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Jamaica can't afford a stimulus budget — Phillips
FINANCE Minister Dr Peter Phillips yesterday dismissed calls for a stimulus budget saying it was enticing, but unrealistic. Making the opening presentation during the 2012/13 Budget Debates at Gordon House in downtown Kingston, Dr Phillips said he felt "compelled to address the question as to whether there is a choic ...more
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23.4b Tax grab - Gov't targets extra revenue
Friday, May 25, 2012
THE Government will grab an extra $23.4 billion in taxes as it struggles to pay down the country’s massive $1.7 trillion debt, Finance Minister Peter Phillips said yesterday. Moves to plug the $274.5-billion hole in this year’s austerity ...more
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Canada pumps $62m into Ja’s polygraph programme
Friday, May 25, 2012
THE Government of Canada yesterday donated $62 million (CAD$705,000) to Jamaica as part of ongoing initiatives to bolster the island’s anti-crime and anticorruption programmes. The money will go towards the creation of a ‘Centre of Excel ...more
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Experts say budget fair
Friday, May 25, 2012
FINANCIAL sector experts praised the Government's revenue measures yesterday for striking a fair balance in addressing the need for economic growth without burdening livelihoods. "It was an excellent Budget," said financial analyst Dennis Chung. "It ...more
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Vendor says GCT reduction not enough
Friday, May 25, 2012
HOT dog vendor Terri Ann Lynch, who usually hardly ever listens to the budget debates, found the speech by Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips disappointing. "One per cent off of GCT (general Consumption Tax)?" Lynch, 22, said of yesterday's announce ...more
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Tax measures the death knell for tourism — Cummings
Friday, May 25, 2012
THE tax measures being imposed on tourism by the Government were last night described as the death knell of the industry and a signal that the Administration doesn't understand how the sector works. "Right now, it is clear to me that the Government ...more
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5:18 PM
Teen killed for laughing at man who fell from bicycle
Friday, May 25, 2012
POLICE are now hunting for a man who brutally stabbed a teenager to death for laughing at him when he fell from his bicycle. The dead teen has been identified as 17-year-old Shayheim Marsh. The incident happened in the community of Waterhou ...more
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Shaw says taxes will hit small businesses
Friday, May 25, 2012
OPPOSITION Spokesman on Finance, Planning, Growth and Economic Development, Audley Shaw says that the revenue measures announced by Government yesterday will hit small businesses and cancel out any reduction in telephone rates expected from recent te ...more
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Tax measures pose tougher environment for businesses
Friday, May 25, 2012
IN trying to make the move towards a more efficient general consumption tax (GCT) system less painful, the Government may have created a tougher environment for businesses. Instead of applying the sales tax to all goods and services and drastically ...more
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CDA: We are working on implementing places of safety recommendations
Friday, May 25, 2012
THE Child Development Agency (CDA) has responded to charges by human rights group Jamaicans for Justice that it has fallen down in its duty of care towards wards of the state. The rights lobby group on Tuesday lamented that three years after fire cl ...more
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Suitcase death accused couple remanded again
Friday, May 25, 2012
THE parents whose two-year-old son's decomposing body was found in suitcase at their home Kingston home were further remanded into police custody when they appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday. Alphanso and Stephanie ...more
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PEPPER POT: The strangest bedfellows
Friday, May 25, 2012
It's not just politics that makes strange bedfellows. The hate-mailer and the fraudulent one are teaming up for a second time. First, they worked together for the failed bank, tossing work from one to the other. Now they are protecting each other aga ...more
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KPH staff do free Labour Day surgeries
Friday, May 25, 2012
A team of 45 medical professionals took part in a Labour Day project with a difference yesterday when they conducted more than 20 minor surgeries at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH). The staff at Jamaica's main referral hospital conducted a number ...more
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KC May Fair back with a bang
Friday, May 25, 2012
KINGSTON College will host the return of its May Fair at the school's North Street campus tomorrow. The May Fair is back after an absence of over two decades and will be filled with new initiatives, the organisers have said. "It serves several purp ...more
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Man gets 30 days for oral sex beating
Friday, May 25, 2012
AN unemployed man was on Monday slapped with a one-month prison sentence for severely beating his lover because she refused to perform oral sex on him. Sheldon Carr's pleas and apologies as well as the pleas of his 46-year-old lover were not enough ...more
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Air passengers willing to pay US$10 enviro tax, study says
Friday, May 25, 2012
A 2009 study of passengers at Jamaica's airports revealed that they would be willing to pay up to US$10 per ticket as an environmental tax, according to minister of water, land, environment and climate change Robert Pickersgill. Speaking at the welc ...more
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VIDEO: 'Busy Signal' waives right to extradition hearing
Friday, May 25, 2012
