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TERM OF HOPE
Education minister accepts classes will resume with lingering challenges from Melissa
BY ANTHONY LEWIS Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 5 12:30 AM
TERM OF HOPE
Against the odds
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Against the odds
Melissa-battered St James schools reopening today
January 5 12:26 AM
Against the odds
More enthusiam needed for Reggae Month — JaRIA chair
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More enthusiam needed for Reggae Month — JaRIA chair
BY HOWARD CAMPBELL Observer senior writer entertainment@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 5 12:26 AM
More enthusiam needed for Reggae Month — JaRIA chair
Roofless but resilient
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Roofless but resilient
Westmoreland schools using creative solutions to ensure no student is left behind
BY ROSALEE WOOD-CONDELL Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 5 12:24 AM
Roofless but resilient
Turbulence says Let Love Rain
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Turbulence says Let Love Rain
BY HOWARD CAMPBELL Observer senior writer entertainment@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 5 12:24 AM
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From recovery to renewal
Sandals Foundation takes holistic approach to school restoration post-Melissa
January 5 12:22 AM
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PM again bats for EPA signed with Europe
May 2, 2008
PRIME Minister Bruce Golding has again sought to allay fears that CARIFORUM countries may have given up more than they will gain from the Economic Par...
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Three shot dead on Balcombe Drive
VAUGHN DAVIS, Observer staff reporter davisv@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 1, 2008
PROTESTING residents of Balcombe Drive in Kingston insisted yesterday that the body of a gunman killed by one of his cronies could not be transported ...
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Campbell sues FirstCaribbean Bank, Sonia Christie for $30-m
PAUL HENRY, Observer staff reporter editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 1, 2008
FirstCaribbean Bank and its senior executive, Sonia Christie, who was sent on leave in the wake of the Trafigura scandal which engulfed the People's N...
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Bloody day in Southside
VAUGHN DAVIS, Observer staff reporter davisv@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 30, 2008
DESPITE the desperate pleas of 68-year-old Marjorie Miles, who grovelled and begged for her life, gunmen pumped several bullets into her body, minutes...
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Jamaica, Cassava and the Global Food Crisis
April 30, 2008
I thought it prudent this week to take a break from my food tour, and speak of a current subject that affects us all: the basic right to food. I am no...
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Spanish Town Hospital gets $20m dialysis centre
T K WHYTE, Observer correspondent 
April 30, 2008
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Spanish Town philanthropist Ernest Hoo last week donated a $20-million haemodialysis centre to the Spanish Town hospital ...
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116 reported missing in April
KARYL WALKER, Crime/court co-ordinator walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 30, 2008
Dozens of teenagers and a 60-year-old Briton are included in a list of 116 persons reported missing by the police in April. Since the start of the yea...
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Spanish tour company accused of union-busting
BY KERRY McCATTY Observer staff reporter mccattyk@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 29, 2008
Eighteen former employees of a Montego Bay-based Spanish company and their union, the National Workers Union (NWU), are accusing the company, Solo Jam...
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Rush for warder jobs
By COREY ROBINSON Observer staff reporter robinsonc@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 29, 2008
More than 1,500 people crowded the Christian Fellowship World Outreach Church in St Andrew yesterday hoping to be selected on the final day of a warde...
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Danhai, six co-accused go free
VAUGHN DAVIS, Observer staff reporter davisv@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 28, 2008
GOVERNMENT prosecutors yesterday withdrew the five-year-old criminal case against controversial eastern Kingston businessman Danhai Williams and his s...
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Excellent!
BY Alicia Dunkley Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 27, 2008
ROCHELLE Batten and twins Venecia and Valecia Johnson have three things in common: They are 17 years old, receive support from the Kingston and St And...
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Scandal rocks RIU
April 26, 2008
A mysterious construction plan which was signed, stamped and apparently back-dated but did not go through the established channels is being used to bu...
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Over 40 and desperate for work?
With Merrit Henry 
April 26, 2008
"I am over 40 years old and have always worked in a family business. The business is no longer profitable. I am, therefore, seeking a job in order to ...
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Stefan Spath’s Vibrant, Bold and Exotic Reduction
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
April 26, 2008
It became for many much more than a memorable meal designed by a culinary genius -Stefan Spath, regional executive chef - Couples Negril, presented tw...
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Scandal rocks RIU
April 26, 2008
A mysterious construction plan which was signed, stamped and apparently back-dated but did not go through the established channels is being used to bu...
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UDC building 45 more houses in Hellshire
April 25, 2008
THE Urban Development Corporation (UDC) is putting in infrastructure works for the provision of an additional 45 housing units and eight lots in the H...
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Schools at war
INGRID BROWN, Senior staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 24, 2008
FOUR schoolboys have been seriously injured after two days of violent clashes among students of St George's College and Kingston College (KC) in downt...
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Prosecution says man confessed to cop’s murder
April 24, 2008
ONE of the three men charged by the police with the robbery and murder of Constable Andre Chung has allegedly confessed to involvement in the killing....
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Brothers meet bloody deaths hours apart
COREY ROBINSON, Observer staff reporter robinsonc@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 24, 2008
A gang feud was said to be the motive behind yesterday's killing of two brothers in Shelter Rock, a poor community located off the Twickenham Park mai...
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Back to British
Jacqui Sinclair 
April 23, 2008
Well, you would not expect me to do an international food column each week and not speak about my own country now, would you? British food has unfairl...
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Moo Young makes gift of One Love Peace Concert photos
By Latoya Latibeaudiere Observer staff reporter 
April 23, 2008
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the One Love Peace Concert, renowned photographer Howard Moo Young Tuesday presented four sets of nine photo...
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Henry rolls back licence fees after taxi protest
BY JANICE JOHNSON Observer writer 
April 22, 2008
Transport Minister Mike Henry rolled back a hike in road licence fees for taxi operators after irate taximen protested in sections of Spanish Town in ...

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