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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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Called by the sea

BY ROLAND HENRY Sunday Observer staff reporter henryr@jamaicaobserver.com

February 17, 2007

It takes a special kind of man to trust the blissfully inviting and sometimes menacing waters that ebb and flow along the sandy banks of the Pedro Cay...

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Health ministry sets up free HIV/AIDS testing sites in Kgn, St Thomas

BY TANEISHA LEWIS Sunday Observer staff reporter editorial@jamaicaobserver.com

February 17, 2007

The Ministry of Health has set up free HIV/AIDS testing sites in at least five communities in the Kingston Metropolitan Area and St Thomas under its N...

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Two men; two different reasons to become cops

Kerry McCatty

February 17, 2007

Sergeant Rovan Salmon and Constable Andre Whines both work out of the Mandeville Police Station. However, their decision to join the Jamaica Constabul...

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Main suspect in cop’s murder turns himself in

BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Sunday Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com

February 17, 2007

Less than a week after 40-year-old Detective Corporal Dave Daley was murdered in Duhaney Park, St Andrew, the man police said was the main suspect wan...

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Passing grade for Manchester earthquake simulation

February 17, 2007

THE Disaster Planning and Management Committee of the Manchester Parish Council has received a passing grade for its recent earthquake simulation exer...

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Workers still benefit from union label

BY MICHAEL KINSMAN

February 17, 2007

WHEN I was first asked to join a union, I remember thinking it was the last thing I wanted to do. But I actually wasn't asked to join, I was told to j...

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Living the language

BY KIMONE THOMPSON Sunday Observer reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com

February 17, 2007

SEVEN students of Shortwood Teachers' College recently leaped across the chasm that separates the type of French taught merely on a theoretical base f...

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Gov’t urged to honour ‘Pop’ Lawrence’s memory

BY PAUL A REID Sunday Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com

February 17, 2007

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Newspaper publisher and Jamaica Observer columnist Lloyd B Smith yesterday called on the Government to honour the late Gladsto...

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Changing the face of the police

BY KERRY MCCATTY Sunday Observer staff reporter mccattyk@jamaicaobserver.com

February 17, 2007

If you are young, bright and willing to serve your country, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) wants you. Especially if you are bright. That is the ...

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Avoiding ‘reality shock’ in the workplace: Part II

Career Advice with Merrit Henry

February 17, 2007

We recently looked at how the human resource (HR) practitioner can help new employees avoid 'reality shock' that, according to Dessler G, "occurs at t...

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Future of the security forces under review

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

February 17, 2007

Former Commissioner of Police Colonel Trevor MacMillan has suggested bi-partisan discussions on the future of the security forces. "I feel very, very ...

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PAJ supports Bar Association position on Incest Act

BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Sunday Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com

February 17, 2007

The Press Association of Jamaica has given its support to a submission made by the Jamaica Bar Association to the committee deliberating the Incest (P...

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Flawless food and sweet love @ the Hilton

Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content

February 17, 2007

Under food and beverage director Olivier Lavoine, the Hilton Kingston has been - and ever so quietly, might we hasten to add - transforming the proper...

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Garbage drums for Black River

Mark Cummings | Observer Writer

February 17, 2007

Mayor of Black River and chairman of the St Elizabeth Parish Council, Franklyn Witter (left) accepts a donation of 20 garbage drums from Jamaica Labou...

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Golf tournament to benefit Jamaican schools

JIS

February 17, 2007

MONEY raised from this year's staging of the Caribbean Classic Golf Invitational Tournament in Montego Bay will finance the establishment of computer ...

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‘We are ready’

BY LUKE DOUGLAS Sunday Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com

February 17, 2007

REJECTING the view that they are under-performing, Jamaica's education officers say they are responding to problems in the island's schools and workin...

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UWI medical student to benefit from Kids for Charity donation

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

February 17, 2007

COURTNEY Foster and her Kids for Charity organisation have raised another $200,000 to be handed over this month to a needy student in the Faculty of M...

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A-G agrees to give way to Sandals Whitehouse issue

February 17, 2007

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will definitely not be able to deal with the two most recent reports from the Auditor-General which have been tabl...

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To take out the gangs

BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer senior reporter editorial@jamaicaobserver.com

February 17, 2007

Police and scientists agree: gangs have become a scourge on the Jamaican society and are at the heart of the vast majority of murders committed across...

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‘Pay us for slave labour’

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

February 17, 2007

Jamaica, which gained international acclaim for its part in the fight against South African Apartheid, is getting ready to throw itself behind the con...

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The American Crocodile: Feared and under threat

February 17, 2007

THERE can be no question of the fear that any sighting of the American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) instills in locals. It is fear that often leads t...

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‘We warned her about him’

BY Vaughn Davis Sunday Observer staff reporter davisv@jamaicaobserver.com

February 17, 2007

Leon Reynolds didn't like the fact that his daughter, Natalie, had started a relationship with Anthony Wright. In fact, Reynolds said he had warned he...