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$145-m drought-mitigation plan

Green announces interventions to assist farmers

BY LYNFORD SIMPSON Observer writer

May 14 12:20 AM

$145-m drought-mitigation plan

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Accompong Maroons dispute heads to court

Injunction filed to stop Currie from holding election on May 22

Jason Cross | Reporter

May 14 12:18 AM

Accompong Maroons dispute heads to court

Entertainment, ...

Konshens ushers in summer vibes with Pool Party 2.0

Shereita Grizzle | Observer Staff Reporter

May 14 12:16 AM

Konshens ushers in summer vibes with

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‘Most unfortunate’

Malahoo Forte says neither she nor committee clerk received legal opinion tied to Gordon dispute

Jerome Williams | Reporter

May 14 12:14 AM

‘Most unfortunate’

Cricket, ...

LET’S SAVE IT!

Former SVG PM wants CWI to work with regional governments to help lift West Indies cricket

Daniel Blake | Sports Writer | blaked@jamaicaobserver.com

May 14 12:12 AM

Former SVG PM urges greater CWI collaboration with regional governments

Food, ...

Fusion Multicultural Cuisine

May 14 12:10 AM

Fusion Multicultural

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‘Rescue the JUTC’Phillips says State-run bus company in “most pathetic state” as losses mount

Jerome Williams | Reporter

May 14 12:07 AM

‘Rescue the JUTC’

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ODPEM says relief resources managed transparently, responsibly

May 14 12:06 AM

ODPEM says relief resources managed transparently, responsibly

Regional, Western

MoBay woman shot dead on veranda

June 25, 2002

WESTERN BUREAU -- A 30 year-old Montego Bay woman, who is said to be mentally challenged, was murdered as she slept on her veranda in the city late Mo...

Regional, Western

Public defender says offer to help Frome boys still open

June 25, 2002

WESTERN BUREAU -- Public Defender Howard Hamilton says his offer to help the 10 boys expelled from the Frome Technical High School for gang violence l...

Regional, Western

St James man accused of raping teenager denied bail

June 25, 2002

WESTERN BUREAU -- Doyle Anthony Virgo, 21, of Flamstead Gardens in St James, who is accused of raping a 14-year-old girl after calling her from inside...

Regional, Western

Boy, 14, to answer gun charge tomorrow

June 24, 2002

WESTERN BUREAU -- The 14 year-old Westmoreland boy who has been charged with illegal possession of firearm and assault in connection with a gun-toting...

Regional, Western

Guard kills man at Westmoreland

June 24, 2002

WESTERN BUREAU -- The Westmoreland police have seized the firearm of a security guard for ballistic testing and is to submit the case file to the dire...

Regional, Western

MoBay cop laid to rest

PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter

June 23, 2002

WESTERN BUREAU: Police Inspector Rupert Gardener, who was shot dead in Montego Bay on June 10, was hailed on Saturday as a conscientious police office...

Regional, Western

Jamaica seeks bigger share of incentives travel

CHARMAINE N CLARKE, Western Bureau editor

June 23, 2002

THE Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) is hoping that with its current staging of its market exchange show, Jamex, in Montego Bay, Jamaican hotels will get a...

Regional, Western

Still no place for Whitehouse dead

BY GERALD MILLER Observer correspondent

June 21, 2002

DESPITE two years of consistent pleading for lands belonging to the state-owned Urban Development Corporation (UDC) to be handed over to the Westmorel...

Regional, Western

Americas’

June 21, 2002

JAMAICA Labour Party spokesman on tourism, Ed Bartlett, has described the recently concluded Americas' Sail event as "a monumental failure and a signi...

Regional, Western

Taking a spiritual ‘journey’ with Nicole Sharpe

BY TAMARA LIGHTBOURNE Observer writer

June 21, 2002

NICOLE Sharpe is a woman on a mission: she has a desire to take God's message of inner healing to everyone she meets. Sharpe has just released her deb...

Regional, Western

Briton fined for cocaine-filled bammies

BY PETRE WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter

June 21, 2002

A British man, Albert Wallace, who tried to smuggle 52 pounds of ganja from the island inside a number of bammies earlier this week, was fined a whopp...

Regional, Western

MoBay abattoir being refurbished

Mark Cummings | Observer Writer

June 21, 2002

WESTERN BUREAU -- The St James Parish Council has commenced a $2-million refurbishing exercise at the Montego Bay abattoir which was ordered closed by...

Regional, Western

Americas’ Sail was a monumental failure — JLP

June 21, 2002

JAMAICA Labour Party spokesman on tourism, Ed Bartlett, has described the recently concluded Americas' Sail event as "a monumental failure and a signi...

Regional, Western

MoBay High old girls give back to their alma mater

Charmaine Clarke | Executive Editor, Regional Correspondents Network

June 21, 2002

DETERMINED to give back to their alma mater, 30 Montego Bay High School 'old girls' will present a cheque to the school next Sunday as part of a full ...

Regional, Western

MoBay barber sentenced and fined

June 21, 2002

Western Bureau: Montego Bay barber Maurice Gabbadon, who last month excreted almost four pounds of cocaine, was this week sentenced to eight months be...

Regional, Western

Profile on Basil Perriel

June 21, 2002

With talk of general election in the air, the Jamaica Observer's Western Bureau will help you get to know the candidates in this part of the island. W...

Regional, Western

Americas’ Sail Tall Ship Festival for MoBay

Mark Cummings | Observer Writer

June 14, 2002

The Americas' Sail Tall Ship Festival 2002, which began in Port Antonio yesterday, comes to Montego Bay today with a number of planned activities. At ...

Regional, Western

PM donates ambulance to Whitehouse Health Centre

June 14, 2002

THE Whitehouse Health Centre in Westmoreland recently received a new, fully equipped, Ford ambulance as a personal gift from Prime Minister, P J Patte...

Regional, Western

Westmoreland Football Association gets $200,000 for primary league

BY DALTON LAING Observer correspondent

June 14, 2002

PRESIDENT of the St James Football Association, George Evans, this week presented more than $200,000 in sponsorship to the Westmoreland Football Assoc...

Regional, Western

‘The Dragon’ returns to MoBay*

June 14, 2002

DON "The Dragon" Wilson will return to Montego Bay for the fourth annual Jamaica International Martial Arts Championship from June 28 to 30. Wilson wh...

Regional, Western

Randy Gunning is JHTA Worker of the year

June 14, 2002

RANDY Gunning, who has worked at Sandals Negril Beach Resort and Spa for the last five years, is this year's Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association's H...