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Several Jamaicans contract COVID-19 at Florida birthday party - Community also shaken by passing of prominent social worker ‘DC’
The Jamaican community in West Palm Beach, Florida, is in mourning following news of the passing of community activist and businessman Norman Perkins, affectionately known as ‘DC’ even as reports swirl of several Jamaicans contracting the virus at...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
China Harbour breaks ground for St Catherine housing scheme
THE Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) on Wednesday officially broke ground for the 1,650-unit Catherine Estate housing project, to be developed in St Catherine, as a joint venture partnership with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), a company known for building roads and
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Shahine was like my sister and friend, says PM
The House of Representatives yesterday paid tribute to two former ministers, two ex-councillors, and a former permanent secretary, but it was Shahine Robinson who was the centre of tearful tributes by parliamentarians mourning her
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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Business leaders urge caution on return-to-workplace approach
SOME business leaders are urging companies to examine their individual situation, and have employees who are now working from home resume duties at the physical plants safely, and as is
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
UWI eyes students affected by US visa revocation
THE United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) decision to revoke the visas of international students whose colleges offer only online courses this fall has prompted The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona to embark on a more aggressive recruitment campaign to scoop up affected
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Holness: Ja still paying dearly for Manley’s misadventure
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said that the country is still paying for ideological missteps of the Michael Manley-led People’s National Party (PNP) administration from 1972 to 1978. Speaking yesterday at the launch of this year’s Jamaica...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaica: Cabbie uses G-string as COVID mask
Nicosi ‘Jubba’ McLarty, who plies the Half-Way Tree to downtown Kingston route, says he has been turning heads and making people laugh whenever he wears his ‘mask’ in
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Mayne is the man ... but hold off on election
Pointing to the resurfaced main road passing through the small community of St D’Acre in St Ann South West, a cookshop vendor and her customers say Member of Parliament Zavia Mayne is deserving of a second term. But they are advising Prime...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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Jamaica's PM declares emergency to curb crime | New York Carib News
Jamaica’s PM declares emergency to curb crime
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‘Worse than prison’ - Holness, Tufton apologise for quarantine food fiasco
Smarting from backlash over quarantine conditions for returning Jamaicans at two St Ann hotels, Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton yesterday apologised for a slew of logistical foul-ups, including rooming delays and substandard
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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State of Emergency declared in Kingston Western and Central Police divisions
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced a State of Public Emergency in the Kingston Western and Kingston Central Police divisions, initially for 14
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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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
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JHTA says it's ready to safely reopen tourism sector
The Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) says the planned reopening of the island's borders to international travellers on June 15 is an opportunity for a return to normality for the more than 300,000 workers and businesses that depend on tourism for a living.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Senators clash as Crawford questions whether ship workers are suicidal
Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, Kamina Johnson Smith, was on the defensive as the Opposition criticised the Government over its handling of the
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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
United Way joins Noranda to donate care packages in St Ann
A team of top executives from the charitable organisation, United Way of Jamaica (UWJ), journeyed to St Ann recently to join forces with one of its long-time partners, Noranda Bauxite, to distribute food and care packages to several institutions...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Curfew extended until tomorrow morning; PM to update nation on measures under new order today
The government is to advise on a new cycle of curfew hours today, as it extends the current island-wide restrictions, which ended this morning, to tomorrow morning, June 1, at 5:00
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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New COVID pre-testing requirement for some US visitors
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced new COVID pre-testing requirements for visitors to Jamaica from high-risk US states. At a press conference at Jamaica House on Monday, Holness said as of July 10, people visiting Jamaica from Florida, New...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
PRETESTING U-TURN - New hurdle for visitors from high-risk COVID US states
WESTERN BUREAU: Visitors from the high-risk American states of Florida, New York, Arizona, and Texas are now required to pretest for the new coronavirus before travelling to Jamaica, says Prime Minister Andrew Holness. Combined, the four states...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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PM stands by his man - Scandal-plagued Wheatley may get second chance as minister
Despite adverse findings against Dr Andrew Wheatley by the director of investigation at the Integrity Commission, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has hinted that he would not rule out appointing the embattled former energy minister in a future...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Ramkarran accuses Nagamootoo of helping to ‘restore PNC dictatorship’ - Stabroek News
A New and United Guyana  presidential candidate Ralph Ramkarran yesterday rapped de facto Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo for helping to “restore PNC dictatorship” on the basis of rigged elections which he said both of them in their youth as members of the PPP had fought
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Visitors returning to Jamaica | New York Carib News
Jamaica says it has welcomed more than 35,000 visitors since the island reopened its borders on June 15.
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Bermuda to get first black Governor | New York Carib News
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Thanks to Haiti, slavery was permanently abolished | New York Carib News
As global protests continue in support of the Black Lives Matter movement to systematically exposed the legacies of slavery and colonialism today, we must remember where this all started.
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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
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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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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
Holness under tourism pressure
DAYS AFTER tourism advocates called for the Holness administration to declare a timeline for the resumption of incoming air and sea travel, Jamaica’s most powerful private-sctor lobby has added pressure for a clear road map towards a “date for a safe and sustainable
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
3 footbridges to be built on Ngong Road
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WATCH: Why distressed pregnant woman on ship was not evacuated
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