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Golding must disclose if JACDEN helped to fund PNP’s election campaign —  Young Jamaica
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Golding must disclose if JACDEN helped to fund PNP’s election campaign — Young Jamaica
April 6 05:26 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Young Jamaica is urging Opposition Leader and President of the People’s National Party (PNP), Mark Golding, to immediately clarify...
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Ky-Mani Marley, Colombian artiste Kapla collaborate on joint EP
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Ky-Mani Marley, Colombian artiste Kapla collaborate on joint EP
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April 6 04:53 PM
Reggae artiste and actor Ky-Mani Marley and Colombian reggaeton artiste Kapla have teamed up for a collaborative EP, which is being produced by Americ...
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Trump doubles down on Iran threat, says ceasefire ‘not good enough’
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Trump doubles down on Iran threat, says ceasefire ‘not good enough’
April 6 03:45 PM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)—United States (US) President Donald Trump doubled down Monday on his threat to wreck Iran's civilian infrastructure, w...
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CPFSA urges parents to prioritise safety of children after 9-y-o drowns in St Elizabeth
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CPFSA urges parents to prioritise safety of children after 9-y-o drowns in St Elizabeth
April 6 03:22 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Chief Executive Officer of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), Laurette Adams-Thomas, is urging parents and g...
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Caribbean employers urged to invest in workforce development
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Caribbean employers urged to invest in workforce development
Vanassa McKenzie | Observer Online Reporter 
April 6 03:08 PM
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) — As Caribbean workers face growing challenges in accessing higher education overseas, business leaders say online learning i...
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Former WADA chief Craig Reedie dies at age 84
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Former WADA chief Craig Reedie dies at age 84
Vanassa McKenzie | Observer Online Reporter 
April 6 02:01 PM
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP)—Veteran British sports administrator Craig Reedie, a former head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and a key figure ...
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Changes announced for Criminal Records Office pick-ups at Police Officers’ Club on Wednesday
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Changes announced for Criminal Records Office pick-ups at Police Officers’ Club on Wednesday
Vanassa McKenzie | Observer Online Reporter 
April 6 01:55 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Criminal Records Office is advising the public that there will be temporary changes to operat...
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Families in western Jamaica set to get 200 new homes after Hurricane Melissa
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Families in western Jamaica set to get 200 new homes after Hurricane Melissa
April 6 12:56 PM
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Several families left homeless by Hurricane Melissa are now on the path to recovery, as a multi-partner initiative moves to constr...
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#Champs2026: STETHS’ Santino Distin hopes to upgrade high jump silver to gold
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#Champs2026: STETHS’ Santino Distin hopes to upgrade high jump silver to gold
March 27, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica— Santino Distin of St Elizabeth Technical will hope to upgrade his silver medal won last year to gold when he competes in the finals...
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#Champs2026: Immaculate’s Watt wins Class 3 high jump
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#Champs2026: Immaculate’s Watt wins Class 3 high jump
March 26, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Immaculate Conception’s Sanique Watt won the Class 3 girls high jump gold medal after she cleared 1.71m on Thursday’s third day of...
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Jamaica’s Richards repeats as world indoors high jump bronze medallist
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Jamaica’s Richards repeats as world indoors high jump bronze medallist
March 21, 2026
Raymond Richards has won back-to-back World Athletics Indoor Championships bronze medals in the men’s high jump. He shared third place with Korea’s Sa...
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Distin finishes10th in women’s high jump at World Indoors
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Distin finishes10th in women’s high jump at World Indoors
March 20, 2026
Jamaica’s Lamara Distin finished 10th in the women’s high jump on the first morning of the World Athletics Indoor Championships at Kujawsko-Pomorska A...
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Qatar’s Barshim out of Tokyo worlds with foot injury
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Qatar’s Barshim out of Tokyo worlds with foot injury
September 12, 2025
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Three-time former world high jump champion Mutaz Barshim announced his withdrawal on Friday's eve of the world championships in T...
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National Trials 2025: Lamara Distin retains high jump title
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National Trials 2025: Lamara Distin retains high jump title
June 27, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Despite nursing a sore thigh, Commonwealth Games gold medallist Lamara Distin retained her women’s high jump title, clearing 1.86m...
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#Champs2025: JC’s Chavez Penn wins back-to-back high jump gold
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#Champs2025: JC’s Chavez Penn wins back-to-back high jump gold
March 29, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica College’s Chavez Penn won back-to-back boys’ Class One high jump titles after holding off a strong challenge on Saturday’s...
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#Champs2025: Munro College’s Johnson wins boys’ Class Two high jump
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#Champs2025: Munro College’s Johnson wins boys’ Class Two high jump
March 29, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Selerthel Johnson of Munro College produced a big personal best of 2.03m to win the boys’ Class Two high jump on Saturday’s final ...
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#Champs2025: Hydel’s Bernard secures back-to-back high jump gold
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#Champs2025: Hydel’s Bernard secures back-to-back high jump gold
March 29, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Hydel High’s Zavien Bernard won her second high jump medal in successive years after she took the Class Two title on Saturday’s fi...
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#Champs2025: Girls Class 3 medallists seek long jump medal on Saturday
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#Champs2025: Girls Class 3 medallists seek long jump medal on Saturday
March 28, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica—All three medallists from the Class 3 girls' high jump on Thursday will go in search of a second jump medal on Saturday’s final day ...
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#Champs2025: Tight competition anticipated in girls’ Class 4 high jump final
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#Champs2025: Tight competition anticipated in girls’ Class 4 high jump final
March 27, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Immaculate Conception’s Sanique Watt and Edwin Allen High’s Kemoya Campbell, silver and bronze medallists respectively in last yea...
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#Champs2025: Calabar’s Shamar Shaw wins boys’ Class 3 high jump
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#Champs2025: Calabar’s Shamar Shaw wins boys’ Class 3 high jump
March 27, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Calabar High’s Shamar Shaw won the gold medal in an exciting boys’ Class Three high jump on Thursday’s third day of the ISSA/Grace...
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World Indoors: Raymond Richards takes high jump bronze
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World Indoors: Raymond Richards takes high jump bronze
March 21, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Raymond Richards won Jamaica’s first medal at the World Athletics Indoor Championships when he took the bronze in the men’s high j...
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Lushane Wilson wins men’s high jump at Gibson
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Lushane Wilson wins men’s high jump at Gibson
February 22, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Lushane Wilson equalled his season's best 2.20m to win the men’s high jump at Saturday’s 48th staging of the Gibson/McCook Relays...
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#ParisOlympics: Beckford places 10th in men’s high jump
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#ParisOlympics: Beckford places 10th in men’s high jump
August 10, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Romaine Beckford finished 10th in the men’s high jump on Saturday’s final day of the track and field competition at the Olympic Ga...
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#ParisOlympics: Historic high jump final qualification for Beckford
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#ParisOlympics: Historic high jump final qualification for Beckford
August 7, 2024
Romaine Beckford created history at the Stade de France in Paris on Wednesday morning when he became the first Jamaican man to qualify for the high ju...
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#ParisOlympics: High jumper Distin fails to advance to final
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#ParisOlympics: High jumper Distin fails to advance to final
August 2, 2024
Jamaica’s Lamara Distin failed to get past the first round of the women’s high jump on Friday’s first session of the Olympic Games in Paris, only mana...
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Romaine Beckford retains NCAA high jump titles
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Romaine Beckford retains NCAA high jump titles
June 8, 2024
EUGENE, Oregon — Romaine Beckford of the University of Arkansas successfully defended his National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I O...
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Caribbean employers urged to invest in workforce development
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