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Mother and two sons shot dead in their beds
BY TYRONE REID Observer staff reporter 
October 9, 2005
A group of gunmen entered a tenement yard at 90 Hanover Street in downtown Kingston early yesterday morning and shot and killed a mother and her two y...
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60 teachers get Observer Awards
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
October 9, 2005
NEGRIL, Westmoreland - More than 60 teachers from 30 schools in western Jamaica that participated in the Jamaica Observer's Study Centre were presente...
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BY TANEISHA DAVIDSON Sunday Observer reporter 
October 9, 2005
VANNESSA Brooks has been given a new lease on life. On September 29, she received desperately needed surgery to counter her life-threatening cancer an...
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Cable talks resume today
BY PATRICK FOSTER Observer writer 
October 9, 2005
CHAIRMAN of the Association of Independent Programme Providers (AIPP), Leighton Thomas, said he had not ruled out going to court to get an injunction ...
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Tawes Pen spokesman sees ‘war’ ahead
BY LLOYD WILLIAMS Sunday Observer senior writer 
October 8, 2005
AN area spokesman for the troubled Tawes Pen community in Spanish Town, has called for the intervention of the wider Jamaican society to stem widespre...
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BY LAVERN CLARKE Sunday Observer editor 
October 8, 2005
SIX months into his assignment in Jamaica, the salary of Mark Shields, the first of five foreign police officers being recruited to transform the cons...
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Jamaican teachers making their mark in New York
BY VIVIENNE GREEN-EVANS Sunday Observer writer 
October 8, 2005
IN 2001, more than 300 Jamaican teachers were recruited by the New York City Board of Education to teach Caribbean and other minority students in some...
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Some AIDS victims deliberately infecting sex partners
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
October 8, 2005
MONTEGO Bay, St James - As the number of HIV/ AIDS cases continue to soar, health sector and social workers are now watching what they describe as a '...
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Biomedical lab boasts American, Caribbean certification
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October 8, 2005
Medical testing centres in Jamaica are not now scrutinised by the local authorities, but some facilities like the Kingston based Biomedical Caledonia ...
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Mattis family mourns daughter killed in Causeway crash
BY ARLENE MARTIN-WILKINS Sunday Observer reporter 
October 8, 2005
YESTERDAY marked the beginning of a dark journey for the Mattis family who reside on Venita Close in the community of South Boro, St Catherine. Up unt...
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Changing your career requires, planning retooling
Career Advisor With Merrit Henry 
October 8, 2005
I am presently employed, but not enjoying my job. I am not sure that I am working in an area that is of great interest to me, although it pays well. H...
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Labour Ministry picks up funeral tab for two farm workers
PARTICK FOSTER, Observer writer 
October 7, 2005
THE spouses of the two farm workers killed last week in Simcoe, Canada, on Wednesday received $100,000 each from the Ministry of Labour to cover funer...
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Police keep eye on tense Spanish Town
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October 7, 2005
SPANISH Town, the old capital, remained tense last night following Thursday night's attack on the car transporting member of parliament Olivia "Babsy"...
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Ex-Haitian police official cleared of US drug charges
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October 7, 2005
MIAMI, USA (AP) - A former senior Haitian police official was acquitted yesterday of charges that he took bribes to help Colombian drug traffickers mo...
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Vendors lose goods valued at millions of dollars in arcade blaze
Arlene Martin-wilkins, Observer staff reporter 
October 7, 2005
A massive fire yesterday razed sections of the Pearnel Charles Arcade in downtown Kingston, destroying millions of dollars of goods belonging to more ...
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Police will go into any area to hunt for criminals, says Thomas
LLOYD WILLIAMS, Senior Observer writer 
October 6, 2005
POLICE Chief Lucius Thomas insisted yesterday that the police maintained a right to go into any community to hunt for criminals. Thomas' statement at ...
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Police caution alleged Brown’s Town student gangsters
CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter 
October 6, 2005
BROWN'S TOWN, St Ann - Four grade 10 students, said to be part of a gang operating at the Brown's Town High School in St Ann, were taken in by the pol...
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MP’s car shot up
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October 6, 2005
JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) member of parliament for Central St Catherine Olivia "Babsy" Grange escaped injury last night when gunmen shot up the motor...
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The ‘god’ Vin Lawrence leaving public sector
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer 
October 6, 2005
DR Vincent Lawerence, the powerful public servant, who has been called everything including 'god' by his critics, yesterday announced his impending de...
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Cubans mark anniversary of 1976 airliner bombing with sadness, frustration
AP 
October 6, 2005
HAVANA (AP) - Cubans marking the 29th anniversary of an airliner bombing that killed 73 people expressed frustration and sadness yesterday at the fact...
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Local computer store settles case with Microsoft
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer 
October 5, 2005
A local computer outlet which was raided for allegedly selling unlicensed Microsoft products, has given an undertaking to the Supreme Court that it wo...
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Three dead, nine injured in road accident
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October 5, 2005
THREE people were killed and nine injured in a vehicular collision on Waltham Park Road, Kingston 11 yesterday morning. The dead were identified as: ....
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