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May 24, 2007
PARIS, France (AFP) - Weather events that occur in the distant Pacific and West Africa help determine the frequency of major hurricanes that strike th...
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Bahia Principe hotel workers strike for gratuity payments
May 24, 2007
OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Ruddy Spencer, president-general of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union and the Opposition's labour spokesman, yesterday called ...
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May 24, 2007
DR Pauline Mullings, chairman of the National Child Month Committee, says the Child Care and Protection Act can be used as a tool to mobilise communit...
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May 24, 2007
THE health ministry will this weekend roll out an education campaign to sensitise the public about the abolition of hospital fees for children under a...
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May 24, 2007
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May 24, 2007
Opposition parliamentarian Mike Henry on Tuesday stormed out of a meeting of the Bicentennial Committee on Slavery with visiting British Deputy Prime ...
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Scoliosis Club formed to support affected Jamaicans
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May 24, 2007
WHEN 18-year-old Kimberly Christie was diagnosed with scoliosis three years ago, she had never met anyone else with the condition. At school, she was ...
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NHT building renamed in honour of Michael Manley
Kimone Thompson, Observer staff reporter 
May 23, 2007
THE head office of the National Housing Trust (NHT) at Park Boulevard in New Kingston was yesterday renamed the Michael Manley Building, in honour of ...
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May 23, 2007
Four food award judges, four guest taste-testers, two logistics personnel, and one supermarket boss were seated in the Solarium, at Norma's on The Ter...
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Local gas prices reach record high
CAMILO THAME, Observer writer 
May 23, 2007
LOCAL gas prices will reach a record high today, as international oil prices continue to rise. Petrojam's weekly adjustment, being made today, will pu...
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Climate change research a must – Met Service official
PETRE WILLIAMS, Senior staff reporter 
May 23, 2007
HEAD of the Climate Branch of the Meteorological Service, Jeffrey Spooner, has reminded Jamaica's policy makers of the need for more extensive researc...
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Fewer workers but dozens of Labour Day projects islandwide
May 23, 2007
DESPITE seeing fewer volunteers and being low-keyed when compared to the 1970s and early 1980s, dozens of community projects were done across the isla...
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Senior citizen avoids jail time in conning case
TK Whyte 
May 23, 2007
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - A 64-year-old senior citizen, accused of defrauding a woman of $200,000, had his six-month sentence suspended for two yea...
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Bunting gets big welcome in Central Manchester
May 23, 2007
MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Declaring that his main reason for re-entering politics is to help improve the quality of people's lives, investment banker P...
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PM’s peaceful campaign promise put to test
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer 
May 23, 2007
LESS than 24 hours after she pledged to use every ounce of her strength to conduct a peaceful election campaign, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller ...
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JFJ report blasts police investigation branches
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May 23, 2007
ANNOYED by what it describes as unprofessional practices and inadequate investigative procedures by the Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) and the...
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JLP promises to abolish cost sharing
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May 23, 2007
PORTMORE, St Catherine - The opposition Jamaica Labour Party is promising to abolish cost sharing in high schools if it wins the election. Opposition ...
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Tanker drivers could strike if pay dispute continues
May 22, 2007
NATIONAL Workers Union (NW) president, Vincent Morrison has warned that unless the union can resolve outstanding pay disputes involving service statio...
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UNDP officer calls for better programmes to protect young girls
May 22, 2007
DIANE McIntosh, programme officer at the United Nations Development Programme, is calling for the strengthening of policies and programmes to eradicat...
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BITU calls for full investigation into Jamaica’s wholesales
May 22, 2007
THE Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) has called for a full investigation by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, into the working condi...
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Gov’t taking wrong approach with the unemployed – Tufton
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May 22, 2007
OPPOSITION Senator Dr Christopher Tufton said the government must consider the implications of leaving the over 350,000 Jamaicans identified by the St...
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May 22, 2007
SOME of the teachers employed by the Kingston Restoration Company (KRC) to teach CXC Maths and English to adults of inner-city communities in Kingston...
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