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January 7 05:17 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The United States (US) dollar on Wednesday, January 7, ended trading at $159.37, up 5 cents,  according to the Bank of Jamaica’s d...
NFA accepting applications for 2026 conch season
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NFA accepting applications for 2026 conch season
January 7 04:33 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The National Fisheries Authority (NFA) is ready to accept applications for licences to fish for conch and the allocation of indivi...
Grenada friendly for Reggae Boyz
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Grenada friendly for Reggae Boyz
January 7 03:26 PM
Jamaica’s senior men’s football team will face hosts Grenada in an international friendly in St George’s on January 18. With the date falling outside ...
PM reaffirms State’s support for Maroon communities
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PM reaffirms State’s support for Maroon communities
January 7 03:12 PM
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness, has reaffirmed Government’s support for the Maroon communities. “You are part of Jamaica and you ar...

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Contractor-General, Auditor-General at one
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Observer staff reporter 
November 21, 2006
AUDITOR-GENERAL Adrian Strachan yesterday appeared to support the Contractor-General in stating that it was his opinion that project managers, the sta...
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Nicole Fullerton held by cops at airport
Karyl Walker 
November 21, 2006
FORMER Caldon Finance director, Nicole Fullerton, was yesterday held trying to leave the island a day after she was found guilty of fraudulent convers...
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HIV cases grow to 39.5 million infections
AP 
November 21, 2006
GENEVA (AP) - The global HIV epidemic is growing, leaving an estimated 39.5 million people worldwide infected with the deadly virus, the United Nation...
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JAS to launch rural development campaign next year
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
November 21, 2006
THE Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) is to launch a rural development campaign aimed at creating a unified voice for the economic development of rur...
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2nd sex assault case at school
November 21, 2006
For the second time in under two months, the Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) is probing a sexual assault case inv...
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Accountant accused of hacking wife on murder rap
Observer Reporter 
November 20, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Ashton Campbell, a 42-year-old accountant accused of hacking his wife to death after beating her, was yesterday charged with m...
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Five held for shooting death of Retirement four
Observer Reporter 
November 20, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Five men have been held for questioning in connection with Saturday night's shooting death of four family members and injury o...
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Red Hills Road houses fire-bombed
Observer Reporter 
November 20, 2006
A number of people from the tough uptown community known as Common, on Red Hills Road, spent last night with relatives and friends after arsonists yes...
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Island placed on flash flood watch
Observer Reporter 
November 20, 2006
THE entire island was last night put under flash flood as more rains were expected from a frontal system that has been affecting the island since yest...
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Former police federation chairman remembered
TK WHYTE, Observer correspondent 
November 20, 2006
POLICE commissioner Lucius Thomas headed hundreds of mourners who attended Sunday's memorial service for former Police Federation chairman deputy supe...
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Solicitor-general defends Christie
Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter 
November 20, 2006
SOLICITOR-General Michael Hylton has defended Contractor-General Greg Christie's ignorance of a 2001 Cabinet decision allowing for special employment ...
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‘Not our job’
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer, Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
November 20, 2006
The Government, in one of its clearest indications that it wants parish councils o take more control in communities, said yesterday that central gover...
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New sanitary block for Rock River All-Age
BY KERRY MCCATTY Observer staff reporter 
November 19, 2006
When the next school term begins in January, the students of the Rock River All-Age School in St Mary, which spawned three members of parliament for t...
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Social security, welfare services to be improved
November 19, 2006
The Government is to revamp the social security and welfare services offered to Jamaicans, Labour and Social Security Minister Derrick Kellier said on...
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Courts (Jamaica) sold to Latin American firm
BY DENNISE WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter 
November 19, 2006
The sale of furniture retailer Courts (Jamaica) to a Latin American interest is a done deal, reliable sources have told the Observer. Details of the p...
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Don’t give up on Ja
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
November 19, 2006
Bruce Golding yesterday appealed to uncommitted voters to support the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the next general election, imploring them not to g...
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Bloody weekend claims 14 lives
November 19, 2006
An internal feud that turned deadly in a community known as 'Common', off Red Hills Road in St Andrew, and the slaughter of four family members at Ret...
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Colour and contrasting behaviour at JLP conference
BY Erica Virtue Observer writer 
November 19, 2006
In September, the People's National Party (PNP) promised to stage "the mother of all conferences" - and they did. On Saturday, the Jamaica Labour Part...
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Where ignorance is dangerous
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer senior reporter 
November 18, 2006
A new study on the relationship between children with behavioural disorders and their teachers has shown that teachers' lack of scientific knowledge o...
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Girls say soap me up
By Marcia Forbes 
November 18, 2006
There is a widely held view that we are what we consume - not just food, but media fare as well. In fact, some believe that media consumption is centr...

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