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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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December 27 12:20 AM
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Daniel Blake | Sports Writer | blaked@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 27 12:12 AM
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Al-Jaafari chosen as Shiite’s candidate for PM
AP 
February 22, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Interim Vice-President Ibrahim al-Jaafari was chosen as his Shiite ticket's candidate for Iraq's next prime minister yesterday, a...
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Another plea for judicial review in Janice Allen case
TK WHYTE, Observer staff reporter 
February 21, 2005
THE Janice Allen murder trial of March 2004, in which the prosecution offered no evidence resulting in the acquittal of the policeman charged with her...
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Golding’s destiny
BY Erica Virtue Observer writer 
February 20, 2005
IT appeared clear yesterday that many Labourites believed that Edward Seaga would keep his word and stay away from the party's 61st annual conference....
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We’re safe! – .Protecting those tall buildings from fire
By Michael Edwards Observer writer 
February 19, 2005
MOST international fire departments define a high-rise building as one that is more than four storeys, or 75 feet in height, an elevation that most ae...
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Dyoll deal imminent; GraceKennedy, AIC to the rescue
Observer Reporter 
February 19, 2005
Michael Lee Chin's AIC Group and GraceKennedy & Company will this week announce the creation of a consortium that will inject capital in the troubled ...
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Be careful where you party!
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
February 19, 2005
ON New Year's Eve, a deadly fire raced through a crowded nightclub in Argentina, killing 170 people. Kingston Mayor Desmond McKenzie is determined tha...
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Media – the new source of sin?
BY VIVIENNE GREEN-EVANS Observer writer 
February 19, 2005
THE brisk business done by peddlers of sex toys during a recent expo in the parking lot of a popular, upscale New Kingston supermarket has spurred eve...
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Any gains from NEC vote?
Observer Reporter 
February 19, 2005
When Peter Phillips pulled in third - behind Karl Blythe and Portia Simpson Miller - among the incumbents retained as vice-presidents of the People's ...
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Fires scorch St Elizabeth
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
February 18, 2005
WESTERN BUREAU - Firefighters yesterday continued their exhausting battle to control spreading bush fires that have already inflicted millions of doll...
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EU pours $280-m into banana industry
Observer Reporter 
February 18, 2005
The European Union (EU) has approved $280 million for the resuscitation of the banana industry following the devastation caused by Hurricane Ivan last...
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Pennicook upbeat about tourism industry
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
February 18, 2005
WESTERN BUREAU - Buoyed by last year's 4.8 per cent increase in tourist arrivals and a number of tourism-related projects now under way, Tourism Direc...
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Portmore residents continue toll road protest
Observer Reporter 
February 18, 2005
Portmore residents continued to express their opposition to the conversion of the Causeway to a toll road with a three-hour peaceful demonstration in ...
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New Caricom headquarters opens in Guyana today
RICKEY SINGH, Observer Caribbean correspondent 
February 18, 2005
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - A landmark occasion in the 31-year history of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom) unfolds in Guyana today with ...
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Firefighters tackle massive bush blaze in St Elizabeth
Observer Reporter 
February 17, 2005
Up to late last night, firefighters from the Junction and Santa Cruz fire stations in St Elizabeth were battling a massive bush fire in the Woodside a...
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Fisherman loses appeal against rape sentence
Observer Reporter 
February 16, 2005
A fisherman who raped a mother and her 14 year-old daughter six years ago lost his appeal against his 20-year sentence on Tuesday. The Appeal Court, h...
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‘Radiator Man’ killed after quarrel
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
February 16, 2005
WESTERN BUREAU- A man who had a domestic dispute with another man on Tuesday night that lingered into yesterday morning, was fatally shot in front of ...
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February 16, 2005
Thousands mourn at Hariri's funeral BEIRUT: Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese mourners bid farewell to former prime minister Rafiq Hariri at a politic...
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Holness seeks help for war-torn communities
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
February 15, 2005
Opposition Jamaica Labour Party MP for West Central St Andrew, Andrew Holness has called on the Government to allocate money in the 2005/2006 budget f...
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Farmers unfazed by postponement of CSME
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
February 15, 2005
Caribbean farmers, who have been co-operating on exploiting the benefits to be offered by the proposed Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME), wil...
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‘The war is on’
JULIEN NEAVES, Observer writer 
February 15, 2005
Kingston and St Andrew Mayor Desmond McKenzie has promised a full frontal assault on companies that breach the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSA...

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