Fire guts multi-storey Manchester home
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Fire guts multi-storey Manchester home
January 9 07:49 PM
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Firefighters are now conducting a cooling-down operation after fire gutted the top floor of a multi-storey house in Hope Village...
Maureen Webber appointed ECJ commissioner
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Maureen Webber appointed ECJ commissioner
January 9 05:42 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Maureen Webber has been appointed as Nominated Commissioner on the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ). Her appointment, which b...

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Proposed Portmore hospital suffers setback
March 2, 2007
The proposal to build a private hospital in the municipality of Portmore in St Catherine has suffered a setback because of the need for additional lan...
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Safe-sex messages for St Ann hotspots
Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter 
March 1, 2007
OCHO RIOS, St Ann - THE North-East Regional Health Authority has intensified its safe-sex campaigns, after a survey in the parish- which has the fourt...
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Conway defends change of Air J’s fleet to Boeing
PATRICK FOSTER, Observer writer 
March 1, 2007
MIKE Conway, Air Jamaica's president and CEO, defended the change of the national airline's fleet from A320 to Boeing as part of a loss-reducing measu...
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Ex-banker Nicole Fullerton gets 12 months
March 1, 2007
NICOLE Fullerton, former acting operations manager of the failed Caldon Finance Group, was yesterday sentenced to 12 months in prison for fraud. Fulle...
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More unscheduled holidays for HEART Trust/NTA students
ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter 
March 1, 2007
ALTHOUGH Ministry of Labour conciliators agreed to meet next week with the management of the HEART Trust/NTA and union leaders to settle a dispute ove...
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Teacher dies in class
TANEISHA LEWIS, Observer staff reporter 
March 1, 2007
A popular teacher collapsed and died within minutes Wednesday in front of her class, sending screaming students into a panic-stricken rush from the bu...
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J C Hutchinson cleared
March 1, 2007
SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament for north-west St Elizabeth J C Hutchinson was yesterday cleared of charges...
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Golding leading JLP team to Atlanta
Observer Reporter 
March 1, 2007
A Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) team, headed by leader Bruce Golding is now in Atlanta, United States for a two-day visit. The team, which included the o...
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Couple accused of trading 12-y-o girl for land arrested
Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter 
March 1, 2007
THE Santa Cruz couple, who allegedly gave their 12-year-old daughter to a man in exchange for a piece of land, was yesterday slapped with criminal cha...
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Coffee farmers blame bad roads for death of colleague
LATOYA LATIBEAUDIERE, Observer reporter 
February 28, 2007
MOUNT DAKIN, St Andrew - Coffee farmers in this mountainous community yesterday blamed the deplorable condition of the roads for a motor vehicle accid...
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PM gets Ennis’ Olint report
February 28, 2007
PRIME Minister Portia Simpson Miller has received a report on the conflict between junior agriculture minister Errol Ennis, and the government's Finan...
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Cable car service coming to Blue and John Crow mountains?
PETRE WILLIAMS, Senior staff reporter 
February 28, 2007
THE Jamaica Conservation and Development Trust (JCDT) is looking to operate a cable car service through the island's Blue and John Crow mountains, whi...
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Cops keep watch on troubled Matthews Lane
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
February 28, 2007
THE police were yesterday keeping a close watch on the troubled downtown Kingston community of Matthews Lane, following Tuesday's murder of food vendo...
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No consent from the DPP
ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter 
February 28, 2007
THE committee considering the Offences Against the Person Act yesterday decided to heed the calls of seven interest groups to abandon a provision in t...
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Beat stops at Heart Trust/NTA academies, training centres
ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter 
February 28, 2007
MORE than 1,000 workers employed to the 26 academies and vocational training centres operated by the HEART Trust/NTA went on strike yesterday, followi...
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Tourism workers being immunised for CWC
TANEISHA LEWIS, Observer staff reporter 
February 28, 2007
The Ministry of Health has started immunising thousands of front-line workers in the tourism industry against vaccine preventable diseases in preparat...
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Rioting forces shutdown of hotel project
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
February 27, 2007
LUCEA, Hanover - Work on the US$150-million Fiesta Hotel development at Point, near Lucea, has been suspended indefinitely, following a violent clash ...
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Ministry adds 40 new ambulances to fleet
February 27, 2007
FORTY new ambulances, funded by the National Health Fund at a cost of US$2 million (approx. J$136 million), were yesterday handed over to the Ministry...

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