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What we know about the US attacks on Venezuela
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What we know about the US attacks on Venezuela
January 3 09:24 AM
CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — After months of mounting military and economic pressure, the United States (US) on Saturday carried out airstrikes on targe...
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Guyana activates security plan as US bombs Venezuela
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Guyana activates security plan as US bombs Venezuela
January 3 06:14 AM
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – President Dr Irfaan Ali Saturday said Guyana has activated its “security architecture” after the United States bombed sever...
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Caricom leaders meet on US invasion of Venezuela
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Caricom leaders meet on US invasion of Venezuela
January 3 06:07 AM
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) -Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders met early on Saturday to discuss the United States invasion of Venezuela and the captu...
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Kamla says Trinidad not part of military operations against Venezuela
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Kamla says Trinidad not part of military operations against Venezuela
January 3 05:51 AM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar Saturday said that Trinidad and Tobago did not participate in the United States ...
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Trump says Maduro ‘captured and flown out’ of Venezuela
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Trump says Maduro ‘captured and flown out’ of Venezuela
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(AFP) -- US President Donald Trump said Saturday that US forces had captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro after launching a “large scale strike” o...
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January 3 12:20 AM
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Government eyes placing parts of electricy grid underground
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January 3 12:18 AM
Government eyes placing parts of electricy grid underground
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Chronic Law rules YouTube… again
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Chronic Law rules YouTube… again
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January 3 12:16 AM
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Missing teen’s mom hopeful after re-arrests of brothers
AP 
August 27, 2005
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - Natalee Hollaway's mother said yesterday she believes "we are going to get answers" in the nearly three-month-old disappearan...
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Annual textbook survey
August 27, 2005
THE annual textbook survey results have revealed what the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) refers to as "moderate" price movements, saying only three...
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Importers ‘raping’ sugar
BY ARLENE MARTIN-WILKINS Sunday Observer reporter 
August 27, 2005
KEY players and sugar officials agree that some policy refinement has to accompany, or precede, any plans to elevate sugar from its raw, loss-making s...
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Republican divide on immigration pushes White House to a ‘split-the-baby’ plan
AP 
August 27, 2005
PHOENIX (AP) - Struggling to pacify his party's warring wings, President George W Bush is moving toward allowing illegal immigrants who came to the US...
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‘LENA’ GETS NEW SONG
By Michael Edwards Observer writer 
August 27, 2005
Lena Baker, a black maid who was executed in Georgia's electric chair 60 years ago has been pardoned by the state and will have a proclamation present...
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Stocktaking
Observer Reporter 
August 27, 2005
Mindful of the legacy he would like to leave behind, Prime Minister P J Patterson earlier this year disclosed a formidable wish list of things he woul...
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Guns blaze on Maxfield
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
August 26, 2005
THREE men were killed within of six hours in the volatile Maxfield Avenue area of Kingston yesterday. The dead men have been identified as 31 year-old...
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Be careful of G8 gifts, warns Rev Ernle Gordon
BASIL WALTERS Observer staff reporter 
August 26, 2005
Anglican priest the Rev Ernle Gordon says African countries should be cautious about the debt relief offer from the Group of 8 (G8) industrialised nat...
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Cops kill four robbers in Morant Bay
Observer Reporter 
August 26, 2005
MORANT BAY, St Thomas - Four men were fatally shot by the police in Morant Bay, St Thomas on Thursday evening following the robbery of a hardware stor...
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Jamaican wanted for murder in US held on arrival in island
Observer Reporter 
August 26, 2005
A Jamaican man wanted in the United States for murder has been convicted in the local court for uttering forged documents when he arrived in the islan...
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Aruba re-arrests two brothers in missing teen case
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August 26, 2005
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - Two Surinamese brothers who had been detained and released in the Natalee Holloway case were arrested again yesterday based o...
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Highway 2000 contractor willing to negotiate with disgruntled workers
Observer Reporter 
August 26, 2005
BOUYGUES Construction Company, contractors for Highway 2000, says it is willing to negotiate with disgruntled workers who walked off their jobs Thursd...
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Light bill protests
Observer Reporters 
August 25, 2005
JAMAICA Labour Party supporters demonstrated in two Jamaican cities and a parish capital yesterday against spiralling electricity bills, but it was ap...
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US postal worker charged with urinating in co-workers’ coffee
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August 25, 2005
AKRON, Ohio (AP) - A postal worker has been charged with putting urine in the coffee of co-workers who set up a video camera in their break room after...
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Chavez remark not the first time Robertson has spoken of ‘taking out’ leaders
AP 
August 25, 2005
NEW YORK (AP) - The Rev Pat Robertson's suggestion that the United States assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was the latest in a long line o...
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Protest against high petrol prices, taxi fare hike
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August 24, 2005
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Scores of people yesterday mounted roadblocks on Barnett Street and Fustic Lane to protest against the hike in taxi fares, pet...
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Seabed Assembly pays tribute to the late Ken Rattray
Observer Reporter 
August 24, 2005
THE Assembly of the International Seabed Authority, meeting in Kingston yesterday, paid tribute to the late Kenneth Osborne Rattray, a prominent Jamai...
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Baking, filling and icing with Sylvia Weinstock
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
August 24, 2005
Sandals Whitehouse European Village & Spa got a taste of Hollywood celebrity fever as eager Beaches and Sandals pastry chefs huddled close, not wishin...
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Temporary lift of travel ban on Mark Thwaites
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August 23, 2005
MARK Thwaites, former chief operator of the now bankrupt Dyoll Insurance company, had a stop order against him temporarily lifted and his passport ret...
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US$200-million Petrojam expansion
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August 23, 2005
JAMAICA and Venezuela last night agreed on the broad outlines of an initial US$200-million modernisation and expansion of the Petrojam oil refinery in...
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JTA president calls for debate on Education Task Force report
By Carl Gilchrist Observer staff reporter 
August 23, 2005
OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) president Ruel Reid has called for a national debate on how to adequately fund the government'...
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US$200-million Petrojam expansion
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August 23, 2005
JAMAICA and Venezuela last night agreed on the broad outlines of an initial US$200-million modernisation and expansion of the Petrojam oil refinery in...
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