DANCEHALL act Busy Signal shocked his fans yesterday when he decided against fighting his extradition to the United States where he is wanted for trial on drug-trafficking charges. Preparations are now being made by the Office of the Director of Pub ...more
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Emergency work disrupts water supply in St Ann
Friday, May 25, 2012
THE National Water Commission (NWC) wishes to apologize to customers in Roaring River Housing Scheme, Davis Town, Steer Town and Chalky Hill in St Ann for the disruption in piped water supply that they are now experiencing. The company says the disr ...more
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Water woes for St Andrew and St Catherine
Friday, May 25, 2012
NATIONAL Water Commission (NWC) customers in several sections of St Andrew and St Catherine are presently without their regular water supply. This is as a result of power outages affecting the Castle James, Barnett Wood and Well G pumping stations. ...more
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Passenger restrained on flight to Miami arrested
Friday, May 25, 2012
MIAMI, USA (AP) — A 24-year-old Canadian man is in federal custody for rushing toward the front of an American Airlines flight from Jamaica after the plane landed in Miami. The FBI says Ryan Snider faces federal charges including interference ...more
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12:20 PM
Churches raising money to fight gay marriage
Friday, May 25, 2012
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Scores of Maine churches will pass the collection plate a second time at Sunday services on Father's Day to kick off a fundraising campaign for the lead opposition group to November's ballot question asking voters to lega ...more
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12:06 PM
Escaped prisoner back in custody
Friday, May 25, 2012
THE Spanish Town Police are reporting that 19-year-old Devron Cohen, otherwise called ‘Fabian’, who escaped custody on Tuesday, was recaptured yesterday. Information received is that Cohen, who was facing multiple charges including murde ...more
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Customs officers arrested for larceny
Friday, May 25, 2012
DETECTIVES attached to the Organised Crime Investigation Division yesterday charged several custom officers and custom brokers for a plethora of breaches of the Larceny Act, following an intensive investigation. Those charged for fraudulent conversi ...more
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Holding lambastes WICB, Gibson over handling of senior players
Friday, May 25, 2012
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) – Legendary former West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding has once again slammed the West Indies Cricket Board’s management of the sport in the region and says their treatment of current senior players leaves ...more
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Female child found wandering Downtown
Friday, May 25, 2012
The Police are appealing to members of the public to assist them in identifying a child who was found wandering in the Downtown, Kingston area yesterday. She is believed to be about 8-years-old and is of dark complexion, slim build, sports a cornrow ...more
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Bolt is back to the business of being the fastest man
Friday, May 25, 2012
Usain Bolt is in the business of running again. Today, in the Czech city of Ostrava, the world's fastest man is in Europe to do what comes most naturally to him. You could be excused for thinking the last thing on his mind is running at an Olympic Ga ...more
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This Day in History - May 25
Friday, May 25, 2012
Today is the 146th day of 2012. There are 220 days left in the year. Today's Highlight 1997: Rebels topple the government of Sierra Leone in a violent coup; Polish voters adopt a constitution that removes the last traces of communism. Other Events ...more
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I would vote for Obama — Castro daughter
Friday, May 25, 2012
WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) — Mitt Romney called on President Barack Obama yesterday to disavow the "galling" endorsement by Fidel Castro's niece, who is visiting the United States from Cuba, the Republican's campaign said. The Obama administration ...more
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Mexico students protest 'biased' election coverage
Friday, May 25, 2012
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) — Thousands of university students marched through central Mexico City on Wednesday to protest media coverage that they say favours the candidate of the former ruling party in upcoming presidential elections. The stude ...more
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Mexico cartels making fake military uniforms
Friday, May 25, 2012
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) — Mexican marines say they have found a clandestine workshop in northern Mexico where presumed drug traffickers made copies of military uniforms. The navy says hundreds of camouflage pants, shirts and vests were found ...more
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Islamists ahead in Egypt vote
Friday, May 25, 2012
CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — Just a month ago its fallback candidate's chances were dismissed but Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is now convinced of a presidential election triumph thanks to its unrivalled grassroots work. In a sand-coloured villa in Ca ...more
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Three top Dom Rep cops accused in drug case
Friday, May 25, 2012
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Three high-ranking police officials in the Dominican Republic are being accused of providing security to drug traffickers in the latest public corruption case to hit the Caribbean country as it tries to ...more
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Almost 700 arrested in Canada tuition protest
Friday, May 25, 2012
