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June 12 10:12 PM
LOS ANGELES, United States  (AFP) — The United States could scarcely have scripted a better start to their World Cup as a Folarin Balogun brace and Gi...
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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump said late Friday the United States has carried out a deadly strike on the leader of Tren de A...
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Ralford Mullings retains discus title at NCAA Champs
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June 12 09:25 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s national record holder and national champion Ralford Mullings retained his NCAA men’s discus throw title after he threw ...
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Police Federation faces leadership change as McBean earns promotion to ASP
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The Jamaica Police Federation is set to begin the process of selecting a new chairman following the promotion of its leader, Sergeant Arleen McBean, t...
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From Deed to Key’ makes successful South Florida debut
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Vaz highlights JUTC revenue surge, fleet upgrades as ridership climbs
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Vaz highlights JUTC revenue surge, fleet upgrades as ridership climbs
June 12 07:54 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Energy, Transport and Telecommunications, Daryl Vaz, says the Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) is recordin...
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Cash flow forecasting in minutes, not days — with Claude, even when the JMD/USD rate won’t sit still
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Cash flow forecasting in minutes, not days — with Claude, even when the JMD/USD rate won’t sit still
It used to take days. Claude, the AI now built into Excel, builds a 13-week cash flow forecast and stress-tests it against every JMD/USD scenario in minutes — even for a one-person finance team
Peta-Gaye Hardy, Founder, PGH Consulting, LLC 
June 12 07:34 PM
Ask any Jamaican importer what keeps them up at night and the answer is rarely sales. It is the gap between the day they pay their supplier in US doll...
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Jamaican property sales near $100 billion in 2025, says RAJ
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Jamaican property sales near $100 billion in 2025, says RAJ
June 12 06:48 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Realtors Association of Jamaica (RAJ) says its Multiple Listing Service (MLS)  data shows that Jamaica’s real estate market re...
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Another school stabbing
BY KARYL WALKER Crime/court co-ordinator walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 24, 2008
Exactly one week after a 16-year-old student was knifed to death by a schoolmate on a school compound in East Kingston, a 17-year-old male student of ...
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Slain cops remembered
ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 23, 2008
Twenty crimson red roses, one each for the police officers slain in the line of duty between December 2007 and November this year, yesterday fragrantl...
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Celebration, nostalgia at Byron Lee’s funeral
BY TYRONE S REID Sunday Observer staff reporter reidt@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 22, 2008
'He was a prince who sometimes became a frog to teach us valuable life lessons' - Daughter Julianne Lee SOMEHOW yesterday's Thanksgiving Service to ce...
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Jamaican students to have art exhibited in Canada
November 22, 2008
TWO Jamaican students - Oshin Gregory and Rasheeda Williams - will have their artwork on exhibition in Ontario Canada, to mark the commemoration of Hu...
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Former gang member urges criminals to stop the killings
BY KARYL WALKER Crime/court co-ordinator walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 22, 2008
ORLANDO Hamilton, a former gang member who has shrugged off the temptation of criminality, is urging gangsters to change their ways. Hamilton was part...
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At great risk
BY TANEISHA LEWIS Sunday Observer staff reporter lewist@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 22, 2008
Tuesday, November 18. At about 5:20 pm Half-Way-Tree is teeming with people, most of them commuters engaged in the daily jostle that characterises the...
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More pastors support than oppose death penalty
BY PATRICK FOSTER Sunday Observer Writer 
November 22, 2008
AS the debate on hanging gains momentum and Parliament deliberates a conscience vote, more than half of the members of the clergy polled by the Sunday...
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Jamaicans enjoying ‘new life’ in China
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Sunday Observer senior reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 22, 2008
BEFORE she left Jamaica in 1997, Dr Nicoleen Johnson could not speak a word of Chinese. When it was Shauna Taylor's turn to leave for that country in ...
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142 Jamaicans hanged
BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer virtuee@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 22, 2008
ONE hundred and forty-two Jamaicans have been executed in the 26 years between Independence in 1962 and 1988 - when the last two persons went to the g...
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Tight security for Barack Obama’s inauguration
November 21, 2008
WASHINGTON DC, USA - Law enforcement officials bracing for the largest crowds in inaugural history are preparing far-reaching security - thousands of ...
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Triple murder charge against Tesha Miller dropped
Paul Henry 
November 21, 2008
A triple murder charge against reputed Klansman gang leader Tesha Miller and his co-accused, Rohan Brown, was dropped when the men appeared in the Hom...
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Choose careers that will help in nation building, Seaga tells JC boys
November 20, 2008
Former Prime Minister Edward Seaga has urged Jamaica College (JC) students to choose subject areas that will enable them to play more integral roles i...
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Early morning terror in Hendon/Norwood
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
November 20, 2008
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Four persons, including two brothers, were shot dead and two houses set ablaze early yesterday by armed thugs who invaded two ...
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Silva says Spanish monarchs’ visit postponed, not cancelled
November 20, 2008
Spanish ambassador to Jamaica, Jesus Silva, yesterday said that a state visit of the King and Queen of Spain to Jamaica planned for December has been ...
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MAJ says there is no agreement on child alert system
November 19, 2008
THE Media Association of Jamaica (MAJ) has discounted claims that an agreement was reached between itself and the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica f...
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ROYAL NO-SHOW
November 19, 2008
THE King and Queen of Spain have cancelled their December state visit to Jamaica, immediately setting off speculation that the decision was triggered ...
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Vote left hanging
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
November 19, 2008
THE House of Representatives last night pulled back from the brink of a crucial vote on the death penalty, at the suggestion of Prime Minister Bruce G...
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Bin Laden’s top deputy insults Obama in new video
AP 
November 19, 2008
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaeda's No 2 branded Barack Obama with a demeaning racial term for a black American who does the bidding of whites, in a new We...
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Cops cut down alleged robbers
November 18, 2008
Three of four men who allegedly held up and robbed a grocery store of prepaid phone cards, a cellular phone, groceries, and an undetermined sum of mon...
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Father who accidentally shot daughter calls for death penalty
Paul Henry 
November 18, 2008
PAUL Phillips, the man who earlier this month accidentally killed his daughter while attempting to protect the family from thugs at their Havendale, S...
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Entire JTB board resigns
INGRID BROWN, Observer senior reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 17, 2008
The entire board of the island's tourism promotions agency resigned yesterday, leaving the country wide-eyed and O-mouthed even as Tourism Minister Ed...
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SAVAGERY!
KARYL WALKER, Crime/court co-ordinator walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 17, 2008
BLOOD flowed yesterday at Dunoon Technical High School after a schoolboy was chased and stabbed by another student with whom he had a dispute over a c...
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