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Sprint domination

Douglas, East storm to Class 1 and 2 100m glory

March 26 12:20 AM

Sprint domination

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Champs 100 years ago

March 26 12:18 AM

Champs 100 years ago

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IMC impacting future

Alpha students leverage 2026 conference exposure for industry insight

March 26 12:16 AM

IMC impacting future

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More than just teachers

Award-winning educators highlight nation-building inside the classroom

Jerome Williams | Reporter

March 26 12:14 AM

More than just teachers

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Blue Latte Rio by Léo Moço

March 26 12:10 AM

Countdown to the 27th staging of the Jamaica Observer Table Talk Food Awards

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Jamaicans urged to step up in tree recovery effort

Holness calls for national volunteer push

Horace Hines | Observer Writer

March 26 12:04 AM

Jamaicans urged to step up in tree recovery effort

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Cream Cheese Cucumber Bites with Rainforest Smoked Salmon

March 26 12:03 AM

Rainforest Recipe Corner...Recipe Corner...Recipe Corner

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NSWMA to do one-time cleaning of MoBay South Gully

March 26 12:03 AM

NSWMA to do one-time cleaning of MoBay South Gully

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Manchester Parish Council frustrated with NWC

BY ELLIOTT BLAKE Observer writer

September 18, 2006

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The state-owned water supply company, National Water Commission (NWC) was again put under the spotlight at last Thursday's mo...

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Gov’t seeks support to provide 30,000 houses yearly for five years

September 18, 2006

ROBERT Pickersgill, the housing minister, has called on the private sector to partner with the government to provide more than 30,000 houses each year...

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Cops vow to protest until wage demands met

By Karyl Walker Observer staff reporter

September 18, 2006

MILITANT rank-and-file members of the police force yesterday outrightly rejected the Government's latest wage offer and vowed to protest until their d...

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32 students escape serious injury in Manchester crash

September 18, 2006

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Thirty-two students escaped serious injury yesterday morning when the Toyota Hiace mini-bus in which they were travelling ove...

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Portia puts PNP on alert

BY Erica Virtue Observer writer

September 18, 2006

PRIME Minister Portia Simpson Miller has put members of her ruling People's National Party (PNP) on election alert, even as the party prepares for its...

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J’cans enjoy improved standards of living, says junior minister

September 18, 2006

NEW YORK, USA - Jamaicans are better off than they were 15 years ago, with poverty having declined over the period, which has helped to improve living...

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Elderly man hit from pedal cycle, dies

September 18, 2006

AN elderly pedal cyclist died yesterday in a hit and run accident on Olympic Gardens in Kingston 11. The police reported that Abraham Jones, 65, was r...

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Jackson knocks Observer headline

September 18, 2006

Junior Finance Minister Fitz Jackson yesterday accused the Sunday Observer of sensationalising his complaint about the wage negotiating tactics of the...

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‘Soon come home’

Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter

September 17, 2006

Sixteen-year-old Stefan Omar Nicholas Lee will be travelling to Britain next month. It won't be his first time in that country, but the trip will be s...

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Planning starts for political debates

Observer Reporter

September 17, 2006

THE Jamaica Debates Commission is now in the process of planning for the staging of prime-time, nationally broadcast political debates in the period l...

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Jamaica looking at liberalising water supply, says Ferguson

KERRY MCCATTY, Observer writer

September 17, 2006

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - State minister in the Ministry of Water, Housing, Transport and Works, Dr Fenton Ferguson, said Friday that the country was m...

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Man facing kidnapping charge for court today

Observer Reporter

September 17, 2006

OKITO Blair, the man arrested in June for allegedly collecting ransom money from a woman for the release of her 16-year-old daughter, will appear befo...

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St Elizabeth cops arrest four for cow stealing

Observer Reporter

September 17, 2006

Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth - The St Elizabeth police are celebrating the arrest of four people - three men and a woman - for cow stealing early Friday m...

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News Briefs… News Briefs… News Briefs…

September 17, 2006

Man held with £15,000, detained DETECTIVES from Operation Kingfish, along with members of the Financial Investigation Division and Customs Enforcement...

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Senior cop calls for engineering review of accident black spots

T K WHYTE, Observer staff reporter

September 17, 2006

DEPUTY police superintendent Norman Heywood yesterday urged the government to immediately carry out an islandwide engineering review of traffic accide...

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Former football coach gets eight years in prison

Paul Henry

September 17, 2006

FORMER Rivoli junior football club coach and reputed Klansman gang member Charles Salesman will spend the next eight years behind bars after being sen...

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Cops determined

Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter

September 17, 2006

THE Jamaica Police Federation is adamant that government presents an improved wage offer to rank-and-file cops by noon today, or face the consequence ...

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Minister appeals to persons with HIV/AIDS to get anti-retroviral drugs

JIS News

September 17, 2006

THE health minister has appealed to Jamaicans living with the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) to take advantage of the anti-retroviral (ARV...

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JPS gives AIDS support group $1.5 million

Observer Reporter

September 17, 2006

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Jamaica Public Service on Saturday gave the Jamaica Aids Support (JAS) a cheque for $1.5 million to help finance its publi...

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Experts say change in health strategy needed to save children

September 17, 2006

LONDON (AP) - Health experts will call for a new global plan on child survival during a one-day symposium at the United Nations today, officials said,...

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Gov’t supports move to get banana farmers fair trade certified

JIS

September 16, 2006

MINISTER of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands Errol Ennis has said that the government strongly supports the move by the Banana Export Co...

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311 works for Crime Stop

BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer staff reporter

September 16, 2006

In the month since the Jamaica Constabulary Force re-branded its information hotline Crime Stop with the new, easy-to-remember 3-digit number 311, the...