Police seize ammo on Dyke Road, Portmore
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Police seize ammo on Dyke Road, Portmore
January 2 09:57 PM
ST CATHERINE, Jamaica— Police assigned to the St Catherine South Police Division seized a total of 93 assorted rounds of ammunition on Dyke Road, St C...
Manchester labourer charged with 2023 murder
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Manchester labourer charged with 2023 murder
January 2 08:59 PM
MANCHESTER, Jamaica— A Manchester labourer has been arrested and charged with the murder of 34-year-old Glenford Isaacs, who was stabbed to death on S...
UN chief calls on Israel to reverse NGOs ban in Gaza
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UN chief calls on Israel to reverse NGOs ban in Gaza
January 2 07:55 PM
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP)—UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on Friday for Israel to end a ban on humanitarian agencies that provi...
Magnitude 5.6 earthquake jolts St Lucia
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Magnitude 5.6 earthquake jolts St Lucia
January 2 07:26 PM
CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 jolted St Lucia on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries....
STEAM gifts for children in the west
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STEAM gifts for children in the west
January 2 07:00 PM
ST JAMES, Jamaica—Approximately 1,400 STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) gifts have been distributed to children in Monteg...
Errol Wizdom set to release Reggae Dancehall album
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Errol Wizdom set to release Reggae Dancehall album
January 2 06:34 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica —For many years, Jamaican artistes who live overseas have returned to their country to work with musicians and engineers to get an a...

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Volvo bus dealer to train JUTC staff in caring buses
BY INGRID BROWN Observer staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 18, 2007
JR Group, the local Volvo bus dealer, says it plans to train Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) staff how to care and maintain the interior of the b...
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GSAT review team predicts another shortage of spaces this year
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
February 18, 2007
A deficit of almost 4,000 grade seven spaces in high schools for 2007/2008, could create more space problems for GSAT students this September, a gover...
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RBTT workers reject 13% wage hike offer
February 18, 2007
Unionised employees of RBTT Bank voted Saturday afternoon to reject a new pay offer from the bank. At a workers' meeting at the RBTT's employees audit...
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‘Let them pay’
AFP 
February 18, 2007
LONDON, England (AFP) - Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday backed calls for tougher sentences for teenagers who carry guns and join criminal gangs af...
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‘Cornwall kickers’ suspended
Pat Roxborough-Wright 
February 18, 2007
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Three students of Montego Bay's all-boys school Cornwall College have been suspended for participating in a kicking game which...
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Well-known tailor Earl Spencer is dead
BY Alicia Dunkley Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 18, 2007
EARL Spencer, the man who spent over 40 years outfitting Jamaicans from almost every rung of society in well-tailored suits, is dead. The philanthropi...
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Portmore beautification projects likely to miss deadline
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Observer staff reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 18, 2007
THE Portmore Municipal Council is doubtful that its beautification projects will be completed by the March 11 deadline, in time for the start of the I...
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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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The American Crocodile: Feared and under threat
February 17, 2007
THERE can be no question of the fear that any sighting of the American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) instills in locals. It is fear that often leads t...
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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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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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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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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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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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Avoiding ‘reality shock’ in the workplace: Part II
Career Advice with Merrit Henry 
February 17, 2007
We recently looked at how the human resource (HR) practitioner can help new employees avoid 'reality shock' that, according to Dessler G, "occurs at t...
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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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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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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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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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