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KSAC to spend $15.5 million to repair rural St Andrew roads
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
February 14, 2006
MORE than half of the $27 million allocated to the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation, under the government's Hurricane Emergency Repair Programme, wi...
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It’s a myth that only Portia can beat Golding-led JLP, says KD
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
February 13, 2006
JUNCTION, St Elizabeth - K D Knight, one of the backers of Dr Peter Phillips in the People's National Party leadership race to succeed P J Patterson, ...
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Golding pushing for review of Air J’s losses
AL EDWARDS, Caribbean Business Report editor 
February 13, 2006
Opposition Leader Bruce Golding's resolution for a select committee of Parliament to examine Air Jamaica's losses and operational state was last week ...
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$13.4 million to patch Ocho Rios to Port Antonio road
Observer Reporter 
February 13, 2006
OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The Ministry of Transport and Works is spending $13.4 million to undertake a major road-patching programme covering the main road ...
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China issues guidelines on AIDS control
AP 
February 12, 2006
BEIJING, China (AP) - China yesterday issued its first official guidelines on how to prevent and control the spread of the AIDS virus, mandating free ...
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Bird flu detected in Italy
AP 
February 12, 2006
ROME (AP) - Italian veterinary and health officials gathered Sunday to plan a response to the country's first confirmed cases of the deadly H5N1 bird ...
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I would want to be a teacher again, says Sir Howard
Alphea Saunders, JIS News 
February 12, 2006
AFFECTIONATELY called "Teacher", Sir Howard Cooke, who retires this week as governor-general after 70 years in public life, says if he had to live his...
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Patricia House reports 75-85 per cent drug rehab success
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Sunday Observer reporter 
February 11, 2006
FOR 15 years, Patricia House has been gently weaning addicts off narcotics and other substances, mainly crack/cocaine, with varying levels of success ...
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The end of retirement – as we knew it
By Leahcim Semaj work@ltsemaj.com 
February 11, 2006
ABOUT five years ago, I facilitated a workshop for senior civil servants who were approaching retirement. One of the small group activities was for th...
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Avian flu in Nigeria concerns WHO
Observer Reporter 
February 11, 2006
THE confirmation of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza in poultry in Nigeria has raised alarm within the World Health Organisation, which issued an appea...
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Riverside Dock
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
February 11, 2006
It's a great day to be in Black River, St Elizabeth. The usual oppressive heat is absent, it is instead an overcast day (almost chilly) with a weak su...
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DPP seeks witnesses
Observer Reporter 
February 11, 2006
THE Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) is seeking the following persons who are needed as material witnesses: . Paul Trusty and Sashana Golding-John...
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A policy of protection emerges for Jamaica’s 26 watersheds,
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer Reporter 
February 11, 2006
IT took five years, but a new plan is emerging for the policing of Jamaica's 26 watersheds, now in varying stages of decline from squatting, unapprove...
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Logos hope
Roland Henry 
February 11, 2006
Kevin Boyce, acting director of the Logos II, an international charity book-ship run by Christian missionaries, announced yesterday that there are pla...
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Protests in Faith’s Pen, Farm Town
CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter 
February 9, 2006
OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Faith's Pen and Farm Town, two small communities in the parish, were the scenes of protests yesterday - one against bad roads and ...
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Caricom leaders say farewell to Patterson
RICKEY SINGH in Port-of-Spain 
February 9, 2006
JAMAICA'S Prime Minister P J Patterson was yesterday the toast of Caribbean Community leaders at the opening session of the 17th Inter-Sessional Meeti...

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