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‘Stay prepared’
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‘Stay prepared’
Met Service expert says Jamaica not yet out of the woods for storm threats
Vanassa McKenzie | Observer Online Reporter 
November 20 12:20 AM
‘Stay prepared’
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Gov’t to establish national reconstruction body with initial US$1.15b
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Gov’t to establish national reconstruction body with initial US$1.15b
BY LYNFORD SIMPSON Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 20 12:18 AM
Gov’t to establish national reconstruction body
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Miss Universe Jamaica 2025 undergoing treatment in Thailand
Art & Culture, ...
Miss Universe Jamaica 2025 undergoing treatment in Thailand
...appearance in tonight’s grand finale uncertain
Shereita Grizzle | Observer Staff Reporter 
November 20 12:16 AM
Miss Universe Jamaica 2025 undergoing treatment in Thailand
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The fight continues
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The fight continues
Government presses JPS as MPs demand clearer restoration timelines
Jerome Williams | Reporter 
November 20 12:14 AM
The fight continues
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WHERE FROM HERE?
Football, ...
WHERE FROM HERE?
JFF boss sheds no tears over McClaren exit; search on for new head coach
Daniel Blake | Sports Writer | blaked@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 20 12:12 AM
Good riddance?
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Totally Delicious Garlic Bread
November 20 12:10 AM
Straight Out Of the Oven: Totally Delicious Bakery’s Garlic Hard-Dough Bread
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St Elizabeth hardest hit
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St Elizabeth hardest hit
World Bank tags parish’s damage assessment at a whopping US$2,286 million
Alicia Dunkley-Willis | Senior Reporter 
November 20 12:07 AM
St Elizabeth hardest hit
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Construction materials most needed in Trelawny
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Construction materials most needed in Trelawny
Custos welcomes food and clothes but argues rebuilding homes must begin now
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
November 20 12:06 AM
Construction materials most needed in Trelawny
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Ukraine energy minister resigning over corruption scandal
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Ukraine energy minister resigning over corruption scandal
November 12, 2025
KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) —  Ukraine's Energy Minister Svitlana Grynchuk said Wednesday that she was resigning, shortly after President Volodymyr Zelensky c...
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Trinidad High Court rules against extradition of Jack Warner
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Trinidad High Court rules against extradition of Jack Warner
September 23, 2025
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – A Trinidad & Tobago High Court judge said Tuesday that the former vice president of the International Football Federat...
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‘Mistakes happen’: Grenada’s PM confirms corruption in Hurricane Beryl response
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‘Mistakes happen’: Grenada’s PM confirms corruption in Hurricane Beryl response
July 2, 2025
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC) — Grenada’s Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell has confirmed that financial corruption has occurred with the rebuilding or buil...
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Cops to return to court on corruption charges
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Cops to return to court on corruption charges
June 11, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Two policemen were on Tuesday ordered to return to court on charges of corruptly soliciting and accepting money despite attempts f...
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WATCH: Bunting promises corruption fight if returned as Security Minister
May 18, 2025
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Opposition Senator Peter Bunting says if he is returned as the country's national security minister there will be accountability...
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Brazil ex-president Collor de Mello jailed for corruption
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Brazil ex-president Collor de Mello jailed for corruption
April 25, 2025
Brasília, Brazil (AFP)—Brazil's former president Fernando Collor de Mello was arrested and taken to prison Friday to begin serving a nearly nine-year ...
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Kenyan ex-governor sentenced to 12 years for corruption
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Kenyan ex-governor sentenced to 12 years for corruption
February 13, 2025
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — A Kenyan court on Thursday sentenced a former county governor to 12 years in prison for corruption, alongside his wife and thre...
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Jamaica slips on corruption perception list, but score unchanged
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Jamaica slips on corruption perception list, but score unchanged
February 11, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica has fallen four spots on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2024, but the country’s CPI score...
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Corruption threatens climate action, watchdog warns
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Corruption threatens climate action, watchdog warns
February 11, 2025
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Corruption threatens to "derail" global cooperation to tackle climate change, graft watchdog Transparency International warned...
