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African group tells Warmington to apologise and undergo self-repair
October 5 12:30 AM
THE Global Afrikan Congress (GAC) has pointedly told Government Member of Parliament Everald Warmington that he has a “misinformed understanding” of h...
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Diaspora leaders reject claim of no complaints over slow pace of hurricane aid
BY HAROLD G BAILEY Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 5 12:29 AM
NEW YORK, United States — Diaspora leaders here have rubbished a claim by permanent secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade She...
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Designing Resilience
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Designing Resilience
October 5 12:28 AM
“WHO knew that within a few weeks of Design Week Ja 2025, held under the theme ‘Creative Resilience’, Jamaica would be confronted with the devastating...
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Sandals Island Challenge hits £100,000 fund-raising target
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Sandals Island Challenge hits £100,000 fund-raising target
BY BRIAN PITTER Observer writer pitterb@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 5 12:26 AM
FALMOUTH, Trelawny — The Sandals Foundation Island Challenge Jamaica has reached its £100,000 fund-raising target, paving the way for the purchase of ...
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Bartlett moves to plug tourism import leak
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Bartlett moves to plug tourism import leak
…proposes Caribbean Tourism Agricultural Logistics Centre
Mark Dennis 
October 5 12:24 AM
CORAL SPRING, Trelawny — Warning that the region is losing billions of dollars in potential earnings by failing to adequately connect its farmers and ...
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Caribbean trade chief paints grim outlook for region’s food exports
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Caribbean trade chief paints grim outlook for region’s food exports
BY HORACE HINES Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 5 12:22 AM
CORAL SPRING, Trelawny — Caribbean Export Development Agency Chief Executive Officer Damine Sinanan has warned that Caribbean countries will have to p...
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From State care to the classroom
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From State care to the classroom
Christopher Dawes turns pain into purpose; rewrites his future through education
October 5 12:20 AM
FOR Christopher Dawes, navigating the challenges of growing up in State care could have easily defined his future. Instead, he allowed the circumstanc...
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JSIF marks 30 years; vows to deepen impact on community development
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JSIF marks 30 years; vows to deepen impact on community development
BY HORACE HINES Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 5 12:20 AM
CORAL SPRING, Trelawny — Three decades after it was established to help tackle poverty and social deprivation in vulnerable communities across the cou...
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Defence attorneys to withdraw services from courts islandwide Monday
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Defence attorneys to withdraw services from courts islandwide Monday
September 28, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Following unsuccessful discussions with the Ministry of Justice, defence attorneys have been directed to withdraw legal services f...
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Hollywood stars among 100 arrested in NY anti-Netanyahu protest
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Hollywood stars among 100 arrested in NY anti-Netanyahu protest
September 24, 2026
NEW YORK, United States (AFP)—Movie star Susan Sarandon and "Hacks" actress Hannah Einbinder were among a reported 100 people detained by police in Ne...
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Cabbies and residents protest in Westmoreland over poor roads, demerit system
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Cabbies and residents protest in Westmoreland over poor roads, demerit system
September 21, 2026
WESTMORELAND, Jamaica—Taxi operators along with residents mounted roadblocks Monday in sections of Westmoreland, including Shrewsbury, Bullet Tree and...
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Residents stage fiery protest after cops kill alleged gang leader
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Residents stage fiery protest after cops kill alleged gang leader
September 19, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — An alleged gang leader was shot and killed during an armed confrontation with police on North Street, Kingston, on Friday night, t...
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Seiveright ‘disturbed’ by reports surrounding St Andrew police shooting
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Seiveright ‘disturbed’ by reports surrounding St Andrew police shooting
September 16, 2026
ST ANDREW, Jamaica — Member of Parliament (MP) for St Andrew North Central Delano Seiveright says he is deeply concerned about reports surrounding the...
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Fiery roadblock on Red Hills Road as residents protest fatal police shooting
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Fiery roadblock on Red Hills Road as residents protest fatal police shooting
September 16, 2026
ST ANDREW, Jamaica — Sections of Red Hills Road in St Andrew have been blocked by residents protesting a fatal shooting by cops in the area,  Observer...
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Residents of Cooper’s Pen stage protest as follow-up demolition looms
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Residents of Cooper’s Pen stage protest as follow-up demolition looms
August 22, 2026
TRELAWNY, Jamaica — Several residents of the Cooper's Pen community in Trelawny are currently staging a protest regarding the planned further demoliti...
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Advocate says protesters want transparency and accountability from gov’t
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Advocate says protesters want transparency and accountability from gov’t
June 30, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Scores of Jamaicans dressed in yellow gathered in Cross Roads, Kingston on Tuesday, calling for greater government transparency an...
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WATCH: Jamaicans protest TCN agreement, demand Wheatley’s resignation
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WATCH: Jamaicans protest TCN agreement, demand Wheatley’s resignation
June 30, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Protesters gathered in Cross Roads on Tuesday to voice opposition to the Government's agreement with the United States (US) to tem...
