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ITA reports delays for driver's and provisional licences
THE Ministry of Transport and Mining reported yesterday that since the resumption of testing of applicants for driver's and provisional licences at the Island Traffic Authority (ITA), under the new appointment protocol, there has been an extremely high volume of requests which have led to
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Avian signal
A Chicken Hawk perches on a danger sign at National Chest Hospital on Thursday, June 18, 2020. Was the bird using the sign to warn its prey or predators? (Photo: Joseph Wellington)
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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China's Inner Mongolia region reports bubonic plague case
BEIJING, China (AP) While China appears to have reduced coronavirus cases to near zero, other infectious threats remain, with local health authorities announcing a suspected bubonic plague case in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Mourners reminded to adhere to COVID-19 protocols
MINISTER of Local Government and Community Development Desmond McKenzie has again appealed for mourners to adhere to the safety protocols that have been put in place for funerals in light of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
J'cans still eager to study in China, says embassy
A number of Jamaican students who have applied for scholarship to study in China ahead of the discovery of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan are still eager to do so, according to the Chinese embassy in
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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
St Kitts PM reiterates intention to step down at the end of second term
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC) Less than a month after he led the coalition Team Unity into office for a second consecutive term, Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris has reiterated his desire to step down at the end of this current five-year term.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Johnson Smith bristles against headwinds of COVID-19 nationalism
How Jamaica prepares for potential geopolitical shifts in multilateral relations and trade in response to COVID-19 is a challenge that will have to be met with robust cooperation, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister Kamina Johnson Smith has
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Prepare for take-off - Marks tells J’cans stranded in US to expect flights soon
JAMAICANS IN the United States have been told to start packing their bags as commercial flights are set to resume to their homeland in a matter of days as the Government moves to relax border restrictions implemented to stem the spread of the
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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Macron tightens grip ahead of 2022 challenge
PARIS, France (AFP) By replacing his popular prime minister with a little-known bureaucrat, French President Emmanuel Macron has signalled that he intends to tighten the reins on government ahead of a bid for re-election in 2022, analysts say.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
After long wait, J'cans stranded in C'bean to be repatriated
CARIBBEAN Airlines will, as of this weekend, be operating flights for Jamaicans stranded in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, The Bahamas, and Antigua and Barbuda, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith has
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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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 near.Dr Phillips will deliver the main address at the Mico University College after the councillors and caretakers meet in a closed-door
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Caribbean Airlines to resume regional, int'l schedules out of Jamaica
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) The State-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) says it will resume its regional and international operations from July 6, on a phased basis, out of its hub in Jamaica.
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World leaders, stars unite at event aimed at fighting virus
LONDON (AP) A summit that included a star-studded virtual concert hosted by Dwayne Johnson has raised nearly $7 billion in cash and loan guarantees to assist the poor around the globe whose lives have been upended by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
FBI investigating reported assault on black Indiana man
INDIANAPOLIS, United States (AP) The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Tuesday it's investigating the reported assault of a black man by a group of white men at a southern Indiana lake.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Tourism faces minimum US$1. 2-trillion hit from virus, says UN
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) The novel coronavirus crisis could cost global tourism and related sectors from US$1.2 to US$3.3 trillion in lost revenue, the United Nations said yesterday.Lockdown restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 have hammered the tourism sector particularly hard, the UN
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Sudan: U.S. Court Orders Govt to Pay for 1998 Embassy Attacks
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Sudan must pay hundreds of millions of dollars in punitive damages to some victims of the 1998 attacks on US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam in
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Minister saddened at death of 'Dunstan' Whittingham
MINISTER of Local Government and Community Development Desmond McKenzie says he is saddened by yesterday's passing of Lionel Dunstan Whittingham, president of the Jamaica Higglers, Vendors and Markets Association.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
London police probe destruction of Haile Selassie statue
LONDON, England (AFP) British police say they have been investigating the criminal damage of a statue of former Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, which was smashed in a London park.Emperor Selassie, who visited Jamaica in the 1960s, is revered by Jamaica's Rastafarians, with some regarding him as
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Hamaty a friend to all, enemy to none, says 'Butch' Stewart
GORDON “Butch” Stewart has described the late Captain Robert “Robbie” Hamaty, master pilot and founder of Tortuga Rum Company, as a supremely decent human being who was a friend to all and enemy to
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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PSOJ wants speedy action on Petrojam reports
THE Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) says it expects a speedy review of the long-anticipated reports on the Petrojam investigations by the various parliamentary oversight committees.
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Today's Horoscope - July 6
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, July 6, 2020: Passionate and magnetic, you draw your object of desire straight toward you. This year, you do this with a project and it is fantastically successful. Personally, you do best by keeping it light, but that only comes with time. If single, you may be fixated
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Going flat out to keep visitors, Jamaicans safe from COVID-19
Jamaica's tourism ministry, working in tandem with industry stakeholders, has crafted a deep and comprehensive plan covering 119 pages to keep visitors and Jamaicans alike safe from COVID-19.Following is the first instalment in a series of excerpts from the document titled 'Resilience: COVID-19
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Malnutrition in poorer nations costs firms up to US$850 billion - study
PARIS, France (AFP) Hunger, poor nutrition, and obesity not only present a health burden in developing countries but also carry a hidden economic penalty that costs businesses up to US$850 billion a year, according to a new report published yesterday.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Opposition candidate wins Dominican Republic presidential poll
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AFP) Opposition candidate Luis Abinader swept to victory in the Dominican Republic's presidential election, early results showed Monday, ending 16 years of unbroken rule by the Caribbean nation's centre-left PLD party after voters braved a worsening novel
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Guyana Elections Commission meeting postponed after legal move
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) postponed its meeting yesterday after a private citizen filed legal action seeking to prevent it from using the recounted, valid and certified results to declare the results of the disputed March 2 regional and general elections.
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Mom, we’re home! - Portmore woman anticipates emotional reunion with three sons after COVID-19 adventure on the seas
CONROY STERLING begged his mom, Joan Spence, not to break down and cry as he, twin Conrad, and adopted brother Rohan were repatriated to the island aboard the Adventure of the Seas cruise ship on Tuesday
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Next six months will not be easy, says PAHO director
AS the region of the Americas reports 100,000 cases of COVID-19 a day, director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Carissa F Etienne is calling for strong coordination across countries, evidence to guide leaders' actions, and for people to protect themselves and others.
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Bob Marley
Bob Marley , in full Robert Nesta Marley (born February 6, 1945, Nine Miles, St. Ann, Jamaica—died May 11, 1981, Miami, Florida, U.S.), Jamaican singer-songwriter whose thoughtful ongoing distillation of early ska, rock steady, and reggae musical forms blossomed in the 1970s into an electrifying
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This Day in History - May 26
1994: US President Bill Clinton renews trade privileges for China, and announces his administration would no longer link China's trade status with its human rights
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57 children among Jamaica's 505 COVID-19 cases
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Protocols in place for quarantine of diplomats
No frolicking on Labour Day weekend; curfew tightened
Ja reopening
UDC still seeking offers to manage Sumfest site
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PNP councillor calls for more money to fix parochial roads
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Supreme Ventures takes Read Across Jamaica Day to social media
Buses for transport of front-line workers loaned to WRHA
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Unicomer donates hospital beds valued over $3m
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