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January 7 05:17 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The United States (US) dollar on Wednesday, January 7, ended trading at $159.37, up 5 cents,  according to the Bank of Jamaica’s d...
NFA accepting applications for 2026 conch season
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NFA accepting applications for 2026 conch season
January 7 04:33 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The National Fisheries Authority (NFA) is ready to accept applications for licences to fish for conch and the allocation of indivi...
Grenada friendly for Reggae Boyz
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Grenada friendly for Reggae Boyz
January 7 03:26 PM
Jamaica’s senior men’s football team will face hosts Grenada in an international friendly in St George’s on January 18. With the date falling outside ...
PM reaffirms State’s support for Maroon communities
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PM reaffirms State’s support for Maroon communities
January 7 03:12 PM
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness, has reaffirmed Government’s support for the Maroon communities. “You are part of Jamaica and you ar...

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Jamaica named among top five destinations
June 24, 2008
FOR the savvy and budget-conscious traveller, Jamaica may be the best place to get away without breaking the bank this summer. Smartertravel.com recen...
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No peace deal!
Erica Virtue 
June 24, 2008
THE much touted peace pact between community leaders in violent August Town is now hanging in the balance after some corner leaders failed to sign the...
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Education system inefficient, wasteful, says educator
TK Whyte 
June 23, 2008
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - A senior educator has slammed Jamaica's education system, calling it an "inefficient and wasteful method" which allows st...
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Patois Bible debate rages
June 23, 2008
Debate continued to rage yesterday over a controversial project to translate the Bible from English to Jamaican dialect. Jamaicans, both here and abro...
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What Riu Hotel can get away with.
June 22, 2008
At least two buildings slapped with stop orders for breaches in the capital, Kingston, have remained idle for years, unable to proceed, while the Span...
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Pedestrian-friendly changes for Marcus Garvey Drive
BY TYRONE S REID Sunday Observer staff reporter reidt@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 21, 2008
THE National Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC) and the National Works Agency (NWA), in partnership with the Jamaican arm of Bouygues Tra...
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Families of murdered kids living with unending pain
BY TYRONE S REID Sunday Observer staff reporter reidt@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 21, 2008
IT'S a bright, postcard-perfect Tuesday afternoon in Westmoreland and Janice Tomlinson is standing at her gate in Town Head, a quiet farming district ...
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Spilling innocent blood
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Sunday Observer senior reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 21, 2008
IT'S hard to imagine a single classroom of 36 children being brutally murdered in Jamaica annually. Yet every year that's the average number of childr...
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Controversy heightens over planned patois Bible
BY RHOMA TOMLINSON Sunday Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 21, 2008
PREDICTABLY an Observer lead story last Monday titled "Patois Bible" has set off a raging controversy, never far below the surface, over the usefulnes...
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77 most wanted
June 20, 2008
THE magnitude of the island's crime rate was brought into sharp focus yesterday when officials from the Major Investigation Task Force (MIT) released ...
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Testimony by video link will reduce fear, says DPP
Alicia Dunkley 
June 20, 2008
DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn says she supports the recent proposal by Prime Minister Bruce Golding to facilitate witness statements...
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Education ministry stands by GSAT scholarship
June 20, 2008
AMID growing controversy over the award of scholarships based on this year's Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), the Ministry of Education yesterday sa...
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Children speak from the ‘art’
BY NADINE WILSON Observer staff reporter editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 20, 2008
THE drawings said it all: lifeless bodies lying in pools of blood, gunmen shooting at children and mothers, people expressing their dissatisfaction wi...
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Another GSAT controversy
BY PAT ROXBOROUGH-WRIGHT EDITOR-AT-LARGE/WESTERN BUREAU roxboroughp@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 19, 2008
MONTEGO BAY, St James - A week after embarrassed education ministry officials awarded a scholarship to a top-scoring 11-year-old girl who they had den...
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Major Investigation Task force places heavy focus on forensics
Vernon Davidson | Executive Editor, Publications | davidsonv@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 19, 2008
THE killer must have thought he had got off scot-free. After all, he had accosted his victim on the Palisadoes road, killed and buried him, then went ...
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Appleton Estate Jamaica Rum Raises the Bar
June 18, 2008
Appleton Estate Jamaica Rum hosted their UK Bartender Challenge finals at the Ruins at the Mona Visitor's Lodge and they certainly raised the bar. Dub...
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Bartlett urges Hanovarians to unite and fight crime
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
June 17, 2008
LUCEA, Hanover - Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has urged Hanovarians to unite in their efforts to rid the society of crime and violence, which he s...

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