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11 hrs ago | Mi2n

Zojak World Wide Artists To Receive Broadcast And Digital Radio...

Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, the leading media company in the country with a greater reach than any other radio or television outlet, and Zojak World Wide, a company at the forefront of digital music distribution, announced a partnership that will enable Zojak's artists to receive revenue from Clear Channel's digital and broadcast radio ... (more)

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15 hrs ago | The Gleaner

Music research project secures funding

Earl Jarrett, chairman of the JN Foundation , hands a copy of a signed contract to Rosina Moder, executive director of Music Unites Foundation, to provide funding for a two-year initiative to research and document the works and life of Jamaican composers of classical and patriotic music, as well as composers of church, dance and theatre music.

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Related Topix: World News, Central America, Classical, Arts, Opera, New York

19 hrs ago | Jamaica Observer

How Senate President Floyd Morris overcame the horrible sentence of blindness

SENATOR Floyd Emerson Morris continued his climb up the ladder of history on May 17, 2013 when he was sworn in as the first blind president of the Jamaican Senate.

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Related Topix: Central America, World News

Mon May 20, 2013

Jamaica Observer

What's trending for 2013? - Andre Shirley designs

He's still stitching his way in a competitive, demanding and fickle business but twenty-nine year old Andre Shirley who has a decade of design under his belt remains undaunted.

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Jamaica Observer

What violence-torn St James, nay all Jamaica, can learn from Flanker

It's easily and readily recognised that good, proactive leadership is essential to the organisation of any society.

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Related Topix: Travel, Jamaica Travel, Caribbean Travel, World News, Agriculture, Science, Breakfast, Life, Food, Opinion

Environmental News Network

Record number of Jamaican Iguanas released as part of ongoing...

The International Iguana Foundation today announced the release of a record 52 Jamaican Iguanas in April.

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The Gleaner

Jamaican Bar Association seminar set for June 14-16

The Jamaican Bar Association's penultimate weekend seminar takes place between June 14 and 16 at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort, Ocho Rios, St Ann.

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The Gleaner

Senate president's resignation sends wrong signals - G2K

GeneraTION 2000, the affiliate group of young professionals of the Jamaica Labour Party, is contending that the "forced resignation" of Senate President Stanley Redwood has sent the wrong message to struggling Jamaicans who have no means of escape.

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The Gleaner

West Kingston MP questions effectiveness of Tivoli enquiry

The political representative for West Kingston has criticized the People's National Party for its silence on recent comments made by the president of the PNP Youth Organisation who described civilians killed in the 2010 Tivoli incursion as casualties of war.

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Jamaica Observer

Nigerian-born dentist was on criminal charge

BACKGROUND checks on controversial dentist, Nigerian-born Dr Christopher Ogunsalu have revealed that he was charged in 2007 with assaulting a female assistant during a dispute at his Montego Bay office in St James.

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Related Topix: Dentistry, Trinidad, CA

The Gleaner

Former Gov't Senator Noel Monteith remembered as a political giant

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller in conversation with Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr Peter Phillips ; and Minister of State Luther Buchanan ; while attendingNoel Monteith, on Saturday, May 18 at the Carmel Moravian Church Scores of mourners and well wishers turned out to celebrate the life of former educator and People's National Party ... (more)

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, World News, Central America

Sun May 19, 2013

Jamaica Observer

Joyce Robinson was good for Jamaica

THE great spirit of generosity exhibited this past week by a number of individuals and institutions in tribute to the life and work of Dr Joyce Robinson, who made her transition last Sunday at the age of 87, is a welcome reminder that there still exists a warm light in the darkness of bile, mean-spiritedness and malice which now threaten to ... (more)

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Related Topix: Central America, World News, Libraries

The Gleaner

Rastas victimised ... again? Coral Gardens celebrations become a nightmare as 'cops' demand payment

Writing in Caribbean Today , journalist I Jabulani Tafari in an article titled, 'Adding Insult to Injury - Highway Robbery', claimed the event was a benefit stage show in aid of the victims and their families of the almost forgotten tragedy.

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Sat May 18, 2013

Free Republic

Jamaican Singer Derrick Morgan Has Been There, done That -- for Real

Jamaican singer Derrick Morgan recorded the song "Conquering Ruler" in 1967, and it was no empty boast.

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Jamaica Observer

a Come and feel the magica - Colombia wants Sandals

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Toyota Jamaica kicked off their three-month Toyotathon sales event last Saturday at Devon House on St Andrew.

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The Gleaner

Wheelchair druggist gets jail time... fined $1.3 million alongside two years mandatory

The wheelchair-bound man who was arrested and charged for attempting to smuggle cocaine and ganja out of Jamaica via the Sangster International Airport, in Montego Bay, was handed a mandatory two years and four months sentence and fined $1.3 million in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

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The Gleaner

Ja-born broadcaster honoured in Georgia

Jamaica-born Pat Baccas-Bowen, founder, CEO and host of Atlanta-based Future Movement Radio , has been appointed lieutenant colonel aide de camp by the governor of Georgia, the Honourable Nathan Neal.

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Related Topix: Travel, Jamaica Travel, Caribbean Travel, World News, Queens, NY, New York, NY

Fri May 17, 2013

The Gleaner

Woman imprisoned for drug trafficking

Natallia Shevanese Graham, who was charged for a number of drug offences including possession, possession with intent to supply, trafficking and importation, was sentenced to 12 months.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Central America, World News, Marijuana

The Gleaner

Youths encouraged to volunteer on Labour Day

Minister of Youth and Culture Lisa Hanna said the annual observance of Labour Day, May 23, can be an opportunity to teach young people the true meaning of service.

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Jamaica Observer

Capitalise on Rev Redwood's decision

GIVEN how the Rev Stanley Redwood gave a good account of himself during his short stint as Senate president, we have no doubt that he will, as he told this newspaper, continue to serve Jamaica from his new home in Canada.

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