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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’

•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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New location, no problem!

I Love Soca delivers premium vibes at Heroes’ Circle

Shereita Grizzle | Observer Staff Reporter

December 31 12:16 AM

New location, no problem!

Business

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

Sports

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

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’

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’

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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Gully-Gaza feud hurting

BY INGRID BROWN Observer senior reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com

November 8, 2009

The sexually explicit and violent lyrics for which deejay Vybz Kartel - one half of the Gully-Gaza feud - is known affect how Jamaican teenagers think...

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National Journalism Week opens Nov 29

November 8, 2009

National Journalism Week, the top calendar event for local journalists, will be observed from November 29 to December 5, 2009, the Press Association o...

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St Mary Central needs training and employment opportunities

BY INGRID BROWN Sunday Observer senior staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com

November 7, 2009

IT is only mid-morning but already Donald Williams is sweating profusely and it has nothing to do with the sun peeping through the clouds hanging over...

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Adams wants to be top cop

BY HG HELPS Editor-at-large helpsh@jamaicaobserver.com

November 7, 2009

COLOURFUL retired senior superintendent of police Reneto Adams has confirmed he plans to apply for the job of police commissioner to succeed Rear Admi...

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Money small but PATH a means of survival

BY NADINE WILSON Sunday Observer staff reporter wilsonn@jamaicaobserver.com

November 7, 2009

STANDING in a long line in the boiling sun in full view of passers-by once every two months to collect a cheque valued between $1,300 and about $7,000...

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West Africa’s last giraffes make surprise comeback

November 7, 2009

KOURE, Niger (AP) - A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape ...

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We are Jamaicans… Not PNP or JLP

November 7, 2009

WHETHER you voted or not, your member of parliament is there to serve you. Once you live in the constituency, the MP is your political representative ...

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What the private investigator said he found at Hedonism

November 7, 2009

A private investigator and former FBI agent alleged he had seen open drug abuse, prostitution, distribution of marijuana and "numerous acts of lewd an...

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Guy spends $3 million of CDF on education

INGRID BROWN Sunday Observer staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com

November 7, 2009

MEMBER of Parliament for St Mary Central Dr Morais Guy says he is committed to advancing education in his constituency and as such, the development of...

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Sandals Resorts voted best Caribbean vacation destination… again

ALESIA EDWARDS Observer staff reporter edwardsa@jamaicaobserver.com

November 6, 2009

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Sandals Resorts International, for the 10th consecutive year, was again voted the best Caribbean vacation destination by Canadian ...

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The ‘G culture’ destroying school, says principal

BY KARYL WALKER Crime/Court Desk co-ordinator walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com

November 6, 2009

PRINCIPAL of the Edith Dalton James High School, Ray Howell, has lashed out against the sale of badges to students bearing violent images, and said th...

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Tufton’s vision for Hounslow

Garfield Myers | Observer Writer

November 6, 2009

SANTA Cruz, St Elizabeth - He admits he doesn't have "a dime yet" to finance his vision, but Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says he is det...

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Gang leader executed in China

November 6, 2009

BEIJING, China (AP) - A former gang leader who was the son of a high-ranking politician was executed this week in northern China after being convicted...

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Guns, gangs plague schools

BY LUKE DOUGLAS Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com

November 5, 2009

POLICE seized 15 guns and arrested 69 students for criminal offences at public schools throughout Jamaica during the 2007/08 academic year, according ...

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Schools say lewd, sexually explicit music distracting students

By DONNA HUSSEY-WHYTE Observer staff reporter husseyd@jamaicaobserver.com

November 5, 2009

LEWD, sexually explicit music and early exposure to pornography can have a lasting negative impact on children, psycopathalogist with Children First C...

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‘Bungles’ to know fate Nov 18

Paul Henry

November 5, 2009

SUPERINTENDENT Harry 'Bungles' Daley is to know, in another two weeks, whether he will face imprisonment or be acquitted of a count of corruption in t...

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Britain lawmakers face new allowance rules

November 4, 2009

LONDON, England (AP) - Drain the moat, tear down the duck house, fire the housekeeper. British lawmakers face strict new allowance rules following a s...

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JNHT employees honoured for long service

BY KIMONE THOMPSON ?Features editor ? Sunday ?thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com

November 4, 2009

WHEN Frank Gayle first walked through the doors of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT) to take up a job as labourer, he was 21 years old. Now 3...

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Cops seize badges promoting violence

BY KARYL WALKER Crime/Court Desk co-ordinator walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com

November 4, 2009

THE St Andrew South Police yesterday removed vendors who sell in front of schools in the Duhaney Park area of Kingston, after confiscating badges depi...

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Once controversial fertiliser gets local distributor

BY PATRICK FOSTER Observer writer ?fosterp@jamaicaobserver.com

November 4, 2009

DIAMOND R, the organic fertiliser that was at the centre of controversy earlier this year is now being distributed locally by Hi-Pro, the agriculture ...

Environment, News

Africans boycott meetings at UN climate talks

November 3, 2009

BARCELONA, Spain - African countries boycotted meetings at UN climate talks yesterday, saying that industrial countries had set carbon-cutting targets...