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Joy Drive

Toys, letters and love light up Christmas for children in western Jamaica

BY SANDENA JAMES Social media editor jamess@jamaicaobserver.com

December 25 12:30 AM

Joy Drive

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Faith-based recovery

Gov’t eyes Church role in providing psychological support to hurricane victims

BY RENAE OSBOURNE Observer staff reporter osbourner@jamaicaobserver.com

December 25 12:28 AM

Faith-based recovery

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Four murders spark Christmas lockdown for Manchester communities

BY KASEY WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter kaseyw@jamaicaobserver.com

December 25 12:26 AM

Four murders spark Christmas lockdown for Manchester communities

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Strictly 2K Throwback festival celebrates 9th anniversary

...honours icons Charly Black, Coppershot Sound and Mad Michelle

December 25 12:26 AM

Strictly 2K Throwback festival celebrates 9th anniversary

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Christmas magic

St Mary businessman transforms home into winter wonderland

BY INGRID HENRY Observer writer

December 25 12:24 AM

Christmas magic

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Finding Our Best Selves

Dr Jeffrey Miller on Community, Service, and The Perfect Roast Chicken

December 25 12:23 AM

Finding Our Best Selves

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Pocket Rocket Foundation takes Christmas cheer to children in Ewarton

December 25 12:22 AM

Pocket Rocket Foundation takes Christmas cheer to children in Ewarton

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TALENT RAID

Turner hopeful NBA stars will commit to Jamaica’s basketball team as they pursue World Cup and Olympics

BY DANIEL BLAKE Staff reporter blaked@jamaicaobserver.com

December 25 12:22 AM

STAR CHASE

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NSWMA littering tickets delayed

PATRICK FOSTER, Observer writer

February 1, 2007

THE National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) has pushed back to May, plans to start issuing tickets to people caught littering public places ...

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Hopeton Dunn is new chairman of Broadcasting Commission

February 1, 2007

DR Hopeton Dunn has been appointed chairman of the Broadcasting Commission, succeeding Dr Simon Clarke who served as a commissioner for the last four ...

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One more gun off the streets of St James

February 1, 2007

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The police said yesterday that a Davidson Industry .380 pistol, taken from the body of Stonecrusher gang member Michael Willia...

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Lyns remembered as simple, good, hardworking people

KERRY MCCATTY , Observer staff reporter

February 1, 2007

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The mass of resurrection for the lives of Richard and Julia Lyn was done their way - simple. There was an early indicator of ...

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J’can said killed by Costa Rican police in Nov finally laid to rest

Kimone Thompson, Observer staff reporter

February 1, 2007

JOVAN Lyons, a Jamaican killed in Costa Rica on November 10 last year, allegedly by the police, was not buried until last Sunday because Costa Rican a...

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‘Not-the-usual’

LEISHA CHEN-YOUNG, Observer staff reporter

January 31, 2007

WE are all guilty of it. Call it habit, or fear of trying something new, but every time we go for Chinese, don't we always order the same thing? Speci...

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Women empowered to fight HIV/AIDS

Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter

January 31, 2007

WITH 6,900 Jamaican women already diagnosed with the HIV virus, Jamaica Aids Support for Life (JASL) has found it necessary to launch a manual aimed a...

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The 411 on Laurent Perrier

January 31, 2007

MARK Twain said "to get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with." The same can be said for champagne, especially if it is Laure...

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Man gets 10 years for raping cop’s 13-year-old daughter

PAUL HENRY, Observer writer

January 31, 2007

A 45-year-old father of three was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment in the Home Circuit Court yesterday for raping a policeman's 13...

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Mother, daughter and niece found guilty of manslaughter

PAUL HENRY, Observer writer

January 31, 2007

FIFTY-year-old higgler Beverly Scarlett along with her daughter and niece were on Tuesday found guilty of manslaughter in the Home Circuit Court for t...

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Gorge fruit vendors to stay during Cricket World Cup

T K WHYTE, Observer correspondent

January 31, 2007

LINSTEAD, St Catherine - Fruit vendors along Kent Village and the Bog Walk Gorge in St Catherine will not be relocated during the six weeks of Cricket...

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Police vow to take back control

Observer Reporter

January 31, 2007

POLICE Chief Lucius Thomas yesterday vowed to take back the streets from marauding criminals who have so far killed 143 persons this year, a 23 per ce...

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Manchester water safe, says NWC

January 31, 2007

THE National Water Commission (NWC) says the increased levels of bacteria found in the Manchester water catchment tanks do not affect the quality of t...

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Curfew cripples life in crime-prone St James communities

Horace Hines | Observer Writer

January 30, 2007

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Activities in the crime-plagued communities of Glendevon, Hendon and Norwood were crippled yesterday as a curfew imposed by th...

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Canadian gov’t providing training, IMS technology to six Caricom countries

January 30, 2007

SINCE last month the Government of Canada, through the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), has been providing ion-mobility spectrometry (IMS) techno...

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CCC to offer Master of Theological Studies

January 30, 2007

THE Caribbean Conference of Churches (CCC), in collaboration with the Faculty of Theology, Huron University College and the University of Western Onta...

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$1-million for ‘Cheesetrix’

January 30, 2007

THE police high command yesterday posted a $1-million reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Christopher Williams otherwise ca...

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Cops seize 15,000 pounds of ganja

January 30, 2007

THE narcotics police seized more than 15,000 pounds of ganja during an operation in the Kingston 6 area yesterday. No one was arrested for the drug fi...

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ODPEM to test earthquake response plans today

January 30, 2007

THE Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) will today put on an earthquake simulation, which it will use to test its nationa...

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J$8.3b to keep Air J flying for two years

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

January 30, 2007

THE Government is looking at a whopping US$125-million (J$8.3-billion) bill to keep the national airline, Air Jamaica, flying for another two years. M...

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Woman now able to smile after shot in the head, side

BY KARYL WALKER Observer staff reporter walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com

January 30, 2007

PATRICE Stone, who was at 'death's door' last Wednesday after been seriously injured in a drive-by shooting, yesterday gave God thanks for saving her ...