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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — The Guyanese Government says it will launch a national consultation in January to address the growing abuse of social media...
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali says two containers of locally produced agro-processed goods are destined for Caribbean marke...
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December 31 12:18 AM
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December 31 12:12 AM
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December 31 12:10 AM
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Three injured in Long Lane crash
Observer Reporter 
July 10, 2006
THREE people were seriously injured yesterday in an accident involving a Jamaica Pre-Mix cement truck and an Isuzu trucked along Long Lane in Stony Hi...
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Push to get Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park on world heritage list
ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter 
July 10, 2006
THE Jamaica Conservation Development Trust (JCDT) is seeking to have the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park in Jamaica's eastern end inscripte...
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Portmore residents plan two-month boycott of toll road
BY INGRID BROWN Observer staff reporter 
July 9, 2006
NOT only is the People's National Party (PNP) facing a possible two-month boycott of the toll road, but the party could also lose precious votes if so...
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Russian aircraft tragedy leaves 137 dead
AFP 
July 9, 2006
IRKUTSK, Siberia (AFP) - Up to 137 people died yesterday when a Russian passenger plane veered off a runway, slammed into a concrete wall and burst in...
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Church defends deacon in child sex case
July 9, 2006
A church elder at the Dayton Avenue Church of God yesterday claimed that a member of the congregation had leaked information of their deacon's alleged...
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… Cabinet to discuss Portmore toll boycott
BY ROLAND HENRY Observer staff reporter 
July 9, 2006
CABINET will today discuss an organised plan by Portmore residents to boycott the toll road for up to two months in protest against the $60 usage char...
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Spencer says gov’t will continue distributing Cuban bulbs
Observver Reporter 
July 9, 2006
MINISTER of State for Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce, Senator Kern Spencer, says the government will continue distributing Cuban energy-sav...
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Caricom’s health offensive
BY RICKEY SINGH Caribbean Correspondent 
July 8, 2006
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Caribbean premiers ended their 27th annual summit in Basseterre, St Kitts with an agreement to collectively combat non-communic...
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Somali court orders public lashings for wayward teens
AFP 
July 8, 2006
JOWHAR, Somalia (AFP) - Hardline Somali Islamic courts on Saturday punished 11 teenagers with 40 lashes each in public after they confessed to un-Isla...
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Go-fast boat rams US Coast Guard vessel
AP 
July 8, 2006
MIAMI, Florida (AP) - A woman died and four others were injured early Saturday after an overloaded go-fast boat repeatedly rammed a U.S. Coast Guard v...
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Educators urged to use different strategy to teach pupils to read
July 8, 2006
Montego Bay, St James - Close to 200 teachers from various schools in Montego Bay were last week encouraged to switch from their traditional teaching ...
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Astronauts on first of 3 spacewalks
AP 
July 8, 2006
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) - Two astronauts swapped out balky equipment to fix the international space station's rail transporter and started to tes...
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Four chefs get cooking with a fine white wine
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
July 8, 2006
Today we share not only Hilton Kingston's executive chef Vijay Tihura's recipe for ackee-stuffed sea bass with J Moreau & Fils Chablis Beurre Blanc, w...
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A geological giant and pulse of the PCJ
BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer Reporter 
July 8, 2006
OFFICIALLY he's retired, but Dr Raymond Wright, 65, former head of the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ), the energy company he helped create thr...
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630 car thefts
BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer Reporter 
July 8, 2006
CAR thieves are becoming more sophisticated, better organised and more specific, say the police, but investigators say they are on to their tactics, a...
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Coke trade secrets case ‘something out of a spy novel’
AP 
July 8, 2006
ATLANTA, USA (AP) - A secretary accused of helping two men steal trade secrets from The Coca-Cola Co and trying to sell them to rival PepsiCo Inc was ...
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10 Tips to guide graduates in the next phase of life
By Leahcim Semaj work@ltsemaj.com 
July 8, 2006
RECENTLY I had the privilege of addressing the graduating class at Porter's Centre for Knowledge. I am sharing the presentation with others of you who...
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Carjacked in Orange Grove
BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer Reporter 
July 8, 2006
IT was a clumsy, random event, but an upper St Andrew man says he is thankful to have escaped with his life following a carjacking just over a week ag...
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NEPA maps a new direction
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer Reporter 
July 8, 2006
IN the job now for only a few months, NEPA's new boss Dr Leary Myers is overseeing a review of licensing procedures, prompted by an unflattering court...
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Parchment uses sectoral debate to castigate former colleagues
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
July 8, 2006
VERNA Parchment did what could well be her swan song in Parliament on Wednesday as she spoke in the sectoral debate for the first, and probably last, ...
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Sidewalk repair not on Pickersgill’s ‘to do’ list
BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer 
July 8, 2006
CIRCUMSTANCES, and money, are forcing government to choose what infrastructure it can provide for Jamaicans, and though areas designated for pedestria...
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Police suspect revenge in double murder in Clarendon
Alicia Dunkley 
July 8, 2006
A bus conductor and his girlfriend, both residents of Evans Street in Denbigh, Clarendon, were murdered yesterday in what the police are theorising wa...
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