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Scotia Investments says it leads Jamaica’s collective investment schemes market
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Scotia Investments says it leads Jamaica’s collective investment schemes market
March 11 09:56 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Scotia Jamaica Investments Limited (SIJL) said it has taken the leading market share position among service providers in Jamaica’...
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Sagicor pulls out the stops for IWD
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Sagicor pulls out the stops for IWD
March 11 09:03 PM
ST JAMES, Jamaica — As the world marks the UN International Year of the Woman Farmer, the spotlight is firmly on the women whose hands nurture the soi...
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Lawyers’ ‘conflicting commitments’ pause Klansman trial
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Lawyers’ ‘conflicting commitments’ pause Klansman trial
Alicia Dunkley-Willism senior reporter, dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 11 08:11 PM
“Conflicting commitments” on the part of two defence attorneys representing one of the accused in the ongoing Klansman Gang trial on Wednesday forced ...
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NCB to host tax seminar for businesses navigating statutory payments
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NCB to host tax seminar for businesses navigating statutory payments
March 11 07:53 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited (NCB) will host an online seminar this week aimed at helping businesses manage statutory ...
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Champs ticket sales to go toward helping Western schools recover from Hurricane Melissa
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Champs ticket sales to go toward helping Western schools recover from Hurricane Melissa
March 11 07:22 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) president Keith Wellington says proceeds from ticket sales at the ISSA Grace...
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Parkmere Group Investment supports ongoing hurricane relief in St James
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Parkmere Group Investment supports ongoing hurricane relief in St James
March 11 07:16 PM
ST JAMES, Jamaica — When Hurricane Melissa struck the island last October, Tastia Stephens, Account Manager for Parkmere Group Investment was in Monte...
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Texas woman exonerated in baby’s death freed after 22 years
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Texas woman exonerated in baby’s death freed after 22 years
March 11 06:54 PM
TEXAS, United States (AFP) — A woman who spent 22 years in a United States (US) prison over the death of a 10-month-old boy in her care was set free W...
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CARPHA strengthens public health support for Jamaica’s hurricane recovery
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CARPHA strengthens public health support for Jamaica’s hurricane recovery
Carlysia Ramdeen, Observer Online reporter, ramdeenc@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 11 06:32 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Executive Director of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), Dr Lisa Indar, says the regional health body is continuing to s...
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Cuba will defend itself against any ‘terrorist aggression’ — president
February 26, 2026
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Cuba will defend itself against any "terrorist aggression", President Miguel Diaz-Canel declared Thursday, a day after a deadly s...
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Peru’s new president under fire for child sex comments
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Peru’s new president under fire for child sex comments
February 19, 2026
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Rights groups expressed concern Thursday at the choice of 83-year-old Jose Maria Balcazar as Peru's stand-in president given past u...
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Bishop Garth Minott elected new president of Jamaica Council of Churches
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Bishop Garth Minott elected new president of Jamaica Council of Churches
January 25, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Suffragan Bishop of Kingston, Garth Minott, has been elected President of the Jamaica Council of Churches (JCC) for a two-year ter...
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Argentina’s president welcomes Trump pressure ‘to free the Venezuelan people’
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FOZ DO IGUAÇU, Brazil (AFP)—Argentina’s President Javier Milei on Saturday praised counterpart Donald Trump's pressure campaign on Venezuela, which fe...
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Barbados installs second president during Independence Day parade
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Barbados installs second president during Independence Day parade
November 30, 2025
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – The second president of Barbados, Jeffrey Bostic, was sworn in early Sunday during the 59th anniversary of Independence a...
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Tavares-Finson reappointed as Senate president
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Tavares-Finson reappointed as Senate president
September 18, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — King’s Counsel Tom Tavares-Finson was re-appointed as president of the Senate during the ceremonial opening of Parliament on Thurs...
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Bayrou resigns as French PM, Macron seeks successor
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September 9, 2025
PARIS, France (AFP) — French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou submitted his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday after France's parliamen...
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Nigeria’s former president Buhari dead at 82
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Nigeria’s former president Buhari dead at 82
July 13, 2025
ABUJA, Nigeria (AFP) — Former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari— who led his country first as a junta strongman and later as an elected democrat —  ...
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US sanctioned Guyanese businessman seeking to become president of Guyana
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May 27, 2025
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – United States (US) sanctioned, Guyanese billionaire businessman, Azruddin Mohammed, says he will contest Guyana’s president...
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Clarke-Griffiths to serve another term as JCSA President
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April 25, 2025
KINSTON Jamaica – The Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) says Techa Clarke-Griffiths has returned uncontested to her position as president follo...
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Trump asks court to delay hush money sentencing
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January 6, 2025
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States (US) President-elect Donald Trump on Monday urged a judge to delay the sentencing set for Friday in hi...
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Suriname police raid home of former president
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December 23, 2024
PARAMARIBO, Suriname (CMC) - Suriname police have remained mum on media reports that they searched the home of former president Desi Bouterse, who ear...
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Barbadian to head Caribbean Development Bank
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Barbadian to head Caribbean Development Bank
December 4, 2024
ST MICHAEL, Barbados - The Board of Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has announced the election of Barbadian Daniel Best as the seven...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Scotia Jamaica Investments Limited (SIJL) said it has taken the leading market share position among service providers in Jamaica’...
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Sagicor pulls out the stops for IWD
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Sagicor pulls out the stops for IWD
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ST JAMES, Jamaica — As the world marks the UN International Year of the Woman Farmer, the spotlight is firmly on the women whose hands nurture the soi...
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Lawyers’ ‘conflicting commitments’ pause Klansman trial
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Lawyers’ ‘conflicting commitments’ pause Klansman trial
Alicia Dunkley-Willism senior reporter, dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 11, 2026
“Conflicting commitments” on the part of two defence attorneys representing one of the accused in the ongoing Klansman Gang trial on Wednesday forced ...
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NCB to host tax seminar for businesses navigating statutory payments
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NCB to host tax seminar for businesses navigating statutory payments
March 11, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited (NCB) will host an online seminar this week aimed at helping businesses manage statutory ...
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Champs ticket sales to go toward helping Western schools recover from Hurricane Melissa
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Champs ticket sales to go toward helping Western schools recover from Hurricane Melissa
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ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) president Keith Wellington says proceeds from ticket sales at the ISSA Grace...
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