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Trump tells Cuba to ‘make a deal, before it is too late’
January 11 09:18 AM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)—US President Donald Trump urged Cuba on Sunday to "make a deal" or face unspecified consequences, warning that the flo...
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Three children among four killed in St Elizabeth/ Westmoreland border crash
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January 11 09:12 AM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica —Three children and an adult died following a two-vehicle collision on the Crawford to Font Hill main road near the St Elizabeth...
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Jamaican seasonal workers turn gains from Canada, US jobs into lasting success
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January 11 12:14 AM
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BY PAUL A REID Observer writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 11 12:12 AM
Western schools scramble amidst track and field meet cancellations
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January 11 12:11 AM
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Higgler gets seven years for killing ex-lover
PAUL HENRY, Observer writer 
February 16, 2007
HIGGLER Beverly Scarlett was yesterday sentenced to seven years imprisonment at hard labour for the killing of her 66-year-old ex-lover, while her dau...
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UWI vice chancellor calls for regional criminal justice and security institute
February 16, 2007
VICE chancellor of the University of the West Indies Professor Nigel Harris has proposed the establishment of a criminal justice and security institut...
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Caricom leaders upbeat about plans for single economy by 2008
RICKEY SINGH, Observer Caribbean correspondent 
February 16, 2007
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent - Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community concluded their 18th Inter-Sessional Meeting here on Wednesday in an upbeat moo...
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Man asks 10-y-o stepdaughter to deliver bullets to him
February 16, 2007
A Kingston man on Tuesday pleaded guilty in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court to having his 10-year-old stepdaughter deliver a small bag c...
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Cops who rescued alleged homosexuals now under fire
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
February 16, 2007
THE four policemen who braved their way through an angry crowd to save three alleged homosexuals from a possible beating are now being criticised by t...
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Police grab $million teenager
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
February 16, 2007
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Police investigating an international sweepstakes and lottery scam, were last night interrogating a 19-year-old St James woman...
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Portmore Community College plans major expansion
Kimone Thompson, Observer staff reporter 
February 16, 2007
THE board of the Portmore Community College (PCC) is currently exploring plans to expand the institution's capacity by establishing another campus in ...
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Angela King remembered for her love for people
Kimone Thompson, Observer staff reporter 
February 16, 2007
IF the former United Nations special adviser on gender issues and the advancement of women, Angela Evelyn King, had been at her own funeral yesterday,...
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Over 30 arrested as cops hit MoBay lottery scam hard
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
February 15, 2007
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Cops from seven arms of the police force yesterday raided 13 locations in Hanover and St James, arresting more than 30 persons...
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Portmore council wants traffic lights on Passagefort Drive
Kimone Thompson, Observer staff reporter 
February 15, 2007
THE Portmore Municipal Council is lobbying for three sets of traffic lights to be installed on the recently upgraded Passagefort Drive, where two chil...
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No plans to remove street people, says McKenzie
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
February 15, 2007
Mayor of Kingston Desmond McKenzie on Wednesday denied reports that street people would be removed from the streets of the Corporate Area during the C...
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‘Mix GSAT scholars’
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
February 15, 2007
THE Government-appointed committee which enquired into last year's delayed release of GSAT results has recommended that the Ministry of Education and ...
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Literacy programme offers hope to inner-city residents
TANEISHA LEWIS, Observer staff reporter 
February 15, 2007
TWENTY-FOUR-year-old Devon Edwards now has a new lease on life. Through the Learning for Life Programme launched at the Rose Town Community Centre in ...
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23 Haitians land in Jamaica
February 15, 2007
PORT ANTONIO, Portland - The Port Antonio police, immigration and health officials were kept busy yesterday morning when a group of 23 Haitians - 19 m...
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Civil Aviation Authority mum on RIU findings
PETRE WILLIAMS, Senior staff reporter 
February 15, 2007
THE Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has completed its assessment of the proposed plans for the construction of the 701-room ClubRiu Hotel in Montego Ba...
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Christians agree to extend city clean-up to four days
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
February 15, 2007
Some 10,000 Christians who initially volunteered to clean the city over two days ahead of the March 11 start of Cricket World Cup 2007, on Monday agre...
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Police chief promotes 86 cops
February 15, 2007
POLICE Commissioner Lucius Thomas yesterday promoted 86 members of the constabulary, ranging from the ranks of inspector to senior superintendent. Amo...
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Cops save three alleged homosexuals from angry crowd
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
February 14, 2007
THREE men branded as homosexuals were yesterday rescued by the police from an angry mob outside a pharmacy in Tropical Plaza, where they had been hole...
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No barking… please
KERIL WRIGHT, Observer reporter 
February 14, 2007
ROUND HILL, Hanover - German Ambassador Volker Schlegel said yesterday that if his Jack's Hill neighbours fail to respond favourably to his written re...
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Woman found with throat slashed
February 14, 2007
GLENGOFFE, St Catherine - The police were up to late yesterday evening investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman, whose throat ...
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Definition of rape stays
ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter 
February 14, 2007
THE Joint Select Committee considering the Offences Against the Person Act yesterday rejected suggestions that the offence of rape in the Bill be made...
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Health ministry to increase malaria prevention expeditions to Pedro Cays
ROLAND HENRY, Observer staff reporter 
February 14, 2007
HEALTH officials will set sail for the Pedro Cays at least four times for the year, as the Ministry of Health moves to regularise its malaria preventi...
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