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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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‘Closure & comfort’

•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’

Entertainment, ...

New location, no problem!

I Love Soca delivers premium vibes at Heroes’ Circle

Shereita Grizzle | Observer Staff Reporter

December 31 12:16 AM

New location, no problem!

Business

STAGE ECONOMICS

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

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

Business

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’

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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Jury, cop doze off at Flankers murder trial

BY PAUL HENRY Observer writer

July 4, 2006

SOME members of the jury, along with one of the five cops on trial in the Supreme Court for the 2003 shooting death of two elderly residents of Flanke...

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Blood runs in Norwood

Horace Hines | Observer Writer

July 4, 2006

NORWOOD, St James - Blood-curdling screams jolted Norwood, St James awake just before dawn yesterday as gunmen launched a vicious attack that left fiv...

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Israel rejects Hamas ultimatum

AFP

July 3, 2006

GAZA CITY, Gaza (AFP) - Palestinian militants holding an Israeli soldier captive issued an ultimatum Monday for Israel to free prisoners or face the c...

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Former Chadian leader charged with war crimes

AFP

July 2, 2006

BANJUL, Gambia (AFP) - Representatives of victims of the past dictatorship in the African state of Chad expressed satisfaction and relief yesterday at...

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Stop sending minor offenders to jail, prison boss pleads

BY INGRID BROWN Sunday Observer Reporter

July 1, 2006

THE figures suggest that judges are handing down more non-custodial sentences than before, but Major Richard Reese is batting for a sentencing policy ...

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$30-million library to be built at Glenmuir High School

Observer Reporter

July 1, 2006

GROUND was broken at Glenmuir High School in May Pen, Clarendon, last week for the construction of a $30 million library. Principal of the school Clem...

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Female priests in demand in Jamaican Anglican diocese

BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Sunday Observer reporter

July 1, 2006

A decade after the initial breakthrough, women ordained to sacred ministry in the Anglican Diocese of Jamaica have grown from three to 24, and now the...

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Claims ‘excessive’, says Carib Cement

Desmond Allen | Executive Editor

July 1, 2006

CARIBBEAN Cement Company has cried foul, saying claims for use of bad cement, for which it has so far paid out $55 million, are excessive. At the same...

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Feasting at Round Hill to a smooth mento beat

Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content

July 1, 2006

DINNER is a leisurely affair at the Round Hill and understandably so, since its habitués are not only well-versed in the art of dining, but they rate ...

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Three more constituencies in breach of voter limit

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

July 1, 2006

THE recent reverification of voters by the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) has revealed three constituencies that are in breach of the constitutiona...

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Jamaican scientists develop six plant-based food and cosmetics

BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer Reporter

July 1, 2006

IN three years, Jamaica has pumped about $19 million into product research to kickstart a nutraceutical industry here, the success of which will tell ...

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Cheney heart condition stable

July 1, 2006

WASHINGTON, United States (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney's high-tech pacemaker is working properly and has not been activated by any irregular hear...

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A lifetime of selling fish

BY JOANNA FERGUSON Sunday Observer Writer

July 1, 2006

FOR 26 years, Hyacinth Brown has been a vendor, selling fish from a stall on the Portmore Causeway that links Kingston to the suburban St Catherine co...

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The Errol Flynn Marina

BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer Reporter

July 1, 2006

PORT ANTONIO, Portland - On a regular Tuesday afternoon, the Errol Flynn Marina in Port Antonio is quiet - very quiet - and certainly does not appear ...

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A renewed drive to revitalise House committees

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

July 1, 2006

IN an attempt to return to the maximum use of its system of committees, the House of Representatives has approved the appointment of a number of commi...

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Back-to-school trade fair launch Wednesday

July 1, 2006

PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), Ruel Reid will officially launch the second staging of Concept Promotion's back-to-school Trade ...

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New York, Los Angeles newspapers defend publishing terror money stories

July 1, 2006

NEW YORK (AP) - Top editors from the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, responding to criticism over publishing stories about a government prog...

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300 students to attend NYS Success Camps

JIS

July 1, 2006

APPROXIMATELY 300 students with behaviour problems are to benefit from the National Youth Service's (NYS) annual Success Camps, which this year will b...

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Stressed police turning to ‘alcohol and sex’

BY TK WHYTE Sunday Observer Reporter

July 1, 2006

HIGHLY stressed by a violent job and often overworked, members of the police force are turning to substances and sex as a way of managing work pressur...

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Ratio of elderly Japanese world’s highest

June 30, 2006

TOKYO (AP) - The proportion of Japanese aged 65 or older reached 21.0 per cent of the country's population in 2005, surpassing Italy's 20.0 per cent a...

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Grant’s Pen on its way to becoming a model inner-city community, says senior cop

June 30, 2006

ASSISTANT Commissioner of Police Leon Rose says Grant's Pen in Kingston is well on its way to becoming a model inner-city community, with the launch o...