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A more inviting ‘House’
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
November 25, 2006
OUR expectations are high this Tuesday afternoon as we make our way through the busy streets of Trinidad's capital city, Port of Spain. A final turn o...
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Friends celebrate life of slain priest
BY KERRY MCCATTY Sunday Observer staff reporter 
November 25, 2006
Even in the showers, scores of well-wishers turned out Friday afternoon to the mass of resurrection for the late Reverend Richard Johnson at St Jude's...
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That’s it!
by Ingrid Brown Sunday Observer staff reporter 
November 25, 2006
It's just too much now for the residents of Richmond Park. Creeping commercialisation in this once exclusively residential St Andrew neighbourhood and...
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Give them work!
Luke Douglas 
November 25, 2006
EDUCATION minister Maxine Henry-Wilson is challenging private sector companies to offer more summer employment to young people as a way to motivate th...
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Warren Newby new G2K president
November 25, 2006
Generation 2000 (G2K), the grouping of young professionals aligned to the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), yesterday elected former vice preside...
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PM says she’ll list accomplishments today
BY TANEISHA LEWIS Sunday Observer staff reporter 
November 25, 2006
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says she will today outline her accomplishments since her appointment as head of the Government and signalled tha...
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Dumbing down for parents
By Marcia Forbes 
November 25, 2006
I was very keen to find out where in the house or elsewhere young people mainly watched videos. Did they mainly watch in areas of the house easily acc...
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Education ministry honours parents
JIS 
November 25, 2006
MORE than 130 parents from Clarendon and St Catherine have been recognised by the Ministry of Education and Youth for outstanding parenting values. Fo...
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Must Oneil White die to prove a point?
BY PATRICK FOSTER Sunday Observer Writer 
November 25, 2006
Last Friday could well be 23 year-old Oneil White's final visit to Kingston for dialysis treatment, unless he can find a good Samaritan in a hurry. On...
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Nuttall Hospital to get dialysis unit
Patrick Foster 
November 25, 2006
"We are in an arrangement with a private doctor to install a dialysis unit at the hospital early next year," Bill Pionsett, CEO of Nuttall Hospital, t...
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Nicholson defends dual role of A-G, PNP legal adviser
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
November 25, 2006
ATTORNEY-General Senator A J Nicholson said Friday that it has always been the practice of the ruling People's National Party (PNP) that the attorney-...
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Good Hope labourer chopped to death
Observer Reporter 
November 24, 2006
SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - The police are investigating the murder of 31-year-old Winston Robinson, a labourer and caretaker of Good Hope district, ab...
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‘It’s not for politics or cricket’
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
November 24, 2006
FALMOUTH, Trelawny - Health Minister Horace Dalley says the $248.8-million upgrading work to be carried out at Falmouth Hospital is neither an effort ...
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Two dead, eight injured in Montpelier accident
Observer Reporter 
November 24, 2006
MONTPELIER, St James - Two people - a teenage girl, about 15 years old, and a man believed to be about 26 - were killed yesterday when the Nissan Sunn...
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Restore family values and save the children, student says
Kimone Thompson, Observer staff reporter 
November 24, 2006
A 15-year-old high school student said yesterday that the solution to problems that plague teenagers today - including pregnancy, substance abuse, sex...
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Virginia Woods gets prestigious Stella Gregory Award today
Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter 
November 24, 2006
VIRGINIA Woods has never felt challenged by her inability to see. Instead, the Jamaica Society For The Blind executive director has not only used this...
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Former mayor resigns after 20 years as councillor
NOEL DAVY, Observer writer 
November 24, 2006
MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Former Mayor of Mandeville and People's National Party (PNP) councillor for the New Green Division in the Manchester Parish C...
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Deadly mudslide
Everard Owen Observer Writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
November 24, 2006
A Portland woman died yesterday morning in a mudslide triggered by heavy rains which have been lashing sections of the island since Wednesday. Yesterd...
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Colonel Harris to be honoured by Moore Town Maroons
Observer Reporter 
November 24, 2006
PORT ANTONIO, Portland - The maroon community of Moore Town in Portland will be hosting a special function tomorrow to honour former Colonel C L G Har...
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Two Sandals workers die in crash
Observer Reporter 
November 24, 2006
NEGRIL, Westmoreland - Workers at Sandals Negril were in mourning yesterday following the death of two colleagues from the water sports department who...

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