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NBC’s Today show takes on Jamaica
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March 25 09:36 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica—NBC’s Today show is on the sun-soaked shores of Jamaica for an unforgettable multi-day feature series with co-hosts Jenna Bush Hager...
#Champs2026: Ryan Achau learns lesson, lands 1500m gold
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March 25 08:53 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica—After learning his lesson from his disastrous first 1500m race last year, St Jago High’s Ryan Achau produced a masterpiece of middle...

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Peart puts stop order on Burnt Ground cemetery
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer Reporter 
July 29, 2006
ENVIRONMENT Minister Dean Peart has ordered that work on the development of the contentious $50-million cemetery at Burnt Ground in Hanover cease, pen...
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Golding tells gov’t to keep MPs’ salary increase
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
July 29, 2006
BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Opposition Leader Bruce Golding has said his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) members of parliament would decline an increase in...
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Six dead in Montpelier tragedy
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
July 29, 2006
MONTPELIER, St James - Six persons were killed and 11 others hospitalised, some with severe injuries, in a bloody three-vehicle collision in dense fog...
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Deacon in sex case remanded until Sept 8
Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter 
July 28, 2006
JAMES Rogers, 18, who is charged alongside former deacon of the Church Dayton Diamond Ridge, 46-year-old Donovan Jones, for the alleged sexual assault...
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JLP team moves into St James, Hanover
Observer Reporter 
July 28, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) yesterday moved into the third of its five-day islandwide tour, with largely inciden...
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‘Zeeks’ back in court
Observer Reporter 
July 28, 2006
FORMER Matthews Lane strongman Donald Zeeks Phipps appeared in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court Thursday to answer to charges of abstract...
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Nurses end sick-out
Observer Reporter 
July 28, 2006
THE nation's registered nurses, who have been on a sick-out since Thursday, agreed last night to resume normal duties, starting with the 7:00 am shift...
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Cops say ‘all hell will break loose’ next week
Alicia Dunkley 
July 27, 2006
RANK and file cops have threatened to protest next week if government fails to place a "reasonable" wage and fringe benefits offer on the negotiating ...
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Flood of tributes for ‘Miss Lou’
Observer Reporter 
July 27, 2006
THE flood of tributes kept pouring in yesterday for Jamaica's cultural icon Louise Bennett-Coverly, as the reality of her death in Toronto, Canada, on...
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Walk good, Miss Lou
Observer Reporter 
July 26, 2006
BELOVED Jamaican cultural icon Louise Simone Bennett-Coverly, affectionately called 'Miss Lou', died yesterday at the Scarborough Grace Hospital in To...
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Supreme Court upholds Washington gay marriage ban
AP 
July 26, 2006
OLYMPIA, Washington (AP) - The Washington Supreme Court disappointed gay-marriage advocates yesterday, supporting a ban on same-sex unions and leaving...
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Clarendon getting improved water systems
JIS News 
July 26, 2006
MAY PEN, Clarendon - The government is moving to improve the present water supplies schemes and to construct a new system in the parish of Clarendon. ...
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Tenders open for Goal Project
ANDREW HANCEL, Observer staff reporter 
July 26, 2006
The processing of documents for four tenders bidding to construct the National Football Academy, officially opened yesterday at the Jamaica Football F...
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Walkerswood launches jerk country tour
Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter 
July 25, 2006
WALKERSWOOD Caribbean Foods on Sunday launched a 'jerk country tour', an innovate tourism product that showcases the company's authentic jerk products...
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Clarendon businessman gets 20 years for manslaughter
Observer Reporter 
July 25, 2006
A former Clarendon businessman was yesterday sentenced to 20 years in prison for the October 2005 shooting death of his children's mother in Glenmuir ...
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Deacon on sex charges again remanded in custody
Observer Reporter 
July 25, 2006
DONOVAN Jones, the former deacon of the Church Dayton Diamond Ridge, and James Rogers, were again remanded in custody yesterday when they appeared in ...
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Jamaicans send 3,000 messages to new 119 text system
ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter 
July 25, 2006
JAMAICANS have quickly adopted the latest method of feeding intelligence to the police, sending some 3,000 text messages through the recently introduc...
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FBI joins Indiana sniper investigation
AP 
July 24, 2006
MUNCIE, Ind (AP) - The FBI joined the investigation yesterday into the sniper attacks that killed one person and wounded another along two Indiana int...

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