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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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Major multi-agency raids underway as part of SSL fraud probe
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KINGSTON, Jamaica – A significant coordinated law enforcement operation, involving multiple elite agencies, is currently underway across Jamaica, with...
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December 27 12:12 AM
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West Indies players fall in ICC Test rankings
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Chavez offers support for Iran’s nuclear plan
AFP 
March 11, 2005
CARACAS (AFP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered his support for Iran's nuclear development plans yesterday while attacking Washington for try...
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Illegal dog imports worry Veterinary Medical Association
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March 11, 2005
THE Jamaica Veterinary Medical Association (JVMA) says it is concerned about the illegal importation of dogs into the island, which is in contraventio...
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March 11, 2005
Doctor accused of rape picked out at ID parade THE doctor who was accused of sexually abusing a patient at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital nearly two we...
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March 11, 2005
Greenwich Town man shot dead TWENTY-EIGHT year old Errol Lodge, otherwise called "Bee Bop", of 7th Street, Greenwich Town, Kingston 13, was shot and k...
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Nurse charged with attempting to pervert course of justice
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March 10, 2005
REGISTERED nurse Janet Spence, 35, who has been charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice in relation to the February 26 incident at th...
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‘Save Jamaica’s children from savage abuse, please’
DOROTHY CAMPBELL, Observer staff reporter 
March 10, 2005
SOCIAL scientists were almost begging citizens, the government and children's agencies on Wednesday to act together to establish institutions that fun...
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Zeeks flouts bail, warned by judge to comply or be jailed
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
March 9, 2005
MATTHEWS Lane strongman Donald 'Zeeks' Phipps has been flouting his bail conditions, leading to a warning yesterday by Resident Magistrate Kissock Lai...
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KSAC puts illegal signs campaign on hold
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March 9, 2005
The Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) has placed on hold its campaign to take down illegal signs in the capital, saying that two private secto...
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Gov’t won’t bail out Dyoll, says Davies
Observer Reporter 
March 9, 2005
Finance Minister Omar Davies made clear yesterday that there would be no Government financial bail-out of the bankrupt Dyoll Insurance Company, saying...
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More released convicts turning back to crime
Arlene Martin-wilkins, Observer staff reporter 
March 9, 2005
AS much as 29 per cent of the island's convicted criminals return to a life of crime upon their release from local prisons, a trend that has been trek...
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Eight killed in two days
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March 8, 2005
EIGHT persons were killed in separate incidents on Monday and Tuesday, and this time the killings cut right across the island, pushing the year-to-dat...
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Clinton returning to hospital to remove scar tissue from heart surgery
AP 
March 8, 2005
NEW YORK (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton, who underwent quadruple bypass surgery in September, will undergo a medical procedure this week to remo...
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US praises Jamaica for making dent in drug trade
By Karyl Walker Observer staff reporter 
March 8, 2005
THE one-year-old regional counter-narcotics co-operation agreement that incorporates initiatives like Operation Kingfish, is already biting heavily in...
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Guardian contributes to resource centre for physically-challenged UWI students
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March 8, 2005
Guardian Life Limited has donated $700,000 towards a Lions Club of Mona project to construct and equip a modern resource centre for physically challen...
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Despite gains, social, economic equality still elude women
AFP 
March 8, 2005
PARIS, France (AFP) - Despite gains in women's rights and the increasing role of women in the workplace, female social and economic equality remained ...
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Riot, fire in Dominican Republic prison kills 133 inmates
AP 
March 7, 2005
HIGUEY, Dominican Republic (AP) - Rival gangs fighting to control the drug trade in a provincial Dominican prison set pillows and mattresses ablaze an...
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FSC takes over Dyoll
CAMILO THAME , Observer staff reporter 
March 7, 2005
THE Financial Services Commission (FSC) yesterday confirmed the collapse of the combined efforts by GraceKennedy and Michael Lee Chin's AIC Group to s...
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University professor tells prisoners to tell stories via Internet
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March 7, 2005
A Harvard University law professor yesterday told Jamaican prison inmates to tell their stories via the Internet, as one way of informing the world ab...
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Viewing Spanish Town on Sunday after weekend of murders
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
March 7, 2005
SPANISH Town wore the facade of normalcy on Sunday after last week's flare-up in the violence-ridden old capital, which saw seven persons being shot a...
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Frail but alert, pope reappears at hospital window to bless the faithful
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March 6, 2005
ROME (AP) - A frail Pope John Paul II reappeared yesterday at a window of the hospital treating him for his latest health crisis, giving the world its...
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March 6, 2005
Spanish Town gunshot victim dies in hospital RICHARD Clarke, 25, died in the Spanish Town Hospital on Friday after being shot by unknown assailant(s) ...
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Syrians praise their president’s decision to withdraw from Lebanon
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March 6, 2005
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Many Syrians yesterday voiced support of their president's announcement of a pullback from Lebanon, adamantly insisting that th...
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