Police seize ammo on Dyke Road, Portmore
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Police seize ammo on Dyke Road, Portmore
January 2 09:57 PM
ST CATHERINE, Jamaica— Police assigned to the St Catherine South Police Division seized a total of 93 assorted rounds of ammunition on Dyke Road, St C...
Manchester labourer charged with 2023 murder
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Manchester labourer charged with 2023 murder
January 2 08:59 PM
MANCHESTER, Jamaica— A Manchester labourer has been arrested and charged with the murder of 34-year-old Glenford Isaacs, who was stabbed to death on S...
UN chief calls on Israel to reverse NGOs ban in Gaza
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UN chief calls on Israel to reverse NGOs ban in Gaza
January 2 07:55 PM
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP)—UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on Friday for Israel to end a ban on humanitarian agencies that provi...
Magnitude 5.6 earthquake jolts St Lucia
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Magnitude 5.6 earthquake jolts St Lucia
January 2 07:26 PM
CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 jolted St Lucia on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries....
STEAM gifts for children in the west
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STEAM gifts for children in the west
January 2 07:00 PM
ST JAMES, Jamaica—Approximately 1,400 STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) gifts have been distributed to children in Monteg...
Errol Wizdom set to release Reggae Dancehall album
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Errol Wizdom set to release Reggae Dancehall album
January 2 06:34 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica —For many years, Jamaican artistes who live overseas have returned to their country to work with musicians and engineers to get an a...

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Gregory Park – a community in mourning
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Observer staff reporter 
November 6, 2005
LAST Monday, 30-year-old Sheryll Francis watched helplessly as her 14-year-old daughter Lesa Moncrieffe died in her lap on the way to the hospital. Mo...
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Off-duty cop shot dead
Observer Reporter 
November 6, 2005
DEANCOURT Wright, a 39 year old district constable attached to the Greater Portmore Police station, was shot dead yesterday in Windsor Heights, St Cat...
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Kennedy Grove residents demand meeting with infrastructure committee
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Observer staff reporter 
November 6, 2005
KENNEDY Grove residents yesterday requested a meeting with the government's infrastructure committee, which is expected to outline to them the finding...
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Portia revs up campaign
BY ERICA VIRTUEObserver writer 
November 6, 2005
PORTIA Simpson Miller formally launched her campaign for the presidency of the People's National Party (PNP) yesterday, pledging to come down hard on ...
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Excelente, muy excelente!
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
November 5, 2005
The menu card suggested an evening of high cuisine from Spain. What was delivered, however, was extraordinary fare, styled by a team buoyed perhaps by...
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Split over gang negotiations
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer Reporter 
November 5, 2005
THERE is nothing in the revised political code of conduct that bars a politician from meeting with people suspected of criminal involvement, if the ob...
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‘Mandela Highway will always flood’
BY PATRICK FOSTER Sunday Observer Writer 
November 5, 2005
THE arguments that the Mandela Highway is a suitable alternative to the Portmore-Kingston toll road have been severely weakened by Hurricane Wilma, an...
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The erosion of paradise
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
November 5, 2005
NEGRIL, Westmoreland - In the past five years, Negril's coastal waters have reclaimed an estimated 30 feet or 9.14 metres of beach where tourists frol...
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Franchise offers freedom to be your own boss
Copley News Service 
November 5, 2005
WHEN Charles Shin graduated from business school in 2000, he already harboured the dream: Drop his savings in a franchise, become his own boss, then r...
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A lower quality debate in Senate
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
November 5, 2005
THE usual high standard of debate in the Senate has been suffering recently from what appears to be a breakdown in communication between the leadershi...
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An exodus of doctors
BY LESLIE GOFFE Sunday Observer Writer 
November 5, 2005
JAMAICA is haemorrhaging doctors. More than four out of ten of the country's physicians have left home to work abroad in the United States, Canada and...
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Bulbie and the PNP
Lloyd Williams 
November 5, 2005
IT was as much the comment by Superintendent Kenneth Wade as the death of Donovan 'Bulbie' Bennett that put the People's National Party on the defensi...
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Tivoli Gardens
BY LLOYD WILLIAMS Sunday Observer senior writer 
November 5, 2005
TIVOLI Gardens, the centrepiece of the life work of Edward Seaga, had, during his stewardship, taken on the role of not only the dominant, but dominee...
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YMCA gets funds to start barbering programme
BY DEANNA McFarlane Observer staff reporter 
November 5, 2005
THE German Embassy on Tuesday donated euro 11, 500 to the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) youth development programme on Hope Road, Kingston ...
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Most mentally ill in prison charged with serious crimes
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
November 4, 2005
The majority of mentally ill persons in prison awaiting fitness determination are charged with serious crimes, Attorney General and Minister of Justic...
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‘Bulbie’ worth $100 million
LLOYD WILLIAMS, Senior Observer writer 
November 4, 2005
THE police yesterday estimated at $100 million, the wealth of Donovan "Bulbie" Bennett, the slain leader of the Clansman gang in Spanish Town, St Cath...
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Clash in Crawle trial over alleged contaminated exhibit
T K WHYTE, Observer staff reporter 
November 4, 2005
CHIEF Justice Lensley Wolfe yesterday clashed in the Home Circuit Court with defence attorneys in the Crawle murder trial of Senior Superintendent Ren...
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Knight welcomes resolution of work permit impasse
Observer Reporter 
November 4, 2005
FOREIGN Minister K D Knight yesterday welcomed the resolution of the work permit impasse which had threatened to deny six Jamaican workers employment ...

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