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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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Cabbies threaten to lock down taxi service
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June 13, 2006
The National Association of Taxi operators is threatening to lock down the island's taxi service if a request made to the Transport Authority for outs...
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Gov’t appoints five more members to National Contracts Commission
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June 13, 2006
THE government, after a month-long delay, yesterday announced the appointment of five new members to serve on the National Contracts Commission (NCC) ...
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‘A devil of a movie’
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Observer staff reporter 
June 13, 2006
THREE more pastors have joined in the call to warn Jamaicans against watching the movie The Omen, saying the film could open aup the souls of its view...
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KSAC putting its house in order after contracts row
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June 13, 2006
STUNG by recent criticisms about its handling of contracts, the Jamaica Labour Party - controlled (JLP) Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) yest...
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UN deal calls for Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment
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June 13, 2006
VIENNA, Italy (AFP) - The deal offered by world powers to Iran last week stipulates that Tehran will have to suspend uranium enrichment until its nucl...
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Blythe in the departure lounge
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
June 13, 2006
TWICE disappointed, People's National Party (PNP) vice-president Dr Karl Blythe has thrown in the towel, saying he will not seek re-election at the ne...
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Coal burning big business in Mocho, Clarendon
June 13, 2006
MOCHO, Clarendon - There are bags of coal on the grassy front yard of 56-year-old Ventura Walker, a housewife living in this deep rural community. She...
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Reneto Adams back in uniform
BY T K WHYTE Observer staff reporter 
June 12, 2006
RENETO Adams yesterday donned the familiar brown khaki uniform and epaulette bearing a crown and a star of his rank and immediately issued personal ph...
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Luther Buchanan takes seat in Parliament next Tuesday
June 12, 2006
DARLISTON, Westmoreland - Thirty-seven year-old Luther Buchanan, who won last week's by-election in Eastern Westmoreland, will be sworn in next Tuesda...
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Turkey’s EU membership bid troubled over Cyprus stalemate
AP 
June 11, 2006
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - More than three decades after Turkey sent troops to invade Cyprus, the small Mediterranean island has become a formidable force ...
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Dr Lawrence Williams has a passion for research
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter 
June 10, 2006
ZOOLOGIST Dr Lawrence Williams is the consummate scientist. You get the feeling, on meeting him, that research is as vital to him as taking his next b...
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Home-schooled MoBay boy aces CXC Spanish
BY PAT ROXBOROUGH-WRIGHT EDITOR-AT-LARGE/WESTERN BUREAU 
June 10, 2006
Montego Bay, St James - "Hallelujah!" Ten year-old Winston Chue exclaimed on learning that he had earned a distinction in the Caribbean Examination Co...
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Spy chief survives bombing
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June 10, 2006
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A top Afghan intelligence agent narrowly survived a bomb attack on his convoy that killed three other people near the capita...
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Local scientist on brink of cancer cure breakthrough
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter 
June 10, 2006
A local scientist, intent on finding a cure for cancer, believes he's on the brink of a breakthrough as he and his counterparts in Germany have been a...
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Digicel pumps millions into Hope Gardens
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June 10, 2006
The Digicel Foundation has donated $8.2 million to rehabilitate the fountain and gardens at the Hope Botanical Gardens in St Andrew. According to Digi...
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‘Get the work done and on time’
Observer Reporter 
June 9, 2006
PRIME Minister Portia Simpson Miller has instructed the responsible government agencies to immediately begin the cleaning of drains and gullies in pre...
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‘Flood Norwood with cops, JDF’
KERIL WRIGHT, Observer staff reporter 
June 9, 2006
Montego Bay, St James - Staggered by a wave of gruesome murders in the gritty Norwood community since the start of this year, Jamaica Labour Party Dep...
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By-election win will not determine my timetable, says Portia
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
June 8, 2006
DARLISTON, Westmoreland - People's National Party (PNP) president Portia Simpson Miller says the party's victory in the Eastern Westmoreland by-electi...
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Merapi roars back to life, sparking new panic of eruption
AFP 
June 8, 2006
MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia (AFP) - Indonesia's Mount Merapi roared back to life Thursday, belching its largest clouds of hot gas and ash yet and sparking...
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Jamaica gives world’s largest cruiser cultural hello
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
June 8, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Jamaica yesterday welcomed the world's largest cruise ship and its 3,652 passengers with a show of the island's popular music ...
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Ras Astor Black not giving up
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
June 8, 2006
DARLISTON, Westmoreland- Having secured the largest number of votes in his fourth attempt to gain a parliamentary seat, president of the Jamaica Allia...
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Kingston getting $323-million facelift
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June 8, 2006
KINGSTON, the Jamaican capital, is to undergo a major facelift in a project being spearheaded by the Ministry of Local Government and Environment, in ...
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