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Adoption bottleneck
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Adoption bottleneck
CaPRI exposes institutional weaknesses in Jamaica’s system
Alicia Dunkley-Willis | Senior Reporter 
February 8 12:20 AM
Adoption bottleneck
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Chasing sunshine and freedom
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Chasing sunshine and freedom
Jamaican returns home after 60 years in England
Tamoy Ashman | Reporter |ashmant@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 8 12:18 AM
Chasing sunshine and freedom
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Bryce-Davis delivers magical moments in music
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Bryce-Davis delivers magical moments in music
MIGUEL A THOMAS Managing editor thomasm@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 8 12:16 AM
Bryce-Davis delivers magical moments in music
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Light at last!
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Light at last!
St Elizabeth community celebrates return of power after 3 months in darkness
Tamoy Ashman | Reporter |ashmant@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 8 12:14 AM
Light at last!
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STONEWALLED
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STONEWALLED
Football lawyer Werners calls out JFF over registration delays
February 8 12:12 AM
Lawyer blasts JFF over player registration delays
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Romae Gordon for Chanel Couture S/S 2026 in Look 31
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Romae Gordon for Chanel Couture S/S 2026 in Look 31
February 8 12:10 AM
Romae Gordon for Chanel Couture
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‘We will remember The Boogieman’
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‘We will remember The Boogieman’
Veteran broadcaster Barrington ‘Barry G’ Gordon remembered for his voice, spirit, and impact
Tamoy Ashman | Reporter |ashmant@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 8 12:07 AM
‘We will remember The Boogieman’
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Jamaica’s offshore oil question
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Jamaica’s offshore oil question
What the evidence shows — and why it’s back on the agenda
BY DASHAN HENDRICKS Business content manager hendricksd@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 8 12:06 AM
Jamaica’s offshore oil question
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20-year sentence for US deputy who killed Black woman in her home
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20-year sentence for US deputy who killed Black woman in her home
January 29, 2026
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A former Illinois sheriff's deputy was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for the fatal shooting of a Black...
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Prosecutors seek lengthy prison sentence for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
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Prosecutors seek lengthy prison sentence for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
October 3, 2025
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Prosecutors urged a federal judge Friday to sentence Sean "Diddy" Combs to more than a decade behind bars for his conv...
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentencing hearing underway
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentencing hearing underway
October 3, 2025
NEW YORK, United States (AFP)—Music mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs was in court on Friday facing a potential sentence of more than a decade behind bars for ...
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Diddy pleads for judge’s mercy ahead of sentencing
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Diddy pleads for judge’s mercy ahead of sentencing
October 2, 2025
American rapper Sean Combs has reportedly written to the judge overseeing his trial, apologising for his actions and expressing that the “old” Diddy h...
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Husband feared Australia’s mushroom killer had poisoned him before
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Husband feared Australia’s mushroom killer had poisoned him before
August 8, 2025
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia's recently convicted mushroom murderer also tried to poison her husband with bolognese pasta and chicken korma cur...
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Man gets 92 years for drowning son in laundry detergent, attempting to kill wife
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Man gets 92 years for drowning son in laundry detergent, attempting to kill wife
July 6, 2025
LOUISANNA, United States — A Louisanna man who murdered his three-month-old son by sealing the child in a bucket of laundry detergent has been sentenc...
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Mario Deane Trial: Cop weeps after sentencing
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Mario Deane Trial: Cop weeps after sentencing
BY ANTHONY LEWIS Observer writer 
July 2, 2025
WESTMORELAND, Jamaica — Corporal Elaine Stewart, who will appeal the five-year sentence she was handed for her culpability in Mario Deane’s 2014 death...
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Cops in Mario Deane case escape prison time
July 1, 2025
WESTMORELAND, Jamaica—The three cops who were found guilty for the incident in which 31-year-old construction worker Mario Deane was fatally beaten wh...
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Sentencing hearing underway for three cops in Mario Deane case
July 1, 2025
WESTMORELAND, Jamaica — The sentencing hearing for the three cops found guilty for the incident in which 31-year-old construction worker Mario Deane w...
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Menendez brothers’ resentencing can go ahead—LA judge rules
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Menendez brothers’ resentencing can go ahead—LA judge rules
April 11, 2025
Los Angeles, United States (AFP)—Erik and Lyle Menendez can continue with their effort to get out of jail early, a Los Angeles judge ruled Friday, dec...
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60-y-o man sentenced to 12 months in prison for less than 2 pounds of ganja
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60-y-o man sentenced to 12 months in prison for less than 2 pounds of ganja
February 12, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A 60-year-old man who was found with one pound and 8.44 ounces of ganja at his Kingston home last June has been sentenced to 12 mo...
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Judge to sentence Trump before inauguration in hush money case
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Judge to sentence Trump before inauguration in hush money case
January 4, 2025
NEW YORK, United States (AFP)— The New York judge presiding over President-elect Donald Trump's hush money case on Friday set sentencing for 10 days b...
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Danielle Rowe killer to spend at least 27 years in prison
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Danielle Rowe killer to spend at least 27 years in prison
December 20, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Dental assistant Kayodi Satchell has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of eight-year-old Danielle Rowe. She will be ...
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Matthew Hyde gets almost 14 years in prison for torturing girlfriend
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Matthew Hyde gets almost 14 years in prison for torturing girlfriend
December 17, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Twenty-two-year-old Matthew Hyde, the former University of the West Indies (UWI) student who held his girlfriend captive in a dor...
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UWI torture victim to sue Matthew Hyde for ‘significant sum’
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UWI torture victim to sue Matthew Hyde for ‘significant sum’
Dana Malcolm | Observer Online Reporter | Malcolmd@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 22, 2024
A civil case is being brought against Matthew Hyde, even as defence attorneys petition to keep his prison time down to as low as three years in his cr...
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Security guard sentenced to 18 years in prison for Haile Clacken’s murder
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Security guard sentenced to 18 years in prison for Haile Clacken’s murder
October 30, 2024
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — Shawn Cole, the security guard found guilty of the 2017 murder of 38-year-old Haile Clacken, has been sentenced to 18 years in...
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Trump seeks to delay sentencing for NY conviction until after election
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Trump seeks to delay sentencing for NY conviction until after election
August 15, 2024
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump's lawyers have requested that a judge push back the US presidential nominee's sentencing for covering up ...
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Wife killer Omar Collymore gets life – to serve at least 46 ½ years in prison
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Wife killer Omar Collymore gets life – to serve at least 46 ½ years in prison
July 26, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Omar Collymore has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife Simone Campbell-Collymore and taxi operator Wins...
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Sentencing for convicted wife killer Beachy Stout postponed to September
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Sentencing for convicted wife killer Beachy Stout postponed to September
May 16, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Sentencing has been postponed for Portland businessman Everton “Beachy Stout” McDonald and co-convict Oscar Barnes, who in March w...
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‘Give him 63 years’
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‘Give him 63 years’
Prosecution says Shineka Gray’s killer is a ‘habitual criminal’
Anthony Lewis | Observer Writer 
April 6, 2024
MONTEGO BAY, St James — Arguing that Gregory Roberts is a habitual criminal, the prosecution on Friday asked the court to consider slapping him with l...
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Light at last!
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St Elizabeth community celebrates return of power after 3 months in darkness
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February 8, 2026
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