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Opportunity in Ernesto’s reprieve
August 27, 2006
Even as we feel for our neighbours in western Haiti and eastern Cuba, Jamaicans are giving thanks that they were spared the onslaught of Hurricane Ern...
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JAMCOPY warns teachers against photocopying textbooks
BRANDON ALLWOOD, Observer writer 
August 27, 2006
THE Jamaican Copyright Licensing Agency (JAMCOPY) and the Book Industry Association of Jamaica (BIAJ) have warned teachers against photocopying textbo...
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Books on Wheels takes reading to hospitalised children
CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter 
August 27, 2006
THE Book Industry Association of Jamaica (BIAJ) has started its "Books on Wheels" programme, which is geared at increasing the accessibility of books ...
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August 26, 2006
From the moment I put my foot on the gas... uhmm... fuel pedal of the 'ethanol car', the flex-fuel Ford Fiesta imported by Petrojam, I knew it would b...
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Hazel Vaz remembered as visionary with a penchant for discipline
BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer staff reporter 
August 26, 2006
Hazel Louise Vaz, the founder and former principal of the renowned Vaz Preparatory School in east Kingston, was yesterday laid to rest following a ser...
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Portia gets thumbs up for performance as PM
August 26, 2006
A substantial 66.2 per cent of Jamaicans have rated Portia Simpson Miller's performance as prime minister as very good, good or fair, in the latest St...
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Ugandan gov’t, LRA sign historical truce
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August 26, 2006
JUBA, Sudan (AFP) - Uganda and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army signed their first-ever truce accord yesterday, boosting hopes for peace talks aimed a...
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Orientation CDs a hit
BY SHERILLA GORDON Sunday Observer writer 
August 26, 2006
WHEN the new academic year begins next month, students Abouna Jones and Najee Hibbert will enter Campion College in Kingston with knowledge of the sch...
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A spicy-sweet night at the Guilt Trip
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
August 26, 2006
THE traffic is surprisingly light this Thursday evening as we head towards Liguanea and turn into the Orchid Village Plaza trying to find parking as c...
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Bellevue Hospital being considered for psychiatric prison
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter 
August 26, 2006
THE 145-year-old Bellevue Hospital in Kingston is among the sites being considered for a proposed forensic psychiatric prison for Jamaica's criminally...
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Ugandan gov’t, LRA sign historical truce
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August 26, 2006
JUBA, Sudan (AFP) - Uganda and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army signed their first-ever truce accord yesterday, boosting hopes for peace talks aimed a...
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August 25, 2006
HOUSTON, Texas - A college student's checked luggage on a Continental Airlines flight from Argentina contained traces of dynamite, authorities said, i...
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Cops keep close watch on Sav as residents protest police killing
KERIL WRIGHT, Observer staff reporter 
August 24, 2006
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - The police's Bureau of Special Investigations has been called in to probe yesterday's fatal shooting by cops of an alle...
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Gov’t committed to resolving salary dispute with teachers, says Henry-Wilson
CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter 
August 24, 2006
EDUCATION Minister Maxine Henry-Wilson has noted the government's commitment to completing salary negotiations with the Jamaica Teachers' Association ...
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New boys home gets financing
ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer staff reporter 
August 23, 2006
THE Goodwin Park Hostel for street and at risk boys is one step closer to completion, following Tuesday's signing of a $4-million financing agreement ...
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Kidnappers demand release of Muslim prisoners in exchange for Fox journalists
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August 23, 2006
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - A previously unheard of militant group in Gaza released footage yesterday showing two kidnapped Fox News journalists and ...
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Residents protest police killing in Central Village
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August 23, 2006
MORE than 50 irate residents of Central Village in St Catherine yesterday protested the police killing of Dean "Brixton" Thompson, of Big Lane in the ...
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Killing of woman sparks riot in Summerfield
PATRICK FOSTER, Observer writer 
August 23, 2006
The shooting death Tuesday night of a woman who residents of Summerfield in Clarendon described as "a nice lady to everybody", sparked a riot in this ...
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Gov’t cuts textbooks programme for secondary students
Observer Reporter 
August 22, 2006
SOME secondary school students will have to share textbooks with classmates when schools year reopen next month, as books supplied under the administr...
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Teachers say no
CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter 
August 22, 2006
OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Jamaica's teachers yesterday firmly rejected the govern-ment's latest wage offer and said they would give the administration a wee...
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Woman cop among three facing fraud charges
Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter 
August 22, 2006
THREE people, including a special constable, are facing fraud charges in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court after allegedly participating i...
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Woman cop among three facing fraud charges
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August 22, 2006
THREE people, including a special constable, are facing fraud charges in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court after allegedly participating i...
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