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KINGSTON, Jamaica - Holland High School’s Shanoya Douglas became the fourth-fastest ever Jamaican junior, after running a big personal best and world-...
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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...
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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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#Champs2026: Edwin Allen’s Fowler dedicates win to fallen teammate Tanesha Gayle
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#Champs2026: Edwin Allen’s Fowler dedicates win to fallen teammate Tanesha Gayle
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KINGSTON, Jamaica—Edwin Allen’s Kevongaye Fowler dedicated her win in the Girls Class 2 1500m on Wednesday’s second day of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys ...
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Media heads suggest review of mob coverage
January 7, 2006
THE Media Association of Jamaica (MAJ) has rapped residents of Slipe, St Elizabeth and insisted on compensation for a TV cameraman, for their violent ...
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TRN fraud on the rise
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Sunday Observer writer 
January 7, 2006
THE tax authorities have been detecting an average of five incidents per month, of persons who try to register as taxpayers with stolen identities, an...
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Westmoreland youth benefiting from training
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January 6, 2006
THE Bluefields People's Community Association (BPCA) says it is reaping success from its information technology project, which targets at-risk youth a...
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Patterson appoints Hayle to chair Sandals Whitehouse audit team
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January 6, 2006
DESMOND Hayle, president of the Jamaica Institute of Architects, is to chair the Sandals Whitehouse Audit Team. A statement issued by Jamaica House on...
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DPP slams critics
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January 5, 2006
Kent Pantry, the DPP, yesterday defended the rigour with which his office prosecuted the Crawle murder case and argued that political activist Danhai ...
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Mayhem in Slipe
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
January 5, 2006
Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth - As is so often the case, the stories from the police and the residents are diametrically opposed. What is not in dispute is...
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Suspected Clansman shot dead by cops
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January 5, 2006
A man who police believe is a member of the Clansman gang was shot dead by police in the Lakes Pen area of Spanish Town yesterday during a raid on an ...
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Carreras gives $3m for crime prevention in Spanish Town
Tyrone Reid 
January 5, 2006
LOCAL cigarette giant Carreras Group Limited yesterday donated near $5 million to two projects, given symbolically on the day the company launched its...
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Raftsmen end protest
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
January 4, 2006
MARTHA BRAE, Trelawny -The over 90 raftsmen employed to the River Rafters' Association who offer rafting on the Martha Brae River in Trelawny - one of...
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Simpson Miller goes head to head with Phillips
Dwight Bellanfante 
January 4, 2006
PORTIA Simpson Miller is not avoiding discussion on major issues, her campaign team insisted yesterday, in between explanations as to why the PNP pres...
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12 confirmed dead in mine after families first told most survived
AP 
January 4, 2006
TALLMANSVILLE, West Virginia (AP) - In a stunning and heartbreaking reversal, family members were told early yesterday that 12 of 13 trapped coal mine...
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St Catherine politicians afraid of gangs
Observer Reporter 
January 4, 2006
THE police will send a team for security to the next St Catherine Parish Council meeting, says Spanish Town mayor Dr Andrew Wheatley, to guard fearful...
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Six people killed in three shootings
Observer Reporter 
January 4, 2006
THE scene at the communal yard on Avon Park Crescent, Kingston 5, was deceptively normal yesterday. People did normal things, like washing dishes and ...
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EU to simplify food trademark rules for other countries
AP 
January 4, 2006
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Commission said yesterday it would simplify its rules for protecting geographic food names, such as Parma ham or...
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Guadeloupe officials welcome France’s review of disputed law
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January 4, 2006
POINTE-A-PITRE, Guadeloupe (AP) - Guadeloupe officials welcomed France's decision yesterday to rewrite a disputed law requiring textbook publishers to...
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Sandals resumes accord with JUTA
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
January 3, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Sandals Resorts has withdrawn the notice it served on the Jamaica Union of Travellers Association (JUTA) last November, which ...
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Gov’t settles with Bacchas family
TK WHYTE, Observer staff reporter 
January 3, 2006
The government has agreed on compensation for the death of David Bacchas, the 66-year-old taxi driver who was shot by cops two years ago, but deputy S...
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Police claim to identify gun shipper
Observer Reporter 
January 3, 2006
THE police claimed yesterday to have identified the person who, in November, shipped 20 high-powered guns (shown here) to Jamaica intended for Spanish...
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South St Andrew calm, gunmen have fled, say cops, residents
Observer Reporter 
January 3, 2006
The authorities' strategy to swamp Omar Davies' violence-wracked South St Andrew constituency with cops and soldiers appears to have sent gunmen on th...
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NDTC founding member Pansy Hassan dies
Observer Reporter 
January 3, 2006
National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC) founding member Pansy Hassan died in the University Hospital on New Year's Day after a very brief illness. Hassa...
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At least six killed in two days
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January 2, 2006
AT least five people met violent, weapon-related deaths on the first day of 2006, and up to late yesterday the police reported a sixth homicide for th...
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Agriculture ministry invests 20-m in organic farming
Observer Reporter 
January 2, 2006
THE Ministry of Agriculture has invested $20 million in the National Organic Agriculture Enhancement Project (NOAEP). The funds will assist with the d...
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