MONTREAL, Canada (AP) — Police arrested almost 700 people overnight in the latest protest in Quebec over higher university tuition. The student protests have only grown since the provincial government last week passed emergency legislation in ...more
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Nigeria loses 180,000 barrels of oil daily to theft
Friday, May 25, 2012
ABUJA, Nigeria (AFP) — Nigeria loses 180,000 barrels of oil per day to theft, the head of the state oil firm said yesterday, while calling on lawmakers to help eliminate the scourge in Africa's largest producer. Nigerian National Petroleum Cor ...more
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Mexican mother arrested for gouging son's eyes
Friday, May 25, 2012
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) — Police in a Mexico City suburb arrested a mother and several relatives yesterday for allegedly gouging out the eyes of her five-year-old son in what authorities said appeared to have been a drug-fueled ritual. The bo ...more
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Auction of Ronald Reagan's blood cancelled
Friday, May 25, 2012
LONDON, England (AP) — A European auction house yesterday cancelled the planned online sale of a vial containing dried blood residue said to be from Ronald Reagan after complaints from the late US president's family and foundation. The PFC Auc ...more
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US alters al-Qaeda website as cyber war escalates
Friday, May 25, 2012
WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) — US experts scored a cyber warfare coup by targeting websites run by al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch and changing the message to undermine their propaganda, according to US officials. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attribut ...more
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UK police seize £4m in counterfeit coins
Friday, May 25, 2012
LONDON, England (AP) — Scotland Yard has seized a record number of counterfeit coins in raids on three properties just outside of London, the force announced yesterday. Three suspects have been arrested in the case. Police said in a state ...more
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No African can head World Bank, IMF says Mugabe
Friday, May 25, 2012
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AFP) — Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe yesterday lashed out at the "selfish" West for denying Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala the opportunity to head the World Bank. Okonjo-Iweala, a respected economist, la ...more
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'Slutwalk' protest
Friday, May 25, 2012
Kolkata, India — A foreign national joins Indian activists who take out a "SlutWalk" in Kolkata yesterday. The event was held to protest any form of sexual harassment of any gender in public places among other issues. "SlutWalk" protests origi ...more
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Drug patrol
Friday, May 25, 2012
AHUAS, Honduras — A Honduran Navy officer patrols next to a boy in Ahuas, Wednesday. On Friday, May 11, a helicopter mission with advisers from the DEA, appears to have mistakenly targeted civilians in a remote jungle area in the region, killi ...more
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Phillips opens Budget Debate today
Thursday, May 24, 2012
MINISTER of Finance and Planning Dr Peter Phillips will outline Government's plans to fund the $612-billion Estimates of Expenditure he tabled in Parliament on May 10, when he opens the 2012/2013 Budget Debate at Gordon House this afternoon. The Gov ...more
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4:35 PM
GCT to go down, white rum prices going up
Thursday, May 24, 2012
FINANCE Minister Dr Peter Phillips says government intends to reduce the GCT rate. The tax will go down one per cent from the current 17.5 to 16.5 per cent, and further over the medium term as the revenues bear up. The government will retain exempt ...more
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1:57 PM
Busy waives right to extradition hearing
Thursday, May 24, 2012
ENTERTAINER Busy Signal has waived his rights to an extradition hearing in Jamaica and will go directly to the United States, his attorney KD Knight said this afternoon. Busy will answer a charge of absconding bail. Knight said that because no extr ...more
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12:53 PM
Rowvain Lord missing
Thursday, May 24, 2012
THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Rowvain Lord, otherwise called ‘Farmer’, of Church Pen, Old Harbour, St Catherine, has been reported missing from home since Monday, November 28, 2011. He is of brown complexion, slim build and about 160 centimeters ( ...more
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Busy denied bail
Thursday, May 24, 2012
DANCEHALL artiste Busy Signal was denied bail when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court this morning. Resident Magistrate Stephanie Haisley said Busy — who is facing extradition to the United States — is a fugiti ...more
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Canadian fighter jet entertains in Kingston
Thursday, May 24, 2012
A Canadian fighter jet roared through the skies over the Corporate Area yesterday sending chills down the spines of thousands of citizens who thought they were about to witness a plane crash. But the jet, moving at a speed of 600 miles per hour, pun ...more
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'Dudus' to wait for June 8 date
Thursday, May 24, 2012
NEW YORK, USA — After several postponements, convicted Jamaican drug lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke will be sentenced on June 8, 2012. One of Coke's attorneys, Stephen H Rosen, told the Jamaica Observer in an interview yesterday that even if the ...more
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Early childhood institutions get Labour Day facelift
Thursday, May 24, 2012
