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Sad final trip

BY KASEY WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter kaseyw@jamaicaobserver.com

January 12 12:30 AM

Sad final trip

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Late RJRGleaner CEO did not seek applause

Anthony Smith remembered for weighing decisions carefully, balancing firmness and humanity

BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com

January 12 12:28 AM

Late RJRGleaner CEO did not seek applause

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Lawyer calls for permanent fix

...suggests copying Belize’s Criminal Justice Board

BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com

January 12 12:26 AM

Lawyer calls for permanent fix

Entertainment, ...

Let them smell their ‘flowers’

Promoter echoes call to honour reggae stalwarts before they pass on

BY HOWARD CAMPBELL Observer senior writer entertainment@jamaicaobserver.com

January 12 12:26 AM

Let them smell their ‘flowers’

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Public health dept wants more garbage trucks for Portland

Everard Owen Observer Writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com

January 12 12:25 AM

Public health dept wants more garbage trucks for Portland

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From hurricane escape to flooded fate

Dover residents say flooding worse than Melissa, blame lack of drain cleaning

BY TAMOY ASHMAN Observer staff reporter ashmant@jamaicaobserver.com

January 12 12:24 AM

From hurricane escape to flooded fate

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Singer Kenneth Roxborough dies at 78

BY HOWARD CAMPBELL Observer senior writer entertainment@jamaicaobserver.com

January 12 12:24 AM

Singer Kenneth Roxborough dies at 78

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Adjournment in gang trial might be ‘demanded’, says lawyer

Judge expected to decide on start date today

BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com

January 12 12:22 AM

Adjournment in gang trial might be ‘demanded’, says lawyer

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Tropical Storm Prapiroon kills nine in southern China

August 4, 2006

SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Tropical Storm Prapiroon killed nine people in southern China yesterday as the storm weakened further into a tropical depressio...

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Special team to probe hotel collapse

Observer Reporter

August 3, 2006

THE St Ann Parish Council yesterday locked down the Bahia Principe hotel site, where 40 year-old construction worker Linval Mitchell of Spanish Town w...

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Vin Lawrence quits his PNP job

PATRICK FOSTER, Observer writer

August 3, 2006

DR Vin Lawrence's dramatic plunge from grace echoed this week within the ruling People's National Party (PNP) with his shock announcement of his resig...

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Contractor-general takes on Dennis Morrison

August 3, 2006

Following is the full text of Contractor-General Greg Christie's letter challenging aspects of Wednesday's column by Observer columnist Dennnis Morris...

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Hike in block prices unavoidable, says association

Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter

August 2, 2006

BLOCKMAKERS said they had no choice but to increase the price of their products by 17.5 per cent this week, following the decision by Caribbean Cement...

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Christie slaps Dennis Morrison

Observer Reporter

August 2, 2006

The contractor-general yesterday raised alarm over remarks by a top state board chairman, saying his remarks questioned the logic and legitimacy of pu...

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Father and son on police most wanted list in St Ann

CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter

August 2, 2006

A sixty-year-old businessman and his 31-year-old son, accused of murdering a Farm Town resident in February this year that triggered a riot in the com...

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Jeffery Town Farmers Association takes Manley Community Award

ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter

August 1, 2006

THE Jeffery Town Farmers Association from St Mary yesterday outstripped 13 entrants to take the 2006 Michael Manley Foundation Award for Community Sel...

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Condolence books for Miss Lou opens in Kingston, MoBay

Observer Reporter

August 1, 2006

CONDOLENCE books for the late Louise Bennett-Coverley, Miss Lou, will be opened at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade and the Office of...

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Castro gives up power temporarily to undergo surgery

AFP

July 31, 2006

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) - Cuban President Fidel Castro said yesterday he underwent surgery and had temporarily handed power to his brother, Raul, for the f...

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Portmore man languishes in jail

Claudienne Edwards | Writer

July 31, 2006

KERRY Foster, who was arrested in September 2005 and charged with murder, says his bail application has been turned down several times because the pol...

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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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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

AFP

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

Observer Reporter

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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Huge rally challenges Mexico’s poll

AFP

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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‘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...