Police seize illegal firearm in St Elizabeth operation
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Police seize illegal firearm in St Elizabeth operation
December 28 02:09 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The St Elizabeth Police have recovered another prohibited weapon during an operation in the parish. According to the police, a tea...
Three former SSL directors slapped with multiple charges
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Three former SSL directors slapped with multiple charges
December 28 01:01 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Multiple charges have been laid against three former directors of the collapsed Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL). The three are...
Curfew extended in sections of Red Hills Road
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Curfew extended in sections of Red Hills Road
December 28 11:57 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica   — The 48-hour curfew imposed in sections of Park Lane and 100 Lane, Red Hills Road, Kingston 19, has been extended. The curfew wil...

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JPSCo’s long-term loans not guaranteed by Mirant, says OUR
Observer Reporter 
July 15, 2003
THE Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) says that the local light and power company, the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPSCo) would not be affected...
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Mayhem continues
OLIVIA CAMPBELL, Observer staff reporter 
July 14, 2003
CRIMINALS continued to rain terror in the Mountain View Avenue area of the city yesterday, shooting to death an old woman and her 21 year-old grandson...
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2 cops among 6 held in suspected drug operation
Observer Reporter 
July 14, 2003
TWO police officers, who were among six suspects detained yesterday in connection with the suspected drug plane seized on Sunday at the Tinson Pen aer...
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Monsterrat volcano erupts
July 13, 2003
OLVESTON, Montserrat (AP) -- Montserrat's volcano spewed thick clouds of ash into the air yesterday, delaying flights across the Caribbean and plungin...
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Mayor Donaldson to revive development committees
BY STACYANN GABBIDON Observer staff reporter 
July 13, 2003
WESTERN BUREAU ú New mayor of Montego Bay, Noel Donaldson says he will be pushing to revive the defunct Parish Development Committees (PDCs), as these...
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Christian woman, young man shot dead
BY OLIVIA CAMPBELL Observer staff reporter 
July 12, 2003
TWO people were yesterday shot dead in a fresh outbreak of violence in the troubled Mountain View Avenue area of the capital. The brazen murders of Ma...
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Tony readies to rejoice
BY Pat Roxborough-Wright Observer writer 
July 12, 2003
THE Judicial Committee of the United Kingdom Privy Council will tomorrow publish a judgement that will bring the curtain down on the libel lawsuit pop...
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US$20-million in electricity theft last year
BY TONY LOWRIE Observer staff reporter 
July 12, 2003
THE Jamaica Public Service Company (JPSCo), the monopoly light and power company, lost US$20 million to electricity thieves last year, and much of tha...
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New rules for hospitals
Observer Reporter 
July 11, 2003
THE health ministry yesterday ordered the use of death cards for medical records and mandatory identification bracelets for all in-patients as part of...
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Women’s Centre trains peer counsellors
OBSERVER CORRESPONDENT 
July 11, 2003
THE Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation is now conducting a workshop aimed at training teens to become peer counsellors in primary and high schools. ...
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Portland jerk festival for July 20
Observer Reporter 
July 11, 2003
PORT ANTONIO, Portland -- Plans are well-advanced for the fourth staging of the Portland Jerk Festival, scheduled to be held on Sunday, July 20, at th...
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U-Drive president cites links in gov’t initiatives
TONY LOWRIE, Observer staff reporter 
July 11, 2003
MICHAEL Campbell, president of the Jamaica U-Drive Association (JUDA, has highlighted three recent government initiatives, which he says will give the...
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Today is World Population Day
Observer Reporter 
July 10, 2003
TODAY is World Population Day, and is being observed under the theme "Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights". To observe the day locall...
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Accused rapist killed
CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter 
July 10, 2003
JUNO PEN, St Mary -- Damion White, a badly mauled accused rapist/killer, who the police had to spirit out of the Annotto Bay Hospital Wednesday night ...
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Queen honours five Jamaicans
Observer Reporter 
July 10, 2003
FIVE Jamaicans have been included on the Queen's birthday honours list, published last month. They are, William "Bill" Morris, trade unionist; Geoff P...
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Shake-up at St George’s College
STEVEN JACKSON, Observer staff reporter 
July 10, 2003
TWO vice-principals at St George's College in Kingston have been asked to resign, effective Monday, in an administrative shake-up at the 153 year-old ...
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Special sitting for Janice Allen case
OBSERVER CORRESPONDENT 
July 9, 2003
THE court case for 13 year-old Janice Allen, who was fatally shot by a police constable three years ago, will be heard at a special sitting of the Por...
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NEWS BRIEFS
July 9, 2003
Storm watch lifted TROPICAL Storm Claudette veered further away from Jamaica yesterday, sparing the island the expected side-swiping from its roaring ...
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PPCA to send cop-beating complaint to DPP
Observer Reporter 
July 8, 2003
WESTERN BUREAU -- The Police Public Complaints Authority (PPCA) said yesterday that it will ask the director of public prosecutions (DPP) to rule on w...
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Nicholson blasts Amnesty
Observer Reporter 
July 8, 2003
MINISTER of Justice and Attorney-General AJ Nicholson yesterday sharply rejected calls, from Amnesty International, for a second inquiry into the July...
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Hartley Bobby Jones is dead
Observer Reporter 
July 7, 2003
HARTLEY "Bobby" Jones, the former People's National Party (PNP) member of parliament who in the early 1990s gave up his South St Andrew seat to Financ...

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