JPL top four clashes fizzle
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JPL top four clashes fizzle
April 6 06:44 AM
The fireworks expected from the clashes involving the top four teams in the Jamaica Premier League fizzled as both games ended in draws on Sunday. Lea...
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...but PCOA again voices discontent with continued overcrowding at lock-ups
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY WILLIS Senior reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 6 12:30 AM
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TAX CHEATS WARNED
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MoBay Chamber president chides tax dodgers over ‘hustling’ mentality
BY HORACE HINES Observer writer 
April 6 12:28 AM
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‘JACDEN hasn’t broken any law’
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‘JACDEN hasn’t broken any law’
…but Golding says Gordon to step aside from PAC and shadow cabinet with immediate effect
April 6 12:26 AM
‘JACDEN hasn’t broken any law’
Ganja? Or hemp?
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Ganja? Or hemp?
Forensics lab can now test THC percentage in cannabis
BY JASON CROSS Observer staff reporter crossj@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 6 12:24 AM
Ganja? Or hemp?

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Ja Broilers sales rep faces 31 counts of fraud
April 27, 2003
ST CATHERINE -- A 39 year-old Jamaica Boilers sales representative, who is accused of defrauding the company of $1.5 million, was offered bail in the ...
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Slow response to tourism resource centre
By Carl Gilchrist Observer staff reporter 
April 27, 2003
OCHO RIOS, St Ann -- The experimental Small Tourism Enterprise Project (STEP) Resource Centre, geared specifically at assisting small property operato...
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Flat bridge divers get equipment
April 27, 2003
ST CATHERINE -- Two divers who have saved many motor vehicle accident victims from drowning in the waters under the Flat Bridge were on Friday present...
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Sharon Hay-Webster holds key post in ACP-EU Assembly
BY EARL MOMAM Observer writer 
April 27, 2003
SHARON Hay Webster, government backbencher in the House of Representatives, has been elected co-rapporteur on trade in the Standing Committee on Econo...
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Jamaican-born Marine killed in Iraq hailed as hero
By Carl Gilchrist Observer staff reporter 
April 26, 2003
CORPORAL Bernard Brent Gooden, the Jamaican-born US Marine who was killed in combat in Iraq earlier on April 4, was buried with full military honours ...
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CARIBBEAN ROUND-UP
RICKEY SINGH 
April 24, 2003
'Too little recording of Caribbean history'--Ramphal ST JOHN'S--Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Sir Shridath Ramphal, thinks that the...
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Lock down Bellevue
CARL GILCHRIST, Observer staff reporter 
April 24, 2003
OCHO RIOS, St Ann -- Psychiatrist at the Port Antonio and Annotto Bay hospitals, Dr Terrence Bernard, has backed Government's plan to close the doors ...
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Curried crab and dumplings
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
April 23, 2003
Ingredients: 6 medium crabs, cleaned and washed 2 pkts Maggi Tastemakers Season-Up all purpose 2 tsps. Garlic, minced 4 leaves Shadon beni/cilantro, m...
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Phipps close to concluding JTB New York probe
Observer Reporter 
April 22, 2003
CRIMINAL lawyer Frank Phipps is close to concluding his probe of a Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) report into the alleged fraud and mismanagement at its ...
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Westmoreland man called from house and shot
DALTON LAING, Observer correspondent 
April 22, 2003
NAMPRIEL DISTRICT, Westmoreland -- For 12 year-old Dermain Campbell, Easter Monday will always be the day he found his father's lifeless body, in a po...
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2,000-gallon MoBay oil spill mopped up
BY STACYANN GABBIDON Observer staff reporter 
April 21, 2003
WESTERN BUREAU -- Sunday night's 2,000-gallon oil spill in Reading, St James, has been mopped up without any major environmental damage, officials rep...
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Police blotters
April 21, 2003
Hotel owner arrested for allegedly killing guest An altercation between a Westmoreland hotel owner and one of his guests, Sunday morning, left the gue...
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MOU signed for Port Antonio water, drainage project
Everard Owen Observer Writer editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 20, 2003
PORT ANTONIO, Portland -- Jamaica and the European Investment Bank last Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a water, sewerage and...
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Cops seize two guns Saturday
April 20, 2003
POLICE in St Elizabeth and Kingston recovered two 9mm pistols on Saturday and have held four persons in connection with both seizures. The incident in...
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Second man charged with Burrell, Eldridge murders
April 20, 2003
POLICE have arrested and charged a second man with the 1999 murder of Taj Burrell, son of Jamaica Football Federation president, Horace Burrell, and h...
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Private sector sees pluses and minuses in budget
Observer Reporter 
April 19, 2003
Omar Davies' budget presentation drew pluses and minuses from the private sector, including a strong warning that consumers would face an eight per ce...
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Healing herb
Sunday Observer reporter 
April 19, 2003
CANNABIS, the third most popular recreational drug after alcohol and tobacco, could win new role as the aspirin of the 21st century, with growing evid...
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$13.8b tax package gets mixed reactions
Observer Reporter 
April 19, 2003
Omar Davies' budget presentation drew pluses and minuses from the private sector, including a strong warning that consumers would face an eight per ce...
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Sav police crack $30-m car stealing ring
DALTON LAING, Observer correspondent 
April 18, 2003
THE Savanna-la-Mar CIB has cracked what they believe to be a $30-million car stealing ring which snatched 15 high-end vehicles from three parishes acr...
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Two more cops on corruption charges
Observer Reporter 
April 18, 2003
TWO more police officers have been charged for breaches of the Corruption Act, bringing to 10, the number of lawmen hauled before the courts since the...

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