WHEN students of the Sandhurst Early Childhood Development Centre in St Andrew return to school on Monday, they will walk into a freshly painted building complemented by a spruced-up schoolyard, adorned with hibiscus plants. Thanks to the Victoria M ...more
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Tivoli reports on its way — public defender
Thursday, May 24, 2012
THERE is still hope that the report of the Public Defender's probe of the May, 2010 operation in Tivoli Gardens, which left more than 70 persons dead, may be tabled in Parliament by the end of the month or, possibly, the week. "It's not there yet. I ...more
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Caribbean foods brought the nations together in China
Thursday, May 24, 2012
SHANGAI, China — The organisers of the Fifth Caribbean Association in China (CAC) anniversary gala celebration knew that if the event was to be successful, one ingredient had to be perfect — the Caribbean food to be served to the f ...more
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Food Awards volunteers
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Jamaica Observer Food Awards chair Novia McDonald-Whyte (front right) assists Sherie Hartley (front centre), first-year student at the University of Technology (UTech) School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, with her application to be a volunte ...more
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Prelim hearing in 'Ele's' rape case on June 28
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Flamboyant dancehall artiste Elephant Man, also called 'Ele', is scheduled to return to the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on June 28 for the start of his preliminary hearing on sex charges. The hearing was set for Monday but was postpon ...more
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Hear the Children's Cry condemns treatment of Mona student
Thursday, May 24, 2012
THE treatment by parents of the 12-year-old Mona Heights Primary student who reported a male teacher for sexual abuse this month, has drawn severe criticism from the children’s advocacy group, Hear The Children’s Cry. The organisation&rs ...more
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Health of Jamaica's children improving — Ferguson
Thursday, May 24, 2012
MINISTER of Health Fenton Ferguson has indicated that Jamaica is making strides and has seen successes in the area of child health. He was speaking recently at the Global Social Observatory’s (GSO) Afternoon Tea event in Geneva, Switzerland. ...more
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GG calls on church to conduct a ‘ministry of healing’
Thursday, May 24, 2012
GOVERNOR General Sir Patrick Allen is calling on the church to conduct a “ministry of healing” for persons, especially children, with physical wounds and emotional scars “inflicted by egregious acts of violence and abuse&rdquo. ...more
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2:21 PM
Cops looking for Jody-Ann McNarrin
Thursday, May 24, 2012
DETECTIVES from the Montego Bay CIB are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a woman who is of critical importance to an investigation now underway. She is 25-year-old Jody-Ann McNarrin, who is said to frequent the community of Glendevo ...more
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2:05 PM
'Ratty' killed in motor vehicle accident
Thursday, May 24, 2012
TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD labourer, Errol Reid otherwise called ‘Ratty’ of Stewart Town, Trelawny was killed in a collision along the Wilsonvale main road in Trelawny, yesterday. The Stewart Town police report that about 8:00 am, Reid was tr ...more
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1:15 PM
Woman left lying in her own urine in jail before she died
Thursday, May 24, 2012
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia woman who was jailed for public intoxication and later died following a stroke was left lying on the cement floor of the lockup for four hours in her own urine, a review of the Truro, N.S., police's handling of the incident ha ...more
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1:12 PM
Emergency repair work disrupts water supply in St James
Thursday, May 24, 2012
THE National Water Commission (NWC) is advising customers in St James, who are served by the Reading Heights system that the disruption they are experiencing is as a result of emergency repairs to a broken pipeline in the Bogue Heights community. Ar ...more
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11:35 AM
UN: Budget cuts causing cholera deaths in Haiti
Thursday, May 24, 2012
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A United Nations official says that people in Haiti are dying from cholera because funding to stem the disease is drying up. John Ging of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says there is an ...more
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11:32 AM
Modest growth for Caribbean countries in 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
CARIBBEAN countries recorded mixed economic growth last year as they continued to grapple with the fallout from the global economic and financial crisis. But the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is projecting economic growth of betwee ...more
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11:28 AM
Haitian police probe killing of Swiss woman
Thursday, May 24, 2012
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police in Haiti are investigating the killing of a Swiss woman whose beaten body turned up in the back seat of a Jeep in northern Haiti. Michel Martin of the United Nations police department says the body of the 45 ...more
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10:43 AM
Man detained over New York boy's 1979 disappearance
Thursday, May 24, 2012
NEW York's police chief said today that a man has been detained after implicating himself in the disappearance of a young boy in 1979, an unsolved crime that changed American attitudes to parenting. "An individual now in custody has made statements ...more
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9:41 AM
Caribbean needs reform policies — CDB president
Thursday, May 24, 2012
