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House approves $14-b supplementary estimates
March 6, 2007
THE House of Representatives agreed last night to tack on an additional $14 billion in spending this fiscal year, after a noisy debate which threatene...
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Lodge residents want roadway repaired
BY INGRID BROWN Observer staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 6, 2007
RESIDENTS of Lodge in St Ann say they are fearful that if an eroded section of the main road in the community is not repaired immediately someone coul...
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Digicel to rebuild 20 primary schools in Haiti
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March 6, 2007
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Mobile phone provider Digicel Group Ltd has pledged to rebuild 20 primary schools across Haiti during the launch of a cha...
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NCB ancillary workers strike
March 6, 2007
SCORES of National Commercial Bank (NCB) ancillary staff across the island walked off the job yesterday claiming that their demands for improved wages...
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Caribbean Community, Central America to negotiate free trade deal, official says
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March 6, 2007
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - The Caribbean Community intends to negotiate a free trade agreement with Central America perhaps within the next six months,...
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Let’s clean up to enhance tourism product, says Golding
March 6, 2007
FALMOUTH, Trelawny - Opposition Leader Bruce Golding on Monday recommended that govern-ment clean up the island's resort areas for the enhancement of ...
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Portia says Jamaica committed to the ACP
March 6, 2007
PRIME Minister Portia Simpson Miller said Monday that Jamaica remains committed to the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group and will continue to...
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Venezuela’s communists resist Chavez’s push for single socialist party
March 6, 2007
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela's Communist Party on Monday affirmed its commitment to the Marxist ideals espoused by President Hugo Chavez but resiste...
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Students call for end to violence at Peace Day concert
BY TANEISHA LEWIS Observer staff reporter editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 6, 2007
STUDENTS of the Vauxhall High School, located in a volatile section of Windward Road in the eastern section of the capital city, Kingston, yesterday d...
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Woman dies in highway crash
March 6, 2007
FORTY-EIGHT-year-old Maureen Bishop of Hayes, Clarendon died yesterday afternoon when the minivan her son was driving, skidded along the Sandy Bay leg...
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Flankers rage
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
March 6, 2007
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Superintendent Steve McGregor, the cop sent to cool the increasing crime wave in St James, spent his second day on the job yes...
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Memorial service marks 10th anniversary of Manley’s death
BY VAUGHN DAVIS Observer staff reporter davisv@jamaicaobserver.com 
March 6, 2007
FORMER prime minister, the late Michael Manley, always had a way with words, and his memorial service paid homage to just that yesterday. In a service...
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JLP raises questions about Trafigura money
March 6, 2007
THE Opposition Jamaica Labour Party has raised questions regarding last week's announcement by People's National Party general secretary Donald Buchan...
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Bermudian fined for ganja, ordered deported
March 6, 2007
A Bermudan man was yesterday fined $25,600 and ordered deported from the country after pleading guilty to trying to export ganja from Jamaica in the c...
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Angry residents cut trees, block roads
ROXANNE SAUNDERS-KING, Observer correspondent 
March 5, 2007
AULDAYR, Westmoreland - Angry residents of Auldayr in Westmoreland yesterday blocked a half mile section of the road from Mearnsville to Waterwheel an...
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Westmoreland fire service bemoans absence of ambulance
ROXANNE SAUNDERS-KING, Observer correspondent 
March 5, 2007
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - As Jamaica enters the Spring Break travel season, and with only five days remaining before the start of Cricket World C...
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House debates first supplementary estimates today
March 5, 2007
THE first supplementary estimates for 2006/2007 are to be debated in the House of Representatives this afternoon. The debate is scheduled to follow a ...
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Opposition presses Compton on China relations
RICKEY SINGH, Observer Caribbean correspondent 
March 5, 2007
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Opposition St Lucia Labour Party (SLP) has called on Prime Minister Sir John Compton's Government to "speedily end the unce...
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US$2.6m out-of-court settlement for coffee farmers
PATRICK FOSTER, Observer writer 
March 5, 2007
The joint liquidators and the Coffee Insurance Trustees have brokered an out-of-court settlement that will see coffee farmers receiving US$2.6 million...
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Women can rape men, says female judge
Desmond Allen | Executive Editor 
March 5, 2007
A Jamaican female judge who is now prosecuting the Rwandan genocide trial in which rape has been one of its worst features, says women can rape men an...
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Several items banned from Cricket World Cup matches
March 5, 2007
CRICKET fans who have, over the years, been able to take their alcoholic beverages, large radios, large umbrellas and several other items to local mat...
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Island Traffic Authority moving to a ‘new’ home
ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter 
March 5, 2007
AS of next Monday, clients of the Island Traffic Authority will be served from a new location. The office, which has been in existence for more than 7...
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