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US prosecutors ordered to drop New York mayor corruption case – reports
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US prosecutors ordered to drop New York mayor corruption case – reports
February 10, 2025
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) -- The US Justice Department on Monday ordered federal prosecutors to drop corruption charges against Democratic New Yor...
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Cuthbert-Flynn demands answers from Golding, Swaby amid PNP/KSAMC corruption allegations
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Cuthbert-Flynn demands answers from Golding, Swaby amid PNP/KSAMC corruption allegations
February 9, 2025
St Andrew West Rural Member of Parliament, the Jamaica Labour Party's Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn is demanding that People’s National Party (PNP) President ...
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CDB to host forum on anti-corruption in the age of artificial intelligence
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CDB to host forum on anti-corruption in the age of artificial intelligence
November 28, 2024
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) says it will host a virtual conference on “Expert Forum on Anti-Corruption in the Ag...
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Spain PM’s wife calls graft allegations ‘political’
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Spain PM’s wife calls graft allegations ‘political’
November 13, 2024
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's wife Begona Gomez on Wednesday dismissed corruption allegations against her as politically motivated, in her fi...
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MOCA empowered to investigate and prosecute a broader range of offences
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MOCA empowered to investigate and prosecute a broader range of offences
October 15, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Members of the Senate have approved the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (Amendment of First Schedule) Order, whic...
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Government MPs express support for Holness, slam ‘politically motivated attacks’
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Government MPs express support for Holness, slam ‘politically motivated attacks’
September 20, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The caucus of Government Members of Parliament (MPs) has expressed support for Prime Minister Andrew Holness following the Integri...
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Holness moves to sue PNP members for ‘false and defamatory statements’
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Holness moves to sue PNP members for ‘false and defamatory statements’
September 19, 2024
Prime Minister and Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Andrew Holness has instructed his attorneys to initiate legal action against senior members of th...
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‘Corruption is rampant’:  Golding blasts JLP, demands PM name ‘illicit eight’
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‘Corruption is rampant’: Golding blasts JLP, demands PM name ‘illicit eight’
September 15, 2024
President of the People’s National Party (PNP) Mark Golding has ripped into the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), describing the governing party as corrupt ...
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G2K urges Golding to disclose names of PNP politicians referred for corruption probe
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G2K urges Golding to disclose names of PNP politicians referred for corruption probe
September 12, 2024
The young professional arm of the Jamaica Labour Party, Generation 2000 (G2K) is calling on People's National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding to us...
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Disgraced ex-public official Pommels forfeits over $40m, high-end vehicles after conviction
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Disgraced ex-public official Pommels forfeits over $40m, high-end vehicles after conviction
July 17, 2024
Lawrence Pommels, the former National Energy Solutions (NESol) official sent to prison for corruption-related crimes, has been ordered by the court to...
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Former FIFA VP Warner wants information regarding payment to lawyers
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Former FIFA VP Warner wants information regarding payment to lawyers
March 23, 2024
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – A High court judge has granted the former vice president of the International Football Federation (FIFA), Austin Jack ...
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Met Service expert says Jamaica not yet out of the woods for storm threats
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November 20, 2025
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Gov’t to establish national reconstruction body with initial US$1.15b
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Gov’t to establish national reconstruction body with initial US$1.15b
BY LYNFORD SIMPSON Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 20, 2025
Gov’t to establish national reconstruction body
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Miss Universe Jamaica 2025 undergoing treatment in Thailand
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Miss Universe Jamaica 2025 undergoing treatment in Thailand
...appearance in tonight’s grand finale uncertain
Shereita Grizzle | Observer Staff Reporter 
November 20, 2025
Miss Universe Jamaica 2025 undergoing treatment in Thailand
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The fight continues
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The fight continues
Government presses JPS as MPs demand clearer restoration timelines
Jerome Williams | Reporter 
November 20, 2025
The fight continues
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WHERE FROM HERE?
Football, ...
WHERE FROM HERE?
JFF boss sheds no tears over McClaren exit; search on for new head coach
Daniel Blake | Sports Writer | blaked@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 20, 2025
Good riddance?
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