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55 kids ‘dumped’ over 11 months
BY MARSHALYN ROSE Sunday Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 14, 2007
JAMAICANS dumped 55 children on the state over an 11-month period, cramping renewed efforts to reduce the numbers inside children's homes. Based on th...
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No successor named for Miss Jamaica World 2006
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Sunday Observer staff reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 14, 2007
FIVE weeks after relinquishing her title as Miss Jamaica World 2006, Sara Lawrence has not been replaced, and Spartan Health Club - the local Miss Wor...
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Inner-city prep school a successful experiment
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Sunday Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 14, 2007
In 1994, when real estate developer Reynold Scott erected a building to be used as an independent school in the heart of one of Kingston's toughest ne...
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Cops mum on Bob Woolmer’s toxicology test results
BY KARYL WALKER Observer staff reporter walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 14, 2007
THE long-awaited test results conducted on tissue and fluid samples taken from the body of former Pakistan Cricket Coach Bob Woolmer are now in the ha...
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Major crimes down by 68% in Kingston East, says report
BY KARYL WALKER Observer staff reporter walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 14, 2007
WHILE other police divisions in the Corporate Area, Clarendon and St James are grappling with rising crime, the police in Kingston East -a division on...
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PNP urges Glenville Shaw to reconsider resignation
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
April 13, 2007
MONTEGO BAY, St James - The hierarchy of the ruling People's National Party (PNP) is urging Glenville Shaw to reconsider his decision not to contest t...
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MONTEGO BAY, St James - The police yesterday said one of the drivers involved in Thursday night's two-vehicle collision at Rose Heights, near Montego ...
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PNPYO tells students party is best choice for Jamaica
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer 
April 13, 2007
THE People's National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO) kick-started its campaign for general elections due this year, convincing students at a forum a...
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PNP, JLP agree to three public debates
Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter 
April 13, 2007
THE People's National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) yesterday agreed to engage each other in three prime time national political deba...
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Leslie Robinson eulogised as gifted scholar, warm human being
Kimone Thompson, Observer staff reporter 
April 13, 2007
IN tragic irony, the extraordinary brain which set Professor Leslie Robinson apart among men, in the end failed him when it fell victim to Alzheimer's...
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New electronic system to link Corporate Area public labs
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April 13, 2007
HEALTH minister Horace Dalley on Wednesdday signed a US$1-million contract with United States-based STALIMS Corporation for the provision of a laborat...
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Highway firm deep in debt
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
April 13, 2007
THE National Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC), the vehicle used by government to facilitate the construction of Highway 2000 - the nati...
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Rosenbauer begins modification of fire trucks
Kimone Thompson, Observer staff reporter 
April 13, 2007
ROSENBAUER America has begun modification of the fire trucks it supplied to government last September, local representative National Safety Limited ha...
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Quarrels over $150, knife leave two dead
April 13, 2007
MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Quarrels over $150 in one case and a ratchet knife in another left two young men dead and another in hospital with knife woun...
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JPS pulls plug on St Elizabeth PC street-lighting programme
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
April 13, 2007
BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - The St Elizabeth Parish Council has written to the Ministry of Local Government urging its intervention following a notice...
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Mount Rosser to open on Saturdays
April 13, 2007
THE National Works Agency has modified traffic changes that it implemented along the Mount Rosser to Faith's Pen main road earlier this week. Accordin...
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No retrial date set for ‘hero cops’
Paul Henry 
April 13, 2007
THE 'hero cops', whose murder trial ended recently with a hung jury in the Home Circuit Court, will have to wait a while longer for a retrial date. Wh...
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Two brothers charged with murder of cop
April 12, 2007
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Inflation? They all got it wrong, says Omar
BY Alicia Dunkley Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 12, 2007
Finance and Planning Minister Dr Omar Davies says financial experts "all got it wrong" in their predictions that the administration would not be able ...
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$1.7b in new taxes
Julian Richardson | Online Content Manager 
April 12, 2007
A 20 per cent increase on the Special Consumption Tax (SCT) on cigarettes, and an environmental levy of 0.5 per cent on the Cost Insurance and Freight...
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Notice wants St Catherine PC dissolved
BY T K WHYTE Observer correspondent 
April 12, 2007
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - The monthly general meeting of the St Catherine Parish Council exploded in anger yesterday after Councillor Dr Raymoth No...
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IT was not the Easter Bunny, but Sesame Street character Elmo worked just as well, as more than 1,000 students in St Ann and St Mary celebrated Easter...
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