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PNPYO backs Opposition’s call for immediate resignation of FLA CEO
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PNPYO backs Opposition’s call for immediate resignation of FLA CEO
June 4 11:36 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The People's National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO) has thrown its support behind the Opposition’s demand for the immediate res...
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JCSA demands urgent resolution on travelling allowance claims and outstanding wage negotiations
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JCSA demands urgent resolution on travelling allowance claims and outstanding wage negotiations
June 4 10:55 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) is calling on the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service to urgently address an o...
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Applications open for Reggae Boyz head coach position — JFF
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Applications open for Reggae Boyz head coach position — JFF
June 4 09:40 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) has officially opened applications for the position of head coach of the Reggae Boyz, the co...
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Report warns offshore oil exploration could threaten Jamaica’s marine ecosystems — JET
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Report warns offshore oil exploration could threaten Jamaica’s marine ecosystems — JET
June 4 09:32 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A new report released Thursday by Earth Insight has warned that some of Jamaica’s most ecologically significant marine habitats co...
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Uganda’s Ghetto Kids group ‘can’t wait’ to join Shakira at World Cup
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Uganda’s Ghetto Kids group ‘can’t wait’ to join Shakira at World Cup
June 4 09:05 AM
KAMPALA, Uganda (AFP) — The Ghetto Kids, a Ugandan dance troupe made up of street children, spoke of their excitement at being invited by music supers...
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UK MP sues Musk’s xAI over fake sexualised images of her
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UK MP sues Musk’s xAI over fake sexualised images of her
June 4 08:50 AM
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A British lawmaker has filed a case at London's High Court against Elon Musk's xAI after its Grok chatbot tool was used...
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NaRRA CEO outlines priorities
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NaRRA CEO outlines priorities
June 4 08:13 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA), Ambassador Antony Anderson, says hi...
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PSOJ President Patrick Hylton appointed Massy Holdings chairman designate
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PSOJ President Patrick Hylton appointed Massy Holdings chairman designate
June 4 08:09 AM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica and former chief executive officer of National Commercial Bank (NCB)...
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CARIBBEAN ROUND-UP
RICKEY SINGH 
March 21, 2002
Guyana President calls for dialogue to continue GEORGETOWN -- President Bharrat Jagdeo has appealed to Opposition Leader Desmond Hoyte for them to con...
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75 cops promoted
Observer Reporter 
March 21, 2002
POLICE Commissioner Francis Forbes yesterday announced the promotion of 75 policemen and women effective on April 1. The promotions saw a senior super...
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Hail Mary
Observer Reporter 
March 20, 2002
JAMAICAN Mary Anne Chambers, a senior vice-president at Scotia Bank in Canada, has been named among 175 persons by the University of Toronto as one of...
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Whitehouse fishermen meeting NEPA today
PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter 
March 20, 2002
WESTERN BUREAU -- Fishermen at Whitehouse in Montego Bay who are to meet representatives of the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) today,...
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Negril chamber moves to open recycling centre
GLENIS ROSE 
March 20, 2002
NEGRIL'S business community and environmental groups are spearheading a recycling project aimed at implementing workable garbage management systems in...
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Caribbean organics and fairtrade confab on in Britain
Observer Reporter 
March 20, 2002
MAJOR stakeholders in the Caribbean agricultural industry are now meeting at a conference on organics and fairtrade organised by the British foreign o...
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CARIBBEAN ROUND-UP
RICKEY SINGH 
March 20, 2002
12 facing charges in airport probe PORT-OF-SPAIN -- The Director of Public Prosecutions, Mark Mohammed, is currently going through a report from the P...
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CARIBBEAN ROUND-UP
RICKEY SINGH 
March 19, 2002
Panday talks of 'craziness' in Parliament on April 5 PORT-OF-SPAIN -- Former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday has warned of political "craziness" when Tri...
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Suspected Joel Andem gangster in custody
Observer Reporter 
March 19, 2002
ONE of the men featured in an amateur video of the Joel Andem Gang, which was seized by the police, was yesterday turned in by a friend, the police sa...
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Cop doesn’t recall seeing CVM vehicle arrive
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
March 19, 2002
A police sergeant who said he stayed in the parking lot leading to 1088 Fifth Seal Way in Braeton where seven youth were killed by the police last yea...
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Jamaica Christian College gets 30-year lease for Forum Hotel
Observer Reporter 
March 19, 2002
THE old Forum Hotel and Villas in Portmore has been leased to the Jamaica Christian College, an affiliate of the New Testament Church of God. Dr Vin L...
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$1-m upgrading work starts at Falmouth police station
Observer Reporter 
March 18, 2002
WESTERN BUREAU -- Just over $1 million is being spent by the Ministry of National Security to carry out much needed repairs at the Falmouth police sta...
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POLICE REPORTS… POLICE REPORTS…
March 18, 2002
Woman's body found with stab wounds at Ewarton home THE body of a woman was found with stab wounds close to her home at Bryan Road in Ewarton, St Cath...
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Court rejects motion against Finsac
PAT ROXBOROUGH, Observer court writer 
March 18, 2002
A panel of three judges, led by Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe, yesterday dismissed Universal Merchants Limited's contention that the Financial Sector Ad...
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Green Expo 2002 in June
Observer Reporter 
March 17, 2002
GREE Expo 2002, organised by the Jamaica Conservation Development Trust, will be staged from June 7-9 at the Chinese Benevolent Centre, in Kingston un...
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March 17, 2002
Fire destroys house in Patrick Town, crops in Beacon Fire on Saturday destroyed a six-bedroom house at Patrick Town, Manchester and crops in Beacon di...
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NHD environmental competition to focus on eco-tourism
Observer Reporter 
March 17, 2002
ECO-TOURISM will be the central focus of the Natural History Division of the Institute of Jamaica environmental competition for schools, which will co...
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Mugabe thumbs nose at West, vows to speed up land reform
AFP 
March 17, 2002
HARARE, (AFP) -- Zimbabwe's re-elected president, Robert Mugabe, took the oath of office yesterday, vowing to accelerate land reforms while exulting t...
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Across Jamaica
March 17, 2002
St Thomas tax collectorates rake in $6 million MORANT BAY -- The Port Morant and Morant Bay tax collectorates in St Thomas collected more than $6 mill...
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11 held in police raid for gang members under interrogation
Observer Reporter 
March 17, 2002
THE 11 men detained during a police and military ground and air raid in the Land Lease community in St Andrew on Saturday, were still being interrogat...
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CCA consultants to visit Jamaica
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March 17, 2002
A team from the Barbados-based Caribbean Conservation Association (CCA) Caribbean Regional Environmental Programme (CREP) will visit the island today ...
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March 16, 2002
Police specially assigned to track and bring them in describe Andem as a mercenary who "will kill you anywhere, anytime, once the cash is right". "He ...
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