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Stony Hill teen on wounding rap after stabbing incident
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Stony Hill teen on wounding rap after stabbing incident
December 21 04:40 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A 17-year-old student of Temple Heights district, Stony Hill, St Andrew, has been charged with wounding with intent following an i...
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St Catherine South police take steps to ease traffic congestion
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St Catherine South police take steps to ease traffic congestion
December 21 03:58 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica —St Catherine South police will be increasing their presence on roads to address the problem of traffic congestion, according to Ass...
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Nigerian government frees 130 kidnapped Catholic schoolchildren
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Nigerian government frees 130 kidnapped Catholic schoolchildren
December 21 03:53 PM
ABUJA, Nigeria (AFP)—Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 130 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school in November,...
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Labourer charged with 2011 double murder in St Elizabeth
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Labourer charged with 2011 double murder in St Elizabeth
December 21 03:04 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — A 41-year-old labourer has been charged in connection with the murder of two men in Middle Quarters, St Elizabeth in 2011. The...
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WATCH: Barnswell honoured for rescuing abducted six-year-old
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December 21 02:25 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Councillor for the Hayes Division, Scean Barnswell has been honoured by the Clarendon Municipal Corporation after he and his wife ...
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Kamla faces backlash for statements on US visas and Caribbean relations
Kamla faces backlash for statements on US visas and Caribbean relations
December 21 01:37 PM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad-Bissessar is facing mounting criticism at home and abroad following...
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Carl Meeks rides timeless beats with ‘Classeeks’
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Carl Meeks rides timeless beats with ‘Classeeks’
December 21 01:29 PM
Classeeks , the second album for 2025 from singer Carl Meeks, was released on December 12. It is produced by Cedrik “Kiko” Ynesta of France for the Ru...
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‘Why I backed the JLP’s crime plan?’
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‘Why I backed the JLP’s crime plan?’
Keith Duncan says he was sold on strategy presented by Dr Chang
Lynford Simpson | Observer Writer 
December 21 01:18 PM
Government Senator Keith Duncan has moved to explain why he backed the crimefighting plan of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Administration, revealing ...
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Zeeks flouts bail, warned by judge to comply or be jailed
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
March 9, 2005
MATTHEWS Lane strongman Donald 'Zeeks' Phipps has been flouting his bail conditions, leading to a warning yesterday by Resident Magistrate Kissock Lai...
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KSAC puts illegal signs campaign on hold
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March 9, 2005
The Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) has placed on hold its campaign to take down illegal signs in the capital, saying that two private secto...
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Gov’t won’t bail out Dyoll, says Davies
Observer Reporter 
March 9, 2005
Finance Minister Omar Davies made clear yesterday that there would be no Government financial bail-out of the bankrupt Dyoll Insurance Company, saying...
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More released convicts turning back to crime
Arlene Martin-wilkins, Observer staff reporter 
March 9, 2005
AS much as 29 per cent of the island's convicted criminals return to a life of crime upon their release from local prisons, a trend that has been trek...
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US praises Jamaica for making dent in drug trade
By Karyl Walker Observer staff reporter 
March 8, 2005
THE one-year-old regional counter-narcotics co-operation agreement that incorporates initiatives like Operation Kingfish, is already biting heavily in...
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Guardian contributes to resource centre for physically-challenged UWI students
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March 8, 2005
Guardian Life Limited has donated $700,000 towards a Lions Club of Mona project to construct and equip a modern resource centre for physically challen...
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Despite gains, social, economic equality still elude women
AFP 
March 8, 2005
PARIS, France (AFP) - Despite gains in women's rights and the increasing role of women in the workplace, female social and economic equality remained ...
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Eight killed in two days
Observer Reporter 
March 8, 2005
EIGHT persons were killed in separate incidents on Monday and Tuesday, and this time the killings cut right across the island, pushing the year-to-dat...
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Clinton returning to hospital to remove scar tissue from heart surgery
AP 
March 8, 2005
NEW YORK (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton, who underwent quadruple bypass surgery in September, will undergo a medical procedure this week to remo...
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FSC takes over Dyoll
CAMILO THAME , Observer staff reporter 
March 7, 2005
THE Financial Services Commission (FSC) yesterday confirmed the collapse of the combined efforts by GraceKennedy and Michael Lee Chin's AIC Group to s...
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University professor tells prisoners to tell stories via Internet
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March 7, 2005
A Harvard University law professor yesterday told Jamaican prison inmates to tell their stories via the Internet, as one way of informing the world ab...
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Riot, fire in Dominican Republic prison kills 133 inmates
AP 
March 7, 2005
HIGUEY, Dominican Republic (AP) - Rival gangs fighting to control the drug trade in a provincial Dominican prison set pillows and mattresses ablaze an...
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Viewing Spanish Town on Sunday after weekend of murders
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
March 7, 2005
SPANISH Town wore the facade of normalcy on Sunday after last week's flare-up in the violence-ridden old capital, which saw seven persons being shot a...
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Blood Bank to benefit from Pan Caribbean’s Sigma Run
Observer Reporter 
March 6, 2005
The Sigma Unit Trust Corporate Run, which over the past six years has raised $6 million for worthy causes, has this year set a target of $2 million th...
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Another attempt today to settle Monymusk strike
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
March 6, 2005
WESTERN BUREAU - Workers and management at the Monymusk Sugar factory in Clarendon have agreed to try again today to settle the one-week-old strike at...
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POLICE REPORTS…..POLICE REPORTS…..POLICE REPORTS
March 6, 2005
Spanish Town gunshot victim dies in hospital RICHARD Clarke, 25, died in the Spanish Town Hospital on Friday after being shot by unknown assailant(s) ...
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New fire chief blasts old boss
PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter 
March 6, 2005
Deputy Commissioner Frederick Whyte, who has been named acting fire chief until a successor is named for Major H G Benson, has launched a broadside ag...
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Frail but alert, pope reappears at hospital window to bless the faithful
AP 
March 6, 2005
ROME (AP) - A frail Pope John Paul II reappeared yesterday at a window of the hospital treating him for his latest health crisis, giving the world its...
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Syrians praise their president’s decision to withdraw from Lebanon
AP 
March 6, 2005
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Many Syrians yesterday voiced support of their president's announcement of a pullback from Lebanon, adamantly insisting that th...
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What’s Cooking On The Social Page
March 5, 2005
The much anticipated 77th staging of the Oscar Awards took place Sunday last. Hollywood returned to its glorious glamour years with the established, t...
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Kilancholly begins to heal
By Carl Gilchrist Observer staff reporter 
March 5, 2005
Kilancholly, St Mary - Five weeks after the brutal murder of three siblings that shattered the peace and quiet of this little-known district, resident...
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Keep it clean!
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
March 5, 2005
With fresh concerns that many of the island's sugar factories and rum distilleries are not disposing of their waste in the most environmentally friend...
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