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Increase in road fatalities pushes authorities to intensify strategies to change driver behaviour
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December 31 12:10 AM
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Church leaders weigh in on debate over State’s offer of rebuilding funds
Jerome Williams | Reporter 
December 31 12:09 AM
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After Melissa, farmers back in the field at Parnassus Agro Park
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‘Transforming Our Police Service’ awards celebrate constabulary’s Area 5 officers
December 31 12:05 AM
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Hundreds benefit from Education Ministry’s parenting expo
December 2, 2006
THE region five office of the Ministry of Education and Youth last month staged a regional parent information exposition in Mandeville, to provide car...
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Excelsior alumni celebrate excellence and service
December 2, 2006
Attorney General A J Nicholson, High Court Judge Paul Harrison, anthropologist Dr Erna Brodber, as well as noted academic and children's rights advoca...
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Jamaican featured in Routes to Reading publication
December 2, 2006
LONDON, England - Jamaican-born Shirley Graham Paul is one of several residents whose stories are featured in a new book Routes to Reading, which chro...
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Most will take management over money
December 2, 2006
Good money or good management? For most of us, management takes the cake over salary or benefits. "Leadership or lack thereof creates the work environ...
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Anger hangs heavy in Port Maria
BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer Reporter 
December 2, 2006
It's been a week since a flood of muddy water inundated the seaside north coast town of Port Maria, but even though the water has run off, everything ...
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STETHS student drowns
December 2, 2006
Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth - A 16-year-old boy drowned after he and his friends went swimming in a stream in the district of Burnt Savannah a few miles ...
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Proposed St Thomas hotel sparks environmental controversy
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer senior reporter 
December 2, 2006
HOLLAND BAY, St Thomas - A local group is objecting to a proposed hotel development in this district on Jamaica's east coast, arguing that the loss of...
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National Land Agency hosts open day for students
December 2, 2006
AS part of its observance of Geographic Information System (GIS) Week, the National Land Agency (NLA) hosted high school students last month at an "op...
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Females can help put music videos meaning in context
By Marcia Forbes 
December 2, 2006
Last week I started a discussion about the kinds of ways in which we watch TV and how the overall context of viewing can influence the ways in which w...
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What makes you an outstanding achiever?
December 2, 2006
Two weeks ago, the Sunday Observer travelled to the St Mary High School in Highgate and engaged four sixth formers on that question. Here are their th...
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Three ways to reduce political tribalism
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
December 2, 2006
Opposition senator, Colonel Trevor MacMillan has suggested that the leader of the opposition be consulted on all decisions to appoint members of publi...
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Silence or death
BY KARYL WALKER Sunday Observer staff reporter 
December 2, 2006
When 46-year-old Isroy Panther swore that he did not own an illegal firearm, even hardened cops wanted to believe the shy, softspoken resident of Sout...
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Rhodd wants NYS expanded
December 2, 2006
MINISTER of state in the Ministry of National Security, Dr Donald Rhodd is calling for the short-term expansion of the National Youth Service (NYS) to...
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‘I’ll say why, when the right time comes’
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
December 2, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Francis Tulloch, the former tourism minister who has returned from retirement to contest the West Central St James constituenc...
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Where will we go, what will we do?
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Sunday Observer staff reporter 
December 2, 2006
As the biggest spending season of the year draws near, vendors at the D C Tavares market on Spanish Town Road are uncertain of where they will go and ...
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MoBay Hope shrugs off elitist image
BY PAT ROXBOROUGH-WRIGHT EDITOR-AT-LARGE/WESTERN BUREAU 
December 2, 2006
ROSEHALL, St James - As far as local hospitals go, MoBay Hope's on the upper end of the scale with its salubrious waiting rooms, which are open to the...
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Davies expects profits from Petrocaribe fund loans
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
December 2, 2006
The Government flexed its majority in the House of Representatives over proposals from the Opposition to give Parliament more authority over the use o...

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