Olivier Shield to be played on January 7
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Olivier Shield to be played on January 7
December 26 05:13 PM
The much-anticipated Olivier Shield clash between St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) and Excelsior High will be played on Wednesday, January ...
A look back at the 13 biggest local stories of 2025
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December 26 05:08 PM
From a once in a lifetime hurricane to a historic third term for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), a 30-year low in murders, and the major flop by the R...
Portland man slapped with murder and gun charges
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Portland man slapped with murder and gun charges
December 26 03:37 PM
PORTLAND, Jamaica — A 34-year-old man has been charged with murder, possession of a prohibited weapon and unlawful possession of ammunition following ...
Izizzi player hits $2.8 million jackpot on Greek Gods game
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Izizzi player hits $2.8 million jackpot on Greek Gods game
December 26 02:28 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A restaurant worker and long-time Izizzi player is celebrating a $2.8 million jackpot win after winning the Greek Gods game. A ded...
Guyana’s non-oil sector registers growth of more than 7%
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Guyana’s non-oil sector registers growth of more than 7%
December 26 02:19 PM
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Guyana’s non-oil economy grew by 13.8 per cent in the first half of 2025, according to the mid-year economic report. Touris...
Double murder mars Christmas Day on March Pen Road
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Double murder mars Christmas Day on March Pen Road
December 26 12:58 PM
ST CATHERINE, Jamaica — Despite an increased police presence, gunmen struck on March Pen Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine on Christmas Day leaving t...

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Gun smuggler assassinated
Observer Reporter 
November 12, 2005
A triple killing in Sandy Bay, Clarendon yesterday was believed by the police to have been a targeted hit of a suspected gun smuggler who failed to de...
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Electronic tracking device for prison parolees, persons on bail
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Sunday Observer writer 
November 12, 2005
THE Department of Correctional Services, headed by Major Richard Reese, is in negotiations with a Jamaican-owned but United States-based company to in...
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LEPTO SCARE
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
November 11, 2005
THE number of confirmed cases of leptospirosis in Clarendon has jumped from 10 last week to 50, forcing the authorities to launch a major clean-up of ...
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NEWS BRIEF…..NEWS BRIEF
November 11, 2005
MoBay businessman shot dead MONTEGO BAY, St James - Fifty-year-old businessman Sammy Ramchandani was yesterday shot and killed by gunmen during a dari...
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Wolfe orders dismantled M16 rifle be reassembled
Observer Reporter 
November 11, 2005
CHIEF Justice Lensley Wolfe, who is presiding over the Crawle murder trial, yesterday ordered the prosecution to reassemble a dismantled M16 rifle all...
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The BITU’s Franklyn McDonald is dead
Observer Reporter 
November 11, 2005
FRANKLYN McDonald, assistant island supervisor of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU), is dead. McDonald, 71, died last weekend after a long ...
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Poverty levels cut in half since 1992, says official
PATRICK FOSTER, Observer writer 
November 11, 2005
THE number of Jamaicans living below the poverty line has been sliced by more than half in the 12 years up to 2004, according to Jaslin Salmon, nation...
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Slain missionaries being buried tomorrow
Vernon Davidson | Executive Editor, Publications | davidsonv@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 10, 2005
THE two Catholic missionaries who were slain late last month will be laid to rest tomorrow in adjoining graves at Corpus Christi, the Missionaries of ...
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Adams reports coming under fire from 10 gunmen
T K WHYTE, Observer staff reporter 
November 10, 2005
The original Dictaphone recording of a radio transmission between former head of the now disbanded Crime Management Unit (CMU), Senior Superintendent ...
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Police sign wage pact with heavy heart
Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter 
November 10, 2005
AFTER nearly two years attempting to resist a public sector pay freeze and insisting on substantially higher wages, the Police Federation - which repr...
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Government failed to protect Gayle from torture
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
November 10, 2005
THE Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has ruled that the police investigation of Michael Gayle's death was botched, and has called on ...
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JUTA calls off protest; meets with Davies Monday
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
November 10, 2005
MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Jamaica Union of Travellers Association (JUTA) has put on hold its planned protest for today, aimed at pressing government...
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USAID greenhouse project delivers the goods
Observer Reporter 
November 9, 2005
Manchester farmer Jervis Rowe is smiling all the way to the market. Rowe, one of 11 agriculturists benefiting from greenhouse technology under the Uni...
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NEWS BRIEF…..NEWS BRIEF…..NEWS BRIEF…..
November 9, 2005
Cement shortage to ease in two weeks THE Caribbean Cement Company Limited said yesterday that the supply of cement to the market should return to norm...
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Jamaica to commemorate abolition of slave trade
Observer Reporter 
November 9, 2005
PRIME Minister P J Patterson has welcomed a proposal presented to him by representatives of the academic community of the University of the West Indie...
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Police recorder malfunctions in court
T K WHYTE, Observer staff reporter 
November 9, 2005
THE Court was yesterday unable to listen to the recording of a conversation about the May 7, 2003 Crawle shooting between Senior Superintendent Reneto...
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Liberians vote in historic election
AP 
November 8, 2005
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - War-ravaged Liberia voted yesterday to choose its first postwar president in a heated runoff pitting an international soccer ...
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Attempted break-in at police forensic lab
Olivia Leigh Campbell, All Woman Co-ordinator 
November 8, 2005
CRIMINALS attempted to break into the police forensic laboratory Monday night, allegedly in a bid to recovery the gun of slain Spanish Town gang leade...
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10 year-old prosecution witness unable to take stand
T K WHYTE, Observer staff reporter 
November 8, 2005
A prosecution witness, whose mother Lewina Thompson was one of four people shot and killed by police at Crawle, Clarendon on May 7, 2003, who was sche...

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