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High achievers score $50,000 scholarships for GSAT performance
BY NADINE WILSON Sunday Observer Writer 
July 15, 2006
TWO high achievers in this year's Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) were awarded scholarship worth $50,000 each at Friday's Inaugural Guardian Life/GS...
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Hewitt remembered as a ‘ball of energy’
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July 15, 2006
THE Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity was packed with mourners and well-wishers yesterday for the funeral of entertainment personality Christine Hewi...
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Compulsory education to be re-introduced
BY LLOYD WILLIAMS Sunday Observer senior writer 
July 15, 2006
THE government is to make another attempt at implementing compulsory education, this time with punitive measures, but not initially, education and you...
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It’s a judgement call
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Sunday Observer writer 
July 15, 2006
Church leaders say they cooperate with the police in sharing information of a criminal nature, but not all the time. But spokesmen for the Roman Catho...
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Deadly carbon monoxide leak in college dorm
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July 15, 2006
SALEM, Virginia (AP) - Carbon monoxide leaked into a college dormitory early Friday, sickening more than 100 teens and adults attending summer program...
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Deportees form support network to counter discrimination
BY INGRID BROWN Sunday Observer Reporter 
July 15, 2006
STIGMATISED in a culture to which some had to re-adapt after living overseas, a group of deportees - Jamaicans ejected from foreign countries for immi...
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Tapping into the expertise of retired executives
Careeer Advisor with Merrit Henry 
July 15, 2006
Educators in higher education worldwide are becoming more aware of the need to utilise new and creative means to develop and deliver programmes to mee...
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Churches, medics, schools reporting more sex abuse cases
Luke Douglas 
July 15, 2006
THE delay in reporting the role of one of its deacons in the alleged sexual assualt of a teenaged girl notwithstanding, the police say reporting of se...
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Writing her way
BY KERIL WRIGHT Sunday Observer Reporter 
July 15, 2006
NEGRIL, Westmoreland - Paury Flowers read in measured, self-assured tones, the centre of attention in a circle of some 30 women. "My grandmother alway...
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Finding jobs an uphill battle for deportees
July 15, 2006
DEPORTEES continue to face the uphill battle of finding jobs in a country where work is scarce for even university qualified graduates. Social worker ...
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Five battle to replace Karl Blythe in Central Westmoreland
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
July 15, 2006
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - An intense political contest is on in earnest in Central Westmoreland among five People's National Party aspirants vyin...
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History takes its ‘toll’
BY SHERILLA GORDON Sunday Observer writer 
July 15, 2006
MORE than 140 years have elapsed since Jamaica last imposed a toll on travellers, a period that was characterised by civil disobedience and periodic r...
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Portmore toll road opens today
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July 14, 2006
THE Portmore leg of the Highway 2000 toll road opens today, amid a boycott call by residents of the municipality over the $60 to $200 charges for the ...
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Don’t buy uncertified citrus plants!
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July 14, 2006
SMALL farmers and householders have been warned not to purchase cheap uncertified citrus plants from unregistered producers. The warning has come from...
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Portmore toll road opens today
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July 14, 2006
THE Portmore leg of the Highway 2000 toll road opens today, amid a boycott call by residents of the municipality over the $60 to $200 charges for the ...
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‘An unfit motor vehicle can cost lives’
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July 14, 2006
FOR the average motor vehicle owner, keeping his car, bus or truck looking clean and new is a priority. However, the National Road Safety Council (NRS...
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JCC wants sex-abuse manual
T K WHYTE, Observer staff reporter 
July 14, 2006
WITH reports of sexual misbehaviour in the church gaining currency, the umbrella Jamaica Council of Churches (JCC) confirmed yesterday it had commissi...
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Portmore toll road opens today
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July 14, 2006
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Dayton Avenue church apologises
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July 13, 2006
The Dayton Avenue Church, which has been under heavy public flak for its response to the sexual assault of a schoolgirl by teenaged boys which was wit...
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Organisers, opponents of cancelled reggae concert find common ground
AP 
July 13, 2006
NEW YORK (AP) - Organisers and opponents of a reggae concert cancelled because it was to feature performers with a history of anti-gay lyrics found co...
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Tea with Nelson Mandela to be auctioned for charity
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July 13, 2006
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Former South African president Nelson Mandela is offering to have tea with the highest bidder in an Internet auction...
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Cop calls for non-violent solutions as St Elizabeth sees two more murders
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July 12, 2006
SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Police in St Elizabeth are investigating two killings on Sunday morning and Monday night which have pushed the murder tally...
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