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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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Bill Gates urges women to protect themselves against AIDS
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August 14, 2006
TORONTO (AP) - Empowering women in developing countries to protect themselves against HIV with hopeful preventative drugs could be the "next big break...
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‘Rising Star’ entrant benefits from NYS Customer Care Corps
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August 13, 2006
At 19 years old, Kamala LaTouche thought she had it all figured out. The self-described "unfocused and wayward" teen felt she could make life on her o...
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Boy, 14, among nine killed in bloody weekend
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August 13, 2006
The Grim Reaper was busy over yet another bloody weekend, claiming nine lives, including that of a 14-year-old boy who was gunned down in broad daylig...
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Visa woes hit seabed delegates
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
August 13, 2006
Delegates to the United Nations International Seabed Authority (ISA), which has its headquarters here, are finding it hard to get visas to Jamaica, ra...
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Father, son on police most wanted list freed of murder
by Ingrid Brown Sunday Observer staff reporter 
August 12, 2006
Two of five men accused of murdering a Farm Town resident earlier this year, triggering a riot in the community, were freed in the St Ann's Bay Reside...
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Children’s Registry still not ready
By Brandon Allwood Sunday Observer writer 
August 12, 2006
Vital elements of a landmark piece of legislation that would have proven useful in the infamous Church Dayton scandal, in which a 13-year-old girl was...
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‘It just wouldn’t work,’ says urban planner
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August 12, 2006
The proposed new town development on lands at Inverness in Clarendon, one of several millennium projects to complement Highway 2000, will not material...
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JTA president wants long-term funding info on Education Transformation
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Observer writer 
August 12, 2006
OUTGOING president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), Ruel Reid is demanding to know how the much-debated Education Transformation project is...
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The country bistro in the city’s heart
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
August 12, 2006
IT'S a hot and clammy afternoon and so we are grateful to have snagged one of the three tables inside the Kingston location of Café Aubergine. Additio...
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Escaping through music videos
By Marcia Forbes 
August 12, 2006
The articles written by me which will appear in the Jamaica Observer over a period of time are based on research findings derived from focus group dis...
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Dr George Phillip’s courageous battle with cancer
by Dianne Williams 
August 12, 2006
He goes about his daily life with a passion and drive, the still handsome features and winning smile belying the chronic disease he's been battling fo...
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Reposition tourism marketing, says Golding
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
August 12, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader, Bruce Golding, has called for the repositioning of the island's tourism marketin...
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Meeting to discuss teachers’ salaries this week
August 12, 2006
THE Ministry of Finance and Planning is to meet with the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) this week, in a last ditch effort to settle their wage di...
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Jeffrey Town: Where self-reliance is more than a word
BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer staff reporter 
August 12, 2006
These days, there's a lot happening in Jeffrey Town, St Mary. The community is getting prepared for its second annual Breadfruit Festival, even as its...
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AIDS experts gather for world’s largest summit to combat disease
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August 12, 2006
TORONTO (AP) - As thousands of AIDS experts, activists and politicians streamed into Toronto yesterday for the world's largest conference devoted to c...
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Parents, children flood Back-to-School Fair
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Sunday Observer staff reporter 
August 12, 2006
Parents and children in search of text book bargains packed the Chinese Benevolent Association (CBA) on Old Hope Road in Kingston yesterday at the sec...
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Britain names 19 suspects in airline plot; Pakistan announces 5 new arrests
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August 11, 2006
LONDON (AP) - British authorities yesterday identified 19 of 24 arrested in connection with an alleged plot to destroy US-bound commercial jetliners a...
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MoBay med techs remain on strike
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
August 11, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Union of Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Personnel (UTASP) will meet with the management of the Cornwall Regiona...
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Pregnant teen is accused gunslinger
PAUL CLARKE, Observer staff reporter 
August 11, 2006
POLICE yesterday took into custody a pregnant teenager who, while accused of taking the life of at least three persons, has given life to two of her o...
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Man pleads guilty to attempting to defraud $1.7m
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August 11, 2006
A 50-year-old man this week pleaded guilty in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court to attempting to defraud Barita Investments Limited of ove...
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Israelis say they’re willing to give diplomacy a last chance
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August 10, 2006
JERUSALEM, Israel (AFP) - Israel said yesterday it was giving diplomacy a last chance to bring the conflict in Lebanon to an end before launching an e...
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Cops kill notorious Bull Bay gang leader
PAUL CLARKE, Observer staff reporter 
August 10, 2006
BULL BAY, St Andrew - Robert Muir, the man who officers said caused many Bull Bay residents to cower in fear at the mention of his name and who topped...
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