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      <title><![CDATA['What kind of demon possessed these killers?']]></title>
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          This is an edited version of the victim impact statement read in the Supreme Court on Wednesday by a relative of Joeith &#8220;Chrystal&#8221; Lynch and her mother, Charmaine &#8220;Gloria&#8221; Rattray who were brutally murdered and their heads severed in July 2011. Before sentencing the four men convicted of the gruesome crime, High Court Judge Justice Vivene Harris had ordered that no mention should be made of the individual's name or gender in any report on the...
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA['Onerous' Gov't guidelines delay CRH project]]></title>
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          MONTEGO BAY, St James &#8212; Head of the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) rehabilitation project oversight committee Professor Archibald McDonald has bemoaned the onerous government procurement guideline process, which he said has resulted in delays in the $4-billion project.Providing an update on the project at Grand-A-View Restaurant and Event Place in St James yesterday, Professor McDonald stated that the project has three phases.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Some churches make noise, too, says McKenzie]]></title>
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          MONTEGO BAY, St James &#8212; Minister of Local Government and Community Development Desmond McKenzie has expressed concerns that noise emanating from some churches is disturbing neighbourhoods, too.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Holness welcomes increased Japanese assistance]]></title>
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          PRIME Minister Andrew Holness says that two maritime patrol vessels which have been donated to Jamaica by the Japanese Government will boost the country's ability to secure its borders.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[MURDER'S GRUESOME IMPACT]]></title>
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          THE excruciating pain and loss experienced by the family of Charmaine Rattray and her daughter Joeith Lynch when both were brutally chopped, shot and beheaded in their house in July 2011 was relayed in a victim impact statement read to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, moments before Justice Vivene Harris sentenced the four men convicted of the gruesome crime to life in prison.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 08:18:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[UK exit poll suggests majority for Conservatives]]></title>
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          LONDON, England (AP) &#8212; Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party is likely to win a solid majority of seats in Parliament an exit poll suggested late last night &#8212; a decisive outcome to a Brexit-dominated election that should allow Johnson to fulfil his plan to take the UK out of the European Union next month.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:20:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Special needs children get Christmas wish]]></title>
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          WHEN Olympic and World Champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce got to the second floor of the Half-Way-Tree Transport Centre yesterday morning, more than 200 special needs children were astonished.Some of them, with tears in their eyes, could not contain their excitement, while others who were in disbelief, sought confirmation.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dengue remains widespread in Manchester, says health official]]></title>
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          MANDEVILLE, Manchester &#8212; Health officials say dengue remains a major problem in this south-central parish. Speaking at the monthly sitting of the Manchester Municipal Corporation yesterday, Acting Medical Officer of Health Shannette Blair-Walters said the Manchester Health Department &#8220;continues to see [dengue] cases in almost all health facilities&#8221;.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gangsters in cross hairs ]]></title>
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          THE police will be intensifying their efforts to capture, charge and convict gang members heading into the new year, as part of efforts to stem the violence that has left more than 1,260 people dead across the island since the start of the year.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Politicians sad after deadly Dover attack]]></title>
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          THE tears seemed set to flow at any minute as Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia &#8220;Babsy&#8221; Grange responded to questions from the media on Wednesday in her first public comments following the fatal shooting of her cousin and three others in Dover, St Catherine, on Tuesday night.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sandals Foundation plants 500 trees in MoBay forestry reserve]]></title>
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          THE Sandals Foundation has planted more than 500 trees in Montego Bay Valley Forestry Reserve as part of its Adopt-a-Hillside programme, launched last Friday, in association with the Forestry Department.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[New drugs show rare promise against advanced breast cancer]]></title>
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          SAN ANTONIO, USA (AP) &#8212; Doctors, on Wednesday, reported unusually good results from tests of two experimental drugs in women with an aggressive form of breast cancer that had spread widely and resisted many previous treatments.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 10:09:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gov't vows to tackle squatting as part of crime fight]]></title>
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          SECURITY Minister Dr Horace Chang says the Government continues to take proactive steps to tackle the pervasive issue of squatting across Jamaica.Noting that this challenge has contributed to the social ills affecting the society, including crime and violence, he said addressing it effectively remains a priority for the Administration.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 10:03:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Burger King's 35 Years of Awesome]]></title>
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          It was an emotional walk down memory lane as Burger King celebrated '35 years of awesome' in Jamaica with its Popeyes and Little Ceasars family while making a commitment of 'Going Further, Together'. The chain of fast-food restaurants has flourished across Jamaica since opening its first store on Main Street, Ocho Rios, in 1984. The success of the burger chain subsequently led to the introduction of popular fried chicken chain Popeyes and pizza makers Little Ceasars to the local...