CARIBBEAN countries have been warned that they need to implement a raft of reform policies with immediate effect as the region seeks to overcome the impact of the global economic and financial crisis. “Success in carrying out the required stru ...more
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9:35 AM
British police say murder suspects fled to Caribbean
Thursday, May 24, 2012
POLICE say that three suspects in last weekend’s murder of a man have fled the country for the Caribbean. The authorities have declined to identify the Caribbean countries where the suspects, in the murder of Malakai McKenzie, 19, may have fle ...more
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6:14 AM
Moody's downgrades CDB
Thursday, May 24, 2012
THE US-based rating agency, Moody's Investors Service, has downgraded the credit ratings of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) by one notch from Aaa to Aa1. CDB president Dr Warren Smith told the bank’s annual board of governo ...more
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6:01 AM
Curfews imposed in 5 parishes
Thursday, May 24, 2012
CURFEWS were imposed in five parishes last night. They will remain in effect until 6:00 pm tomorrow. In St Andrew, curfews are in Grants Pen, Castle Heights, Kintyre, African Gardens, Tavern, Jungle 12, Bryce Hill, Nannyville and Bottom Rome. In S ...more
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Labour of love
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Hundreds of thousands of Jamaicans, including representatives of corporate entities, yesterday participated in scores of face-lifting projects across the island in observance of Labour Day. Here are some highlights. Labour of love --> more
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And, the children shall lead him
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Jamaica's sprinter Usain Bolt runs in a race with children in Ostrava, Czech Republic yesterday, ahead of a Golden Spike Athletic meeting on Friday. (Photo: AP) And, the children shall lead him --> more
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This Day in History - May 24
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Today is the 145th day of 2012. There are 221 days left in the year. Today's Highlight 1962: London conference of Barbados, Windward and Leeward Islands ends with proposals of "Little Eight" to form new West Indies federation. Other Events 1830: ...more
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Amnesty lashes US for bin Laden killing
Thursday, May 24, 2012
WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) — Amnesty International criticised the US yesterday for its use of lethal force, particularly for the "unlawful" killing of Osama bin Laden in a clandestine US commando raid in Pakistan last May. "The US administration ...more
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Pakistan convicts doctor who helped find bin Laden
Thursday, May 24, 2012
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A doctor who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden was convicted yesterday of conspiring against the state and sentenced to 33 years in prison, adding new strains to an already deeply troubled relationship between t ...more
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Egyptians vote in first free presidential election
Thursday, May 24, 2012
CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — Egyptians voted yesterday in the country's first free presidential elections, with Islamists and secularists vying for power with competing visions of an Egypt liberated from ousted president Hosni Mubarak's iron grip. M ...more
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Romney promises jobs, jobs, jobs
Thursday, May 24, 2012
WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) — Republican Mitt Romney, who has hammered President Barack Obama over his inability to substantially lower unemployment, said yesterday he would bring the jobless rate down to six per cent if elected. A Romney presidency ...more
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Mugabe talks human rights
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Harare, Zimbabwe — United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay (left) meets Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe at State House in Harare, yesterday. Pillay is on a first ever mission by a UN Human Rights chief to Zimbabwe, at t ...more
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UK anti-corruption officer arrested for bribery
Thursday, May 24, 2012
LONDON, England (AP) — London police arrested one of the force's anti-corruption officers and three former officers yesterday in an investigation of alleged bribery by a company working for an ex-governor of Nigeria's oil-rich Delta state who p ...more
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6.1-magnitude earthquake shakes northeastern Japan
Thursday, May 24, 2012
TOKYO, Japan (AP) — A strong earthquake has struck off the coast of northeastern Japan, but no tsunami is expected. The US Geological Survey says the magnitude-6.1 earthquake hit early today and was centered about 107 kilometres (66 miles) nor ...more
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Photo: Truck crash
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Dhar, India — Police examine a truck after it collided with another vehicle near Dhar, about 60 kilometres (37 miles) from Indore, yesterday. Police said that ten people, including three women and three children, were killed and some 60 others ...more
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French govt minister convicted of public insult
Thursday, May 24, 2012
PARIS, France (AP) — A Paris court has convicted a member of new French President Francois Hollande's government for publicly insulting the management of a ferry company, but only fined him four euros (US$5). Arnaud Montebourg, an anti-globali ...more
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1:38 PM
Dudus used high school track team to obtain visas for drug mules — witness
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
