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Traffic changes announced for Santa Cruz during festive season
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Traffic changes announced for Santa Cruz during festive season
December 4 10:55 AM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — Effective Monday, December 8, 2025, traditional Christmas traffic changes will be in effect for the town of Santa Cruz, St Eli...
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Traffic changes to be implemented in Christiana, Manchester for the holiday season
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Traffic changes to be implemented in Christiana, Manchester for the holiday season
December 4 10:46 AM
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — The National Works Agency (NWA) will introduce a series of traffic changes in Christiana, Manchester, beginning Monday, December...
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Unsure of how to help? 10 ways to give back Christmas
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Unsure of how to help? 10 ways to give back Christmas
December 4 10:20 AM
Hurricane Melissa has brought great tragedy to our island but it has also taught us the value of community. Many have already sprung into action by do...
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Holness departs for official visit to New York
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Holness departs for official visit to New York
December 4 09:03 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness is scheduled to travel to New York in the United States from Thursday, December 4 to Saturday, Decem...
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Seventh-day Adventists reject claims of providing gov’t with people’s personal data
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Seventh-day Adventists reject claims of providing gov’t with people’s personal data
December 4 07:58 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Union Conference (JAMU) of Seventh-day Adventists (SDA), and its humanitarian arm, the Adventist Development and Relie...
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Woman pleads guilty to threatening the life of Trinidad’s PM
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Woman pleads guilty to threatening the life of Trinidad’s PM
December 4 07:47 AM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — A 30-year-old woman, who appeared in a TikTok video calling on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to kill Prime Minis...
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‘We don’t have the capacity’
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‘We don’t have the capacity’
OUR admits it lacks manpower to verify utility companies’ recovery claims
BY JEROME WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter williamsj@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 4 12:30 AM
‘We don’t have the capacity’
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Christmas cheer
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Christmas cheer
Government tapping overseas markets to ensure adequate supply of fruits, vegetables, and eggs
BY LYNFORD SIMPSON Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 4 12:28 AM
Christmas cheer
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Multi-agency partnership launched to strengthen Jamaica’s hurricane recovery
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Multi-agency partnership launched to strengthen Jamaica’s hurricane recovery
December 3, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A major coalition of international and local organisations has been formed to accelerate Jamaica’s long-term recovery following th...
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JDF engineers to assist with rebuilding in Accompong
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JDF engineers to assist with rebuilding in Accompong
December 2, 2025
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — Engineers from the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) will be assisting with repairs to damaged buildings in Accompong and surroundin...
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JDF Coast Guard seizes cocaine valued at $3.7 billion off south coast
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JDF Coast Guard seizes cocaine valued at $3.7 billion off south coast
November 20, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Coast Guard has made a significant dent in the region’s drug-trafficking network after seizing mor...
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WATCH: JDF helicopters deliver relief supplies to Belmont Academy
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WATCH: JDF helicopters deliver relief supplies to Belmont Academy
November 2, 2025
WESTMORELAND, Jamaica - Two Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) helicopters landed at Belmont Academy in Westmoreland shortly before midday on Sunday, deliver...
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#EyeOnMelissa: All JDF personnel in Haiti accounted for
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#EyeOnMelissa: All JDF personnel in Haiti accounted for
October 25, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) is reporting that all personnel who are deployed in Haiti are accounted for and in high spirits. T...
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Soldier hospitalised after being pinned under JDF unit in Mandeville crash
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Soldier hospitalised after being pinned under JDF unit in Mandeville crash
October 23, 2025
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — A member of the Jamaica Defence Force has been hospitalised after the unit he was driving crashed and overturned, reportedly pin...
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Several injured after passenger bus overturns in Junction, St Mary
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Several injured after passenger bus overturns in Junction, St Mary
June 1, 2025
ST MARY, Jamaica – Several people were injured when a passenger bus overturned along the Junction main road in St Mary on Saturday. It is reported tha...
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Police express gratitude to citizens as crimes continue to trend down in St James
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Police express gratitude to citizens as crimes continue to trend down in St James
May 8, 2025
ST JAMES, Jamaica — The police in St James are lauding the cooperation of citizens which they say has been instrumental in the downward trend in crime...
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Wildcat warning
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Wildcat warning
Veterinary expert warns health risk with smuggled ocelot
Kasey Williams | Reporter 
May 8, 2025
BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth — The country’s leading veterinary expert is warning people here to be cautious if they spot an ocelot, a wildcat resembling...
