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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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REID RULES!

March 26 12:12 AM

JC surge into Boys’ Champs lead

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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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Last lifeline

Blake says Reggae Boyz ‘know what’s at stake’ in crucial World Cup play-off vs New Caledonia

Daniel Blake | Sports Writer | blaked@jamaicaobserver.com

March 26 12:06 AM

Last lifeline

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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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Seaga calls for ‘literacy hour’ in schools

Luke Douglas

November 5, 2007

FORMER Prime Minister Edward Seaga is calling for an extra hour to be added to the school day specifically to teach children to read and write. Seaga,...

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PNP going ‘all out’ to win local polls

T K Whyte

November 5, 2007

CHAIRMAN of the Opposition People's National Party (PNP), Bobby Pickersgill said the party's candidates to contest the local government elections were...

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Local medical students win bid to host int’l conference

TANEISHA LEWIS, Observer staff reporter editorial@jamaicaobserver.com

November 5, 2007

A group of medical students here have beaten out four other countries in a bid to host an international conference that will attract over 600 such stu...

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Keep the ‘dons’ out of Manchester, says Herbert Thompson

ELLIOT BLAKE, Observer writer

November 5, 2007

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Dr Herbert Thompson, president of Northern Caribbean University (NCU), has urged the people of Manchester not to fall under t...

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Coroner gives okay for Woolmer samples to be retested

VAUGHN DAVIS, Observer staff reporter davisv@jamaicaobserver.com

November 5, 2007

CORONER Patrick Murphy, the magistrate overseeing the inquest into the death of former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, yesterday granted an applic...

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Gordon-Webley is new NSWMA boss

KIMONE THOMPSON, Observer staff reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com

November 5, 2007

IT'S official. Joan Astaire Gordon-Webley, who lost the South East St Andrew seat to the People's National Party's Maxine Henry Wilson in the Septembe...

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No place for corrupt cops

ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com

November 5, 2007

ASSISTANT Commissioner Justin Felice, the fifth policeman recruited from overseas to the senior ranks of the constabulary, vowed yesterday to spend hi...

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…JLP too, says Desmond McKenzie

November 5, 2007

THE Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Area Council One covering Kingston and St Andrew, yesterday officially started its campaign for local government elec...

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STATIN, PIOJ website to track country’s development progress

November 5, 2007

A website containing statistics on the country's development progress, will be launched next year by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), and the...

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‘Cold, calculating, sheer evil’

By PAUL HENRY, Observer staff reporter

November 4, 2007

Thirty-seven-year-old Peter Dugal was on Friday sentenced to death for the 2005 murder of gas station operator, George L G Brown and his companion, Sa...

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Flexi-week talks on again

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

November 4, 2007

The government is ready to proceed with on-again off-again flexi-work week proposals, but said the controversial issue of the Sabbath, or day of rest,...

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Summit solidifies gov’t, private sector partnership

Mark Cummings | Observer Writer

November 4, 2007

MONTEGO BAY - Government and private sector leaders ended a three-day National Planning Summit here yesterday, confirming that they will establish a n...

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Academics still cool, Thomas tells young men

BY PETRE WILLIAMS Observer senior reporter williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com

November 4, 2007

KINGSLEY Thomas, head of the Office of National Reconstruction (ONR), said on the weekend it was critical for Jamaica to arrest the decline of its you...

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New MPM scandal?

BY TANEISHA LEWIS Observer staff reporter editorial@jamaicaobserver.com

November 4, 2007

A senior manager and an inspector have been sent on leave amid signs of an emerging scandal at the Metropolitan Parks and Markets (MPM) which cleans t...

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Electronic billboards targeted by scrap metal thieves

BY KERRY McCATTY Observer staff reporter mccattyk@jamaicaobserver.com

November 4, 2007

At least two outdoor advertising companies have welcomed the government's shutdown of the scrap metal industry, saying they have lost millions in thef...

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The long wait for the Treasure Beach canal continues

Garfield Myers | Observer Writer

November 3, 2007

Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth - The way Deita Campbell tells it, every time she sees rain clouds, stress sets in. All because of the failure, thus far, to ...

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Living in deadly mud

BY KERRY MCCATTY Sunday Observer staff reporter mccattyk@jamaicaobserver.com

November 3, 2007

Your boot only has to sink into the wet, dark mud and you pull your foot from it, as if pulling apart two magnetic surfaces, for you to understand why...

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100 children to benefit from Sandals mentorship programme

BY CARL GILCHRIST Sunday Observer reporter gilchristc@jamaicaobserver.com

November 3, 2007

ONE hundred children, chosen from four schools and a girls' home in St Ann and St Mary, are to benefit from a mentorship programme run by Sandals and ...

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Observer to launch educational TV show

Mark Cummings | Observer Writer

November 3, 2007

THE Jamaica Observer is to expand its education thrust with the launch of a three-part television show next March, to help students prepare for Mathem...

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And the Sun Simmered

Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content

November 3, 2007

There was much trepidation late Wednesday morning as the last bit of silver was placed across wooden tables already covered ever so elegantly with Roy...

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Grisly deaths

Horace Hines | Observer Writer

November 3, 2007

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Up to late last night senior investigators were probing the grisly deaths of a three-month-old girl, her 14-year-old sister an...