Underqualified Jamaicans hobble workforce — Crawford
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Underqualified Jamaicans hobble workforce — Crawford
April 29 08:02 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A mere 19 per cent of Jamaicans aged 19 to 24 are enrolled in tertiary education, indicating that over 219,000 are not, according ...
JLP condemns Brown Burke for touching Parliament’s mace
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JLP condemns Brown Burke for touching Parliament’s mace
April 29 07:43 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is condemning the actions of Member of Parliament (MP) for St Andrew South Western, Angela Brown Bu...
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Crawford offers solutions to teen pregnancy problem
BY LYNFORD SIMPSON Observer writer 
April 29 12:20 AM
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Late-night turmoil in Gordon House
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Late-night turmoil in Gordon House
Speaker names, suspends Brown Burke after Opposition MP touches Parliament’s mace
Jerome Williams Observer Staff Reporter williamsj@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 29 12:19 AM
Chaos erupted in Parliament late Tuesday after Member of Parliament for St Andrew South Western Angela Brown Burke was named and suspended from the Ho...

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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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It’s now Professor Meeks
Observer Reporter 
April 18, 2003
SENIOR lecturer in the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus' department of government, Dr Brian Meeks ,has been promoted to professor in the dep...
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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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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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British, Jamaican youths discuss crime
Observer Reporter 
April 16, 2003
IN an effort to get young people interested and participating in the fight against crime, about 30 young Jamaicans on Monday met with a group of their...
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Hundreds mourn for Rev Cleveland Grant
Observer Reporter 
April 16, 2003
HUNDREDS of mourners yesterday braved afternoon showers to pay their last respects for the life of Reverend Dr Cleveland Elisha Grant at a service of ...
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Family of slain JDF Corporal still seeking answers
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
April 16, 2003
MORE than a month after Jamaica Defence Force Corporal, Douglas Lewis, was hit and killed by a Jamaica Urban Transit Corporation (JUTC) bus in the Cro...
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Homemade Easter Bun
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
April 16, 2003
Ingredients: 4 cups flour 1 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup honey (replace with sugar if you do not have any). 3 tablespoons margarine 1 egg 4 teaspoons bakin...
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Gov’t still mulling over fishermen’s compensation
Observer Reporter 
April 16, 2003
THE ministers of transportation and agriculture will meet, within the next two weeks, to continue discussions on compensation for fishermen, who late ...
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Juicy homemade buns
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
April 16, 2003
Today, Holy Thursday, will find many of us spinning around the supermarkets in search of the last Easter buns and cheese. Good Friday is, after all, t...
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Judge orders Bird to testify in civil rape case
AP 
April 16, 2003
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (AP) -- A judge ruled yesterday that Antigua and Barbuda's prime minister, Lester Bird, must testify in a civil case accusing him o...
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Canadian university to train 800 J’can principals
Observer Reporter 
April 15, 2003
THE Jamaican Government has contracted the Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to train 800 local primary and all-age schoo...
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St James man on manslaughter rap
Observer Reporter 
April 15, 2003
WESTERN BUREAU -- Kimani Rankine, 21, of Norwood in St James will appear in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court today to answer manslaughter c...
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Bite the bullet
Observer Reporter 
April 15, 2003
THE Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) yesterday told the Government to bite the bullet and reduce its size in a new drive to cut costs, an...
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Bus drivers, passengers hurt in Golden Spring crash
Observer Reporter 
April 15, 2003
A nasty accident involving two Toyota Coaster passenger buses occurred yesterday along the Golden Spring main road in St Andrew, bringing the heavy ea...
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11th traffic death in St James
Observer Reporter 
April 15, 2003
WESTERN BUREAU -- St James' death toll due to traffic accidents rose to 11 on Monday after Linval Grant died from injuries received when the car in wh...
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Slain teen remembered
INDI MCLYMONT Observer staff reporter 
April 14, 2003
EIGHTEEN-year-old Ann-Marie Allen is terrified of walking the streets by herself. According to her mother, Millicent Forbes, she has been that way sin...
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MoBay Metro to resume services after Easter
Observer Reporter 
April 14, 2003
WESTERN BUREAU -- The financially strapped Montego Bay Metro Bus Company Limited is to resume service, on a limited basis, immediately after the Easte...

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