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60 greatest rocksteady personalities (60 – 46)
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Brook hails ‘brilliant’ Banton as England back on track at T20 World Cup
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Sunshine Girls’ Henry-Wright remains in Australia for coaching workshops
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Head coach of the Sunshine Girls, Sasher Gaye Henry-Wright has remained in Australia following the international series between Jamaica's Sunshine Gir...
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Cops make AK-47 find in east Kingston
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A high-powered weapon and almost 300 rounds of assorted ammunition were found during a targeted raid at Glasspole Avenue in Rockfort, east Kingston, o...
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Newcomers WiFi seek to extend winning start in JFF Championships
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Newcomers WiFi seek to extend winning start in JFF Championships
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February 14 08:28 AM
ST MARY, Jamaica – WiFi United and Grays Inn SC will both be seeking to maintain their winning starts in the Jamaica Football Championships when they ...
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Sugary drink tax not a burden
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Tufton says decrease in consumption will make society healthier
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Sugary drink tax not a burden
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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)—US President Donald Trump on Thursday evoked the death penalty for Democratic lawmakers who urged the military to refu...
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Kirk suspect faces death penalty for aggravated murder charge
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Kirk suspect faces death penalty for aggravated murder charge
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PROVO, United States (AFP)-The suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk appeared in court Tuesday charged with the conservative activist's murder, as pr...
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Ethiopia sentences 5 to death penalty for human trafficking
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Ethiopia sentences 5 to death penalty for human trafficking
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP) — Ethiopia has sentenced five people to death for human trafficking, state media reported, a first in a country where huge...
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Saudi Arabia executes eight people in one day, seven on drug charges
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Saudi Arabia executes eight people in one day, seven on drug charges
August 3, 2025
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — Saudi Arabia has executed eight people in a single day, state media said, amid a surge in the use of the death pen...
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Ex-airman who killed wife, kids to be executed in Florida
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MIAMI, United States (AFP) -- A former US Air Force sergeant who killed his wife and two young children is to be executed by lethal injection in the s...
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ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC) – The Government of Grenada is planning to remove the death penalty as a punishment for a criminal offence but before a fin...
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US carries out first firing squad execution since 2010
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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- A South Carolina man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents was put to death by firing squad on Friday ...
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Trump blasts Biden over death sentence commutations
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‘Hang dem’:  ‘Bobby’ Montague renews call for the death penalty for vicious killers
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October 30, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Member of Parliament for St Mary Western Robert Montague has doubled down on his call for the resumption of hanging for people fou...
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