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...72 specialised vehicles arrive in Montego Bay
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S Africa state TV rapped for showing beheading video
AFP 
September 23, 2004
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - South Africa's state broadcaster SABC came under investigation by a media commission yesterday for airing footage of the beheadin...
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Seven accused of looting during hurricane remanded
Observer Reporter 
September 22, 2004
Seven men whom police allegedly caught looting several Kingston-based businesses during Hurricane Ivan, were remanded in custody when they appeared in...
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Royal Martini Night this evening at Devon House
Observer writer 
September 22, 2004
Three companies, headed by some of Jamaica's well-known young entrepreneurs - Jaimie Stewart of Royal Plantation, Nicky Feanny of Rum Roast and Royals...
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$1b for building society borrowers
Observer Reporter 
September 22, 2004
THE National Housing Trust (NHT) yesterday announced that it will make available $1 billion for building societies to on-lend, at preferential interes...
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Second American beheaded in two days
AFP 
September 21, 2004
DUBAI (AFP) - A group linked to suspected Al-Qaeda operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi claimed yesterday night to have beheaded a US hostage in Iraq, the ...
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CAC to begin prosecuting price gougers
Arlene Martin-wilkins, Observer staff reporter 
September 21, 2004
THE Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) yesterday said it will, in the coming weeks, begin prosecuting merchants who have hiked the prices of goods and ...
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Farmers getting $200 m to help start up production
Observer Reporter 
September 21, 2004
PRIME Minister P J Patterson yesterday announced that the government will be making $200 million available immediately to farmers to facilitate the st...
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Gause to give daily reports on August Town shooting
By Karyl Walker Observer staff reporter 
September 20, 2004
IT has become all too familiar. Two people are dead; gunned down, neighbours say, by the security forces who were in their community to protect them. ...
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Stolen motor vehicle ring smashed
September 20, 2004
By Vivian Tyson Observer staff reporter WESTERN BUREAU - The recently-formed St James Crime Unit has smashed a stolen motor vehicle ring that stretche...
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Two men shot dead in St James
September 19, 2004
WESTERN BUREAU - Two men - 22 year-old John Forrest of a Rose Heights address and 36 year-old Cory Wynter of Felicity, Glendevon - died in St James Sa...
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Truly, the rain falls on the just and the unjust
September 18, 2004
Hurricane Ivan dramatically bore out the biblical saying "the rain falls on the just and the unjust", as the damage to churches in Manchester and Clar...
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Negril hoteliers rebuilding,
Vernon Davidson | Executive Editor, Publications | davidsonv@jamaicaobserver.com 
September 18, 2004
The fever-pitched reconstruction work taking place in Negril a week after this tourist resort on Jamaica's northwest coast was battered by Hurricane I...
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Bauxite/alumina sector optimistic
September 18, 2004
Jamaica's bauxite/alumina industry is pushing to get its production back to maximum levels after Hurricane Ivan, which caused plants to close for seve...
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McMillan to ensure fair distribution of relief
Observer Reporter 
September 17, 2004
FORMER police chief Col Trevor MacMillan was yesterday tagged by the private sector as their man on the board of the Office of National Reconstruction...
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Minister says half of blocked roads cleared
Observer Reporter 
September 17, 2004
TRANSPORT and works minister Robert Pickersgill says the National Works Agency (NWA) has cleared approximately 50 per cent of the roads that were bloc...
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POLICE REPORTS
September 17, 2004
Man stabbed to death at Portmore Mall DERRON KING, 21, was attacked and stabbed to death by a man armed with a knife at the Portmore Mall in St Cather...
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‘Hurricane Ivan is my 9/11’
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer 
September 16, 2004
Tatty Reid is an unlucky senior citizen. Within the space of three days, when Hurricane Ivan struck, she was washed out of three places where she soug...
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Jamaica Broilers says chicken supply adequate
Observer Reporter 
September 16, 2004
JAMAICA Broilers - the island's largest chicken processors - says its Best Dressed Chicken Processing Plant at Spring Village, St Catherine has approx...

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