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Nations establish $47-m insurance pool against disasters WASHINGTON, USA (AP) - Caribbean countries, joined by outside donors and international and re...
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Berbick’s nephew, co-accused granted bail
February 27, 2007
HAROLD Berbick, nephew of former world boxing champion Trevor Berbick, and Kenton Gordon, were yesterday granted bail in the sum of $1 million each wh...
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KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
February 27, 2007
PIMPS, touts and prostitutes will have a hard time 'scoring' when the International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket World Cup gets under way on March 11...
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February 27, 2007
THE 2007 St Ann Kite Festival will be held at the Seville Heritage Park in St Ann's Bay on Easter Monday, April 9, with the organisers promising that ...
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Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
February 27, 2007
AFTER funding Cricket World Cup 2007, paying its employees higher wages and fringes and servicing its debts, government will have to find an additiona...
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Rioting forces shutdown of hotel project
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February 27, 2007
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St Ann Health Dept takes its care to the people
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February 26, 2007
OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The St Ann Health Department says it is making itself available to collaborate with community groups, schools and churches in the ...
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180 cricket hosts, hostesses to be deployed in Kingston
February 26, 2007
ONE hundred and eighty people have been trained as hosts and hostesses and will be deployed in New Kingston and the downtown section of the city to pr...
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No bail for ‘passionate’ murder accused
BY PAT ROXBOROUGH-WRIGHT EDITOR-AT-LARGE/WESTERN BUREAU roxboroughp@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 26, 2007
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Hospitals’ janitorial staff protest for better wages
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February 26, 2007
Cleaning operations at the Bustamante Hospital for Children and the Kingston Public Hospital were scaled down for several hours yesterday as placard-b...
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Most AGI workers welcome news of redundancy
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February 26, 2007
WORKERS are usually sad at receiving news if their jobs are to be cut, but it was the opposite for most employees of Advantage General Insurance (AGI)...
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February 26, 2007
THE Ministry of Labour and Social Security has processed 214 work permit exemptions for foreign nationals engaged in activities related to Jamaica's p...
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Two mayors resign from NSWMA board
February 26, 2007
DELFORD Morgan, the mayor of Savanna-la-Mar, and his colleague from May Pen, Milton Brown, have resigned from the board of the National Solid Waste Ma...
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Gov’t says Trafigura money returned
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
February 26, 2007
THE Government's chief spokesman said the $31-million received by the ruling People's National Party (PNP) from Dutch oil trader Trafigura Beheer was ...
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Father mourns only son killed cleaning concrete mixer
BY TANEISHA LEWIS Observer staff reporter 
February 26, 2007
ANTHONY McKenzie is finding it hard to cope with the death of his only son, Richard, who was killed while cleaning the inside of a concrete mixer on S...
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BY RICKEY SINGH Observer Caribbean correspondent 
February 26, 2007
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - An open, bitter row has erupted between Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer and Texan financial tycoon Allen S...
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February 25, 2007
Former attorney-general Dr Oswald Harding has described the conflict in Iraq as one of the most preventable wars in modern times and said the American...
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More police for St Ann during CWC
February 25, 2007
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February 25, 2007
Opposition Jamaica Labour Party caretaker for West Portland, Daryl Vaz, has blasted National Security Minister Dr Peter Phillips and his junior minist...
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BY KIMONE THOMPSON Observer staff reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 25, 2007
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February 25, 2007
The People's National Party (PNP) yesterday expressed full support for Portia Simpson Miller as she marked her first year as president of the ruling p...
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February 24, 2007
Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth - Juno Gayle, the regional officer of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) South Central Division, has been confirmed as t...
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