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West Indies players named among best in ESPN 2025 cricket roundup
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West Indies players named among best in ESPN 2025 cricket roundup
January 9 07:56 PM
A number of the West Indies’ players across both men’s and women’s squads have been picked by ESPN as some of the standout players of 2025. The ESPNcr...
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Fire guts multi-storey Manchester home
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Fire guts multi-storey Manchester home
January 9 07:49 PM
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Firefighters are now conducting a cooling-down operation after fire gutted the top floor of a multi-storey house in Hope Village...
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Market Bag: Hot pepper as low as $500 as food prices cool at ‘Curry’
January 9 07:29 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica – There’s good news for shoppers this week as Scotch bonnet pepper prices – a ‘hot’ topic during the recent Christmas holidays – are...
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KFC Jamaica says third party vending machine not affiliated with company
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KFC Jamaica says third party vending machine not affiliated with company
January 9 07:08 PM
ST CATHERINE, Jamaica — KFC Jamaica is distancing itself from reports of a third-party vending machine purporting to carry boxed and ready meals from ...
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Jakes Hotel takes on Kingston with a night of dub & roots music for charity
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Jakes Hotel takes on Kingston with a night of dub & roots music for charity
January 9 06:36 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Renowned boutique hotel Jakes Hotel in Treasure Beach, will be hosting what it describes as a powerful celebration of Reggae Cultu...
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Hurricane-stricken family appeals for help to save 13-y-o son who needs kidney transplant
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Hurricane-stricken family appeals for help to save 13-y-o son who needs kidney transplant
Kelsey Thomas, Online coordinator, thomask@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 9 06:24 PM
WESTMORELAND, Jamaica — A Westmoreland family still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Melissa are appealing to the public for assistance to save t...
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Health personnel in St Elizabeth continue campaign to prevent spread of mosquito-borne diseases
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Health personnel in St Elizabeth continue campaign to prevent spread of mosquito-borne diseases
January 9 05:55 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — Health personnel at the St Elizabeth Health Department are on top of efforts to prevent the spread of dengue and other mosquit...
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Petrojam offers fuel lifeline to Savanna-la-Mar field hospital
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Petrojam offers fuel lifeline to Savanna-la-Mar field hospital
January 9 05:50 PM
WESTMORELAND, Jamaica —  Petrojam has pumped over 20,000 litres of fuel to generate electricity for the Savanna-la-Mar field hospital in Westmoreland ...
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WATCH: Warehouse on fire in Savanna-la-Mar
February 19, 2025
WESTMORELAND, Jamaica — A fire has engulfed a building complex in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, Observer Online understands. Unconfirmed reports sugge...
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WATCH: Fire engulfs wholesale on Tower Street in downtown Kingston
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WATCH: Fire engulfs wholesale on Tower Street in downtown Kingston
February 11, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A wholesale establishment on Tower Street in downtown Kingston is on fire. The blaze reportedly began sometime after 10:00 pm on M...
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Fire destroys two-bedroom house in Cockburn Gardens
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Fire destroys two-bedroom house in Cockburn Gardens
February 9, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A two-bedroom house in Cockburn Gardens, St Andrew was gutted by fire on Saturday night. Youth advocate Ackeef Nugent, who resides...
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Courts store set ablaze amid Spanish Town unrest
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Courts store set ablaze amid Spanish Town unrest
January 23, 2025
ST CATHERINE, Jamaica — A Courts store in Spanish Town was reportedly set ablaze early Thursday morning amid ongoing unrest in the old capital over th...
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Six homeless following fire in Peace View
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Six homeless following fire in Peace View
January 18, 2025
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Two children are among six individuals rendered homeless following a fire in Peace View, St James on Saturday afternoon. The fire,...
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Blown transformer causes evacuation at AGD offices in New Kingston
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Blown transformer causes evacuation at AGD offices in New Kingston
Carlysia Ramdeen | Observer Online Reporter, Observer Online Reporter, ramdeenc@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 16, 2025
A blown transformer caused a fire just outside the premises of the Accountant General’s Department (AGD) in New Kingston on Thursday, resulting in a p...
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CPFSA providing psychosocial support to child who survived Walkerswood fire
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CPFSA providing psychosocial support to child who survived Walkerswood fire
January 14, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) says it is providing psychosocial support to the five-year-old boy who sur...
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WATCH: Students mourn classmate killed in Walkerswood fire, express fear
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WATCH: Students mourn classmate killed in Walkerswood fire, express fear
January 13, 2025
There was a sombre atmosphere at Breadnut Hill Primary in St Ann on Monday morning as the school community mourned the death of grade two student Tash...
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Holness ‘outraged’ over St Ann fire that claimed lives of three children
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Holness ‘outraged’ over St Ann fire that claimed lives of three children
January 12, 2025
ST ANN, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness has expressed sorrow and outrage following the tragic fire in St Ann that claimed the lives of three y...
