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Death of a hero
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Death of a hero
St Elizabeth man takes last breath days after saving 13 seniors during Hurricane Melissa
Tamoy Ashman | Reporter |ashmant@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 28 12:20 AM
Death
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Inmates focus on ‘feelings’ post-Melissa, for holidays
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Inmates focus on ‘feelings’ post-Melissa, for holidays
...psychosocial support available
Tamoy Ashman | Reporter |ashmant@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 28 12:18 AM
Inmates focus on ‘feelings’ post-Melissa, for holidays
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Gwen Stefani, Shelton show support for Sean Paul’s Faith We A Keep
Entertainment, ...
Gwen Stefani, Shelton show support for Sean Paul’s Faith We A Keep
...song dedicated to Hurricane Melissa relief efforts
Kevin Jackson 
December 28 12:16 AM
Gwen Stefani, Shelton show support
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Missions of mercy
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Missions of mercy
Bethel United Church makes hurricane response its agenda
Alicia Dunkley-Willis | Senior Reporter 
December 28 12:14 AM
Missions of mercy
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JPL intensifies as MBU, Portmore continue leadership race with start of second round
BY PAUL A REID Observer writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 28 12:12 AM
MBU, Portmore continue battle for JPL supremacy today
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Italy meets Jamaica
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Italy meets Jamaica
December 28 12:10 AM
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Mount Pleasant extends help to Treasure Beach
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Mount Pleasant extends help to Treasure Beach
December 28 12:07 AM
Mount Pleasant extends help to Treasure Beach
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Hosein plays crucial role in Joburg Super Kings victory
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Hosein plays crucial role in Joburg Super Kings victory
December 28 12:06 AM
Hosein plays crucial role in Joburg
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Crisis leadership: A lesson from Toyota
By Yvonne Grinam-Nicholson 
March 16, 2010
When there is a crisis within an organisation everyone looks to the leader to well, lead us all out of the wilderness of misfortune. It is times such ...
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Honda to recall 410,000 vehicles for brake problem
March 16, 2010
MICHIGAN, United States Honda Motor Co says it is recalling about 410,000 Odyssey minivans and Element small trucks in the US because of problems with...
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GOJ Global bonds yield dips on JDX confidence
March 16, 2010
GOVERNMENT of Jamaica Global Bonds yields have dipped 330 basis points so far in 2010 reflecting increased confidence following the Jamaica debt excha...
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Shell to boost production, cut more jobs
March 16, 2010
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Oil company Royal Dutch Shell PLC said yesterday it will boost production by 11 per cent by 2012, more than it had previously...
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Coffee board gets $100-m loan for farmers
March 16, 2010
FOUR hundred coffee farmers will benefit from some US$1.2-million loan ($107 million) to improve coffee competitiveness and boast local consumption. T...
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Tetley eyes $100-m expansion
Alicia Roache roachea@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 16, 2010
Tea maker enlists Mayberry to position it strategically Tetley Tea Company Jamaica (Tetley) headed by John Mahfood, is eyeing expansion of its operati...
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S&P takes Greece off credit watch
March 16, 2010
LONDON, England THE Greek government won key backing from the Standard & Poor's credit rating agency for its efforts to dig out of a debt crisis that ...
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JP lauches $10-m ad campaign to drive ripe banana sales
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JP lauches $10-m ad campaign to drive ripe banana sales
March 16, 2010
Firm looking to export regionally The Jamaica Producers (JP) Group last week launched a new ad campaign that it hopes will push up sales of ripe banan...
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Coke to invest US$302m in Malaysia
March 16, 2010
NILAI, Malaysia COCA-COLA said yesterday it will build a new bottling plant in Malaysia and invest one billion ringgit (US$302 million) over the next ...
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Casserly quits ACS e-Services
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Casserly quits ACS e-Services
March 16, 2010
Six months ahead of his scheduled departure from the top post at ACS e-Services, Patrick Casserly has quit. Citing health reasons, Casserly told the B...
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TALKING TAX
March 13, 2010
Why do we pay taxes? EACH year as we approach the March 15 income tax due date, we repeatedly hear the question, "why do we pay taxes?" This question ...
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My Debt Exchange – MDX
With Natalie Bennett 
March 13, 2010
The Sterling Report A few weeks ago the Government of Jamaica initiated the Jamaica Debt Exchange (JDX) transaction, this was done as the debt structu...
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‘No cash for food’
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
March 13, 2010
Tell Claudienne Dear Claudienne I have seen your effectiveness in helping people to solve certain problems. Having made numerous calls to no avail I h...
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Trade Winds Citrus stares down challenges
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Trade Winds Citrus stares down challenges
March 13, 2010
TRADE Winds Citrus Limited (TWCL) is looking to overseas markets as it searches for new revenue sources that will help offset rising operational costs...
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Claro boss thrives on crises
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Claro boss thrives on crises
March 13, 2010
MEXICAN tycoon Carlos Slim, who has knocked Bill Gates from the top of the Forbes list of the world's billionaires, is famed for his lack of ostentati...
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Gangster’s Paradise
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Gangster’s Paradise
March 13, 2010
Keeping your head down The issue pertaining to Wayne Chen's visa cancellation, has the higher elements of Jamaica's social order in a paroxysm of fren...
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NCB rewards auto-dealers
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NCB rewards auto-dealers
March 13, 2010
Dennis Cohen (left),National Commercial Bank (NCB) deputy Group managing director and Bernadette Barrow (third left),NCB assistant general manager- Sm...
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Twin evils of debt and death haunt Jamaica — Alemanni
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Twin evils of debt and death haunt Jamaica — Alemanni
BY KEITH COLLISTER 
March 13, 2010
IN a well timed address to the rotary club of Kingston last Thursday, Head of Delegation of the European Union (EU), Ambassador Marco Mazzochi Alemann...
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25 influential women in business
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25 influential women in business
March 13, 2010
Females across the globe last week celebrated International Women's Day in recognition of the gender's economic, political and social achievements. To...
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Clarification
March 13, 2010
NIGold benefits are paid from the National Insurance Fund (NIF) and not the National Health Fund (NHF) as was stated in the article published on Sunda...
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Things to consider before starting a business
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Things to consider before starting a business
March 10, 2010
Unlike her co-workers, Camille* had been ecstatic at the news of the closure of the company she had worked at for nearly 20 years. As she mentally cal...
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Business, Finsac Enquiry, News
Long wait to know fate of Finsac Commission
Paul Henry 
March 10, 2010
THE judicial review challenging retired Justice Boyd Carey's chairmanship of the commission of enquiry into the financial sector meltdown of the 1990s...
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