Business giant Dennis Lalor has died
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Business giant Dennis Lalor has died
May 14 07:24 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Chartered insurer and founder of ICWI Group Limited, Dennis Lalor, died Wednesday night. He was ailing for some time. Regarded as ...
$145-m drought-mitigation plan
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$145-m drought-mitigation plan
Green announces interventions to assist farmers
BY LYNFORD SIMPSON Observer writer 
May 14 12:20 AM
$145-m drought-mitigation plan
Accompong Maroons dispute heads to court
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Accompong Maroons dispute heads to court
Injunction filed to stop Currie from holding election on May 22
Jason Cross | Reporter 
May 14 12:18 AM
Accompong Maroons dispute heads to court
‘Most unfortunate’
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‘Most unfortunate’
Malahoo Forte says neither she nor committee clerk received legal opinion tied to Gordon dispute
Jerome Williams | Reporter 
May 14 12:14 AM
‘Most unfortunate’
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Former SVG PM wants CWI to work with regional governments to help lift West Indies cricket
Daniel Blake | Sports Writer | blaked@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 14 12:12 AM
Former SVG PM urges greater CWI collaboration with regional governments

February 2004

Regional, Western
Health authority moves to allay fears about typhoid
Observer Reporter 
February 20, 2004
The Western Regional Health Authority is moving to allay fears about a possible typhoid outbreak in western Jamaica, with three cases of the disease d...
Regional, Western
Early childhood institute gets $20,000 in donations
Dalton Laing 
February 20, 2004
GRANGE, Westmoreland - The Grange Early Childhood Institute last week received a number of benches and a chalkboard, valued at $20,000, from the Grang...
Regional, Western
MoBay cop on corruption charge for court on March 30
Observer Reporter 
February 20, 2004
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Ricardo Evans, a Montego Bay Constable who is facing a corruption charge, is booked to reappear before the city's Resident Mag...
Regional, Western
Montpellier Show to push Eat Jamaica campaign
Vivian Tyson, Observer staff reporter 
February 20, 2004
WESTERN BUREAU - The 16th staging of the Montpellier Agricultural Show, which will be held on Easter Monday, will be used as a tool to further encoura...
Regional, Western
Health Minister lauds Sav hospital, clinic staff
Dalton Laing 
February 20, 2004
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Minister of Health, John Junor, has lauded the administrative staff and medical practitioners at the Savanna-la-mar hos...
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The Colombians are here
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
February 20, 2004
For the past week, they have mounted a slick marketing campaign on TV and radio. Fast-talking Colombians speaking in thickly accented English, hawking...
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Ninja Man hospitalised after car crash
Observer Reporter 
February 20, 2004
CONTROVERSIAL dancehall DJ Desmond Ballentine, better known as 'Ninja Man', was yesterday hospitalised following a motor vehicle accident in Trench To...
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St Mary pensioners get crash course on new health plan
CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter 
February 20, 2004
PORT MARIA, St Mary - NI Gold, the government's new $300 million a year health plan for the island's 80,000 pensioners, was officially introduced to r...
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Hyacinth Bennett launches new lobby group
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
February 20, 2004
Former president of the National Democratic Movement, Hyacinth Bennett, has launched a new lobby group. Jamaicans for Action, she said, is not affilia...
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Six murders in St Catherine, Kingston
Observer Reporter 
February 19, 2004
SIX people, including two members of one family, were shot and killed, while two others were shot and injured between Wednesday night and yesterday mo...
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20 more Haitian boat people
Observer Reporter 
February 19, 2004
Twenty more Haitian refugees, including a three year-old baby boy and two pregnant women, yesterday landed in Manchioneal, Portland, pushing the numbe...
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Ja may have to bow to US pressure on ICC
Observer Reporter 
February 19, 2004
Jamaica may have to bow to US pressure and limit its international obligations as a member of the International Criminal Court - putting its economic ...
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Shaw has to give up management of petrol station
February 18, 2004
A high court judge yesterday dismissed an attempt by Jamaica Labour Party deputy leader, Audley Shaw, to prevent Joey Issa's Cool Oasis from assuming ...
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Heart takes its new business model to Portland
February 18, 2004
Port Antonio, Portland - Stakeholders from this parish were introduced, at a public forum last Wednesday, to the new business model currently being de...
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Trio still not charged in Dunn’s River heist
Observer Reporter 
February 17, 2004
OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The three men who were held in Ewarton, St Catherine in the aftermath of a $700,000, robbery at the Dunn's River Park in St Ann on...
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Woman charged with hiding child’s birth
Observer Reporter 
February 17, 2004
Priory, St Ann - A St Ann woman, whose newborn baby girl was found buried in a shallow grave, is to appear in the parish's Resident Magistrate's Court...
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Why should the good suffer for the bad?
by Cassandra Brenton Observer senior reporter 
February 14, 2004
At age 62, Carol Watson of Rock River, Clarendon, has a lot of life left in him yet. For, even as several of his contemporaries are starting to hang u...
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KSAC told not to relax on massage parlours
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
February 14, 2004
Although the KSAC passed a resolution more than 18 months ago to target massage parlours for licensing, the matter is still unresolved, the Public Acc...
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Why are so many of us not good at maths?
By Carl Gilchrist Observer staff reporter 
February 14, 2004
If students from the traditional high schools were poor in Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) mathematics, those from the technical high schools wer...

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