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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
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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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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
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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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CCJ pays tribute to first female resident magistrate in Jamaica
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CCJ pays tribute to first female resident magistrate in Jamaica
December 13, 2025
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Friday, described Ena Collymore-Woodstock as an exemplary barriste...
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IACHR pays tribute to former CCJ president
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IACHR pays tribute to former CCJ president
July 9, 2025
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has paid tribute to the former president of the Caribbean Court of Ju...
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Mottley renews appeal for regional leaders to make CCJ final appellate court
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Mottley renews appeal for regional leaders to make CCJ final appellate court
BY HORACE HINES Observer writer 
July 7, 2025
ST JAMES, Jamaica — In a parting salvo as her time at the helm of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) ended, Prime Minister of the Republic of Barbados ...
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CCJ ends sensitisation programme for the region
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CCJ ends sensitisation programme for the region
April 18, 2025
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, (CMC) – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Curt of Justice (CCJ) says it has concluded a series of  sensitisation workshops for sev...
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CCJ celebrates 20th anniversary
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CCJ celebrates 20th anniversary
April 16, 2025
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — The Caribbean Court of Justice is on Wednesday celebrating its 20th anniversary with the outgoing President Justice Ad...
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New CCJ judge sworn in
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New CCJ judge sworn in
April 15, 2025
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Justice Chile Eboe-Osuji was sworn in on Tuesday as a judge of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) wit...
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CCJ allows appeal over Riparian rights in Belize
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CCJ allows appeal over Riparian rights in Belize
March 7, 2025
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, (CMC) – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has set aside the decision of the Court of Appeal of Belize and r...
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Caricom leaders accept recommendation to appoint Jamaican as CCJ president
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Caricom leaders accept recommendation to appoint Jamaican as CCJ president
February 22, 2025
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders have accepted the recommendation of the Regional Judicial Legal Services Commission...
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CCJ dismisses application to appeal maritime collision in Guyana
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CCJ dismisses application to appeal maritime collision in Guyana
January 21, 2025
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, (CMC) — The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has dismissed an application for special leave to appeal a decision by the Court...
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Chief Justice Sykes reaffirms judiciary’s stance on CCJ as final appeal court
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Chief Justice Sykes reaffirms judiciary’s stance on CCJ as final appeal court
January 11, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Chief Justice Bryan Sykes is reaffirming the importance of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as an original and appellate court...
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CCJ awards man’s interests to ex-common law wife
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CCJ awards man’s interests to ex-common law wife
December 13, 2024
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has reaffirmed a ruling ordering that a woman who was in a common-...
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CCJ upholds conviction in rape of a minor in Belize
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CCJ upholds conviction in rape of a minor in Belize
December 9, 2024
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Monday denied an application by a man seeking special leave to appeal his conv...
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Jamaican born jurist serves as acting president of CCJ
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Jamaican born jurist serves as acting president of CCJ
August 5, 2024
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Grenada’s Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell has appointed Jamaican-born jurist Winston Anderson to act as president of th...
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Privy Council costs exclude average Jamaicans from accessing justice, lawyers argue
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Privy Council costs exclude average Jamaicans from accessing justice, lawyers argue
Kelsey Thomas | Online Coordinator 
June 11, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Two Jamaican lawyers have expressed concerns that the Privy Council, as Jamaica’s final court of appeal, is inaccessible to the av...
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Patterson: Privy Council was never intended to be Jamaica’s final Court of Appeal
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Patterson: Privy Council was never intended to be Jamaica’s final Court of Appeal
June 9, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Former Prime Minister PJ Patterson has asserted that the framers of Jamaica’s constitution never intended for the British Privy Co...
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St Elizabeth man takes last breath days after saving 13 seniors during Hurricane Melissa
Tamoy Ashman | Reporter |ashmant@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 28, 2025
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, 2025
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, 2025
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, 2025
Missions of mercy
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SIZZLER!
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JPL intensifies as MBU, Portmore continue leadership race with start of second round
BY PAUL A REID Observer writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 28, 2025
MBU, Portmore continue battle for JPL supremacy today
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