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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...
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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...
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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...
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West Indies players named among best in ESPN 2025 cricket roundup
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West Indies players named among best in ESPN 2025 cricket roundup
January 9 07:56 PM
A number of the West Indies’ players across both men’s and women’s squads have been picked by ESPN as some of the standout players of 2025. The ESPNcr...
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Fire guts multi-storey Manchester home
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Fire guts multi-storey Manchester home
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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Market Bag: Hot pepper as low as $500 as food prices cool at ‘Curry’
January 9 07:29 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica – There’s good news for shoppers this week as Scotch bonnet pepper prices – a ‘hot’ topic during the recent Christmas holidays – are...
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KFC Jamaica says third party vending machine not affiliated with company
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KFC Jamaica says third party vending machine not affiliated with company
January 9 07:08 PM
ST CATHERINE, Jamaica — KFC Jamaica is distancing itself from reports of a third-party vending machine purporting to carry boxed and ready meals from ...
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Jakes Hotel takes on Kingston with a night of dub & roots music for charity
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Jakes Hotel takes on Kingston with a night of dub & roots music for charity
January 9 06:36 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Renowned boutique hotel Jakes Hotel in Treasure Beach, will be hosting what it describes as a powerful celebration of Reggae Cultu...
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Patricia House reports 75-85 per cent drug rehab success
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Sunday Observer reporter 
February 11, 2006
FOR 15 years, Patricia House has been gently weaning addicts off narcotics and other substances, mainly crack/cocaine, with varying levels of success ...
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107 gallons of diesel oil, crack cocaine and ganja seized in raid
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
February 10, 2006
CLARKS TOWN, Trelawny - Two early morning police raids in this farming community yesterday morning led to the seizure of 107 gallons of diesel oil, 25...
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Former San Diego child counsellor gets life sentence in child sex case
AP 
February 10, 2006
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A former child counsellor was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in an international child pornography ring in a case th...
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Caricom leaders say farewell to Patterson
RICKEY SINGH in Port-of-Spain 
February 9, 2006
JAMAICA'S Prime Minister P J Patterson was yesterday the toast of Caribbean Community leaders at the opening session of the 17th Inter-Sessional Meeti...
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Protests in Faith’s Pen, Farm Town
CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter 
February 9, 2006
OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Faith's Pen and Farm Town, two small communities in the parish, were the scenes of protests yesterday - one against bad roads and ...
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UWI professor awarded two top literary prizes
RICKEY SINGH 
February 8, 2006
BRIDGETOWN - Dr Mark McWatt, a distinguished professor of West Indian literature and head of the Department of Language and Literature at the Cave Hil...
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UWI bids farewell to Prof Errol Miller
Observer Reporter 
February 8, 2006
THE Institute of Education at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities and Education yesterday h...
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Spanish Town erupts again
Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter 
February 8, 2006
SECTIONS of Spanish Town yesterday descended into chaos as angry residents protested the early afternoon shooting death of reputed gang leader Andrew ...
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Radical Muslim clerk gets 7-year sentence
AFP 
February 7, 2006
LONDON, England (AFP) - Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was sentenced to seven years in prison yesterday after his criminal trial in London f...
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Man held during Mongoose Town gunfight, other escapes
Observer Reporter 
February 7, 2006
POLICE were last night searching for 'Mongoose Town' resident Tafari Forbes, who they said managed to get away during a gunfight with cops in the toug...
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Man shot dead by cop after stabbing another man
Observer Reporter 
February 7, 2006
MONDAY'S fatal shooting of a man at Cassia Park in Kingston by an off-duty policeman sparked a demonstration by residents of the area yesterday. Resid...
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Haitians vote in elections today
AP 
February 6, 2006
GONAIVES, Haiti (AP) - Mules carried ballots into the Haitian countryside yesterday to reach a remote village on the eve of today's elections, aimed a...
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Firearm Licensing Authority meets Feb 17
Observer Reporter 
February 6, 2006
THE newly constituted board of the Independent Central Firearm Licensing Authority will have its first meeting on February 17. A statement from the se...
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Son of former Antiguan minister convicted in driving deaths
AP 
February 4, 2006
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (AP) - A member of one of Antigua's most influential political families was convicted of causing the deaths of two young women by r...
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Nicholson anticipates conscience vote on hanging
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
February 4, 2006
ATTORNEY-General and Minister of Justice, AJ Nicholson, believes that the Joint Select Committee currently reviewing the proposals for the Charter of ...
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SRC partners with HomeworkJamaica.com
February 4, 2006
A NEW partnership between the Scientific Research Council (SRC) and HomeworkJamaica.com (HWJ) will give members of the group access to a list of resou...
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From victims to ‘shottas’
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Sunday Observer writer 
February 4, 2006
THE death count for women last year reached a new high, largely as victims of reprisal attacks when gangsters miss their male targets, but there are w...
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Illegal gas plentiful and cheap
BY STEVE BROWN Sunday Observer Writer 
February 4, 2006
IT took a short 15-minute ride but within that time, the Sunday Observer, in an undercover probe of the thriving and lucrative trade, detected four il...
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IAEA approves reporting Iran to UN
AFP 
February 4, 2006
VIENNA, Austria (AFP) - The UN atomic agency voted yesterday to report Iran to the UN Security Council over fears it seeks nuclear weapons, a move ope...
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The shadow gently lifts from Spanish Town
BY VAUGHN DAVIS Sunday Observer Reporter 
February 4, 2006
SPANISH Town, known more in the past two years for gang-related violence and extortion, has over the past few months been on the receiving end of seve...
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Police kill suspect in sewerage pit murder case
Taneisha Davidson 
February 4, 2006
THE police yesterday shot and killed a man they claimed was a prime suspect in the abduction, rape and murder of two women, and the attempted murder o...
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Progressive supermarkets, distributors at odds over ‘short pants’ rule
BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer 
February 4, 2006
PROGRESSIVE Grocers, whose 28-member consortium comprise the second largest grouping of local supermarkets, has set off a firestorm in the retail sect...
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