Fire guts multi-storey Manchester home
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January 9 07:49 PM
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Firefighters are now conducting a cooling-down operation after fire gutted the top floor of a multi-storey house in Hope Village...
Maureen Webber appointed ECJ commissioner
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Maureen Webber appointed ECJ commissioner
January 9 05:42 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Maureen Webber has been appointed as Nominated Commissioner on the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ). Her appointment, which b...

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Canada, Caricom working on new economic pact
RICKEY SINGH, Observer Caribbean correspondent 
July 19, 2007
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - A new "economic partnership" is in the works between Canada and the Caribbean Community which could effectively replace the exp...
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Money for HIV/AIDS idle
Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter 
July 19, 2007
SYDNEY, Australia - Jamaica was yesterday named among Caribbean countries which have allowed money received from the World Bank to fight HIV/AIDS to s...
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JDF soldiers take up duties today at Buckingham Palace
July 18, 2007
JDF soldiers from the First Battalion Jamaica Regiment will today take up duties in mounting The Queen's Guard at Buckingham Palace, on alternate days...
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Inner-city electricity regularisation stalls
Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter 
July 18, 2007
AFTER four years at the helm of a project geared towards regularising the electricity supply of inner-city residents, the Urban Electricity Regularisa...
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Forgotten in prison
Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter 
July 18, 2007
People at the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's court were left astonished Tuesday on hearing the cases of two men who were left to languish in stat...
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Muslims welcome PM’s openness about religion, but.
RUTH HOWARD, Observer writer 
July 18, 2007
THE Islamic Council of Jamaica (ICJ) on Tuesday expressed appreciation for Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's openness about her religion, but sai...
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Rocking Reggae Food
July 18, 2007
They say reggae is the heartbeat of the Jamaican people. This is absolutely correct as the sounds mirror the sensuality of our great people. Each corn...
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Police: ‘We are ready’
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
July 18, 2007
THE police yesterday indicated their readiness to maintain law and order during the upcoming general elections on August 27. Deputy Commissioner in ch...
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Blair does Mtn View peace walk without politicians
TANEISHA LEWIS, Observer staff reporter 
July 18, 2007
Residents from both sides of the political divide on Mountain View Avenue, St Andrew are pointing the finger at each other as the cause of a recent fl...
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Journalists flood Australia for AIDS conference
Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter 
July 17, 2007
SYDNEY, Australia - Fifty-one journalists from 26 countries have been granted fellowships by the National Press Foundation in Washington, United State...
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JAS supports weekend of prayer
July 17, 2007
THE Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) says it fully supports the call for a weekend of prayer at the end of the month and wants farmers to join the e...
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Parties make another commitment for peace
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer 
July 17, 2007
A day after the two major political parties issued a joint statement through their leaders denouncing violence and committing to peace and peaceful el...
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Stand up for press freedom
Julian Richardson | Online Content Manager 
July 17, 2007
CORPORATE executives from a wide cross section of Jamaica were united yesterday in encouraging press freedom, while making a strong plea for Jamaicans...
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JLP candidate says shots fired at her in Vineyard Town
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
July 17, 2007
THE police yesterday promised to increase patrols in the violence-torn constituency of South East St Andrew, following a reported attack against Joan ...
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Golding: ‘Time for a new day’
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
July 17, 2007
OPPOSITION Leader Bruce Golding says that after 18 years as government, the People's National Party (PNP) is beginning to think that it has become a w...
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Cheaper fertiliser not possible now, says Fersan GM
ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter 
July 17, 2007
JOHN Allen, general manager of Kingston-based company Newport Fersan - the island's sole fertiliser manufacturer - on Monday said the quest by the agr...
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88-y-o cyclist plunges over rail-less bridge
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
July 16, 2007
CAMPBELLTON ROAD, Hanover - The death of an elderly man who plunged over a bridge while riding his bicycle home from church Sunday night in this commu...
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PNP will win Portmore despite toll anger, says Buchanan
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Observer staff reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com 
July 16, 2007
General-Secretary of the People's National Party (PNP) Donald Buchanan yesterday shrugged off a suggestion that the party could lose votes in Portmore...

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