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Education minister accepts classes will resume with lingering challenges from Melissa
BY ANTHONY LEWIS Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 5 12:30 AM
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Against the odds
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Against the odds
Melissa-battered St James schools reopening today
January 5 12:26 AM
Against the odds
Roofless but resilient
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Roofless but resilient
Westmoreland schools using creative solutions to ensure no student is left behind
BY ROSALEE WOOD-CONDELL Observer writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 5 12:24 AM
Roofless but resilient
From recovery to renewal
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From recovery to renewal
Sandals Foundation takes holistic approach to school restoration post-Melissa
January 5 12:22 AM
From recovery to renewal
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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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UN gets withering criticism on oil-for-food programme
AP 
September 7, 2005
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - In a devastating assessment of the UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq, investigators strongly criticised Secretary-General Kofi A...
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Seven inner-city communities to benefit from social programme
VAUGHN DAVIS, Staff reporter 
September 7, 2005
RESIDENTS in some of Jamaica's poorest communities will shortly be able to wheel their babies to neighbourhood day care centres, or leave their older ...
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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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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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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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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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News Breifs…
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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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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In death row review… Four resentenced to die
BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer 
September 3, 2005
FOUR of 45 convicted murderers on death row will die, the Jamaican courts have reaffirmed under the resentencing review of mandatory death penalty cas...
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‘The system has failed my son’
BY VIVIENNE GREEN-EVANS Sunday Observer writer 
September 3, 2005
AS the island's 300,000 primary and high school students prepare to start school next week, one desperate mother has given up on the search for a scho...
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Gas price hike
BY LLOYD WILLIAMS Sunday Observer senoir writer 
September 3, 2005
GAS station signboards silently proclaim the bad news: $47.85 a litre; $51.45 a litre; $54.75 a litre. For diesel, it's $46.38. And be prepared for an...
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Camp Success…
BY VIVIENNE GREEN-EVANS editorial@jamaiaobserver.com 
September 3, 2005
JULIET Small's 14-year-old son was expelled from a Kingston high school last year because he was discovered smoking marijuana on the premises. Since t...

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