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A voice in sport lost

Tributes pour in for award-winning journalist Donald Oliver

December 31 12:20 AM

A voice in sport lost

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‘Closure & comfort’

•CASE students relieved after alleged serial rapist fatally shot by cops •Still want improved security on campus

Everard Owen Observer Writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com

December 31 12:18 AM

‘Closure comfort’

Entertainment, ...

New location, no problem!

I Love Soca delivers premium vibes at Heroes’ Circle

Shereita Grizzle | Observer Staff Reporter

December 31 12:16 AM

New location, no problem!

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STAGE ECONOMICS

Live comedy’s gains amid theatre’s decline

Codie-ann Barrett | Business Reporter

December 31 12:14 AM

Standing ovations for stand-ups 2025

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RIDING THE WAVE

ASAJ president pushing ahead with plans in second term

Daniel Blake | Sports Writer | blaked@jamaicaobserver.com

December 31 12:12 AM

More work to do

Business

BOJ pushing to improve Jam-Dex access

BY DAVID ROSE Observer business writer davidr@jamaicaobserver.com

December 31 12:10 AM

BOJ pushing

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‘Arrive alive’

Increase in road fatalities pushes authorities to intensify strategies to change driver behaviour

BY RENAE OSBOURNE Observer staff reporter osbourner@jamaicaobserver.com

December 31 12:10 AM

‘Arrive alive’

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‘It’s about people, not buildings’

Church leaders weigh in on debate over State’s offer of rebuilding funds

Jerome Williams | Reporter

December 31 12:09 AM

‘It’s about people, not buildings’

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McKenzie names PNP chairman for KSAC Oversight Committee

Claudienne Edwards | Writer

September 12, 2006

THE People's National Party's Paul Stewart, councillor for the Hagley Park Division of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC), has been appoint...

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Public broadcasting service to cost $300 million annually

BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Observer staff reporter

September 12, 2006

DR Grace Turner, CEO of the Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica (PBCJ), says it will cost $300 million annually to run the company when it beco...

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Pedestrian killed on Coffee Grove Road

September 12, 2006

JOHN Billings, 65, was pronounced dead at hospital yesterday from injuries he sustained when he was hit by a motor car on the Coffee Grove main road i...

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Man charged with lawyer’s murder

September 12, 2006

A 21-year-old man who was held at Park Lane in Kingston on Saturday was formally charged yesterday for the December 2004 murder of attorney Michael An...

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Deacon on sex rap back in court Friday

Paul Henry

September 12, 2006

DONOVAN Jones, the former deacon of the Church Dayton Diamond Ridge who is implicated in the sexual assault case of a teenage girl, is to appear in th...

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‘UDC misled public about hiring of Whitehouse consultants’

September 12, 2006

CONTRACTOR-GENERAL Greg Christie said yesterday that he was still awaiting a response from the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) to his accusation t...

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Alleged fugitive held in Higgins Town

September 12, 2006

A man who the police said is wanted in the United States of America on a number of charges, was yesterday apprehended by members of the Fugitive Appre...

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Golding confirms MacMillan’s appointment to Senate

September 12, 2006

OPPOSITION Leader Bruce Golding yesterday advised the governor-general to appoint former police commissioner Colonel Trevor MacMillan as a member of t...

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Samuda under House fire

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

September 12, 2006

THE Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) yesterday challenged the ruling People's National Party (PNP) to censure its spokesman, Karl Samuda, over th...

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Same address, new office space

Observer Reporter

September 11, 2006

WHEN the British Council officially opens its new offices later this morning, it will be extending its range of services. The Council which was housed...

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Seven judges sworn to higher office

September 11, 2006

Governor General Professor Kenneth Hall (second left, front row), Mrs Rheima Hall (third left); Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe (front left), and Presiden...

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Parents step up protest at Maldon

Observer Reporter

September 11, 2006

MALDON, St James - Angry parents of students attending the Maldon High School here disrupted activities at the school again yesterday, as they protest...

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POLICE REPORTS

September 11, 2006

Two dead, one injured in Bartons shooting THE St Catherine South Homicide Unit is investigating the circumstances surrounding the gun murder of two me...

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Anger and fear mix with empathy as world remembers 9/11

September 11, 2006

PARIS (AP) - The nations of the world joined yesterday in solemn remembrance of September 11 - but for many, resentment of the United States flowed as...

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JAMAL is no more

PATRICK FOSTER, Observer staff reporter

September 11, 2006

JAMAL, the movement established with great fanfare by late Prime Minister Michael Manley in the 1970s to abolish adult illiteracy, has been dissolved ...

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Norwood house set on fire in apparent reprisal over chef’s murder

Keril Wright

September 11, 2006

NORWOOD, St James - A five-apartment house at Bottom Pen in this community was yesterday set ablaze in an apparent reprisal over the murder of Andre T...

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JTA to decide on course of action next Wednesday

Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter

September 11, 2006

THE Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) will next Wednesday decide on a course of action in its wage dispute with the Government, after holding a seri...

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McKenzie wants bipartisan discussions on World Cup cricket

Observer Reporter

September 11, 2006

KINGSTON MAYOR Desmond McKenzie says he hopes to lead a bipartisan team of Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) Councillors to discuss, with the ...

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If Bob Marley can’t be a National Hero…

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

September 11, 2006

CENTRAL Clarendon MP Mike Henry (JLP) wants Parliament to establish a "united and common" position on recognising the faith of Ras Tafari. Speaking in...

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Public Broadcasting Corporation begins transmission Oct 16

Observer Reporter

September 11, 2006

THE Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica (PBCJ) is scheduled to begin transmission on Heroes Day this year, and will be available on approximate...

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NWA starts work next month on breakaways on main roads

Observer Reporter

September 11, 2006

THE National Works Agency (NWA) will next month begin repairs on the nearly 400 breakaways on its main road network islandwide. "We are looking at beg...