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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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Skills training, military-style
BY PATRICK FOSTER Sunday Observer Reporter 
April 15, 2006
HAVING graduated from Brimmervale High School in St Mary with no academic passes, required for advanced studies or to land a good job, the possibility...
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North Coast Highway gobbles up even more cash
Camilo Thame 
April 15, 2006
THE north coast highway under construction along Jamaica's north shore, linking Negril with Port Antonio, is now projected to cost almost $21 billion,...
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4-H promotes healthy lifestyle among young people
BY DEANNA McFarlane Observer staff reporter 
April 15, 2006
THE Jamaica 4-H Clubs will be incorporating healthy lifestyle into its curricula of existing training programmes, to expose young people to the variou...
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Vale Royal to remain empty
BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer 
April 15, 2006
RECESSED on spacious grounds at Montrose Road, St Andrew, Vale Royal, the official residence of the prime minister, has been unoccupied for 14 years, ...
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Boundaries bill blur election signs
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
April 15, 2006
A bill tabled in the House of Representatives on Wednesday seeking to constitutionally increase the maximum number of constituencies from 60 to 65 wil...
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UTech lauds online job search company
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April 15, 2006
THE University of Technology (UTech) says CaribbeanJobs.com is a welcome facility for tertiary graduates in Jamaica and the region, and a wonderful jo...
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Guatemalan police officers drown after boat sinks
AP 
April 15, 2006
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AP) - Two police officers drowned and one was missing after their boat capsized in high waves near the Pacific coast, autho...
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Portmore confronts death in its town centre
BY TK WHYTE Sunday Observer Reporter 
April 15, 2006
PORTMORE residents and businesses have lost their long-running battle with death in their neighbourhood. After lobbying the planning authorities again...
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New video-conferencing system brings people face-to-face from a world apart
BY MIKE FREEMAN Copley News Service 
April 15, 2006
RECENTLY at Hewlett-Packard's ink jet lab in San Diego, engineers met with colleagues in Barcelona, Spain, face-to-face - with neither group ever step...
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Wage war!
BY CAMILO THAME Sunday Observer Reporter 
April 15, 2006
FREED of the wage pact that put salary demands on hold for two years, public sector employees and their trade unions are now looking for sweet deals t...
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Govt budgets $65b for wages, unions want much more
BY CAMILO THAME Sunday Observer Reporter 
April 15, 2006
FREED of the wage pact that put salary demands on hold for two years, public sector employees and their trade unions are now looking for sweet deals t...
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Education reform funding dilemma
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Sunday Observer writer 
April 15, 2006
The government's Education Transformation Team, grappling with how the programme - projected to cost $520 billion over the next decade - will be finan...
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Easter flavours with a fruity twist
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
April 12, 2006
IT seems well-nigh impossible to envisage a Jamaican household without that ubiquitous pairing of bun and cheese. Wine, bun and cheese? That's right! ...
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18 injured in bus, truck accident in St Ann
Observer Reporter 
April 12, 2006
OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Eighteen people were injured yesterday in an accident involving a minibus and a truck along the Laughlands main road here in St An...
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Portmore week starts April 23
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April 12, 2006
PLANS are in high gear for Portmore Week 2006, which will be observed from April 23 to 29. The annual celebration is designed to highlight the develop...
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Two women appointed to Court of Appeal
Observer Reporter 
April 11, 2006
JUSTICES Zaila McCalla and Hazel Harris were Monday appointed as judges in the Court of Appeal. The two were among 10 judges sworn in at King's House ...
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Gov’t says cement supply steadily improving
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
April 10, 2006
MINISTER of Industry, Commerce and Technology Phillip Paulwell told the Cabinet yesterday that the supply of cement to the construction sector is "ste...
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NSWMA board to remain in place another two months
April 9, 2006
The current board of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is expected to remain in place for another two months, which should enable ...
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‘Be wary of politicians who preach’
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
April 9, 2006
Former National Democratic Movement (NDM) president Hyacinth Bennett said yesterday that while there is a role for spirituality in national leadership...
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Rediscovered text paints Judas as friend, not betrayer
AP 
April 9, 2006
NEW YORK, USA (AP) - The tale of how the Gospel of Judas was rediscovered is worthy of a detective novel, but there is an even more tantalising religi...
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Junior One Order and Clansman gangs plaguing St Catherine schools
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Sunday Observer writer 
April 8, 2006
SCHOOLBOYS attending a number of high schools in St Catherine are forming themselves into gangs named after the two prominent criminal networks that c...
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Technical language stalls compensation agreement between oil surveyors, fishers
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter 
April 8, 2006
DESPITE weeks of negotiations, Jamaica's fishers still have not signed off on a compensation agreement with oil explorers surveying sections of the is...
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