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      <title><![CDATA[Security guard shot dead; call for JamaicaEye in Santa Cruz]]></title>
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          SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth &#8212; Councillor for the Santa Cruz Division Christopher Williams is urging the Government to step up its pace and investment in the national closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance system, JamaicaEye, in this south-central town, following yesterday's attempted robbery and shoot-out in which a Guardsman security guard was killed and two others injured.
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        <media:description> A crowd gathers at the crime scene in Santa Cruz, yesterday.</media:description>
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      <title><![CDATA['Butch' Stewart posthumously awarded St Lucia's 3rd highest honour]]></title>
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          GORDON &#8220;Butch&#8221; Stewart has joined the pantheon of St Lucian stars in posthumously receiving that country's third highest honour, the St Lucia Cross (SLC).The award celebrates the late Sandals Resorts International (SRI) founder and chairman for his superlative imprint on the island's economy through three thriving resorts.
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        <media:description> STEWART...
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      <title><![CDATA[Vaccination roll-out delayed; shipment from India to now arrive Monday]]></title>
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          THE roll-out of the country's COVID-19 vaccination programme has been set back by at least a week, as the shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines that were to arrive from India today has now been rescheduled.
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        <media:description> Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton said on Tuesday that large vaccination centres will be opened</media:description>
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      <title><![CDATA[JTA welcomes plan for 1st round vaccination of educators]]></title>
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          PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) Jasford Gabriel has welcomed the inclusion of educators in the first batch of persons targeted for the COVID-19 jab even as the entity is engaging in another round of canvassing to see how many of its membership will ultimately take the vaccine.
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        <media:description> Jasford Gabriel</media:description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 4, Mar, 2021 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bail extended for accused trio in businesswoman's murder]]></title>
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          MANDEVILLE, Manchester &#8212; The three people who were charged with murder in relation to the November 26, 2020 stabbing death of 63-year-old businesswoman Marcia Chin-you had their bail extended when they appeared in the Manchester Parish Court, yesterday.
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        <media:description> CHIN-YOU... found dead in her motor car
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      <pubDate>Thu, 4, Mar, 2021 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Biden's vaccine plan raises recovery hopes for Jamaican Gov't]]></title>
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          NEW United States President Joseph Biden's plans to secure delivery of enough coronavirus vaccines for all Americans by May got the thumbs up yesterday in Parliament, as a positive for the ailing Jamaican economy.
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      <pubDate>Thu, 4, Mar, 2021 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[DEATH FROM A SNEEZE]]></title>
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          THE dreaded novel coronavirus has left a family in the Corporate Area community of Kingston Gardens in despair after it claimed the life of the matriarch and left one of her daughters in a coma.All other members of the family who share the premises in Kingston Gardens are living in fear as they await the results of their COVID-19 tests.
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      <pubDate>Thu, 4, Mar, 2021 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[PHOTO: Finding his way around]]></title>
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          A blind man makes his way in busy downtown Kingston on Tuesday.(Photo: Joseph Wellington) 
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        <media:description> A blind man makes his way in busy downtown Kingston on Tuesday. 
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      <pubDate>Thu, 4, Mar, 2021 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[10 families,10 houses ]]></title>
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          SHAKEIRA Ayton was overjoyed as she received the keys to her new house from Food for the Poor through a donation from the National Baking Company Foundation.&#8220;I feel wonderful, I give thanks,&#8221; said Ayton, a single mother of three children.Ayton was living in what she described as &#8220;terrible conditions&#8221; as her then house, made from plywood, had been rotting away and the roof was infested with rodents.
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        <media:description> Crystal Clark (left) receives the keys to her new house from Christine Scott-Brown, executive director
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      <pubDate>Thu, 4, Mar, 2021 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Trench Town stalwart, 101-year-old Evadney Moodie remembered as God-fearing woman]]></title>
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          LONG-TIME Trench Town resident and People's National Party (PNP) stalwart Evadney Moodie was last Saturday eulogised as a God-fearing woman who never resiled from speaking her mind, even at the risk of losing friendships.Moodie, who marked her 101st birthday last September, was also praised for instilling a strong work ethic in her family, as they celebrated her life at Lyndhurst Methodist Church on Lyndhurst Road in St Andrew.
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        <media:description> Pall-bearers take the coffin with the body of 101-year-old Evadney Moodie from Lyndhurst Methodist Church on Saturday. (Photos: Joseph Wellington)</media:description>
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      <title><![CDATA[NIDS boss says system will avoid security risks]]></title>
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          PROGRAMME director of the national identification System (NIDS), Warren Vernon, on Tuesday assured members of the joint select committee (JSC) reviewing the legislation that he is confident in the standards being followed to avoid security risks.
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        <media:description> Programme director for
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      <title><![CDATA[Court upholds 40-year sentence against St Catherine man]]></title>
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          Christopher  Locke, the St Catherine man who was in 2017 sentenced to life behind bars with 40 years before parole for burning his ex-girlfriend alive, last week lost his bid to have his sentence reduced by the Appeal Court.
