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HANOVER, Jamaica— Lorraine Scringer, the first female president of a parish football association has died. Scringer, who is described as a football lo...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica— Mona High and Excelsior High are through to the semi-finals of the ISSA Walker Cup following quarterfinal wins at Stadium East on W...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica— Young Jamaicans are demanding climate resilient jobs and support for a ‘green transition’ as they collaborate to fight the ‘poly-cr...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — The US dollar on Wednesday, November 20, ended trading at $159.22 down by 54 cents according to the Bank of Jamaica’s daily exchan...
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ST CATHERINE, Jamaica— The promoter of Wet Dreams, a recently held soca party, has promised that the next staging will be bigger and better, following...
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP)— Booming Indigenous Maori "haka" chants rang out across New Zealand's capital on Tuesday, as tens of thousands rallied a...
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THE future of sales and marketing is here, and artificial intelligence (AI) is taking centre stage. For businesses in the Caribbean, the adoption of t...
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Appeal Court cuts 15-year sentence of boy who sexually assaulted 8-year-old girl
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 19, 2024
A teen boy who was last year sentenced to 15 years in a juvenile correctional facility for sexually assaulting an eight-year-old has had his time behi...
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HANOVER, Jamaica— Lorraine Scringer, the first female president of a parish football association has died. Scringer, who is described as a football lo...
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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)— Elon Musk outlined plans Wednesday for his new role as "efficiency" czar – signalling an assault on federal spending ...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica— Mona High and Excelsior High are through to the semi-finals of the ISSA Walker Cup following quarterfinal wins at Stadium East on W...
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UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP)— A Kenyan-led police force trying to restore order in gang-ridden Haiti should be turned into a UN peacekeeping mi...
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HANOVER, Jamaica— Lorraine Scringer, the first female president of a parish football association has died. Scringer, who is described as a football lo...
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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)— Elon Musk outlined plans Wednesday for his new role as "efficiency" czar – signalling an assault on federal spending ...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica— Mona High and Excelsior High are through to the semi-finals of the ISSA Walker Cup following quarterfinal wins at Stadium East on W...