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From setbacks to success
Anissa McLeish’s resilience rewarded with life-changing scholarship
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Built from scraps: Bandit Headbands
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Built from scraps: Bandit Headbands
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Built from scraps: Bandit Headbands
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Strong start to track season at JC Dev Meet
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Strong start to track season at JC Dev Meet
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Strong start to track season at JC Dev Meet
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Three people are feared dead following a two-vehicle collision on the Crawford to Font Hill main road near the St Elizabeth/ Westmoreland border on Sa...
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Nesta continues dancehall quest with Ride
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Nesta continues dancehall quest with Ride
January 10 04:58 PM
Guyanese singer Nesta, a many-time Calypso Queen in her country, continues the quest to make her name in dancehall music with Ride , a song produced b...
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JFB, health ministry reaffirm readiness for major earthquake
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JFB, health ministry reaffirm readiness for major earthquake
January 10 04:51 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica —The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) and the Ministry of Health and Wellness have reaffirmed their readiness to respond effectively in th...
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Venezuelan prisoners smile to hear of Maduro’s fall
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Venezuelan prisoners smile to hear of Maduro’s fall
January 10 03:44 PM
GUATIRE, Venezuela (AFP)—The prisoner's face lit up when his wife visited and told him that the man responsible for his detention was himself behind b...
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Tech companies fear implications of trade pact
April 20, 2010
WASHINGTON DC, United States - COMPANIES across the technology industry -- from Internet access providers to social-networking sites to video-sharing ...
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Stocks advance on higher earnings, energy prices
April 20, 2010
NEW YORK, United States - STOCKS resumed their advance after investors got the numbers they wanted from first-quarter earnings reports. The Dow Jones ...
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Leave Dudus to the masses, say financial analysts
April 20, 2010
Financial analysts want the populous not politicians to decide the fate of the stalled extradition of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke but they also want crim...
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AP Source: GM to repay government loan before June
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AP Source: GM to repay government loan before June
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April 20, 2010
MICHIGAN, United States - GENERAL Motors Co will fully repay the US$6.7 billion loan portion of its US government aid earlier than its previously prom...
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Goldman’s legal woes present buying opportunity
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Goldman’s legal woes present buying opportunity
BY SHARI DACOSTA 
April 20, 2010
SSL in the Money FOR most of last week, Financial Firms were flying high on the heels of JPMorgan Chase & Co's (NYSE: JPM) Wall Street-topping results...
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The business of managing customer relationships
Yvonne Grinam-Nicholson 
April 20, 2010
Business Communications ROI "IT'S really hard to teach an elephant to dance". If you did a random poll among your friends today I can bet that at leas...
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2009 claims insurers’ profits
April 20, 2010
General insurers saw net claims incurred jump 20 per cent in 2009 when compared to the year prior, even while revenues grew by only eight per cent. Gr...
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JDX makes exporting more attractive
April 20, 2010
The Jamaica debt exchange (JDX) has made exporting more attractive due to the declining yield on instruments, asserted Jamaica Exporters Association (...
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FDIC head says US needs better lending standards
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FDIC head says US needs better lending standards
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April 20, 2010
KANSAS, United States - THE head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp said Monday that the US needs better lending standards to avoid a recurrence of...
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UK consumer price inflation up to 3.4%
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April 20, 2010
LONDON, England - HIGHER prices for housing pushed consumer price inflation to 3.4 per cent in March, up from three per cent in February, official sta...
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Pepsi goes for health
Alicia Roache Business reporter roachea@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 20, 2010
PEPSIJAMAICA is on a healthy campaign that may see its products be less fatty, salty and sugary. Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO for PepsiCo, which co-o...
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Oil prices up again
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April 20, 2010
NEW YORK, United States - OIL prices rose more than two per cent yesterday, rebounding from a two-week slump as stock markets rallied and the dollar f...
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IMF trims estimate of losses from financial crisis
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IMF trims estimate of losses from financial crisis
April 20, 2010
WASHINGTON DC, United States - THE world's banks could be spared billions in losses thanks to a global economy that is recovering from the financial m...
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Employing professionals for construction
April 20, 2010
Legal Notes Writing this article I was struck by a story carried in the Jamaica Observer on Monday April 19, 2010 entitled "Left Without a Home". In t...
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Bank of New York Mellon 1-Q profit jumps 74%
April 20, 2010
NEW YORK, United States - THE Bank of New York Mellon yesterday said its first-quarter profit jumped 74 per cent, as the market recovery drove growth ...
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PetroCaribe surplus growth slows
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April 20, 2010
THE PetroCaribe Development Fund which onlends billions for government projects expects its surplus to decline 29 per cent to $2 billion by March 2011...
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Ewarton to reopen, can’t lift bauxite blues
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Ewarton to reopen, can’t lift bauxite blues
April 20, 2010
UC Rusal plans to reopen its Windalco Ewarton plant in June -- six months ahead of schedule -- but earnings from alumina will likely stay down for 201...
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Local chartered accountant part of new UNCTAD consultative group
April 17, 2010
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has formed an International Standards on Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) Consultative ...
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Shaw, Davies for post-budget forum
April 17, 2010
Finance Minister Audley Shaw and Opposition spokesman on Finance Dr Omar Davies will be the featured speakers at the 2010 Post-Budget Forum being host...
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Why owning a home is out of reach for many
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Why owning a home is out of reach for many
BY ALICIA ROACHE Sunday Finance reporter roachea@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 17, 2010
HOW difficult is it for a young professional or first-time borrower to own a home? At an average salary of $125,000 per month -- the minimum amount th...
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Obama talks tough on Wall Street
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April 17, 2010
WASHINGTON, USA -- US President Barack Obama said Friday he would veto a Wall Street reform bill that lacked tough rules for derivatives -- complex fi...
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First Middle Managers’ Conference this week
Alicia Roache Sunday Finance reporter roachea@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 17, 2010
MAKE Your Mark Consultants, a business development firm, led by Jacqueline Coke-Lloyd, former CEO of the Jamaica Employers Federation, will stage its ...
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