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Encore to a great soul

Jimmy Cliff carried Jamaica far beyond its shores, says PM Holness

Shereita Grizzle | Observer Staff Reporter

December 18 12:20 AM

Encore to a great soul

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Coffee farmers appreciative of intervention, but want more help

BY RENAE OSBOURNE Observer staff reporter osbourner@jamaicaobserver.com

December 18 12:18 AM

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A fitting musical farewell

Gov’t, artiste fraterity honour legacy of Jimmy Cliff at official funeral

BY HOWARD CAMPBELL Observer senior writer entertainment@jamaicaobserver.com

December 18 12:16 AM

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Cold shoulder

Labelled delinquents, some Child Diversion Programme participants struggling to reintegrate

Alicia Dunkley-Willis Senior Reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com

December 18 12:14 AM

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UNDERDOGS NO MORE

Jamrockers head coach speaks on coming of age of national basketball programme

Daniel Blake | Sports Writer | blaked@jamaicaobserver.com

December 18 12:12 AM

‘No pie in the sky’

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CHRISTMAS @ One Park

December 18 12:10 AM

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Boost for bars

Red Stripe, J Wray & Nephew providing ‘restart packs’ to help operators hard hit by Melissa

December 18 12:07 AM

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No piecemeal work

Gov’t will take studied approach to rebuilding Black River, other seaside towns, says Green

Dana Malcolm | Observer Online Reporter | Malcolmd@jamaicaobserver.com

December 18 12:06 AM

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Care for your eyes, Society for the Blind urges Jamaicans

BY INGRID BROWN Observer staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com

May 27, 2007

Sight Awareness Week opened yesterday with a service at the Webster Memorial United Church in St Andrew, which was also used as a medium to encourage ...

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McIntyre-Pike promotes community tourism to NCU students

Garfield Myers | Observer Writer

May 27, 2007

Mandeville, Manchester - A long-standing, oft-repeated criticism of Jamaica's US billion-dollar-plus tourism industry is that not enough benefits flow...

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Economic empowerment focus for CDB meeting

BY RICKEY SINGH Observer Caribbean correspondent

May 27, 2007

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is taking a creative initiative to help strengthen economic links between Latin America an...

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‘Give up your guns’

BY PAUL HENRY Observer staff reporter henryp@jamaicaobserver.com

May 27, 2007

Keeping his promise to use his time as a free man to convince wayward youths to steer clear of crime, paroled convicted murderer Earl Pratt yesterday ...

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Virgin/Air J codeshare the best decision, says Branson

BRANSON. competition is needed in the aviation industry

May 27, 2007

Virgin Atlantic president Sir Richard Branson yesterday said that his airline's codeshare agreement with Air Jamaica was the best decision for "all Ja...

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Hospitals don’t expect free service will trigger rush

May 27, 2007

Public hospital administrators say they do not expect a crush of patients today as the Government's free health care policy for children under age 18 ...

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JLP sharpening election day machinery, says Golding

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

May 27, 2007

Bruce Golding said yesterday that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is sharpening up its communications and election day machinery in anticipation of ver...

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Local scientist, Henry Lowe, bats for ganja research

BY PETRE WILLIAMS Observer senior reporter williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com

May 27, 2007

SCIENTIST Dr Henry Lowe Saturday called for the sanctioning of research into ganja's medicinal properties, arguing that Jamaica needed to lead the way...

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EHF boss warns against plant toxicity

May 27, 2007

DR Henry Lowe, executive chairman of the Environmental Health Foundation (EHF), Saturday cautioned Jamaicans against the potentially toxic effects of ...

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It’s not always you down there, it’s also us up here

Christopher Burns

May 27, 2007

It is a patent fact that some members of the Jamaican diaspora, especially in the United States, either do not take enough time to inform themselves s...

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Cavers association says NEPA, Alpart have no regard for Jamaica’s natural resources

By Karyl Walker Sunday Observer staff reporter walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com

May 26, 2007

THE Jamaica Caves Organisation (JCO) is hopping mad over the failure of Alpart and the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) to attend a fac...

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More Jamaicans heading to school up North

BY KIMONE THOMPSON Sunday Observer staff reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com

May 26, 2007

FOUR hundred of Jamaica's brightest young minds, from a single institution, will leave the country September to begin undergraduate and postgraduate s...

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Work yet to begin on Palisadoes peninsula

BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Sunday Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com

May 26, 2007

WITH only a few days remaining before the start of the 2007/08 hurricane season, work is yet to begin on the Palisadoes peninsula in Kingston, which i...

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City Centre cops fed up with ‘inhumane’ working conditions

BY PAUL HENRY Sunday Observer staff reporter henryp@jamaicaobserver.com

May 26, 2007

FED UP of what he described as 'inhumane' working conditions at the City Centre Police Station in downtown Kingston, a police officer has launched a o...

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Anxiety mounts in Portland Cottage as hurricane season approaches

BY TYRONE S REID Sunday Observer staff reporter reidt@jamaicaobserver.com

May 26, 2007

THE flood waters from Hurricane Ivan have long receded, but the nightmare continues for most Portland Cottage residents still struggling to recover fr...

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Islamic community extends olive branch to el-Faisal

BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer senior reporter williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com

May 26, 2007

JAMAICA'S Muslims have made it clear they will welcome reputed hate preacher Abdullah el-Faisal into the community unless he proves himself unworthy, ...

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el-Faisal wants mom to meet wife and kids, says friend

Mark Cummings | Observer Writer

May 26, 2007

POINT, St James - Merlyne Forrest can hardly wait to give her son Abdullah el-Faisal a big hug and a kiss. After all, she has not seen him since 1990;...

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Deported cleric to preach here

by Ingrid Brown Sunday Observer staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com

May 26, 2007

A confidante of Sheik Abdullah el-Faisal says that the Islamic cleric, who was deported from Britain on Friday after spending four years in prison for...

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Enterprising 11-year-old brings ‘toast’ to children’s home

BY KIMONE THOMPSON Sunday Observer reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com

May 26, 2007

THE need at Marigold Children's Home for a toaster was met last Monday, thanks to the benevolence and enterprising spirit of 11-year-old Danielle Nola...

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Mom forgives son’s killer

BY PAUL HENRY Sunday Observer staff reporter henryp@jamaicaobserver.com

May 26, 2007

ALTHOUGH still clearly pained by the brutal murder of her only son who was shot and stabbed several times then dumped in a shallow grave some 30 years...

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New Fisheries Act being drafted, says Nicholson

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

May 26, 2007

THE Chief Parliamentary Counsel is drafting a new Fisheries Act that will address fisheries governance, as well as increased fines for illegal fishing...