6.5-magnitude quake shakes Mexico City and beach resort
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6.5-magnitude quake shakes Mexico City and beach resort
January 2 02:58 PM
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP)—A 6.5-magnitude earthquake rattled Mexico's capital and a tourist hotspot on the Pacific coast on Friday, killing at least o...
Brazilian miners die in Guyana after pit collapses
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Brazilian miners die in Guyana after pit collapses
January 2 02:50 PM
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – The Guyana Police Force on Friday said that two Brazilian gold miners died after a mining pit collapsed at Chenapou, North ...
Persons urged to beware of fraudulent customs brokers
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Persons urged to beware of fraudulent customs brokers
January 2 12:51 PM
KINGSTON, January — Commanding Officer of the Newport West Police Formation, Superintendent Rochelle McGibbon Scott, is urging members of the public, ...

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Traffic changes on Marcus Garvey Drive take effect today
February 18, 2007
THE National Works Agency (NWA) will today introduce traffic changes along Marcus Garvey Drive in Kingston. "The changes are being made in response to...
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Reach Falls reopens today
February 18, 2007
THE Urban Development Corporation (UDC) will today re-open Reach Falls in Portland, following the completion of interim upgrading work at the attracti...
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Health ministry sets up free HIV/AIDS testing sites in Kgn, St Thomas
BY TANEISHA LEWIS Sunday Observer staff reporter editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 17, 2007
The Ministry of Health has set up free HIV/AIDS testing sites in at least five communities in the Kingston Metropolitan Area and St Thomas under its N...
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Passing grade for Manchester earthquake simulation
February 17, 2007
THE Disaster Planning and Management Committee of the Manchester Parish Council has received a passing grade for its recent earthquake simulation exer...
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Two men; two different reasons to become cops
Kerry McCatty 
February 17, 2007
Sergeant Rovan Salmon and Constable Andre Whines both work out of the Mandeville Police Station. However, their decision to join the Jamaica Constabul...
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Main suspect in cop’s murder turns himself in
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Sunday Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 17, 2007
Less than a week after 40-year-old Detective Corporal Dave Daley was murdered in Duhaney Park, St Andrew, the man police said was the main suspect wan...
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Workers still benefit from union label
BY MICHAEL KINSMAN 
February 17, 2007
WHEN I was first asked to join a union, I remember thinking it was the last thing I wanted to do. But I actually wasn't asked to join, I was told to j...
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Changing the face of the police
BY KERRY MCCATTY Sunday Observer staff reporter mccattyk@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 17, 2007
If you are young, bright and willing to serve your country, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) wants you. Especially if you are bright. That is the ...
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Living the language
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Sunday Observer reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 17, 2007
SEVEN students of Shortwood Teachers' College recently leaped across the chasm that separates the type of French taught merely on a theoretical base f...
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Future of the security forces under review
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
February 17, 2007
Former Commissioner of Police Colonel Trevor MacMillan has suggested bi-partisan discussions on the future of the security forces. "I feel very, very ...
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Garbage drums for Black River
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
February 17, 2007
Mayor of Black River and chairman of the St Elizabeth Parish Council, Franklyn Witter (left) accepts a donation of 20 garbage drums from Jamaica Labou...
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PAJ supports Bar Association position on Incest Act
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Sunday Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 17, 2007
The Press Association of Jamaica has given its support to a submission made by the Jamaica Bar Association to the committee deliberating the Incest (P...
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Called by the sea
BY ROLAND HENRY Sunday Observer staff reporter henryr@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 17, 2007
It takes a special kind of man to trust the blissfully inviting and sometimes menacing waters that ebb and flow along the sandy banks of the Pedro Cay...
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Flawless food and sweet love @ the Hilton
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
February 17, 2007
Under food and beverage director Olivier Lavoine, the Hilton Kingston has been - and ever so quietly, might we hasten to add - transforming the proper...
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Golf tournament to benefit Jamaican schools
JIS 
February 17, 2007
MONEY raised from this year's staging of the Caribbean Classic Golf Invitational Tournament in Montego Bay will finance the establishment of computer ...
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‘We are ready’
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Sunday Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 17, 2007
REJECTING the view that they are under-performing, Jamaica's education officers say they are responding to problems in the island's schools and workin...
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To take out the gangs
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer senior reporter editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 17, 2007
Police and scientists agree: gangs have become a scourge on the Jamaican society and are at the heart of the vast majority of murders committed across...
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‘Pay us for slave labour’
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
February 17, 2007
Jamaica, which gained international acclaim for its part in the fight against South African Apartheid, is getting ready to throw itself behind the con...
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Gov’t urged to honour ‘Pop’ Lawrence’s memory
BY PAUL A REID Sunday Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 17, 2007
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Newspaper publisher and Jamaica Observer columnist Lloyd B Smith yesterday called on the Government to honour the late Gladsto...
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‘We warned her about him’
BY Vaughn Davis Sunday Observer staff reporter davisv@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 17, 2007
Leon Reynolds didn't like the fact that his daughter, Natalie, had started a relationship with Anthony Wright. In fact, Reynolds said he had warned he...

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