Johan-Remaldo Smythe ready to put Holland High on the map
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Johan-Remaldo Smythe ready to put Holland High on the map
January 11 07:21 PM
Johan-Ramaldo Smythe showed that he is ready for all comers this season by smashing the Class One 100m record at the Purewater/RDanny Williams/JC Deve...
St Catherine taxi operator charged with murder
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St Catherine taxi operator charged with murder
January 11 04:45 PM
St CATHERINE, Jamaica – A St Catherine taxi operator has been charged with murder following the stabbing death of a man in Portmore, St Catherine on J...
Barca edge Real Madrid in thrilling Spanish Super Cup final
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Barca edge Real Madrid in thrilling Spanish Super Cup final
January 11 04:33 PM
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP)—Barcelona retained the Spanish Super Cup with a thrilling 3-2 Clasico win over Real Madrid in Saudi Arabia on Sunday. Raphi...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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MP Devon McDaniel gets his wish
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
February 16, 2007
ALBERT TOWN, Trelawny - Incumbent Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) member of parliament for South Trelawny Devon McDaniel, who said a little over a year ago...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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