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December 29 05:08 PM
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Information has now indicated that, contrary to earlier information which suggested that Christopher Clarke died from injuries sus...
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Ladies shine at Pic-Nic Festival at UWI Mona Bowl
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December 29 03:15 PM
KINSTON, Jamaica — Style, colour and confidence were on full display as patrons turned out in their numbers for the Pic-Nic Festival, held on Saturday...
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December 29 02:51 PM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States (US) President Donald Trump said Monday the United States had hit and destroyed a docking area for all...
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Small Business Association calls for OUR and JPS to reconsider 7% bill increase
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Small Business Association calls for OUR and JPS to reconsider 7% bill increase
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Small Businesses Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) President, Garnett Reid, is appealing to the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) a...
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St Bess family gets fresh start with new home just before Christmas
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ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — After witnessing Hurricane Melissa destroy her home, leaving her family homeless for weeks, single mother Novia Russell receiv...
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Child Resiliency Programme transforms students, strengthens families in Kingston
Child Resiliency Programme transforms students, strengthens families in Kingston
December 29 02:28 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica- Ricardo Motley, a father of two from McIntyre Villa in Kingston, watched from the sidelines as his 10-year-old son performed in the...
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Racing United seek to extend lead in JPL
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December 29 02:25 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Leaders Racing United will be going after a second win this season over former champions Arnett Gardens when they meet at the Anth...
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TCL donates 100 televisions to communities in western Jamaica
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TCL donates 100 televisions to communities in western Jamaica
December 29 02:21 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica—In response to the widespread devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, global technology brand TCL has donated 100 "43” televisions ...
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G2K yet to decide on role in JLP leadership race
PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter 
July 12, 2004
WESTERN BUREAU - Generation 2000, the young professional arm of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), is undecided as to what its role will be in the campai...
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He’s a hero in our eyes
ANN-MARGARET LIM, Observer staff reporter 
July 12, 2004
Twenty year-old Yohance Johnson's father drowned when he was only five years old, so he didn't have any solid memories of the man who fathered him. Bu...
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New York G2K chapter looks promising, says Tufton
July 11, 2004
WESTERN BUREAU - Generation 2000 president Dr Christopher Tufton said that although the group missed its June deadline to launch chapters in the Unite...
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AIDS will kill 74 million workers by 2015, says ILO report
July 11, 2004
BANGKOK (AFP) - The UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO) warned yesterday that as many as 48 million workers may be killed by AIDS by 2010, an...
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Condom-dispensing machine commissioned in Mobay
BY VIVIAN TYSON Observer staff reporter 
July 11, 2004
THE first of 12 condom-dispensing machines was last Friday commissioned in Montego Bay, one of several resort areas recording high rates of HIV/AIDS i...
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Two double murders in MoBay
July 11, 2004
WESTERN BUREAU - Janice Baker, 24, and Courtney Peterkin, alias "Dragon", 33, were yesterday morning shot and killed during a party at the Urban Devel...
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Shearer was never bitter at being forced out as JLP leader
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
July 10, 2004
Clifton Stone remembers well the day the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) lost the 1972 general elections. He was campaign manager to Hugh Shearer, the then...
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Golding willing to work with trusted opposition leader
July 10, 2004
Bruce Golding is prepared to work for the time being as leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) with a trusted opposition leader, freeing him to buil...
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Former US defence lawyer urges Ja to oppose Patriot Act
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
July 10, 2004
WESTERN BUREAU - A former United States defence attorney Friday urged the Jamaican Government to oppose the US Patriot Act, saying it had severely lim...
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Caricom/Haiti relations again on tenterhooks
BY RICKEY SINGH Observer Caribbean correspondent 
July 10, 2004
New tensions emerged yesterday between the Caribbean Community and Haiti's interim government in the face of Gerard Latortue's seeming rejection of a ...
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Cuba breaks silence, confirms arrest of Colombian drug lord
July 10, 2004
HAVANA (AP) - Breaking its silence about the arrest of a major Colombian drug lord in Cuba a week ago, the government confirmed yesterday it was holdi...
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Mauritius may quit Commonwealth over Diego Garcia dispute
AP 
July 9, 2004
LONDON (AP) - The prime minister of Mauritius said yesterday that his country may quit the Commonwealth if that would help it to win the return of Die...
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Prof Shirley begins tenure as envoy to Washington
JIS 
July 9, 2004
WASHINGTON, DC, USA - Professor Gordon Shirley, former head of the Mona School of Business at the University of the West Indies, assumed office on Wed...
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Senate passes Civil Aviation Act
DWIGHT BELLANFANTE, Observer staff reporter 
July 9, 2004
THE Senate yesterday passed the Bill amending the Civil Aviation Act, which gives more powers to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) - the state agency...
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JLP spokesman says MPs should be impeached for poor performance
Observer Reporter 
July 9, 2004
JUNIOR Opposition Spokesman on Agriculture Devon McDaniel complained on Wednesday that Agriculture Minister Roger Clarke and his junior minister, Erro...
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Commotion in councils
Observer Reporter 
July 8, 2004
People's National Party councillors staged what appeared to be politically-inspired and co-ordinated walk-outs in three local government authorities y...
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No need to worry
Everton Wallace 
July 8, 2004
Maggotty, St Elizabeth - With rumours of an increase in HIV/AIDS cases in some St Elizabeth high schools, the parish's health department this week vis...
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Patterson to address lawyers’ conference in Negril today
Observer Reporter 
July 8, 2004
WESTERN BUREAU - Prime Minister P J Patterson will give a televised welcome address to a group of 80 prestigious African American judges and lawyers a...
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Westmoreland man shot dead, another injured
Observer Reporter 
July 7, 2004
WESTERN BUREAU - Armed robbers yesterday shot and killed a Westmoreland welder at a bar in the parish and made off with $11,000 in cash, some jeweller...
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Death penalty ruling pleases rights activists
Observer Reporter 
July 7, 2004
Human rights activists welcomed yesterday's decision that abolishes automatic death penalty in Jamaica, and government conceded that the ruling by the...
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Teen on sex rap
John Tavares 
July 7, 2004
Spanish Town, St Catherine - A 17 year-old boy who is accused of sexually molesting his four year-old cousin yesterday had his $25,000 station bail ex...
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Lawyers file suits on behalf of West Kgn shooting victims
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July 7, 2004
LAWSUITS were filed yesterday on behalf of the families of 20 of the 25 people who were shot during an exchange of gunfire between gunmen and members ...
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