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Champions STETHS, Excelsior dominate all-star team selections

January 6 06:02 PM

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) football champions, St Elizabeth Technical High (STETHS) and Excelsior High,...

Entertainment, ...

Winston Dias releases cover of ‘Let’s Keep it That Way’

January 6 05:49 PM

Married for over 55 years, Winston Dias knows when his spouse makes a suggestion, it is usually a good thing. Some years ago, while singing Mac Davis’...

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Gov’t to safeguard integrity of Overseas Employment Programme

January 6 05:40 PM

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Government will be taking steps to preserve the integrity of the Overseas Employment Programme. This was disclosed by Minister...

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Bill Express,Trans Jamaican Highway launch payment partnership

January 6 05:11 PM

KINGSTON, Jamaica — GraceKennedy Payment Services (GKPS) has partnered with TransJamaican Highway to allow T-Tag top-ups at all Bill Express locations...

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TAJ driver’s licence validation system temporarily offline, several services affected

January 6 04:27 PM

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) has advised that its system used to validate driver’s licences is currently offline, resulting in...

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Telecoms expert says cell calls traced to Crawle

T K WHYTE, Observer staff reporter

December 5, 2005

A United Kingdom telecommunications forensic engineer said yesterday that telephone records showed that calls were made from three mobile telephones t...

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PNP finalising nomination procedures for delegates

DWIGHT BELLANFANTE, Observer staff reporter

December 5, 2005

THE much anticipated announcement of a date for the hosting of the Special Delegates Conference to choose a successor to lead the People's National Pa...

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Dr Carl Wells loved his family, life and country

TANEISHA DAVIDSON, Observer staff reporter

December 5, 2005

VETERINARIAN Dr Carl Wells was yesterday remembered as a good father, loving husband and someone who served his country well, by scores of family memb...

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CXC to award first associate degrees next year

Observer Reporter

December 5, 2005

DESPITE reservations from some stakeholders, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) is pressing ahead with its plan to award associate degrees to st...

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Multilateral trade negotiating system could be undermined if Hong Kong talks fail, warn analysts

AFP

December 4, 2005

GENEVA,(AFP) - Ministers from the 148-nation WTO, their dream of a global trade deal imperilled by sharp regional differences, are about to mount a fr...

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Portia would beat Bruce – Observer/Stone Poll

December 4, 2005

PORTIA Simpson Miller is not only the sole People's National Party leadership contender who could inspire her party to an election victory over Bruce ...

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It was party time for most labourites at yesterday’s public session

BY ERICA VIRTUEObserver writer

December 4, 2005

IF music is the food of love, then politics is the art of repeating catchy phrases, whipping supporters into a frenzy and greeting them in the name of...

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250,000 people protest in Hong Kong, demanding full democracy

AFP

December 4, 2005

HONG KONG, (AFP) -An estimated 250,000 people took to the streets of Hong Kong yesterday, demanding the full democracy that was promised when Britain ...

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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

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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Insurgent attack kills 19 Iraqi soldiers as violence surges ahead of election

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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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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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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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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Investigators excavate site of 1951 civil rights activist murders

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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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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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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Bahamas approves extradition proceedings against Irish businessman

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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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...

Football, ...

Champions STETHS, Excelsior dominate all-star team selections

January 6, 2026

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) football champions, St Elizabeth Technical High (STETHS) and Excelsior High,...

Entertainment, ...

Winston Dias releases cover of ‘Let’s Keep it That Way’

January 6, 2026

Married for over 55 years, Winston Dias knows when his spouse makes a suggestion, it is usually a good thing. Some years ago, while singing Mac Davis’...

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Gov’t to safeguard integrity of Overseas Employment Programme

January 6, 2026

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Government will be taking steps to preserve the integrity of the Overseas Employment Programme. This was disclosed by Minister...

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Bill Express,Trans Jamaican Highway launch payment partnership

January 6, 2026

KINGSTON, Jamaica — GraceKennedy Payment Services (GKPS) has partnered with TransJamaican Highway to allow T-Tag top-ups at all Bill Express locations...

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