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December 29 05:08 PM
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Information has now indicated that, contrary to earlier information which suggested that Christopher Clarke died from injuries sus...
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Ladies shine at Pic-Nic Festival at UWI Mona Bowl
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Ladies shine at Pic-Nic Festival at UWI Mona Bowl
December 29 03:15 PM
KINSTON, Jamaica — Style, colour and confidence were on full display as patrons turned out in their numbers for the Pic-Nic Festival, held on Saturday...
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Trump says US hit docking area for alleged Venezuela drug boats
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Trump says US hit docking area for alleged Venezuela drug boats
December 29 02:51 PM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States (US) President Donald Trump said Monday the United States had hit and destroyed a docking area for all...
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Small Business Association calls for OUR and JPS to reconsider 7% bill increase
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Small Business Association calls for OUR and JPS to reconsider 7% bill increase
December 29 02:37 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Small Businesses Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) President, Garnett Reid, is appealing to the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) a...
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St Bess family gets fresh start with new home just before Christmas
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December 29 02:33 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — After witnessing Hurricane Melissa destroy her home, leaving her family homeless for weeks, single mother Novia Russell receiv...
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Child Resiliency Programme transforms students, strengthens families in Kingston
Child Resiliency Programme transforms students, strengthens families in Kingston
December 29 02:28 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica- Ricardo Motley, a father of two from McIntyre Villa in Kingston, watched from the sidelines as his 10-year-old son performed in the...
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Racing United seek to extend lead in JPL
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Racing United seek to extend lead in JPL
December 29 02:25 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Leaders Racing United will be going after a second win this season over former champions Arnett Gardens when they meet at the Anth...
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TCL donates 100 televisions to communities in western Jamaica
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TCL donates 100 televisions to communities in western Jamaica
December 29 02:21 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica—In response to the widespread devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, global technology brand TCL has donated 100 "43” televisions ...
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‘Tek weh yuhself’
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer senior reporter williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 23, 2007
OPPOSITION leader Bruce Golding yesterday said the ruling People's National Party (PNP) needed to "tek weh" itself from Jamaica House, after close to ...
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US passport regime unlikely to be extended, says Mitchell
BY ERICA VIRTUE Observer writer virtuee@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 23, 2007
WASHINGTON DC, USA - The recent decision by the United States Government to suspend, until September, a Homeland Security mandate requiring Americans ...
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New chapters in Jamaican cuisine at Sandals
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
June 23, 2007
It was billed as a Vineyard Dinner in the Courtyard, but it actually proved to be more than that. Local and top international lifestyle writers sat do...
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PNP steps up election campaign
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
June 23, 2007
THE People's National Party (PNP) will kick-off phase two of its current general election campaign tonight in Bog Walk, St Catherine, following two da...
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Glenmuir High to help new May Pen school
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Sunday Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 23, 2007
A new school to be built in May Pen, Clarendon, is to be aided in its establishment by Glenmuir High, which is considered the leading high school in C...
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Electoral crisis looms
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
June 23, 2007
A decision by the Senate to amend three electoral bills containing provisions against open voting has set the Upper House on a collision course with t...
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Living on tenterhooks
BY TYRONE S REID Sunday Observer staff reporter reidt@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 23, 2007
JUNE is here, and scores of families are busy cutting the grass, packing boxes and stacking furniture. But these residents of Nightingale Grove in sou...
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‘Wi ready!’
By Karyl Walker Sunday Observer staff reporter walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 23, 2007
With expectations heightening that Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller will call general elections for July, the major political parties yesterday in...
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Knight thanks constituents, media in farewell speech
June 23, 2007
ON Wednesday June 13, former minister of national security and justice, and foreign affairs and foreign trade, K D Knight, made his farewell speech in...
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Parish councils defend issuing of stop orders
Kimone Thompson, Observer staff reporter 
June 22, 2007
THE island's parish councils are insisting that injunctions issued on real estate developers are legal and are done only as a last resort. "Unless the...
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ODPEM stages hurricane preparedness expo today
June 22, 2007
THE Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) will host its annual Hurricane Preparedness expo today at the Portmore Mall, St C...
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Council managers say lack of funding hurting local bodies
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
June 22, 2007
LACK of funding was this week identified as one of the most fundamental setbacks for parish councils, as a Joint Select Committee of Parliament contin...
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Opposition bans motorcades in the west
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
June 22, 2007
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Breaking with a popular election tradition, the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) yesterday slapped an immediate ban on al...
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Lee clarifies Portmore drain-cleaning expenditure
June 22, 2007
THE Portmore Municipal Council says there is no contradiction in the amount it has spent on drain cleaning in the community this year. Mayor George Le...
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Caricom, US agree to work together
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer 
June 22, 2007
WASHINGTON DC, USA - Caribbean Community (Caricom) and the United States have pledged to support each other in the region, through the expansion of ec...
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Section of Howard Cooke Blvd closed for repairs to bridge
June 22, 2007
MONTEGO BAY, St James - The east-bound carriageway of the Howard Cooke Boulevard will be closed this weekend to facilitate repairs to the Montego Bay ...
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Man’s head found in knapsack
June 22, 2007
THE severed head of a man was found in a knapsack Thursday evening while the police were involved in a shooting incident in Effortville, Clarendon. Th...
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JLP vows to make Mandeville model town in fight against crime
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
June 22, 2007
MANDEVILLE, Manchester - A government run by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) would make this central highlands town a model in the fight against crime,...
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One dead, two injured in Manchester accident
Glendon Baker 
June 22, 2007
ANCEL Thompson, a 47-year-old farmer of Chudleigh, Manchester, was killed while his wife Mitzy and son Ancel Jr are nursing injuries after a Nissan st...
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Two get life for murdering former friend
June 22, 2007
SPANISH Town residents Omar Stewart and Andre Ennis were last Friday sentenced to life imprisonment in the Home Circuit Court for the 2005 slaying of ...
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Fire safety lacking at KSAC
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
June 21, 2007
THE Church Street headquarters of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation has not been operating in conformity with standard fire prevention practices,...
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Vile murders
BY PAUL HENRY Observer staff reporter henryp@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 21, 2007
The murder of an elderly man in Torrington Park two Saturdays ago had so traumatised seven year-old Damone Skyers that she desperately hoped she and h...
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