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Gov’t set to hike NHT loan
PATRICK FOSTER, Observer writer 
March 27, 2007
Almost a year after the National Housing Trust (NHT) loan limit was doubled to $3 million, the Government is considering increasing the benefit to at ...
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PM says she hasn’t obtained copy of document signed by Trafigura and CCOC Association
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
March 27, 2007
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller told Parliament last week that she has been unable to obtain a copy of the document signed by CCOC Association an...
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Judgement reserved in extradition of Nembhard, five others
PAUL HENRY, Observer staff reporter 
March 27, 2007
THE Full Court of the Supreme Court yesterday reserved judgement in the extradition of six persons wanted in the United States on drug-related charges...
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‘Video ray’ helping to keep ships drug-free at Kingston Wharves
Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter 
March 27, 2007
A machine used to search the hull of ships departing Kingston Wharves has detected illegal drugs 12 times in the past three months, putting a small de...
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Toll going up at Vineyards, Spanish Town
TANEISHA LEWIS, Observer staff reporter 
March 27, 2007
MOTORISTS using the Mandela to Sandy Bay and Mandela to Spanish Town leg of Highway 2000 could be asked to fork out up to $30 more for toll fees if th...
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Cash register still running…
ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter 
March 27, 2007
THE "cash register is still running" was the common thread running through most of the presentations yesterday as Gorstew representatives, led by chai...
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Accused cop killer shot dead in alleged gunfight
March 27, 2007
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Alexis White, the man accused of killing a district constable five months ago, was shot dead by the police in an allege...
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Cop stabbed to death in May Pen
VAUGHN DAVIS 
March 27, 2007
THE May Pen police yesterday detained three men in connection with the death of police constable Richard Dwayne Alexander, whose body was found yester...
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Parking meter talks crash
KERRY MCCATTY , Observer staff reporter 
March 27, 2007
Close to 10 years after it started looking at putting parking meters on the streets of the capital, the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) is r...
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Section of wall outside gov’t office damaged in accident
Kerry McCatty 
March 27, 2007
A section of the wall outside the Ministry of Labour's Overseas Employment Office in Kingston was damaged yesterday following an accident involving a ...
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Passport Office begins transition to executive agency next month
March 27, 2007
THE Immigration, Citizenship, and Passport Services Division of the Ministry of National Security will begin the transition to become an executive age...
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Social workers want professional recognition, more resources
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Senior staff reporter williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 26, 2007
JAMAICAN social workers are to use today's celebration of international social work day as a platform to help elevate the status of their profession a...
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Strike threat hangs over JPS
BY INGRID BROWN Observer staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 26, 2007
THE country could be plunged into darkness on Friday if the more than 1,000 unionised Jamaica Public Service workers go ahead with their threat to str...
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State opening of Parliament this Thursday
March 26, 2007
GOVERNMENT'S programmes and policies for the 2007/08 fiscal year will be outlined on Thursday when Governor General Prof Kenneth Hall delivers the Thr...
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MacMillan questions anomalies in pension to ‘specials’
March 26, 2007
OPPOSITION Senator Colonel Trevor MacMillan has tabled questions in the Senate concerning anomalies which he says have been created by the transfer of...
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Residents get leave to take toll road issue to Privy Council
March 26, 2007
THE Court of Appeal yesterday granted final leave to a group of Portmore residents to take their grouse against the Portmore toll road to the United K...
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Pakistani senator blames Jamaica
BY KARYL WALKER Observer staff reporter walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 26, 2007
A Pakistani senator yesterday blamed lax Cricket World Cup security in Jamaica for the murder of former Pakistan national cricket coach Bob Woolmer. H...
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Infant dies in Barrett Town accident
BY KERIL WRIGHT Observer staff reporter kerilw@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 25, 2007
Barrett Town, St James - Ronald Miller was so devoted to his five-month-old son, Jaheim, that he took three days off from work in Miami to return to J...
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Woolmer’s death no West Indian thing, says Ramphal
BY RICKEY SINGH Observer Caribbean correspondent 
March 25, 2007
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The shocking news of the murder of Pakistan's cricket coach, Bob Woolmer "must in no way be allowed to tarnish West Indies cric...
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BY KARYL WALKER Observer staff reporter walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 25, 2007
Police yesterday denied that their investigation into Bob Woolmer's murder was being hampered by poor CCTV footage recorded on the 12th floor of the J...
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Jamaica to celebrate inaugural int’l social work day
BY PETRE WILIAMS Observer senior reporter williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 25, 2007
JAMAICAN social workers will tomorrow join the world in celebrating the inaugural international day of social work. The celebration is the result of a...
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BY KERIL WRIGHT Observer staff reporter kerilw@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 25, 2007
Frome, Westmoreland - Pulsating drums and gyrating bodies took over the Frome Sports Complex last Thursday as the Jamaica Cultural Development Commiss...
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