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10 hospital workers charged with fraud
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
June 24, 2005
MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Montego Bay police yesterday arrested and charged 10 employees of the Cornwall Regional Hospital, following the uncovering...
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Wives of two men facing extradition say families hurting
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
June 24, 2005
THE wives of two of the men in custody for more than a year, pending the outcome of their extradition hearing on alleged drug trafficking charges, say...
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Launching civic dialogue for better governance
Observer Reporter 
June 23, 2005
A unique social experiment that seeks to promote national dialogue on creating a preferred vision of Jamaica while breaking down barriers between comm...
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WORLD BRIEFS…..WORLD BRIEFS…..WORLD BRIEFS
AFP 
June 23, 2005
Blair turns on the charm, but... BRUSSELS (AFP) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair sought Thursday to put to rest doubts about his commitment to Euro...
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Mayor stays
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer 
June 23, 2005
THE Supreme Court ruled yesterday that there were procedural breaches in the July 2004 meeting of the Portland Parish Council in which Mayor Alston Hu...
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Police arrest father of Dutch teen in custody
AP 
June 23, 2005
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - Aruban police yesterday arrested the father of a young Dutch teen already in custody in connection with the disappearance of ...
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Six houses fire-bombed in Gordon Pen
T K WHYTE, Observer staff reporter 
June 23, 2005
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Six houses were yesterday fire-bombed in Gordon Pen by armed men who also sprayed bullets on cars as they went berserk in...
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Eleven countries favour China over the US – poll
AP 
June 23, 2005
WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department acknowledged Thursday that it has a lot of work to do to overcome negative perceptions about the United States ...
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Jamaica vows to fight for sugar market
AP/Observer 
June 22, 2005
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP/Observer) - Jamaica yesterday vowed to step up its lobby against the European Union's proposed huge cut in the price it pays for...
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Retired banker murdered
Dalton Laing 
June 22, 2005
ROTARIAN and retired banker Gary Caesar, 57, was found dead in bushes at West End Negril on Monday, having left his home the night before. A passerby ...
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Killen, 80, guilty of Mississippi murders
AFP 
June 21, 2005
PHILADELPHIA, Mississippi (AFP) - A US jury yesterday convicted former Ku Klux Klan leader and Baptist preacher, Edgar Ray Killen, of the killings of ...
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Today is the longest day
Observer Reporter 
June 20, 2005
TODAY, which is the beginning of summer, will be the longest day of the year. The National Meteorological Service in Kingston says the sun will rise a...
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‘Klansman’ held in police raid
Observer Reporter 
June 20, 2005
A leading member of the notorious Spanish Town-based Klansman gang was held by police on Sunday in the Kingston community of Brook Valley, Duhaney Par...
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Courts too easy with bail, says Shields
Observer Reporter 
June 19, 2005
Mark Shields, the deputy commissioner of police with responsibility for crime-fighting, insists that Jamaica's courts are too lenient in granting bail...
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Rajiv Thompson, GSAT’s Marcus Garvey Scholar
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
June 19, 2005
BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - He thought he had done badly in some subjects in the Grade Six Achievement Test, but as it turns out, Rajiv Thompson had n...
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46 killed in Iraq
AP 
June 19, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A suicide bomber walked calmly into a popular Baghdad kebab restaurant at lunchtime yesterday and killed at least 23 people waiti...
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Reneto Adams will walk – Amnesty Int’l
Observer Reporter 
June 19, 2005
Amnesty International, the global human rights group, says the ground is being prepared for the return of Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams to front-...
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Two suspects held as LG Brown laid to rest
BY JULIEN NEAVES Observer writer 
June 18, 2005
AS hundreds of mourners paid final tribute yesterday to Lloyd George "LG" Brown, the immediate past president of the Jamaica Gasolene Retailers Associ...

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