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Salada packs over 600 care packages for farmers affected by Hurricane Melissa
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Salada packs over 600 care packages for farmers affected by Hurricane Melissa
January 6 08:17 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — More than 600 care packages were recently prepared by over 40 Salada Foods staff members at the company's headquarters in Kingston...
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48-hour curfew imposed in sections of Hanover
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48-hour curfew imposed in sections of Hanover
January 6 07:24 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A 48-hour curfew has been imposed in sections of the Hanover Police Division. The curfew began at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, January 5, a...
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December air traffic rebounds after Hurricane Melissa, still below 2024 levels
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December air traffic rebounds after Hurricane Melissa, still below 2024 levels
January 6 06:50 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Air travel through Sangster International Airport increased in December, signalling a partial recovery from the disruption caused ...
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Trump considering military options to acquire Greenland
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Trump considering military options to acquire Greenland
January 6 06:48 PM
WASHINGTON, United States -- United States President Donald Trump is exploring how to take control of Greenland and using the US military is "always a...
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Forest boost survival bid to leave West Ham in turmoil
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Forest boost survival bid to leave West Ham in turmoil
January 6 06:31 PM
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- Nuno Espirito Santo insisted troubled West Ham can still avoid relegation after Morgan Gibbs-White's late penalty fire...
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Cornerstone secures key approvals for JNFM acquisition and Proven partnership
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Cornerstone secures key approvals for JNFM acquisition and Proven partnership
January 6 06:10 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Cornerstone Financial Holdings Limited announced on Tuesday it has received regulatory clearance for its Barita Investments Limite...
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Champions STETHS, Excelsior dominate all-star team selections
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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,...
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Winston Dias releases cover of ‘Let’s Keep it That Way’
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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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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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UNICEF urges Jamaica’s gunmen to leave children out of their ‘warfare’
October 9, 2005
THE United Nations Children's Fund, (UNICEF) has once again appealed to Jamaica's gun-toting criminals to stop slaughtering children, saying it found ...
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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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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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Biomedical lab boasts American, Caribbean certification
Observer Reporter 
October 8, 2005
Medical testing centres in Jamaica are not now scrutinised by the local authorities, but some facilities like the Kingston based Biomedical Caledonia ...
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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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Ex-Haitian police official cleared of US drug charges
AP 
October 7, 2005
MIAMI, USA (AP) - A former senior Haitian police official was acquitted yesterday of charges that he took bribes to help Colombian drug traffickers mo...
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Vendors lose goods valued at millions of dollars in arcade blaze
Arlene Martin-wilkins, Observer staff reporter 
October 7, 2005
A massive fire yesterday razed sections of the Pearnel Charles Arcade in downtown Kingston, destroying millions of dollars of goods belonging to more ...
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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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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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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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Cubans mark anniversary of 1976 airliner bombing with sadness, frustration
AP 
October 6, 2005
HAVANA (AP) - Cubans marking the 29th anniversary of an airliner bombing that killed 73 people expressed frustration and sadness yesterday at the fact...
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Police will go into any area to hunt for criminals, says Thomas
LLOYD WILLIAMS, Senior Observer writer 
October 6, 2005
POLICE Chief Lucius Thomas insisted yesterday that the police maintained a right to go into any community to hunt for criminals. Thomas' statement at ...
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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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JLP seeks meeting with army, police to discuss Tivoli incident
Observer Reporter 
October 5, 2005
THE Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is seeking a meeting with Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, chief of staff of the Jamaica (JDF) and Police Commiss...
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Cable operators instructed to immediately cease local advertising
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October 5, 2005
THE Broadcasting Commission yesterday instructed local cable television providers to immediately cease the transmission of local advertising on their ...
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Local computer store settles case with Microsoft
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer 
October 5, 2005
A local computer outlet which was raided for allegedly selling unlicensed Microsoft products, has given an undertaking to the Supreme Court that it wo...
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