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No angels died in St Toolies
• Residents praise police presence in community; • Cops say fourth alleged gunman killed at neighbouring Toll Gate
Kasey Williams | Reporter 
January 7 12:20 AM
No angels died in St Toolies
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Yanique Taylor Wellington given nod as Indecom deputy commissioner
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Yanique Taylor Wellington given nod as Indecom deputy commissioner
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January 7 12:18 AM
Yanique Taylor Wellington given nod as Indecom deputy commissioner
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Courtney Wilson returns to stage with Boopsie’s Homecoming
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Courtney Wilson returns to stage with Boopsie’s Homecoming
BY HOWARD CAMPBELL Observer staff reporter entertainment@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 7 12:16 AM
Courtney Wilson returns to stage with
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Barita to acquire JN Fund Managers in $4.2 billion deal
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Barita to acquire JN Fund Managers in $4.2 billion deal
BY DASHAN HENDRICKS Business content manager hendricksd@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 7 12:14 AM
Barita clears regulatory hurdle for JN Fund Managers acquisition
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Gordon wants to remain with Reggae Boyz despite technical staff change
Daniel Blake | Sports Writer | blaked@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 7 12:12 AM
Gordon wants to remain with Reggae Boyz despite technical staff change
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Digita Global invests $75 million in new production studio
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Digita Global invests $75 million in new production studio
Kellaray Miles | Reporter 
January 7 12:10 AM
Digita Global invests $75 million in new production
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AI, outdated visuals fuel misinformation after Maduro capture
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AI, outdated visuals fuel misinformation after Maduro capture
January 7 12:10 AM
AI, outdated visuals fuel misinformation after Maduro capture
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‘Hope Beyond Melissa’ tackling post-storm trauma
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‘Hope Beyond Melissa’ tackling post-storm trauma
Psychological first-aid group now in place for residents in hard-hit parishes
Dana Malcolm | Observer Online Reporter | Malcolmd@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 7 12:09 AM
‘Hope Beyond Melissa’ tackling post-storm trauma
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Three die in Labour Day crash
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
May 23, 2008
SCARLETT HALL, Trelawny - Three people were killed yesterday and another three seriously injured when a motor car and a mini-van collided on the main ...
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TWO COPS SLAIN
COREY ROBINSON, Observer staff reporter robinsonc@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 23, 2008
Two police constables were brutally murdered at about midday yesterday by a group of heavily armed thugs, while patrolling a section of the tough, vio...
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Gotel rebuilds homes razed by fire
KARYL WALKER, Crime/court co-ordinator walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 23, 2008
JENNIFER Bailey, who along with her five daughters were two months ago left homeless after fire razed a tenement in the community of Bell Rock in St A...
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More worries for Cash Plus boss
PAUL HENRY, Observer staff reporter editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 22, 2008
United States-based law professor David P Rowe has sued the failed investment scheme Cash Plus Limited and its embattled head Carlos Hill to recover a...
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Farmers have three days to report damage due to natural disasters
ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 22, 2008
FARMERS who suffer losses during natural disasters will have three days within which to file reports at project management offices (PMOs), which, acco...
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‘Stop the unlawful strikes’
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
May 22, 2008
MINISTER of Labour and Social Security Pearnel Charles has warned workers in the essential services that his ministry will not tolerate illegal strike...
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US lawyer files $108-million suit against Cash Plus
PAUL HENRY, Observer staff reporter editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 21, 2008
THE beleaguered alternative investment scheme Cash Plus Limited has been slapped with another multimillion-dollar lawsuit. The troubled entity is now ...
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Bunting withdraws claim that minister misled House
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
May 21, 2008
OPPOSITION spokesman on industry and commerce, Peter Bunting, yesterday withdrew his claim that the finance and public service minister, Audley Shaw, ...
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Bus fares could go up next week
INGRID BROWN, Observer senior reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 21, 2008
BUS fares could be increased as early as next week, following yesterday's submission of the recommendations from the Office of the Utilities Regulatio...
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Country cooking at the Table Talk Food Awards
Kaili McDonnough 
May 21, 2008
Those attending the 10th annual Jamaica Observer Table Talk Food Awards next Thursday at Vale Royal will be in for a gastronomical treat, as not only ...
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British Baptists arrive today to say sorry for slavery
May 21, 2008
LEADERS of the British Baptist Union will arrive in Jamaica today to make a public apology to their Jamaican colleagues for the transatlantic slave tr...
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HIV/AIDS-affected children given Child Month treat
COREY ROBINSON, Observer staff reporter robinsonc@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 20, 2008
TWENTY-nine children living with HIV/AIDS at the Martha's House of Safety for Children were on Friday given a play area and toys from the National Chi...
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KSAC meeting turns rowdy
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
May 20, 2008
A meeting of the Commercial Services Committee of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) adjourned prematurely Friday, when People's National P...
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No room for gays
May 20, 2008
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has forcefully reiterated that homosexuals have no place in his Cabinet, even as he sought to assure gay people that atti...
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Cash Plus lawyers contesting receivership
May 20, 2008
LAWYERS for the embattled investment scheme Cash Plus Limited are now contesting the Supreme Court's approval in March to put the troubled entity into...
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Sandals Royal Caribbean mourns death of playmakers
May 20, 2008
MAHOE BAY, St James - The Sandals Royal Caribbean family, in particular those employed to the entertainment department, are still grieving after a tra...
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Cash Plus broke!
CAMILIO THAME, Business co-ordinator thamec@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 19, 2008
CASH Plus Limited (CPL) only had J$3 million in cash at the end of March this year, according to the receivers of the company, and based on its assets...
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Chronology of sorrows (pt 2)
May 18, 2008
"The only way to deal with RIU is to do something in the media that will embarrass them. Otherwise, they are not going to budge." - Minutes of the Ext...
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Chronology of sorrows
May 17, 2008
"The only way to deal with RIU is to do something in the media that will embarrass them. Otherwise, they are not going to budge." - Minutes of the Ext...
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Sandals, Beaches Resorts treat 500 teachers
May 16, 2008
MORE THAN 500 educators in the parishes of St James, Hanover, Westmoreland, St Ann and St Mary, were on Teachers' Day last week treated in style at lu...
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World Bank approves US$65-m loan for three J’can projects
May 16, 2008
WASHINGTON, USA - The World Bank Board of Directors on Tuesday approved three loans for Jamaica, totalling US$65 million, to support the country's eff...
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Elderly store owner and customer robbed, shot dead
May 15, 2008
GEORGES PLAIN, Westmoreland - Residents of this rural district were still in shock yesterday as they mourned for an elderly businessman and one of his...
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Barita to acquire JN Fund Managers in $4.2 billion deal
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