Ladies shine at Pic-Nic Festival at UWI Mona Bowl
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Ladies shine at Pic-Nic Festival at UWI Mona Bowl
December 29 03:15 PM
KINSTON, Jamaica — Style, colour and confidence were on full display as patrons turned out in their numbers for the Pic-Nic Festival, held on Saturday...
Racing United seek to extend lead in JPL
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Racing United seek to extend lead in JPL
December 29 02:25 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Leaders Racing United will be going after a second win this season over former champions Arnett Gardens when they meet at the Anth...

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Give up the gunmen
By Karyl Walker Observer staff reporter 
July 23, 2005
The troubled Grants Pen community in upper St Andrew where the guns have again begun to bark, was urged yesterday by peace marchers to give up its gun...
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Microsoft raid
BY Erica Virtue Observer writer 
July 23, 2005
Microsoft, the computer software giant, acting through its local lawyers, swooped down Friday on a Corporate Area computer company which it alleged wa...
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Big potential for health tourism
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Observer staff reporter 
July 23, 2005
JAMAICA'S struggling health sector has been attracting a growing number of overseas patients seeking cheaper access to sophisticated medical equipment...
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District constables feeling the pinch
BY Erica Virtue Observer writer 
July 23, 2005
AS crime increasingly takes centre stage, district constables (DCs), a supplementary corps to the regular constabulary, appear to have lost the respec...
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Farmers want Sugar Company of Jamaica management out
Observer Reporter 
July 22, 2005
LOCAL cane farmers have renewed their call for the dismissal of the management of the state-owned Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ), saying the deteriora...
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Clampdown on illegal gas stations
T K WHYTE, Observer staff reporter 
July 22, 2005
POLICE yesterday locked down four illegal gas stations in Greenwich Town, Kingston 13, and Lyndhurst Crescent, arrested two people and detained anothe...
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$9-m programme to rescue troubled teens underway
Observer Reporter 
July 22, 2005
DELAYED by three days because of Hurricane Emily, a residential camp to rescue 300 teenagers on the verge of expulsion from high school began at Holmw...
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Two more Crawle arrests
Observer Reporter 
July 21, 2005
TWO former subordinates of tough cop Reneto Adams were yesterday arrested and charged with accessory to murder and for attempting to pervert the cours...
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J’can sugar among the costliest to produce
Observer Reporter 
July 21, 2005
THE current average cost of producing sugar in Jamaica places the country among the highest cost producers, Prime Minister P J Patterson said Tuesday....
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13 appear before Portmore Municipal Court
Observer Reporter 
July 21, 2005
THIRTEEN cases, mainly building breaches, were mentioned yesterday during the first sitting of the Portmore Municipal Court, presided over by Resident...
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No cash claim a lie, says Butch
Observer Reporter 
July 20, 2005
Gordon 'Butch' Stewart rejected last night that he threatened to withdraw funding from the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) for its failure to discipline MP...
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Judgement reserved in Portmore toll case
T K WHYTE, Observer staff reporter 
July 20, 2005
THE Judicial Review Court yesterday reserved judgement in the case brought against the government by the Portmore Citizens Advisory Council (PCAC), wh...
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CETT programme energising teachers, stimulating students
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
July 19, 2005
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Karen Turner, mission director of the United States Agency for International Development, has lauded the three-year-old Caribb...
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Cops get training in statistics, reporting
Observer Reporter 
July 19, 2005
TWENTY officers from the Jamaica Constabulary Force recently received training in the use of Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS), conside...
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PM firm on October date for sugar announcement
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
July 19, 2005
PRIME Minister P J Patterson yesterday refused to detail government's plans for sugar beyond next year's European export price cut, despite pressures ...
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Couple to pay $50,000 each for $200,000 kidnap hoax
Observer Reporter 
July 18, 2005
A man and a woman who hatched a kidnapping hoax were fined in the in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court by judge Martin Gayle after they b...
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Six injured in Spanish Town shooting
Observer Reporter 
July 18, 2005
ARMED men yesterday morning opened fire at the busy Young Street/Old Market Street intersection in the volatile old capital of Spanish Town in St Cath...
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Acid attack case returns to court July 27
Observer Reporter 
July 18, 2005
MICHAEL Laoe, who is charged with aiding and abetting and conspiracy to douse his wife, Charmaine, with a pail of black acid, was remanded until July ...
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Life in a shelter
BY Erica Virtue Observer writer 
July 17, 2005
OLD HARBOUR, St Catherine - Yesterday, the Old Harbour High School was empty; all those who had sought refuge there as Hurricane Emily threatened on S...
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Kennedy Grove flooding to end Oct
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
July 16, 2005
Minister of Water and Housing Donald Buchanan says the severe flooding which has been affecting residents of the Kennedy Grove housing scheme, near Pa...

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