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A voice in sport lost
Tributes pour in for award-winning journalist Donald Oliver
December 31 12:20 AM
A voice in sport lost
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•CASE students relieved after alleged serial rapist fatally shot by cops •Still want improved security on campus
Everard Owen Observer Writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31 12:18 AM
‘Closure comfort’
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I Love Soca delivers premium vibes at Heroes’ Circle
Shereita Grizzle | Observer Staff Reporter 
December 31 12:16 AM
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STAGE ECONOMICS
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Live comedy’s gains amid theatre’s decline
Codie-ann Barrett | Business Reporter 
December 31 12:14 AM
Standing ovations for stand-ups 2025
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RIDING THE WAVE
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RIDING THE WAVE
ASAJ president pushing ahead with plans in second term
Daniel Blake | Sports Writer | blaked@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31 12:12 AM
More work to do
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BOJ pushing to improve Jam-Dex access
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BOJ pushing to improve Jam-Dex access
BY DAVID ROSE Observer business writer davidr@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31 12:10 AM
BOJ pushing
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‘Arrive alive’
Increase in road fatalities pushes authorities to intensify strategies to change driver behaviour
BY RENAE OSBOURNE Observer staff reporter osbourner@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31 12:10 AM
‘Arrive alive’
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‘It’s about people, not buildings’
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‘It’s about people, not buildings’
Church leaders weigh in on debate over State’s offer of rebuilding funds
Jerome Williams | Reporter 
December 31 12:09 AM
‘It’s about people, not buildings’
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US braces for ‘hardest’ week in virus battle as British PM hospitalised
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US braces for ‘hardest’ week in virus battle as British PM hospitalised
April 6, 2020
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP)— The coronavirus threatened Americans with their hardest week in living memory on Monday and put Britain's prime minister...
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Toaster-size ventilator from India helps hospitals in virus fight
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Toaster-size ventilator from India helps hospitals in virus fight
April 6, 2020
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Originally created by a robot scientist and a neurosurgeon to help India's poor, a toaster-size ventilator is offering hope i...
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Foundation donates $32m in equipment, supplies to COVID-19 fight
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Foundation donates $32m in equipment, supplies to COVID-19 fight
April 6, 2020
ADDING to a well-documented history of assistance to the island's health and education sectors, the Issa Trust Foundation, under the leadership of Cha...
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US coronavirus deaths top 10,000 — Johns Hopkins tracker
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US coronavirus deaths top 10,000 — Johns Hopkins tracker
April 6, 2020
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)— More than 10,000 people have died of coronavirus complications in the United States since the outbreak began in late ...
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Hidden suffering of coronavirus: Stigma, blaming, shaming
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Hidden suffering of coronavirus: Stigma, blaming, shaming
April 6, 2020
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — No one should have known Bella Lamilla's name. But within hours of her diagnosis as Ecuador's coronavirus “patient zero”, it w...
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Two major Gov’t projects in MoBay halted
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Two major Gov’t projects in MoBay halted
Anthony Lewis | Observer Writer 
April 6, 2020
MONTEGO BAY, St James — The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to a halt two major government projects in St James, which will result in their projected co...
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Women health care workers ‘mentally prepared for war’
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Women health care workers ‘mentally prepared for war’
Candiece Knight 
April 6, 2020
JENNIFER, a registered nurse at a public hospital in Kingston, has not gone home to her elderly mother and teenage daughter in three weeks. She now bo...
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Young pastor urges Jamaicans to find their purpose
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Young pastor urges Jamaicans to find their purpose
BY JASON TULLOCH Observer writer tullochj@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 6, 2020
AT 27 years old, Michelle Blake believes she has found her calling and is urging Jamaicans now at home due to efforts to minimise the spread of COVID-...
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Pope livestreams Palm Sunday mass due to virus ‘tragedy’
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Pope livestreams Palm Sunday mass due to virus ‘tragedy’
April 6, 2020
VATICAN CITY, Holy See (AFP) — Pope Francis yesterday called for courage in the face of the coronavirus pandemic as he delivered Palm Sunday mass by l...
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Rainforest redirects $18.5-million from charity festival to COVID fight
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Rainforest redirects $18.5-million from charity festival to COVID fight
April 6, 2020
Rainforest Seafoods has redirected the $18.5-million raised from the past two stagings of its hugely popular seafood and music festival to help the co...
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Bank encourages personal budgeting during COVID-19 crisis
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Bank encourages personal budgeting during COVID-19 crisis
April 6, 2020
WITH the unpredictability in the economy as the effects of the novel coronavirus are being realised worldwide, Sagicor Bank is reminding people to pra...
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COVID-19: Here’s what you need to know today
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COVID-19: Here’s what you need to know today
April 6, 2020
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The number of confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) infections worldwide surpassed 1.2 million people while more than 70,000 people acr...
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Reggae Sumfest team kicks off anti-COVID initiative
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Reggae Sumfest team kicks off anti-COVID initiative
April 6, 2020
KINGSTON, Jamaica— Down Sound Entertainment (DSE), producer of Reggae Sumfest, has announced the execution of its care package initiative to assist th...
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Distraught at sea
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Distraught at sea
BY KIMONE FRANCIS Senior staff reporter francisk@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 6, 2020
COVID-19 ban leaves Jamaican crew members stranded aboard ship SEVERAL Jamaican crew members on-board the Marella Discovery 2 were reportedly moved to...
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Italy’s virus deaths plunge to lowest since March 19
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Italy’s virus deaths plunge to lowest since March 19
April 6, 2020
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italian officials said yesterday they may soon have to consider easing restrictions after seeing the daily coronavirus death toll ...
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US provides $95 million to Jamaica’s COVID-19 response
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US provides $95 million to Jamaica’s COVID-19 response
April 6, 2020
The United States Government has committed $95 million (US$700,000) to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak in Jamaica. “These funds will go d...
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Konnexx donates hand sanitisers to police force
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Konnexx donates hand sanitisers to police force
April 6, 2020
Konnexx Services Ltd last Friday continued its COVID-19 'Kick it out' containment challenge with the donation of 500 eight-ounce bottles of hand sanit...
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Government’s response to COVID-19 has parts missing
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Government’s response to COVID-19 has parts missing
April 6, 2020
Dear Editor, The Andrew Holness-led Government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic was timely when it came to closing our borders, preparing quarantin...
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Ex-head of Libya’s anti-Gadhafi revolt dies of coronavirus
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Ex-head of Libya’s anti-Gadhafi revolt dies of coronavirus
April 6, 2020
TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) — Mahmud Jibril, the former head of the Libyan rebel Government that overthrew dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, died Sunday of t...
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Where will the bodies go?
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Where will the bodies go?
April 6, 2020
US morgues plan as virus grows PHILADELPHIA, United States (AP) — There are the new dead. And then there are the bodies waiting in overcrowded mortuar...
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Howell wants SOJ to be up and ready when COVID-19 ceases
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Howell wants SOJ to be up and ready when COVID-19 ceases
April 6, 2020
IT'S a case of down but not out for Special Olympics Jamaica (SOJ) as the sporting body, along with others in the island and around the globe, continu...
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‘WAIT AND SEE’
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‘WAIT AND SEE’
BY PAUL A REID Observer writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 6, 2020
Uncertainty looms over remainder of this season's ISSA sporting calendar — Wellington Uncertainty remains as to whether the remainder of the high scho...
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A voice in sport lost
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•CASE students relieved after alleged serial rapist fatally shot by cops •Still want improved security on campus
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Live comedy’s gains amid theatre’s decline
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ASAJ president pushing ahead with plans in second term
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