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UPDATE: Police identify children who perished in Walkerswood fire
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UPDATE: Police identify children who perished in Walkerswood fire
January 12, 2025
ST ANN, Jamaica — The three young children who died in a fire in Walkerswood, St Ann early Sunday morning have been identified. They are two-year-old ...
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MP Lisa Hanna heartbroken by Walkerswood tragedy
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MP Lisa Hanna heartbroken by Walkerswood tragedy
January 12, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Member of Parliament (MP) for St Ann South East, Lisa Hanna says she is deeply saddened by the heartbreaking news of the tragic fi...
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Trump bashes California leaders over fire response
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Trump bashes California leaders over fire response
January 12, 2025
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) - US President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday sharpened his criticism of California's handling of the wildfires roaring...
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WATCH: Samuda speaks on tragic death of three children in Walkerswood fire
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WATCH: Samuda speaks on tragic death of three children in Walkerswood fire
January 12, 2025
ST ANN, Jamaica — Member of Parliament (MP) for St Ann North East, Matthew Samuda called an early morning blaze that killed three children on Sunday “...
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Authorities urge vigilance after 4 children die in two house fires
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Authorities urge vigilance after 4 children die in two house fires
January 12, 2025
ST ANN, Jamaica — Following the deaths of three children in a fire Sunday morning, the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) and the Min...
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Three children die in fire in Walkerswood, St Ann
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Three children die in fire in Walkerswood, St Ann
January 12, 2025
ST ANN, Jamaica – Three children are dead as a result of a fire in Walkerswood, St Ann on Sunday morning. The circumstances surrounding the incident a...
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WATCH: 5 y-o perishes in Whitehall house fire
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WATCH: 5 y-o perishes in Whitehall house fire
January 8, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica -- A five-year-old girl died in a house fire on Whitehall Avenue in St Andrew on Wednesday afternoon. Police are currently processin...
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Celebrities flee Los Angeles fires as Hollywood events scrapped
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Celebrities flee Los Angeles fires as Hollywood events scrapped
January 8, 2025
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) - A-list actors, musicians and other celebrities were among the tens of thousands of people affected by terrifying wi...
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Elderly woman perishes in blaze
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Elderly woman perishes in blaze
January 6, 2025
HANOVER, Jamaica— Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a fire on Camp Road in Hopewell which claimed the life of an 81-year-old woman. T...
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93-y-o St Mary man hospitalised after house fire
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93-y-o St Mary man hospitalised after house fire
January 1, 2025
ST MARY, Jamaica – A 93-year-old man is in hospital nursing burns to nearly half his body after a fire at his home on Monday. The elderly man, Aldred ...
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WATCH: Two shops completely destroyed in Constant Spring Arcade fire
December 30, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Assistant Superintendent of the York Park Fire Station Courtney Thompson says two shops were completely destroyed during Monday mo...
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WATCH: Fire at Constant Spring Arcade in St Andrew
December 30, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A section of the Constant Spring Arcade in St Andrew is on fire. It is unclear at the moment what caused the fire but black smoke ...
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‘Dazzling’ Notre Dame re-opens five years after fire
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‘Dazzling’ Notre Dame re-opens five years after fire
December 7, 2024
PARIS, France (AFP)— France on Saturday prepared to throw open the doors of the capital's Notre Dame cathedral after a half-decade closure, in a cerem...
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West Indies players named among best in ESPN 2025 cricket roundup
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West Indies players named among best in ESPN 2025 cricket roundup
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A number of the West Indies’ players across both men’s and women’s squads have been picked by ESPN as some of the standout players of 2025. The ESPNcr...
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Fire guts multi-storey Manchester home
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Fire guts multi-storey Manchester home
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MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Firefighters are now conducting a cooling-down operation after fire gutted the top floor of a multi-storey house in Hope Village...
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Market Bag: Hot pepper as low as $500 as food prices cool at ‘Curry’
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KINGSTON, Jamaica – There’s good news for shoppers this week as Scotch bonnet pepper prices – a ‘hot’ topic during the recent Christmas holidays – are...
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KFC Jamaica says third party vending machine not affiliated with company
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KFC Jamaica says third party vending machine not affiliated with company
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ST CATHERINE, Jamaica — KFC Jamaica is distancing itself from reports of a third-party vending machine purporting to carry boxed and ready meals from ...
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Jakes Hotel takes on Kingston with a night of dub & roots music for charity
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Jakes Hotel takes on Kingston with a night of dub & roots music for charity
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KINGSTON, Jamaica – Renowned boutique hotel Jakes Hotel in Treasure Beach, will be hosting what it describes as a powerful celebration of Reggae Cultu...
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