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Soldier charged after girlfriend beaten, assaulted with gun
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Soldier charged after girlfriend beaten, assaulted with gun
February 27, 2025
A Jamaica Defence Force soldier was charged Wednesday after his girlfriend was beaten and assaulted with a firearm at her workplace. Lascelles Archiba...
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JDF soldier ‘accidentally’ shoots girlfriend during argument
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JDF soldier ‘accidentally’ shoots girlfriend during argument
February 18, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica – A 40-year-old Jamaica Defence Force soldier is being probed after the reported accidental shooting of his girlfriend at Crescent R...
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JDF private among three dead after Molynes Road gun attack
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JDF private among three dead after Molynes Road gun attack
January 27, 2025
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldier who died in an early morning gun attack along Molynes Road in St Andrew on Monday has been identified. The dec...
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Country’s mass casualty response tested during simulation exercise
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Country’s mass casualty response tested during simulation exercise
January 24, 2025
MORANT BAY, Jamaica - Jamaica’s mass casualty response was tested on Thursday with a full-scale simulation of a large plane crash and the subsequent s...
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Construction worker held with illegal firearm on New Year’s Day
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Construction worker held with illegal firearm on New Year’s Day
January 1, 2025
ST MARY, Jamaica- An early morning police raid in Frontier, Port Maria has led to the arrest of a 25- year- old construction worker for the possession...
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JDF soldier in NCB $47-m phishing scam charged
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JDF soldier in NCB $47-m phishing scam charged
December 2, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica— A Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldier who was implicated in a phishing scam that reportedly defrauded the National Commercial Bank ...
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Missing fishermen found, one dead
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Missing fishermen found, one dead
November 28, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica— The fishermen who went missing last month have been found, one of the men having died during their 35 days at sea, the Jamaica Defe...
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Two JDF soldiers injured in Denham Town gun attack
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Two JDF soldiers injured in Denham Town gun attack
November 6, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Two Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldiers were injured during a shooting incident in Denham Town, Kingston on Wednesday morning. Ob...
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JDF touts security measures after soldier busted with firearms, ammo
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JDF touts security measures after soldier busted with firearms, ammo
November 6, 2024
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) says the recent detection of firearms, ammunition, and paraphernalia during a routine vehicle check at Up Park Camp re...
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JDF soldier charged after guns, ammo found during vehicle search at Up Park Camp
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JDF soldier charged after guns, ammo found during vehicle search at Up Park Camp
November 4, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has been charged after a vehicle being driven by the soldier was searched at the JDF C...
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Ex-cop suspected in murder of JDF soldier arrested
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Ex-cop suspected in murder of JDF soldier arrested
September 28, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica – A suspect in the murder of a Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldier in Denham Town, Kingston last month has been arrested. Observer O...
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Jamaican contingent arrives in Haiti
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Jamaican contingent arrives in Haiti
September 13, 2024
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — The Jamaican security contingent arrived in Haiti on Thursday as part of a multi-national mission to help restore law an...
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Soldier gunned down in fiery exchange in downtown Kingston
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Soldier gunned down in fiery exchange in downtown Kingston
August 23, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A soldier has died as a result of injuries sustained during a shooting incident along Charles Street and Chestnut Lane in Kingston...
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Traffic changes announced for Santa Cruz during festive season
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Traffic changes announced for Santa Cruz during festive season
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ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — Effective Monday, December 8, 2025, traditional Christmas traffic changes will be in effect for the town of Santa Cruz, St Eli...
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Traffic changes to be implemented in Christiana, Manchester for the holiday season
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Traffic changes to be implemented in Christiana, Manchester for the holiday season
December 4, 2025
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — The National Works Agency (NWA) will introduce a series of traffic changes in Christiana, Manchester, beginning Monday, December...
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Unsure of how to help? 10 ways to give back Christmas
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Unsure of how to help? 10 ways to give back Christmas
December 4, 2025
Hurricane Melissa has brought great tragedy to our island but it has also taught us the value of community. Many have already sprung into action by do...
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Holness departs for official visit to New York
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Holness departs for official visit to New York
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness is scheduled to travel to New York in the United States from Thursday, December 4 to Saturday, Decem...
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Seventh-day Adventists reject claims of providing gov’t with people’s personal data
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Seventh-day Adventists reject claims of providing gov’t with people’s personal data
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