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Portia takes baton from PJ today
Observer Reporter 
March 25, 2006
People's National Party (PNP) president P J Patterson will today make the first step in his retirement from active politics when he hands over the lea...
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US to pay foreign firm to help run nuclear detectors at Bahamas port
AP 
March 25, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) - One of Americans' favourite beach destinations, The Bahamas, is getting a new US arrival - sophisticated equipment to detect radioac...
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Two students awarded CARE scholarships
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March 25, 2006
Members of the Caribbean Educators Association (CARE) have awarded scholarships to two graduating high school seniors of Caribbean descent. The schola...
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Large congregation pays last tribute to Rastafarian patriarch, Mortimo Planno
By Basil Walters Sunday Observer Reporter 
March 25, 2006
In death, as in life, Mortimo St George Planno brought the various strands of the Rastafarian movement together, at a packed thanksgiving service reme...
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More women in Parliament, Access to Information and unattended motions
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
March 25, 2006
Government senator Trevor Munroe says that despite the fact that Jamaica was about to swear-in its first woman prime minister, he expects little chang...
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Man accused of killing St Thomas six returns to court April 12
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March 24, 2006
MICHAEL Alexander McLean, the 38 year-old St Thomas businessman who has been charged with the murder of six members of a St Thomas family last month, ...
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March 24, 2006
Gunmen kill woman, injure her two brothers GUNMEN Thursday night invaded a tenement yard in Thompson Pen, Spanish Town, St Catherine, killing Dedrie G...
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US increases Caribbean sugar quota
AP 
March 24, 2006
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - The United States Government has increased the amount of sugar it will import from several Caribbean countries, giving a boo...
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Major restoration for historic Holy Trinity Cathedral
T K WHYTE, Observer staff reporter 
March 24, 2006
THE 95 year-old Holy Trinity Cathedral in downtown Kingston is to be restored to its former glory through a project spearheaded by the National Commer...
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Six workers win appeal against loss of vacation during interdiction
Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter 
March 24, 2006
THE Court of Appeals on Wednesday overturned a Supreme Court ruling that prevented six Department of Customs workers from earning and accumulating vac...
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Breakdown in cement quality control
PATRICK FOSTER, Observer writer 
March 24, 2006
CARIB Cement admitted yesterday that a breakdown in quality control systems at the company's Rockfort plant was responsible for the delivery of more t...
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Human Rights Watch wants Nigeria to withdraw anti-gay bill
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March 24, 2006
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - An international rights group has called for Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo to withdraw a bill that would criminalise homo...
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Grange calls for sex offenders’ registry
Observer Reporter 
March 23, 2006
OPPOSITION Member of Parliament for Central St Catherine, Olivia "Babsy' Grange, has asked Minister of National Security Dr Peter Phillips to produce ...
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$15 m expenditure for Negril’s first hosting of JAPEX
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
March 23, 2006
NEGRIL, Westmoreland - Just over $15 million is being spent this year to stage the Jamaica Product Exchange (JAPEX), the island's premier hospitality ...
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Cement crisis puts hardship on 30,000 workers
Julian Richardson | Online Content Manager 
March 23, 2006
THE distribution of sub-standard cement to the construction sector by the monopoly Carib Cement and the subsequent shutdown of production at the compa...
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Cruise tragedy
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
March 23, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - One passenger died and 11 others were injured yesterday when an early morning fire damaged a section of Princess Cruise Line's...
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EU welcomes ETA ceasefire
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March 22, 2006
BRUSSELS, (AFP) - European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana yesterday welcomed the announcement of a permanent ceasefire by the armed Basque s...
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Man shot dead in Spanish Town
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March 22, 2006
DENNIS Campbell, alias 'Bling', 35, was shot dead early yesterday morning when gunmen invaded his home at 54 Bongo Lane, Windsor Road, a volatile area...
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March 22, 2006
Habibi Latino is all set to move from its current Knutsford Boulevard address to what now seems to be Kingston's venue of choice for theme restaurants...
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Horne accuses gov’t of protecting Carib Cement Company
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March 22, 2006
MANDEVILLE, Manchester - A leading player in the construction industry has accused the government of continuing to "protect" cement manufacturers Cari...
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JPS shuts down Old Harbour unit as workers stay away
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March 22, 2006
A strike by scores of workers of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS), yesterday forced the company to shut down one of its generating units at the Old Ha...
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Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
March 22, 2006
THOSE in the food industry had heard the buzz. The Jamaica Observer's event stylist of the year Ann Marie Wyss and the Caribbean's finest chef Norma S...
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