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American woman among two charged following St Mary firearm seizure
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ST MARY, Jamaica–An American sterile surgical technician is among two charged with possession of a prohibited weapon and unauthorised possession of am...
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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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Filthy Old Harbour Bay fishing beach
BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer staff reporter 
July 22, 2006
You can find it all - Snapper, Parrot, Butter, Jack - almost every kind of fish, it seems, is available at the Old Harbour Bay fishing beach in St Cat...
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Three to stand trial for Harbour View triple murder
Paul Henry 
July 22, 2006
The three men charged in the 'reprisal' killing of three Bayshore Park, Harbour View residents last year are to stand trial for murder on Monday, Octo...
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Health care and education top … if you can cut it
July 22, 2006
Are you ready to take care of someone, or teach someone? It's not easy, but if you are, the time is right. Service-producing, as opposed to good-produ...
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PM ‘satisfied’ with first 100 days
BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer 
July 22, 2006
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller yesterday expressed satisfaction with her first 100 days at the head of the Jamaican government, pointing to agri...
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Young and fresh but not Green in the kitchen
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
July 22, 2006
Really, who'd have guessed? Who could have predicted a decade ago that the culinary landscape would now be attracting so many eager youngsters hell-be...
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‘I’m worse off now than I was before’
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Sunday Observer staff reporter 
July 22, 2006
Some days she can still hear the keys jangling and the harsh summons of the bell marking the dreaded check-off hour. The haunting memories don't leave...
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NYS Summer Programme to employ 4,600 youth
Observer Reporter 
July 22, 2006
For three weeks this summer, 4,600 secondary and tertiary level students will be gainfully employed, working at summer jobs provided under the Nationa...
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Messy sectoral debate
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
July 22, 2006
The annual sectoral debate continued Tuesday and Wednesday with at least eight contributions, without the Speaker or his deputy present, but with the ...
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Sex trade dangers
by Ingrid Brown Sunday Observer staff reporter 
July 22, 2006
WITH statistics showing that one in seven adult men buy sex, and with the lucrative profits to be gained by the multi-million dollar industry, more yo...
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PO Box Trench Town
Desmond Allen | Executive Editor 
July 22, 2006
Most of Dr Henley Morgan's staff, clients and close associates thought he had gone stark staring mad two years ago when he decided to relocate the hea...
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Louisiana doctors outraged at murder accusation in Katrina deaths
AP 
July 22, 2006
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) - To Louisiana's attorney general, the doctor and two nurses arrested this past week are murderers. But many in the local ...
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New AIDS dilemma
by Ingrid Brown Sunday Observer staff reporter 
July 22, 2006
Fifteen years ago, to be diagnosed with HIV/AIDS was akin to a death sentence as persons simply waited to die. Today, with increased accessibility to ...
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‘When I bring it on, I hope you can take it,’ Portia tells JLP
BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer 
July 22, 2006
Firing back at the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) which dared her Friday to call general elections, prime minister and People's National Party ...
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Smith says cops should not be bound by MOU
Observer Reporter 
July 21, 2006
OPPOSITION Spokesman on National Security Derrick Smith has suggested that the police force be treated as a special case, unrestricted by the Memorand...
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Sex-deacon case takes new turn
Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter 
July 21, 2006
THE sensational case of sexual assault on a teenaged girl, involving an officer of the Church Dayton Diamond Ridge, took a new turn yesterday when two...
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Permanent secretaries will earn more than MPs
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
July 21, 2006
WHEN the latest round of public sector increases are fully implemented permanent secretaries will end up earning half a million dollars more per year ...
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Lead plaintiff couple in Massachusetts same-sex lawsuit now separated
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July 21, 2006
BOSTON (AP) - The lesbian couple whose lawsuit ultimately led to the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts have announced their separatio...
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No primary school place for 22 special children
ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter 
July 21, 2006
MORE than 22 of Jamaica's special children in the Corporate Area who are ready to begin primary schools in September will not be able to do so because...
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Flankers cops freed
PAUL HENRY, Observer writer 
July 20, 2006
The jury yesterday found the remaining four policemen charged with the October 2003 shooting deaths of two elderly residents in Flankers, St James, no...
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Seven awarded Fullbright scholarships
Observer Reporter 
July 20, 2006
THREE University lecturers are among seven people awarded Fullbright scholarships to study in the United States of America under the 2006 Fullbright/L...
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Shaw backs nurses’ demands for higher wages
PAUL CLARKE, Observer staff reporter 
July 20, 2006
AUDLEY Shaw, Opposition Spokesman on Finance and chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, says he supports the Nurses' Association of ...
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A feast fit for a Table Talk winner
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
July 19, 2006
Hundreds of guests enjoyed the gastronomical offerings of more than 50 booths at the recently concluded Jamaica Observer Table Talk Food Awards. For A...
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