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BY RENAE OSBOURNE Observer staff reporter osbourner@jamaicaobserver.com 
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Shereita Grizzle | Observer Staff Reporter 
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9-month-old boy dies after being sodomised by male relative
KARYL WALKER, Crime/court co-ordinator walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
September 30, 2008
A nine-month-old boy is now dead after being viciously sodomised by a 21-year-old male relative in the community of Arnett Gardens in South St Andrew ...
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Vendors forced from HWT
INGRID BROWN, Observer senior reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
September 30, 2008
A child selling plums in a small box to earn his lunch money yesterday could not convince Town Clerk Errol Greene not to throw away his goods, as he, ...
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PNP names 20-member shadow cabinet
BY ERICA VIRTUE Observer writer virtuee@jamaicaobserver.com 
September 29, 2008
LEADER of the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) Portia Simpson Miller yesterday appointed four newcomers to her team of 20 shadow spokespersons...
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Obama bolsters readiness claim
By LIZ SIDOTI Associated Press Writer 
September 29, 2008
WASHINGTON, USA (AP) - Barack Obama bolstered his case that he's ready to be chief executive with a calmly assured response to the economic crisis and...
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Boy hit from bicycle, dies; brother injured
September 28, 2008
A 13-year-old boy, identified as Everton Hartley, was killed Saturday when a motor car hit him from his pedal cycle along the Vernamfield main road in...
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Brutal murder
TANEISHA LEWIS, Observer staff reporter lewist@jamaicaobserver.com 
September 28, 2008
SCREAMS of anguish bellowed throughout the community of Belvedere in Red Hills, St Andrew yesterday as firefighters removed a heavily decomposed body ...
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Ananda’s family still had hopes their little girl would return
INGRID BROWN, Senior staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
September 28, 2008
ANANDA Dean's family had high hopes, after making arrangements to pay a ransom as well as sending $7,000 worth of phone credit to persons who claimed ...
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Planting a seed
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
September 27, 2008
Malvern, St Elizabeth - For eight years, Sania Patrick has been working alongside other women in her village, weaving craft goods such as baskets, tab...
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Crisis looms
BY PATRICK FOSTER Sunday Observer writer fosterp@jamaicaobserver.com 
September 27, 2008
As the financial meltdown in the US ripples through the world's financial markets, Jamaican business leaders are optimistically cautious about the eff...
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Parliament building
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
September 27, 2008
The House and Senate Committee last week named the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) as co-ordinator for the new Parliament building project. Accord...
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‘Wi jus’ want a good hand’
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Sunday Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com 
September 27, 2008
THEY never saw it coming. In one fated swipe Tropical Storm Gustav stole the livelihood of 460 workers employed to the Eastern Banana Estate in St Tho...
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Orlando ‘bomber’ said to be on
BY TYRONE S REID Sunday Observer staff reporter reidt@jamaicaobserver.com 
September 27, 2008
THESE days, Lucille Rodney is longing for one thing. She wants her 'son' Kevin Brown to be reunited with his family. For months she has waited and pra...
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JPS promises 31-day billing cycle by next year
Taneisha Lewis 
September 26, 2008
THE Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has given its assurance that it will be taking the necessary steps to ensure that its billing cycle does not ...
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Sandals, Beaches resorts staff clean four beaches
September 26, 2008
MORE than 100 staff from Sandals and Beaches resorts collected approximately 150 bags of debris from four of the island's beaches last Saturday in obs...
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$2.1b Gov’t help for sugar-producing communities
September 25, 2008
The government will be spending $2.1 billion over the next five years to assist sugar-producing communities to survive the divestment of its sugar fac...
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PNP president begins hunt for new spokespersons
September 24, 2008
A day after dissolving the Council of Opposition Spokespersons, Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller has begun the hunt for new representatives wit...
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JLP politician on murder rap
KARYL WALKER, Crime/court co-ordinator walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
September 24, 2008
Police will today interrogate Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) politician Lennox Hinds, who was on Tuesday arrested and slapped with murder, conspiracy and ...
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Companies shun HIV/AIDS meeting
INGRID BROWN, Observer senior reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
September 24, 2008
Representatives from only six of 25 companies showed up for a breakfast meeting Friday to explore HIV/AIDS risk reduction among employees and non-disc...
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Two alleged bus robbers shot dead in Kingston
COREY ROBINSON, Observer staff reporter robinsonc@jamaicaobserver.com 
September 24, 2008
TWO of approximately six armed men who held up a passenger bus were shot dead yesterday morning by a licensed firearm holder in Kingston, Jamaica's ca...

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