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A voice in sport lost
Tributes pour in for award-winning journalist Donald Oliver
December 31 12:20 AM
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•CASE students relieved after alleged serial rapist fatally shot by cops •Still want improved security on campus
Everard Owen Observer Writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31 12:18 AM
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Shereita Grizzle | Observer Staff Reporter 
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
Standing ovations for stand-ups 2025
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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BY DAVID ROSE Observer business writer davidr@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 31 12:10 AM
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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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Michael Clarke’s last charge to teachers
September 10, 2005
The past president of the Jamaica Teachers Association passed away last week. In his honour, Career & Education, presents his last speech delivered in...
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Men to emulate
BY KINISHA O'NEILL Sunday Observer writer 
September 10, 2005
MICHAEL Maragh, on a typical day, is just one face among 120,000 others who work for the state. But after work, as director of pension and salaries at...
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Political party funding law next March?
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
September 10, 2005
THE policy commission of the ruling People's National Party is hoping that there will be legislation in place by next March, authorising the public fu...
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Educator suggests homework policies at home, philosophy in school
Observer Reporter 
September 10, 2005
EDUCATOR Elaine Foster-Allen, Principal of Shortwood Teachers College has called for parents to become more actively involved in helping their childre...
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The ‘first’ of the most wanted, and other men of infamy
BY KARYL WALKER Sunday Observer reporter 
September 10, 2005
IN the 18th century, a rebellious slave by the name of Jack Mansong or 'Three Finger Jack' fled the plantation and became a menace to the British slav...
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Some of the wanted
Observer Reporter 
September 10, 2005
IN March 2004, the police reported that there were 150 dangerous criminals on the loose. Lucius Thomas, then the crime chief, now promoted to police c...
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Karl Blythe…
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
September 10, 2005
IF nothing else, Dr Karl Blythe has proved himself a man of resilience, climbing determinedly to the top of the vice presidential heap in the People's...
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Toxic leak at JPS kills 3
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Sunday Observer reporter 
September 10, 2005
AN alleged toxic gas leak at the Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS) power plant in Old Harbour has killed three contract workers, who, initi...
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Portia Simpson Miller…
BY DWIGHT BELLANFANTESunday Observer reporter 
September 10, 2005
THE polls have always been kind to Portia Simpson Miller, endorsing her again and again as Jamaica's most popular political personality. But, her rati...
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The new 10: Who are they?
BY LAVERN D CLARKE Sunday Observer editor 
September 10, 2005
A lack of resources, specifically a computerised system to capture the data, has put the police in the position where, to develop a list of Jamaica's ...
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How to select the best person for the job
BY LEACHIM SEMAJ work@ltsemaj.com 
September 10, 2005
IT is becoming more and more expensive when managers make mistakes by hiring the wrong people. A company can be set back by as much as six months as t...
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JLP claims Aubyn, but Hill denies membership
Observer Reporter 
September 10, 2005
THE Jamaica Labour Party last week claimed Aubyn Hill as one of its registered members, saying he had applied and was accepted six years ago. Hill wou...
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NHT to buy land from NHDC to boost Pride projects
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
September 10, 2005
THE National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC) is to sell several land parcels among its holdings to the National Housing Trust (NHT) to raise ca...
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Charity assisting 346 students with school expenses
Observer Reporter 
September 10, 2005
FOOD for the Poor (FFP) last Friday presented 346 children with scholarships to offset school fees, books, uniforms and other financial costs, represe...
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MOU sub-committee completes work
Observer Reporter 
September 9, 2005
THE sub-committee looking into the proposals from the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) to save the public sector Memorandum of Understandi...
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Mixed emotions as displaced Jamaicans return to Kingston
TANEISHA DAVIDSON, Observer staff reporter 
September 8, 2005
IT took more than 24 hours of travelling by bus from Biloxi, Mississippi for 47 Jamaican hotel workers to get on a flight in Miami to Kingston's Norma...
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Work underway for reconstruction of Yallahs Bridge
Observer Reporter 
September 7, 2005
PRELIMINARY work has started for the reconstruction of the Yallahs fording in St Thomas, which was severely damaged during Hurricane Dennis in July. A...
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270 J’can hotel workers displaced by Katrina returning home
Arlene Martin-wilkins, Observer staff reporter 
September 7, 2005
TWO hundred and seventy workers who were dispatched to New Orleans under the hotel worker programme earlier this year, are set to return home after be...
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14 countries sign on to Venezuela oil deal
LLOYD WILLIAMS, Senior Observer writer 
September 6, 2005
VENEZUELA and 14 Caribbean nations last night signed the historic PetroCaribe agreement under which Caracas will provide oil to Caribbean countries on...

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