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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’

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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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Vin Lawrence quits his PNP job

PATRICK FOSTER, Observer writer

August 3, 2006

DR Vin Lawrence's dramatic plunge from grace echoed this week within the ruling People's National Party (PNP) with his shock announcement of his resig...

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Christie slaps Dennis Morrison

Observer Reporter

August 2, 2006

The contractor-general yesterday raised alarm over remarks by a top state board chairman, saying his remarks questioned the logic and legitimacy of pu...

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Father and son on police most wanted list in St Ann

CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter

August 2, 2006

A sixty-year-old businessman and his 31-year-old son, accused of murdering a Farm Town resident in February this year that triggered a riot in the com...

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Hike in block prices unavoidable, says association

Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter

August 2, 2006

BLOCKMAKERS said they had no choice but to increase the price of their products by 17.5 per cent this week, following the decision by Caribbean Cement...

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Condolence books for Miss Lou opens in Kingston, MoBay

Observer Reporter

August 1, 2006

CONDOLENCE books for the late Louise Bennett-Coverley, Miss Lou, will be opened at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade and the Office of...

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Jeffery Town Farmers Association takes Manley Community Award

ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter

August 1, 2006

THE Jeffery Town Farmers Association from St Mary yesterday outstripped 13 entrants to take the 2006 Michael Manley Foundation Award for Community Sel...

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It’s time for PM to ‘fly the gate’, Golding tells packed JLP rally

BY Erica Virtue Observer writer

July 31, 2006

JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) leaders Sunday night hammered the ruling People's National Party (PNP) for what speaker after speaker claimed was the party...

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Castro gives up power temporarily to undergo surgery

AFP

July 31, 2006

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) - Cuban President Fidel Castro said yesterday he underwent surgery and had temporarily handed power to his brother, Raul, for the f...

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Portmore man languishes in jail

Claudienne Edwards | Writer

July 31, 2006

KERRY Foster, who was arrested in September 2005 and charged with murder, says his bail application has been turned down several times because the pol...

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Talks with US for tsunami warning system in final stage, says minister

Observer Reporter

July 30, 2006

JAMAICA is in the final stages of discussions with the United States Government on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the establishment of a tsun...

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Huge rally challenges Mexico’s poll

AFP

July 30, 2006

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) - More than one million supporters of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rallied here yesterday to denounce alleged electio...

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Hope for victims of stalking

Desmond Allen | Executive Editor

July 30, 2006

In a precedent-setting ruling, a judge has granted an injunction against a woman who stalked a well-known broadcaster for 15 years, claiming that she ...

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Mullings wants int’l audit of Jamaica-Nigeria oil transactions

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

July 30, 2006

Clive Mullings, the Opposition spokesman on mining, energy and telecommunications, wants the government to retain an international oil consultant to a...

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Israelis kill 56 in Lebanon

AFP

July 30, 2006

QANA, Lebanon, (AFP) - Fifty-six people were killed, many of them sleeping children, when Israeli warplanes blitzed the Lebanese village of Qana yeste...

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Knowles loses extradition appeal again

By Lloyd Williams Sunday Observer writer

July 29, 2006

The Judicial Committee of the United Kingdom Privy Council has ordered that Samuel 'Ninety' Knowles, a Bahamian, named as a drug kingpin by the United...

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Peart puts stop order on Burnt Ground cemetery

BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer Reporter

July 29, 2006

ENVIRONMENT Minister Dean Peart has ordered that work on the development of the contentious $50-million cemetery at Burnt Ground in Hanover cease, pen...

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A nurse bares her soul. and her meagre earnings

BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Sunday Observer staff reporter

July 29, 2006

They are not allowed to shrink at the sight of blood, neither can they run from a frantic mother in the throes of delivery. They work endless hours, a...

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Six dead in Montpelier tragedy

Horace Hines | Observer Writer

July 29, 2006

MONTPELIER, St James - Six persons were killed and 11 others hospitalised, some with severe injuries, in a bloody three-vehicle collision in dense fog...

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‘I’m HIV-positive but I want to have a baby’

by Ingrid Brown Sunday Observer staff reporter

July 29, 2006

Being diagnosed with HIV has not deterred some couples from wanting to be biological parents, even with the strong likelihood of passing on the virus ...

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‘You have the wrong hotel, sir’

Observer Reporter

July 29, 2006

Gorstew, the aggrieved partner in the controversy-hit Sandals Whitehouse Hotel project, appears willing to spare the contractor-general any of its ire...

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Blair facing possible Cabinet revolt over Middle East crisis

AFP

July 29, 2006

LONDON, England (AFP) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair was facing a possible Cabinet revolt today after his former foreign secretary Jack Straw bro...