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Bankers warns against use of pension funds to support small business
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
October 22, 2007
MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Banker and president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Winston Lawson, has repeated concerns about the Jamaican Governme...
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5 suspects held in Lucky Dube murder
AFP 
October 22, 2007
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) - South African police have arrested five suspects in connection with the murder of reggae star Lucky Dube, one of th...
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‘Free’ light bulb programme could cost $240 million
October 22, 2007
A project under which the Cuban Government donated about four million fluorescent light bulbs to Jamaicans may end up costing Jamaica $240 million. So...
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New twist in Woolmer case
KARYL WALKER. Observer staff reporter walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 22, 2007
The Bob Woolmer inquest took a dramatic twist yesterday when an overseas pathologist, whose assessment of the evidence the Jamaican police had used to...
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Wall downed by hurricane in minutes taking months to be rebuilt
KIMONE THOMPSON, Observer staff reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 22, 2007
IT could take several more weeks before the collapsed section of the perimeter wall at the Spanish Town Hospital is repaired, the institution's chief ...
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POLICE REPORTS
October 22, 2007
Man found dead in Windsor Heights A 27-year-old man was Sunday found dead in Windsor Heights, Central Village, St Catherine. He has been identified as...
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Ministry says no to duty waiver on ground provisions
BY INGRID BROWN Observer staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 21, 2007
AGRICULTURE Minister Christopher Tufton says there is no need to allow duty-free importation of ground provisions, despite claims by the Jamaica Hotel...
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Shaw to lead regional initiative to multilaterals
October 21, 2007
FINANCE minister Audley Shaw will be leading an initiative to convince multilateral institutions to change their policy in its treatment of heavily-in...
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No money for hurricane clean-up
October 21, 2007
THE National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is still unable to say just when truck and backhoe operators contracted to clean up the Corporat...
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‘No rush to find new Air J CEO’
BY INGRID BROWN Observer staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 21, 2007
SHIRLEY Williams, the newly appointed chairman of the national airline, Air Jamaica, says there is no rush to find a chief executive officer (CEO) to ...
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John Lynch new JTB chairman
October 21, 2007
TOURISM Minister Ed Bartlett yesterday announced the appointment of John Lynch as the new chairman of the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB). A former deputy...
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Sandals’ Luxe Life
October 20, 2007
These are the surface elements of a family business in growth mode, one that has evolved from a single property in Montego Bay more than 26 years ago ...
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Riverton dump workers treated like dirt
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Observer staff reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 20, 2007
"We live among the pigs," said Raymond Jackson, a tractor operator at the Riverton City Waste Disposal facility in Kingston. His retort adequately des...
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Water woes indeed
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
October 20, 2007
Mandeville, Manchester - For those attending Manchester's 2030 Planning Forum at the Kendal Conference Centre late last month, the message from Basil ...
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Dr admits to error; Graphic post-mortem video
By Karyl Walker Sunday Observer staff reporter walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 20, 2007
The inquest into the death of former Pakistan coach and England all-rounder, Bob Woolmer, opened on Tuesday at the Jamaica Conference Centre on the wa...
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Ready or not?
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer senior reporter williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 20, 2007
THE sudden resignation of Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas has raised the possibility of a woman becoming the top cop for the first time in the histo...
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The story of Rhygin: The Two-Gun Killer
October 20, 2007
During the 1940s, when black Jamaicans were, for the most part, living in abject poverty and squalid conditions, and the colonial master ruled with an...
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Preparedness key to successful interview
Career Advisor With Merrit Henry 
October 20, 2007
I have been job hunting recently, and I notice that there are some questions which employers always ask, but I think I have problems answering those b...
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Wholesales shun mothers, ‘old’ people
by Donna Hussey-Whyte Sunday Observer staff reporter 
October 20, 2007
A number of wholesale stores in Kingston's busy Cross Roads area are refusing to hire people over 23 years old, claiming that they are old, a Sunday O...
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Do more, talk less!
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Sunday Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
October 20, 2007
PRIVATE sector companies need to contribute more to the development of professionals in the early childhood education sector, according to University ...

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