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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

News

‘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

Sports

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

News

‘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’

Regional, Western

Couples Hotel takes top prize at curry festival

Observer Reporter

May 2, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- THE third staging of the Curry festival held at the Mannings High school saw Couples Hotel walking away with the top prize in the cu...

Regional, Western

Maffessanti to the rescue

Observer Reporter

May 2, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- A tearful Giuseppe Maffessanti this week handed back a $75,000 cheque presented to him by the Cornwall Gardens Basic School. The fun...

Regional, Western

Abducted woman reunited with family

Observer Reporter

May 2, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- Some 24 hours after being abducted by two men inside her Bowen Hill community in St James, 27 year-old Corona Hill was reunited with...

Regional, Western

Communications seminar in MoBay today

Observer Reporter

May 2, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- In celebration of World Press Freedom Day, the Caribbean chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC/Ca...

Regional, Western

Trelawny cane farmers assured Long Pond is on track

Observer Reporter

May 2, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- Following this week's meeting with CEO of the Sugar Company of Jamaica, Livingstone Morrison, cane farmers in Trelawny are now satis...

Regional, Western

$3 m in prizes for today’s talent contest

Observer Reporter

May 2, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- Twelve female employees of Sandals Negril Resort in Westmoreland, will today vie for cash and prizes totaling more than $3 million, ...

Regional, Western

DPP rules that security guard be charged with murder

April 25, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- Lenford Clarke, a 36 year-old security guard employed to Alpha Security Company, was remanded in custody on Wednesday, when he appea...

Regional, Western

Cornwall College student gets Yale scholarship

BY STACYANN GABBIDON Observer staff reporter

April 25, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- Dorrell McCalman, deputy head boy of Cornwall College and former junior mayor of Montego Bay, has received a US$35,000 scholarship t...

Regional, Western

St James’ secretaries serving their community

April 25, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- As they celebrated Professional Secretaries' Week, which ended yesterday, the St James chapter of the Jamaica Association of Secreta...

Regional, Western

Elderly man looking for a place to call home

April 25, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- He stands slightly hunched over his makeshift walking stick, looking at the world through bloodshot eyes in a lightly bearded face. ...

Regional, Western

Father, son again remanded on buggery charge

Mark Cummings | Observer Writer

April 25, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- Forty-one year-old dental technician, Ivor Thomas, and his 18 year-old son, Roy, were again remanded in custody when they appeared i...

Regional, Western

$300,000 wall for Falmouth Hospital

STACYANN GABBIDON, Observer staff reporter

April 18, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- The Lions, Kiwanis and Rotary clubs of Trelawny united last Saturday to rebuild a section of the Falmouth Hospital's perimeter wall,...

Regional, Western

PNP names last two St James candidates

PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter

April 18, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- The People's National Party this week formally presented their final two candidates to represent St James in the upcoming local gove...

Regional, Western

$700,000 repair job for The Dome

Mark Cummings | Observer Writer

April 18, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- The Dome, in Montego Bay, one of the island's national monuments, and the home of an elderly homeless man, is to be renovated at a c...

Regional, Western

Indebted farmer hit hard by flood rains

PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter

April 18, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- St James farmer, Teddy Foster, lost 300 chickens and 11 piglets, valued at about $80,000, in Monday night's heavy rains. The loss, s...

Regional, Western

Fontana’s Baywest office may close

STACYANN GABBIDON, Observer staff reporter

April 18, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- Fontana Pharmacy's Montego Bay Shopping Centre location may soon close its doors, according to managing director, Kevin O'Brien Chan...

Regional, Western

500 feet more for Negril aerodrome

STACYANN GABBIDON, Observer staff reporter

April 11, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- The Negril aerodrome is to be extended by 500 feet this July, according to president of the Airports Authority of Jamaica, Earl Rich...

Regional, Western

Media tips for Flankers leaders

Observer Reporter

April 11, 2003

EIGHTEEN organisation leaders within the Flankers community, in St James, were recently trained in the art of publicity, having completed a one-day wo...

Regional, Western

Dear is MoBay Chamber’s new president

PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter

April 11, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- The organisational restructuring of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry is among the challenges that the new president,...

Regional, Western

$20 M facelift for Pier One

Observer Reporter

April 11, 2003

Pier One, the Montego Bay entertainment spot that was partially destroyed by Hurricane Michelle in November 2001, was recently reopened after a $20 mi...

Regional, Western

Governor-General takes his book to the west

Observer Reporter

April 11, 2003

WESTERN BUREAU -- Representatives from the political and business sectors turned out in force, Thursday night, at the launch of Governor-General Sir H...