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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Barbados curfew restrictions end July 1

• All day care centres will reopen to full capacity from next

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Jamaican teacher's claims of racial discrimination in China said to be unfounded

Jamaican teacher’s claims of racial discrimination in China said to be unfounded

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

St Kitts Opposition party files election petitions

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC) – Five defeated candidates of the main Opposition St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) have filed petitions in the High Court challenging the results of the June 5, 2020 General Election in the twin-island

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Jamaican Olympian heads to America's Got Talent

Following in the footsteps of Tessanne Chin who won The Voice in 2013 and Dalton Harris who topped X Factor UK in 2018, two-time Olympian Shevon Stoddart is taking to another track on America’s Got Talent which is aired on

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

The cigarette connection: A look back at the deaths of Eric Garner and George Floyd

Although notice on cigarette packs warn that smoking the sticks can cause mouth and throat cancer, in addition to being a leading cause of death, African Americans Eric Garner and George Floyd would perish via police brutalities albeit with a cigarette

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More funds needed to improve housing stock - Councillor laments paltry allowance to assist residents

Whitfield Town Division Councillor Eugene Kelly is lamenting that the $180,000 allocated to him to help constituents improve their housing conditions is woefully inadequate. “For the last two years, each councillor gets $180,000 – and is Jamaican [...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Gauteng will overtake Western Cape with most Covid-19 cases in coming days, says Mkhize

Gauteng will emerge with the highest number of Covid-19 cases in the coming days, overtaking the Western Cape, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize

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Integrity Commission accuses Wheatley of being dishonest

The Integrity Commission has accused former energy minister Dr Andrew Wheatley of being less than truthful and dishonest in his responses to questions posed by the entity in its probe of alleged corruption at Petrojam oil refinery.

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

COMMENTARY: The Black Church Faces an Atypical Crisis

During a recent meeting organized by Anchor of Hope Ministries, a local, faith-based nonprofit assisting the formerly incarcerated, Holmes stated that the Black church has historically been centered to meet the community’s needs in a variety of

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Morrison, Davis Whyte against salary cuts for politicians, civil servants

SENIOR trade unionist Vincent Morrison is asserting that salary cuts, both in the private and public sector, is not the solution for economic recovery

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Living in falsehood

Still, the world is full of falsehood, and not only do people make an effort to keep up appearances, they actually do egregious things to alter their appearance, giving the world the impression that they are, but they really are

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Chuck under fire

JUSTICE Minister Delroy Chuck yesterday drew harsh criticism from the public following comments he made while agreeing with a recommendation that a one-year cap be instituted on the period for reporting sexual harassment

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Jamaican embassy in Washington, DC reopens after COVID-19 lockdown - Stabroek News

(Jamaica Observer) AUDREY Marks, Jamaicas ambassador to the United States and permanent representative to the Organization of American States, has announced the reopening of the Offices of the Jamaican embassy in

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Jamaican US army veteran recounts act of police brutality

A Jamaican man living in the United States (US) who was beaten by police officers at his daughter's graduation in 2016 is adding his voice to the throng of protesters across North America agitating for racial justice following the recent murder of George

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Uncertain future for hundreds of Jamaican teachers in US

HUNDREDS of Jamaican educators in North Carolina, USA, on the J-1 Teacher Exchange Programme are in limbo over their ability to remain in the USA and work legally, due to delays they are experiencing in obtaining a no-objection statement from the Jamaica

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

JLP councillor says no need for SOE in Kingston Central

JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) Councillor for the Rae Town Division, Rosalie Hamilton broke ranks with the party yesterday, publicly disagreeing with the imposition of a state of emergency (SOE) across the Kingston Central constituency as announced by Prime Minister

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Compensation plan for 2015 'bad gas' saga to be announced today

But not every motorist who had to spend money to fix their vehicle affected by the bad gas will be

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Crown says why Sanja Elliott cannot be believed

THE $400-million Manchester Municipal Corporation (MPC) fraud trial ended on Friday, May 15, 2020 with the conviction of main accused 35-year-old Sanja Elliott, the corporation's former deputy superintendent of road and works; his wife, Tasha-gaye Goulbourne-Elliott; two former employees of the

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Jamaica: Funeral for Jodian Fearon to be held tomorrow

(Jamaica Observer) THE funeral for Jodian Fearon, the 23-year-old woman who died after being denied access to health care in April, is scheduled for

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Manchester's Heartease in pain

MANDEVILLE, Manchester – The murder of 36-year-old Shanalee Bailey on Thursday, allegedly by the father of four of her five children in Heartease, close to Mandeville, has yet again focused attention on the high rate of domestic violence in this south-central

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Delays result in doctors out of work

THE Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA) is furious over delays in the employment of some of its members, which has left medical doctors sitting at home without work.The JMDA told the Jamaica Observer that on July 1 when the 2020 medical year began, doctors were being turned away from health

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Dwight Fletcher | How to fast to turbocharge your prayers

The last seven weeks have been amazing as we have learnt so much about prayer and how to pray prayers that can change the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaican doctor defends herbal medicine use

And we estimate that 80 per cent of the rest world of the world still use some form of traditional herbal treatment,” Dr Gordon told the Jamaica Observer in an extended interview last

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Jamaican teachers recruited to teach US students online

(Jamaica Observer) In an initiative with the Embassy of Jamaica in Washington DC, Community Scholar Inc — a US-based non-profit organisation — is hiring Jamaican teachers to tutor students in the United States

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PNP rolls out technology to win upcoming elections

WESTERN BUREAU: Phillip Paulwell, co-campaign director for the People’s National Party (PNP) for the next general election, says that the party is revamping its outdated, analogue campaign strategy. The party will be embracing new technology in its...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Mayne vs Wint

First-time Member of Parliament Zavia Mayne, who represents the rural constituency of St Ann South West, is banking on constituents to keep true to what he said was their promise to back him with votes once he “performed” in his capacity as their...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Morgan credits Rock River councillor for foray into politics

It all started with a pothole. After a heavy shower of rain two decades ago, a young Robert Nesta Morgan was frustrated by a huge pothole at his gate and went in search of answers. “It was about 1999. I had just started Clarendon College sixth form...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Bond Lane wants COVID-positive residents out

MONTEGO BAY, St James — A team from the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) were up to last evening conducting house-to-house surveillance in the Bond Lane section of Norwood, St James, in the wake of confirmation of novel coronavirus cases in the

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Religious party to ban strip clubs, casinos

The church-based Jamaica Progressive Party (JPP) will abolish income tax, ban go-go clubs, and raise salaries for civil servants if it gains state power. JPP President Gilbert Edwards, who migrated to the United States when he was 20 years old,...

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