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...72 specialised vehicles arrive in Montego Bay
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No risk of bird flu here, says Clarke
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Observer staff reporter 
February 27, 2005
The Government says it is satisfied that its monitoring system will protect the island from the deadly bird flu virus that has killed at least 45 peop...
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PNP presents Witter to West Kingston
Observer Reporter 
February 27, 2005
The People's National Party (PNP) last night indicated that it will increase its efforts to win the West Kingston seat in the coming by-election by as...
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No respect! – Special Constables want more recognition
Charmaine Clarke | Executive Editor, Regional Correspondents Network 
February 27, 2005
IN comic description, Jamaicans call them 'blue seam police', regarding them as somehow less than the men and women of the Jamaica Constabulary Force ...
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Wichita police say BTK serial killer has been arrested
AP 
February 26, 2005
WICHITA, Kansas (AP) - Police said yesterday they have arrested a man they believe is the notorious BTK serial killer who terrorised Wichita throughou...
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Gender bias at UWI?
Vivienne Green-Evans 
February 26, 2005
Senior female staff members at the UWI's Mona campus, who appear to have played second fiddle to their male counterparts over the years, may soon get ...
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Will the real Nanny please stand up!
BY PATRICK FOSTER Observer writer 
February 26, 2005
WHEN Jamaicans ask for "a Nanny", they are expecting to receive a $500 note. But it is also confirmation of their widespread acceptance of the image o...
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A summary of the recommendations
February 26, 2005
The Dr Frederick Hickling subcommittee, which proposed the University Town Centre and the Caribbean Institute of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, al...
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CFNI, health ministry launch food safety campaign
Observer Reporter 
February 24, 2005
DR Fitzroy Henry, director of the Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute (CFNI), warned yesterday that the Caribbean was at risk of ruining its touris...
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Stolen money went into PNP campaign, says convict
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
February 24, 2005
A former regional director of the Government's Rapid Response Unit stunned the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday when he admitted t...
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Mayor warns Long Mountain developers
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
February 24, 2005
Mayor of Kingston Councillor Desmond McKenzie warned yesterday that any further development in the Long Mountain area of the capital must have the ful...
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Sports broadcaster held up on UWI hall
JULIEN NEAVES, Observer writer 
February 24, 2005
ORAL Buchanan, a sports broadcaster and student at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona campus, was held up Monday morning on Irvine Hall by a...
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American dies in fall from hotel balcony
Observer Reporter 
February 23, 2005
WESTERN BUREAU - A United States national registered as a guest at the Holiday Inn Hotel Sunspree Resort, one of Montego Bay's largest hotels, died fr...
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Police, Steer Town residents clash over accused killer
CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter 
February 23, 2005
Incensed that they were not allowed to dispense their own form of justice on an accused killer, residents of Steer Town in St Ann clashed with police ...
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Three suspects held in exotic dancer murder probe
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
February 23, 2005
WESTERN BUREAU - Up to late last night Montego Bay detectives were still interrogating three suspects in connection with Sunday night's murder of 28 y...
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FISH FARE
Michael A Edwards, Observer writer 
February 23, 2005
At the recent launch of its fish sticks product, executives of Jamaica Broilers subsidiary, Best Dressed Foods, stated openly (to no one's surprise) t...
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Fewer Jamaican women in UK prisons
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
February 23, 2005
DESPITE a drop in the number of female Jamaican drug couriers locked up in the United Kingdom, concerns are still fresh about the reintegration into s...
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Blythe breaks ranks with Gov’t on CCJ
Observer Reporter 
February 22, 2005
People's National Party vice-president Dr Karl Blythe has broken ranks with his party on the Government's desire to replace the London-based Privy Cou...
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Organic food producers forging ahead
CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter 
February 22, 2005
THE Jamaica Organic Agricultural Movement (JOAM) is forging ahead with plans to expand organic agriculture in the island, assisted by $20 million in f...
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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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