Mobile skate tour for downtown Kingston this weekend
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Mobile skate tour for downtown Kingston this weekend
December 18 07:04 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Skate Culture Foundation (JSC) will officially launch the Jamaican Skate Tour with a three-day kick-off event in downt...
RADA to host livestock clinic in Westmoreland on Friday
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RADA to host livestock clinic in Westmoreland on Friday
December 18 05:26 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) will host a livestock clinic at the Westmoreland Parish Office in Llandilo, on...
Forex: $160.59 to one US dollar
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Forex: $160.59 to one US dollar
December 18 04:42 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The United States (US) dollar on Thursday, December 18, ended trading at $160.59, down 10 cents, according to the Bank of Jamaica’...

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Bush administration blamed for condom shortage in Uganda
AP 
August 29, 2005
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - US President George W Bush's administration's international AIDS policies have worsened a condom shortage in Uganda and could le...
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Cops suspect link between Hellshire, Spanish Town double murders
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
August 29, 2005
HOMICIDE detectives in St Catherine were last night investigating a possible link between yesterday's double killing in Spanish Town and last Friday's...
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Crucial negotiations begin on document for world leaders
AP 
August 29, 2005
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Ambassadors from 32 nations began a round of crucial negotations yesterday on a hotly debated document that world leaders are ex...
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Hill bats for PNP
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
August 29, 2005
Aubyn Hill mounted a People's National Party (PNP) platform on Sunday to declare the party's founder, Norman Manley, as a greater mind than the Americ...
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‘No strings attached’
Observer Reporter 
August 28, 2005
PRIME Minister P J Patterson made clear last night that Venezuela's concessionary oil deal and other offers of assistance to Jamaica were without a po...
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Annual textbook survey
August 27, 2005
THE annual textbook survey results have revealed what the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) refers to as "moderate" price movements, saying only three...
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Chavez considers US$200m highway loan
Observer Reporter 
August 27, 2005
VENEZUELA seems set to lend Jamaica up to US$200 million to help government accelerate the construction of Highway 2000 and retire more expensive debt...
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Stocktaking
Observer Reporter 
August 27, 2005
Mindful of the legacy he would like to leave behind, Prime Minister P J Patterson earlier this year disclosed a formidable wish list of things he woul...
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For the sake of tourism
BY ARLENE MARTIN-WILKINS Sunday Observer reporter 
August 27, 2005
University of the West Indies professor Barry Chevannes has called for a social alliance of rich and poor, white and black, to bring back tourism to K...
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‘LENA’ GETS NEW SONG
By Michael Edwards Observer writer 
August 27, 2005
Lena Baker, a black maid who was executed in Georgia's electric chair 60 years ago has been pardoned by the state and will have a proclamation present...
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10 shot to death in one night
Taneisha Davidson 
August 27, 2005
THE police reported yesterday that another 10 persons were murdered at the advent of the weekend, all of whom were shot to death between Friday and Sa...
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Uncovering the ‘underworld’ in your school
By Hopeton Henry 
August 27, 2005
THE issue of violence in Jamaican schools is always a controversial matter. Principals feel that if it is discussed publicly it will smear their schoo...
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Sugar company makes operating profit
Observer Reporter 
August 27, 2005
THE Sugar Company of Jamaica is showing a healthier financial position than it ever has since the turn of the decade, recording an $84 million operati...
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Pope shares pain of families of Paris fire victims
AP 
August 27, 2005
VATICAN CITY, Italy (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI said yesterday he was united in the pain of those who lost loved ones in the Paris blaze that killed 14 c...
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Importers ‘raping’ sugar
BY ARLENE MARTIN-WILKINS Sunday Observer reporter 
August 27, 2005
KEY players and sugar officials agree that some policy refinement has to accompany, or precede, any plans to elevate sugar from its raw, loss-making s...
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Prosperous cane farmer laments the fall of king sugar
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
August 27, 2005
GRANGE HILL, Westmoreland - In the days when sugar was undisputed king, cane farmer Lucius Jackson prospered. At the height of his prosperity, Jackson...

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