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Encore to a great soul

Jimmy Cliff carried Jamaica far beyond its shores, says PM Holness

Shereita Grizzle | Observer Staff Reporter

December 18 12:20 AM

Encore to a great soul

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Coffee farmers appreciative of intervention, but want more help

BY RENAE OSBOURNE Observer staff reporter osbourner@jamaicaobserver.com

December 18 12:18 AM

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A fitting musical farewell

Gov’t, artiste fraterity honour legacy of Jimmy Cliff at official funeral

BY HOWARD CAMPBELL Observer senior writer entertainment@jamaicaobserver.com

December 18 12:16 AM

A fitting musical farewell

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Cold shoulder

Labelled delinquents, some Child Diversion Programme participants struggling to reintegrate

Alicia Dunkley-Willis Senior Reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com

December 18 12:14 AM

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UNDERDOGS NO MORE

Jamrockers head coach speaks on coming of age of national basketball programme

Daniel Blake | Sports Writer | blaked@jamaicaobserver.com

December 18 12:12 AM

‘No pie in the sky’

Food, ...

CHRISTMAS @ One Park

December 18 12:10 AM

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Boost for bars

Red Stripe, J Wray & Nephew providing ‘restart packs’ to help operators hard hit by Melissa

December 18 12:07 AM

Boost for bars

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No piecemeal work

Gov’t will take studied approach to rebuilding Black River, other seaside towns, says Green

Dana Malcolm | Observer Online Reporter | Malcolmd@jamaicaobserver.com

December 18 12:06 AM

No piecemeal work

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Woman cop among three facing fraud charges

Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter

August 22, 2006

THREE people, including a special constable, are facing fraud charges in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court after allegedly participating i...

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UN says mideast truce fragile, but possible

AFP

August 21, 2006

JERUSALEM, Israel (AFP) - UN special envoy Terje Roed Larsen said yesterday he was optimistic that a fragile truce ending 34 days of warfare betwe...

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Alleged drug trafficker ordered to hospital

Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter

August 21, 2006

ALLEGED international narcotics trafficker, Jeffrey Lewis, 78, who is reportedly afflicted by a series of illnesses, including obesity, was yesterday ...

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Cops detain prison warder, two inmates under probe

Observer Reporter

August 20, 2006

A prison warder was detained by the police yesterday, while two inmates were being investigated for allegedly smuggling ganja into the high-security S...

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NWU president faces challenge

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

August 20, 2006

Clive Dobson, the president of the National Workers Union (NWU), is to be challenged for the leadership of the powerful trade union when it holds its ...

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Cops release names of four killed in alleged shoot-out in Clarendon

Observer Reporter

August 20, 2006

THE police have now identified all four men killed in an alleged shoot-out in Alexandria, Clarendon on Saturday. The identities of those released yest...

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British-funded leadership programme targets Kingston schools

JIS

August 19, 2006

A number of schools in Kingston are to benefit from a youth leadership programme to be implemented by the British-funded Beacons of Progress and Achie...

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Sandals/Beaches brand excites North American travel agents

Desmond Allen | Executive Editor

August 19, 2006

Atlantic City, USA - Watching the unbridled enthusiasm of the travel agents at the two most recent Sandals and Beaches Ultra Resorts Convention in Atl...

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Sandals awards 22 scholarships

BY KERIL WRIGHT Observer staff reporter

August 19, 2006

Negril, Westmoreland - Twenty-two students from rural Jamaica will this year benefit from the Sandals Community Scholarship Fund, with awards totallin...

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The face of Male Ego is female

August 19, 2006

For a young Jamaican couple, what started out as a means of earning extra money to help them through university - selling jeans to students - has beco...

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32 students benefit from ALPART scholarships

August 19, 2006

ESSEX VALLEY, St Elizabeth - Alumina Partners of Jamaica (ALPART) has awarded academic scholarships, valued at $240,000, to 32 students from 17 All-Ag...

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To hell and back

August 19, 2006

Leila Younis is Lebanese by birth and Jamaican by choice. She describes herself as fiercely warm and loving and someone who enjoys the simpler things ...

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Police kill four alleged gunmen in Clarendon

August 19, 2006

Police sharp-shooters outgunned four men, killing all of them in an alleged firefight at dawn yesterday in the quiet Clarendon district of Alexandria....

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Volunteerism still alive, but with less passion

BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer staff reporter

August 19, 2006

In the 1970s, during what some people recall with nostalgic fervour as the 'good ole days' of voluntary service, Jamaicans turned out in droves to dev...

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Portmore welcomes branch of Registrar General’s Dept

Observer Reporter

August 18, 2006

RESIDENTS of Portmore in St Catherine no longer need to travel to Spanish Town to process documents such as birth and death certificates, marriage lic...

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44 AIDS activists arrested

AFP

August 18, 2006

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AFP) - South African police yesterday arrested 44 activists from the country's main AIDS lobby group for staging a protest ov...

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‘No mud lake strike’

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

August 17, 2006

THE US$800-million Jamalco expansion received a boost Wednesday when the trade unions, representing workers involved in the mud lake expansion, signed...

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Two J’cans get life for London triple murder

Observer Reporter

August 17, 2006

TWO Jamaican men have been jailed for life in Britain after being found guilty of murdering three members of a family in a revenge shooting in northwe...

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Situation in Sudan critical, says UN envoy

AFP

August 17, 2006

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) - A top UN envoy expressed serious concern yesterday about the "critical" human rights situation in the strife-torn Darfur regio...

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Water woes in the capital city

Observer Reporter

August 17, 2006

SOME of the capital city's water storage facilities fell lower yesterday, forcing the state-run National Water Commission to institute further lock-of...

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Caretaker gets 10 days for stealing bicycle from police station

Observer Reporter

August 17, 2006

A man was yesterday sentenced to 10 days in prison at hard labour after pleading guilty to breaking into the Grants Pen Police Station and stealing a ...

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NWA to tackle flooding along Marcus Garvey Drive

Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter

August 16, 2006

THE National Works Agency (NWA) will begin work this week on a major drain that runs behind the Tinson Pen Aerodrome in Kingston, to prevent a repeat ...