Tourism minister launches THARP for workers affected by Hurricane Melissa
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Tourism minister launches THARP for workers affected by Hurricane Melissa
BY CARLYSIA RAMDEEN Observer Online reporter ramdeenc@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 17 06:50 PM
Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett on Tuesday officially launched the Tourism Housing Assistance Recovery Programme (THARP), an initiative aimed at p...
First female sprinter joins ‘Enhanced Games’
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First female sprinter joins ‘Enhanced Games’
December 17 06:42 PM
LAS VEGAS, United States — A 60-metre sprinter from the United States has become the first female track athlete to join the controversial Enhanced Gam...
Muschett High win double against Holland in ISSA basketball
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Muschett High win double against Holland in ISSA basketball
December 17 06:33 PM
TRELAWNY, Jamaica — Muschett High scored a double win, beating Holland High in two Under-16 games in ISSA Rural Area Zone B boys' basketball competiti...
Hunt for US college mass shooter drags into fifth day
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Hunt for US college mass shooter drags into fifth day
December 17 06:22 PM
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A manhunt for the mass shooter who opened fire in an exam room at one of America's top universities stretched into a f...
23-y-o trader charged with murder
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23-y-o trader charged with murder
December 17 04:05 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica – A 23-year-old man has been charged with murder after the stabbing death of a 35-year-old man in Penn Avenue, Kingston 11 on Decemb...
Man found not guilty of firearm charges in Supreme Court
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Man found not guilty of firearm charges in Supreme Court
December 17 03:51 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A man accused of trying to dispose of a gun while trying to evade the security forces has been freed after the presiding judge fou...

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Let’s celebrate our rich tradition in sport
July 30, 2010
JAMAICA, despite its obvious deficiencies, has earned total respect and well-deserved admiration from the sporting world ever since its entrance on th...
Editorial
Is anybody listening to Col Rocky Meade?
July 29, 2010
According to Colonel Rocky Meade, head of communications at the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), the country needs a State of Emergency in order to deal w...
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China is definitely where it’s at
July 28, 2010
For the foreseeable future, we will all be operating in a tri-polar globe dominated by the United States, the European Union and China. China is forec...
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We don’t need another closet, Professor Miller
July 27, 2010
THE Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ), according to our Monday edition, is planning to recommend that the upcoming law on party and campaign finan...
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The wisdom of the Jamaican people
July 26, 2010
Our political parties have always trumpeted their absolute belief and trust in the wisdom of the Jamaican people. But when that belief was tested, it ...
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Still finding it hard to govern ourselves
July 25, 2010
In eleven days time, we will mark the 48th anniversary of Jamaica's political Independence. Any cursory analysis of how we have managed since 1962 wil...
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Where there’s a will…
July 24, 2010
At Friday's close of the 18th biennial meeting of the International Aids Conference in Vienna Austria, its chair, Dr Julio Montaner, pointed out that ...
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Did the ruling JLP outsmart the PNP?
July 24, 2010
There is a view among some Jamaicans that the debacle in parliament, which ended the State of Emergency last week, was the result of clever politickin...
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Sports a saving grace again
July 23, 2010
It's uncanny that just when the country needed a boost on the international stage, especially after the theatrics involving security and politics, and...
Editorial
Right on Mr Patrick Casserly
July 22, 2010
Mr Patrick Casserly, the president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Industry and Commerce, makes an important point in yesterday's edition of our sister ...
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1,600 voices speaking from the grave
July 22, 2010
This is a compelling question for the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) and its unconscionable parliamentarians, who have chosen to ignore the ...
Editorial
PNP — mere shadow of a once great party
July 21, 2010
Mr Norman Washington Manley, credited as the founder of the People's National Party (PNP), father of the national movement for self-determination, and...
Editorial
Are we preparing for the Cuban economic hurricane?
July 21, 2010
The United States policy of an embargo against Cuba has been a comprehensive failure. Castro's administration has survived. The redundant embargo shou...
Editorial
Do we dare now have hope?
July 19, 2010
MR Danville Walker, the commissioner of customs, has given us one of the brightest pieces of news we have had in a long time. The customs boss is quot...
Editorial
Another side to that sports tax issue
July 18, 2010
NO doubt the tax authorities are anxiously seeking ways to secure the estimated $100 million which they say is owed to them annually by tax-dodging Ja...
Editorial
‘It’s bad, and getting more bad…’
July 17, 2010
JAMAICANS have a wise saying: "Wha gaawn bad a mawnin, caan come good a evenin", roughly translated to say what has gone bad in the beginning, can't b...
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Fraser’s positive test suggests slack management
July 16, 2010
This newspaper is hopeful that Miss Shelly Ann Fraser will not be made to pay too harsh a penalty, having tested positive for a painkiller she neglect...
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If we like Dr Tufton, it’s for a good reason
July 15, 2010
THE agriculture sector has been ill served by successive governments since Independence because they have not always selected the "brightest and the b...
Editorial
The right replacement for Kern Spencer…
July 14, 2010
We note with interest the five individuals who are vying to replace Member of Parliament Kern Spencer as the People's National Party's (PNP) represent...
Editorial
Why we, and everyone else, liked Mr Horace Clarke
July 12, 2010
REGGAE icon, Mr Peter 'Tosh' McIntosh popularised the term "politricks" as a euphemism for Jamaican politics. In today's Jamaica and born of long disa...

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