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Cathy Decker (centre), PR Representative for Sandals Group in New York, accepts the Children of Jamaica Outreach (COJO) 15th anniversary award on behalf of Observer chairman Gordon 'Butch' Stewart from Gary Williams, chairman of COJO. At left is Geneive Brown Mitzger, Consul General of Jamaica to New York.
SANDALS boss and Observer chairman Gordon 'Butch' Stewart has been honoured by the Children of Jamaica Outreach (COJO) for his outstanding contribution to the New York-based charitable organisation. COJO, celebrating its 15th anniversary, is a non-profit organisation funded by Jamaican-born Gary Williams ...more
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Workers, ICIs protest planned Air J sale to Trinidad
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
DOZENS of Air Jamaica staff and informal commercial importers (ICIs) yesterday staged a protest outside the Air Jamaica building in downtown Kingston over the Government's plan to sell the airline to Trinidad-owned Caribbean Airlines. The workers, ...more
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
EIGHTEEN-year-old Gary Buchanan yesterday got his dying wish — to meet with Prime Minister Bruce Golding -- a meeting that ended with a pledge that might give the brave teen a little more time. Buchanan, now a patient at the National Chest Hospital ...more
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Nettleford to get official funeral
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
LATE vice-chancellor emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Rex Nettleford, is to be accorded an Official Funeral on Tuesday February 16 at the University Chapel in Mona, Kingston. Arrangements are being made to accommodate 5 ...more
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Police discuss money with minister
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
JUNIOR Minister Arthur Williams will tomorrow meet with representatives of the Jamaica Police Federation to discuss wage claims. Williams, who has portfolio responsibility for the public service, met yesterday with the members of the Federation at t ...more
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
COPS from the Inspectorate of the Constabulary and auditors from the Ministry of National Security yesterday began their audit of the inventories at the Police Armoury and Stores. The audit was ordered by Acting Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington ...more
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21 said injured in prison riot
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
THE police and prison officers yesterday foiled an escape bid by rioting inmates at the high-security Horizon Adult Remand Centre in Kingston, but 21 inmates were injured in the incident. Police with riot gear and Jamaica Defence Force soldiers had ...more
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Patterson urges Caricom countries to help lift Haiti
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
FORMER prime minister PJ Patterson has called on members of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) to change the negative perception they have of their neighbour, Haiti. Speaking at Saturday's press conference on Caricom's relief efforts in Haiti, Patte ...more
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
CREDITORS hoping to recover money from failed investment club Olint were left disappointed and angry yesterday after liquidator John Connolly told them he had so far only identified US$10 million in liquid assets, less than a sixth of total claims. ...more
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Jamaica must improve access to public health care
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
PERMANENT secretary in the Ministry of Health (MOH) Dr Jean Dixon says Jamaica will continue to lag behind in achieving first-world status if access to public health care is not improved. Dixon, speaking at Friday's first training session for partic ...more
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'Dozens' of field hospitals to open in Haiti
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) -- Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced yesterday that over 1,000 Latin American doctors, many of them trained on the communist island, would open "dozens" of field hospitals in quake-ravaged Haiti. The doctors and students in the ...more
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- Five of 10 American Baptists charged with kidnapping and conspiracy appeared at a Haitian court yesterday for hearings on their attempt to take a busload of children to the neighbouring Dominican Republic. Laura Silsby ...more
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Bahamas to return migrants to quake-ravaged Haiti
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- More than five dozen Haitian migrants detained as they sailed north through the Bahamas will be returned directly to the earthquake-ravaged country, the Bahamian prime minister said yesterday. Two Royal Bahamas Defence ...more
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NWC tightens water restrictions
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
THE National Water Commission yesterday imposed further restrictions in the Corporate Area as its supply systems dip lower. Effective yesterday, Karachi, Long Mountain, Mountain View and surrounding areas, Liguanea, Mona Heights, August Town, Old Ho ...more
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US land-titling experts to visit Jamaica
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
THE United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is to bring in experts from Washington DC to evaluate Jamaica's Land Administration and Management Programme (LAMP), even as it seeks to help the country sort out land tenure issues. "Re ...more
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Judge to rule on disclosure of Chin's alleged role in NHT fraud
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
SENIOR Magistrate Judith Pusey should rule today on an application from the defence in the Cuban lightbulb case for disclosure of the Contractor General's report on businessman Rodney Chin's alleged involvement in a recently uncovered case of fraud a ...more
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Be careful with licence disc stickers – tax dept
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
The Tax Administration wishes to again remind motorists, that a new security feature was added to the motor vehicle licence disc (sticker) several months ago. As a result no attempt should be made to remove the sticker, once affixed to the windscreen ...more
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Teenager murdered at Ambrook Lane
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
A 17 year-old boy was shot and killed at Ambrook Lane in St Andrew yesterday. He has been identified as Dwight Cole of Molynes Road, Kingston 10. Police say Cole was walking in the area about 5:40 pm when he was pounced on by unknown assailants who ...more
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
David Markus, the attorney representing embattled Reggae singer, Buju Banton, says the artiste’s trial has been pushed back to April and will not start by next month as was anticipated. Banton, whose real name is Mark Myrie, has been in Florida jail ...more
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One killed, another injured in Majesty Gardens
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
One man was shot and another injured in the hotbed community of Majesty Gardens in St Andrew yesterday morning. Dead is 34-year-old Kirk Perkins otherwise called ‘Myrie’, while injured is a 24-year-old man, both of Majesty Gardens. The Constabulary ...more
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
A man was stabbed to death as he boarded a bus at the Spanish Town bus terminus in St Catherine yesterday. He has been identified as 24-year-old Warren Daley, otherwise called ‘Willy’ of Kingland district, Kitson Town in the parish. Police report t ...more
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Utilities cut at another company of disgraced financier
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The state-owned Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) has disconnected the electricity and water at yet another company of disgraced Texan financier, Sir Allen Stanford. Yesterday, APUA disconnected the utilities at the Stan ...more
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Detectives attached to the Duhaney Park CIB have commenced a probe into the shooting death of a man at his home at Ferry district, St Andrew last night. Dead is Howard Brown, 24, otherwise called Blacks. Information received by the CCN is that abou ...more
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Thirty-one year-old Kevin Rankin of Darby Terrace, Drewsland, Kingston 20 was killed by a man in that community last night. The Constabulary Communication Network is reporting that about 7:50 pm, Rankin and a man were at a shop in the community wher ...more
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Couch surfingGRAND JUNCTION, Colorado (AP) -- Crane Sorensen is a surfer, but he's not riding the waves. He's a couch surfer, seeing the world while crashing on the couches of strangers. The 26-year-old Grand Junction man is a member of Couchsurfin ...more
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Body found in landing gear of NY-to-Tokyo flight
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- A body was found inside a wheel well of a Delta Air Lines plane after it landed in Tokyo from New York, and Japanese authorities were yesterday trying to identify the man. The body of the apparent stowaway was clad only in a lon ...more
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