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Remember the Sabbath day?
By Kimone Thompson and Joanna Ferguson Sunday Observer writers 
September 9, 2006
While it may be less challenging for most Sunday-worshippers, working outside of the normal 40-hour work week often poses a problem for persons worshi...
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Murders decline 26%
September 9, 2006
MURDERS dropped 26 per cent in August, continuing a seven-month trend since the start of this year that has so far seen a 22 per cent reduction in maj...
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Peart returned as Horne’s challenge fizzles
September 9, 2006
Mandeville, Manchester - Michael Peart, chairman of the ruling People's National Party's (PNP's) Region Five organisation which includes Manchester an...
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Issues of images and identity
MARCIA FORBES 
September 9, 2006
Why Worry? Access to technology is one feature of the modern state. Some argue that this often comes at a high price. Within the small and developing ...
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The tradition lives on
Desmond Allen | Executive Editor 
September 9, 2006
WITHIN a day of the publication of the last in the series of opinion survey results in the latest Stone Polls, Dr Ian Boxill's telephone was ringing o...
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Contraband danger
BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer staff reporter 
September 9, 2006
CREATIVELY smuggled inside tubes of toothpaste, bars of soap, the hemlines of clothes and even in frozen items, inmates of Jamaica's prisons and lock-...
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Crime reduction in East Kgn not by chance, says McGregor
BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer staff reporter 
September 9, 2006
DEPUTY Superintendent Steven McGregor of the Kingston Eastern division is a proud man, and he's not afraid to show it. He has good reason to be please...
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The next great Jamaican chef emerges
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
September 9, 2006
OJI Ashebre Jaja (gift bearer, artist and honoured one) recalls his Saturday afternoon forays in the kitchen: "We would, as a Rastafarian family, spen...
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Supporters heckle, jeer as PNP aspirants debate issues
KERIL WRIGHT, Observer staff reporter 
September 8, 2006
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Supporters of the five People's National Party candidates seeking Karl Blythe's Central Westmoreland seat Thursday nigh...
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BWIA to close, makes way for new regional airline
AP 
September 8, 2006
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - Caribbean airline BWIA will close and a new carrier will be established in its place with the Trinidadian government st...
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Former police chief joins JLP
Observer Reporter 
September 8, 2006
FORMER police commissioner and retired Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) colonel, Trevor MacMillan, is now a member of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (...
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Office of the Children’s Advocate gets new staff
PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter 
September 8, 2006
CHIDREN's advocate Mary Clarke will no longer have to run to the Child Development Agency (CDA) every time she needs legal counsel on how to proceed w...
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Former chief medical officer Barry Wint is dead
Observer Reporter 
September 8, 2006
MEMBERS of the medical fraternity yesterday expressed sadness at the death of Dr Barry Wint, former chief medical officer at the Ministry of Health. D...
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Fingered on the spot
Ingrid Brown, Observer staff reporter 
September 8, 2006
COME next month, it will take the police 35 seconds to identify wanted persons during spot checks and less than five minutes to retrieve police record...
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September 8, 2006
Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth - Chief of police in St Elizabeth, Superintendent Maurice Robinson says he is establishing a police "cattle hotline" for live...
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NWU presidential race heats up
Observer Reporter 
September 8, 2006
National Workers Union (NWU) presidential aspirant, Danny Roberts, says that this month's election for the post will be the "most fundamental and sign...
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Unlucky Friday for Kingston gunman
Observer Reporter 
September 8, 2006
TEACHERS and students of the Holy Childhood Prep School in Kingston had to take cover yesterday as a gunman, in an attempted robbery, fired at a man w...
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Scoring high grades is a family tradition
CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter 
September 7, 2006
SIXTEEN-year-old Janeil Williams is the first to admit that he is a troublemaker who likes to have "fun, regardless" of whatever else is going on arou...
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Negril Gardens closed for refurbishing
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September 7, 2006
THE 65-room Negril Gardens in Westmoreland, a member of the Sandals Resorts chain, has announced that it has been temporarily closed since August 30, ...
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JAS welcomes Levy’s appointment as SCJ chairman
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September 7, 2006
THE Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) says it will be cooperating fully with the new chairman of the Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ), Robert Levy, in ...

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