Joy Drive
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Joy Drive
Toys, letters and love light up Christmas for children in western Jamaica
BY SANDENA JAMES Social media editor jamess@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 25 12:30 AM
BY Christmas Day the gifts would already be opened, toys unwrapped, colourful letters read, and moments of joy shared in communities that rarely make ...
Faith-based recovery
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Faith-based recovery
Gov’t eyes Church role in providing psychological support to hurricane victims
BY RENAE OSBOURNE Observer staff reporter osbourner@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 25 12:28 AM
IN the wake of the devastation unleashed by Hurricane Melissa the State is banking on the Church’s deep spiritual and cultural legacy to help provide ...
Strictly 2K Throwback festival celebrates 9th anniversary
Entertainment
Strictly 2K Throwback festival celebrates 9th anniversary
...honours icons Charly Black, Coppershot Sound and Mad Michelle
December 25 12:26 AM
Strictly 2K Throwback Music Festival, in its ninth anniversary event, set for Saturday, December 27, at Mas Camp, will honour three pivotal figures in...
Four murders spark Christmas lockdown for Manchester communities
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Four murders spark Christmas lockdown for Manchester communities
BY KASEY WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter kaseyw@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 25 12:26 AM
MANDEVILLE, Manchester — The murder of four men and wounding of two others in three incidents within 48 hours have resulted in police here tightening ...
Christmas magic
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Christmas magic
St Mary businessman transforms home into winter wonderland
BY INGRID HENRY Observer writer 
December 25 12:24 AM
ANNOTTO BAY, St Mary — In a heart-warming display of kindness, St Mary businessman and philanthropist Errol “Exudous” Green has turned his home into a...
400 households receive vital WASH kits from ADRA Jamaica
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400 households receive vital WASH kits from ADRA Jamaica
December 25 12:20 AM
IN the wake of the devastation unleashed on Jamaica’s western end by Hurricane Melissa, the Adventist Development & Relief Agency (ADRA) Jamaica launc...
Wards of the State from western Jamaica feted by SVF
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Wards of the State from western Jamaica feted by SVF
Arthur Hall | Editor | HallA@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 25 12:18 AM
THE Christmas season took on a special m eaning for 59 wards of the State from western Jamaica this year as Supreme Ventures Foundation (SVF) hosted i...

