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Four J'can cops arrested in Charlotte with 8 kilos of cocaine
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica Four members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force were arrested Tuesday at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina for allegedly smuggling eight kilogrammes of cocaine into the United States.The four constables were intercepted before boarding their connecting
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Michigan's governor toughens mask requirement
LANSING, Michigan - Michigan's Governor Gretchen Whitmer has toughened a requirement to wear masks during the coronavirus pandemic, mandating that businesses open to the public deny service or entry to customers who refuse to wear one.The governor also expanded where people must have a face
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Teachers will get tablets, Anderson assures
LUCEA, Hanover Immediate past president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) Dr Garth Anderson says an appeals process has been established to address issues that may arise during the distribution of over 25,000 tablet computers to public school teachers across the island.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
EU collaborates with UHWI to advance organ transplant programme in Ja
THE European Union (EU) is supporting University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) and the Ministry of Health and Wellness to develop a national deceased organ transplant programme to address the steadily increasing prevalence of renal failure and end-stage renal disease in the region.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
J'cans exempted from UK's COVID-19 quarantine rules
BRITAIN yesterday listed Jamaica among more than 50 countries exempted from its COVID-19 quarantine rules, but excluded the United States, which yesterday posted a record 53,000 new cases of the virus.This means travellers can visit the named countries for holidays without being quarantined for 14
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Union rejects UWI's pay, benefits cut plan
A proposal by the management of The University of the West Indies (UWI) for the reduction in emoluments and benefits to staff across its campuses has been dismissed by the West Indies Group of University Teachers (WIGUT) “in no uncertain
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Low turnout as France votes in local polls
PARIS, France (AFP) � French voters abstained in their millions Sunday from a final round of municipal elections predicted to deal a blow to the party of President Emmanuel Macron.Amid persistent fears of the novel coronavirus contagion, just over a third of voters had turned out by 5:00
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Health ministry yet to meet with JMDA about out-of-work doctors
THE Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA) has been left in the lurch, as a Saturday meeting promised by health ministry Permanent Secretary Dunstan Bryan to address unemployment issues facing junior doctors, has still not happened.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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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
JLP councillors want embattled St Ann’s Bay mayor to resign
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillors in St Ann have recommended that embattled St Ann’s Bay Mayor Michael Belnavis resign his post. Belnavis has been under intense scrutiny since a Sunday Gleaner investigation uncovered that he was a...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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LIAT chair assures staff of payments
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) Chairman of the shareholder governments of the regional airline, LIAT, Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves yesterday sought to assure employees that payment of outstanding salaries and arrears will be urgently addressed.The Antigua-based financially strapped regional
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Should I know my MP’s health status? - Insiders weigh in on balancing accountability and privacy when politicians fall ill
The curtain on a new era of transparency in public service appeared ready to be lifted when three months before his February 2016 election win, then Opposition Leader Andrew Holness promised to publicly release his health records. The Holness-led...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
HAIL THE MAN!
People's National Party President Dr Peter Phillips (right) and the man he defeated to retain his position in the Opposition party, Peter Bunting, greet each other in COVID-19 safety style, during yesterday's meeting of councillors and caretakers held at the Mico University in St
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
MPs say no to schools reopening
Legislators across the political divide said “our children cannot be used as experiments” during debate on a report which was presented by chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Primary and Secondary Education, Priscilla
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PNP meeting positive, says Robinson
People's National Party (PNP) General Secretary Julian Robinson described last evening's meeting of the Opposition parliamentary group as positive, even though only five of the 15 Members of Parliament (MPs) who had written to party president Dr Peter Phillips demanding a meeting were in
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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PNP pays tribute to late councillor Milton Brown
The People's National Party is expressing regret at the passing of sitting Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Councillor for the Mineral Heights Division in Clarendon, Milton
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
US mechanic accused of importing cocaine from Jamaica
NEW YORK, United States (CMC) A 52-year-old American Airlines mechanic has been released on US$300,000 bail after he was arraigned for allegedly importing more than 25 pounds of cocaine on a flight from Montego Bay, St James, Jamaica, in February.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
I will act on corruption when necessary, says Phillips
MONTEGO BAY, St James Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips says he will not fail to discipline members of his party who are found guilty of corruption when it is warranted, but currently there is no need for him to to do so.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Extraordinary resilience 'Butch' Stewart praises tourism emp
Gordon Butch Stewart has praised Jamaica's tourism employees for their extraordinary resilience in facing the COVID-19 pandemic, and wished them an even better future, as the industry slowly begins to reopen.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Gloria , Pearnel mark 50 years of marriage
Veteran Member of Parliament and Speaker of the House of Representatives Pearnel Charles Sr, and wife Gloria, brought up 50 years of wedding bliss on Sunday, June 21, Father's Day, the same day half-century ago that they tied the knot in 1970.The couple's children, in-laws, grandchildren, other
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump but Interpol
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran has issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for help in detaining President Donald Trump and dozens of others it believes carried out the US drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad, a local prosecutor reportedly said yesterday.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Fourth political party applies for registration
A new political entity — Jamaica Progressive Party (JPP) — has applied to the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) to be registered as Jamaica's fourth political
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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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Sunday Brew — May 17, 2020
My attention was drawn to a news release supposedly issued by Minister of Labour and Social Security Shahine Robinson last Tuesday regarding the robbery of care packages in Enfield, St Mary, last
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Trump pleased with US efforts to stem illegal drugs from the Caribbean
MIAMI (CMC) - President Donald J Trump has described as 'an incredibly successful' operation the cut to the flow of illegal drugs into the United States from Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Mississippi set to remove Confederate emblem from its flag
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) Mississippi is on the verge of changing its state flag to erase a Confederate battle emblem that's broadly condemned as racist. The flag's supporters resisted efforts to change it for decades, but rapid developments in recent weeks have changed dynamics on this issue in
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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NEPA to suspend cemetery expansion permit
THE National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) yesterday served notice of its intention to suspend a permit for the establishment of a cemetery at Bendon Pen, St Catherine, granted to the company that manages Dovecot Memorial Park.The environmental regulator, in a letter addressed to Kumanda
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Doggy deliveries help Colombians shop during pandemic
MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) Eight-year-old Eros trots through the streets of this hilly city several times a day with a straw basket in his jaws, taking vegetables, fruit and packaged foods to customers of the El Porvenir mini-market. The chocolate Labrador retriever is paid with treats and massages
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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UK could lock down city of Leicester after virus surge
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) The central English city of Leicester could be the country's first to face a local lockdown due to a rise in coronavirus cases, the UK's Home Secretary Priti Patel said Sunday.The Midlands city recorded 658 new cases in the two weeks up to June 16, many linked to fresh
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Hamilton takes seat in Senate
ATTORNEY-AT-law Tova Hamilton yesterday took her seat on the Government benches in the Senate after taking the oath of allegiance. Hamilton, who will be contesting the Trelawny North seat for the Jamaica Labour Party in the upcoming general...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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