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Tower Hill residents step up protest against police killing
June 25, 2007
RESIDENTS of Tower Hill yesterday continued their protests against Friday's shooting death by the police of a community resident, with two demonstrati...
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Police call meeting with Portland political reps
June 25, 2007
PORT ANTONIO, Portland - Superintendent Dudley Scott, head of the Portland police, has called a meeting with the parish's political candidates and the...
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JLP calls for seat by seat polls
June 25, 2007
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Jamaica Labour Party General Secretary Karl Samuda has criticised the methodologies used by pollsters to arrive at party stand...
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Alleged railway track thieves’ trial set for September
June 25, 2007
THE two Clarendon men allegedly caught on Monday stealing sections of the Jamalco railway track in Parnasus, Yorktown in the parish are scheduled to r...
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Health scheme anger grows
June 25, 2007
Anger was said to be intensifying in the public sector yesterday after Blue Cross of Jamaica was notified by its bankers that they could no longer fac...
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Maureen Webber is new NHDC chairman
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
June 25, 2007
FORMER People's National Party (PNP) deputy general secretary Maureen Webber has been named chairman of the state-run National Housing Development Cor...
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Road fatalities down
TANEISHA LEWIS, Observer staff reporter 
June 25, 2007
FATAL motor vehicle crashes and road fatalities have declined by 12 and 10 per cent respectively this year, but Kanute Hare, accident analyst at the N...
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Cabinet pays tribute to Vilma Espin
June 25, 2007
THE Cabinet yesterday paid tribute to the late Vilma Espin, wife of acting Cuban President Raul Castro and sister-in-law of Fidel Castro. Minister of ...
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Dr Ford gets August court date
June 25, 2007
Jephthah Ford, the medical doctor who said he was severely beaten by four cops during an altercation at a dance in April, is scheduled to return to th...
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Knight incident forces PNP to review security
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer 
June 25, 2007
THE ruling People's National Party (PNP) is to review its election campaign security arrangements following a security breach at a political rally in ...
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‘The time is drawing nigh,’ says PM
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
June 24, 2007
Portia Simpson Miller yesterday signalled that she was near to calling general elections, telling the National Executive Council (NEC) of her ruling P...
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Students march to highlight children’s rights
BY ELLIOT BLAKE Observer writer 
June 24, 2007
Mandeville, Manchester - Schoolchildren in Manchester recently took to the streets in this south-central town in song and dance to highlight the need ...
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Priest blasts crass politicians
BY Alicia Dunkley Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 24, 2007
Catholic priest Father Michael Lewis yesterday severely criticised the behaviour of Jamaican politicians on the campaign trail, describing their utter...
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Welding shop fire sparks charge of political motive
BY CARL GILCHRIST Observer staff reporter gilchristc@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 24, 2007
A welding shop close to the People's National Party (PNP) North-East St Ann constituency office on Windsor Road in St Ann's Bay was destroyed by a fir...
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Electoral crisis looms
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
June 23, 2007
A decision by the Senate to amend three electoral bills containing provisions against open voting has set the Upper House on a collision course with t...
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Living on tenterhooks
BY TYRONE S REID Sunday Observer staff reporter reidt@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 23, 2007
JUNE is here, and scores of families are busy cutting the grass, packing boxes and stacking furniture. But these residents of Nightingale Grove in sou...
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‘Wi ready!’
By Karyl Walker Sunday Observer staff reporter walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 23, 2007
With expectations heightening that Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller will call general elections for July, the major political parties yesterday in...
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Glenmuir High to help new May Pen school
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Sunday Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 23, 2007
A new school to be built in May Pen, Clarendon, is to be aided in its establishment by Glenmuir High, which is considered the leading high school in C...

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