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Jodian Fearon's mom wants answers
APPROXIMATELY two months after the completion of the autopsy for Jodian Fearon, the first-time mother who died after being denied access to health care at several hospitals in April, her family is yet to receive a copy of the
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
#JamaicaTogether | Don’t allow COVID to shake your faith in God, urges SDA head
With the fortitude of the Jamaican people being tested by the COVID-19 pandemic, Pastor Everett Brown, president of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church in Jamaica, is confident that his fellow countrymen will rebound from the crippling effects of the
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
NEPA urges public to desist from overharvesting pimento, bitterwood trees
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is calling for persons to desist from the unsustainable harvesting of Pimento plants and the Bitterwood
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Call for six-year deadline on harassment claims
Calls are growing for lawmakers to set at least a six-year deadline for the reporting of sexual
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Those incest 'hot spot' parishes
Executive director of Eve for Life (EFL), Joy Crawford, told the Jamaica Observer that majority of the incest cases she has interacted with are from the parishes of Westmoreland, St Ann, and St Thomas, however, she stressed that the issue remains an islandwide
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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ZOSO imposed in Greenwich Town
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced a Zone of Special Operation (ZOSO) in Greenwich Town, St
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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In September 2011, Prime Minister Bruce Golding resigned. Goldings political standing never recovered after his handling of the Christopher Coke case. For nine months, Golding resisted a request from the United States to hand over Coke. His resignation was seen as an effort to help the Jamaica
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A missed opportunity - JTA president chides Government for not introducing school bus system for CXC students
Owen Speid, president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), is accusing the Government of failing to capitalise on a clear chance to introduce a national school bus system when schools were reopened on June 8 for students taking Caribbean Examinations Council
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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PM makes changes at economic growth and job creation ministry
Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday made further changes to ministerial arrangements in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Update | Holness targets 1 million jabs by November
The Government is hoping to deliver one million COVID-19 jabs by the end of November, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said. “That is not impossible and not necessarily a very difficult task,” Holness said of the million-mark goal...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Holness welcomes global vaccine distribution plan by US
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says today's announcement by the United States that it will make millions of vaccines for COVID-19 available to countries around the world augurs well for even global recovery from the pandemic. The US has said it...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
DPP calls for radical shift in incarceration of the mentally ill
DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has called for a radical shift in the way inmates with mental health issues are
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Some JLP supporters in North East St Catherine against outside candidate
Some Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters in North East St Catherine say they will reject any outside candidate selected by the party hierarchy to replace Leslie Campbell, who is not seeking
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Campbell, Lee relish looming election battle in St Ann NW
There is no doubt in the mind of People’s National Party (PNP) standard-bearer Dr Dayton Campbell that pulling out the voters in the upcoming general election will be difficult, but he believes he has the organisational machinery in place to trounce Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) rival Krystal
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Walk good, Shahine
THE woman who changed the tide of losses for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) with an upset in a People's National Party (PNP) stronghold in St Ann North Eastern in 2001, Shahine Robinson, died at her family home in Claremont, St Ann, around midday yesterday, after a long battle with lung
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Waterfall out
The effect of the prevailing drought is seen at Somerset Falls, the normally lush nature attraction located a few metres outside Hope
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Holness calls for greater access to vaccines by the Caribbean and Africa
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has called for greater access to vaccines by the Caribbean and Africa, as these nations continue their fight against the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Addressing the Africa Day webinar on Tuesday Holness...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Million$ drug bust - Ganja valued at J$10.5m seized, three Bahamians nabbed
The weed was confiscated in an operation at Lances Bay, Hanover, in which three Bahamian nationals were
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Holness: Government to create housing revolution
Prime Minister Andrew  Holness, says the Government is going to create a housing revolution to deliver units to families across the island at reasonable costs.
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Visitors from high-risk US states to pretest before arrival
Prime Minister Andrew Holness made the announcement at a virtual press conference from Jamaica House yesterday evening as the Government continues to reconfigure protocols for entry and re-entry to the island in its push to fully reopen the country in spite of the
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Jewel Scott breaks legal and racial barriers in Georgia
Former Jamaican honorary consul to Atlanta, Jewel Scott, recently created history by becoming the first Caribbean national to be elected to the Superior Court of Clayton County in the southern US state of
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Phillips to put councillors on alert
Opposition People's National Party President Dr Peter Phillips will address councillors and caretakers today, as speculation arises that an election is
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Cameron seeking to become ICC chairman
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Dave Cameron confirmed Friday he will be seeking to become the next head of the International Cricket Council (ICC) and will be asking Cricket West Indies (CWI), which he led for three terms, to back his
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Hell will break loose as Kerensia Morrison chosen for St Catherine NE – JLP activist
A number of Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters in the North East St Catherine constituency are demanding that party leader Andrew Holness replace Leslie Campbell with a representative from inside the
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Attorney Tova Hamilton takes her seat in the Senate
Attorney at law Tova Hamilton on Friday morning took her seat on the Government benches in the Senate after taking her oath of Allegiance in the
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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'I am still trying to tell myself it is not true'
A week after Omari Stephens rushed from one end of the Corporate Area to “rescue” his mother, Susan Bogle, in August Town, St Andrew, after he was told shots were being fired at her residence, he confesses he is now living in a zone between shock and
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Carlo Redwood leaving Flow
CARLO Redwood, marketing director at communications and entertainment provider, Flow, is set to depart the organisation on June 30, the company announced in a press release
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
PM ‘embarrassed’ by inhumane prison death, discloses proposal for new facility
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has revealed that the Government is now mulling a proposal for a new
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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PM says persons must be given opportunity to use unused state assets
Prime Minister Andrew Holness, says persons must be given the opportunity to use unutilised assets of  government agencies,  in order to maximise their potential. “There are many agencies in Jamaica, they hold lands, buildings...
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