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Everard Owen Observer Writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31 12:18 AM
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December 31 12:16 AM
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Live comedy’s gains amid theatre’s decline
Codie-ann Barrett | Business Reporter 
December 31 12:14 AM
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RIDING THE WAVE
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ASAJ president pushing ahead with plans in second term
Daniel Blake | Sports Writer | blaked@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31 12:12 AM
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BOJ pushing to improve Jam-Dex access
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BOJ pushing to improve Jam-Dex access
BY DAVID ROSE Observer business writer davidr@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31 12:10 AM
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‘Arrive alive’
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‘Arrive alive’
Increase in road fatalities pushes authorities to intensify strategies to change driver behaviour
BY RENAE OSBOURNE Observer staff reporter osbourner@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31 12:10 AM
‘Arrive alive’
‘It’s about people, not buildings’
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‘It’s about people, not buildings’
Church leaders weigh in on debate over State’s offer of rebuilding funds
Jerome Williams | Reporter 
December 31 12:09 AM
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Magistrate turns down bail application for Zeeks
Observer Reporter 
September 15, 2005
MATTHEWS Lane area leader Donald "Zeeks" Phipps was yesterday denied bail when he appeared in the Half-Way-Tree Court to answer to charges of unlawful...
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Knight points to negative impact on banana tariff
Observer Reporter 
September 15, 2005
FOREIGN Minister K D Knight said yesterday that a proposed tariff of euro187 per tonne on third world countries banana imports into the European marke...
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Brace for even higher light bills
Observer Reporter 
September 14, 2005
JAMAICA Public Service (JPS) customers, already hit hard with high electricity bills, will be faced with even higher light bills when a 9.6 per cent i...
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NEW BRIEF….NEW BRIEF….NEW BRIEF
September 14, 2005
13 fishermen rescued Thirteen fishermen from Yallahs, St Thomas who were adrift at sea for three days returned to the shores of Jamaica after being re...
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Fewer Jamaicans in the Uk, new study shows
Observer Reporter 
September 14, 2005
THE number of Jamaicans and other Caribbean-born nationals in the United Kingdom (UK) has dropped, according to a new study released by the Institute ...
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Gunbattle in Greater Portmore
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
September 14, 2005
A police constable and his girlfriend were yesterday morning shot and injured during a hold up at Five West in Greater Portmore, St Catherine. Two men...
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Caribbean Cement stages mock attacks
Observer Reporter 
September 13, 2005
Caribbean Cement Company Limited yesterday staged a security exercise dubbed Operation Bright Star at each of its three ports in east Kingston, and id...
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PNP backs whistle blower law
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer 
September 12, 2005
People's National Party (PNP) delegates voted unanimously for a resolution asking the Government to study the benefits of legislation that would grant...
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Union expects report on JPS tragedy in two weeks
TANEISHA DAVIDSON, Observer staff reporter 
September 12, 2005
THE National Workers Union (NWU) says a report into the circumstances surrounding Saturday's death of three contract workers at the Jamaica Public Ser...
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EU proposes new, lower tariff on imported bananas
AP 
September 12, 2005
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Union yesterday made new proposals to end the five-year fight over banana imports, offering slightly lower tarif...
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Los Angeles hit with blackout
AP 
September 12, 2005
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A blackout hit a large portion of the Los Angeles area yesterday afternoon, snarling traffic at intersections and trapping people i...
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PM to bat for development agenda at UN
Observer and AP reports 
September 12, 2005
PRIME Minister P J Patterson left the island yesterday afternoon for New York, where he will attend the 60th Annual General Assembly of the United Nat...
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Danish firm wins contract for North Coast Highway 3rd leg
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
September 11, 2005
The Cabinet has approved the award of the civil works contract for segment three (Ocho Rios-Port Antonio) of the Northern Coastal Highway Improvement ...
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Patterson hailed for contribution to Jamaica, PNP
BY DWIGHT BELLANFANTE Observer staff reporter 
September 11, 2005
Stirring tributes were paid to Prime Minister P J Patterson yesterday by a full spectrum of the leadership of the People's National Party (PNP) at the...
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Tension still high in Belfast
AFP 
September 11, 2005
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AFP) - Tension remained high in Belfast yesterday as Northern Ireland's police chief blamed a Protestant group loyal to Bri...
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34 homeless after firebomb attack in Franklyn Town
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Observer staff reporter 
September 11, 2005
Sixteen year-old Alicia Brown won't be going to school this morning. The Mona High student lost all her belongings in a fire sparked by a Molotov cock...
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Clarendon businessman murdered
Observer Reporter 
September 11, 2005
A crowd gathers outside Randolph Turner's shop and bar in Palmer's s Cross, Clarendon where he was shot dead yesterday morning by a group of criminals...
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Hopelessness begins to lift from New Orleans
AP 
September 11, 2005
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) - Workers here were picking up trash yesterday, a small miracle under the circumstances. The airport opened to cargo traff...

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