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Relatives cry foul over rape investigations
Observer Reporter 
April 25, 2005
RELATIVES of a mentally disabled 24 year-old woman who they claimed was raped and sodomised by a teenage neighbour last Thursday, say that the police ...
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Fire at CPTC
Observer Reporter 
April 25, 2005
A fire that broke out last night in a section of the main studio of the Creative Production and Training Centre (CPTC) destroyed carpeting, screens an...
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Emergency Medical Services under review
By Carl Gilchrist Observer staff reporter 
April 24, 2005
THE health ministry and the fire brigade are expected to wrap up a series of meetings this week, aimed at finding a way to move the island's nine year...
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Alleged robber shot dead on MoBay street
Observer Reporter 
April 24, 2005
WESTERN BUREAU - An unidentified man who the police theorised was attempting to rob an informal foreign exchange trader in Montego Bay was shot dead b...
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PNP group audit stalls vote
BY Erica Virtue Observer writer 
April 24, 2005
The People's National Party (PNP) did not select a candidate to replace O T Williams in West St Andrew on Saturday after the party secretariat receive...
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No need for hostility, Henry-Wilson tells principals
BY VIVIENNE GREEN-EVANS Observer writer 
April 24, 2005
Education Minister Maxine Henry-Wilson has chided several school principals for what she has described as their hostile reaction to a ministry decisio...
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Ousted Ecuadorean president takes exile in Brazil
AP 
April 24, 2005
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Ousted Ecuadorean President Lucio Gutierrez took asylum in Brazil yesterday, ending a four-day drama that began when protester...
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Witness protection needs more staff – British experts
BY CHARMAINE N CLARKE Assistant news editor 
April 23, 2005
British experts say the local witness protection programme needs to increase its staff by 50 per cent, one of the few changes suggested, according to ...
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Kingfish tries to lure more witnesses
Observer Reporter 
April 23, 2005
Buoyed by the public's response to its toll-free line, Operation Kingfish is now hoping to nudge even more witnesses to come forward by copying a popu...
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It’s vital we discuss oil consumption
April 23, 2005
The International Monetary Financial Committee ended its Spring meeting a few days ago on a cautious note as it pointed to the increased risks to the ...
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Murdered witness wanted to go abroad
Observer Reporter 
April 23, 2005
Linval Thompson, the slain young man whose evidence helped to send four men behind bars for the murder of his mother and stepfather, begged to be relo...
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Cop dies in freak accident
BY JOHN TAVARES Observer correspondent 
April 23, 2005
MAY PEN, Clarendon - A policeman, who lost control of his motorbike as he struggled to remove the string of a kite that had become entangled around hi...
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Slain warder was kicked out of police force, army
Vernon Davidson | Executive Editor, Publications | davidsonv@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 23, 2005
THE Correctional Department, caught on the hop by emerging information that slain warder Maurice Whittingham had a spotty history of service in the po...
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Bread making … with a new TWIST
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
April 20, 2005
"This must be the bread that fuels the Gore racing cars and helps to negotiate those corners," quips racing enthusiast and Jamaica Observer team membe...
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800 more detectives
DWIGHT BELLANFANTE, Observer staff reporter 
April 20, 2005
The Criminal Investigative Branch (CIB) of the police force is being doubled to 1,600, or 20 per cent of the constabulary's establishment, as a short-...
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Million dollar heist
John Tavares 
April 20, 2005
May Pen, Clarendon - One of two men, whom police believe held up and robbed the Zipp Cafeteria and Cambio in May Pen, Clarendon, of more than $1 milli...
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Three teens die in taxi crash
JOHN TAVARES, Observer correspondent 
April 19, 2005
Three teenage students of Innswood High School in St Catherine were killed yesterday morning when the illegal taxi in which they were travelling to sc...
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Placido Domingo to sing in opera premiere
AP 
April 19, 2005
NEW YORK (AP) - Placido Domingo will sing in the North American premiere of the Mariinsky Theatre's production of Wagner's Ring Cycle in October 2006,...
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Events in the life of Pope Benedict XVI
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April 19, 2005
BERLIN (AP) - A chronology of events in the life of Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI. April 16, 1927: Born in Marktl am Inn in Germany's southern r...

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