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BY KERRY MCCATTY Sunday Observer staff reporter mccattyk@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 19, 2007
A strip sign which reads, 'Big sale on mattresses', runs across the doors of Bargain Furniture in Mandeville. But the people in the bustling town cent...
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‘Why I left South Trelawny’
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
May 19, 2007
Devon McDaniel, the young Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) MP now seeking to represent South Central St Catherine, says his frustrations with the system was...
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NCU commemorates abolition of slave trade
May 19, 2007
NORTHERN Caribbean University (NCU) recently hosted a video conference to facilitate discussion on the book Olaudah Equiano: the Interesting Narrative...
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Regional environmental association launched
BY PAUL HENRY Sunday Observer reporter henryp@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 19, 2007
THE Jamaica Institute of Environmental Professionals (JIEP) last Wednesday launched the Caribbean Association of Environmental Professionals (CAEP), a...
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House resumes sitting next Tuesday
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
May 19, 2007
THE House of Representatives is scheduled to resume next Tuesday, after a three-week break. It is likely that a week later the House will commence the...
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NCU wins Microsoft’s Image Cup competition
May 19, 2007
NORTHERN Caribbean University's (NCU's) Information and Technology team have once again won Microsoft's regional Image Cup competition. The team - com...
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Cops on the hunt for 35 dangerous criminals in kgn
May 18, 2007
THE police on Thursday released the names/aliases of the 35 fugitives wanted in the Corporate Area for murder and shooting charges. The majority of th...
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HEART, unions settle on wage offer
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
May 18, 2007
TRADE unions representing HEART Trust/NTA employees on Thursday signed on to a 20 per cent pay increase over two years as a settlement of their prolon...
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JLP’s Dietrich to be buried today
May 18, 2007
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Clinton Dietrich, the late Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) caretaker for North West Manchester and councillor for the Johns Hall di...
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Sections of St Catherine take battering from heavy rains
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
May 18, 2007
SECTIONS of St Catherine took a battering from flood waters for the second time in two weeks, as heavy rains associated with a surface trough lashed p...
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Woman injured in three-vehicle crash
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May 18, 2007
A female motorist was injured in a three-vehicle collision along Old Hope Road during the evening rush hour on Thursday. According to the police, the ...
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Reward good fathers – Senator Morris
TANEISHA LEWIS, Observer staff reporter 
May 18, 2007
STATE Minister in the Ministry of Labour, Senator Floyd Morris has suggested that fathers who play active roles in the lives of their children be give...
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Child advocate wants action against girls who have consensual sex
Taneisha Lewis 
May 17, 2007
CHILDREN'S Advocate Mary Clarke yesterday said her office will be advocating for an amendment to the Sexual Offences Act to penalise girls who have co...
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Murder rate going up
May 17, 2007
MURDERS have increased by nine per cent between January and April this year, when compared to the same period last year, according to a police report....
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Residents accuse police of murdering West Cumberland youth
Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter 
May 17, 2007
WHEN Maxine Brown suddenly awoke from her sleep shortly after midnight on Wednesday she knew immediately that something was wrong with one of her chil...
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Ministry begins another HIV vaccine trial this summer
May 17, 2007
AS the health ministry's HIV Vaccine Trials Unit joins the world in observing HIV Vaccine Awareness Day today, it is currently preparing to begin anot...
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Soft drink delivery truck hijacked, driver killed
May 17, 2007
THE driver of a Jamaica Beverages Ltd delivery truck, bottlers of Busta soft drinks, was found dead by passers-by along George's Lane in downtown King...
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Police confirm cop killed by friendly fire
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
May 17, 2007
MICHAEL Haughton, the police constable who was shot dead in the volatile Payne Land community in South-West St Andrew on April 8, was not killed by gu...
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May 17, 2007
THE region's corporate sector must reject a "business as usual stance" if economic and social sustainability is to be achieved, Barbados Ambassador to...
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Ethanol fuel plan slows
Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter 
May 17, 2007
THE Government's much-touted project to blend 10 per cent ethanol and 90 per cent gasoline (E10) by mid-year, as part of the administration's energy-s...
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ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter 
May 17, 2007
ATTORNEY General A J Nicholson on Wednesday blasted the media for what he said was the shallow coverage of issues concerning the Offences Against the ...
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JC students learn how to deal with people with HIV/AIDS
TANEISHA LEWIS, Observer staff reporter 
May 17, 2007
UP until yesterday, 14-year-old Brian Moore had no clue that HIV/AIDS could not be transmitted by simply touching someone with the disease. It was was...
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