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WATCH: PM asks for residents’ cooperation amid imminent closure of Petersfield hurricane shelter
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WATCH: PM asks for residents’ cooperation amid imminent closure of Petersfield hurricane shelter
Anthony Lewis, Observer writer 
December 13 08:11 PM
WESTMORELAND, Jamaica — Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness is asking hurricane-affected residents of Petersfield in Westmoreland for cooperation as Gove...
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Police Federation expresses condolences following death of traffic cop
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Police Federation expresses condolences following death of traffic cop
December 13 04:57 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — The Jamaica Police Federation has expressed condolences to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and colleagues of Constable Er...
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Police warn against obstructing traffic
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Police warn against obstructing traffic
December 13 04:37 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will be taking a zero-tolerance approach to persons who obstruct the free flow of traffic in ...
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Tony Roy reflects on ‘I’d Love You to Want Me’
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Tony Roy reflects on ‘I’d Love You to Want Me’
December 13 04:36 PM
Whenever Tony Roy reflects on his career, he is likely to pinpoint 2025 as the year he got the big breakthrough. That came with I’d Love You to Want M...
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St Elizabeth residents receive land titles
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St Elizabeth residents receive land titles
December 13 04:27 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — More than 700 residents of St Elizabeth across 34 communities are now proud landowners under the Government’s Systematic Land ...
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JPS advises of temporary road closures in St James
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JPS advises of temporary road closures in St James
December 13 04:20 PM
ST JAMES, Jamaica— The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) is advising the motoring public, that in order to support critical electricity grid restoration wo...
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Montego Bay mayor calls for community support as Clean-Up Day set for Sunday
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Montego Bay mayor calls for community support as Clean-Up Day set for Sunday
December 13 03:37 PM
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Richard Vernon is calling for support from the wider St James community as they seek to carry out...
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Trump vows to ‘retaliate’ after IS attack kills US troops in Syria
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Trump vows to ‘retaliate’ after IS attack kills US troops in Syria
December 13 03:27 PM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States (US) would retaliate after two US troops and a civilian ...
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Thousands evacuated as Germany tackles huge WWII bombs
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Thousands evacuated as Germany tackles huge WWII bombs
September 1, 2017
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Bomb disposal experts defused an unexploded American World War II shell in the western German city of Koblenz on Saturday, as ...
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UPDATE: Suspect in Dexter Pottinger murder to be charged
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UPDATE: Suspect in Dexter Pottinger murder to be charged
September 1, 2017
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Reports reaching OBSERVER ONLINE a short while ago are that the main suspect in the murder of fashion designer Dexter Pottinger is...
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Police stations to receive funds for maintenance  — Montague
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Police stations to receive funds for maintenance — Montague
September 1, 2017
KINGSTON, Jamaica — National Security Minister Robert Montague says that police stations are to receive $250,000 for routine maintenance. “It is to fi...
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Languages of indigenous peoples to be taught in Guyana schools
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Languages of indigenous peoples to be taught in Guyana schools
September 1, 2017
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — The Guyana government says it is moving to have the languages of the indigenous peoples taught in schools here. “With langu...
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UPDATE: Suspect apprehended in Dexter Pottinger murder
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UPDATE: Suspect apprehended in Dexter Pottinger murder
September 1, 2017
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Police confirmed today that a man has been taken into custody in relation to the murder of fashion designer Dexter Pottinger. The ...
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Police make arrest over arrow attack at Oval
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Police make arrest over arrow attack at Oval
September 1, 2017
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Police arrested a man on Saturday in connection with Thursday's bizarre arrow attack during a county cricket match at T...
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Ocho Rios police gets standby generator
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Ocho Rios police gets standby generator
September 1, 2017
ST JAMES, Jamaica (JIS) — The Ocho Rios police station now has a new standby generator costing, including installation, approximately $7.3 million. Mi...
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Large turnout in thanksgiving for Winston Green
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Large turnout in thanksgiving for Winston Green
September 1, 2017
ST ANDREW, Jamaica — Scores of mourners are now  gathered inside St Andrew Parish Church for the thanksgiving service for late People's National Party...
