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Defending champs St Catherine surge to day 1 lead at JTA/Sagicor National Athletics Championships
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Defending champs St Catherine surge to day 1 lead at JTA/Sagicor National Athletics Championships
June 26 07:13 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica —  Defending champions St Catherine are making their bid   for a consecutive title very clear, leading by 14 points after day 1 of t...
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Norway coach defends decision to leave out Haaland, Odegaard against France
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Norway coach defends decision to leave out Haaland, Odegaard against France
June 26 06:34 PM
FOXBOROUGH , United States (AFP) — Norway coach Stale Solbakken defended his decision to leave out star duo Erling Haaland and Martin Odegaard in Frid...
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US sends 250-member disaster response team with dogs to quake-hit Venezuela
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US sends 250-member disaster response team with dogs to quake-hit Venezuela
June 26 06:23 PM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) —  The United States (US) said Friday it was sending a disaster response team of more than 250 personnel, including th...
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MBU shake up technical staff
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MBU shake up technical staff
PAUL A REID Observer writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 26 06:17 PM
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Argentine Javier Marcelo  Ainstein  was recently named as head coach of Montego Bay United for the 2026-27 season, days after he r...
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CHEW, Nations Choice cop Best New Food Item at Table Talk Food Awards
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CHEW, Nations Choice cop Best New Food Item at Table Talk Food Awards
June 26 05:59 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Observer Table Talk Food Awards celebrated 27 years of the event with a resilience-themed staging on Thursday, June 25...
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Jangoo, Chase keep West Indies in touch against Sri Lanka
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Jangoo, Chase keep West Indies in touch against Sri Lanka
June 26 05:49 PM
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA (AFP) — Resolute batting by Amir Jangoo and captain Roston Chase kept the West Indies within reach of Sri Lanka's first innings to...
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Chuck warns JPs about using role to get out of traffic tickets
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Chuck warns JPs about using role to get out of traffic tickets
BY HORACE HINES Observer writer 
June 26 05:38 PM
TRELAWNY, Jamaica — Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has sharply rebuked justices of the peace (JPs) who place decals identifying themselves as JPs on th...
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Music producer freed of rape charges
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Music producer freed of rape charges
June 26 05:26 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A 40-year-old music producer has been found not guilty of rape in connection with allegations dating back to 2020. The accused, El...
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June 24, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, which sparked international alarm, should be formally declared over on Ju...
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Antigua and Barbuda gov’t announces new measures for entry amid virus outbreaks
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Antigua and Barbuda gov’t announces new measures for entry amid virus outbreaks
May 22, 2026
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) — The Antigua and Barbuda Government has announced new measures aimed at enhancing public health safety amid concerns regardi...
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WHO says ‘additional case’ of hantavirus reported in Netherlands
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WHO says ‘additional case’ of hantavirus reported in Netherlands
May 22, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — A member of the MV Hondius cruise ship crew who disembarked in Tenerife and was repatriated to the Netherlands was confirm...
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Hantavirus risk to Jamaica very low, say experts
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Hantavirus risk to Jamaica very low, say experts
Vanassa McKenzie, Observer Online reporter, mckenziev@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 21, 2026
The risk of the hantavirus to the Jamaican population remains very low, according to local medical experts. The reassurance by the experts comes again...
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Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks sign of our ‘dangerous’ times — WHO
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Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks sign of our ‘dangerous’ times — WHO
May 18, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The deadly hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks are only the latest crises in "dangerous and divisive" times, the World Health O...
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Nine hantavirus contact cases due in at UK—health agency
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Nine hantavirus contact cases due in at UK—health agency
May 17, 2026
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP)—Nine people were due to fly into Britain Sunday from UK overseas territories after coming into contact with a person with...
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Westmoreland health authorities heighten hantavirus surveillance
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Westmoreland health authorities heighten hantavirus surveillance
May 16, 2026
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica—Health authorities in Westmoreland are maintaining heightened surveillance amid regional concerns about hantavirus, even though J...
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US passenger from hantavirus cruise quarantines on remote Pitcairn Island
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US passenger from hantavirus cruise quarantines on remote Pitcairn Island
May 15, 2026
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A passenger from the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius cruise ship is in quarantine on tiny Pitcairn Island, a volcanic outcrop...
