Jade-Ann Smith wins Triple Jump at UAB Blazer Invitational
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Jade-Ann Smith wins Triple Jump at UAB Blazer Invitational
January 9 10:16 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Former Excelsior High standout Jade Ann Smith of Florida A&M University (FAMU) set a new personal best (12.34m) to win the women’s...
Stray animals endangering Trelawny motorists, says Gager
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Stray animals endangering Trelawny motorists, says Gager
January 9 09:08 PM
TRELAWNY, Jamaica — Mayor of Falmouth and chairman of the Trelawny Municipal Corporation (TMC), C Junior Gager, has expressed concern about road fatal...
Anger over Minneapolis shooting probe fuels protests
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Anger over Minneapolis shooting probe fuels protests
January 9 08:57 PM
MINNEAPOLIS, United States (AFP) — Local officials in Minneapolis slammed federal agencies Friday for excluding them from the probe into an immigratio...
Fire guts multi-storey Manchester home
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January 9 07:49 PM
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Firefighters are now conducting a cooling-down operation after fire gutted the top floor of a multi-storey house in Hope Village...

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Women murdered, dumped in pit
BY INGRID BROWN Observer staff reporter 
June 28, 2006
VALRIE Wilson suspected that something was terribly wrong when she had not heard from daughter Febie Myrie in two weeks. But the thought of her younge...
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Man takes EOJ to court over voters’ list
BY LLOYD WILLIAMS Observer writer 
June 27, 2006
A resident of the St Catherine South Eastern constituency whose name has been left off the preliminary voters' list is seeking to bar the director of ...
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High commissioner to Canada ends tour of duty July 7
June 27, 2006
JAMAICANS in Canada will shortly be bidding farewell to Jamaica's High Commissioner to Canada, Carl Marshall, whose tour of duty ends on July 7. Marsh...
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Man’s suicide bullet also kills 16-year-old girl
AP 
June 27, 2006
EUREKA, Montana (AP) - A man who committed suicide at a party also killed a 16-year-old girl when the bullet travelled through his head and struck her...
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Woman who survived Flankers shooting gives testimony
BY VAUGHN DAVIS Observer staff reporter 
June 27, 2006
AUDREY Stephens, the woman who three years ago survived after being driven into a barrage of gunfire in Flankers, St James in 2003, yesterday began re...
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Campbell attributes low voter turnout to inactive members
BY KERIL WRIGHT Observer staff reporter 
June 26, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - General Secretary of the ruling People's National Party (PNP), Colin Campbell, has attributed last weekend's low voter turnout...
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This just won’t do!
BY PATRICK FOSTER Observer writer 
June 25, 2006
A Portmore resident who submitted a $1.3-million claim to the Caribbean Cement Company as compensation for the use of bad cement, has rejected the com...
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It’s now the Errol Flynn Marina
By Olivia Leigh Campbell Observer Staff Reporter 
June 25, 2006
THE marina at Port Antonio will now be known as the Errol Flynn Marina, named for the long-dead movie star, a move its owners hope will help to brand ...
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A whale of a battle still ahead
BY NAZMA MULLER Sunday Observer Reporter 
June 24, 2006
LAST week, the Caribbean was in the international spotlight - and not only because of the Soca Warriors, Trinidad and Tobago's football team. The regi...
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Sidewalk disgrace
BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer 
June 24, 2006
INCONSISTENCIES in the size and structure of sidewalks across Kingston, in areas where they do exist, have been tripping up disabled Jamaicans, many o...
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Burchell Whiteman
BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer Reporter 
June 24, 2006
BURCHELL Whiteman, in two decades, has managed to give Jamaican politics a good name. Even his political opponents hail him, as his colleagues and fri...
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Japan not opposed to preserving whales
June 24, 2006
Dear Editor, Reference is hereby made to the two articles in the Sunday, June 18, 2006 edition of your paper, titled "The Japanese water carrier and t...
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Tackling small projects that make a big difference
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
June 24, 2006
MANDEVILLE, Manchester - At the Woodlawn School of Special Education for the mentally challenged in Mandeville, the waiting list grew so long that the...
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Controversy marks Ethiopian Orthodox Church anniversary
By Basil Walters Sunday Observer Reporter 
June 24, 2006
THE Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church's 36th anniversary was marked by controversy when during the celebration service on Labour Day, May 23, the off...

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