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2025’s final sunset opens the door to a new year

January 1 12:20 AM

2025’s final sunset opens the door to a new year

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Lee-Chin misses US$94-m bond deadline, risks Supreme Court lawsuit

BY DASHAN HENDRICKS Business content manager hendricksd@jamaicaobserver.com

January 1 12:18 AM

Lee-Chin misses US$94-m bond deadline, risks Supreme Court lawsuit

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Strictly 2K does the honours

January 1 12:16 AM

Strictly 2K

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Alma Mock Yen hailed as distinguished broadcaster and lecturer

January 1 12:14 AM

Alma Mock Yen hailed as distinguished broadcaster and lecturer

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‘OUTSIDE FORCES BENCH MI’

Dujuan Richards speaks on limited playing time during World Cup qualifiers

Daniel Blake | Sports Writer | blaked@jamaicaobserver.com

January 1 12:12 AM

‘Whisper’ blames external forces

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French Finesse & Island Flavour: Fromage debuts new brunch menu

January 1 12:10 AM

French Finesse Island Flavour:

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Petersfield shelter showdown!

McKenzie denies eviction plans as Opposition claims families face displacement

Jerome Williams | Reporter

January 1 12:06 AM

Petersfield shelter showdown!

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Elderly wife killer heard voice of God

Farmer confesses to using tools in jealous, rage-filled double murder

Alicia Dunkley-Willis | Senior Reporter

January 1 12:05 AM

Elderly wife killer heard voice of God

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Liberians vote in historic election

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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Riot-hit France declares state of emergency

AFP

November 8, 2005

PARIS(AFP)-The French government yesterday declared a state of emergency in riot-hit parts of the country in order to combat the worst outbreak of urb...

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Phillips says political affiliation will not protect criminals

Observer Reporter

November 8, 2005

NATIONAL Security Minister Peter Phillips has challenged his parliamentary colleagues to honour the code of conduct they recently signed, promising to...

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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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India’s foreign minister sacked over oil-for-food scandal

November 7, 2005

NEW DELHI (AP) - India's foreign minister became the first political casualty of the UN oil-for-food scandal, stripped of his post yesterday over alle...

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US$45-m contract to improve communication between Jamaica, Dominican Republic

November 7, 2005

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - Telecommunications will be easier between Jamaica and the Dominican Republic after a deal signed between Veri...

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Witness says police never told ‘Chen Chen’ was at Crawle house

Observer Reporter

November 7, 2005

A prosecution witness at the trial of six policemen charged with the murder of four people at Crawle, Clarendon, denied in the Home Circuit Court yest...

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UCC’s global learning programme starts next year

TYRONE S REID, Observer staff reporter

November 7, 2005

THE University College of the Caribbean (UCC), living up to its motto "Breaking new frontiers in higher education", will be offering a Distance Educat...

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Gregory Park – a community in mourning

BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Observer staff reporter

November 6, 2005

LAST Monday, 30-year-old Sheryll Francis watched helplessly as her 14-year-old daughter Lesa Moncrieffe died in her lap on the way to the hospital. Mo...

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Off-duty cop shot dead

Observer Reporter

November 6, 2005

DEANCOURT Wright, a 39 year old district constable attached to the Greater Portmore Police station, was shot dead yesterday in Windsor Heights, St Cat...

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Kennedy Grove residents demand meeting with infrastructure committee

BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Observer staff reporter

November 6, 2005

KENNEDY Grove residents yesterday requested a meeting with the government's infrastructure committee, which is expected to outline to them the finding...

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Portia revs up campaign

BY ERICA VIRTUEObserver writer

November 6, 2005

PORTIA Simpson Miller formally launched her campaign for the presidency of the People's National Party (PNP) yesterday, pledging to come down hard on ...

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‘Mandela Highway will always flood’

BY PATRICK FOSTER Sunday Observer Writer

November 5, 2005

THE arguments that the Mandela Highway is a suitable alternative to the Portmore-Kingston toll road have been severely weakened by Hurricane Wilma, an...

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The erosion of paradise

Mark Cummings | Observer Writer

November 5, 2005

NEGRIL, Westmoreland - In the past five years, Negril's coastal waters have reclaimed an estimated 30 feet or 9.14 metres of beach where tourists frol...

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Hay-Webster confident of winning back support of Bulbie protestors

BY LUKE DOUGLAS Sunday Observer writer

November 5, 2005

IN the wake of fiery and violent protests by supporters of gangster Donovan 'Bulbie' Bennett, denouncing the ruling People's National Party for their ...

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Franchise offers freedom to be your own boss

Copley News Service

November 5, 2005

WHEN Charles Shin graduated from business school in 2000, he already harboured the dream: Drop his savings in a franchise, become his own boss, then r...

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A lower quality debate in Senate

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

November 5, 2005

THE usual high standard of debate in the Senate has been suffering recently from what appears to be a breakdown in communication between the leadershi...

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Disabled Jamaicans to receive sex videos, posters, under new education drive

BY TYRONE S REID Observer staff reporter

November 5, 2005

IN a bid to provide disabled Jamaicans with sex education resource materials, the non-governmental group 3D Projects on Tuesday launched its 'Skills F...

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An exodus of doctors

BY LESLIE GOFFE Sunday Observer Writer

November 5, 2005

JAMAICA is haemorrhaging doctors. More than four out of ten of the country's physicians have left home to work abroad in the United States, Canada and...

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Phillips to announce reorganisation of police force – source

November 5, 2005

DR Peter Phillips, the Minister of National Security, under fire for losing control of Spanish Town to the lawless last week, will tonight announce a ...