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Police seize illegal firearm in St Elizabeth operation
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Police seize illegal firearm in St Elizabeth operation
December 28 02:09 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The St Elizabeth Police have recovered another prohibited weapon during an operation in the parish. According to the police, a tea...
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US medical team brings dental care and trauma support to Westmoreland
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US medical team brings dental care and trauma support to Westmoreland
December 28 01:39 PM
A team from Emirates Facial and Dental Implants Center in New York were at Little London Primary School in Westmoreland from December 17-20, treating ...
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Three former SSL directors slapped with multiple charges
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Three former SSL directors slapped with multiple charges
December 28 01:01 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Multiple charges have been laid against three former directors of the collapsed Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL). The three are...
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Curfew extended in sections of Red Hills Road
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Curfew extended in sections of Red Hills Road
December 28 11:57 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica   — The 48-hour curfew imposed in sections of Park Lane and 100 Lane, Red Hills Road, Kingston 19, has been extended. The curfew wil...
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US lawmakers condemn Trump plan targeting Caribbean immigrant families
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US lawmakers condemn Trump plan targeting Caribbean immigrant families
December 28 11:35 AM
WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) – Immigration leaders in the Senate and House of Representatives in the United States have condemned President Donald ...
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Bishop Clarke’s love for Trelawny fuels major hurricane relief drive
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Bishop Clarke’s love for Trelawny fuels major hurricane relief drive
December 28 10:50 AM
FALMOUTH, Trelawny — For Bishop Maurice Clarke, Jamaica is not simply home — it is “my heartbeat.” And when Hurricane Melissa tore through sections of...
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WATCH: Car crashes into utility pole on St Thomas roadway, two hospitalised
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WATCH: Car crashes into utility pole on St Thomas roadway, two hospitalised
December 28 09:27 AM
ST THOMAS, Jamaica – A driver and his passenger were rushed to hospital Sunday morning after the vehicle they were travelling in crashed into a utilit...
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St Elizabeth man takes last breath days after saving 13 seniors during Hurricane Melissa
Tamoy Ashman | Reporter |ashmant@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 28 12:20 AM
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Golding wants to talk garrisons
Arlene Martin-wilkins, Observer staff reporter 
May 17, 2005
Opposition Leader Bruce Golding yesterday said he will, at the next Vale Royal Summit this month with Prime Minister P J Patterson, place squarely on ...
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Boy denied sexual abuse, says social worker
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May 17, 2005
SANTA MARIA, California (AP) - A social worker testified Tuesday at Michael Jackson's child molestation trial that she met privately with the accuser ...
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Supreme Ventures execs at world gaming forum
Observer Reporter 
May 17, 2005
A team of Supreme Ventures senior executives, including president and chief executive Brian George and chairman Paul Hoo, is now in Washington DC part...
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May 17, 2005
Death toll rises 'suddenly' in Uzbekistan ANDIJAN, Uzbekistan: Uzbekistan's hardline government dramatically increased its estimated death toll from a...
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Golding getting ready to name new JLP shadow cabinet
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
May 17, 2005
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Opposition Leader Bruce Golding is expected to name a new Jamaica Labour Party shadow cabinet within the next week. Speaking t...
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Kellits water system a month from completion
JIS 
May 17, 2005
KELLITS, Clarendon (JIS) - A $10 million project to upgrade the water supply system in Kellits is a month to completion. The system will also feed Cro...
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Police say murder of May Pen businessman not linked to extortion
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
May 17, 2005
THE May Pen police insisted yesterday that Saturday's murder of 70 year-old businessman Maurice Azan was robbery, and not because of his failure to su...
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Helicopter transporting PM makes emergency landing
Observer Reporter 
May 16, 2005
A helicopter transporting Prime Minister P J Patterson was yesterday forced to land in a private field near to the town of Santa Cruz in St Elizabeth ...
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Defence rebuts captivity claim with evidence of trips to dentist, spa
AP 
May 16, 2005
SANTA MARIA, California (AP) - Witnesses testified yesterday in Michael Jackson's child molestation trial that the accuser's mother got a body wax and...
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Man beaten to death in Falmouth as gang rivalry escalates
Observer Reporter 
May 16, 2005
Falmouth, Trelawny - The body count continues to swell as gang rivalry escalates in the normally peaceful town of Falmouth, Trelawny. The latest victi...
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Brazil offers Jamaica assistance with ethanol, sugar production
May 16, 2005
BRAZIL, the world's largest producer of ethanol from sugar cane, will be helping Jamaica in its production of ethanol. Yesterday, the foreign minister...
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$1.6-m refurbishing at Lovers Leap
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
May 15, 2005
WESTERN BUREAU - The Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) is undertaking a $1.6 million refurbishing project at the popular Lovers Leap attract...
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Council tries to avert closure of Denbigh Zoo
John Tavares 
May 15, 2005
DENBIGH, Clarendon - The Clarendon Parish Council wants to meet with the president of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, Senator Norman Grant, to discu...
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Rights poll today at RIU Tropical Bay
Observer Reporter 
May 15, 2005
THE more than 300 line service employees of the Spanish hotel chain RIU's Tropical Bay resort will today take part in a representational rights poll a...
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Seaga takes look at J’can cultural identity in first lecture
PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter 
May 15, 2005
FORMER Opposition Leader Edward Seaga last Thursday took his rapt audience through the folk roots of Jamaican cultural identity, as he delivered his i...
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Corruption – at car exam depot
May 14, 2005
It costs as little as $1,000 to bribe an official at the Swallowfield motor vehicle examination depot in Kingston to certify your car as fit and roadw...
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Beating the system may cost lives
BY ARLENE MARTIN-WILKINS Observer staff reporter 
May 14, 2005
FAULTY vehicles that should not have been on the roads caused 877 accidents between 2000 and 2003. Those are the latest statistics available from the ...
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Sick employees costing billions of dollars. but who cares?
BY DOROTHY CAMPBELL Observer staff reporter 
May 14, 2005
Unhealthy or sick employees are costing Jamaican organisations billions of dollars each year in lost hours due to absenteeism and low productivity, ex...
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Air traffic controllers to challenge court order
BY KERRY MCCATTY Observer writer 
May 14, 2005
AIR traffic controllers were back on the job yesterday, but still want to mount a legal challenge to a Supreme Court order that those who had called i...
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Hundreds protest France’s crackdown on illegal immigrants
AP 
May 14, 2005
PARIS (AP) - Hundreds of people demonstrated yesterday in Paris to protest against a government plan for tough new measures to crack down on illegal i...
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Violence flares at Uzbek border as thousands seek to flee country
AP 
May 14, 2005
ANDIJAN, Uzbekistan (AP) - Thousands of Uzbeks seeking to flee the country stormed government buildings in an eastern frontier village yesterday, torc...
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MPs’ salaries still frozen
Observer Reporter 
May 14, 2005
Pilloried and accused of giving themselves a huge pay hike as they asked everyone else to tighten their belts, Parliamentarians still cannot decide, a...
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