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6-year-old gives up savings to help rebuild family home, assists classmates after storm
Mark Dennis 
December 29 12:30 AM
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Inside the criminal mind
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December 29 12:28 AM
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‘Avoid wild speculation,’ defence attorney advises in SSL matter
Senior cop points to complex investigation
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Families urged to stop hiding children with disabilities
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Families urged to stop hiding children with disabilities
BY HORACE HINES Observer writer 
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BY DANIEL BLAKE Staff reporter blaked@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 29 12:22 AM
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Jampro now to be known as Jamaica Trade and Invest
February 8, 2007
JAMPRO, the government trade, investments and promotions arm, is to be re-christened Jamaica Trade and Invest. Minister of Information Donald Buchanan...
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Cabinet approves $15-m loan for liquid egg facility
Observer Reporter 
February 8, 2007
THE Cabinet yesterday approved a $15-million loan from the reserves of the Agricultural Credit Board to finance Jamaica Egg Farmers Association's prop...
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9 new malaria cases since Feb 1
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
February 8, 2007
ANOTHER nine confirmed cases of malaria since February 1, and the detection of a new strain linked to contacts with Central America, has raised new co...
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No transport for murder accused to face court
Paul Henry 
February 8, 2007
THE murder trial of 23-year-old Mohinder Singh was postponed in the Kingston Home Circuit Court on Wednesday as the police truck that was to transport...
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NCB charged with breaches of Money Laundering Act
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
February 8, 2007
The Financial Investigative Division has charged the National Commercial Bank (NCB) with breaches of the Money Laundering Act after investigators disc...
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Minor traffic changes for Half-Way-Tree
TANEISHA LEWIS, Observer staff reporter 
February 8, 2007
MOTORISTS can expect minor traffic changes in the Half-Way-Tree area when the state-of-the-art Transportation Centre currently under construction is c...
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Schools Environment Programme to get cash injection today
PETRE WILLIAMS, Senior staff reporter 
February 8, 2007
THE cash-strapped Schools Environment Programme (SEP) is to get some needed funds today when a number of private sector companies, led by Sandals and ...
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Bog Walk slaughter
T K WHYTE, Observer correspondent 
February 8, 2007
BOG WALK, St Catherine - Shock and disbelief gripped residents of the sleepy community of Thirteen Lane in Bog Walk, St Catherine yesterday after five...
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Regional consultations on local government reform end
CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter 
February 7, 2007
THE series of regional consultations to help chart the course for local government reform ended Tuesday with the last of four regional consultations a...
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OAS willing to observe Ja’s next general elections
PATRICK FOSTER, Observer writer 
February 7, 2007
THE Organisation of American States (OAS) is willing to provide international observers and technical support for the upcoming general elections in Ja...
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Caribbean leaders agree on blueprint for region’s future trade relations
PAT ROXBOROUGH-WRIGHT, Editor-at-Large/Western Bureau 
February 7, 2007
MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Caribbean Community's inaugural joint sub-committee meetings on external trade negotiations and the single market economy ...
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Samuda to clarify statement before Privileges Committee
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
February 7, 2007
THE Privileges Committee of the House of Representatives is to invite Opposition Member of Parliament Karl Samuda (North Central St Andrew) to its nex...
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Big city clean-up
Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter 
February 7, 2007
TEN thousand Christians, some armed with machetes, brooms, shovels and gloves, will descend on Kingston later this month to rid the city of garbage ah...
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Fatal police shooting near Kingston school sparks protest
TANEISHA LEWIS, Observer staff reporter 
February 7, 2007
THE police yesterday shot dead 29-year-old Derrick Watson who they claimed was among two men who fired at a police party along Red Hills Road, in the ...
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Nestlé breakfast cereals go ‘whole’ grain
February 7, 2007
NESTLé Jamaica last Friday announced that all its breakfast cereals are now made with whole grain, this as evidence continues to grow about the health...
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Two convicted for stealing clothes from Salvation Army
Observer Reporter 
February 7, 2007
TWO men were yesterday sentenced to do 200 hours of community service at the Half-Way-Tree Police Station after pleading guilty to stealing clothes fr...
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‘Caribbean cannot afford to take chances’
PAUL A REID Observer writer 
February 7, 2007
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Jamaica's deputy foreign minister Delano Franklin says security for next month's ICC Cricket World Cup is paramount, and organ...
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UN boss, PM and Golding hail Angela King
February 6, 2007
ANGELA King, the late former United Nations special adviser on gender issues and the advancement of women, was yesterday hailed by new UN secretary ge...
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‘It wasn’t me!’
BY Alicia Dunkley Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 6, 2007
A second partner in the contentious Sandals Whitehouse hotel project said yesterday that it too had been in the dark about the extent of the cost over...
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St Ann’s Bay mayor to answer gun, assault charges today
February 6, 2007
OCHO RIOS, St Ann - St Ann's Bay Mayor Delroy Giscombe is to appear before the Brown's Town Resident Magistrate's Court today to answer to gun and ass...
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Peart promises Palisadoes study next month
February 6, 2007
THE results of the study done by a Cuban firm researching ways to rehabilitate and protect the Palisadoes peninsula in East Kingston should be ready n...
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‘Step in now, minister’
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
February 6, 2007
THE Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) yesterday called on Health Minister Horace Dalley to intervene immediately to put an end to what it termed a...
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