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JPS ups power restoration effort
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JPS ups power restoration effort
...72 specialised vehicles arrive in Montego Bay
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New JTA president issues warning to political parties
CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter 
August 28, 2007
NEWLY installed president of the Jamaica Teachers Association (JTA), Ena Barclay, has warned that there will be no honeymoon for whichever party wins ...
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Police kills 15-y-o schoolboy in alleged shootout
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
August 28, 2007
A 15-year-old student was among two men fatally shot by the police in separate incidents in the St Andrew South Police division yesterday. Two automat...
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Record turnout in the west
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
August 28, 2007
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Officials said yesterday's voting by members of the security forces and electoral workers in the Western parishes which went s...
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‘A very good day’
ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter 
August 28, 2007
Police, soldiers and election day workers voted yesterday without any major incidents in what Director of Elections Danville Walker described as "a ve...
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Several ‘election workers’ turned away
INGRID BROWN 
August 28, 2007
SEVERAL election day workers yesterday turned up at their assigned polling stations to cast their ballots only to find out their names were not on yes...
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A tragic twist
Kimone Thompson, Observer staff reporter 
August 28, 2007
IT was perhaps fate that sealed Denton Parker's tragic end last Thursday when he came into contact with live electrical wires in Spanish Town and was ...
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Smooth process in St Andrew
Karyl Walker 
August 28, 2007
POLICE officers and volunteer election day workers cast their ballots with little or no hitches in sections of St Andrew yesterday. Minutes after the ...
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‘We’re on the beach’
Kimone Thompson, Observer staff reporter 
August 28, 2007
STUDENTS of the Donald Quarrie High School in East Kingston may have a full week after the official start of the 2007/08 school year for the resumptio...
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PM begins handing out hurricane relief cheques
August 27, 2007
PRIME Minister Portia Simpson Miller yesterday handed out the first batch of hurricane relief cheques to National Insurance Service (NIS) pensioners a...
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How ‘Dean’ turns box eve into deadly weapon
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
August 27, 2007
SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - As Hurricane Dean raged outside, Avis Wilson and his wife Dawn Miller Wilson made plans for bed. "She decide that for the n...
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Expect power cuts at intervals, says JPS
BY Alicia Dunkley Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com 
August 27, 2007
THE Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), the light and power company, said yesterday that while electricity been had restored to most areas, the powe...
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Veronica does it!
August 27, 2007
OSAKA, Japan - Olympic 200-metre champion Veronica Campbell created history on yesterday's third day of competition by becoming the first Jamaican acr...
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Security forces, election day workers vote today
August 27, 2007
THE 2007 general elections officially kick off today with more than 20,000 members of the security forces and election day staff casting their ballots...
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United Way launches Dean Restoration Fund
BY VAUGHN DAVIS Obsever staff reporter davisv@jamaicaosberver.com 
August 27, 2007
THE United Way of Jamaica yesterday added itself to the list of charitable organisations assisting with hurricane relief efforts, with the launch of i...
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A close shave with Hurricane Dean
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
August 26, 2007
SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Cleon Fagan will forever be thankful that on the night of Hurricane Dean last week Sunday he went to sleep with his head po...
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Who killed Kemesha Thomas?
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
August 26, 2007
BRESIDENTS of Central Avenue, a quiet middle-class section of May Pen, Clarendon, were last Friday still searching for answers about the shooting deat...
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Estimate of hurricane damage to hospitals expected today
BY TANEISHA LEWIS Observer staff reporter editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
August 26, 2007
THE health ministry should know by today the preliminary estimates of the damage its facilities across the island sustained as a result of the passage...
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Waiting for relief
BY INGRID BROWN Observer staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
August 26, 2007
RESIDENTS of parishes that took most of the battering when Hurricane Dean struck Jamaica last week Sunday say they are yet to receive much needed reli...
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‘I don’t know what I’m going to do’
BY KERRY MCCATTY Sunday Observer staff reporter mccattyk@jamaicaobserver.com 
August 25, 2007
THE afternoon after Hurricane Dean wrecked sections of South Manchester, Jennifer Kerr was standing on the street in her district of Plowden picking p...
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They’re third in the world!
August 25, 2007
NORTHERN Caribbean University's Imagine Cup Software Design team are third place winners in the Microsoft Imagine Cup world finals! The achievement ca...
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‘We’re not divided’
BY KERRY MCCATTY Sunday Observer staff reporter mccattyk@jamaicaobserver.com 
August 25, 2007
The People's National Party (PNP) yesterday denied that there was division in the Cabinet over the new date for general elections and announced a vigo...

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