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Over 3,400 candidates with varying disabilities sat CXC examinations in 2025
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It’s time for PM to ‘fly the gate’, Golding tells packed JLP rally
BY Erica Virtue Observer writer 
July 31, 2006
JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) leaders Sunday night hammered the ruling People's National Party (PNP) for what speaker after speaker claimed was the party...
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Huge rally challenges Mexico’s poll
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July 30, 2006
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) - More than one million supporters of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rallied here yesterday to denounce alleged electio...
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Hope for victims of stalking
Desmond Allen | Executive Editor 
July 30, 2006
In a precedent-setting ruling, a judge has granted an injunction against a woman who stalked a well-known broadcaster for 15 years, claiming that she ...
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Mullings wants int’l audit of Jamaica-Nigeria oil transactions
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
July 30, 2006
Clive Mullings, the Opposition spokesman on mining, energy and telecommunications, wants the government to retain an international oil consultant to a...
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Israelis kill 56 in Lebanon
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July 30, 2006
QANA, Lebanon, (AFP) - Fifty-six people were killed, many of them sleeping children, when Israeli warplanes blitzed the Lebanese village of Qana yeste...
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Talks with US for tsunami warning system in final stage, says minister
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July 30, 2006
JAMAICA is in the final stages of discussions with the United States Government on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the establishment of a tsun...
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Peart puts stop order on Burnt Ground cemetery
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July 29, 2006
ENVIRONMENT Minister Dean Peart has ordered that work on the development of the contentious $50-million cemetery at Burnt Ground in Hanover cease, pen...
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A nurse bares her soul. and her meagre earnings
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Sunday Observer staff reporter 
July 29, 2006
They are not allowed to shrink at the sight of blood, neither can they run from a frantic mother in the throes of delivery. They work endless hours, a...
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Six dead in Montpelier tragedy
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
July 29, 2006
MONTPELIER, St James - Six persons were killed and 11 others hospitalised, some with severe injuries, in a bloody three-vehicle collision in dense fog...
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‘I’m HIV-positive but I want to have a baby’
by Ingrid Brown Sunday Observer staff reporter 
July 29, 2006
Being diagnosed with HIV has not deterred some couples from wanting to be biological parents, even with the strong likelihood of passing on the virus ...
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‘You have the wrong hotel, sir’
Observer Reporter 
July 29, 2006
Gorstew, the aggrieved partner in the controversy-hit Sandals Whitehouse Hotel project, appears willing to spare the contractor-general any of its ire...
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PetroCaribe money row expected to dominate when House reopens
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
July 29, 2006
The controversy in the House of Representatives over the use of the funds obtained through the Jamaica-Venezuela PetroCaribe oil facility continued to...
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Blair facing possible Cabinet revolt over Middle East crisis
AFP 
July 29, 2006
LONDON, England (AFP) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair was facing a possible Cabinet revolt today after his former foreign secretary Jack Straw bro...
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Golding tells gov’t to keep MPs’ salary increase
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
July 29, 2006
BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Opposition Leader Bruce Golding has said his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) members of parliament would decline an increase in...
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Knowles loses extradition appeal again
By Lloyd Williams Sunday Observer writer 
July 29, 2006
The Judicial Committee of the United Kingdom Privy Council has ordered that Samuel 'Ninety' Knowles, a Bahamian, named as a drug kingpin by the United...
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JLP team moves into St James, Hanover
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July 28, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) yesterday moved into the third of its five-day islandwide tour, with largely inciden...
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Draft resolution calls on Iran to halt uranium enrichment
AFP 
July 28, 2006
UNITED NATIONS, (AFP) - The UN Security Council will consider sanctions against Iran if it does not halt uranium enrichment by August 31, under a reso...
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‘Zeeks’ back in court
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July 28, 2006
FORMER Matthews Lane strongman Donald Zeeks Phipps appeared in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court Thursday to answer to charges of abstract...
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Nurses end sick-out
Observer Reporter 
July 28, 2006
THE nation's registered nurses, who have been on a sick-out since Thursday, agreed last night to resume normal duties, starting with the 7:00 am shift...
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Deacon in sex case remanded until Sept 8
Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter 
July 28, 2006
JAMES Rogers, 18, who is charged alongside former deacon of the Church Dayton Diamond Ridge, 46-year-old Donovan Jones, for the alleged sexual assault...
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Cops say ‘all hell will break loose’ next week
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July 27, 2006
RANK and file cops have threatened to protest next week if government fails to place a "reasonable" wage and fringe benefits offer on the negotiating ...
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Amateur video shows civilians huddled in hospital, others dead along roads in south Lebanon
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July 27, 2006
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hundreds of civilians fleeing Israeli airstrikes have flooded a hospital in southern Lebanon, sleeping in corridors and eating ...
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