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Dublin protest urges probe into ‘George Floyd’-style death
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Dublin protest urges probe into ‘George Floyd’-style death
May 30, 2026
DUBLIN, Ireland (AFP) — Protesters in Dublin demanded "justice" Saturday for a Congolese man who died after he was restrained by security guards, in a...
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Clarendon NW residents protest over bad roads
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Clarendon NW residents protest over bad roads
May 19, 2026
CLARENDON, Jamaica — Residents of Sunbury district near Spalding, Clarendon, have mounted a roadblock for a second consecutive day in protest over dep...
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JTA workers take industrial action in protest of pay issues — BITU
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JTA workers take industrial action in protest of pay issues — BITU
May 18, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Several workers employed to the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) and represented by the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU...
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Taxi association boss calls strike notice ‘premature’
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Taxi association boss calls strike notice ‘premature’
May 18, 2026
ST JAMES, Jamaica — President of the St James Taxi Association, Dion Chance, has knocked down news about a taxi strike proposed for Monday morning. "T...
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Woman dies after alleged police shooting at protest in Granville
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Woman dies after alleged police shooting at protest in Granville
May 17, 2026
ST JAMES, Jamaica — A woman who was shot earlier Sunday, allegedly by the police, has died. READ: Woman allegedly shot by police in Granville She has ...
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WATCH: Burnt Savannah residents say curfew preventing them from earning
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WATCH: Burnt Savannah residents say curfew preventing them from earning
May 17, 2026
BURNT SAVANNAH, Westmoreland — Residents and business operators in Burnt Savannah staged a protest on Friday, May 15, voicing frustration over a curfe...
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Granville residents protest alleged police killing of teenager
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Granville residents protest alleged police killing of teenager
May 11, 2026
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Several residents of Granville in St James have taken to the streets to protest the killing of a teenager, allegedly by the securi...
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National Lab workers call for director to step down amid ‘bullyism’
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National Lab workers call for director to step down amid ‘bullyism’
BY JASON CROSS Observer staff reporter crossj@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 6, 2026
  Workers at the National Public Health Laboratory in Kingston staged a lengthy protest on Tuesday, accusing the Director of National Laboratory Servi...
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Sav to White House road cleared after early morning protest
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Sav to White House road cleared after early morning protest
April 20, 2026
WESTMORELAND, Jamaica — A section of the Savanna-la-Mar to White House route in Westmoreland, which was blocked by  protestors  earlier today, is now ...
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UWI management meets with employees over salary issues
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UWI management meets with employees over salary issues
April 16, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — After demonstrations at the campus gates on Monday and again on Wednesday, the management of the University of the West Indies (UW...
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Irate residents block Trelawny roadway in protest over lack of piped water
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Irate residents block Trelawny roadway in protest over lack of piped water
April 13, 2026
TRELAWNY, Jamaica — Not even a persistent drizzle could cool tensions as scores of irate Salt Marsh residents mounted an early Monday morning roadbloc...
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Anti-Trump protests launch on ‘No Kings’ day in US
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Anti-Trump protests launch on ‘No Kings’ day in US
March 28, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS, United States (AFP) — Massive protests against President Donald Trump kicked off Saturday across the United States and beyond, as million...
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‘Say no to colonisers’: Jamaicans protest in support of Cuban Gov’t
March 17, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica – More than 150 people marched around National Heroes Circle in Kingston on Tuesday to express their solidarity with the Cuban gover...
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GET SLAVERY HISTORY RIGHT
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GET SLAVERY HISTORY RIGHT
African group tells Warmington to apologise and undergo self-repair
October 5, 2026
THE Global Afrikan Congress (GAC) has pointedly told Government Member of Parliament Everald Warmington that he has a “misinformed understanding” of h...
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Diaspora leaders reject claim of no complaints over slow pace of hurricane aid
BY HAROLD G BAILEY Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 5, 2026
NEW YORK, United States — Diaspora leaders here have rubbished a claim by permanent secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade She...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Designing Resilience
Lifestyle, ...
Designing Resilience
October 5, 2026
“WHO knew that within a few weeks of Design Week Ja 2025, held under the theme ‘Creative Resilience’, Jamaica would be confronted with the devastating...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Sandals Island Challenge hits £100,000 fund-raising target
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Sandals Island Challenge hits £100,000 fund-raising target
BY BRIAN PITTER Observer writer pitterb@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 5, 2026
FALMOUTH, Trelawny — The Sandals Foundation Island Challenge Jamaica has reached its £100,000 fund-raising target, paving the way for the purchase of ...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Bartlett moves to plug tourism import leak
News
Bartlett moves to plug tourism import leak
…proposes Caribbean Tourism Agricultural Logistics Centre
Mark Dennis 
October 5, 2026
CORAL SPRING, Trelawny — Warning that the region is losing billions of dollars in potential earnings by failing to adequately connect its farmers and ...
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