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Montego Bay secure bye into JPL semis despite loss
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April 27 09:54 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Montego Bay United earned a bye through to the semi-finals of the Jamaica Premier League despite being outscored 4-3 by Harbour Vi...
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‘This cannot be right’: Opposition senator says Joint Select Committee needed for NaRRA
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‘This cannot be right’: Opposition senator says Joint Select Committee needed for NaRRA
April 27 09:31 AM
The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) has called for the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA) Bill to be sent to a joint se...
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Suspect in shooting at Trump press dinner to appear in court
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Suspect in shooting at Trump press dinner to appear in court
April 27 09:00 AM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- A California man accused of storming a gala dinner attended by President Donald Trump was to appear in court Monday...
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King Charles begins four-day US visit despite shooting
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King Charles begins four-day US visit despite shooting
April 27 08:44 AM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Britain's King Charles III begins a state visit to the United States on Monday, as transatlantic tensions simmer ov...
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Mbappe doubt for Clasico after Real Madrid confirm thigh injury
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Mbappe doubt for Clasico after Real Madrid confirm thigh injury
April 27 08:21 AM
MADRID, Spain (AFP) -- Real Madrid striker Kylian Mbappe is a doubt for the Clasico on May 10 after his club confirmed Monday he has sustained a thigh...
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Oil rises, stocks steady as US-Iran peace talk hopes wobble
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Oil rises, stocks steady as US-Iran peace talk hopes wobble
April 27 08:16 AM
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- Oil prices rose and stock markets were steady on Monday as peace talks between the US and Iran stalled, ahead of a wee...
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BLAME THE MINISTRY!
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BLAME THE MINISTRY!
• Government, parents said complicit in school discipline issues• Schools should be hostile environment for gangs, JTA president says
BY JASON CROSS Observer staff reporter crossj@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 27 12:30 AM
BLAME THE MINISTRY!
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SUGAR CLAMPDOWN
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SUGAR CLAMPDOWN
Authorities targeting illegally imported and contaminated sweetener
BY KASEY WILLIAMS Staff reporter williamsk@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 27 12:28 AM
SUGAR CLAMPDOWN
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Passion drove killer ex-cop over the edge
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Passion drove killer ex-cop over the edge
BY PAUL HENRY Crime/court co-ordinator henryp@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 17, 2011
THE wish of a woman to end an affair drove a former cop to go on a shooting spree, killing the woman, her child's father, and her son before he turned...
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Buju is a rock
BY KARYL WALKER Observer online news editor walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 16, 2011
DESPITE languishing in the Pinellas County Jail in Florida almost two months after being convicted on drug charges, Reggae star Buju Banton is said to...
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This Day in History – April 17
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This Day in History – April 17
AP 
April 16, 2011
Today is the 107th day of 2011. There are 258 days left in the year. Today's Highlight 2000: Paul Kagame is selected president of Rwanda, the nation's...
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‘They destroyed me’
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‘They destroyed me’
BY PATRICK FOSTER Sunday Observer writer fosterp@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 16, 2011
Paul Chen-Young says he was selected for personal and vindictive treatment DR Paul Chen-Young, whose Eagle Group of companies collapsed and was taken ...
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Uzi seized in Rockfort
April 16, 2011
THE police seized a Uzi sub-machine gun in Rockfort, Kingston 2, last night.  Reports from the Rockfort Police are that about 8:20 pm, a sales manager...
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Poverty doesn’t cause crime — former gangster
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Poverty doesn’t cause crime — former gangster
BY KARYL WALKER Observer online news editor walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 16, 2011
This is the fifth in a Sunday Observer series featuring stories told by inner-city men who have turned from a life of crime and are trying to steer yo...
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More shelling in rebel-held city in western Libyan
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More shelling in rebel-held city in western Libyan
April 16, 2011
AJDABIYA, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi's forces poured rocket fire after dawn yesterday into Misrata, the only western city still in rebel hands, and ...
