Horror injury overshadows Canada’s first World Cup win
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Horror injury overshadows Canada’s first World Cup win
June 18 07:28 PM
VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) — Canada thrashed nine-man Qatar 6-0 to clinch their first ever World Cup victory on Thursday in a Group B match marred by a h...
Cuba unveils historic package of free-market reforms
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Cuba unveils historic package of free-market reforms
June 18 06:40 PM
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Cuba on Thursday unveiled nearly 200 historic free-market reforms aimed at rescuing the communist island from a severe crisis agg...
Duckie assumes head coach role at Waterhouse
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Duckie assumes head coach role at Waterhouse
June 18 05:32 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica  — Top coach Donovan Duckie has taken over the reins at Waterhouse FC, following the sudden resignation of Argentine Javier Aintein....
Morgan eyes World U20 slot
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Morgan eyes World U20 slot
June 18 05:06 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Edwin Allen High’s Joel Morgan ran an easy 1:54.25 to lead the qualifiers for the finals of the Under-20 boys 800m on Thursday’s o...

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UN exec gives Jamaica high marks on environmental action
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Environment Watch writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 24, 2009
JAMAICA has been given high marks for its awareness and action on climate change issues by the deputy manager of a worldwide programme that funds proj...
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Two Chinese executed for role in tainted milk scandal
AP 
November 24, 2009
BEIJING, China (AP) - China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman yesterday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula - severe pu...
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Warming’s impacts worsen since Kyoto
AP 
November 24, 2009
WASHINGTON, USA (AP) - Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated - beyond some of the g...
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Greenies concerned by fire at Spain national park
November 24, 2009
LAS TABLAS DE DAIMIEL NATIONAL PARK, Spain (AFP) - Columns of smoke and the acrid smell of burning peat now greet visitors to one of the largest wetla...
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Gay man gouges out lover’s eyes
BY HG HELPS Editor-at-large helpsh@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 24, 2009
A homosexual man held down his lover and gouged out his eyes in a jealous fit of rage in Calabar Mews, a North St Andrew residential complex Sunday, p...
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Three die in crash
November 23, 2009
Three people, including two security guards, were killed when this white Toyota Caldina motor car, registered 5832FD, and grey Honda Torneo motor car,...
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Jurors in alleged bribery scam again remanded
November 23, 2009
THE two jurors accused of soliciting a bribe from the mother of a murder accused in exchange for a not guilty verdict will know on Thursday whether th...
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Citizens defy don
BY KARYL WALKER Crime/Court Desk co-ordinator walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 23, 2009
Residents of a St Catherine community, driven by their need to have a basic school to be built there by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), out...
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Jurors in alleged bribery scam again remanded
November 23, 2009
THE two jurors accused of soliciting a bribe from the mother of a murder accused in exchange for a not guilty verdict will know on Thursday whether th...
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Ten cops remembered in western Jamaica
November 22, 2009
MONTEGO BAY, St James - The lives of 10 policemen who served Trelawny, St James, Westmoreland and Hanover, and who died in the last 12 months were rem...
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Fruit juice to replace milk powder
BY PATRICK FOSTER Sunday Observer writer fosterp@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 21, 2009
PUBLIC school children who are presently fed a diet of nutri-bun and imported powdered milk under the government's school-feeding programme, are soon ...
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Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate
AP 
November 21, 2009
LONDON, England (AP) - Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research centre in Britain and posted hundreds of...
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A new wave of patriotism?
Desmond Allen | Executive Editor 
November 21, 2009
GRACE Silvera of Red Stripe last week became the latest of three very powerful private sector personalities to embrace a non-partisan political path t...
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Angolan leader wants zero tolerance on corruption
AFP 
November 21, 2009
LUANDA, Angola (AFP) - Angolas president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos yesterday called for "zero tolerance" of corruption within the country's government t...
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No go for Reneto
BY HG HELPS Editor-at-large helpsh@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 21, 2009
RETIRED senior superintendent of police, Reneto Adams' dream of becoming Jamaica's next commissioner of police will not become a reality, the Sunday O...
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Crime no problem
BY KIMONE THOMPSON ?Features editor ? Sunday ?thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 21, 2009
SLEEPING with the door unlocked is something not even the bravest Kingstonian would chance in today's Jamaica. But for east Portlanders, the practice ...
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When the prime minister speaks today…
CLAUDE ROBINSON 
November 21, 2009
The news last week that Jamaica had slipped further down the corruption index of Transparency International attracted less attention than the downgrad...
Environment, News
El Niño compounds drought damage in Latin America
AFP 
November 21, 2009
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AFP) - From a devastating food crisis in Guatemala to water cuts in Venezuela, El Niño has compounded drought damage across Latin...
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This day in history
November 21, 2009
Today is Sunday, November 22, the 326th day of 2009. There are 39 days left in the year. Today's Highlights 2005 - Conservative Angela Merkel takes po...
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Pastor links ‘bad dads’ to rise in violence against children
BY Alicia Dunkley Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 19, 2009
THE rise in the number of reprisal killings which target children, has led Osbourne Bailey - a minister of religion - to theorise that the devious act...

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