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Serious threat!
Parents urged to monitor children’s social media use after bomb hoax shuts down school, State agency
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 9 12:20 AM
Serious threat!
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Heavy load
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Heavy load
NSWMA removes tons of bulky, residential waste from streets of downtown Kingston
BY JASON CROSS Observer staff reporter crossj@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 9 12:18 AM
Heavy load
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Aidonia gears up for 20-year celebration
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Aidonia gears up for 20-year celebration
May 9 12:16 AM
Aidonia gears up for 20-year celebration
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Faster fixes, same old glitches
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Faster fixes, same old glitches
More ABMs installed but downtime increases
BY KARENA BENNETT Senior business reporter bennettk@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 9 12:14 AM
Faster fixes, same old glitches
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READY FOR LAUNCH!
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READY FOR LAUNCH!
Jamaica’s relay teams tipped to shine in China
BY PAUL A REID Observer writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 9 12:12 AM
Jamaica’s relay teams tipped to shine in China
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Mouttet Mile: A racing spectacle
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Mouttet Mile: A racing spectacle
...local racing premier event set to deliver unforgettable action with US$300,000 purse at stake
BY RUDDY ALLEN Staff reporter ruddya@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 9 12:10 AM
Mouttet Mile: A racing spectacle
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More than a car show
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More than a car show
Organisers promise biggest Jamaica Auto Show ever this weekend
BY RORY DALEY Observer writer 
May 9 12:10 AM
More than a car show
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NCB Foundation partners with ‘Di Cawna Library’ to promote financial literacy
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NCB Foundation partners with ‘Di Cawna Library’ to promote financial literacy
May 9 12:10 AM
NCB Foundation partners with ‘Di Cawna Library’ to promote financial literacy
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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, Web content associate, 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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Parents urged to monitor children’s social media use after bomb hoax shuts down school, State agency
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May 9, 2025
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NSWMA removes tons of bulky, residential waste from streets of downtown Kingston
BY JASON CROSS Observer staff reporter crossj@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 9, 2025
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Aidonia gears up for 20-year celebration
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Aidonia gears up for 20-year celebration
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Faster fixes, same old glitches
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Faster fixes, same old glitches
More ABMs installed but downtime increases
BY KARENA BENNETT Senior business reporter bennettk@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 9, 2025
Faster fixes, same old glitches
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READY FOR LAUNCH!
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Jamaica’s relay teams tipped to shine in China
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