatened to mar a great evening of performances at this year's staging of the variety show Mello Go Roun' ...
Columns, Jamaica 50
Celebrating the 50th, at home and away
KEEBLE McFARLANE 
August 3, 2012
HARD as it is to believe, it's been 50 years since the Union Jack went down the flagpole for the last time as Jamaica's official emblem and the new bl...
Jamaica 50
Tomorrow’s Jamaica 50 events
August 2, 2012
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Denbigh Agricultural Show gets underway tomorrow at the Denbigh Showground in May Pen, Clarendon beginning at 8:00am. Day into...
Columns, Jamaica 50
History, shame and emancipendence
Michael Burke 
August 1, 2012
WHAT has shame or embarrassment to do with communicating history? And what has this to do with our emancipendence celebrations, particularly in a year...
Editorial, Jamaica 50
Time now to start believing in ourselves
July 28, 2012
The 50th anniversary of Independence is a time for celebration but, importantly, a time to ask deep questions about ourselves, particularly our achiev...
Jamaica 50, News
Accompong Maroons to support St Elizabeth’s 50 celebrations
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
July 26, 2012
SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — Head of the Accompong Maroons Colonel Ferron Williams says his community will participate in Jamaica 50 events organised wi...
Jamaica 50, Teenage
Jamaica 1989
Melaine Warren 
July 23, 2012
1. In February, the People's National Party, led by Michael Manley, defeated the governing Jamaica Labour Party led by the Prime Minister Edward Seaga...
Jamaica 50, Teenage
Rick’s Cafe
Devaro Bolton 
July 23, 2012
AS we continue our Jamaica 50 feature of sites that have brought fame and prestige to our little island, we venture to Negril to highlight the world-r...

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