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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
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 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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Two shot dead in Manchester
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Two shot dead in Manchester
December 23, 2025
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Two men were shot dead by gunmen at a bar on Manchester Road in Mandeville on Monday night. Their identities have not yet been r...
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WHO says 114 killed in strikes on Sudan kindergarten, hospital
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WHO says 114 killed in strikes on Sudan kindergarten, hospital
December 8, 2025
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP)—The World Health Organization said Monday that 114 people, including 63 children, were killed in "senseless" strikes on a ho...
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Two men shot and killed in Burger Gully
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Two men shot and killed in Burger Gully
December 4, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica—Two men were reportedly shot and killed by the police on Thursday afternoon in Burger Gully community in St Andrew. The deceased men...
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Traffic deaths surge during third quarter – ITA
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Traffic deaths surge during third quarter – ITA
November 29, 2025
The Island Traffic Authority (ITA) is reporting what it calls a “concerning rise” in road fatalities across Jamaica. In its year-to-date report, the I...
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Gunmen seize 315 in latest Nigerian mass school kidnapping
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Gunmen seize 315 in latest Nigerian mass school kidnapping
November 22, 2025
Lagos, Nigeria (AFP)—Gunmen have kidnapped more than 300 students and teachers in one of the largest mass kidnappings in Nigeria, a Christian group sa...
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Tuberculosis killed 1.23 million last year– WHO
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Tuberculosis killed 1.23 million last year– WHO
November 12, 2025
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) –Tuberculosis remains the world's leading infectious killer, claiming an estimated 1.23 million lives last year, the UN heal...
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‘We will exhume the bodies if we have to’ — Holness
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‘We will exhume the bodies if we have to’ — Holness
November 5, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has vowed that there will be an accurate count of the number of Jamaicans killed as a result of H...
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#MelissaAftermath: Tufton says teams accessing reports of dead bodies in remote areas
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#MelissaAftermath: Tufton says teams accessing reports of dead bodies in remote areas
November 1, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Christopher Tufton, says environmental health teams are working closely with the Jamaica Defen...
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US kills 14 in strikes on alleged Pacific drug boats
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US kills 14 in strikes on alleged Pacific drug boats
October 28, 2025
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)—US forces killed 14 people in strikes that destroyed four alleged drug-smuggling boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean, D...
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Typhoon Ragasa slams into south China after killing 14 in Taiwan
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Typhoon Ragasa slams into south China after killing 14 in Taiwan
September 24, 2025
YANGJIANG, China (AFP)-Fierce winds, pounding rain and rough seas battered southern China on Wednesday as powerful Typhoon Ragasa made landfall in Gua...
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Children killed in drone attack in Haiti
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Children killed in drone attack in Haiti
September 23, 2025
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — The director of the Haiti Observatory within the Global Initiative Against Organised Crime, Romain Le Cour, has called o...
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Sudan rescuers pull 370 bodies from Darfur landslide
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Sudan rescuers pull 370 bodies from Darfur landslide
September 4, 2025
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP)-Rescuers have recovered 370 bodies from a landslide that wiped out a remote mountain village in Sudan's Darfur region, a local c...
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Two killed in Haiti while retrieving military vehicle
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Two killed in Haiti while retrieving military vehicle
September 1, 2025
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC)-The Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) said two people were killed, including an MSS officer, following a “tragi...
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Hopes for survivors wane after Pakistan flooding kills hundreds
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Hopes for survivors wane after Pakistan flooding kills hundreds
August 17, 2025
Pakistan (AFP)—Pakistani rescuers dug homes out from under massive boulders on Sunday as they searched for survivors of flash floods that killed at le...
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Flood kills 56 in Indian Kashmir mountain village, scores missing
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Flood kills 56 in Indian Kashmir mountain village, scores missing
August 14, 2025
Srinagar, India (AFP)—At least 56 people have died and dozens more remain missing after torrents of water and mud driven by intense rain crashed throu...
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Heavy rains kill at least 30 in Guinea since late June
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Heavy rains kill at least 30 in Guinea since late June
August 1, 2025
CONAKRY, Guinea (AFP) - At least 30 people have died in flooding from heavy rainfall in Guinea's capital and surrounding areas since late June, accord...
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Heavy rain in Guinea capital kills at least seven
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Heavy rain in Guinea capital kills at least seven
July 31, 2025
CONAKRY, Guinea (AFP)—At least seven people have died in Guinea's capital Conakry due to heavy overnight rain, the government said Thursday. The city'...
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Six killed, 47 hurt as bus crashes on Dominican beach outing
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Six killed, 47 hurt as bus crashes on Dominican beach outing
July 21, 2025
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (AFP)-Six people on a beach excursion in the Dominican Republic died and 47 were injured when their bus lost its bra...
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Health authorities meet over 24 reported deaths of babies at Victoria Jubilee Hospital
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Health authorities meet over 24 reported deaths of babies at Victoria Jubilee Hospital
June 26, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Health authorities are now meeting to assess reports of the deaths of 24 babies at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston since...
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Grenada recorded highest births and deaths in COVID-19 pandemic year
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Grenada recorded highest births and deaths in COVID-19 pandemic year
June 20, 2025
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC) — Grenada recorded the highest number of births and deaths for a five-year period in 2021, the same year the world took not...
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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, 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
{"xml":"xml"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
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
{"xml":"xml"}{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
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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SIZZLER!
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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