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December 25 09:33 AM
VATICAN CITY, Holy See (AFP)—Pope Leo XIV on Thursday urged Russia and Ukraine to find the "courage" to hold direct talks and spoke of the dire humani...
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Latin American leaders rap EU plan to impose duty on bananas
AP 
January 26, 2005
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Presidents and representatives from seven Latin American banana-producing nations yesterday issued a written objection to a Euro...
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UN body criticises British Conservative Party refugee pledge
AP 
January 25, 2005
GENEVA (AP) - The United Nations refugee agency yesterday criticised a pledge by Britain's Conservative Party to pull out of a five-decade-old global ...
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Top cop moved to tears
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
January 25, 2005
DETECTIVE Inspector Michael Grant tried hard to hold back the tears after he was named Lasco Top Cop of the Year, during a ceremony held at the Jamaic...
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Six firemen injured, lone fire truck totalled in accident
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
January 25, 2005
WESTERN BUREAU - Six firefighters, responding to an emergency yesterday, were themselves hospitalised for injuries after their fire unit overturned on...
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Bush wants $80 billion more for Iraq, Afghan wars
AP 
January 25, 2005
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Congressional Budget Office is predicting the U.S. government will accumulate another $855 billion in deficits over the next dec...
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Income tax threshold will not be increased
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
January 24, 2005
THE government has now decided against lifting the income tax threshold and has instead instructed the minister of finance to make an Order for Remiss...
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Local objection to Sligoville sports complex
TK Whyte 
January 24, 2005
LOCAL objections have been raised against the $222 million multi-purpose sports complex to be constructed in Sligoville, St Catherine, by Spanish Town...
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Thomas can’t stop crime alone – Patterson
Observer Reporter 
January 24, 2005
Prime Minister PJ Patterson warned on Saturday that the recent change of leadership within the ranks of the Jamaica Constabulary Force would not be en...
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Top cop to be selected today
Observer Reporter 
January 24, 2005
THE sixth annual LASCO/Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Police Officer of the Year awards will be held today at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston....
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Male prostitute shot dead in Kingston
Observer Reporter 
January 24, 2005
ANTHONY Garwood, alias "He-She", a 30 year-old male prostitute of Melbourne Road, Kingston 4 and West End in Negril, Westmoreland was shot and killed ...
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Violence forces exodus from Tawes Pen
Observer Reporter 
January 24, 2005
SEVERAL frightened families, fearing that they have been marked for death, hustled out of the Tawes Pen area of Spanish Town yesterday in the face of ...
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Bus driver murdered in Hanover
BY CONROY WALKER Observer writer 
January 23, 2005
WESTERN BUREAU - The naked, bullet-riddled body of 32 year-old bus driver Christopher "Scooby Doo" Brissett was found slumped across the steering whee...
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Hughes’ Nationwide News Network attracts big investment
Vernon Davidson | Executive Editor, Publications | davidsonv@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 23, 2005
Journalist Cliff Hughes' 10-year dream of creating a news and current affairs network that produces radio and television programmes for local and over...
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Cop charged with men’s disappearance
Observer Reporter 
January 22, 2005
Corporal Lawrence Clayton, a member of the Organised Crime Investigative Division, will face two counts of assault and false imprisonment when he appe...
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Baugh not expected to ruffle feathers
Observer Reporter 
January 22, 2005
DR Ken Baugh, who replaced Edward Seaga as Opposition leader on Friday, is not expected to ruffle feathers or make any grand gestures during what is e...
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Lawmen shoot two, recover stolen car, gun in St Ann
Observer Reporter 
January 22, 2005
St Ann's Bay, St Ann - The police yesterday shot dead two men who allegedly robbed the passengers of a cab and stole the vehicle. The men were unident...
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3 killed, 6 injured in Spanish Town
BY STEVEN JACKSON Observer staff reporter 
January 22, 2005
THE police last night maintained a curfew in large swathes of Spanish Town after yesterday's killing of three persons and the injuring of six others i...
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Burke rocks PNP . again
Observer Reporter 
January 22, 2005
The ruling People's National Party was yesterday forced to call a special vote for its four vice-presidents in a fortnight's time after Paul Burke's s...
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Beenie Man offers $1-m bounty for Bogle’s killers
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
January 20, 2005
Ace dancehall deejay Beenie Man last night posted a $1-million reward for the capture of the men who killed dancehall personality, Gerald Levy, popula...

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