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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
BOJ pushing
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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
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‘It’s about people, not buildings’
Church leaders weigh in on debate over State’s offer of rebuilding funds
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Jamaican businessman launches third bid for US Congress
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Jamaican businessman launches third bid for US Congress
BY HAROLD G BAILEY Observer writer 
December 31 12:08 AM
Jamaican businessman launches third bid for US Congress
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For the love of the land
After Melissa, farmers back in the field at Parnassus Agro Park
December 31 12:07 AM
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Women recruiting victimsfor human traffickers
December 31 12:06 AM
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Top cops rewarded
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Top cops rewarded
‘Transforming Our Police Service’ awards celebrate constabulary’s Area 5 officers
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Top cops rewarded
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Hurricane Melissa stalls Q2 turnaround for RA Williams
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Hurricane Melissa stalls Q2 turnaround for RA Williams
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December 31 12:04 AM
Hurricane Melissa stalls Q2 turnaround for RA Williams
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Rumsfeld says Hurricane relief efforts not diminishing US war efforts
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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Massachusetts officials report two deaths linked to mosquito-borne virus
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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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Police kept busy in Hope Bay
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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Hospitalised Chirac speaks with Schroeder as criticism increases over health secrecy
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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Protesters take to the streets in the West despite oil summit
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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It was like a cat-and-mouse game in Clarendon
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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Katrina’s ruin will hit Ja hard, says PM
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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Travelling minimum wage talks starts in MoBay
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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Street protests Tuesday
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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Oil spill damage three beaches in Rio de Janeiro state
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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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New Orleans now turns to its dead, int’l aid pouring in
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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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MIND Mandeville for the working student
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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Lonely lobbyists
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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Dr Omar Davies…
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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Zimbabwe claims CIA behind Nicole Kidman ‘Interpreter’ movie
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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HIV/AIDS in school policy lacks teeth
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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Amid images of black victims, many ask was race a factor
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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Policeman shot and injured
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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PATH school records
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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Fear of ‘informer’ label driving away witnesses, hurting justice system
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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9,700 no-shows for sponsored CXC exams
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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