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ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC) — Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, is due to make an official visit to Grenada early next year...
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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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Blood runs in Norwood
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
July 4, 2006
NORWOOD, St James - Blood-curdling screams jolted Norwood, St James awake just before dawn yesterday as gunmen launched a vicious attack that left fiv...
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House to debate censure motion against Paulwell July 25
July 4, 2006
THE House of Representatives will on July 25 debate the Opposition censure motion brought against Industry, Commerce, Science and Technology Minister ...
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Jury, cop doze off at Flankers murder trial
BY PAUL HENRY Observer writer 
July 4, 2006
SOME members of the jury, along with one of the five cops on trial in the Supreme Court for the 2003 shooting death of two elderly residents of Flanke...
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Israel rejects Hamas ultimatum
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July 3, 2006
GAZA CITY, Gaza (AFP) - Palestinian militants holding an Israeli soldier captive issued an ultimatum Monday for Israel to free prisoners or face the c...
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Former Chadian leader charged with war crimes
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July 2, 2006
BANJUL, Gambia (AFP) - Representatives of victims of the past dictatorship in the African state of Chad expressed satisfaction and relief yesterday at...
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Stressed police turning to ‘alcohol and sex’
BY TK WHYTE Sunday Observer Reporter 
July 1, 2006
HIGHLY stressed by a violent job and often overworked, members of the police force are turning to substances and sex as a way of managing work pressur...
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300 students to attend NYS Success Camps
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July 1, 2006
APPROXIMATELY 300 students with behaviour problems are to benefit from the National Youth Service's (NYS) annual Success Camps, which this year will b...
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$30-million library to be built at Glenmuir High School
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July 1, 2006
GROUND was broken at Glenmuir High School in May Pen, Clarendon, last week for the construction of a $30 million library. Principal of the school Clem...
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Stop sending minor offenders to jail, prison boss pleads
BY INGRID BROWN Sunday Observer Reporter 
July 1, 2006
THE figures suggest that judges are handing down more non-custodial sentences than before, but Major Richard Reese is batting for a sentencing policy ...
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Claims ‘excessive’, says Carib Cement
Desmond Allen | Executive Editor 
July 1, 2006
CARIBBEAN Cement Company has cried foul, saying claims for use of bad cement, for which it has so far paid out $55 million, are excessive. At the same...
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Feasting at Round Hill to a smooth mento beat
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
July 1, 2006
DINNER is a leisurely affair at the Round Hill and understandably so, since its habitués are not only well-versed in the art of dining, but they rate ...
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Jamaican scientists develop six plant-based food and cosmetics
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer Reporter 
July 1, 2006
IN three years, Jamaica has pumped about $19 million into product research to kickstart a nutraceutical industry here, the success of which will tell ...
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Three more constituencies in breach of voter limit
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
July 1, 2006
THE recent reverification of voters by the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) has revealed three constituencies that are in breach of the constitutiona...
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Female priests in demand in Jamaican Anglican diocese
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Sunday Observer reporter 
July 1, 2006
A decade after the initial breakthrough, women ordained to sacred ministry in the Anglican Diocese of Jamaica have grown from three to 24, and now the...
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A lifetime of selling fish
BY JOANNA FERGUSON Sunday Observer Writer 
July 1, 2006
FOR 26 years, Hyacinth Brown has been a vendor, selling fish from a stall on the Portmore Causeway that links Kingston to the suburban St Catherine co...
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Cheney heart condition stable
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July 1, 2006
WASHINGTON, United States (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney's high-tech pacemaker is working properly and has not been activated by any irregular hear...
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BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer Reporter 
July 1, 2006
PORT ANTONIO, Portland - On a regular Tuesday afternoon, the Errol Flynn Marina in Port Antonio is quiet - very quiet - and certainly does not appear ...
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New York, Los Angeles newspapers defend publishing terror money stories
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July 1, 2006
NEW YORK (AP) - Top editors from the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, responding to criticism over publishing stories about a government prog...
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A renewed drive to revitalise House committees
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
July 1, 2006
IN an attempt to return to the maximum use of its system of committees, the House of Representatives has approved the appointment of a number of commi...
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Back-to-school trade fair launch Wednesday
July 1, 2006
PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), Ruel Reid will officially launch the second staging of Concept Promotion's back-to-school Trade ...
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Ratio of elderly Japanese world’s highest
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June 30, 2006
TOKYO (AP) - The proportion of Japanese aged 65 or older reached 21.0 per cent of the country's population in 2005, surpassing Italy's 20.0 per cent a...
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Grant’s Pen on its way to becoming a model inner-city community, says senior cop
June 30, 2006
ASSISTANT Commissioner of Police Leon Rose says Grant's Pen in Kingston is well on its way to becoming a model inner-city community, with the launch o...
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