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Potential US hantavirus case tests negative
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Potential US hantavirus case tests negative
May 14, 2026
WASHINGTON, United States  (AFP) — A passenger who was aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius and initially tested "mildly positive" for hantavirus has now...
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WHO chief says ‘work not over’ after hantavirus evacuation
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WHO chief says ‘work not over’ after hantavirus evacuation
May 12, 2026
MADRID, Spain (AFP)—World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday, "our work is not over" to contain hantavirus after eva...
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Passengers from virus ship evacuation flight all negative — Dutch authorities
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Passengers from virus ship evacuation flight all negative — Dutch authorities
May 12, 2026
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — All 26 passengers who landed in the Netherlands on the first evacuation flight from the hantavirus-hit MV Hondius cruis...
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Last evacuation flights from hantavirus ship land in Netherlands
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Last evacuation flights from hantavirus ship land in Netherlands
May 11, 2026
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (AFP)—The last two evacuation planes carrying passengers and crew from the hantavirus-hit ship MV Hondius landed in the Netherl...
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‘No need for panic’ in recent hantavirus outbreak, says CARPHA
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‘No need for panic’ in recent hantavirus outbreak, says CARPHA
May 11, 2026
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC)—The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) on Monday sought to reassure people in the Caribbean region t...
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Staff at Dutch hospital with hantavirus patient quarantined after procedure errors: hospital
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Staff at Dutch hospital with hantavirus patient quarantined after procedure errors: hospital
May 11, 2026
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Twelve staff members at a Dutch hospital treating a hantavirus-positive evacuee from the MV Hondius cruise ship are in ...
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Spaniard evacuated from cruise ship has hantavirus, says health ministry
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Spaniard evacuated from cruise ship has hantavirus, says health ministry
May 11, 2026
GRANADILLA DE ABONA, Spain (AFP) — A Spanish passenger evacuated from the disease-stricken MV Hondius cruise ship has tested positive for hantavirus b...
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Hantavirus crisis recommendations shared by WHO
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Hantavirus crisis recommendations shared by WHO
Dana Malcolm | Observer Online Reporter | Malcolmd@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 11, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — A deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship has spurred global concern over the potential spread of the virus among and ...
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Spain says final hantavirus ship evacuees to take plane to Netherlands
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Spain says final hantavirus ship evacuees to take plane to Netherlands
May 11, 2026
GRANADILLA DE ABONA, Spain (AFP) — The final 22 people to leave a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak will take a plane to the Netherlands...
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Hantavirus ship evacuees begin returning home
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Hantavirus ship evacuees begin returning home
May 10, 2026
GRANADILLA DE ABONA, Spain (AFP) — Occupants of a cruise ship struck by a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has sparked international alarm began arrivi...
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Canary Islands brace for arrival of hantavirus-hit cruise ship
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Canary Islands brace for arrival of hantavirus-hit cruise ship
May 9, 2026
GRANADILLA DE ABONA, Spain (AFP) — Speaking to reporters in Madrid, Spain's health and interior ministers insisted there would be "no contact" with th...
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US plans evacuation flight for Americans on hantavirus ship
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US plans evacuation flight for Americans on hantavirus ship
May 8, 2026
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States (US) said Friday it was organising an evacuation flight for Americans on a hantavirus-struck cruis...
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CARPHA urges caution even as hantavirus infection risk low in the Caribbean
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CARPHA urges caution even as hantavirus infection risk low in the Caribbean
May 8, 2026
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) says the risk of infection of the hantavirus is low in the ...
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WHO says hantavirus risk low as countries prep repatriation flights
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WHO says hantavirus risk low as countries prep repatriation flights
May 8, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP)—The World Health Organization's chief is due in the Spanish island of Tenerife to help coordinate the evacuation of passenge...
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Defending champs St Catherine surge to day 1 lead at JTA/Sagicor National Athletics Championships
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PAUL A REID Observer writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com 
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ST JAMES, Jamaica — Argentine Javier Marcelo  Ainstein  was recently named as head coach of Montego Bay United for the 2026-27 season, days after he r...
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CHEW, Nations Choice cop Best New Food Item at Table Talk Food Awards
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Observer Table Talk Food Awards celebrated 27 years of the event with a resilience-themed staging on Thursday, June 25...
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