Good Labour Day in St Elizabeth 11:53 PM
Portmore lock-up escapee recaptured 11:43 PM
Homestead Place of Safety gets $600k LIME Labour Day facelift 3:17 PM
New Victory Theatre offers Bob Marley, Shakespeare 2:54 PM
Would-be victim disarms robber 2:20 PM
Atlanta mayor leads trade mission to MoBay 2:08 PM
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Boost for CTEP
Thursday, May 23, 2013
CAMBRIDGE, St James - A job fair scheduled for February next year, and which has so far attracted 40 local and overseas-based players in the hospitality industry, is expected to improve the chances of Community Training for Empowerment Programme (CTEP) graduates seeking employment. According to CTEP coordinator, Claudett ...more
Western Ja leaders urge citizens to participate in Labour Day activities
Thursday, May 23, 2013
MONTEGO BAY, St James Political, civic and business leaders across western Jamaica are urging citizens to tackle the scores of Labour Day projects planned for today across the region, which are geared primarily at uplifting vulnerable citizens.
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UK-based rapper shoots video in MoBay
Thursday, May 23, 2013
MONTEGO BAY, St James - UP-AND-COMING British female rap artiste Amplify Dot created a stir in sections of the resort city of Montego Bay last week, during a video shoot to promote her latest single, I'm Good, a collab with Busta Rhymes, which featur ...more
FIGHTING BACK - Logan awaits help to start rebuilding process
Thursday, May 23, 2013
IRWIN, St James - INSTEAD of running away, Rose Marie Logan is digging in, literally and figuratively, as she seeks to rebuild her swimming pool at Swim Place in Irwin, that was destroyed by vandals last week, in an early morning attack.
Already sh ...more
PHOTO: Meeting the Queens!
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Jamaica Observer Manager, Western Region, Cheddi Van Creighton (7th left) and Professor Luz Longsworth (8th left), Principal, UWI, Western Jamaica Campus, pose with contestants in the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) Miss Hanover Festi ...more
Refuge residents seek help to establish historic park
Thursday, May 23, 2013
REFUGE, Trelawny - COMMUNITY activist Anthony Daley is leading the charge for the development of a recreation park in the centre of the Refuge community, which was among the first to be established as a free village after the abolition of slavery in ...more
PHOTO: Moving away
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Tony Lay of Hoopers (left) dribbles away from Lucea Flames' Oshando Greenfield in a recent Flow National Basketball League-West game at the Montego Bay Cricket Club. Hoopers won the game 76-68.
PHOTO: Moving away
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PHOTO: Champ!
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Jeremiah Dehaney (right) collects his winning trophy from Shamar Grant, (left), President of the St James Horticultural Society and Sheila Hart, past president, for amassing the most points in the recent staging of the society's annual show held at ...more
Not so!
Thursday, May 23, 2013
MONTEGO BAY, St James - PROMINENT Montego Bay attorney Roy Fairclough has lashed out at what he says are attempts to paint the western city as the "crime capital of Jamaica, if not the world"and has called for a more professional approach by law enfo ...more
Vox Pop Do you think condoms should be distributedin-schools
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Education Minister Rev Ronald Thwaites has said that Government is against the distribution of condoms in schools. This is despite calls for some quarters for them to be made available to students.
Earlier this week Jamaica Observer West photograph ...more
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