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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 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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Turkey beat USA 3-2 in final World Cup Group D game
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Turkey beat USA 3-2 in final World Cup Group D game
June 25, 2026
LOS ANGELES, United States(AFP)—Co-hosts United States (US) lost 3-2 to Turkey at the SoFi Stadium on Thursday but still topped World Cup Group D. Sub...
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‘Jamaica didn’t call’: Jaydon Hibbert says Turkey rebuilt him after injury setback
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‘Jamaica didn’t call’: Jaydon Hibbert says Turkey rebuilt him after injury setback
June 5, 2026
Fresh off a 17.02-metre comeback jump at the Rome Diamond League, Jaydon Hibbert says Turkey helped rebuild him mentally and emotionally after a devas...
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Turkey says Kanye West ‘I am a god’ weekend performance offended ‘spiritual sensitivities’
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Turkey says Kanye West ‘I am a god’ weekend performance offended ‘spiritual sensitivities’
June 2, 2026
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Turkey on Tuesday expressed alarm over a weekend gig by Kanye West in Istanbul attended by nearly 120,000 fans, saying it inc...
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Grange says gov’t respects World Athletics ruling, urges compassion for athletes affected
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Grange says gov’t respects World Athletics ruling, urges compassion for athletes affected
April 17, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Sport Minister Olivia Grange says the Government takes careful note of a decision by World Athletics to decline a request by 11 at...
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Stona ‘devastated’ by allegiance ruling, appeal being prepared – Agent
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Stona ‘devastated’ by allegiance ruling, appeal being prepared – Agent
ANDRE LOWE Sports content manager lowea@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 16, 2026
Olympian Roje Stona has been left “devastated” after his application to switch allegiance from Jamaica to Turkiye was denied, according to his agent, ...
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‘We hold no grudges’, says JAAA after athletes’ allegiance switch blocked
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‘We hold no grudges’, says JAAA after athletes’ allegiance switch blocked
April 16, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — President of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Garth Gayle, says the association’s doors are wide open, aft...
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Sports lawyer questions World Athletics’ move to refuse Jamaican athletes transfer to Turkey
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Sports lawyer questions World Athletics’ move to refuse Jamaican athletes transfer to Turkey
April 16, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Noted sports lawyer Dr Emir Crowne has questioned the procedural fairness of World Athletics’ decision on Thursday to refuse the t...
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World Athletics rejects transfer of Jamaican quartet to Turkey
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World Athletics rejects transfer of Jamaican quartet to Turkey
Seven other international athletes blocked from switching allegiances
April 16, 2026
Four top Jamaican athletes, including 2024 Olympic men’s discus champion Roje Stona, have had their requests to switch allegiance to Turkey rejected b...
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Teenager kills nine, wounds 13 in Turkey school shooting
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Teenager kills nine, wounds 13 in Turkey school shooting
April 15, 2026
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP)—A 14-year-old armed with five guns opened fire at a Turkish school on Wednesday, killing nine people, wounding 13 and sparking ...
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Turkey talking to US, Iran in bid to end war
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Turkey talking to US, Iran in bid to end war
March 12, 2026
ANKARA, Turkey (AFP)—Turkey is talking to both Washington and Tehran in a bid to end the Middle East war, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Thursday a...
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Nigerian NGO slams Turkish decision to keep rescued baby gorilla
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Nigerian NGO slams Turkish decision to keep rescued baby gorilla
October 25, 2025
LAGOS, Nigeria (AFP) -- Turkey's decision to keep an African baby gorilla rescued from trafficking defies logic, a Nigerian conservation NGO that was ...
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Smuggled baby gorilla to return to Nigeria after Istanbul airport rescue
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Smuggled baby gorilla to return to Nigeria after Istanbul airport rescue
September 12, 2025
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Shinning down a lamp-post, the tiny gorilla almost seems to be laughing as he dodges past his keeper at an Istanbul zoo he's ...
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Turkish first Lady calls on Melania Trump to speak up for Gaza’s children
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Turkish first Lady calls on Melania Trump to speak up for Gaza’s children
August 23, 2025
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Turkey's First Lady wrote to her US counterpart, Melania Trump, on Saturday, asking her to show the same concern for Gaza's c...
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Turkey battles wildfires amid strong winds, heatwave
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Turkey battles wildfires amid strong winds, heatwave
July 28, 2025
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP)—Firefighters battled blazes across Turkey on Monday, as the country sweltered in a summer heatwave, officials said. Wildfires o...
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Escaped lion shot dead in Turkey after attacking worker
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Escaped lion shot dead in Turkey after attacking worker
July 6, 2025
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — A lion which escaped from a theme park near the Turkish resort of Antalya was shot dead on Sunday after attacking a man, the ...
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Holness urges compassion over defecting Olympians, looks to improve athlete retention
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Holness urges compassion over defecting Olympians, looks to improve athlete retention
ANDRE LOWE Sports content manager lowea@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 24, 2025
With several athletes, lured by cash, choosing to represent other countries, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has called for calm and says that further c...
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‘We can’t complain’
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‘We can’t complain’
Dacres supports decision by colleagues to switch allegiance, says he too was made offer
June 20, 2025
The man who put Jamaica on the map in the throwing events, Fedrick Dacres says he supports the decision made by fellow throwers Roja Stona and Rajindr...
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Powerful 6.2-magnitude quake hits off Istanbul coast
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Powerful 6.2-magnitude quake hits off Istanbul coast
April 23, 2025
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP)— A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the Sea of Marmara near Istanbul on Wednesday, with its impact and that of multiple aftershocks...
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Some 200 detained after Istanbul women’s day march — organisers
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Some 200 detained after Istanbul women’s day march — organisers
March 8, 2025
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Police detained some 200 demonstrators in Istanbul late on Saturday after more than 3,000 women marched peacefully through th...
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Bootleg alcohol kills 124 in Turkey this year, says state news agency
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Bootleg alcohol kills 124 in Turkey this year, says state news agency
February 17, 2025
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) -- At least 124 people have died in Ankara and Istanbul in the past six weeks after drinking bootleg alcohol, and dozens more a...
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‘She jumped out and died’: witnesses recall hell of Turkey hotel fire
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‘She jumped out and died’: witnesses recall hell of Turkey hotel fire
January 22, 2025
Kartalkaya, Turkey (AFP) - As soon as he escaped the burning ski resort hotel, Necmi Kepcetutan knew he had to help those still trapped inside who wer...
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Anger, pain in Turkey as ‘newborn deaths gang’ trial opens
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Anger, pain in Turkey as ‘newborn deaths gang’ trial opens
November 18, 2024
Istanbul, Turkey (AFP) Dozens of suspects went on trial in Istanbul Monday over the deaths of at least 10 newborn babies as part of a vast social secu...
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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...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
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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 ...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}

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