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RGD takes its ‘GSAT initiative’ to rural Jamaica
JIS 
May 25, 2005
GREEN ISLAND, Hanover - The Registrar General's Department has launched what it calls its GSAT initiative, a mobile service that goes into rural and r...
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The cry for an end to crime and violence was loud
By Karyl Walker Observer staff reporter 
May 25, 2005
BUSINESSES in downtown Kingston - the city's main commercial centre - started to pull down their shutters from 12:30 yesterday, 30 minutes before the ...
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CXC math exam going ahead today despite leak in Guyana
Observer Reporter 
May 25, 2005
THE Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) in Barbados yesterday told Jamaican and other regional candidates sitting the Caribbean Secondary Examination...
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Putting Sugar to the Test
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
May 25, 2005
Table Talk Food Awards.The Last Lap. After a long, wet and for many, a super lazy, long weekend, the Jamaica Observer Table Talk Food Awards judges ar...
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Big support for lockdown
DWIGHT BELLANFANTE, Observer staff reporter 
May 24, 2005
A number of the country's businesses, including the retail and distributive trades, will be 'locking shop' today in support of the call by the Private...
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Antigua’s first woman police chief promises crackdown on crime
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May 24, 2005
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (AP) - In a major shake-up of police leadership, Antigua's first woman police chief yesterday promised to clamp down on rising crim...
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Kellier was there. but
Observer Reporter 
May 24, 2005
Derrick Kellier, the state minister in the National Security Ministry, represented Minister Peter Phillips at Inspector Lascelles Walsh's funeral serv...
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Jay Leno testifies to suspicions about Jackson’s accuser
AP 
May 24, 2005
SANTA MARIA, California (AP) - After cracking Michael Jackson jokes for months, comedian Jay Leno played it straight for the most part Tuesday at the ...
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Cadet corps need 200 volunteers as officers
Observer Reporter 
May 24, 2005
THE Jamaica Combined Cadet Force (JCCF) is seeking to recruit 200 volunteers to fill positions in the Officer Corps across the island. According to th...
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Peru 10 year-old girl killed playing with hand grenade
AP 
May 24, 2005
AYACUCHO, Peru (AP) - A 10 year-girl was killed when she accidentally detonated a hand grenade she had found near her home in Peru's central Andes, po...
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Girl, 8, found buried alive in Florida landfill
AP 
May 23, 2005
LAKE WORTH, Florida (AP) - An 8 year-old girl who was raped and buried alive told a friend she remembers her attacker towering over her before she pas...
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PSOJ says islandwide lockdown getting widespread support
Observer Reporter 
May 23, 2005
TOMORROW'S islandwide lockdown of businesses to protest the country's growing crime rate has been gaining momentum with a number of businesses, worker...
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Violence severely affecting healthcare costs at May Pen Hospital
JIS 
May 23, 2005
MAY PEN, Clarendon - It cost the May Pen Hospital $8.6 million in 2004 to treat cases which resulted form acts of violence for the year 2004, accordin...
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Hundreds give voluntary support for Labour Day projects
Observer Reporter 
May 23, 2005
HUNDREDS of Jamaicans yesterday turned out to clear drains and gullies, repair community centres, and paint schools and pedestrian crossings, among se...
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Children’s group, St Mary Chamber support business shutdown, Bennett chides PSOJ
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May 23, 2005
The Hear the Children's Cry Committee and the St Mary Chamber of Commerce, Agriculture and Industry are in full support of the Private Sector Organisa...
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Higher light bills July 1
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
May 23, 2005
Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) customers will have to pay increased electricity rates as of July 1, while bus fares are expected to go up later ...
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Adventists march for peace in Salt Spring
PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter 
May 23, 2005
SALT SPRING, St James - The pouring rain did not stop a group of Seventh-day Adventists on Saturday as they marched to show their disgust with the hig...
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New York drops subway photography ban proposal
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May 22, 2005
NEW YORK (AP) - A proposal to ban cameras in subways to prevent terrorism has been dropped by police and transit officials. The move comes a year afte...
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You can’t escape God, Simpson Miller tells Shanika’s murderer
BY KERRY MCCATHY Observer writer 
May 22, 2005
Grief and anger hung heavy in the Whitfield Town Seventh-day Adventist Church yesterday as mourners reflected on the thwarted life of six-year-old Sha...
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Don’t help criminals destroy Ja
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
May 22, 2005
A large congregation of community and political leaders turned out at the May Pen funeral of slain businessman Maurice Azan yesterday to hear the Roma...
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Cop among three men killed
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May 22, 2005
Police reported three more murders yesterday, among them a policeman who was shot dead on Molynes Road, Kingston 10 just before dawn. The Constabulary...
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Angry crowd burns alive six people accused of robbery
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May 22, 2005
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Four people were killed as an angry crowd burned six people accused of forming a band of robbers in the remote settlement of Cru...
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