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Little girl, big heart
6-year-old gives up savings to help rebuild family home, assists classmates after storm
Mark Dennis 
December 29 12:30 AM
Little girl, big heart
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Inside the criminal mind
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Inside the criminal mind
Psychiatrist outlines factors, some from birth, that set people on path to prison
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 29 12:28 AM
Inside the criminal mind
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‘Avoid wild speculation,’ defence attorney advises in SSL matter
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‘Avoid wild speculation,’ defence attorney advises in SSL matter
Senior cop points to complex investigation
December 29 12:26 AM
‘Avoid wild speculation,’ defence attorney advises in SSL matter
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Itch Scratch success with Shawn Storm
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BY JASON CROSS Observer staff reporter crossj@jamaicaobserver.com 
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JN Money covers grocery bills for shoppers in hurricane-hit Santa Cruz
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JN Money covers grocery bills for shoppers in hurricane-hit Santa Cruz
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JN Money covers grocery bills for shoppers in hurricane-hit Santa Cruz
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Skeng delivers Christmas Eve scorcher at UBT&R’s Livewire
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Skeng delivers Christmas Eve scorcher at UBT&R’s Livewire
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December 29 12:24 AM
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Families urged to stop hiding children with disabilities
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Families urged to stop hiding children with disabilities
BY HORACE HINES Observer writer 
December 29 12:22 AM
Families urged to stop hiding children with disabilities
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‘WE’RE GETTING THERE’
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‘WE’RE GETTING THERE’
Midfielder Magee believes Reggae Boyz’s style of play a work-in-progress
BY DANIEL BLAKE Staff reporter blaked@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 29 12:22 AM
Midfielder Magee believes Reggae Boyz’s style of play a work in progress
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Ecuador soldiers sentenced to 35 years in deaths of 4 children
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Ecuador soldiers sentenced to 35 years in deaths of 4 children
December 22, 2025
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AFP) — Eleven Ecuadoran soldiers were sentenced to nearly 35 years in prison over the abduction and deaths of four children last y...
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Man in custody following alleged abduction of missing 6-y-o in Clarendon
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Man in custody following alleged abduction of missing 6-y-o in Clarendon
December 9, 2025
CLARENDON, Jamaica — Head of the Clarendon police Senior Superintendent Shane McCalla, has confirmed that a man was taken into custody after a missing...
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UPDATE: Missing 6-y-o returns home
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UPDATE: Missing 6-y-o returns home
December 9, 2025
CLARENDON, Jamaica — Police say six-year-old Anka Glasgow  who has been missing since Tuesday, December 9, has returned home. The child had been repor...
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Police issue high alert for missing 6-y-o
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Police issue high alert for missing 6-y-o
December 9, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica– The police have issued a high alert for six-year-old Anka Glasgow of Clarendon, who has been missing since Tuesday, December 9. Gla...
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11-year-old boy’s death under investigation in Manchester, suicide suspected
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11-year-old boy’s death under investigation in Manchester, suicide suspected
November 8, 2025
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Police are trying to determine the circumstances surrounding the death of an 11-year-old boy who was found dead at his family ho...
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Two toddlers fatally stabbed in St Ann; father in custody
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Two toddlers fatally stabbed in St Ann; father in custody
BY AKERA DAVIS Observer writer 
August 27, 2025
ST ANN, Jamaica — A 22-year-old man is now in police custody following the fatal stabbing of two young children, one of whom was his son, in Swamp, Mo...
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‘Yashii-Poo’ charged with murder of 16-year-old
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‘Yashii-Poo’ charged with murder of 16-year-old
August 11, 2025
 KINGSTON, Jamaica — A 29-year-old man has been charged with the 2024 murder of a 16-year-old girl, police say. Yashoy Clarke, otherwise called ‘Yashi...
