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KINGSTON, Jamaica—The ISSA Champions Cup will kick off on January 20th and end on the 31st, Observer Online has been reliably informed. The start of t...
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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)—US President Donald Trump urged Cuba on Sunday to "make a deal" or face unspecified consequences, warning that the flo...

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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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UN Ombudsman urges Jamaicans to take education seriously
BY DWIGHT BELLANFANTE Observer staff reporter 
April 8, 2006
PATRICIA Durrant, the first ever United Nation's Ombudsman, has reminded Jamaicans that they are now competing with the rest of the world for jobs, an...
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‘Elected by God’
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Sunday Observer reporter 
April 8, 2006
RESPECTED theologian Canon Ernle Gordon says Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller was on solid ground when she laid claim to God's intervention in her...
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Man killed after threatening gas attendant
Observer Reporter 
April 8, 2006
SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - One of two men who allegedly threatened a gas station attendant with a gun in Lacovia, St Elizabeth, is dead following conf...
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Co-workers unlikely to snitch
April 8, 2006
EVEN though one in three workers say they have witnessed unethical activities at work, only 47 per cent are willing to "blow the whistle" on their com...
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Labour turmoil
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
April 7, 2006
NEWLY appointed minister of labour and social security Derrick Kellier is expected to have his mettle tested this weekend by the current dispute at th...
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POLICE REPORTS
April 7, 2006
Suspected suicides in Kingston, Clarendon THE police say they suspect suicide in the death of a man in Kingston and another in Clarendon, yesterday. T...
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Former G2K VP wants to run on PNP ticket
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
April 6, 2006
LUCEA, Hanover - Ian Hayles, a former vice-president of the Jamaica Labour Party affiliate group, Generation 2000, who resigned from the party just ov...
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Cops searching for man in Peter King murder case
OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL, Observer staff reporter 
April 6, 2006
The police say they are searching for a man who they believe can give information about the March 20 slaying of former Trade Board Chairman Ambassador...
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Nigeria’s leaders split over third term
AFP 
April 6, 2006
ABUJA, Nigeria (AFP) -The feud at the summit of Nigerian politics erupted into the open yesterday when Vice President Atiku Abubakar spoke out against...
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Fellow morticians hail Ferdinand Madden Sr
PATRICK FOSTER, Observer writer 
April 6, 2006
Ferdinand Leslie Madden Sr, the man whose name has become synonymous with burials in Jamaica, was yesterday celebrated in death by fellow morticians, ...
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More cops for Spanish Town
Observer Reporter 
April 5, 2006
The police yesterday started deploying extra troops into violence-torn Spanish Town on the same day that an estimated 5,000 persons prayed for an end ...
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Grandma’s Old-fashioned Easter Bun
April 5, 2006
Ingredients: 1 cup of brown sugar 1 cup of water 1/4 cup of honey 2 tsp of mixed spice 1 tbsp of marmalade or jam 2 tbsp of butter 3 cups of flour 1 e...
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Two stolen cars recovered in Vineyard Town
Observer Reporter 
April 4, 2006
TWO men were arrested Monday following the recovery of two stolen cars in Vineyard Town, Kingston. However, their names were not released by officers....
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Woman Inc elects new president
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter 
April 4, 2006
JOYCE Hewett is the new president of the more than two decade-old Woman Inc. Elected at the organisation's annual general meeting last month, Hewett, ...
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‘Hardship’ allowance extended
Desmond Allen | Executive Editor 
April 4, 2006
GOVERNMENT has extended the special "hardship" allowance of $400 and $600 paid to public sector workers by a month, to April 30, 2006, pending the sig...
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Custos wants tax break for volunteers
CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter 
April 3, 2006
OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Custos of St Ann R O Walters has urged the government to grant tax breaks for volunteers as a way of acknowledging the important r...

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