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Hurricane Melissa has brought great tragedy to our island but it has also taught us the value of community. Many have already sprung into action by do...
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Holness departs for official visit to New York
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Holness departs for official visit to New York
December 4 09:03 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness is scheduled to travel to New York in the United States from Thursday, December 4 to Saturday, Decem...
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Seventh-day Adventists reject claims of providing gov’t with people’s personal data
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Seventh-day Adventists reject claims of providing gov’t with people’s personal data
December 4 07:58 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Union Conference (JAMU) of Seventh-day Adventists (SDA), and its humanitarian arm, the Adventist Development and Relie...
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Woman pleads guilty to threatening the life of Trinidad’s PM
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Woman pleads guilty to threatening the life of Trinidad’s PM
December 4 07:47 AM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — A 30-year-old woman, who appeared in a TikTok video calling on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to kill Prime Minis...
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‘We don’t have the capacity’
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BY JEROME WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter williamsj@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 4 12:30 AM
‘We don’t have the capacity’
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Government tapping overseas markets to ensure adequate supply of fruits, vegetables, and eggs
BY LYNFORD SIMPSON Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 4 12:28 AM
Christmas cheer
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Student loan relief
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Student loan relief
SLB announces debt reset initiative for students affected by Hurricane Melissa
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 4 12:26 AM
Student loan relief
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Masicka, Tommy Lee throw lyrical jabs
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Masicka, Tommy Lee throw lyrical jabs
Insiders say ‘war of words’ good for dancehall
BY SHEREITA GRIZZLE Observer staff reporter grizzles@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 4 12:26 AM
Masicka, Tommy Lee throw lyrical jabs
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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The United Kingdom (UK)  government on Wednesday announced plans to ban the resale of tickets for concerts, sports matc...
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Storm Claudia leaves severe flooding across Britain and Ireland
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Storm Claudia leaves severe flooding across Britain and Ireland
November 15, 2025
Parts of Britain and Ireland are to brace for major incidents after Storm Claudia brought widespread flooding, prompting urgent rescue efforts and fur...
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UK’s King Charles honours nation’s war dead
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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain's King Charles III on Sunday led commemorations for the nation 's war dead, along with other senior members of ...
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The British Broadcasting Corporation has upheld complaints that its reporter broke protocol when, in a now viral video of a live broadcast, she change...
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Former Prince Andrew to lose his last military rank
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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) - The United Kingdom (UK) government said Sunday it would move to strip the former prince Andrew of his honorary title of...
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UK deploys additional £5 million in emergency humanitarian funding for Jamaica and the Caribbean
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UK deploys additional £5 million in emergency humanitarian funding for Jamaica and the Caribbean
Dana Malcolm | Observer Online Reporter | Malcolmd@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 31, 2025
The UK Government is mobilising an additional £5 million in emergency humanitarian funding – on top of £2.5 million announced earlier this week - to s...
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UK TV channel deploys AI host for current affairs doc
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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A British television channel became the latest from around the world to use an artificial intelligence (AI) presenter, ...
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London police to stop probing ‘non-crime hate incidents’
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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- London police said Monday they would stop investigating "non-crime hate incidents" after they were criticised for arre...
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Sean Paul and Dua Lipa’s No Lie sells 1.8 million units in the UK
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BY KEVIN JACKSON Observer Writer 
October 17, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica—Nine years after it was first released, No Lie by Sean Paul and Dua Lipa continues to make an impact in the United Kingdom. On Frida...
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Jamaica sets sights on 500,000 UK visitors by 2030
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica has set an ambitious new tourism target of attracting 500,000 visitors from the United Kingdom (UK) annually by 2030, sign...
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Two dead, three wounded in UK synagogue attack
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MANCHESTER, United Kingdom (AFP) — Two people were killed Thursday and three badly wounded outside a packed synagogue in Manchester in a car and stabb...
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Afghanistan’s Taliban release US citizen
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Afghanistan's Taliban government released an American citizen from detention on Sunday, a week after freeing an elderly Bri...
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UK PM’s office slams Musk’s ‘inflammatory language’ at far-right rally
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UK company provides technology to combat sargassum seaweed in St Vincent
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — A United Kingdom (UK) based ocean farming company is providing the technology to transform the Caribbean’s sargassum seaw...
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Grantie Asher recalls challenging time with ‘Wayside’
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August 31, 2025
While going through rough times last year, singer Grantie Asher called on divine intervention to see him through his challenges. As part of his recove...
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Prince Harry to visit UK on anniversary of queen’s death
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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP)-Prince Harry will return to the UK to attend a charity award ceremony on September 8, coinciding with the third anniversa...
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UK’s mass facial-recognition roll-out alarms rights groups
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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- Outside supermarkets or in festival crowds, millions are now having their features scanned by real-time facial-recogni...
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UK vows to speed up asylum claims as hotel protests spread
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UK vows to speed up asylum claims as hotel protests spread
August 24, 2025
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- The UK government vowed Sunday to overhaul its asylum system after weekend protests broke out across the country at ho...
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British Airways to add fourth weekly Kingston service
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British Airways to add fourth weekly Kingston service
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s airlift from the United Kingdom (UK) is set to expand next summer, with British Airways adding a fourth weekly flight be...
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US woman jailed for 30 years in UK for failed assassination plot
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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP)-An English court on Thursday handed an American woman a 30-year jail sentence after she was convicted of trying to murder...
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Hundreds march in London against UK recognising a Palestinian state
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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- Several hundred people marched on Sunday in London to demand Hamas release the Israeli hostages held by the Palestinia...
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UK police arrest hundreds for backing banned pro-Palestine group
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UK police arrest hundreds for backing banned pro-Palestine group
August 9, 2025
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) - Police in London arrested 466 people Saturday for supporting Palestine Action at the latest and largest protest backing...
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