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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness is scheduled to travel to New York in the United States from Thursday, December 4 to Saturday, Decem...
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Seventh-day Adventists reject claims of providing gov’t with people’s personal data
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Seventh-day Adventists reject claims of providing gov’t with people’s personal data
December 4 07:58 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Union Conference (JAMU) of Seventh-day Adventists (SDA), and its humanitarian arm, the Adventist Development and Relie...
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Woman pleads guilty to threatening the life of Trinidad’s PM
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Woman pleads guilty to threatening the life of Trinidad’s PM
December 4 07:47 AM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — A 30-year-old woman, who appeared in a TikTok video calling on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to kill Prime Minis...
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‘We don’t have the capacity’
OUR admits it lacks manpower to verify utility companies’ recovery claims
BY JEROME WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter williamsj@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 4 12:30 AM
‘We don’t have the capacity’
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Government tapping overseas markets to ensure adequate supply of fruits, vegetables, and eggs
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December 4 12:28 AM
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SLB announces debt reset initiative for students affected by Hurricane Melissa
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December 4 12:26 AM
Student loan relief
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Masicka, Tommy Lee throw lyrical jabs
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BY SHEREITA GRIZZLE Observer staff reporter grizzles@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 4 12:26 AM
Masicka, Tommy Lee throw lyrical jabs
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Dre Skull banks on Cholita
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Dre Skull banks on Cholita
...drops new single with Skillibeng
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Dre Skull banks on Cholita
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UNDP announces new round of climate action grants for Bahamas
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UNDP announces new round of climate action grants for Bahamas
October 22, 2025
NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC) – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative, Dr Kishan Khoday, says Bahamian organisations can now...
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Caribbean’s poor face growing climate threat – UN report
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Caribbean’s poor face growing climate threat – UN report
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UNITED NATIONS, United States (CMC) – Caribbean nations continue to grapple with deep inequalities and rising climate risks, according to the Global M...
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Heat-related deaths in Spain up 88 per cent from last year
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Belize hosts first national climate finance forum
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Hurricane centre monitoring tropical wave with potential to develop
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a tropical wave currently moving across the Atlantic that could develop into the seaso...
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Climate crisis threatening right to life — UN
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Climate crisis threatening right to life — UN
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GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The climate crisis is threatening the right to life, the United Nations (UN) human rights chief warned Monday, as a heatwa...
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World Bank and IMF climate snub ‘worrying’ — COP29 presidency
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Warning signs on climate flashing bright red — top scientists
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May 2025 second warmest on record — EU climate monitor
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PARIS, France (AFP) — Global heating persisted as the new norm, with last month the second warmest May on record on land and in the oceans, according ...
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St Kitts-Nevis PM says climate change is not an abstract concept
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BASSETERRE, St  Kitts, (CMC) –  Prime Minister Dr Terrance Drew says the Third Forum on Human Rights Defenders in Environmental Matters in Latin Ameri...
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Hundreds of firings at key US climate agency — lawmaker
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Corruption threatens climate action, watchdog warns
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Global road transport emissions to peak in 2025 — study
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India’s 2024 was hottest year since 1901: meteorological office
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India's meteorological department said Wednesday that 2024 was the hottest year since 1901, with sizzling temperatures in the world's most populous na...
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Climate change brought extreme weather, heat in 2024  —  UN
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GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Climate change sparked a trail of extreme weather and record heat in 2024, the United Nations (UN) said on Monday, urging ...
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Three ‘transformations’ for nature, according to UN experts
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PARIS, France (AFP) — Human societies need a radical overhaul to stop the destruction of the planet, according to the United Nations (UN) biodiversity...
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Climate change made Cyclone Chido stronger — scientists
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Climate change made Cyclone Chido stronger — scientists
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PARIS, France (AFP) — Climate change intensified Cyclone Chido as it barrelled toward the Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte, said a preliminary stud...
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Tackling climate, nature separately risks worsening crises — UN
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Tackling climate, nature separately risks worsening crises — UN
December 17, 2024
PARIS, France (AFP) — Overconsumption and unsustainable farming are fuelling overlapping crises in nature and the climate, putting crucial ecosystems ...
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One in 5 properties in England now at risk of flooding
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One in 5 properties in England now at risk of flooding
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‘Definitely several hundred’ killed as Cyclone Chido devastates Mayotte
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‘Definitely several hundred’ killed as Cyclone Chido devastates Mayotte
December 15, 2024
SAINT-DENIS DE LA REUNION, France (AFP) — Local authorities said Sunday that the likely death toll from cyclone Chido's passage across Mayotte was "de...
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Holness departs for official visit to New York
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness is scheduled to travel to New York in the United States from Thursday, December 4 to Saturday, Decem...
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Seventh-day Adventists reject claims of providing gov’t with people’s personal data
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Union Conference (JAMU) of Seventh-day Adventists (SDA), and its humanitarian arm, the Adventist Development and Relie...
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Woman pleads guilty to threatening the life of Trinidad’s PM
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Woman pleads guilty to threatening the life of Trinidad’s PM
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OUR admits it lacks manpower to verify utility companies’ recovery claims
BY JEROME WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter williamsj@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 4, 2025
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