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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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Living on tenterhooks

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

June 23, 2007

JUNE is here, and scores of families are busy cutting the grass, packing boxes and stacking furniture. But these residents of Nightingale Grove in sou...

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‘Wi ready!’

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

June 23, 2007

With expectations heightening that Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller will call general elections for July, the major political parties yesterday in...

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Knight thanks constituents, media in farewell speech

June 23, 2007

ON Wednesday June 13, former minister of national security and justice, and foreign affairs and foreign trade, K D Knight, made his farewell speech in...

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Paradise Prep. champions of a clean environment

June 23, 2007

PARADISE Preparatory School in St James is the regional winner of the National Solid Waste Management Authority's clean school competition. The Westmo...

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Council managers say lack of funding hurting local bodies

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

June 22, 2007

LACK of funding was this week identified as one of the most fundamental setbacks for parish councils, as a Joint Select Committee of Parliament contin...

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Opposition bans motorcades in the west

Mark Cummings | Observer Writer

June 22, 2007

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Breaking with a popular election tradition, the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) yesterday slapped an immediate ban on al...

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Lee clarifies Portmore drain-cleaning expenditure

June 22, 2007

THE Portmore Municipal Council says there is no contradiction in the amount it has spent on drain cleaning in the community this year. Mayor George Le...

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Section of Howard Cooke Blvd closed for repairs to bridge

June 22, 2007

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The east-bound carriageway of the Howard Cooke Boulevard will be closed this weekend to facilitate repairs to the Montego Bay ...

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Caricom, US agree to work together

ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer

June 22, 2007

WASHINGTON DC, USA - Caribbean Community (Caricom) and the United States have pledged to support each other in the region, through the expansion of ec...

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JLP vows to make Mandeville model town in fight against crime

Garfield Myers | Observer Writer

June 22, 2007

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - A government run by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) would make this central highlands town a model in the fight against crime,...

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Man’s head found in knapsack

June 22, 2007

THE severed head of a man was found in a knapsack Thursday evening while the police were involved in a shooting incident in Effortville, Clarendon. Th...

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One dead, two injured in Manchester accident

Glendon Baker

June 22, 2007

ANCEL Thompson, a 47-year-old farmer of Chudleigh, Manchester, was killed while his wife Mitzy and son Ancel Jr are nursing injuries after a Nissan st...

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Two get life for murdering former friend

June 22, 2007

SPANISH Town residents Omar Stewart and Andre Ennis were last Friday sentenced to life imprisonment in the Home Circuit Court for the 2005 slaying of ...

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Parish councils defend issuing of stop orders

Kimone Thompson, Observer staff reporter

June 22, 2007

THE island's parish councils are insisting that injunctions issued on real estate developers are legal and are done only as a last resort. "Unless the...

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ODPEM stages hurricane preparedness expo today

June 22, 2007

THE Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) will host its annual Hurricane Preparedness expo today at the Portmore Mall, St C...

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Vile murders

BY PAUL HENRY Observer staff reporter henryp@jamaicaobserver.com

June 21, 2007

The murder of an elderly man in Torrington Park two Saturdays ago had so traumatised seven year-old Damone Skyers that she desperately hoped she and h...

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Fire safety lacking at KSAC

Claudienne Edwards | Writer

June 21, 2007

THE Church Street headquarters of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation has not been operating in conformity with standard fire prevention practices,...

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‘Let the tyrants fall’

Pat Roxborough-Wright

June 21, 2007

MONTEGO BAY, St James - A Baptist preacher yesterday described Jamaica's crime-ridden environment as a tyrant-breeding factory and called for an audit...

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Sex education for schools September

BY INGRID BROWN Observer staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com

June 21, 2007

SEX education will be introduced in 223 primary, preparatory and secondary schools in September as part of a new curriculum on health and family life....

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Former Stone Poll team responds

June 21, 2007

The team of academics who, until recently, worked as members of the Stone Poll Organisation, yesterday reaffirmed their commitment to conducting resea...

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Fire safety lacking at KSAC

Claudienne Edwards | Writer

June 21, 2007

THE Church Street headquarters of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation has not been operating in conformity with standard fire prevention practices,...