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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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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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Aruba re-arrests two brothers in missing teen case
AP 
August 26, 2005
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - Two Surinamese brothers who had been detained and released in the Natalee Holloway case were arrested again yesterday based o...
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Guns blaze on Maxfield
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
August 26, 2005
THREE men were killed within of six hours in the volatile Maxfield Avenue area of Kingston yesterday. The dead men have been identified as 31 year-old...
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Be careful of G8 gifts, warns Rev Ernle Gordon
BASIL WALTERS Observer staff reporter 
August 26, 2005
Anglican priest the Rev Ernle Gordon says African countries should be cautious about the debt relief offer from the Group of 8 (G8) industrialised nat...
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Cops kill four robbers in Morant Bay
Observer Reporter 
August 26, 2005
MORANT BAY, St Thomas - Four men were fatally shot by the police in Morant Bay, St Thomas on Thursday evening following the robbery of a hardware stor...
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Light bill protests
Observer Reporters 
August 25, 2005
JAMAICA Labour Party supporters demonstrated in two Jamaican cities and a parish capital yesterday against spiralling electricity bills, but it was ap...
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Seabed Assembly pays tribute to the late Ken Rattray
Observer Reporter 
August 24, 2005
THE Assembly of the International Seabed Authority, meeting in Kingston yesterday, paid tribute to the late Kenneth Osborne Rattray, a prominent Jamai...
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Baking, filling and icing with Sylvia Weinstock
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
August 24, 2005
Sandals Whitehouse European Village & Spa got a taste of Hollywood celebrity fever as eager Beaches and Sandals pastry chefs huddled close, not wishin...

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