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BSI investigating police homicides
By Karyl Walker Observer staff reporter 
November 17, 2006
THE Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) is probing the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Jahami King by the police. King was shot dead on Wednesday dur...
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Sentencing rescheduled for mercy killer
November 17, 2006
SENTENCING of the man who slashed the throat of his cancer-stricken grandfather to put him out of his misery was yesterday rescheduled for December 15...
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Project targeting small businesses launched
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November 17, 2006
THE Caricom Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) in collaboration with the Inter-American Develoment Bank Multilateral Investment F...
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MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Police in Mandeville are investigating the shooting death of a 27-year-old woman and the injuring of her aunt as they drove h...
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Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
November 17, 2006
PARLIAMENT has confirmed that it has started negotiations with a number of people who own properties in the vicinity of Gordon House, Duke Street, Kin...
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Microsoft introduces newest software at Kingston launch
by Kimone Thompson Observer staff reporter 
November 17, 2006
TECHNOLOGY giant Microsoft Corporation yesterday launched the 2007 versions of its flagship software products Windows, Microsoft Office and Exchange S...
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Farmer accused of murder goes free
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November 17, 2006
MARK George Lee, the 34-year-old chicken farmer accused of murdering his stepson by slashing his throat with a machete last year, was recently freed o...
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Confident JLP holds 63rd annual conference this weekend
BY Erica Virtue Observer writer 
November 17, 2006
THE Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) 63rd annual conference begins today at the National Arena in Kingston, with opinion polls putting the party in the be...
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Sav firefighters relocated to temporary home
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
November 16, 2006
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Savanna-la-Mar firefighters who recently protested against the poor working conditions at their station, now have a lot...
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Zeeks returns to court on January 29
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November 16, 2006
FORMER Matthews Lane strongman Donald 'Zeeks' Phipps is scheduled to return to the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court on January 29 to answer c...
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Two Greater Portmore men shot dead in Vineyard Town
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November 16, 2006
TWO men from Greater Portmore in St Catherine were shot dead yesterday in Vineyard Town in eastern Kingston. The dead men have been identified as 40-y...
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Judge orders psychiatric evaluation of alleged medical imposter
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November 16, 2006
A man who allegedly pretended to be a doctor is facing charges in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court. Linval Shaw, who is said to be of an ...
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JP facing fraud charges
Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter 
November 16, 2006
A Justice of the Peace is facing fraud charges in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court after allegedly writing a fraudulent letter of recomme...
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Man fined $60,000 after attempt to obtain second TRN
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November 16, 2006
A man who claimed that he was 'merely testing the system' when he attempted to obtain a second Taxpayer Registration Number (TRN) was on Tuesday order...
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Epileptics want to be granted driver’s licences
KERIL WRIGHT, Observer staff reporter 
November 16, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Just over a year after government was asked to amend the Road Traffic Act, allowing deaf persons to be granted driver's licenc...
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10 Sandals/Beaches resorts re-certified by Green Globe 21
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November 16, 2006
TEN of the 12 Sandals/Beaches ultra-luxury resorts in Jamaica have again received instruments of re-certification from Green Globe 21, the worldwide b...
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$250,000 contracts for dons
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
November 16, 2006
A Cabinet decision in July 2001 which allowed contracts for special employment projects, costing up to $250,000, to be issued without tender was prima...
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Scores of US citizens apply for passports at JTB ‘coffee break session’
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November 16, 2006
Ambassador to the US, Professor Gordon Shirley (left), and newly elected US Congresswoman, Yvette Clarke (second left), sharing coffee with Ken Pfeife...
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Call for review of corporal punishment to discipline kids
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November 16, 2006
PARTICIPANTS in a UNICEF-sponsored roundtable discussion on the "Positive disciplining of children", yesterday agreed that the law on corporal punishm...
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$1.4-b contract awarded for KMA water supply system
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November 16, 2006
A contract valued at more than J$1.4 billion has been awarded to French public works firm Sogea Satom for the rehabilitation of the Kingston Metropoli...
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Eldemire-Shearer to give up chair of senior citizens’ council
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November 16, 2006
AFTER more than 10 years of serving as chairman of the National Council for Senior Citizens (NCSC), Professor Denise Eldemire-Shearer is soon to leave...
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BVI bans smoking
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November 16, 2006
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, US Virgin Islands (AP) - Tourists will soon need to watch where they light up in the British Virgin Islands. The British territory's...
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