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December 27 12:50 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Opposition Spokesman on National Security and Member of Parliament Fitz Jackson has welcomed the start of security operations link...
Woman dies in motor vehicle crash in Trelawny
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Woman dies in motor vehicle crash in Trelawny
December 27 12:24 PM
TRELAWNY, Jamaica — A woman is now dead and a man nursing injuries following a motor vehicle collision along the One Mile main road in Falmouth Saturd...
Man dies in motor vehicle crash in St James
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Man dies in motor vehicle crash in St James
December 27 10:39 AM
ST JAMES, Jamaica — A man is now dead following a motor vehicle crash on the Rosemount roadway on Saturday morning. He has been identified as 46-year-...
Former SSL executive in custody
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Former SSL executive in custody
December 27 10:22 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A former high-level executive of Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) is in police custody as investigations continue into the mult...
Ukraine anti-corruption agency tries to raid parliament
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Ukraine anti-corruption agency tries to raid parliament
December 27 09:44 AM
KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — Ukraine's anti-corruption agency said security services were preventing officers from raiding the parliament on Saturday, as inv...
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Jason Cross | Reporter 
December 27 12:20 AM
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March 27, 2005
VATICAN CITY: Though he struggled with all his might, a suffering Pope John Paul II failed to voice a traditional Easter Sunday blessing for the first...
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Thou shalt not kill!
Observer Reporter 
March 26, 2005
"We chop him, till you can't tell eye from nose or mouth. Even him tongue chop out. Everytime him get chop, him hiccup till we chop off him head clean...
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Rash of fires as drought conditions prevail
by Karyl Walker Oberver staff reporter 
March 26, 2005
As dry, windy weather conditions prevail, a number of fires have been raginging various sections of the island. Last week, huge bush fires raged in th...
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The search for answers
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter 
March 26, 2005
With murders becoming more grotesque, sociologists are seeking answers to the question: What is responsible for the island's deepening problem with vi...
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Man accused of Devon House murder remanded
Observer Reporter 
March 25, 2005
A man accused of murdering a woman on the grounds of Devon House in Kingston was remanded in custody when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident M...
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Flour Mills loses appeal
DWIGHT BELLANFANTE, Observer staff reporter 
March 23, 2005
Trade unionists yesterday hailed the landmark Privy Council ruling that the Jamaica Flour Mills must reinstate three workers it made redundant almost ...
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Silence speaks louder than words at Arab summit
AP 
March 23, 2005
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Changes are sweeping the Middle East - but you would hardly have guessed it from the annual summit of Arab leaders that closed...
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Food for the Poor sets 18 prisoners free for Easter
Observer Reporter 
March 22, 2005
FOOD for the Poor (FFP), over the past two days, has paid fines amounting to over $350,000 for 18 prisoners in time for them to spend Easter with thei...
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10-point action list to save children from violence
Observer Reporter 
March 22, 2005
THE Hear the Children's Cry Committee (HCCC) has launched a national campaign to mobilise practical support from citizens, to safeguard Jamaican child...
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MoBay 4 in Florida drug bust
Observer Reporter 
March 21, 2005
Four prominent Montego Bay men are to appear in a Broward county, Florida court today to answer to immigration and drug trafficking charges after they...
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BITU reports dispute with RIU to Dalley
Observer Reporter 
March 20, 2005
The Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) has written to the Labour Minister Horace Dalley seeking his personal intervention into a dispute between...
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Adventists to review funeral policy
Observer Reporter 
March 20, 2005
The East Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Churches, annoyed at the rowdy behaviour of mourners and flesh-exposing outfits worn to fun...
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Doctor/patient relationship
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Observer staff reporter 
March 19, 2005
The allegation that a gynaecologist raped his patient at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital have triggered concerns that the trust accorded doctors has bee...
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Keep boys in school!
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter 
March 19, 2005
TWO of Jamaica's academic minds have suggested that efforts to keep boys and young men - especially those residing in the inner-cities - in school, sh...
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Guns silent as army/police move into August Town
By Karyl Walker Observer staff reporter 
March 19, 2005
The guns of death kept silent for the second straight day in August Town yesterday, as Jamaica Defence soldiers fanned out across the main trouble spo...
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What’s in the pipeline for Falmouth?
March 19, 2005
Optimism, especially among government officials, is high regarding Trelawny's development. Should all the planned developments come to fruition, resid...
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Falmouth: prosperity on the horizon
By Olivia Leigh Campbell Observer Staff Reporter 
March 19, 2005
These days, for most people, Falmouth is either an inconvenient traffic bottleneck along the northcoast corridor between Montego Bay and Ocho Rios, or...
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Customs clerks on firearm charges remanded
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
March 18, 2005
THREE customs clerks charged with the seizure of 16 high-powered weapons at the Kingston Wharves last month, were Thursday remanded in custody when th...

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