Grenada denies ‘unusual disease outbreak’
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December 30 10:33 AM
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC) — Health authorities in Grenada say there is no evidence of an “unusual disease outbreak” at this time in the country, noti...
Falmouth double murder victims identified
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Falmouth double murder victims identified
December 30 10:06 AM
TRELAWNY, Jamaica — The police have released the identities of the two men who were fatally shot in Falmouth, Trelawny, on Monday afternoon. The decea...
France pushes back plastic cup ban by four years
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France pushes back plastic cup ban by four years
December 30 10:00 AM
PARIS, France (AFP) — The French government on Tuesday postponed a ban on plastic throwaway cups by four years to 2030 because of difficulties finding...
Actor Idris Elba Knighted in UK’s New Year honours list
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Actor Idris Elba Knighted in UK’s New Year honours list
December 30 09:36 AM
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP)—British actor Idris Elba and members of England's triumphant Women's Euro 2025 football team were among famous Britons re...
St Mary to serve up fireworks at Pagee Beach
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St Mary to serve up fireworks at Pagee Beach
December 30 09:23 AM
ST MARY, Jamaica — Pagee Beach will be the stage for an epic New Year’s Eve bash, which has taken on added significance for families and businesses im...

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60 teachers get Observer Awards
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
October 9, 2005
NEGRIL, Westmoreland - More than 60 teachers from 30 schools in western Jamaica that participated in the Jamaica Observer's Study Centre were presente...
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Rallying around Vannessa
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Sunday Observer reporter 
October 9, 2005
VANNESSA Brooks has been given a new lease on life. On September 29, she received desperately needed surgery to counter her life-threatening cancer an...
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Mother and two sons shot dead in their beds
BY TYRONE REID Observer staff reporter 
October 9, 2005
A group of gunmen entered a tenement yard at 90 Hanover Street in downtown Kingston early yesterday morning and shot and killed a mother and her two y...
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Cable talks resume today
BY PATRICK FOSTER Observer writer 
October 9, 2005
CHAIRMAN of the Association of Independent Programme Providers (AIPP), Leighton Thomas, said he had not ruled out going to court to get an injunction ...
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JLP slams JDF boss
BY Erica Virtue Observer writer 
October 9, 2005
JAMAICA Labour Party leaders yesterday slammed JDF boss, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, for his labelling of Tivioli Gardens as the "mother of all garris...
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Jamaican teachers making their mark in New York
BY VIVIENNE GREEN-EVANS Sunday Observer writer 
October 8, 2005
IN 2001, more than 300 Jamaican teachers were recruited by the New York City Board of Education to teach Caribbean and other minority students in some...
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Some AIDS victims deliberately infecting sex partners
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
October 8, 2005
MONTEGO Bay, St James - As the number of HIV/ AIDS cases continue to soar, health sector and social workers are now watching what they describe as a '...
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Mattis family mourns daughter killed in Causeway crash
BY ARLENE MARTIN-WILKINS Sunday Observer reporter 
October 8, 2005
YESTERDAY marked the beginning of a dark journey for the Mattis family who reside on Venita Close in the community of South Boro, St Catherine. Up unt...
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Changing your career requires, planning retooling
Career Advisor With Merrit Henry 
October 8, 2005
I am presently employed, but not enjoying my job. I am not sure that I am working in an area that is of great interest to me, although it pays well. H...
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Tawes Pen spokesman sees ‘war’ ahead
BY LLOYD WILLIAMS Sunday Observer senior writer 
October 8, 2005
AN area spokesman for the troubled Tawes Pen community in Spanish Town, has called for the intervention of the wider Jamaican society to stem widespre...
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Contract delay
BY LAVERN CLARKE Sunday Observer editor 
October 8, 2005
SIX months into his assignment in Jamaica, the salary of Mark Shields, the first of five foreign police officers being recruited to transform the cons...
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Police keep eye on tense Spanish Town
Observer Reporter 
October 7, 2005
SPANISH Town, the old capital, remained tense last night following Thursday night's attack on the car transporting member of parliament Olivia "Babsy"...
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Labour Ministry picks up funeral tab for two farm workers
PARTICK FOSTER, Observer writer 
October 7, 2005
THE spouses of the two farm workers killed last week in Simcoe, Canada, on Wednesday received $100,000 each from the Ministry of Labour to cover funer...
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MP’s car shot up
Observer Reporter 
October 6, 2005
JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) member of parliament for Central St Catherine Olivia "Babsy" Grange escaped injury last night when gunmen shot up the motor...
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The ‘god’ Vin Lawrence leaving public sector
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer 
October 6, 2005
DR Vincent Lawerence, the powerful public servant, who has been called everything including 'god' by his critics, yesterday announced his impending de...
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Police caution alleged Brown’s Town student gangsters
CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter 
October 6, 2005
BROWN'S TOWN, St Ann - Four grade 10 students, said to be part of a gang operating at the Brown's Town High School in St Ann, were taken in by the pol...

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