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Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
December 16, 2006
The Senate passed the Interception of Communications or "wiretap" Act Friday, giving the police and the military increased powers to tap the telephone...
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Alumni association makes $750,000 donation to Excelsior
December 16, 2006
THE Excelsior Alumni Association (USA) Inc has donated $750,000 to the high school to help build a science lab, which has been identified as the schoo...
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The malaria hunters
BY KERRY MCCATTY Observer staff reporter 
December 16, 2006
EVERY day since December 1, teams of health workers deployed from the Kingston and St Andrew Health Department have been combing dozens of properties ...
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December 16, 2006
Dear Mrs Henry, I will be graduating from one of our tertiary institutions in 2007 with a degree in Management Studies. So far, I am doing well academ...
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Manley labelled reckless
BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer 
December 16, 2006
Michael Manley's social and economic reform efforts of the 1970s failed to drive economic growth and social transformation in Jamaica and his socialis...
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Training programme bonds police and inner-city youths
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Sunday Observer writer 
December 16, 2006
THE antagonistic relationship between residents of inner-city communities, and the police is well known so when 55 young people from the inner city to...
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The scandal that should never have been
Desmond Allen | Executive Editor 
December 16, 2006
The day started out slow and lazy, not his usual style, but on this day, it was okay for Gordon 'Butch' Stewart. He was cruising Jamaica's lush and ru...
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Observer hails award-winning photographers and Clovis
December 16, 2006
Observer photographers Michael Gordon and Karl McLarty were last Wednesday officially congratulated for winning Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) awa...
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Ascot Primary celebrates 10-year anniversary
BY BEV MELBOURNE Sunday Observer writer 
December 16, 2006
THE Ascot Primary School in Portmore, St Catherine is celebrating 10 years of existence with six months of activities, which are being held under the ...
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The evil known as gangsters
BY KARYL WALKER Sunday Observer staff reporter 
December 16, 2006
The woman's face was haggard. She took a deep drag from a cigarette then began staring blankly into space. "Imagine you live in a place for 40 years a...
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Education Ministry honours parents
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December 16, 2006
Twelve of the island's top parents, as decided by an islandwide adjudication process covering six regions, were honoured by the Ministry of Education ...
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PCJ drops royalty payment for oil explorers
BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer staff reporter 
December 16, 2006
In an effort to attract investors to Jamaica's remaining oil and gas exploration blocks, the state-run Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) has drop...
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Sandals takes two top Travel Weekly Reader’s Choice Awards
December 15, 2006
SANDALS Resort International grabbed two top honours - for 'Best Hotel Chain - Caribbean' and 'Best Hotel Chain - All-Inclusive', at the 4th Annual Tr...
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US opens new Kingston embassy
December 15, 2006
Jamaicans seeking to access services at the United States Embassy in Kingston should benefit from the bigger and better facilities at the embassy's ne...
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Portia accuses JLP of harassment
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
December 15, 2006
Mandeville, Manchester - Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on Thursday accused the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) of planning to mobilise their support...
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Sir John Compton sworn in as St Lucia’s PM
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December 15, 2006
CASTRIES, St Lucia (AP) - Sir John Compton, a founding father of St Lucia who came out of retirement to lead his party to an upset election victory, t...
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Spanish Town gets 120 more cops for Christmas
T K WHYTE, Observer correspondent 
December 15, 2006
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - One hundred and twenty additional cops have been deployed in the Spanish Town business district to ensure the protection ...
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Gov’t bows to Cockpit lobby
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
December 15, 2006
THE government, under pressure from environmentalists and other interest groups, yesterday suspended all licences allowing prospecting for bauxite in ...
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Nicole Fullerton returns to court next March
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
December 15, 2006
FORMER acting operations manager of the failed Caldon Finance Group, Nicole Fullerton, had her $6 million bail extended until March next year, when sh...
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Three more shot dead in St James
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
December 15, 2006
FLANKERS, St James - Heavily armed men wearing bullet proof vests Thursday night went on a shooting spree in this volatile community, killing three me...
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Kingston barber gets nine months, fined for ganja
Paul Reid 
December 15, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - A Kingston barber who pleaded guilty to trying to export 8.5 pounds of ganja to Holland on Thursday night was sentenced to nin...
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Careless, irresponsible driving will not be tolerated – PM
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
December 15, 2006
FALMOUTH, Trelawny - Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on Thursday officially opened the 75-kilometre stretch of the Northern Coastal Highway - Och...
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