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April 3 02:51 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — The inaugural staging of the St Elizabeth police’s gospel concert in Black River on Thursday is being hailed as a success with...
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April 3 02:14 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister with responsibility for Works, Robert Nesta Morgan has expressed condolences following the tragic death of an individual ...
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April 3 12:53 PM
NEW YORK, United States (CMC) – Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman, Yvette D Clarke, has welcomed the dismissal of United States Attorney Gen...
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April 3 11:41 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Pepsi Jamaica has announced that it will continue its partnership with Yard Mas Carnival for the 2026 season, marking the fourth c...
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April 3 11:13 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica has climbed to 49th place in the World Happiness Report 2026, up from 73rd last year. According to the study , the island ...
Entertainment, ...
April 3 10:51 AM
Alton Ellis, the soulful singer whose songs defined the 1966-68 rocksteady era, has been named number one on the Observer Online's 60 Greatest Rockste...
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April 3 10:21 AM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — A nine-year-old boy is suspected to have drowned in a tank at his home in Long Hill district, St Elizabeth on Thursday. Police...
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April 3 10:10 AM
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – The chief executive officer of the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc, Andrea Franklin, says the international recognition o...
Olympics 2012, Sports
July 26, 2021
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan topped the medals table at the Tokyo Olympics after the host nation won three gold yesterday, while British diver Tom Daley...
Athletics, Olympics 2012, Sports
July 26, 2021
TOKYO, Japan — Shorna-Kay Richards (left), Jamaica's ambassador to Japan, and sports psychologist Dr Jason Hamilton provide support to Jamaican swimme...
Olympics 2012, Sports
July 26, 2021
Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Japan 8 2 3 13 2 United States 7 3 4 14 3 China 6 5 7 18 4 Russia OC 4 5 3 12 5 Great Britain 3 3 1 7 6 South Korea...
Olympics 2012, Sports
July 26, 2021
Jamaica's Keanan Dols swims in the men's 200m butterfly event at the Tokyo Aquatic Centre, yesterday. (Collin Reid courtesy Supreme Ventures ,COURTS, ...
Olympics 2012, Sports
July 26, 2021
Today Tokyo, the home of judo, will welcome its first Jamaican athlete in judo at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games when Ebony Drysdale-Daley bows ...
Olympics 2012, Sports
July 26, 2021
Scotiabank is proud to partner with the Jamaica Observer to deliver print and online coverage of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Like all Jamaicans, we ...
Olympics 2012, Sports
July 26, 2021
TOKYO, Japan — “She's pumped, she's ready, and we will see what happens on the day.” That's the verdict of Kerry-Lee Ricketts, coach and husband of tr...
Basketball, Olympics 2012, Sports
July 25, 2021
SAITAMA, Japan (AFP) — A USA team led by 11-time NBA All-Star Kevin Durant were beaten 83-76 by France on Sunday, snapping an Olympic winning streak s...
Athletics, Olympics 2012, Sports
July 25, 2021
TOKYO, Japan — Following her first-round exit from the women's 100m breaststroke at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, five-time Olympian Alia Atki...
Athletics, Olympics 2012, Sports
July 25, 2021
TOKYO, Japan — Two seconds off her best speaks volumes of why Jamaica's swimming sensation, Alia Atkinson, failed to progress from the first round of ...
Athletics, Olympics 2012, Sports
July 25, 2021
Brave gymnast Danusia Francis gleeful to have fulfilled Olympic dream TOKYO, Japan — “The important thing in the Olympics is not winning, but taking p...
Football, Olympics 2012, Sports
July 25, 2021
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Reigning champions Brazil were held to a goalless draw by the Ivory Coast in the men's Olympic football competition yesterday, wh...
Athletics, Olympics 2012, Sports
July 25, 2021
KEANAN Dols will be the next Jamaican in action at these delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games when he takes to the Tokyo Aquatics Centre swimming pool in ...
Football, International Football, Olympics 2012, ...
July 24, 2021
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The United States bounced back from their embarrassing opening defeat by Sweden in the Tokyo Olympics women's football competitio...
Olympics 2012, Sports
July 24, 2021
THE Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), through its President Christopher Samuda, has commended the 50 athletes registered to represent Jamaica at the ...
Olympics 2012, Sports
July 24, 2021
JAPAN, France (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday backed Japan's decision to host the delayed Olympics despite the pandemic, as he atte...
Athletics, Olympics 2012, Sports
July 24, 2021
JAMAICA'S Commonwealth Games steeplechase champion Aisha Praught-Leer plans to compete at her second Olympics Games in Tokyo, Japan, despite suffering...
Olympics 2012, Sports
July 24, 2021
Though accepting an apparent weakness of the men's side, a few athletics experts contacted by the Jamaica Observer have predicted a double-digit medal...
Olympics 2012, Sports
July 24, 2021
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — China claimed three gold medals on the first day of the Tokyo Olympics yesterday and cyclist Richard Carapaz became just the seco...
Athletics, Olympics 2012, Sports
July 23, 2021
TO say that Jamaica's performance at the 1964 Tokyo OIympic Games was underwhelming would be an understatement. Two years after the island gained inde...
Athletics, Olympics 2012, Sports
July 23, 2021
Jamaican gymnast Danusia Francis remains in high spirits despite an injury setback which has forced her to significantly curtail her routine at the 20...
Athletics, Olympics 2012, Sports
July 23, 2021
Jamaican Ambassador to Japan Shornakay Richards is of the firm belief that the innate resilience of the Japanese people makes them best placed to deli...
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April 3, 2026
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — The inaugural staging of the St Elizabeth police’s gospel concert in Black River on Thursday is being hailed as a success with...
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April 3, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister with responsibility for Works, Robert Nesta Morgan has expressed condolences following the tragic death of an individual ...
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April 3, 2026
NEW YORK, United States (CMC) – Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman, Yvette D Clarke, has welcomed the dismissal of United States Attorney Gen...
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April 3, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Pepsi Jamaica has announced that it will continue its partnership with Yard Mas Carnival for the 2026 season, marking the fourth c...
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April 3, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica has climbed to 49th place in the World Happiness Report 2026, up from 73rd last year. According to the study , the island ...
