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Fire guts multi-storey Manchester home
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Fire guts multi-storey Manchester home
January 9 07:49 PM
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Firefighters are now conducting a cooling-down operation after fire gutted the top floor of a multi-storey house in Hope Village...
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Market Bag: Hot pepper as low as $500 as food prices cool at ‘Curry’
January 9 07:29 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica – There’s good news for shoppers this week as Scotch bonnet pepper prices – a ‘hot’ topic during the recent Christmas holidays – are...
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KFC Jamaica says third party vending machine not affiliated with company
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KFC Jamaica says third party vending machine not affiliated with company
January 9 07:08 PM
ST CATHERINE, Jamaica — KFC Jamaica is distancing itself from reports of a third-party vending machine purporting to carry boxed and ready meals from ...
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Jakes Hotel takes on Kingston with a night of dub & roots music for charity
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Jakes Hotel takes on Kingston with a night of dub & roots music for charity
January 9 06:36 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Renowned boutique hotel Jakes Hotel in Treasure Beach, will be hosting what it describes as a powerful celebration of Reggae Cultu...
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Hurricane-stricken family appeals for help to save 13-y-o son who needs kidney transplant
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Hurricane-stricken family appeals for help to save 13-y-o son who needs kidney transplant
Kelsey Thomas, Online coordinator, thomask@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 9 06:24 PM
WESTMORELAND, Jamaica — A Westmoreland family still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Melissa are appealing to the public for assistance to save t...
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Health personnel in St Elizabeth continue campaign to prevent spread of mosquito-borne diseases
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Health personnel in St Elizabeth continue campaign to prevent spread of mosquito-borne diseases
January 9 05:55 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — Health personnel at the St Elizabeth Health Department are on top of efforts to prevent the spread of dengue and other mosquit...
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Petrojam offers fuel lifeline to Savanna-la-Mar field hospital
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Petrojam offers fuel lifeline to Savanna-la-Mar field hospital
January 9 05:50 PM
WESTMORELAND, Jamaica —  Petrojam has pumped over 20,000 litres of fuel to generate electricity for the Savanna-la-Mar field hospital in Westmoreland ...
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Maureen Webber appointed ECJ commissioner
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Maureen Webber appointed ECJ commissioner
January 9 05:42 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Maureen Webber has been appointed as Nominated Commissioner on the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ). Her appointment, which b...
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One man dead, policeman in critical condition following St Mary crash
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One man dead, policeman in critical condition following St Mary crash
March 19, 2025
ST MARY, Jamaica— One man is dead and a policeman is nursing serious injuries following a motor vehicle crash on the Agualta Vale main road in St Mary...
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Minto taken to hospital following New Market crash
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Minto taken to hospital following New Market crash
March 13, 2025
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica— Head of the St Elizabeth police, Superintendent Coleridge Minto, has been taken to hospital following a two-vehicle collision o...
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Singer Angie Stone dies in car crash – reports
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Singer Angie Stone dies in car crash – reports
March 1, 2025
American R&B singer and songwriter Angie Stone has died aged 63, according to US media reports. The Grammy-nominated singer was killed in a car crash ...
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At least 54 road fatalities in first 54 days of 2025
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At least 54 road fatalities in first 54 days of 2025
February 23, 2025
Fifty-four days into the year and at least 54 people have been killed in traffic crashes. The two latest victims – drivers of private motor cars - wer...
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Man dies in Clarendon crash
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Man dies in Clarendon crash
February 13, 2025
CLARENDON, Jamaica — A man succumbed to injuries he sustained in a two-vehicle crash in May Pen, Clarendon on Wednesday night. Police named him as 34-...
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Two killed in St James motor vehicle collision
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Two killed in St James motor vehicle collision
February 7, 2025
ST JAMES, Jamaica — A man and a woman succumbed to injuries they sustained in a motor vehicle crash along the Rose Hall main road in St James in the e...
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WATCH: Former Jessie Ripoll teacher disheartened by principal’s death
January 6, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A former teacher of the Jessie Ripoll Primary School says she is disheartened by the death of Principal O’neil Stevens who she des...
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Thursday was the safest day of the week for road users in 2024 – ITA
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Thursday was the safest day of the week for road users in 2024 – ITA
January 5, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica— Thursday was the safest day of the week for road users in Jamaica in 2024 while Friday was the worst according to statistics compil...
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PNP saddened by passing of Jessie Ripoll Primary principal, wife
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PNP saddened by passing of Jessie Ripoll Primary principal, wife
January 5, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica— The People’s National Party (PNP) has joined others in expressing deep sadness over the tragic passing of Jessie Ripoll Primary Sch...
