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Values and attitudes manual for secondary schools
Observer Reporter 
December 27, 2004
SECONDARY schools will soon be required to integrate a comprehensive programme of values training into the school's extra-curricula activities, starti...
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A mother battles AIDS in secret
ANN-MARGARET LIM, Observer staff reporter 
December 26, 2004
Garfield is nine today, and he has no idea that his life, like that of millions of other people around the world, has been touched by AIDS. His father...
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Car washes mushroom in Spanish Town
TK WHYTE, Observer staff reporter 
December 26, 2004
More than a dozen informal car washes have sprung up in violence-prone Spanish Town over the past six months, providing jobs for about 100 youngsters....
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Ready to ring in the new year?
MICHAEL EDWARDS, Observer writer 
December 26, 2004
Even in the midst of the Christmas season, many people are looking ahead to the year-end parties. While many will choose to keep vigils in their respe...
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Moravians celebrate 250 glorious years
BY VIVIAN TYSON Observer staff reporter 
December 25, 2004
WESTERN BUREAU - It was, of course, a much different Jamaica that the first Moravians saw when they came to establish the first Protestant church in t...
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Drowning in debt
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
December 25, 2004
.Trelawny cane farmers brace for more losses .Transport subsidy ends next yr WESTERN BUREAU - Cane farmers in Trelawny, who say they have lost million...
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Oh, for a home of my own
BY ANN-MARGARET LIM Observer staff reporter 
December 25, 2004
Oneil Johnson's holiday wish hasn't changed much over the past year. He still needs a place to live. Known as "dog boy" because he is usually surround...
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Blythe goes alone
Observer Reporter 
December 25, 2004
Forced out of the government over the Operation PRIDE scandal nearly three years ago, Karl Blythe insists that he is in the race for the presidency of...
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Case dropped against woman accused of cocaine trafficking
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
December 22, 2004
PAULETTE Higgins, the woman whose baggage tag was switched earlier this week at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston and placed on one ...
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135,000 JPS customers had suspect bills
STEVEN JACKSON, Observer staff reporter 
December 21, 2004
AT least 135,000 or 27 per cent of JPS customers received electricity bills in November that varied by as much as 80 per cent, both higher and lower, ...
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JSIF spending $24m on Portland water schemes
JIS 
December 20, 2004
THE Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) signed two contracts last Wednesday, valued at $24 million, for the rehabilitation of two water supply syste...
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Nasty crash
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
December 20, 2004
SIX people were killed and another one seriously injured early yesterday morning when a Toyota Corolla taxi slammed into a truck along the Bog Walk Go...
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Immigration officer loses bid for reinstatement
TK WHYTE, Observer staff reporter 
December 20, 2004
AN immigration officer who was booted from his job at Sangster International Airport 17 months ago, allegedly for backdating the landing stamp in two ...
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Two men electrocuted
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
December 20, 2004
WESTERN BUREAU - Two men were electrocuted in separated incidents by Jamaica Public Service (JPS) power lines on Sunday. The casualties were Marrick S...
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‘Adopt an Area’ project launched to beautify resorts
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
December 20, 2004
WESTERN BUREAU - Visiting tourists are turned off by the "unappealing appearance" of Jamaica's resort towns, according to information that has come to...
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Gov’t project aiming to decrease sand mining
JIS 
December 20, 2004
THE Mines and Geology Division, through its Sedimentary Basin Resource Assessment (SEBRA) Project, says it is working to limit and eventually eliminat...
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Some St Mary banana workers welcome redundancy
By Carl Gilchrist Observer staff reporter 
December 19, 2004
DESPITE having to face Christmas without a job, some banana workers in St Mary who were laid off Thursday by the Jamaica Producers Group have welcomed...

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