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PNPYO backs Opposition’s call for immediate resignation of FLA CEO
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PNPYO backs Opposition’s call for immediate resignation of FLA CEO
June 4 11:36 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The People's National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO) has thrown its support behind the Opposition’s demand for the immediate res...
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JCSA demands urgent resolution on travelling allowance claims and outstanding wage negotiations
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JCSA demands urgent resolution on travelling allowance claims and outstanding wage negotiations
June 4 10:55 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) is calling on the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service to urgently address an o...
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Applications open for Reggae Boyz head coach position — JFF
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Applications open for Reggae Boyz head coach position — JFF
June 4 09:40 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) has officially opened applications for the position of head coach of the Reggae Boyz, the co...
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Report warns offshore oil exploration could threaten Jamaica’s marine ecosystems — JET
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Report warns offshore oil exploration could threaten Jamaica’s marine ecosystems — JET
June 4 09:32 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A new report released Thursday by Earth Insight has warned that some of Jamaica’s most ecologically significant marine habitats co...
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Uganda’s Ghetto Kids group ‘can’t wait’ to join Shakira at World Cup
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Uganda’s Ghetto Kids group ‘can’t wait’ to join Shakira at World Cup
June 4 09:05 AM
KAMPALA, Uganda (AFP) — The Ghetto Kids, a Ugandan dance troupe made up of street children, spoke of their excitement at being invited by music supers...
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UK MP sues Musk’s xAI over fake sexualised images of her
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UK MP sues Musk’s xAI over fake sexualised images of her
June 4 08:50 AM
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A British lawmaker has filed a case at London's High Court against Elon Musk's xAI after its Grok chatbot tool was used...
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NaRRA CEO outlines priorities
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NaRRA CEO outlines priorities
June 4 08:13 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA), Ambassador Antony Anderson, says hi...
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PSOJ President Patrick Hylton appointed Massy Holdings chairman designate
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PSOJ President Patrick Hylton appointed Massy Holdings chairman designate
June 4 08:09 AM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica and former chief executive officer of National Commercial Bank (NCB)...
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Ousted Lucea mayor takes matter to court
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
January 25, 2010
LUCEA, Hanover -- An application filed in the Supreme Court by ousted mayor of Lucea Lloyd Hill to reverse a January 14 decision by members of the Han...
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Businessman killed in Ocho Rios
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January 25, 2010
FORTY-one-year-old businessman, Leighton Haye otherwise called ‘Chris’, of Content Gardens, Ocho Rios, St Ann was shot and killed by gunmen at his hom...
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One Order, Klansman gang members behind bars
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January 25, 2010
THE Catherine North police have embarked on a major anti-gang initiative aimed at breaking the backs of the two main gangs operating in Spanish Town a...
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Archbishop Emeritus Lawrence Burke is dead
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Archbishop Emeritus Lawrence Burke is dead
January 25, 2010
JAMAICAN Catholics were yesterday mourning the passing of Archbishop Emeritus of Kingston Lawrence Burke, who died at his home on Sunday evening follo...
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Sell us Air Jamaica, workers plead with PM
January 25, 2010
AIR Jamaica employees petitioned Prime Minister Bruce Golding to have pilots and other staff members take over operation of the cash-strapped national...
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Ethiopian jet crash deaths rise as 34 bodies found
AP 
January 25, 2010
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- An Ethiopian Airlines plane carrying 90 people caught fire and crashed into the sea minutes after taking off from Beirut early...
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This Day in History
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January 25, 2010
Today is Tuesday, January 26, the 26th day of 2010. There are 339 days left in the year. Today's Highlight 1788: First fleet of ships bringing convict...
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Hitman heads East Kingston police most wanted list
COREY ROBINSON, Observer staff reporter robinsonc@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 25, 2010
THE Kingston East Police have named a suspected hitman at the top of their most wanted list. Police say Alva Campbell, also called ‘Doctor Lee’ or ‘Fr...
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This Day in History
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January 24, 2010
Today is Monday, January 25, the 25th day of 2010. There are 340 days left in the year. Today's Highlight 1994: Without admitting guilt, Michael Jacks...
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$40m up in smoke
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$40m up in smoke
January 24, 2010
Customs destroys over 2 million sticks of illicit cigarettes CUSTOMS officials last week had more than two million sticks of cigarettes smuggled into ...
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Gov’t implementing legislation to dismantle gangs
January 24, 2010
MINISTER of National Security Senator Dwight Nelson says Government is implementing legislation aimed at dismantling criminal gangs who are responsibl...
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Sandals Resorts and American Airlines helping Haiti
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Sandals Resorts and American Airlines helping Haiti
January 24, 2010
LEADING tourism and travel operators, Sandals Resorts International and American Airlines have joined forces to assist Caribbean neighbour, Haiti in t...
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Anti-Chavez channel removed from cable
AP 
January 24, 2010
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A cable-television channel critical of President Hugo Chavez was yanked from the air early yesterday for defying new govern...
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No agreement between sugar workers, producers
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January 24, 2010
WAGE negotiations between the Sugar Producers’ Federation of Jamaica (SPF) and trade unions representing workers failed to reach an agreement today at...
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Keep Air Jamaica in local hands, union boss pleads
BY HG HELPS Editor-at-Large editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 24, 2010
EVEN as a deal for the takeover of Air Jamaica by Caribbean Airlines seems imminent, a senior trade unionist here is beseeching the Jamaica Government...
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UWI CARIMAC moves further into online journalism
CMC 
January 24, 2010
KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) today announced that it is...
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Haitians mourn as rescuers find another in rubble
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Haitians mourn as rescuers find another in rubble
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January 23, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Hundreds gathered for the funeral of the archbishop of Haiti's stricken capital yesterday, a rare formal ceremony that c...
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Bingham’s re-arrest breached Appeal Court instruction, says Lightbourne
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Bingham’s re-arrest breached Appeal Court instruction, says Lightbourne
January 23, 2010
THE Government yesterday said that Presley Bingham's arrest in July last year on a renewed extradition request from the United States breached an inst...
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Bauxite gloom deepens in Manchester
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Bauxite gloom deepens in Manchester
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
January 23, 2010
MANDEVILLE Manchester -- Stacy Edwards who tends bar just down the road from the West Indies Alumina Company (WINDALCO) Kirkvine plant laughed quietly...
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Residents make progress in St Andrew EC
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Residents make progress in St Andrew EC
BY KIMONE THOMPSON ?Features editor ? Sunday ?thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 23, 2010
But struggles persist ONCE upon a time, Mandela Terrace -- a lane off Waltham Park Road in St Andrew East Central -- was a typical squatter community ...
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Kidnapping, $7-million ransom demand and nonchalant killers
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Kidnapping, $7-million ransom demand and nonchalant killers
BY PAUL HENRY Sunday Observer staff reporter henryp@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 23, 2010
AFTER two years of delays, 28-year-old Lennox Swaby and Calvin Powell, 27, finally went on trial on October 5 last year for the December 2006 murder o...
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Inner-city residents absorb climate change lesson
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Inner-city residents absorb climate change lesson
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Career & Education writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 23, 2010
RESIDENTS of Waltham Park in Kingston learned how climate change affects their lives and were entertained by some of their favourite artistes during t...
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