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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’
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Church leaders weigh in on debate over State’s offer of rebuilding funds
Jerome Williams | Reporter 
December 31 12:09 AM
‘It’s about people, not buildings’
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BY HAROLD G BAILEY Observer writer 
December 31 12:08 AM
Jamaican businessman launches third bid for US Congress
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After Melissa, farmers back in the field at Parnassus Agro Park
December 31 12:07 AM
For the love of the land
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December 31 12:06 AM
Women recruiting victims
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‘Transforming Our Police Service’ awards celebrate constabulary’s Area 5 officers
December 31 12:05 AM
Top cops rewarded
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Kellaray Miles | Reporter 
December 31 12:04 AM
Hurricane Melissa stalls Q2 turnaround for RA Williams
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AP 
September 6, 2005
WASHINGTON (AP) - The US military's growing contribution to hurricane relief efforts in Louisiana and Mississippi will not diminish its capability to ...
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AP 
September 6, 2005
BOSTON (AP) - Two Massachusetts residents have died from the Eastern equine encephalitis virus, a rare but serious disease spread by mosquitos, public...
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Everard Owen Observer Writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
September 6, 2005
Hope Bay, Portland - They arrived in groups. Some came by themselves. Others made friends with those who were early on the scene. By 8:30 am they had ...
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AP 
September 6, 2005
PARIS (AP) - A hospitalised President Jacques Chirac spoke yesterday by telephone with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a presidential spokesman s...
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Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
September 6, 2005
MONTEGO BAY, St James - While regional leaders, including Cuba's Fidel Castro, Jamaica's Prime Minister P J Patterson and Caribbean oil ministers were...
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OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL, All Woman coordinator 
September 6, 2005
MOSTLY, it was a cross between a big party and a cat-and-mouse game between the security forces on that stretch between St Catherine and into the pari...
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September 5, 2005
Two decomposing bodies found in Linstead COMMODORE, Linstead- The police are investigating the deaths of two unidentified men whose decomposing bodies...
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Observer Reporter 
September 5, 2005
PRIME Minister P J Patterson warned yesterday that Hurricane Katrina's devastation of the US Gulf states held several potentially negative implication...
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Observer Reporter 
September 4, 2005
THE first in a series of four regional consultations on the National Minimum Wage starts today in Montego Bay, the labour ministry has announced. Four...
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Observer Reporter 
September 4, 2005
THE Jamaica Labour Party called out its supporters for street protests against rising prices, at a time when Prime Minister P J Patterson will be host...
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AP 
September 4, 2005
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Emergency cleanup crews were summoned to three Rio de Janeiro state beaches yesterday after about 2,000 litres (530 gall...
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AP 
September 4, 2005
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Rescuers going house to house searched for hurricane survivors Sunday, and New Orleans turned its attention to collecting what is l...
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JIS 
September 3, 2005
MANDEVILLE, Manchester - To be educated at a recognised institution whose programmes are synonymous with quality is the dream of many well-thinking Ja...
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BY ARLENE MARTIN-WILKINS Sunday Observer reporter 
September 3, 2005
THE weed itself is vastly popular, pungently so. But given a chance yesterday, even those who imbibe stayed away from a forum put together by lobbyist...
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BY DWIGHT BELLANFANTESunday Observer reporter 
September 3, 2005
THE political pundits do not give Dr Omar Davies any chance of winning the race for president of the People's National Party (PNP). He doesn't have th...
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AP 
September 3, 2005
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - President Robert Mugabe's government has attacked the suspense thriller The Interpreter, starring Nicole Kidman, as part of a ...
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BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Sunday Observer reporter 
September 3, 2005
THOUGH its aim is to protect students and others against discrimination, the National Policy for HIV/AIDS Management in Schools prescribes no punitive...
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Reported by AP writers 
September 3, 2005
HURRICANE Katrina had no deliberate target, but in the aftermath it is clear that the victims, who are now facing a horrifying lack of rescue and care...
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Observer Reporter 
September 3, 2005
A police constable from the Bridgeport police station was shot and seriously injured during an attack by a lone gunman as he was about to enter his ho...
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September 3, 2005
MAY PEN, Clarendon - Parents registered under the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH) are advised to ensure that their childr...
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BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer 
September 3, 2005
A deep-seated fear of being slapped with the dreaded label 'informer', is keeping many Jamaicans from stepping forward as witnesses to a crime and sev...
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BY VIVIENNE GREEN-EVANS Sunday Observer writer 
September 3, 2005
Approximately 10 per cent of the students for whom the government and National Commercial Bank (NCB) paid exam fees for prescribed subjects at CXC, fa...
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