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JLP vows to make Mandeville model town in fight against crime
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
June 22, 2007
MANDEVILLE, Manchester - A government run by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) would make this central highlands town a model in the fight against crime,...
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One dead, two injured in Manchester accident
Glendon Baker 
June 22, 2007
ANCEL Thompson, a 47-year-old farmer of Chudleigh, Manchester, was killed while his wife Mitzy and son Ancel Jr are nursing injuries after a Nissan st...
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Two get life for murdering former friend
June 22, 2007
SPANISH Town residents Omar Stewart and Andre Ennis were last Friday sentenced to life imprisonment in the Home Circuit Court for the 2005 slaying of ...
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Parish councils defend issuing of stop orders
Kimone Thompson, Observer staff reporter 
June 22, 2007
THE island's parish councils are insisting that injunctions issued on real estate developers are legal and are done only as a last resort. "Unless the...
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Fire safety lacking at KSAC
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
June 21, 2007
THE Church Street headquarters of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation has not been operating in conformity with standard fire prevention practices,...
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Vile murders
BY PAUL HENRY Observer staff reporter henryp@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 21, 2007
The murder of an elderly man in Torrington Park two Saturdays ago had so traumatised seven year-old Damone Skyers that she desperately hoped she and h...
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Fire safety lacking at KSAC
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
June 21, 2007
THE Church Street headquarters of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation has not been operating in conformity with standard fire prevention practices,...
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‘Let the tyrants fall’
Pat Roxborough-Wright 
June 21, 2007
MONTEGO BAY, St James - A Baptist preacher yesterday described Jamaica's crime-ridden environment as a tyrant-breeding factory and called for an audit...
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Sex education for schools September
BY INGRID BROWN Observer staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
June 21, 2007
SEX education will be introduced in 223 primary, preparatory and secondary schools in September as part of a new curriculum on health and family life....
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Former Stone Poll team responds
June 21, 2007
The team of academics who, until recently, worked as members of the Stone Poll Organisation, yesterday reaffirmed their commitment to conducting resea...
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Stalemate as MPs discuss amended election bills
ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter 
June 20, 2007
PARLIAMENTARIANS on Tuesday reached a stalemate in accepting an amendment to three bills made by the Senate last Friday giving magistrates more discre...
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MIDA now $5.1-b strong
DIANA HALL, Observer writer 
June 20, 2007
THE Micro Investment Development Agency (MIDA) says it now has $5.1 billion in funds available for small business loans. However, MIDA's managing dire...
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JLP promises to revive railway service
LUKE DOUGLAS, Observer writer 
June 20, 2007
THE opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) intends to restore the railway service to Jamaica if it wins the upcoming general election, the party's spok...
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Our man in China first for Pakistan
June 20, 2007
JAMAICA'S ambassador to China, Wayne McCook, is Jamaica's first high commissioner to Pakistan, the sister Commonwealth country with whom the island es...
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PM says flood of guns, poverty hurting Caribbean
Erica Virtue 
June 20, 2007
WASHINGTON DC, USA - The flood of guns into the Caribbean, coupled with poverty, have left many Caribbean states, including Jamaica, in a persistent s...
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Split KSAC – Senator Grant
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
June 20, 2007
JAMAICA Agricultural Society (JAS) president, Senator Norman Grant, says that the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) should be split into separ...
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Straight to your door
June 20, 2007
Dining out in Jamaica is on the increase so does that mean we're no longer interested in dining in? Perish the thought but with the advent of Dine-In ...
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Jamaica’s Top Chef
June 20, 2007
As Sara Mair prepared to go on the hit reality show Top Chef 3 Miami, her good friend Tina Matalon gave her one piece of advice. "Don't get kicked off...
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‘Bring back chastity belt’
TK WHYTE, Observer correspondent 
June 20, 2007
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - In apparent frustration, a senior magistrate this week advised women subject to sexual abuse to resort to wearing a chast...

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