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Sprint domination

Douglas, East storm to Class 1 and 2 100m glory

March 26 12:20 AM

Sprint domination

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Champs 100 years ago

March 26 12:18 AM

Champs 100 years ago

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IMC impacting future

Alpha students leverage 2026 conference exposure for industry insight

March 26 12:16 AM

IMC impacting future

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More than just teachers

Award-winning educators highlight nation-building inside the classroom

Jerome Williams | Reporter

March 26 12:14 AM

More than just teachers

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Blue Latte Rio by Léo Moço

March 26 12:10 AM

Countdown to the 27th staging of the Jamaica Observer Table Talk Food Awards

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Jamaicans urged to step up in tree recovery effort

Holness calls for national volunteer push

Horace Hines | Observer Writer

March 26 12:04 AM

Jamaicans urged to step up in tree recovery effort

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NSWMA to do one-time cleaning of MoBay South Gully

March 26 12:03 AM

NSWMA to do one-time cleaning of MoBay South Gully

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Cream Cheese Cucumber Bites with Rainforest Smoked Salmon

March 26 12:03 AM

Rainforest Recipe Corner...Recipe Corner...Recipe Corner

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Heavy rains affect NWC treatment facilities

November 12, 2007

THE National Water Commission (NWC) yesterday said heavy siltation and high turbidity caused by persistent rains over the weekend have rendered severa...

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CVM, union to try resolve dispute today

November 12, 2007

CVM Television's management and the University and Allied Workers Union (UAWU) are to meet this afternoon in an effort to resolve an industrial disput...

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Retired UWI professor says no cypermethrin found in body samples

November 12, 2007

A retired University of the West Indies chemistry professor yesterday testified that no cypermethrin was found during the analyses of samples conducte...

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Portland, St Mary and St Ann take battering from rains

November 12, 2007

SEVERAL persons in the northern and north-eastern parishes of St Ann, St Mary and Portland had to flee their homes yesterday as widespread floods and ...

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Smith wants system of appointing JPs revamped

T K WHYTE, Observer correspondent editorial@jamaicaobserver.com

November 12, 2007

NATIONAL Security Minister Derrick Smith has called for a revamping of the current system of appointing Justices of the Peace (JPs), which he says lac...

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Pastor urges judges, attorneys to be guided by ‘God’s righteous principles’

PAUL HENRY, Observer staff reporter editorial@jamaicaobserver.com

November 12, 2007

FORMER Jamaica Baptist Union president Rev Dr Roy Henry on Sunday called on judges and other administrators of justice to allow God's righteous princi...

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‘Woefully inadequate’

November 11, 2007

GOVERNMENT has authorised $280 million in additional expenditure to assist the police in its crime-fighting efforts, saying that the force's present c...

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Cop shot dead in MoBay

BY KERIL WRIGHT Observer staff reporter

November 11, 2007

Montego Bay, St James - Little Shania Kay Lewis has no idea that she will never see her father again. At one-year-and-10-months-old she knew, however,...

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Show us the ‘draft’ accord!

BY RICKEY SINGH Observer Caribbean correspondent editorial@jamaicaobserver.com

November 11, 2007

BRIDGETOWN - As negotiations intensify for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the Caribbean and European Union before yearend, there are ...

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Students exchange books for paint brushes and brooms

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

November 11, 2007

SCORES of student leaders from high schools across Jamaica turned up at hospitals and other locations on Saturday to participate in the 2007 Duke of E...

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Nationwide knocks Sunday Herald for dishonest reporting of Cash Plus deal

November 11, 2007

NATIONWIDE News Network (NNN) yesterday expressed shock at the Sunday Herald's lead story which reported Cash Plus Group's failed bid to acquire a maj...

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First graduate of Adopt-A-Child Programme setting high standards

BY Alicia Dunkley Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com

November 11, 2007

EIGHTEEN year-old Tawana Edwards can see clearly now, and the future she sees is brilliant. The unassuming young adult - who is now a first-year stude...

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Government to address male marginalisation

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

November 10, 2007

IN a Jamaica where men are the ones increasingly at risk of antisocial and criminal behaviour, the government is to establish truancy laws and crack d...

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Poison, 2nd person’s DNA in hotel room and Woolmer’s worry to return to Pakistan

BY VAUGHN DAVIS Sunday Observer staff reporer davisv@jamaicaobserver.com

November 10, 2007

Week four of the inquest into the death of former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was dominated by testimonies surrounding the poison cypermethrin,...

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Marco Pierre White Shares A ‘Royal’ Hangover

Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content

November 10, 2007

His reputation precedes him and as such makes him still pretty intimidating, albeit slouched in a cosy armchair at the ever-so-chic Royal Plantation H...

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‘Ghost witnesses’

BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer virtuee@jamaicaobserver.com

November 10, 2007

There are growing fears in judicial circles that some Jamaican cops are using statements from non-existent or 'ghost witnesses' to detain accused pers...

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Merrit Henry is 2008 ACPA Diamond Honouree

November 10, 2007

THE American College Personnel Association (ACPA) has selected student services and development manager for Placement and Career Services at the Unive...

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‘Ghost witnesses’

November 10, 2007

There are growing fears in judicial circles that some Jamaican cops are using statements from non-existent or 'ghost witnesses' to detain accused pers...

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Journalist winning the battle with cancer

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

November 10, 2007

LIKE a thief in the night, multiple myeloma - a rare form of cancer that affects the bone marrow - snuck up on Faith Hamer, forcing her to do battle w...

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What’s in a name?

BY PARTICK FOSTER Sunday Observer writer fosterp@jamaicaobserver.com

November 10, 2007

LOOK Behind! Quickstep! Far Enough! These are not instructions barked across the brittle air by some spittle-spewing squadron master. Rather, these ar...

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KPH under pressure

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

November 10, 2007

WITH the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) seeing up to 1.7 million patients in a year, both the critically ill and those with less life-threatening illn...