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JFF shocked at passing of national U-15 squad member
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JFF shocked at passing of national U-15 squad member
September 1, 2017
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Football Federation has expressed shock at the untimely passing of Rushawn Duncan, a member of the 2017 national Under...
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Trump visits evacuees at shelter in storm-battered Houston
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Trump visits evacuees at shelter in storm-battered Houston
September 1, 2017
HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump handed out box lunches and hugged children in a Houston emergency shelter on Saturday, as he wit...
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T&T Gov’t moves to restructure state-owned oil company
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T&T Gov’t moves to restructure state-owned oil company
September 1, 2017
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago government has announced a new board of directors for the state-owned oil company, PETROTRIN, ...
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Guyana looking at measures to ease plight of refugees
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Guyana looking at measures to ease plight of refugees
September 1, 2017
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — The Guyana government says it will put in place legislation to avoid people fleeing harsh economic and political conditions...
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Haiti prepares for Hurricane Irma
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Haiti prepares for Hurricane Irma
September 1, 2017
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — Haiti, which is still recovering from the battering it took from the passage of Hurricane Matthew last year, Saturday sa...
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PNP activates phone line for ZOSO abuses
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PNP activates phone line for ZOSO abuses
September 1, 2017
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) in response to the declaration of Mount Salem and its environs in parish of St James ...
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T&T drift towards World Cup elimination after defeat to Honduras
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T&T drift towards World Cup elimination after defeat to Honduras
September 1, 2017
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Trinidad and Tobago drifted closer to elimination from the CONCACAF final round of 2018 World Cup qualifiers when they...
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Human stem cells restore mobility in Parkinson’s monkeys — study
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Human stem cells restore mobility in Parkinson’s monkeys — study
September 1, 2017
PARIS, France (AFP) — Lab monkeys with Parkinson's symptoms regained significant mobility after neurons made from human stem cells were inserted into ...
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Group sues NYPD over Caribbean J’Ouvert Carnival parade
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Group sues NYPD over Caribbean J’Ouvert Carnival parade
September 1, 2017
NEW YORK, United States (CMC) — A Brooklyn, New York community group is suing the New York Police Department (NYPD) for withholding details about how ...
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Mount Salem recommended itself for ZOSO, says PM
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Mount Salem recommended itself for ZOSO, says PM
September 1, 2017
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) -- Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the Mount Salem community in St James “recommended itself” as a Zone of Special Operatio...
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St Mary teen fatally stabbed in prank gone wrong
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St Mary teen fatally stabbed in prank gone wrong
September 1, 2017
ST MARY, Jamaica — The Annotto Bay Police in St Mary are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of 15-year-old Rushawn Duncan of Crooke...
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Superstar Serena Williams reportedly in labour
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Superstar Serena Williams reportedly in labour
August 31, 2017
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Pregnant tennis superstar Serena Williams was in labour at a Florida clinic on Friday, US media reported, prompting an ou...
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Trump, Moon agree to boost S Korean missile capabilities
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Trump, Moon agree to boost S Korean missile capabilities
August 31, 2017
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States and South Korea agreed Friday to strengthen Seoul's defences and Washington gave a nod to billions...
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Residents in ZOSO to get gun amnesty — Chuck
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Residents in ZOSO to get gun amnesty — Chuck
August 31, 2017
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Government says that there will be a gun amnesty in each named Zone of Special Operations (ZOSO), which will allow residents t...
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WATCH: PM asks for residents’ cooperation amid imminent closure of Petersfield hurricane shelter
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WESTMORELAND, Jamaica — Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness is asking hurricane-affected residents of Petersfield in Westmoreland for cooperation as Gove...
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Police Federation expresses condolences following death of traffic cop
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ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — The Jamaica Police Federation has expressed condolences to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and colleagues of Constable Er...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will be taking a zero-tolerance approach to persons who obstruct the free flow of traffic in ...
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Tony Roy reflects on ‘I’d Love You to Want Me’
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Tony Roy reflects on ‘I’d Love You to Want Me’
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Whenever Tony Roy reflects on his career, he is likely to pinpoint 2025 as the year he got the big breakthrough. That came with I’d Love You to Want M...
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St Elizabeth residents receive land titles
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ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — More than 700 residents of St Elizabeth across 34 communities are now proud landowners under the Government’s Systematic Land ...
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