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Child dies in Italy as European heatwave sets records and sparks wildfires
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Child dies in Italy as European heatwave sets records and sparks wildfires
August 11, 2025
LAS MEDULAS, Spain (AFP) — A young boy died of heatstroke in Italy while wildfires threatened a UNESCO site in Spain, and French cities saw record tem...
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UPDATE: Driver involved in fatal Manchester crash released after CCTV footage emerges
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August 6, 2025
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — The driver of a Toyota Hiace involved in a fatal collision which claimed the life of a boy on Tuesday in Prospect, Manchester ha...
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Looser gun laws tied to thousands more US child shooting deaths
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Looser gun laws tied to thousands more US child shooting deaths
June 9, 2025
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States (US) states that loosened their gun laws following a landmark court ruling saw thousands more childhoo...
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Bahamian man faces jail term for indecently assaulting child
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Bahamian man faces jail term for indecently assaulting child
May 14, 2025
NASSAU, The Bahamas (CMC) — A 42-year-old man faces a potential maximum sentence of eight years in Bahamian prison after a majority nine-member jury i...
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Guyana’s health minister concerned over calls for second autopsy on 11-y-o
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Guyana’s health minister concerned over calls for second autopsy on 11-y-o
May 3, 2025
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Guyana’s Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony, has raised concerns over calls for a second autopsy in the death of 11-year-old...
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HTCC calls for 10-year ‘Disrupt Poor Parenting’ project
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HTCC calls for 10-year ‘Disrupt Poor Parenting’ project
May 1, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Lobby group Hear The Children’s Cry (HTCC) wants the Government to fund a 10-year project to ‘disrupt poor parenting’ practices in...
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Woman charged with murder of 9-y-o Antiguan student
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Woman charged with murder of 9-y-o Antiguan student
March 17, 2025
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) — A 20-year-old woman is due to appear in Antiguan court on Monday charged with the murder of nine-year-old Chantel Crump, as...
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UPDATE: Police identify children who perished in Walkerswood fire
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UPDATE: Police identify children who perished in Walkerswood fire
January 12, 2025
ST ANN, Jamaica — The three young children who died in a fire in Walkerswood, St Ann early Sunday morning have been identified. They are two-year-old ...
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Teenage boy stabbed to death on London bus
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Teenage boy stabbed to death on London bus
January 7, 2025
London, United Kingdom (AFP) - A 14-year-old boy was stabbed to death in broad daylight on a London bus on Tuesday in the latest knife-crime incident ...
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Lost boy survives five days in Zimbabwe park teeming with lions
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Lost boy survives five days in Zimbabwe park teeming with lions
January 3, 2025
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AFP) — A seven-year-old boy was found alive after being lost for five days in a reserve home to lions and other wild animals in nort...
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4-y-o involved in fire that left toddler dead now with CPFSA
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4-y-o involved in fire that left toddler dead now with CPFSA
November 21, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A four-year-old who escaped a house fire that claimed the life of a toddler on Mountain View Avenue in St Andrew last Saturday is ...
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Little girl, big heart
6-year-old gives up savings to help rebuild family home, assists classmates after storm
Mark Dennis 
December 29, 2025
Little girl, big heart
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Inside the criminal mind
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Inside the criminal mind
Psychiatrist outlines factors, some from birth, that set people on path to prison
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 29, 2025
Inside the criminal mind
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‘Avoid wild speculation,’ defence attorney advises in SSL matter
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‘Avoid wild speculation,’ defence attorney advises in SSL matter
Senior cop points to complex investigation
December 29, 2025
‘Avoid wild speculation,’ defence attorney advises in SSL matter
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Itch Scratch success with Shawn Storm
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Itch Scratch success with Shawn Storm
BY JASON CROSS Observer staff reporter crossj@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 29, 2025
Itch Scratch
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JN Money covers grocery bills for shoppers in hurricane-hit Santa Cruz
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JN Money covers grocery bills for shoppers in hurricane-hit Santa Cruz
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JN Money covers grocery bills for shoppers in hurricane-hit Santa Cruz
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