THE Christopher 'Dudus' Coke evidentiary in the US Southern District Court in Manhattan hearing took a bizarre turn today when a second prosecution witness testified that he used a St Catherine-based High School track and field team in a drug traffic ...more
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Amnesty pushes for inquiry into West Kgn deaths
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
TWO years after a military operation in West Kingston resulted in the deaths of some 70 civilians and two members of the armed forces, Amnesty International is pushing for an inquiry. That deadly clash occurred between the security forces and men tr ...more
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10:57 AM
Complete text of cooperating witness statement against 'Dudus'
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
THE Jamaica Observer has sourced a copy of the cooperating witness statement which was presented in the United States Southern District Court by prosecutors seeking to imprison former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke to the maximum 2 ...more
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Gov't committed to renewable energy — PM
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
PRIME Minister Portia Simpson Miller has reiterated her administration's commitment to the integrated use of renewable energy to develop the economy and eradicate poverty. The prime minister gave the assurance at last Wednesday's opening of th ...more
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'I saw Dudus kill 4' - Witness tells of murder, guns and drugs
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
NEW YORK, USA — A prosecution witness in the case against former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke yesterday gave details and damaging evidence of murder, gunrunning and drug-trafficking allegedly carried out at the direction of ...more
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Full text of the Gay Manifesto!
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
A local pastor says he is willing to take the fight to the powerful international gay lobby even if it means he loses his life. Speaking at the Jamaica Observer's Monday Exchange, the Reverend Peter Garth, read out a section of the Gay Manifesto whi ...more
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'They ought to go to prison'
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
REGIONAL head of the US-based advocacy group International Commission for the Prevention of Alcoholism and Drug Dependency (ICPA), Victor Roach has said that perpetrators of sexual abuses against children should be imprisoned and not be allowed to ge ...more
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No one benefits from high energy costs, says JPS head
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
PRESIDENT and Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) Kelly Tomblin has appealed for partnership between all stakeholders in order to lower the cost of electricity for the benefit of the entire country. Tomblin said it is ...more
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Accessing visa appointment information in YouTube
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Q: I have an appointment in the consular section of the United States Embassy next week. I live far away from Kingston and do not want to have to return to the embassy for a follow-up appointment. Where can I find information that will help me to be ...more
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Lawyer says gay lobby a threat to freedom of speech, religion
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW and member of the Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society Alexis Robinson says the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) agenda is posing a threat to freedom of religion, speech and conscience of those who oppose the lifestyle ...more
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Volunteerism a good way to demonstrate kindness, says GG
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
GOVERNOR General Sir Patrick Allen has underscored the importance of volunteerism, saying that more Jamaicans should use it as a vehicle to make a difference in the lives of others and in the country. Sir Patrick, addressing the Peace Corps 50th ann ...more
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Youth unemployment high, says ILO
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
SEVERAL hundred thousand Jamaicans are among 75 million unemployed youth across the globe, many of whom have given up on job hunting, according to the 2012 Global Employment Trends For Youth. The report, released yesterday by the Geneva-based Intern ...more
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JLP lashes cuts in education budget
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
OPPOSITION Spokesperson on Education and Human Resource Development, Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert has accused the Government of failing to put their money where its mouth was in terms of the education budget for fiscal year 2012/2013. "The Government ...more
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150 PATH beneficiaries to get houses under new project
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
ONE hundred and fifty beneficiaries of the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) will get a chance to have their own home this year under a new housing pilot project. The $20-million Social Housing Project is a partnership bet ...more
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This Day in History - May 23
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Today is the 144th day of 2012. There are 222 days left in the year. Today's Highlight 2010: Rebels in support of Tivoli Gardens don Christopher 'Dudus' Coke fire-bomb two police stations in the Jamaican capital. They are protesting the Jamaica Lab ...more
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PHOTO: A tribute to fallen cops