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      <pubDate>Thu, 4, Mar, 2021 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[This Day in History - March 4]]></title>
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          Today is the 63rd day of 2021. There are 302 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1829: An unruly crowd mobs the White House during the inaugural reception for US President Andrew Jackson.OTHER EVENTS1632: Sweden's King Gustavus II resumes his Palatinate campaign in Germany.
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        <media:description> 2011: Moammar Gadhafi's regime strikes back at its opponents with a powerful attack on the closest Opposition-held city to Tripoli and using a barrage of tear gas and live ammunition to smother new protests in the capital. At least 37 people died in fighting and in an explosion at an ammunition depot in Libya's rebellious east.</media:description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 4, Mar, 2021 11:20:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pandemic fuels attacks on health workers globally]]></title>
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          LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) &#8211; Two Nigerian nurses were attacked by the family of a deceased COVID-19 patient. One nurse had her hair ripped out and suffered a fracture. The second was beaten into a coma.
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        <media:description> In this June 9, 2020 still image from video provided by nurse
Angeles Carrillo Mercado, a man throws hot coffee on her and
threatens her after she escorted his children out of a COVID-19
ward because they were not wearing masks in San Francisco del
Rincón, Mexico. (Photo: AP)</media:description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 4, Mar, 2021 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Today's Horoscope &#8212; March 4, 2021]]></title>
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          HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, March 4, 2021:Privat e, intimate and autonomous, you need a cozy place in which to exist. You produce your best work this year, and it is very successful. If single, you so crave creative isolation that you don't even search for a mate this year. You wait some years before joining your soul mate. If attached, you can communicate without speaking and have an intensely psychic bond. VIRGO will never lead you on. 
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      <pubDate>Thu, 4, Mar, 2021 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[MAJ says ready to help as Gov't outlines vaccination programme]]></title>
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          With indications by Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton that the Government's ambitious COVID-19 vaccination roll-out plan stands to be staggered, not by the lack of potions but more by a shortage of personnel to administer the jabs, the Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) is signalling that its members are ready to help.
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        <media:description> Jamaica is scheduled to receive a
total 50,000 AstraZeneca vaccines
tomorrow, courtesy of India, triggering
phase one of the Government's
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      <pubDate>Wed, 3, Mar, 2021 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Committee considering $3-m fine for sexual harassment]]></title>
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          THE joint select committee of Parliament currently reviewing the Sexual Harassment Bill has been considering increasing fines for breaches of the legislation from a maximum $1 million to $3 million.However, committee members had raised concerns that a limit of that size may not prove to be the deterrent that they would wish for employers who choose to ignore the ruling of a tribunal which will eventually handle the complaints.
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          DUNCANS, Trelawny &#8212; Forty-year-old farmer Nadeen Geddes who pleaded guilty to the murder of her sister, 36-year-old Tamara Geddes, last year, was sentenced to 20 years in prison at hard labour in the Trelawny Circuit Court yesterday.She will become eligible for parole after serving 15 years.
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          KINGSTON Public Hospital (KPH) is the first of seven health facilities to receive medical supplies and equipment valued at approximately $260 million from the Japanese Government in aid in the fight against the novel coronavirus.The other beneficiaries to receive donations include Mandeville Regional Hospital, Bustamante Hospital for Children, National Chest Hospital, May Pen Hospital, Cornwall Regional Hospital and St Ann's Bay Hospital.
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        <media:description> A view of the Kingston Public Hospital, one of seven health facilities to benefit from medical supplies donated to the Government
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      <title><![CDATA[JAH B's WORK IS DONE]]></title>
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          The global music industry yesterday joined Jamaica in mourning the passing of Bunny Wailer, a co-founder and the last surviving member of the island's iconic reggae group The Wailers that included Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.Bunny Wailer, whose given name was Neville O'Riley Livingston, died just after 8:00 am yesterday at Medical Associates Hospital in St Andrew. The 73-year-old had been ailing for some time.
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          Today is the 62nd day of 2021. There are 303 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1999: An estimated 74 million US viewers watch former White House intern Monica Lewinsky confess the details of her affair with US President Bill Clinton. OTHER EVENTS1707: Mogul Emperor Aurangjeb dies in India and is succeeded by Bahadur.
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          PARLIAMENT has outlined changes to the meeting of the Standing Finance Committee scheduled to examine the 2021&#8211;2022 Estimates of Expenditure and related documents today and tomorrow. 
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          MARK Brantley, premier of Nevis and foreign affairs minister of St Kitts and Nevis, has extended gratitude to the Government and people of India for a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines that arrived in the federation Monday.&#8220;We welcome this diplomatic success in strengthening our bilateral relations with India. India has demonstrated in a tangible way its commitment to the people of St Kitts and Nevis.
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          MAY PEN, Clarendon &#8212; The Clarendon police have warned motorists to be careful when traversing the major thoroughfares in that parish, especially along the toll road, as criminals have been setting traps across the roads that can not only cause damage to their vehicles, but also make drivers vulnerable to attack.
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