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'Now is the time to invest'

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness is urging private sector interests not to shelve construction projects because of the economic downturn brought on by the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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

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On Monday, the Observer first reported that it was an expectant mother who had suffered a medical emergency and was awaiting evacuation from the

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

Campbell rakes JLP councillors for shoddy roads

Being in the unenviable position of having no councillors umbilically linked to his People’s National Party (PNP) operating inside the St Ann North West constituency, two-term Member of Parliament Dr Dayton Campbell has fired a salvo at the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) local government

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Tributes to late MPs take Lower House sitting into late night

THE House of Representatives yesterday spent hours paying tribute to former Minister of Labour and Social Security Shahine Robinson, and former Education Minister Dr Neville Gallimore — both members of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) — who died late last

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

Soldiers on operation during which Bogle was killed, reassigned; weapons confiscated

Civil/military cooperation and media officer for the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), Major Basil Jarrett, says the JDF members who were present during the joint police-military operation in August Town, St Andrew when Susan Bogle, a disabled woman, was shot and killed last week, have been reassigned

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Labour Day unity

Now you can read the Jamaica Observer ePaper anytime, anywhere. The Jamaica Observer ePaper is available to you at home or at work, and is the same edition as the printed copy available at http://bit.ly/epaperlive

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

Shaggy pushes for US visas for Bounty, Beenie

On the heels of last weekend’s titanic clash between dancehall artistes Beenie Man and Bounty Killer that captured the attention of international fans, media outlets, and industry players, there is a push for the two to be reissued with United States visas to promote Jamaican music and

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

JFJ raises geofencing concerns

WITH the Government indicating that it will be using geofencing technology to supervise returning Jamaicans who will self-quarantine at home amid the COVID-19 pandemic, one human rights advocacy group has said it will be keeping a close watch on the

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

Education minister appointment nothing to celebrate, says Speid

MONTEGO BAY, St James — President of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) Owen Speid says while the association welcomes the appointment of Karl Samuda as minister of education, there is nothing to

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

PJ Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy launched | New York Carib News

Named the PJ Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy, a center designed to coordinate public policy and advocacy by fostering development relations between the Caribbean and Africa was launched at The University of the West Indies last

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Source: The New York Carib News

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

Nepotism, cronyism run Jamaica - Stakeholders say the practice is deeply entrenched in politics, business

Jamaica’s political apparatus has operated and functioned on nepotism and cronyism since independence, but until lawmakers enact legislation to make the practice illegal, no amount of inflammatory language from state commissions will make a...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Ship workers disembark in Port Royal

Several hundred Jamaicans have begun disembarking two cruise ships as part of the Government's controlled re-entry

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

BET Founder Calls for $14 Trillion Reparations for Black Americans

BET Founder Robert Johnson recently called for $14 trillion of slavery reparations for black

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

WATCH: Why distressed pregnant woman on ship was not evacuated

Jamaican health authorities have sought to explain why the requested medical evacuation of a distressed pregnant woman aboard the Adventure of the Seas was not

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Killings of Arbery and Martin tragically similar

In both cases, prosecutors initially declined to prosecute and charges were filed only after weeks of sustained pressure from the Black communities in both Deep South

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

Life returns to Hellshire beach

Now you can read the Jamaica Observer ePaper anytime, anywhere. The Jamaica Observer ePaper is available to you at home or at work, and is the same edition as the printed copy available at http://bit.ly/epaperlive

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

Adventure cruise ship workers touch soil today

After weeks of voyaging on the high seas as high-level negotiations dragged on between the Government of Jamaica and their employers, the more than 1,000 Jamaican cruise ship workers who sailed into the Falmouth Pier on Tuesday will finally set foot on local soil

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

PM gives good rating to Jamaica's COVID-19 recovery

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

More SOEs possible before election

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has not ruled out declaring more States of Public Emergency before the next general election due by February next year. However, the prime minister says where a State of Emergency exists when he is ready to call an...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Broadgate headache - Residents weary of prolonged Junction road project, never-ending dynamite blasts

Ongoing works to rehabilitate the Broadgate section of the Junction main road in St Mary have been irritating many residents, who are yearning for the project to be wrapped up, giving them a reprieve from the dust nuisance and dynamite blasts constantly terrorising

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaican ship workers begin disembarking in Falmouth

The first batch of the 1,044 Jamaican ship workers who returned to the island on Tuesday afternoon has departed for government quarantine centres in St Ann after being processed at the Falmouth cruise ship pier in

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Holness administration declined UK prison offer, Phillips asserts

Leader of the Opposition, Dr Peter Phillip, says he strongly rejects claims from Prime Minister Andrew Holness that the United Kingdom prison offer to Jamaica was implicitly refused by the People’s National Party

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Holness to co-host high-level meeting with UN official on COVID-19

Prime Minister Andrew Holness, his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will on Thursday co-convene a special high-level panel to look at solutions to the development emergency of

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Two-in-one election? - Renewed calls for local gov’t, national polls to be held together in COVID-19 era

With both the local government and general elections on the horizon, there are mounting calls for the Government and the Opposition to give urgent consensus to holding both polls simultaneously in light of a number of prevailing conditions being faced by the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

First phase of drain, gully cleaning starts in two weeks

MINISTER of Local Government and Community Development Desmond McKenzie says the island's municipal corporations will be rolling out the first phase of their disaster risk mitigation programme in two weeks, for the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, which begins on June

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

CARE-oke’ for a cause - The Bay State Banner

The Theatre Community Benevolent Fund has launched a new program called CARE-oke to raise funds for artists struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic and bring local favorites back into the spotlight. The post CARE-oke’ for a cause appeared first on The Bay State Banner.

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Source: The Bay State Banner

Vendors victims again - Rae Rae Market burnt to ground

The night of drama began with a police team pinned down by heavily armed gunmen Monday night in the Lizard Town area of Tivoli Gardens after cops ordered home hundreds of persons who gathered at a wake being held for an alleged

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Protocols coming for reopening of day-care centres, nurseries

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says he will announce the protocols that have been established for the reopening of nurseries and day-care facilities shortly.

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

Govt's NIDS funding reduced in new estimates

The Government's plans to resume efforts toward establishing a national identification for all Jamaicans suffered a serious financial setback with a significant reduction in funding in the newly tabled First Supplementary Estimates

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

Gov't wants to lease Holywell land

GOVERNMENT is seeking to lease a seven-acre plot of land at Holywell in the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park, a protected area which was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in

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

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