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Death of a hero
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Death of a hero
St Elizabeth man takes last breath days after saving 13 seniors during Hurricane Melissa
Tamoy Ashman | Reporter |ashmant@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 28 12:20 AM
Death
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Inmates focus on ‘feelings’ post-Melissa, for holidays
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Inmates focus on ‘feelings’ post-Melissa, for holidays
...psychosocial support available
Tamoy Ashman | Reporter |ashmant@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 28 12:18 AM
Inmates focus on ‘feelings’ post-Melissa, for holidays
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Gwen Stefani, Shelton show support for Sean Paul’s Faith We A Keep
Entertainment, ...
Gwen Stefani, Shelton show support for Sean Paul’s Faith We A Keep
...song dedicated to Hurricane Melissa relief efforts
Kevin Jackson 
December 28 12:16 AM
Gwen Stefani, Shelton show support
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Missions of mercy
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Missions of mercy
Bethel United Church makes hurricane response its agenda
Alicia Dunkley-Willis | Senior Reporter 
December 28 12:14 AM
Missions of mercy
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SIZZLER!
Football, ...
SIZZLER!
JPL intensifies as MBU, Portmore continue leadership race with start of second round
BY PAUL A REID Observer writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 28 12:12 AM
MBU, Portmore continue battle for JPL supremacy today
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Italy meets Jamaica
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Italy meets Jamaica
December 28 12:10 AM
italy
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Mount Pleasant extends help to Treasure Beach
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Mount Pleasant extends help to Treasure Beach
December 28 12:07 AM
Mount Pleasant extends help to Treasure Beach
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Hosein plays crucial role in Joburg Super Kings victory
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Hosein plays crucial role in Joburg Super Kings victory
December 28 12:06 AM
Hosein plays crucial role in Joburg
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Between a rock and a hard place
November 23, 2013
Dear Editor, Events of recent weeks should have reinforced to all well-thinking Jamaicans just how doomed we, as a people, are unless we reduce our re...
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Four gov’t buildings to get energy efficient air conditioning systems
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Four gov’t buildings to get energy efficient air conditioning systems
November 21, 2013
CABINET has approved a contract for air conditioning systems for four Government buildings, as the administration intensifies measures to improve ener...
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Court to hear ousted senator’s case today
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Court to hear ousted senator’s case today
November 20, 2013
THE hearing of an application for an injunction to bar Opposition Leader Andrew Holness from filling two Senate posts is to be heard in the Supreme Co...
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Meadows slams Holness
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Meadows slams Holness
November 20, 2013
Accused JLP leader of alienating Shaw’s backers MONTEGO BAY, St James — FORMER Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Senator Dennis Meadows has blasted party lea...
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Holness must fulfil mandate given to him
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Holness must fulfil mandate given to him
November 20, 2013
Dear Editor, I fully support the actions being taken by Andrew Holness to validate his leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and prepare the pa...
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Blaine wants Tufton, Williams to join ‘Clean Hands Coalition’
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Blaine wants Tufton, Williams to join ‘Clean Hands Coalition’
Alicia Dunkley-Willis | Senior Reporter 
November 20, 2013
FOUNDER of political movement the New Nation Coalition (NNC), Betty Ann Blaine, has moved to clarify reports that her party has issued an invitation t...
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Transformational leadership vs ‘Anancyism’
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Transformational leadership vs ‘Anancyism’
November 20, 2013
Dear Editor, In light of the recent revelation that Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) senators had to sign an undated "pre-nuptial" agreement stating that th...
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PHOTO: PM greets Cuban ambassador
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PHOTO: PM greets Cuban ambassador
November 20, 2013
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller embraces new Cuban Ambassador to Jamaica Bernardo Guanche Hernandez after a meeting at the Office of the Prime Mi...
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Senate fight
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Senate fight
November 19, 2013
Ousted Opposition legislator seeks to block appointment of replacement THE Supreme Court will today hear an application for an injunction from Arthur ...
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Wendy Freckleton is new PNP divisional chairman for Knockpatrick
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Wendy Freckleton is new PNP divisional chairman for Knockpatrick
BY ALICIA SUTHERLAND Observer staff reporter sutherlanda@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 19, 2013
MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Former Manchester Chamber of Commerce President Wendy Freckleton was Sunday elected as the People's National Party's (PNP) di...
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Editorial, News, Politics
Mr Holness’s gift to the PNP
November 18, 2013
MS Emily Crooks of Nationwide Radio is quite correct in stating yesterday that the biggest challenge going forward for Mr Andrew Holness is how to reg...
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Holness tells challengers: The door is open, but…
News, Politics
Holness tells challengers: The door is open, but…
BY INGRID BROWN Associate Editor ? Special Assignment browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 17, 2013
A week after Andrew Holness beat back a challenge to his leadership by Audley Shaw, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) boss still has his arms open to emb...
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Democracy and the JLP — a long way from home
Columns, News, Politics
Democracy and the JLP — a long way from home
Louis Moyston 
November 16, 2013
IF anyone missed the point of Audley Shaw's historic challenge to the sitting leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), please see Clovis's cartoon or...
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Columns, News, Politics
A time for inspiration
Jean Lowrie-Chin 
November 16, 2013
I think I duped myself into thinking that all would be coming up roses after last Sunday's JLP leadership race. Well, what we got were 'ramgoat roses'...
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Haitian pres wowed by J’can agri enterprises
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Haitian pres wowed by J’can agri enterprises
November 16, 2013
PRESIDENT of the Republic of Haiti Michel Martelly says two agricultural enterprises he visited in Jamaica are worth replicating in his country. Marte...
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Respect my mandate! …Holness tells the defeated
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Respect my mandate! …Holness tells the defeated
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
November 16, 2013
Holness assures ‘space’ in the shadow cabinet Opposition Leader Andrew Holness said yesterday that those who failed to unseat him as leader must -- so...
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Letters, News, Politics
As night follows day
November 16, 2013
Dear Editor, If there is one thing our short history as an independent nation has taught us, it is that the weaker the Opposition the more corrupt the...
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Editorial, News, Politics
Legislators dithering on crime
November 16, 2013
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) tells us that "all quantitative performance targets and indicative targets for end-September were met" by Jamaic...
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Investment in early childhood education critical
Career & Education, News, Politics
Investment in early childhood education critical
By NADINE WILSON Career & Education reporter 
November 16, 2013
THE Early Childhood Commission (ECC) has made another leap in helping to improve the public understanding of key issues affecting children in the regi...
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Our Senate has been severely compromised
Letters, News, Politics
Our Senate has been severely compromised
November 16, 2013
Dear Editor, The apparent backlash from the Jamaica Labour Party leadership race is being played out in the Senate. It slaps democracy and good govern...
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News, Politics
JLP plans social to help heal wounds
BY INGRID BROWN Associate Editor ? Special Assignment browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 16, 2013
THE Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) said a social is being planned which, it is hoped, will help to heal the emotional wounds from a bitter internal leader...
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Nicholson attends Commonwealth heads confab
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Nicholson attends Commonwealth heads confab
November 16, 2013
FOREIGN Affairs Minister AJ Nicholson is expected to return from Sri Lanka on Wednesday, where he attended the 23rd Commonwealth Heads of Government M...
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Gwen Stefani, Shelton show support for Sean Paul’s Faith We A Keep
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Gwen Stefani, Shelton show support for Sean Paul’s Faith We A Keep
...song dedicated to Hurricane Melissa relief efforts
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