Swaby reiterates concerns about One Road Authority
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Swaby reiterates concerns about One Road Authority
May 13 08:47 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Mayor of Kingston Andrew Swaby has raised concerns about the financial constraints being experienced by the Kingston and St Andrew...
Vin Diesel drives ‘Fast and Furious’ tribute in Cannes
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Vin Diesel drives ‘Fast and Furious’ tribute in Cannes
May 13 08:21 AM
PARIS, France (AFP) — Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez will lead a cast reunion of "The Fast and the Furious" stars on Wednesday in Cannes ahead of a...
4.4 magnitude earthquake recorded in eastern Jamaica
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4.4 magnitude earthquake recorded in eastern Jamaica
May 13 07:25 AM
ST THOMAS, Jamaica — A 4.4 magnitude earthquake was recorded in eastern Jamaica early Wednesday morning, according to the Earthquake Unit at the Unive...
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Auditor General flags slow use of hurricane donations
Jerome Williams | Reporter 
May 13 12:20 AM
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Heat on former UHWI chairman
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Chai Chong faces fiery PAC interrogation over failed CEO recruitment drama
Jerome Williams | Reporter 
May 13 12:18 AM
Heat on former UHWI chairman
Boasy, Jamaican visuals
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Young stylist strikes ‘gold’ with Masicka’s Slip and Slide
Shereita Grizzle Online Coordinator grizzles@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 13 12:16 AM
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TJH profit jumps 46% as new toll leg lifts traffic
BY DASHAN HENDRICKS Business content manager hendricksd@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 13 12:14 AM
TJH profit jumps 46% as new highway leg drives traffic surge

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Funds for climate change unit not yet allocated
BY PETRE WILLIAMS, Environment editor williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 26, 2009
THE Met Office is still looking to secure funding for Jamaica's first climate change unit, which should have been opened at the end of last year. "Hop...
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UAW trust to get up to 20 per cent of GM shares
AP 
May 26, 2009
DETROIT, Michigan A cost-cutting deal between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and General Motors Corp. will give a union-run health care trust fund up t...
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No more plastic shopping bags
BY PETRE WILLIAMS, Environment editor williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 26, 2009
PRICESMART, the membership warehouse shopping club, no longer provides its customers with plastic bags for their goods, as part of an initiative the c...
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World’s poor could get increased climate change funding
AFP 
May 26, 2009
PARIS, France (AFP) - The world's biggest carbon polluters made headway in talks here yesterday on how to beef up funding to help poor countries in th...
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Scotia, Food For the Poor help Portland accident victim
Everard Owen Observer Writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 25, 2009
Cornwall Barracks, Portland - Joyce White, who survived last December's market truck accident that claimed the lives of 14 people from Portland, inclu...
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Flow exec accuses media of irresponsibility
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
May 25, 2009
Mandeville, Manchester - Sharon Roper, marketing manager of the integrated communication technologies company, Flow, has accused sections of the Jamai...
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Crisis can be mother of opportunity, say Gov’t leaders
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
May 25, 2009
Mandeville, Manchester - Finance Minister Audley Shaw called the economic crisis "uncharted waters". Prime Minister Bruce Golding argued that the worl...
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Work on Treasure Beach canal reignites controversy
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
May 24, 2009
Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth - Stakeholders in the fast-growing tourism village of Treasure Beach in south-west St Elizabeth are urging "dialogue" and "co...
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Brave cop dies
May 24, 2009
Constable Marlon Samms' colleagues had hoped Saturday night that he would have survived the gunman's bullet that hit him in the head as he and his par...
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Manchester North East farmers want greenhouse technology
BY INGRID BROWN Sunday Observer senior staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 23, 2009
FREDA Fraser used to spend hours in the sun, ploughing the Manchester clay soil to plant cash crops, while anxiously hoping they would not be destroye...
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Tragedy
BY ALESIA EDWARDS Sunday Observer staff reporter alesiae@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 23, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, St Ann - Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday ordered the closure of the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre in this parish after a fi...
Environment, News
Invasive species threaten JA’s biodiversity
May 23, 2009
INVASIVE alien species are a significant threat to Jamaica's biodiversity. Their ability to reproduce quickly and spread rapidly has enabled them to o...
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‘I was crying because the water was waist-high’
BY KARYL WALKER Crime/court co-ordinator walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 23, 2009
AUDRENE Thomas started to cry last Thursday as the flood waters rose waist-high inside the humble dwelling she shared with relatives on the outskirts ...
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Shaw to help farmers fund greenhouse technology
BY INGRID BROWN Sunday Observer senior staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 23, 2009
MEMBER of Parliament for Manchester North East, Audley Shaw says he plans on providing financial assistance to the farmers in his constituency who wan...
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PAJ acted in undue haste but not for politics
By The Spike 
May 23, 2009
I'M still trying to figure out why the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) executive rushed so quickly into print, in chastising Nationwide Radio for i...
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Infant, woman found dead in bushes in Clarendon
Karyl Walker 
May 23, 2009
HOMICIDE Detective were up to press time yesterday still trying to ascertain the identities of a woman and a male infant whose bodies were found in bu...
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We are Jamaicans… Not PNP or JLP
May 23, 2009
Whether you voted or not, your member of parliament is there to serve you. Once you live in the constituency, the MP is your political representative ...
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North East St Catherine residents say by-election a waste of time
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Sunday Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 23, 2009
A by-election is nowhere on the needs list of North East St Catherine constituents who are to go back to the polls on June 16 to elect a Member of Par...
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Gov’t looks to limestone as bauxite falters
BY RHOMA TOMLINSON Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 22, 2009
MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Against the backdrop of Jamaica's declining bauxite/alumina sector, state minister for industry, investment and commerce, Mic...
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Schoolyard gunfight
By COREY ROBINSON Observer staff reporter robinsonc@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 22, 2009
They weren't the entire school population, but the students who turned up at Ascot High School in Portmore, St Catherine yesterday morning to sit a Ca...
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Cigarette makers lose appeal in landmark case
AP 
May 22, 2009
WASHINGTON, USA - A federal appeals court yesterday agreed with the major elements of a 2006 landmark ruling that found the nation's top tobacco compa...

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