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Golding says Opposition will champion transparency, accountability in 2026
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Reflecting on the challenges of the past year, Opposition Leader Mark Golding is urging Jamaicans to live with kindness while promising that the Peopl...
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Leftist Mamdani begins first day as New York mayor
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In his New Year's message on Thursday, Prime Minister Andrew Holness reflected anew on the challenges he has navigated with Jamaica during his leaders...
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October 29, 2005
BOTH the House of Representatives and the Senate have busy schedules this week. The House meets on Tuesday and Wednesday at 2:00 pm, while the Senate ...
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Tivoli Gardens
BY LLOYD WILLIAMS Sunday Observer senior writer 
October 29, 2005
AT the height of Tivoli Garden's much rumoured infamy in the 1970s and 1980s, PNP enclaves like Arnett Gardens, Olympic Gardens, and the Wareika Hills...
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Forced to re-sit
BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer 
October 29, 2005
IN rare consensus, the government, opposition and the teachers' union have condemned schools that force fifth form, or grade 11, students to re-sit ex...
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Maintenance law passed, ushering in a more liberal era
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
October 29, 2005
THE Senate finally passed the Maintenance Bill on Friday, but the process only produced more evidence of the government's willingness to rely on its m...
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‘I didn’t rape them’
By Anthony Wallace 
October 29, 2005
Tower street adult correctional centre - I read in your newspaper of Sunday the 18th of September, 2005 an article written by Lavern Clarke under the ...
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Grad students launch GSAT practice website
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October 29, 2005
A group of Jamaican graduate students have launched an online Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) website, that will give schoolchildren access to more ...
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Anatomy of a criminal case: The war, the law and ‘Scooter’ Libby
AP 
October 29, 2005
WASHINGTON (AP) - The prosecution's conclusion: Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff zealously pursued information about a critic who said the ...
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11 sure-fire ways to lose your job
By Leahcim Semaj work@ltsemaj.com 
October 29, 2005
YOU got a job but it is Not your dream job. You are still waiting for Bill Gates to call or for one of the companies that you really want to work with...
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New River – more complex than at first glance
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
October 29, 2005
Observer editor-at-large, Garfield Myers climbs the Santa Cruz Mountains in St Elizabeth to get a bird's eye view of flood-ravaged New River, where om...
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PIOJ report points to negatives of setting up a sugar refinery
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
October 28, 2005
THE Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) has advised the government of a number of potential disadvantages should it establish a sugar refinery here. ...
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Florida Keys ready to welcome tourists as gas lines ease, but millions still without power
AP 
October 28, 2005
POMPANO BEACH, Florida (AP) - In the Keys island chain, where Wilma's storm surge caused extensive flooding, plans were announced to welcome tourists ...
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JLP questions labour ministry’s preparedness for CSME
Observer Reporter 
October 28, 2005
RUDDY SPENCER, the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party spokesman on labour, says that the party is concerned about the preparation of the labour sector to...
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Cuban government to allow American aid officials to visit island
AP 
October 28, 2005
HAVANA (AP) - President Fidel Castro will let American aid officials assess Hurricane Wilma's damage in hopes that the US gesture can lead to more coo...
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Maintenance Bill gets nod from senators
Observer Reporter 
October 28, 2005
THE Senate yesterday passed the controversial Maintenance Bill, despite the insistence of Opposition members that the bill be referred to a joint sele...
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Concerns about new hotels baseless, says Spain’s foreign minister
LUKE DOUGLAS, Observer writer 
October 27, 2005
CONCERNS that the influx of Spanish hotels will have negative repercussions on the environment and will drive down local prices in the tourism market ...
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EU leaders commit to economic renewal
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October 27, 2005
HAMPTON COURT, England (AP) - European Union leaders moved no closer to resolving their divisions over a new EU budget yesterday, nor how to appease r...
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Police to implement several measures in anti-corruption fight
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October 27, 2005
THE constabulary says it will be implementing several short, medium and long-term measures to deal with corruption within it ranks, as part of its Ant...
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Lawyer says he’s unable to interview Andem
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer 
October 27, 2005
Queen's Counsel Berthrand McCaulay, who is representing the alleged former leader of the Gideon Warriors gang, Joel Andem, on Monday told the court th...
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2,200 companies implicated in Iraq’s oil-for-food scandal
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October 27, 2005
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - About 2,200 companies in the UN oil-for-food programme, including corporations in the United States, France, Germany and Russia,...
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JLP wants action to halt attacks against women
Observer Reporter 
October 26, 2005
THE Jamaica Labour Party is demanding urgent action to halt what the party described as the "brutal attacks" against women and suggested expert interv...
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Rains pelt the west
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
October 26, 2005
MONTEGO BAY, St James - The heavy rains that have been lashing western Jamaica over the last two days yesterday caused widespread flooding and landsli...
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October 26, 2005
Cops shot, injured in Naggo Head A constable assigned to the St Catherine South Police Division in Portmore was shot and injured yesterday at Naggo He...
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