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January 12 12:24 AM
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January 12 12:24 AM
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January 12 12:22 AM
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April 10, 2022
HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC) — Top athletes from the Caribbean left their mark on the inaugural USATF Bermuda Games on Saturday, picking up eight victories...
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April 8, 2022
Consolidated Bakeries Jamaica Ltd, under its Purity brand, recently signed Olympic 100m bronze medallist Shericka Jackson in time for the Easter seaso...
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March 31, 2022
President of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Garth Gayle has suggested that his executive would be willing to bid to stage a W...
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BY ROMARDO LYONS Staff reporter lyonsr@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 13, 2022
A close-up look at Jamaica's four-man, two-man teams Jamaica's bobsleigh teams that contested at the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China didn't finish i...
Olympics 2012, Sports
March 8, 2022
ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AFP) — It was a bittersweet day for Ukraine at the Winter Paralympics with nine medals and a clean sweep of two biathlon events Tu...
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February 21, 2022
I learned many things from my grandfather for which I am grateful, and did not learn many things from him for which my grandmother was grateful. But l...
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February 20, 2022
President of the Jamaica Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (JBSF) Christian Nelson Stokes and Technical Director Mark Silva are satisfied with Jamaica...
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February 19, 2022
BEIJING, China (AFP) — American figure skaters failed Saturday in an 11th-hour court bid to receive their Beijing Olympics team event silver medals af...
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February 18, 2022
ONE of the questions I get from press and bobsleigh aficionado alike is “How it is that Jamaica has managed to establish itself in a sustained manner ...
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February 18, 2022
Jamaica's Shanwayne Stephens and his team take part in the four-man bobsleigh training exercise at Yanqing National Sliding Centre during the Beijing ...
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February 17, 2022
Jamaica's final quest for honours in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, will commence Friday evening when the four-man bobsleigh team starts ...
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September 24, 2021
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — At a UN General Assembly meeting packed with global gloom, Japan's outgoing leader highlighted what he cast as a moment of inspi...
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BY IAN BURNETT Sport Editor burnetti@jamaicaobserver.com 
August 20, 2021
Dr Lincoln Cox, a member of the medical staff at the recently concluded Tokyo Olympic Games, has labelled the Jamaican delegation “extremely co-operat...
Olympics 2012, Sports
BY IAN BURNETT Sport Editor 
August 14, 2021
Former JAAA boss begs businesses, Gov't to invest in athletes as they promote Brand Jamaica DR Warren Blake, immediate past president of the Jamaica A...
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August 13, 2021
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy's Lamont Marcell Jacobs, who claimed a shock Olympic triumph in the 100m, said yesterday he decided not to run again until 2...
Editorial, Olympics 2012, Sports
August 13, 2021
The Tokyo Olympics are in the rear-view mirror but Jamaicans, hard-pressed by the latest alarming COVID-19 surge, remain on a high at the performance ...
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BY MARK ARCHER Contributor 
August 12, 2021
Last Sunday, August 7 saw the curtains come down on the Games of the XXXII Olympiad that was filled with all the thrills and spectacle of previous yea...
Olympics 2012, Sports
BY IAN BURNETT Sport Editor burnetti@jamaicaobserver.com 
August 12, 2021
J'can diver Knight-Wisdom admits competitive nature of Olympics allows little room for error TOKYO, Japan — Jamaican two-time Olympic diver Yona Knigh...
Olympics 2012, Sports
August 12, 2021
Over seventeen exciting days of competition, Team Jamaica put on a spectacular show in front of the world at the 2020 Olympic Tokyo Games and they hav...
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August 12, 2021
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Britain's Olympic chief has told AFP that the staging of the Tokyo Games in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic has prove...
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August 12, 2021
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy's enthusiasm over its Olympics success, driven in part by multicultural athletes, has once again reignited debate over its c...
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BY IAN BURNETT Sport Editor 
August 12, 2021
History-making Thompson-Herah leads nation with 3 gold in Olympic Games that shouldn't have been Many had feared that Jamaica's performance at the rec...
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Anthony Smith remembered for weighing decisions carefully, balancing firmness and humanity
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12, 2026
Late RJRGleaner CEO did not seek applause
...suggests copying Belize’s Criminal Justice Board
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12, 2026
Lawyer calls for permanent fix
Entertainment, ...
Promoter echoes call to honour reggae stalwarts before they pass on
BY HOWARD CAMPBELL Observer senior writer entertainment@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12, 2026
Let them smell their ‘flowers’
Everard Owen Observer Writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12, 2026
Public health dept wants more garbage trucks for Portland