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Award-winning educators highlight nation-building inside the classroom
Jerome Williams | Reporter 
March 26 12:14 AM
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Jamaicans urged to step up in tree recovery effort
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Holness calls for national volunteer push
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
March 26 12:04 AM
Jamaicans urged to step up in tree recovery effort
TEF presses ahead with nicer Negril
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TEF presses ahead with nicer Negril
Anthony Lewis | Observer Writer 
March 26 12:02 AM
TEF presses ahead with nicer Negril
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US$10-m Adaptation Fund Programme leaves lasting mark on Jamaica’s climate resilience
BY RENAE OSBOURNE Observer staff reporter osbourner@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 26 12:01 AM
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US jury finds Meta, YouTube liable in addiction trial
March 26 12:00 AM
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NBC’s Today show takes on Jamaica
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NBC’s Today show takes on Jamaica
March 25 09:36 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica—NBC’s Today show is on the sun-soaked shores of Jamaica for an unforgettable multi-day feature series with co-hosts Jenna Bush Hager...

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Look the part
February 24, 2007
DRESSING down for work is not likely to propel you up the career ladder. "The old adage about dressing for the position to which you aspire still hold...
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PNP close to replacing Myrie in NW St Elizabeth
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
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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Security for CWC 2007 said impregnable
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
February 24, 2007
FLORENCE HALL, Trelawny - John Collymore, the director of security for the ICC Cricket World Cup Inc, yesterday boasted of an 'impregnable' security s...
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8,000 families might never see the light
by Ingrid Brown Sunday Observer staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 24, 2007
Twenty-two thousand Jamaican households still rely on the kerosene lamp and a full moon as the only source of light at nights, 30 years after the firs...
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Provide students with skills, urges GG
JIS 
February 24, 2007
GOVERNOR General Professor Kenneth Hall said Jamaica's education system must be transformed to provide students with the necessary values and skills t...
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The Jamaican Boa (Epicrates subflavus)
February 24, 2007
Our Habitat continues our series on endangered species in Jamaica this week, with a look at the Jamaican Boa, also known as the yellow snake. Have que...
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Trains may never roll again
February 24, 2007
Five years after investors - first the Indians, then the Chinese - submitted impressive plans to put Jamaica's moth-balled railway back on track, the ...
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Blenheim officially reopened
BY PAT ROXBOROUGH-WRIGHT EDITOR-AT-LARGE/WESTERN BUREAU roxboroughp@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 24, 2007
BLENHEIM, Hanover - Hundreds of Jamaicans flocked this deep rural community yesterday to celebrate the 123rd anniversary of National Hero Sir Alexande...
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Provide students with skills, urges GG
JIS 
February 24, 2007
GOVERNOR General Professor Kenneth Hall said Jamaica's education system must be transformed to provide students with the necessary values and skills t...
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Kilsyth Primary snags $100,000 cash prize at science fair
BY KERRY MCCATTY Sunday Observer staff reporter mccattyk@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 24, 2007
MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Andrea Ricketts and three of her students from Kilsyth Primary School in Clarendon almost did not turn up to win $100,000 cas...
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PM to participate in reparations debate
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
February 24, 2007
Reparations again dominated last week's sitting of the House of Representatives. Leader of the House, Dr Peter Phillips, informed the speaker just pri...
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Ash Wednesday fun at the centre of Jamaica
BY KERRY MCCATTY Sunday Observer staff reporter mccattyk@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 24, 2007
A sound system blared, men built huts of leaves and branches, vendors sold everything from bunches of coconuts to picture frames, and children rode a ...
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Bennett labels Christian volunteers hypocrites and Pharisees
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Sunday Observer staff reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 24, 2007
Educator Hyacinth Bennett yesterday chastised the group of Christians who have volunteered to clean up Kingston and sections of western Jamaica in tim...
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Adolescents and oral sex
February 24, 2007
THE mid-1990s 'Lewinsky Scandal' helped to redefine the meaning of sexual relations. This highly publicised exposé was followed in the media by viewer...
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CTEP turns out more than 230 graduates
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
February 24, 2007
MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Community Training for Empowerment Programme (CTEP), a subsidiary of the South St James Social and Economic Development Tr...
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Fire guts PM’s childhood home
BY KERRY MCCATTY Sunday Observer staff reporter mccattyk@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 24, 2007
BROWN'S HALL, St Catherine - The police in the hometown of Jamaica's Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said yesterday they could not confirm reside...
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Beating the odds: The story of Ricardo Marsh
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Sunday Observer reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com 
February 24, 2007
MORE than 87 per cent of his graduating class at Kingston Technical High School (KTHS) could not read at the required level, but 19-year-old Ricardo M...
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Signs mount of end game for Mugabe
AP 
February 24, 2007
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Signs are mounting that Zimbabwe is finally reaching the end game, witnessing the last, desperate throes of a regime...
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FROM THE REGION
February 23, 2007
Quake rattles southern Caribbean; no injuries or damage reported PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - A moderate earthquake shook the southern Caribbean yes...
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Tourism ministry goes after the Irish
February 23, 2007
THE tourism ministry will be targeting the Irish as part of efforts to increase visitor arrivals, with focus placed on promoting events that appeal to...
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St Ann gets in the mood for cricket
Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter 
February 23, 2007
OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The cricket fever has caught on full blast in St Ann, following Wednesday's launch of the Ocho Rios Cricket Village at Turtle Rive...

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