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Principal of Jessie Ripoll Primary, wife killed in crash
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Principal of Jessie Ripoll Primary, wife killed in crash
January 4, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica— The principal of Jessie Ripoll Primary School O’neil Stevens, and his wife, Camesha Lindsay-Stevens were killed in a motor vehicle ...
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Family members killed in Westmoreland car crash
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Family members killed in Westmoreland car crash
December 9, 2024
WESTMORELAND, Jamaica - Two members of a Strathbogie, Westmoreland family died following a motor vehicle collision on the Three Mile River main road o...
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West Ham’s Antonio suffers lower limb fracture in car accident
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West Ham’s Antonio suffers lower limb fracture in car accident
December 8, 2024
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP)— West Ham said forward Michail Antonio has undergone surgery on a lower limb fracture after a serious car accident on Sat...
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Michail Antonio ‘conscious and communicating’ following car crash
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Michail Antonio ‘conscious and communicating’ following car crash
December 7, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica— Jamaican striker Michail Antonio has been admitted to a hospital in London and is “conscious and communicating”, the Jamaica Footba...
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Footballer Michail Antonio involved in car crash
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Footballer Michail Antonio involved in car crash
December 7, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica— Jamaican footballer Michail Antonio has been involved in a car crash, West Ham has confirmed. The club made the disclosure in a pos...
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12 and 16-year-old named as victims of fatal Clarendon crash
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12 and 16-year-old named as victims of fatal Clarendon crash
December 2, 2024
CLARENDON, Jamaica - The names of the two children killed in a motor vehicle collision in Clarendon on Monday have been released by the Jamaica Consta...
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Transport minister expresses ‘deep sadness’ at death of students in motor vehicle crash
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Transport minister expresses ‘deep sadness’ at death of students in motor vehicle crash
December 2, 2024
CLARENDON, Jamaica - Minister of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, Daryl Vaz, is expressing profound sadness over the tragic loss of ...
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Three-vehicle crash on May Pen to Williamsfield leg of Highway 2000
November 24, 2024
CLARENDON, Jamaica -- Several people narrowly escaped serious injuries in a three-vehicle crash on the May Pen to Williamsfield leg of Highway 2000 on...
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Three dead, three hospitalised after St Mary crash
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Three dead, three hospitalised after St Mary crash
November 24, 2024
ST MARY, Jamaica – Three persons are dead while three others are hospitalised in serious conditions following an early morning crash along the Whiteha...
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US regulator probes Tesla’s self-driving mode after crashes, one fatal
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US regulator probes Tesla’s self-driving mode after crashes, one fatal
October 18, 2024
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) --The US auto safety regulator said Friday that it has opened an investigation into Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) so...
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11-y-o girl dies after being struck by vehicle in Clarendon
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11-y-o girl dies after being struck by vehicle in Clarendon
September 25, 2024
CLARENDON, Jamaica – An 11-year-old female student died from injuries she sustained when she was hit by a vehicle while attempting to cross a section ...
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Three-vehicle collision on Mandela Highway
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Three-vehicle collision on Mandela Highway
September 20, 2024
Emergency services, including police and firefighters, are at the scene of a three-vehicle collision on the Mandela Highway in St Andrew, near the Fer...
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WATCH: Six injured in Mandeville crash
September 15, 2024
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — At least six people were injured in a two-vehicle crash on the Winston Jones Highway in Mandeville on Sunday evening. The crash,...
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Fire guts multi-storey Manchester home
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MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Firefighters are now conducting a cooling-down operation after fire gutted the top floor of a multi-storey house in Hope Village...
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Market Bag: Hot pepper as low as $500 as food prices cool at ‘Curry’
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KINGSTON, Jamaica – There’s good news for shoppers this week as Scotch bonnet pepper prices – a ‘hot’ topic during the recent Christmas holidays – are...
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KFC Jamaica says third party vending machine not affiliated with company
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KFC Jamaica says third party vending machine not affiliated with company
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ST CATHERINE, Jamaica — KFC Jamaica is distancing itself from reports of a third-party vending machine purporting to carry boxed and ready meals from ...
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Jakes Hotel takes on Kingston with a night of dub & roots music for charity
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Jakes Hotel takes on Kingston with a night of dub & roots music for charity
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KINGSTON, Jamaica – Renowned boutique hotel Jakes Hotel in Treasure Beach, will be hosting what it describes as a powerful celebration of Reggae Cultu...
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Hurricane-stricken family appeals for help to save 13-y-o son who needs kidney transplant
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Hurricane-stricken family appeals for help to save 13-y-o son who needs kidney transplant
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