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Police constables lay a wreath on a table as a tribute to their fallen colleagues at last Thursday's opening of the 69th Police Federation conference at Breezes Resort and Spa in Trelawny. (Photo: Llewellyn Wynter) A tribute to fallen cops --> more
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PHOTO: Hobbling around
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
An elderly man hobbles on his crutches along Fletchers Avenue in Linstead, St Catherine, on Monday. (Photo: Joseph Wellington) Hobbling around --> more
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Clarke, Samuda added to debate roster
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
MINISTER of Agriculture and Fisheries Roger Clarke and Opposition spokesman on transport and works and infrastructure development — Karl Samuda — have been added to the list of speakers in the 2012/2013 Budget Debate. Both veteran parlia ...more
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4:23 PM
Notorious 'mountain man' arrested in parking lot
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
HELENA, Montana (AP) — Police arrested notorious "mountain man" Dan Nichols Tuesday on drug charges following a months-long search that came nearly three decades after he and his father kidnapped a world-class athlete. Nichols was taken into c ...more
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4:05 PM
5 dead in apparent murder-suicide
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
,p> SALEM, Oregon (AP) — Police were investigating the deaths of three Oregon children and their parents as an apparent murder-suicide Wednesday after authorities found the bodies of the children and their mother at a burned home and their ...more
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3:40 PM
Motorcyclist killed in Stewart Town crash
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
STEWART TOWN, Trelawny - The death of a motorcyclist in a motor vehicle accident along the roadway here, while on his way to participate in Labour Day activities in this community this morning, put a damper on the day's proceedings. The deceas ...more
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3:08 PM
Gun, ammo, ganja seized in Mount Salem
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
ONE 9mm pistol, one 9mm live round, eight ounces of ganja and documents suspected to be that of scammers were seized in Mount Salem, St James this morning. Information received from the Mount Salem Police is that about 10:08 am., a team of officers ...more
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11:58 AM
ANANDA ALERT! Teen missing from Marverley
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Christina Watt of Dorien Avenue in Marverley, Kingston 20 has been reported missing since Monday. She is of brown complexion, slim build and about five feet six inches tall with a scar on her forehead. The Duhaney Park police rep ...more
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11:13 AM
Murder in Hartford
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
GUNMEN struck in Hartford, Westmoreland last night, leaving death in their wake. Police report that about 10:15 last night, 23-year-old Omar Crooks, otherwise called "Shanie Morgan" was at Morass Lane in Hartford, Westmoreland when explosions were h ...more
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11:07 AM
Homemade gun and ammo seized in Clarendon
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
THE police yesterday seized one homemade firearm and a 12-gauge cartridge in Corn Piece District, Hayes, Clarendon. The police report that about 3:00 pm, an operation was being carried out in the area when the weapon was found under sheets of zinc o ...more
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11:02 AM
"Willy" stabbed to death in Denham Town
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
One man is dead and another is in custody, following a stabbing incident in Denham Town, West Kingston yesterday. The police have identified the dead man as 29-year-old Gavin Sharpe, also called "Willy" of Metcaffe Street in Denham Town. Police re ...more
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10:49 AM
Barber killed in Clarendon
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
HOMICIDE investigators are probing the circumstances surrounding the gun slaying of a barber at Cross Roads District in Chapleton, Clarendon. The dead man has been identified as 25-year-old Kirkwood Smith. Police report that Smith was at his fathe ...more
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10:04 AM
Prisoner escapes from Spanish Town lock up
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
A prisoner who was charged with multiple felonies, escaped from the Spanish Town Police Station yesterday. Reports are that about 3:30 pm, the prisoner, identified as Dervon Cohen, otherwise called ‘Tank Cleaner’, escaped from custody af ...more
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7:31 AM
ANANDA ALERT! teen missing from Ward Close
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
AN Ananda Alert has been launched for 17-year-old Natalia Rogers of Lower Ward Close, White Hall, Kingston 11 who has been reported missing since Monday, May 21. She is of dark complexion, slim build and about 163 centimetres (five feet fur inches) ...more
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Obama, Romney in dead heat on economy
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) — The race for the White House is tightening up with President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney in a dead heat on the question of who could best fix the economy, a new poll showed yesterday. The incumbent and his a ...more
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Man fined for slapping 8-y-o son in the face
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
A man who claimed he slapped his eight-year-old son the face because he disobeyed his order and climbed a plum tree in his school uniform was on Monday ordered to pay a fine of $15,000 or serve six months in prison. Winston Smith was fined by Senior ...more
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PHOTO: Goo-goo!
