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Sandals pumps $6 million into 2026 staging of Jill Stewart MoBay City Run
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March 11 12:18 AM
Sandals pumps $6 million into 2026 staging of Jill Stewart MoBay City Run
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Mojo Morgan’s Spirit official song of Kingston City Run
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CDB preparing to finance health sector as Cuba medical exit raises concerns
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March 11 12:14 AM
CDB preparing to finance health sector as Cuba medical exit raises concerns
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Another wage warning
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Another wage warning
Fiscal commissioner flags rising public sector pay as capital investment lags
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March 11 12:14 AM
Another wage warning
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Poultry producers warn against extending chicken import waivers
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...say domestic supply has rebounded after Hurricane Melissa
Karena Bennett | Senior Business Reporter | bennettk@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 11 12:13 AM
Poultry producers warn against extending chicken import waivers
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Scotia rolls out new digital services under five-year strategy
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Scotia rolls out new digital services under five-year strategy
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March 11 12:12 AM
Scotia rolls out new digital services under five-year strategy
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Galactic showdown
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Galactic showdown
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March 11 12:12 AM
Under-strength Mount Pleasant brace for LA Galaxy clash
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Haitian PM names new cabinet
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Haitian PM names new cabinet
March 4, 2026
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) – Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé has named a new 17-member cabinet, noting that the “time for fine speeches ...
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Bishop Garth Minott elected new president of Jamaica Council of Churches
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Bishop Garth Minott elected new president of Jamaica Council of Churches
January 25, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Suffragan Bishop of Kingston, Garth Minott, has been elected President of the Jamaica Council of Churches (JCC) for a two-year ter...
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Haitian group seeks Caricom intervention amid efforts to remove prime minister
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Haitian group seeks Caricom intervention amid efforts to remove prime minister
January 24, 2026
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) –  The National Conference of Actors for New Governance (NCANG) in Haiti has written to Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secre...
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Maureen Webber appointed ECJ commissioner
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Maureen Webber appointed ECJ commissioner
January 9, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Maureen Webber has been appointed as Nominated Commissioner on the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ). Her appointment, which b...
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Vincentians vote as Gonsalves vies for 6th stint in gov’t
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Vincentians vote as Gonsalves vies for 6th stint in gov’t
November 27, 2025
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) — More than 103,000 voters are going to the 250 polling stations in St Vincent and the Grenadines on Thursday to elect a n...
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Israel’s Netanyahu says will run for PM in next year’s election
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Israel’s Netanyahu says will run for PM in next year’s election
October 18, 2025
JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that he would run for office in the November 2026 elections and e...
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Kingston mayor leads post election clean-up
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Kingston mayor leads post election clean-up
September 21, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Kingston Mayor Andrew Swaby on Sunday removed political signs, paraphernalia and draping from sections of the municipality and urg...
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Government dynamics could shift with Opposition boost, says Professor Waller
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Government dynamics could shift with Opposition boost, says Professor Waller
September 4, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — With the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) securing 29 seats in the 2025 General Election, Dr Lloyd Waller, professor of di...
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Action needed to drive up election turnout, says lecturer
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Action needed to drive up election turnout, says lecturer
September 4, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Government and political parties will have to use information and appeal to civic responsibility to combat voter apathy in the...
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Morris Dixon says JLP executed a clean political campaign
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Morris Dixon says JLP executed a clean political campaign
September 4, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) Dana Morris Dixon says the party, under Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ direction, executed a clea...
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Portland Eastern, Kingston Central among seats that JLP will be ‘looking at closely’ in official count
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Portland Eastern, Kingston Central among seats that JLP will be ‘looking at closely’ in official count
September 4, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — While it is confident that it has retained the 34 constituencies awarded to it on election night, after the preliminary count, the...
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PSOJ congratulates JLP on election victory, highlights low voter turnout
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PSOJ congratulates JLP on election victory, highlights low voter turnout
September 4, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica —  The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) is extending congratulations to the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) on securing vict...
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General Elections: Shaw flips St Thomas Eastern for PNP
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General Elections: Shaw flips St Thomas Eastern for PNP
September 3, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The People’s National Party’s (PNP) Yvonne Shaw has won the St Thomas Eastern seat in the 2025 General Election, based on prelimin...
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General Elections: PNP’s Steve McGregor wins in Kingston Central
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General Elections: PNP’s Steve McGregor wins in Kingston Central
September 3, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The People’s National Party’s Steve McGregor has won the Kingston Central seat in the 2025 General Election, based on preliminary ...
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General Elections: Landslide victory for Golding and Samuda
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General Elections: Landslide victory for Golding and Samuda
September 3, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding has won the St Andrew Southern seat in the 2025 General Election, while the J...
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General Elections: Brown-Burke, Robinson retain St Andrew seats
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General Elections: Brown-Burke, Robinson retain St Andrew seats
September 3, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The People’s National Party’s (PNP) Angela Brown-Burke has retained the St Andrew South Western seat in the 2025 General Election,...
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General Elections: Williams and Terrelonge hold on to St Andrew Eastern, St Catherine East Central seats
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General Elections: Williams and Terrelonge hold on to St Andrew Eastern, St Catherine East Central seats
September 3, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) Fayval Williams has won the St Andrew Eastern seat in the 2025 General Election, based on prelimi...
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Issues to assess but election day successful — EOJ
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Issues to assess but election day successful — EOJ
September 3, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — While there are issues to review, Director of Elections Glasspole Brown said the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) executed a very...
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WATCH: Back by ‘popular demand’, PNP’s Shaw says she’s ahead in St Thomas Eastern
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WATCH: Back by ‘popular demand’, PNP’s Shaw says she’s ahead in St Thomas Eastern
September 3, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — People's National Party candidate for St Thomas Eastern, Yvonne Shaw, says a canvass of polling stations in the constituency shows...
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Cops called in as impatient St Andrew Southern voters get ‘boisterous’
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Cops called in as impatient St Andrew Southern voters get ‘boisterous’
September 3, 2025
ST ANDREW, Jamaica — Police reinforcements were called in to the St Andrew South constituency about 10:30 Wednesday morning, as voters who had waited ...
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Experts say employees entitled to three hours for voting by law
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Experts say employees entitled to three hours for voting by law
September 3, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Attorney-at-law Gavin Goffe has cautioned companies that fail to grant staff the legally mandated three hours for voting, describi...
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WATCH: No major issues so far as J’cans vote, says election observer
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WATCH: No major issues so far as J’cans vote, says election observer
September 3, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Head of the Organisation of American States (OAS) Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) to Jamaica, former Prime Minister of St Luci...
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Sandals pumps $6 million into 2026 staging of Jill Stewart MoBay City Run
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Sandals pumps $6 million into 2026 staging of Jill Stewart MoBay City Run
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Mojo Morgan’s Spirit official song of Kingston City Run
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Another wage warning
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Fiscal commissioner flags rising public sector pay as capital investment lags
BY DASHAN HENDRICKS Business content manager hendricksd@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 11, 2026
Another wage warning
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CDB preparing to finance health sector as Cuba medical exit raises concerns
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