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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday called on the United States (US) to ensure deposed Venezuelan leader Nicola...
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ST THOMAS, Jamaica — The police are advising the public that sections of the Hordley Crossing main road in St Thomas leading to Portland are impassabl...
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Broadgate main road in St Mary now passable
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ST MARY, Jamaica — The police are advising members of the public that the Broadgate main road in St Mary is now passable. The road was previously impa...
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PM clarifies $75m allocation to churches is for clean-up activities, not rebuilding
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January 6 12:11 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness has clarified that the previously announced $75 million to support affected churches in the aftermat...
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‘Not Nice’, ‘Bad Oil’ among six being sought for murder and assault in St Elizabeth
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Candlelight vigil for Donald Oliver to be held at Statue Park on Thursday
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January 6 11:37 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A candlelight vigil will be held to celebrate the life and legacy of sports journalist Donald Oliver on Thursday, January 8th. Set...
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UK urges Musk’s X to act over ‘appalling’ sexual deepfakes
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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The United Kingdom (UK) Government Tuesday called on Elon Musk's social network X to take urgent action over its artifi...
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NWC team steps in to support flood-hit care home in St James
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NWC team steps in to support flood-hit care home in St James
January 6 11:06 AM
ST JAMES, Jamaica — The National Water Commission’s (NWC) eastern maintenance team has demonstrated outstanding corporate citizenship after recently d...
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Insurgent attack kills 19 Iraqi soldiers as violence surges ahead of election
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December 3, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Insurgents killed 19 Iraqi soldiers and wounded four others in a coordinated ambush northeast of Baghdad just two days after the ...
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Bulbie haunts the PNP
BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer 
December 3, 2005
NEARLY a decade after the ruling People's National Party (PNP) dispatched a team to the troubled South Central St Catherine constituency to assess wha...
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Rockfort attempts to shake its culture of criminality
Paul Clarke 
December 3, 2005
FOR 10 years, amidst the murders and gang mayhem that still haunts Rockfort, a movement has been building in the East Kingston community to transform ...
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Oh no, here comes Terrell from sales
Copley News Service 
December 3, 2005
SELF-centred. Arrogant. Temperamental. Narcissistic. Call Terrell Owens (TO) anything you want, but that doesn't do much to deflate his value and allu...
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The extended classroom
Barbara Blake-Hannah 
December 3, 2005
AS my child grew, the 'school' extended outside the walls of our home. We did not follow a set curriculum of daily lessons because, at that time - 20 ...
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Week five begins with reprimand of media, ends with warning to lawyers
December 3, 2005
On trial for murder: Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams, Sergeant Roderick Collier, Corporal Leford Gordon, Constable Patrick Coke, Constable Devon Be...
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TVET will be implemented in 15 schools
AP 
December 3, 2005
THE Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) rationalisation programme, which is designed to equip secondary school students with the indust...
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Bahamas approves extradition proceedings against Irish businessman
AP 
December 2, 2005
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - The Bahamas can begin extradition hearings against an Irish businessman wanted in New York on charges of plotting to bribe gove...
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Judge wants Crawle trial to end by Dec 16
Observer Reporter 
December 2, 2005
CHIEF Justice Lensley Wolfe told the court yesterday that the murder trial of Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams and five members of the disbanded Cri...
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Investigators excavate site of 1951 civil rights activist murders
AP 
December 2, 2005
MIMS, Florida (AP) - Four Ku Klux Klan members are almost certainly to blame for the unsolved 1951 bombing murders of two civil rights activists, inve...
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Caribbean worried about further changes to EU banana regime
Observer Reporter 
December 2, 2005
TRADE ministers from the Windward Islands and Jamaica have warned that further changes now proposed to the European Union banana regime could lead to ...
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THE REGION
December 2, 2005
Cuba's military marks 49th anniversary HAVANA (AP) - Communist Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces marked 49 years yesterday, celebrating military succe...
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JTB says bookings for December, Winter Tourist Season ‘quite strong’
Observer Reporter 
December 1, 2005
PRELIMINARY figures show a 24 per cent increase in stopover arrivals for November, while bookings for December and the Winter Tourist Season "are quit...
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Arrest warrant for Danhai
Observer Reporter 
December 1, 2005
A Half-Way-Tree Court magistrate yesterday issued a warrant for the arrest of the controversial East Kingston businessman Danhai Williams, for breachi...
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Crawle trial adjourns early
Observer Reporter 
December 1, 2005
THE Crawle murder trial adjourned early yesterday after defence attorneys objected to the testimony of Cable & Wireless systems administrator, Howard ...
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Tour bus driver dies in crash, tourists hurt
Observer Reporter 
December 1, 2005
A tour bus driver died yesterday and the three tourists he was taking to Montego Bay injured when their bus crashed into an Isuzu truck laden with lum...
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South Africa legalises gay marriage
AP 
December 1, 2005
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - South Africa's highest court ruled yesterday it is unconstitutional to prevent gay people from marrying, paving the ...
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Cops question suspects in pastor’s murder
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
December 1, 2005
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Up to late last night the St James police were interrogating two suspects in connection with Wednesday night's murder of 50-ye...
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Man shot dead
PAUL CLARKE, Observer staff reporter 
December 1, 2005
RESIDENTS of Jobs Lane, Spanish Town, St Catherine, yesterday mounted a number of fiery roadblocks in the community to protest against the fatal shoot...
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Health ministry will today urge Jamaicans to get tested for HIV/AIDS
TANEISHA DAVIDSON, Observer staff reporter 
November 30, 2005
TODAY, as Jamaicans observe World AIDS Day, the health ministry remains concerned over the low numbers of people turing up at health centres and hospi...
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Six tourists robbed at gunpoint
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
November 30, 2005
MONTEGO BAY St James - A top level police team headed by crime chief in charge of Area One, superintendent John Morris, has launched an investigation ...
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Danhai’s name called
TK WHYTE, Observer staff reporter 
November 30, 2005
Controversy-laden East Kingston businessman and political activist, Danhai Williams, figured briefly - and controversially - at the Crawle murder tria...
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