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My wish list for MoBay 2026
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My wish list for MoBay 2026
Lloyd B Smith 
December 25, 2025
When I was invited by its Founding Editor Desmond Allen in 1993 to contribute a weekly column to the newly established Jamaica Observer, I chose the t...
Christmas in Jamaica is always about togetherness
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Christmas in Jamaica is always about togetherness
December 25, 2025
A blessed Christmas to you all. Christmas in Jamaica is a joyful season of delightful sounds, colours, smells and tastes. It has a special pace of liv...
Even in these moments, hope and renewal can still emerge
Columns, Letters
Even in these moments, hope and renewal can still emerge
December 25, 2025
Merriment is a part of the Christmas season. It is a happy time as we celebrate the birth of Christ. Now, ironically, Jesus was born in a time of grea...
Renewed strength, united in purpose
Columns, Letters
Renewed strength, united in purpose
December 25, 2025
The following are lightly edited Christmas messages from our nation’s leaders: I extend warm Christmas greetings to you and to your families, wherever...
Is Christmas Day just another day?
Columns
Is Christmas Day just another day?
December 24, 2025
Tomorrow, over two billion Christians throughout the world and others will celebrate Christmas, which, for them, commemorates the birth of Jesus Chris...
Child protection must come before decriminalisation
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Child protection must come before decriminalisation
by Ricardo Smith 
December 24, 2025
IT is important to understand the implications of contemplating the decriminalisation of sexual activities between minors. This proposal involves comp...
Concentrate on 2030
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Concentrate on 2030
BY JAH D 
December 24, 2025
The entire 211 membership of FIFA have competed intensely over the last two years as they try to become one of the final 48 nations hoping to wrest th...
Action matters post-Melissa
Columns
Action matters post-Melissa
Dujean Edwards 
December 22, 2025
Hurricane Melissa’s passage laid bare the weaknesses in Jamaica’s economic silos, food security systems, geopolitical infrastructure, and the speed wi...
Golding’s preoccupation with winning
Columns
Golding’s preoccupation with winning
...while people suffer
Garfield Higgins 
December 21, 2025
Here is my sincere wish for Jamaica in 2026 and beyond: That we place equal premium on and give equal prominence to the work and worth of citizens who...
Hurricane Melissa and disaster tourism
Columns
Hurricane Melissa and disaster tourism
Gaunette Sinclair-Maragh 
December 21, 2025
Hurricane is not a new event in the Caribbean. Unfortunately, the location of the ‘rocks’ in the Caribbean Sea on which we live makes our island homes...
To dye for
Columns
To dye for
The truth about artificial food colouring
Dr Chris Tufton 
December 21, 2025
THOSE colourful cakes, sweets, ice cream, sugary drinks, well-dressed hams and snacks we prepare and enjoy are Christmas favourites for many of us. Fo...
The strange things we fear and how we fight them
Columns
The strange things we fear and how we fight them
Jason McKay 
December 21, 2025
I once worked with a very brave young man. We went through many doors not knowing what to expect on the other side. One day we were engaged and he res...
Christmas Time
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Christmas Time
Tony Robinson 
December 21, 2025
At Christmas, I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow In May’s new fangled mirth . — Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost IT’S almost here, the day that...
Christmas versus ‘Chrismus’
Columns
Christmas versus ‘Chrismus’
December 19, 2025
Jamaica is primarily a Christian country so the observance of Christmas is traditionally expected to be a time for religious reflection, with the focu...
Can we still have a merry Christmas?
Columns
Can we still have a merry Christmas?
BY DR RYAN REDDIE 
December 18, 2025
In the aftermath of Category Five Melissa many are asking a deeply human and honest question: Can we truly have a merry Christmas after such devastati...
One sovereign nation under God
Columns
One sovereign nation under God
December 17, 2025
Ever since the Maroons were taken to Jamaica as slaves by the Spanish, they and their descendants have cemented themselves as an important part of the...
Blended finance in Jamaica
Columns
Blended finance in Jamaica
December 16, 2025
As Jamaica rebuilds from the destructive impact of Hurricane Melissa, which laid waste to the western section of the island on October 28, a quieter y...
A time for compassion
Columns
A time for compassion
Jean Lowrie-Chin 
December 15, 2025
Having committed certain crimes which Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Delroy Chuck describes as “an awful moment of madness, a bad discret...
Lies, garbage, and utilities
Columns
Lies, garbage, and utilities
Garfield Higgins 
December 14, 2025
“ One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer...

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Toys, letters and love light up Christmas for children in western Jamaica
BY SANDENA JAMES Social media editor jamess@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 25, 2025
BY Christmas Day the gifts would already be opened, toys unwrapped, colourful letters read, and moments of joy shared in communities that rarely make ...
Faith-based recovery
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Faith-based recovery
Gov’t eyes Church role in providing psychological support to hurricane victims
BY RENAE OSBOURNE Observer staff reporter osbourner@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 25, 2025
IN the wake of the devastation unleashed by Hurricane Melissa the State is banking on the Church’s deep spiritual and cultural legacy to help provide ...
Four murders spark Christmas lockdown for Manchester communities
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Four murders spark Christmas lockdown for Manchester communities
BY KASEY WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter kaseyw@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 25, 2025
MANDEVILLE, Manchester — The murder of four men and wounding of two others in three incidents within 48 hours have resulted in police here tightening ...
Strictly 2K Throwback festival celebrates 9th anniversary
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Strictly 2K Throwback festival celebrates 9th anniversary
...honours icons Charly Black, Coppershot Sound and Mad Michelle
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Strictly 2K Throwback Music Festival, in its ninth anniversary event, set for Saturday, December 27, at Mas Camp, will honour three pivotal figures in...
Christmas magic
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St Mary businessman transforms home into winter wonderland
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December 25, 2025
ANNOTTO BAY, St Mary — In a heart-warming display of kindness, St Mary businessman and philanthropist Errol “Exudous” Green has turned his home into a...

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