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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Signs that it’s time to be moving on
Copley News Service 
January 20, 2007
DO you have a hard time going to work each day? Wish you did not have to be there? People do get stuck in jobs they do not enjoy and become complacent...
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Embarrassing moment for Antigua PM in India
BY RICKEY SINGH Sunday Observer Caribbean correspondent 
January 20, 2007
Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer had an embarrassing moment on arrival in India last week on a private visit that climaxed with el...
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Turning up the heat on arsonists
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
January 20, 2007
FROME, Westmoreland - In apparent desperation, the Government says it will, this week, unleash the army and the police on arsonists who are being blam...
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Think tank split over launch document
BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer 
January 20, 2007
Four researchers at the centre of a rift rocking a recently launched local think tank that goes by the name 'Taking Responsibility', have denied that ...
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Cooking: it’s a tough career
AP 
January 20, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) - Cameron Cuisinier's dreams of a catering career led him to culinary school. Now he is unemployed and US$43,000 (euro3...
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Clarification and Apology
January 20, 2007
On January 17, we published an article in which we made a certain statement with regards to the award of contracts by the chairman of PETCOM, Ms Barba...
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Cops lock down illegal gas station near city dump
PATRICK FOSTER, Observer writer 
January 19, 2007
POLICE yesterday shut down an illegal gas station at Riverton City in Kingston and arrested 14 men, including two tanker drivers who were said to be i...
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Glimmer of hope on CCJ pact
ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter 
January 19, 2007
THERE was a glimmer of hope yesterday that the Government and Opposition could reach an agreement to remove the London-based Privy Council as Jamaica'...
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Senior citizen placed in drug court programme
Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter 
January 19, 2007
An elderly woman who admitted to having an alcohol addiction problem found herself in the drug court programme after pleading guilty in the Half-Way-T...
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DPP trying to locate witness
Observer Reporter 
January 19, 2007
THE Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is seeking the assistance of members of the public to locate a witness in a case now before the cour...
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Heartless gunmen!
Observer Reporter 
January 19, 2007
POLICE were last night hunting for two gunmen who held up a driver employed to the Heart Foundation of Jamaica and stole the organisation's marked bus...
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NEWS BRIEF
January 19, 2007
J'can truck driver sentenced to life in prison HOUSTON (AP) - A truck driver from Jamaica has been sentenced to life in US prison, avoiding a death se...
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We are getting in shape, Portia tells comrades
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer 
January 19, 2007
PRIME Minister Portia Simpson Miller has again put her People's National Party (PNP) on election alert and has told her comrades to get ready, as she ...
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RM raps cop for arresting man who owed him $1,000
T K WHYTE, Observer correspondent 
January 19, 2007
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Senior St Catherine resident magistrate Lorna Errar-Gayle on Thursday chastised a policeman for allegedly arresting a man...
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Grief in Eltham
Kimone Thompson, Observer staff reporter 
January 19, 2007
MOTHER, relatives, friends and members of the Spanish Town community of Eltham Park cried openly yesterday as divers pulled the bodies of 10-year-old ...
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Three charged in Mandeville couple case remanded
Observer Reporter 
January 18, 2007
THREE people charged in connection with the abduction, robbery and murder of elderly Manchester couple Richard and Julia Lyn were remanded into custod...
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20 held in Norwood raid
Observer Reporter 
January 18, 2007
MONTEGO BAY, St James - The police yesterday arrested 20 people, less than 24 hours after commencing a curfew in the violence-torn Glendevon/Norwood a...
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Come clean on cricket problems, JCC urges gov’t
January 18, 2007
The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce has called on the government to come clean about difficulties it is facing in hosting the International Cricket Counci...

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