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Stray animals endangering Trelawny motorists, says Gager
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Stray animals endangering Trelawny motorists, says Gager
January 9 09:08 PM
TRELAWNY, Jamaica — Mayor of Falmouth and chairman of the Trelawny Municipal Corporation (TMC), C Junior Gager, has expressed concern about road fatal...
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Anger over Minneapolis shooting probe fuels protests
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Anger over Minneapolis shooting probe fuels protests
January 9 08:57 PM
MINNEAPOLIS, United States (AFP) — Local officials in Minneapolis slammed federal agencies Friday for excluding them from the probe into an immigratio...
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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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Persons urged to beware of fraudulent customs brokers
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Persons urged to beware of fraudulent customs brokers
January 2, 2026
KINGSTON, January — Commanding Officer of the Newport West Police Formation, Superintendent Rochelle McGibbon Scott, is urging members of the public, ...
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US court convicts former USVI director in landmark bribery scandal
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US court convicts former USVI director in landmark bribery scandal
December 14, 2025
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, US Virgin Islands (CMC) – A United States (US) federal jury has convicted the former Director of the US Virgin Islands Office of Man...
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MLSS warns of fraudulent TikTok promoting fake Canadian farm work opportunities
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MLSS warns of fraudulent TikTok promoting fake Canadian farm work opportunities
November 28, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) says it is alerting the public to the unauthorised and fraudulent use of the vid...
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Andrew ‘French’ Wright gets more than 10 years for InSports fraud
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Andrew ‘French’ Wright gets more than 10 years for InSports fraud
November 21, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Andrew Wright, one of three men found guilty of defrauding the Institute of Sport (InSports) of hundreds of millions of dollars, h...
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Andrew ‘French’, two others found guilty in $222-m InSports fraud case
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Andrew ‘French’, two others found guilty in $222-m InSports fraud case
RACHID PARCHMENT Digital coordinator sports parchmentr@jamaicaobserver.com 
September 30, 2025
Andrew Wright, O'Neil Hope and Rudolph Barnes, the three men accused of defrauding the Institute of Sport (InSports), were on Tuesday found guilty of ...
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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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‘Car dealer’ accused of fraud in two cases
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‘Car dealer’ accused of fraud in two cases
September 21, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica – A 35-year-old businessman has been charged with alleged non-delivery of goods in two motor vehicle transactions. Charged with frau...
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Ruel Reid and co-accused to go on trial on October 6
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Ruel Reid and co-accused to go on trial on October 6
September 12, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The multimillion-dollar fraud trial of former Education Minister Ruel Reid, former Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) President F...
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Jamaican pleads guilty to defrauding American of US$181,000 over seven years
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Jamaican pleads guilty to defrauding American of US$181,000 over seven years
September 9, 2025
SOUTH DAKOTA, United States (CMC) — A Jamaican has pleaded guilty in a United States (US) District Court in connection with a long-running scheme to d...
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Ghana singer Shatta Wale held in US fraud probe over Lamborghini purchase
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Ghana singer Shatta Wale held in US fraud probe over Lamborghini purchase
August 21, 2025
ACCRA, Ghana (AFP) — Ghanaian dancehall star Shatta Wale has been taken into custody in Accra as part of a United States (US) investigation into his p...
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Woman and co-accused avoid prison after repaying $8.9 million in fraud case
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Woman and co-accused avoid prison after repaying $8.9 million in fraud case
August 13, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A woman and her co-accused, charged with fleecing a man of $8.9 million in a bogus property deal, avoided prison time on Tuesday a...
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Judge grants bail to man accused of $40m loan fraud using elder’s title
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Judge grants bail to man accused of $40m loan fraud using elder’s title
July 31, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A man who is accused of obtaining a $40 million loan from a local company by using the title of another man had his bail reviewed ...
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Police warn against interacting with AI video promoting fake investment scheme
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Police warn against interacting with AI video promoting fake investment scheme
July 26, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is warning the public not to interact with a video circulating on social media that falsely d...
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Customs broker convicted of $12m fraud to be released after spending 3 years in prison
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Customs broker convicted of $12m fraud to be released after spending 3 years in prison
July 25, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A customs broker who was sentenced in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Friday, July 11, 2025, for his role in a $12 mill...
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Fraud probe opened into Mbappe payments to police officers
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Fraud probe opened into Mbappe payments to police officers
July 17, 2025
PARIS, France (AFP) — An investigation has been opened into potentially fraudulent payments made by Kylian Mbappe to five police officers assigned to ...
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Former Haitian mayor gets 9 years for fraud
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Former Haitian mayor gets 9 years for fraud
June 21, 2025
WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) – The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday said a former Mayor of Les Irois, Haiti, has been sentenced ...
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Man fined $1.2m after applying for passport in different names
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Man fined $1.2m after applying for passport in different names
June 20, 2025
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Jason Jarrett has been hit with a $1.2-million fine after being convicted of passport fraud. According to court documents, the cas...
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US recovers $225 m stolen in crypto scam
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US recovers $225 m stolen in crypto scam
June 18, 2025
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The United States (US) government said Wednesday it recovered US$225 million in the largest seizure yet of money stole...
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Trinidad fraud squad warns against clicking on links to emails or text messages
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Trinidad fraud squad warns against clicking on links to emails or text messages
May 19, 2025
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS), citing a “sharp rise in fraud-related offences”, is urging the public t...
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Man granted $1m bail in multi-million dollar NCB fraud case
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Man granted $1m bail in multi-million dollar NCB fraud case
May 13, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — One of four men currently before the court in connection with a multi-million dollar fraud at the National Commercial Bank (NCB) h...
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Engineer nabbed in alleged $4m land fraud
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Engineer nabbed in alleged $4m land fraud
May 4, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A 42-year-old engineer has been arrested and charged after allegedly collecting over $4 million for land that was not handed over ...
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Sean Kingston and mother found guilty of fraud
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Sean Kingston and mother found guilty of fraud
March 28, 2025
Rapper Sean Kingston and his mother, 61-year-old Janice Turner, were each found guilty on one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and four counts...
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Stray animals endangering Trelawny motorists, says Gager
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TRELAWNY, Jamaica — Mayor of Falmouth and chairman of the Trelawny Municipal Corporation (TMC), C Junior Gager, has expressed concern about road fatal...
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Anger over Minneapolis shooting probe fuels protests
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MINNEAPOLIS, United States (AFP) — Local officials in Minneapolis slammed federal agencies Friday for excluding them from the probe into an immigratio...
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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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