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Be careful what you purchase]]></title>
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          THE Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) is urging consumers to exercise due diligence when making their purchases during the Christmas season. Speaking at a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank on Wednesday, the agency's Chief Executive Officer Dolsie Allen said that consumers should also demand receipts when making transactions.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[CAC secures $18.5m on behalf of aggrieved consumers]]></title>
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          THE Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) has secured $18.5 million in refunds and compensation on behalf of aggrieved consumers who transacted business with product and service providers between January and November of this year.Speaking at a JIS Think Tank on Wednesday, the agency's chief executive officer Dolsie Allen said that the amount represents resolution of 82.5 per cent of the complaints received for the 11-month period.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Photos: Remembering Michael Manley]]></title>
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          Minister wiithout as portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister Lester Michael Henry lays a wreath at the shrine of the late former prime minister at National Heroes' Park on December 10, to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the birth of the late former prime minister. (Photos: JIS)
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[More Americans dying at home than in hospitals]]></title>
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          BOSTON, USA (AP) &#8211; For the first time since the early 1900s, more Americans are dying at home rather than in hospitals, a trend that reflects more hospice care and progress toward the kind of end that most people say they want. Deaths in nursing homes also have declined, according to Wednesday&#8217;s report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 10:48:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[US, China near deal]]></title>
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          WASHINGTON,DC, USA (AP) &#8212; The Trump Administration and China are close to finalising a modest trade agreement that is expected to suspend tariffs that are set to kick in Sunday, de-escalating their 17-month trade war.A &#8220;deal is close'', said Myron Brilliant, the US Chamber of Commerce's head of international affairs, who has been briefed by both sides.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nigeria court puts 47 men on trial for homosexuality]]></title>
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          LAGOS, Nigeria (AFP) &#8211; A group of 47 men has appeared in a Nigerian court charged with homosexuality, a crime punishable by 14 years in prison in the country, their attorney said yesterday.The men, who were arrested in a Lagos hotel during a police raid in 2017, have been accused of a &#8220;committing homosexual acts&#8221; in a &#8220;gay initiation party&#8221;.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Russia probe report spurs calls for FBI surveillance changes]]></title>
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          WASHINGTON, DC, USA (AP) &#8212; Revelations that the FBI committed serious errors in wiretapping a former Trump campaign aide have spurred bipartisan calls for change to government's surveillance powers, including from some Republicans who in the past have voted to renew or expand those powers.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Wealthy German family gives millions to Holocaust survivors]]></title>
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          BERLIN, Germany (AP) &#8212; One of Germany's richest families, which owns Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Pret A Manger and other international brands, is giving millions to support Holocaust survivors as it seeks to atone for its use of forced labourers during the Nazi era and its enthusiastic support of Adolf Hitler, The Associated Press has learned.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Plane that vanished en route to Antarctica found]]></title>
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          SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) &#8212; Searchers combing Antarctic seas have recovered parts of a military transport plane and human remains belonging to some of the 38 people aboard who vanished en route to the frozen continent, Chilean officials said yesterday.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Official: Jersey City attack was 'fuelled' by anti-Semitism]]></title>
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          NEW JERSEY, USA (AP) &#8212; The two killers who stormed a kosher market in Jersey City were driven by hatred of Jews and law enforcement, New Jersey's attorney general said yesterday, adding that the case is being investigated as domestic terrorism.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13, Dec, 2019 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Merciless killers who beheaded mom, daughter get life in prison]]></title>
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          HIGH Court Judge Justice Vivene Harris yesterday said her move to go beyond the maximum penalties prescribed by the sentencing guidelines in pronouncing judgement on the four men convicted for the death of a St Catherine mother and daughter in July of 2011 was buffered by several factors, including the fact that the women had been slaughtered with less dignity than animals butchered in the island's abattoirs.
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