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JPS ups power restoration effort
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Ambassador Bernal recognised for trade negotiating skills
BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Observer staff reporter 
December 19, 2004
AMBASSADOR Richard Bernal, director-general of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM), was presented Friday with the Order of Rio Branco, ...
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JPS asks for more time – OUR wants report on 40 worst cases by Friday
BY STEVEN JACKSON Observer staff reporter 
December 19, 2004
JAMAICA Public Service Company (JPS) has asked for more time to finalise a report to regulator Office of Utilities Regulation, detailing what appears ...
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Murdoch offers US$44 million for Rockefeller apartment
AP 
December 19, 2004
NEW YORK, USA (AP) - Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire CEO of News Corp, has offered to buy a three-story penthouse for US$44 million (euro 32.8 million...
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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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Sex, loved to death in Jamaica
by Ingrid Riley 
December 18, 2004
This is my response to the Jamaican gay debate, the Human Rights Watch report, the editorials in the New York Times newspaper and the Economist magazi...
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Brazilian award for Bernal
December 17, 2004
Ambassador Richard Bernal (right), director-general of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM), receives the Order of Rio Branco, one of Br...
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eBay exec arrested after sale of teenage sex video
AP 
December 17, 2004
NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Police arrested the head of eBay's subsidiary in India in connection with the sale of pornographic videos showing teenage clas...
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When PJ became a tour guide
Observer Reporter 
December 16, 2004
For seven consecutive days ending December 3, Prime Minister P J Patterson became a tour guide of sorts as he took Peter Greenberg, regarded as the Un...
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Another wait for Councillor Benny White
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer 
December 16, 2004
THE court battle to determine the validity of the process which ousted Port Antonio mayor Alston Hunter and installed Councillor Benny White to that o...
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CCJ will broaden rights of Jamaicans, says Vasciannie
Observer Reporter 
December 15, 2004
Professor Stephen Vasciannie, a consultant in the Attorney-General's office at the Ministry of Justice, has said that the Caribbean Court of Justice (...
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St Ann woman abducted
Observer Reporter 
December 15, 2004
TWO weeks after a St Mary woman was abducted from her home and murdered, the St Ann police are reporting that another female from Runaway Bay in the p...
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400 Jamaica Producers workers to lose jobs today
Observer Reporter 
December 15, 2004
THE Jamaica Producers Group (JP) will today make the jobs of 440 workers redundant. The large banana producing company said that those to be laid off ...
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Saudi beheaded for murdering compatriot
AP 
December 14, 2004
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - A Saudi man was beheaded yesterday in southwestern Saudi Arabia for fatally shooting a compatriot, the Interior Ministry s...
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Review of sodomy laws may happen, but not for several years
PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter 
December 14, 2004
Information minister Burchell Whiteman said Monday that the sodomy laws were likely to come up for review in the future, suggesting however that years...
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Government rejects Caymanas Park bids
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
December 13, 2004
THE Government has rejected both bids for Caymanas Park, Fitz Jackson, the minister of state for finance said yesterday. Two consortiums - one teaming...
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‘Zeeks’ gets back his $9 million
December 13, 2004
ALMOST nine million dollars in local and United States currency which the police took from Donald "Zeeks" Phipps in October, was returned to him on th...

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