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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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Standing ovations for stand-ups 2025
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RIDING THE WAVE
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December 31 12:12 AM
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BOJ pushing to improve Jam-Dex access
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December 31 12:10 AM
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‘Arrive alive’
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BY RENAE OSBOURNE Observer staff reporter osbourner@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31 12:10 AM
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‘It’s about people, not buildings’
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December 31 12:09 AM
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Bolt partners with South Africa’s Mumm to create champagne brand
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica's sprint legend and budding global business mogul, Usain Bolt, has partnered with leading South African champagne brand, G...
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UPDATE: Blockage on Maxfield Avenue cleared
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — The debris that was this morning set ablaze and used to block a section of Maxfield Avenue in St Andrew has been removed. The road...
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Forex: J$134.31 to one US dollar
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — The US dollar on Monday, January 28 ended trading at J$134.31 up by 83 cents according to the Bank of Jamaica's daily foreign exch...
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Loving God may I always centre my life on you and hear joyfully your call to be your companion. Help me to follow my desire to live my life as best I ...
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History the spur and curse for improving West Indies
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Consistency key to success, says Holder
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Senate pays tribute to Dwight Nelson
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Two arrested after cops find firearm in Clarendon
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CLARENDON, Jamaica — Two men were yesterday arrested in Clarendon following the seizure of a Luger 9mm pistol fitted with a magazine containing fiftee...
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White House hopeful Kamala Harris says she can unify country
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Manchester residents urged to look out for supermarket robbers
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Pressure on Venezuela’s Maduro with opposition amnesty offer, protests
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Bolstered by growing international support, Venezuela's self-proclaimed president Juan Guaido is increasing pressure on the...
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Tension in Maxfield Avenue area after cops kill 16-y-o
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — A section of Maxfield Avenue in St Andrew is currently blocked as residents protest the police killing of a 16-year-old boy in the...
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Person of interest one of two killed in Spanish Town
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ST CATHERINE, Jamaica — The police believe that Navado Howell, a person of interest in the St Catherine North Division, was one of two men fatally sho...
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PNP introduces five new standard bearers in western Jamaica
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ST JAMES, Jamaica — The People's National Party (PNP) today announced five new caretaker candidates for western Jamaica at its National Executive Coun...
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Elaine pleased with season opener
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson described her season opening win in her women's 60-metre heat at the 2018 Queen's/Grace Ja...
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Gun found under mattress; ammo found in cornmeal bottle
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Gun found under mattress; ammo found in cornmeal bottle
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — The police are reporting the seizure of fifteen rounds of ammunition in Montego Bay, St James on Friday morning and a .38 Revolver...
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Ferguson urges Gov’t to rethink closure of Monymusk Sugar Factory
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Opposition spokesperson on agriculture and rural development, Dr Fenton Ferguson, is calling on Minister of Commerce, Industry, Ag...
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Almighty and eternal God, give me, I beseech you, the great gift of inward peace. Command the winds and storms of my unruly passions. Subdue, by your ...
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Holder first West Indies all-rounder since Sobers to top ICC rankings
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January 26, 2019
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Jason Holder has become the first West Indian since cricket great Garfield Sobers to be named as the world's leading al...
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Weekly Round-up: Dismissals over Dunn’s River fraud… 29 dengue high-risk areas identified… Bolt gives up football dream
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Urban Development Corporation reported on Thursday that some staff at the Dunn's River Falls and Park have been dismissed whil...
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CRFM to undertake Sargassum seaweed study in the C’bean
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BELMOPAN, Belize (CMC) — The Belize-based Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) says it has initiated a regional fact-finding study to documen...
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