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A voice in sport lost
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A voice in sport lost
Tributes pour in for award-winning journalist Donald Oliver
December 31 12:20 AM
A voice in sport lost
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‘Closure & comfort’
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‘Closure & comfort’
•CASE students relieved after alleged serial rapist fatally shot by cops •Still want improved security on campus
Everard Owen Observer Writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31 12:18 AM
‘Closure comfort’
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Shereita Grizzle | Observer Staff Reporter 
December 31 12:16 AM
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STAGE ECONOMICS
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STAGE ECONOMICS
Live comedy’s gains amid theatre’s decline
Codie-ann Barrett | Business Reporter 
December 31 12:14 AM
Standing ovations for stand-ups 2025
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RIDING THE WAVE
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RIDING THE WAVE
ASAJ president pushing ahead with plans in second term
Daniel Blake | Sports Writer | blaked@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31 12:12 AM
More work to do
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BOJ pushing to improve Jam-Dex access
Business
BOJ pushing to improve Jam-Dex access
BY DAVID ROSE Observer business writer davidr@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31 12:10 AM
BOJ pushing
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‘Arrive alive’
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‘Arrive alive’
Increase in road fatalities pushes authorities to intensify strategies to change driver behaviour
BY RENAE OSBOURNE Observer staff reporter osbourner@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31 12:10 AM
‘Arrive alive’
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‘It’s about people, not buildings’
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‘It’s about people, not buildings’
Church leaders weigh in on debate over State’s offer of rebuilding funds
Jerome Williams | Reporter 
December 31 12:09 AM
‘It’s about people, not buildings’
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More questions than answers, PM
May 13, 2010
Dear Editor, On Tuesday the country listened as our prime minister attempted to make a dubious distinction between his administration and his party. M...
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He made a difference
May 13, 2010
Dear Editor, The Bustamante Industrial Trade Union is extremely saddened at the sudden passing of our dear friend and colleague, Captain Russell Caple...
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Do penance, PM
May 12, 2010
Dear Editor, Now that the prime minister has personally confessed to "some" of the truth, he is now indecently exposed to the whole world. This co-min...
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Letters
Put to rest Manatt, Phelps and Phillips affair
May 12, 2010
Dear Editor, The Manatt, Phelps and Phillips issue will not bring dark days for Jamaica. Jamaica is too blessed to have dark days ahead. We have the b...
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Put cell sites in less developed areas
May 12, 2010
Dear Editor, Mobile telephones have become quite ubiquitous in Jamaica because of the wise decision in the 1990s by the then People's National Party g...
Telegram
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JLP, GOJ separate
May 12, 2010
Dear Editor, Does anyone remember Trafigura? PM Portia Simpson Miller responded, "Don't ask me, ask the PNP." To this day, Mrs Simpson Miller has not ...
Telegram
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Letters
No need to berate teachers
May 12, 2010
Dear Editor, I read with great concern Mr Peter Gordon's letter in the Observer on Monday, "Teachers, use your intelligence". After noting the title o...
Telegram
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Don’t lump all dancehall artistes together, Clovis
Letters
Don’t lump all dancehall artistes together, Clovis
May 12, 2010
Dear Editor, In the 10 years since I've returned to Jamaica, I have never been so compelled to write a letter to you until now, after I saw the May 12...
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Remove gun from lyrics
Letters
Remove gun from lyrics
May 12, 2010
Dear Editor, On Monday Oneil Edwards of the Voicemail trio was shot several times and is still in critical condition. The news quickly spread across J...
Telegram
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Skills training
May 11, 2010
Dear Editor, When I was leaving the UK in 2007, they were making vocational skills compulsory in every high school. Yet for some reason, promoting voc...
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Hung Parliament
May 11, 2010
Dear Editor, Hanging Parliament? No, not literally. Allow me to explain. Some friends and I were talking about the recent election in the UK which is ...
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Crime talk
May 11, 2010
Dear Editor, As the debate about crime continues, allow me to make my contribution to the discussions, since it appears that the only thing being done...
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Letters
JA needs leaders who put country above self
May 11, 2010
Dear Editor, In one of Jamaica's major dailies, a group of Britons commented positively on the teaching methodology of our Jamaican schools. When all ...
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Letters
Well, do this! Well, do this
May 11, 2010
Dear Editor, At the risk of making the understatement of the century, I wish to make this observation: the teaching profession is in very serious trou...
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Letters
Give teachers their due
May 11, 2010
Dear Editor, My letter of May 5, "Teachers fail, not students", has ruffled more than a few feathers among teachers and others who supported the move ...
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Letters
Is irresponsible sex in black males’ DNA?
May 10, 2010
Dear Editor, Our high-profile black athletes with deficient intellect and great hubris need to revisit their history rather than repeat it. It is alwa...
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Where are our leaders’ cojones?
May 10, 2010
Dear Editor, I shake my head in disbelief when I listen to the nonsense spoken by our elected representatives and members of the Opposition, not to me...
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Exam not be-all and end-all
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Exam not be-all and end-all
May 10, 2010
Dear Editor, The Grade Four literacy and numeracy tests should not determine a child's future. This is not the real test. In today's world, a child ha...
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Media must be objective
May 10, 2010
Dear Editor, May 3 was World Press Freedom Day created in 1997 to "promote the free flow of information and its activities in the interest of press fr...
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Letters
Teachers do a helluva lot!
May 10, 2010
Dear Editor, Whenever there are negotiations for an increase in teachers' salary or payment of retroactive money, teachers' necks are placed on the ch...
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The unqualified hold the jobs
May 10, 2010
Dear Editor, For some time now I have been mystified by the complaints of many graduates from our tertiary institutions that they are unable to find j...
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Join us in the classroom, Rev
May 9, 2010
Dear Editor, In response to Rev Dr Raulston Nembhard's article of April 28, I wish to inform him that the responsibility of enlightening our children ...
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