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Over 3,400 candidates with varying disabilities sat CXC examinations in 2025
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KINGSTON, Jamaica—A total of 3,444 special needs students across the Caribbean, the majority of whom were visually-impaired, sat examinations administ...
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Shanoya Douglas tastes rare defeat at hand of Trinidadian Alexxe Henry
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Trinidad PM faults US delay in renewing trade deal
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September 6, 2006
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - Trinidadian Prime Minister Patrick Manning says the United States has been "ignoring the Caribbean" and suggested his c...
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Jose Marti slashes school days
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September 6, 2006
SOME 1,800 new GSAT students along with returning grades eight and nine Jose Marti Technical High School students will be forced to stay at home for u...
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Gov’t considering single regulator for telecoms sector
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September 6, 2006
GOVERNMENT is planning a major overhaul of the regulatory bodies that govern telecommunications and technology, to create a single regulator, Senator ...
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Buzzer-beating breakfast ideas
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
September 6, 2006
'IT's all been pretty crazy' are the most common words from our many 'back-to-school' mothers. The new school term has commenced and even though the a...
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Man accused of killing guard at funeral home still on the run
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September 6, 2006
POLICE were yesterday still searching for the man accused of killing a guard during a robbery at a funeral home in Kingston last Friday. The accused, ...
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PIOJ says IDB loan freeze not true
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September 6, 2006
DIRECTOR-GENERAL of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Dr Wesley Hughes said yesterday that recent statements in the media, suggesting a freeze ...
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Search on for missing cop
Observer Reporter 
September 6, 2006
THE police yesterday questioned several people, while one man was being sought in connection with Monday's disappearance of police constable Richard T...
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Basic school kids seek refuge on desks, chairs from flood water
Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter 
September 6, 2006
HEAVY afternoon rains yesterday flooded the RJR Basic School on Beechwood Avenue in Kingston, causing students to seek refuge on top of desks and chai...
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It’s a new St Peter Claver Primary
LATOYA LATIBEAUDIERE, Observer writer 
September 6, 2006
EIGHTEEN years ago, St Peter Claver Primary School in Kingston was criticised for its poor academic performance and mediocrity. However, today the sch...
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Davies not impressed by debt warning
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
September 6, 2006
Finance Minister Dr Omar Davies last night shrugged off a warning from the little-known Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) that Ja...
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September 6, 2006
Sav teenager found hanging THE body of 18 year-old Rakeisha Spence was on Monday found hanging by a length of rope from a staircase at her home at Dal...
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September 6, 2006
Seems the Caribbean via the Ritz Carlton in San Juan and Cayman are how celebrity chefs like Eric Ripert and Laurent Tourondel are testing the waters....
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Noisy start as MPs return from summer break
Observer Reporter 
September 5, 2006
THE House of Representatives resumed in a very noisy atmosphere yesterday as government and opposition members shouted down each other, while Prime Mi...
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Public purse well protected at Whitehouse, says UDC
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September 5, 2006
THE Urban Development Corporation (UDC) said yesterday that the public purse was well protected in the Sandals Whitehouse hotel project, and that the ...
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Cab drivers stage protest over poor road conditions
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
September 5, 2006
WHITEHOUSE, Westmoreland - Cab drivers who operate on the Savanna-la-Mar to Whitehouse route on Monday withdrew their services and blocked sections of...
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Sixth named storm of season forms far out in open Atlantic
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September 5, 2006
MIAMI, USA (AP) - Tropical Storm Florence formed yesterday in the open Atlantic, becoming the sixth named storm of the 2006 hurricane season, and was ...
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Mobile Reserve setting high standards – Pusey
KIMONE THOMPSON, Observer writer 
September 5, 2006
NO job is considered too grand or too menial for them to do. A typical day may find the men and women of the Mobile Reserve Branch of the Jamaica Cons...
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Labour minister bats for productivity-linked wage system
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September 5, 2006
LABOUR Minister Derrick Kellier yesterday hinted at plans for a productivity-linked wage system, as he launched National Productivity Week at the Jama...
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Pickersgill praises Air Jamaica’s safety record
Observer Reporter 
September 5, 2006
AIR Jamaica's safety record has earned it a place among 34 airlines in the world that have been accident-free since 1980, a performance which Transpor...
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Castro loses 41 pounds; says the worst behind him
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September 5, 2006
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) - Fidel Castro, looking gaunt and wearing pajamas in new photos released yesterday, says that his stitches are out and despite losin...
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Whitehouse auditors blast UDC
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
September 5, 2006
THE forensic audit report on the contentious Sandals Whitehouse hotel project was far less complimentary to the state-run Urban Development Corporatio...
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Spanish Town socio-economic survey starts this week
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
September 5, 2006
A survey of the living conditions of residents of 17 inner-city communities in Central St Catherine, commissioned by Member of Parliament Olivia "Babs...
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