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August 16, 2006
COMMUNICATIONS giant, Cable and Wireless Jamaica (CWJ), yesterday launched its eLearning service for its corporate clients, with an endorsement of its...
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Nation remembers Garvey today
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A floral tribute for Jamaica's first national hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, will be held today at National Heroes Park in Kingston, as the nation marks ...
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HUGO Lewis, the man who last week pleaded guilty in attempting to defraud Barita Investments Limited of more than $1.7 million and now awaiting senten...
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THE National Works Agency (NWA) will begin work this week on a major drain that runs behind the Tinson Pen Aerodrome in Kingston, to prevent a repeat ...
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TORONTO, Canada (AFP) - Developing countries that are worst hit by AIDS need more than four million health workers to help cope with the crisis, the W...
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Whitehouse saga takes new turn
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August 16, 2006
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New York City Council honours outstanding Jamaicans
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NEW YORK, United States - A number of outstanding Jamaicans in the US have been recognised for their professional achievements and contributions to th...
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Hospital drops suspension against MoBay med techs
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August 14, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - The management of the Cornwall Regional Hospital yesterday withdrew suspension letters served last week on four medical techno...
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UK diaspora group to hold post-conference meeting
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August 14, 2006
THE Jamaica Diaspora in the United Kingdom (UK) is to meet in Birmingham on Saturday to discuss, among other issues, the Terms of Reference for the pr...
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Sao Paulo gang releases kidnapped TV reporter in Brazil
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August 14, 2006
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - A kidnapped television reporter from Brazil's dominant television network was released unharmed yesterday morning by the gang...
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Bill Gates urges women to protect themselves against AIDS
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August 14, 2006
TORONTO (AP) - Empowering women in developing countries to protect themselves against HIV with hopeful preventative drugs could be the "next big break...
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Visa woes hit seabed delegates
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
August 13, 2006
Delegates to the United Nations International Seabed Authority (ISA), which has its headquarters here, are finding it hard to get visas to Jamaica, ra...
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‘Rising Star’ entrant benefits from NYS Customer Care Corps
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August 13, 2006
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Boy, 14, among nine killed in bloody weekend
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August 13, 2006
The Grim Reaper was busy over yet another bloody weekend, claiming nine lives, including that of a 14-year-old boy who was gunned down in broad daylig...
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Reposition tourism marketing, says Golding
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August 12, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader, Bruce Golding, has called for the repositioning of the island's tourism marketin...
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Children’s Registry still not ready
By Brandon Allwood Sunday Observer writer 
August 12, 2006
Vital elements of a landmark piece of legislation that would have proven useful in the infamous Church Dayton scandal, in which a 13-year-old girl was...
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Meeting to discuss teachers’ salaries this week
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THE Ministry of Finance and Planning is to meet with the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) this week, in a last ditch effort to settle their wage di...
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August 12, 2006
The articles written by me which will appear in the Jamaica Observer over a period of time are based on research findings derived from focus group dis...
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AIDS experts gather for world’s largest summit to combat disease
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August 12, 2006
TORONTO (AP) - As thousands of AIDS experts, activists and politicians streamed into Toronto yesterday for the world's largest conference devoted to c...
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Parents, children flood Back-to-School Fair
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August 12, 2006
Parents and children in search of text book bargains packed the Chinese Benevolent Association (CBA) on Old Hope Road in Kingston yesterday at the sec...
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Father, son on police most wanted list freed of murder
by Ingrid Brown Sunday Observer staff reporter 
August 12, 2006
Two of five men accused of murdering a Farm Town resident earlier this year, triggering a riot in the community, were freed in the St Ann's Bay Reside...
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August 12, 2006
The proposed new town development on lands at Inverness in Clarendon, one of several millennium projects to complement Highway 2000, will not material...
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