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The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has announced that over 10,000 candidates across the region are currently sitting the January 2026 CSEC exami...
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Five killed in road crashes since January 1 says ITA
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KINGSTON, Jamaica—Five people have been killed in four fatal crashes since the start of the year. This is according to the latest statistics released ...
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Crystal Palace stunned by Macclesfield in biggest ever FA Cup shock
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Proceeds of Crime back on agenda Wednesday
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
March 11, 2006
The Joint Select Committee of Parliament which has been looking at the proceeds of crime bill is expected to meet again on Wednesday at Gordon House. ...
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Glester Martin finds economic refuge in refuse
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer Reporter 
March 11, 2006
GLESTER Martin has found independence in garbage. For more than a decade, he has earned his living from the Retirement city dump in St James where he ...
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Local universities still studying CXC associate degree
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Sunday Observer writer 
March 11, 2006
TWO of Jamaica's high school students have already qualified for the new associate degree on offer by the regional Caribbean Examination Council (CXC)...
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‘Don’t look back at our shame’
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
March 11, 2006
BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - The St Elizabeth Parish Council has rejected a resolution forwarded to other parish councils from the Kingston and St Andr...
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Health ministry pressing ahead with pro-abortion agenda
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Sunday Observer reporter 
March 11, 2006
THE health ministry is pressing ahead with its pro-legalisation abortion agenda, despite religious objections, saying lives are at stake. An interim r...
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Local universities still studying CXC associate degree
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Sunday Observer writer 
March 11, 2006
TWO of Jamaica's high school students have already qualified for the new associate degree on offer by the regional Caribbean Examination Council (CXC)...
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Glester Martin finds economic refuge in refuse
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GLESTER Martin has found independence in garbage. For more than a decade, he has earned his living from the Retirement city dump in St James where he ...
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An ‘uptown sea-breeze’ dining escape
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
March 11, 2006
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‘Don’t look back at our shame’
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
March 11, 2006
BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - The St Elizabeth Parish Council has rejected a resolution forwarded to other parish councils from the Kingston and St Andr...
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Fishers, oil explorers draft damage compensation agreement
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer Reporter 
March 11, 2006
JAMAICA'S fishers have reached a compensation agreement with oil explorers surveying the Pedro Banks, but the deal is pending final legal review. "We ...
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Big celebration
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Sunday Observer reporter 
March 11, 2006
A day after the police had eliminated a notorious murderer from among them, residents of Dunkirk came out to party. Twelve-year-old Chantel Richards h...
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BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer Reporter 
March 11, 2006
JAMAICA consumes some 26 million barrels of imported petroleum products annually, a marginal eight per cent increase since the turn of the decade when...
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March 11, 2006
FREDERICK, Maryland (AP) - A liberal arts college is reviewing its rules for selecting homecoming royalty after a lesbian was crowned king of the danc...
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Three Giants of Black Culture:
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March 11, 2006
Memories of Mortimo Bob Marley mentor Mortimo Planno, who passed away on Sunday last, is being remembered by overseas-based reggae authority Roger Ste...
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Glester Martin finds economic refuge in refuse
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March 11, 2006
GLESTER Martin has found independence in garbage. For more than a decade, he has earned his living from the Retirement city dump in St James where he ...
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Pickersgill to explain massive cost overruns and delays on North coast Highway project
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March 11, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Minister of Transport and Works Robert Pickersgill will this week address the troubling matter of cost overruns and delays on ...
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Highlights of Slobodan Milosevic’s career
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March 11, 2006
August 20, 1941: Born in Pozarevac, in central Serbia. 1964: Graduates from Belgrade Law School, joins the Communist Party. 1984: Appointed party lead...
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Big celebration
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March 11, 2006
A day after the police had eliminated a notorious murderer from among them, residents of Dunkirk came out to party. Twelve-year-old Chantel Richards h...
Telegram
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Health ministry pressing ahead with pro-abortion agenda
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Sunday Observer reporter 
March 11, 2006
THE health ministry is pressing ahead with its pro-legalisation abortion agenda, despite religious objections, saying lives are at stake. An interim r...
Telegram
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Russell Crowe tells Leno: It’s a boy!
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March 11, 2006
BURBANK, California (AP) - Russell Crowe and his wife are expecting a boy. The Gladiator star told Jay Leno on The Tonight Show Friday that he and his...
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Low-cost swapping sites turn internet into a page turner
Copley News Service 
March 11, 2006
Forget online shopping. For bibliophiles daunted by the high price of books, there is now online swapping. Bookins.com is among the newest online book...
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Pickersgill to explain massive cost overruns and delays on North coast Highway project
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March 11, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Minister of Transport and Works Robert Pickersgill will this week address the troubling matter of cost overruns and delays on ...
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