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
A woman plays with a toddler outside the Mona Heights Primary School in St Andrew on Monday. (Photo: Joseph Wellington) Goo-goo! --> more
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Pig count on
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
THE data collection field staff of the Agricultural Marketing Information Division of the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, in collaboration with Trevor Hamilton & Associates (THA) Limited, is in the process of conducting a field data coll ...more
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SAfrica white supremacist murder verdict awaited
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
VENTERSDORP, South Africa (AP) — Protesters scuffled outside a courthouse in rural South Africa yesterday as they awaited a judge's ruling in the murder of a white supremacist. Two black farmworkers are accused of beating 69-year-old Eugene Te ...more
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Quebec students mark 100 days of tuition hike protests
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
MONTREAL, Canada (AP) — Thousands of students were expected to rally in the Montreal streets yesterday to mark 100 days since the movement against higher tuition fees began. The protest comes after Quebec's provincial government passed emergenc ...more
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UN, Zimbabwe PM decry ongoing violence
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — UN human rights chief Navi Pillay yesterday suggested that Zimbabwe take steps to prevent a recurrence of the deadly violence which engulfed the last presidential election four years ago. Zimbabwe's prime minister sai ...more
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1:19 PM
Witness tells of murder, guns and drugs at Dudus hearing
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
NEW YORK, USA — A prosecution witness in the case of former Tivoli Gardens strong man Christopher Coke, has given details and damaging evidence of murder, gun running and drug trafficking allegedly carried out at the direction of and by Coke hi ...more
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11:23 AM
Dudus ex-adviser building case against him
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
A former longtime senior adviser to Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, the Jamaican drug lord who pleaded guilty last year to federal conspiracy charges in Manhattan, has been cooperating with the authorities to help build the criminal case against his former ...more
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Tackle homosexuality in schools, says churchman
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
LEADING clergyman Rev Peter Garth says a special effort ought to be made to tackle the problem of homosexuality in schools. He cited examples of irregular sexual behaviour in institutions for girls and called for an urgent investigation into "what h ...more
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‘Busy’ facing extradition
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
POPULAR Jamaican dancehall singjay ‘Busy Signal’ was yesterday arrested by members of the Fugitive Apprehension Team at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston as he disembarked a flight, at 3:45 pm, after being deported from ...more
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Changes coming to INDECOM Act
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
FALMOUTH, Trelawny — The ministries of national security and justice have agreed to review the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) Act in a bid to improve strained relationship between the security forces and the oversight body. ...more
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VIDEO: Let the people decide
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
VICE-PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Association of Evangelicals Rev Peter Garth has urged Jamaicans not to leave the repeal of buggery laws to parliamentarians, but instead called for a referendum on this issue, which has again taken centre stage with the ...more
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VIDEO: Obama deceived on same-sex marriage
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
A converted American homosexual has criticised United States President Barack Obama for his stance in supporting same-sex marriage in his homeland. "I believe that he is deceived and he has done more damage than good," Rev Dennis Jernigan told edito ...more
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2:25 PM
No ruling on Keith Clarke killing — DPP
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
THE Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) says no ruling can be made on the May 2010 fatal shooting of accountant Keith Clarke as crucial information has still not been handed. Clarke was cut down in a hail of bullets fired by members ...more
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11:12 AM
Woman beaten with belt, board for withholding sex
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
AN unemployed man was yesterday slapped with a one-month prison sentence for severely beating his lover because she refused to perform oral sex on him. Sheldon Carr’s pleas and apologies as well as the pleas of his 46-year-old lover were not e ...more
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Mona Heights Primary students, parents protest charge against teacher
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
CLASSES at Mona Heights Primary in St Andrew was disrupted yesterday following a protest by parents and students over the treatment of a teacher who has been accused of molesting a female student. The male teacher was charged last week over the alle ...more
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Group braces for costly fight against gays
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
A group opposing homosexuality in Jamaica is adamant that it will not let up on its stance against the gay agenda and is prepared for a costly battle in order to prevent the erosion of family life and the ultimate destruction of the nation. The grou ...more
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Put more youth online, urges World Bank
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
JAMAICA is being urged to steer its youth toward online commercial innovation if it is serious about fast-tracking national development. World Bank country representative for Jamaica Giorgio Valentini, in his message for Workers' Week 2012 — w ...more
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