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NBC’s Today show takes on Jamaica
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NBC’s Today show takes on Jamaica
March 25 09:36 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica—NBC’s Today show is on the sun-soaked shores of Jamaica for an unforgettable multi-day feature series with co-hosts Jenna Bush Hager...
#Champs2026: Ryan Achau learns lesson, lands 1500m gold
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#Champs2026: Ryan Achau learns lesson, lands 1500m gold
March 25 08:53 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica—After learning his lesson from his disastrous first 1500m race last year, St Jago High’s Ryan Achau produced a masterpiece of middle...

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Pressure mounts on Iraq’s PM to go
AP 
April 1, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Pressure mounted yesterday on Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari to step aside as the Shiite bloc's nominee for a second term, wit...
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New book helps unsnarl bonds, which can have hidden costs
BY LYNN O'SHAUGHNESSY Copley News Service 
April 1, 2006
IF you search Amazon.com for a book on investing in stocks, you could scroll through nearly 20,000 titles. But if you want to learn more about bonds, ...
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The three paths of great leaders
By Leahcim Semaj work@ltsemaj.com 
April 1, 2006
ONE major weakness in our culture is the manner in which we share data. This is evidenced by our limited knowledge of the winning strategies created b...
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12 appointed youth ambassadors
April 1, 2006
TWELVE young people were on Tuesday presented with instruments of office, signalling the beginning of their two-year tenure as Youth Ambassadors for J...
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When the ‘war’ is over, what will the warriors do?
BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer Reporter 
April 1, 2006
Last week when the Sunday Observer visited the 'Hot Spot' communities of Kingston where peace is prevailing after long periods of 'war', residents dec...
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Criminals have uptowners cowering
BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer Reporter 
April 1, 2006
Ironically, the fear of crime is more intense in affluent low-crime uptown St Andrew than in downtown Kingston slum communities where bloodletting is ...
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New postal code system before year end
BY LUKE DOUGLAS Sunday Observer writer 
April 1, 2006
Persons sending mail within and to Jamaica will be required to address their letters differently by the end of the year, if a new postal system promis...
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Even his critics give Patterson thumbs-up for job as MP
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
April 1, 2006
Darliston, Westmoreland - His job as prime minister meant that for the great majority in eastern Westmoreland, television presented the only realistic...
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Advisers help parents, kids learn to manage money
BY JANE CLIFFORD Copley News Service 
April 1, 2006
ONE recent morning, while her daughter was in her third-grade classroom, Perla Camarillo was in one of the school's resource rooms with other parents,...
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I am haunted by a ghost from my past, says Blythe
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
March 31, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Dr Karl Bylthe was expected to be named in the Cabinet of the new prime minister, Portia Simpson Miller, and so yesterday he c...
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Caribbean coral suffers record bleaching, death
AP 
March 31, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) - A one-two punch of bleaching from record hot water followed by disease has killed ancient and delicate coral in the biggest loss of ...
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Bus crushed by truck; driver 12 passengers escape
Garfield Myers | Observer Writer 
March 31, 2006
Mandeville, Manchester -The remains of the Toyota Hiace bus on board the flatbed of the wrecker (truck) resembled used, discarded paper - all bunched ...
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JNHT launches design competition for Shearer monument
Observer Reporter 
March 31, 2006
THE Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT) has launched a competition to design a monument in honour of Hugh Shearer, a former prime minister of Jamai...
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Patterson ends 48-year political journey in five minutes
DWIGHT BELLANFANTE, Observer staff reporter 
March 30, 2006
AT approximately 4:50 pm yesterday, Percival James Patterson handed in his letter of resignation to Governor-General Professor Kenneth Hall at a brief...
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US, Canada close door on Hamas
AFP 
March 30, 2006
GAZA CITY (AFP)- The new Palestinian government, dominated by the Islamist faction Hamas, begins its first full day in office yesterday with a resound...
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No big screen for Portia’s constituents
TYRONE S REID, Observer staff reporter 
March 30, 2006
THEY came out in their numbers to celebrate their hero - Portia Simpson Miller, the country's first woman prime minister. However, several of the scor...
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Jamaica’s children get small slice of budget, says study
TANEISHA DAVIDSON, Observer staff reporter 
March 30, 2006
ONLY 11 per cent of Jamaica's budgetary allocations between 2003 to 2006 directly benefited its children, according to a study by Dr Michael Witter, a...
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Portia targets crime
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
March 30, 2006
Portia Lucretia Simpson Miller was yesterday sworn-in as Jamaica's first woman prime minister and immediately pledged to advance human rights and indi...

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