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Clarendon farmers association vows to develop pepper market
BY LEAON NASH Observer correspondent 
December 2, 2004
THE Upper Clarendon Farmers Association (UCFA) has started to reap financial rewards one year after it started marketing scotch bonnet pepper in Jamai...
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Garveymeade residents focus on youth employment and security
Observer Reporter 
December 2, 2004
THE Portmore community of Garveymeade is trying to raise $5 million it says it needs to build its own civic centre. Land for the project was provided ...
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Commercial spin-offs from ‘Dream’ calls at MoBay port
BY VIVIAN TYSON Observer staff reporter 
December 2, 2004
WESTERN BUREAU - Shipping interests in western Jamaica anticipate spin-off business for the local economy from the Spanish cruise ship MV Holiday Drea...
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Boy dies and girl injured in car, tractor crash
December 1, 2004
RAUL Gonzales, 17, was killed and Elise Byle, 15, was injured in a motor vehicle accident on the Sligoville main road in St Catherine yesterday evenin...
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Campion’s Festive Fare
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
December 1, 2004
Campion College teachers Melanie Green and Jean Chin, buoyed by last year's response and interest shown by students in the Christmas competition, thre...
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Shaw demands answers on contract for Whitehouse hotel
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
November 30, 2004
Opposition spokesman on finance, Audley Shaw, yesterday demanded that the finance minister tell Parliament whether a multi-million dollar contract to ...
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Hospitality sector demanding more multi-lingual skills
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
November 30, 2004
WESTERN BUREAU - The demand for multi-lingual recruits for the hospitality industry is expected to grow as the tourism sector widens its net in search...
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Regional campaign to mark World AIDS Day
CARL GILCHRIST 
November 30, 2004
THE Caribbean Family Planning Affiliation (CFPA) will launch a new AIDS awareness campaign across the region this week, using a new series of videos i...
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Police vests will stop bullets but…
BY VIVIENNE GREEN-EVANS Observer staff reporter 
November 29, 2004
SECOND Chance Body Armour, producers of the ballistic body armour worn by local police officers, on Thursday defended the quality of its product as th...
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Vulnerability index to rank small countries for disaster aid
BY ARLENE MARTIN-WILKINS Observer staff reporter 
November 29, 2004
Small island states, because of their vulnerability to natural disasters like hurricanes, should have issues like disaster mitigation factored into fu...
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739 graduate from UCC
Observer Reporter 
November 29, 2004
SEVEN hundred and thirty-nine students graduated Sunday from the University College of the Caribbean (UCC), the first batch of graduates since the ins...
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Sandals snags four more awards
Observer Reporter 
November 28, 2004
Sandals Resorts International (SRI) walked away with four of the most coveted prizes at the just-concluded 2004 Caribbean World Travel Awards and Worl...
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Another cop shot and injured
Observer Reporter 
November 28, 2004
A police constable assigned to the Mobile Reserve Division in Kingston was shot and injured Saturday night, hours after the killing of one of his coll...
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American woman faces court on drug charge today
Observer Reporter 
November 28, 2004
WESTERN BUREAU - An American woman, who lawmen say was caught with 12 pounds of ganja at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay last Friday...
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JFJ head raps gov’t
Observer Reporter 
November 28, 2004
DR Carolyn Gomes, the executive director of Jamaicans For Justice, has berated the government for what she described as attempts to silence the human ...
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Jordan’s king strips heir apparent of crownship
AP 
November 28, 2004
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Jordan's King Abdullah II stripped his half-brother and heir apparent of his title as crown prince yesterday, saying the title ha...

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