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‘Nuff gyal’ syndrome?
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‘Nuff gyal’ syndrome?
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Features Editor ? Sunday thompsonk@jamaicaobserver 
April 16, 2011
Psychiatrist says men with many women have a mental illness JAMAICAN men who have simultaneous multiple sex partners have a mental illness. This is th...
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We are 100 per cent Jamaican — Vaz
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We are 100 per cent Jamaican — Vaz
Inside Parliament With Alicia Dunkley 
April 16, 2011
Minister boasts no more JLP dual citizens in Parliament SEEMINGLY confident that all its 32 members of Parliament are "one hundred per cent Jamaican",...
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Chen-Young fears for his safety
BY PATRICK FOSTER Sunday Observer writer fosterp@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 16, 2011
AFTER 13 years in financial exile, former Eagle Group chairman Paul Chen-Young still fears he could be physically hurt if he returns to the island. Ch...
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ATL Pension Fund healthy despite Lynch, Pyne fraud charges
April 16, 2011
THE management of the ATL/Sandals Group has assured all team members, contributors to the ATL Pension Fund and pensioners that their pension contribut...
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Don’t feed or harass nesting crocs — NEPA
April 16, 2011
MEMBERS of the public have been cautioned not to feed or harass crocodiles nesting in the wetlands along the Hellshire main road in St Catherine. The ...
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Guidance counsellors mount national campaign against teen suicides
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Guidance counsellors mount national campaign against teen suicides
BY JANICE BUDD Associate Editor ? Sunday buddj@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 16, 2011
THE recent spike in the number of suspected child suicides has become the catalyst for a renewed focus on teenagers and their emotional needs by the n...
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Westwood’s ‘green’ display
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Westwood’s ‘green’ display
April 16, 2011
Westwood High School students explain their acts of 'green' with a group of young children at the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica's Earth Day expo...
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One crime syndicate down, next!
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One crime syndicate down, next!
April 16, 2011
‘If Bruce can assault Tivoli, criminals not safe anywhere’ — Observer reader Observer online readers largely agree with the newspaper's April 14, 2011...
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Marsha Parham — a woman of great substance — passes on
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Marsha Parham — a woman of great substance — passes on
BY AINSWORTH MORRIS Life Tributes writer morrisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 16, 2011
Life Tributes MARSHA Marie Parham was remembered as a woman of great substance who had an unreserved belief in her friends during a thanksgiving servi...
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Budget boost for Children’s Advocate
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Budget boost for Children’s Advocate
April 16, 2011
PROTECTION of the rights of the nation's young will get a much-needed boost as the Government makes good on its promise of a funding hike for the Offi...
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A round of applause for Pat
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A round of applause for Pat
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Senior staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 16, 2011
HE had played the trombone at her wedding. He played when she walked up the aisle and he played when she walked down the aisle. In her death he played...
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The train is coming, baby!
BY DONNA HUSSEY-WHYTE Sunday Observer staff reporter husseyd@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 16, 2011
Re-launch of rail service sparks excitement WIDE-eyed, jubilant spectators flocked streets and sidewalks along the route from May Pen in Clarendon to ...
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Pat Roxborough-Wright laid to rest
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Pat Roxborough-Wright laid to rest
Jamaica Observer 
April 15, 2011
FORMER Jamaica Observer Editor at Large for the Western Bureau Pat Roxborough-Wright, was laid to rest at the Dovecot Memorial Gardens today. The 42-y...
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I will rise to the challenge, new councillor tells Duncans constituents
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I will rise to the challenge, new councillor tells Duncans constituents
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
April 15, 2011
CRAWLE, Trelawny — The Jamaica Labour Party's (JLPs) Donovan White, who was Thursday sworn in as councillor for the Duncan's Division at the regular s...
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Gang boss gets 15 yrs
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Gang boss gets 15 yrs
April 15, 2011
KLANSMAN gang leader Tesha Miller was yesterday convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison in what Police Commissioner Owen Ellington described as ...
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