French police raid house for drugs and find a Picasso
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French police raid house for drugs and find a Picasso
June 20 04:30 PM
CRETEIL, France (AFP) — A police raid looking for drugs at a house in a Paris suburb turned up a painting by Pablo Picasso, prosecutors said Saturday....
Man found dead under pear tree in Mandeville
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Man found dead under pear tree in Mandeville
June 20 02:06 PM
MANCHESTER, Jamaica— A man is believed to have fallen to his death while picking avocado pear at another person's property on Jackson Drive in Mandevi...

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Completion of North Coast Highway pushed back again
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
July 30, 2004
WESTERN BUREAU - The government yesterday announced a further half-year delay in the completion date for the 95-kilometre stretch of the North Coast H...
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Hanover development plan in six weeks
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
July 28, 2004
WESTERN BUREAU - The first draft of the development plan for the parish of Hanover should be ready within another six weeks, according to lecturer in ...
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Alleged drug don gets $129-m tax bill
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer 
July 28, 2004
GOVERNMENT tax investigators confirmed yesterday that they seized more than $2.5-million worth of furnishings from the swanky Norbrook Road townhouse ...
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Accused killers of alleged Bahamian drug lord
Observer Reporter 
July 28, 2004
Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland - A Bahamian and two Jamaicans who have been charged with the murder of alleged Bahamian-born drug lord Shawn Isaacs have...
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Two charged after four-car pile-up
Leaon Nash 
July 28, 2004
Ritches, Clarendon - Pierre Bell and Horatio Denton, the drivers of two of four cars that collided last Friday leaving four cops and two civilians inj...
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Tense calm in Spanish Town
Observer Reporter 
July 27, 2004
There was a tense calm in Spanish Town for much of Monday after Sunday's late-night fatal shooting of one man and the injuring of another. The attack ...
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Dunn’s River protest averted
Observer Reporter 
July 27, 2004
OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Craft vendors at the Dunn's River Falls and Park Attraction in Ocho Rios, St Ann yesterday called off plans to disrupt activities ...
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Murdered ex-cop’s house destroyed by fire
Observer Reporter 
July 27, 2004
THE Tivoli Court apartment of Gervan Rattray - the ex-policeman who was shot dead Saturday at the Portmore Mall in St Catherine - was yesterday destro...
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Gov’t securing country’s borders
JIS News 
July 27, 2004
THE government is taking steps to ensure that Jamaica's borders are adequately protected by upgrading the level of immigration checks at all points of...
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A beggar’s life on the streets of MoBay
Observer Reporter 
July 27, 2004
WESTERN BUREAU - Ella Reddyng and her three children have become a familiar sight on the streets of Montego Bay. The 34- year-old woman, who sometimes...
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Plans in high gear for St Ann Emancipation jubilee
JIS News 
July 27, 2004
St Ann's Bay, St Ann - Plans are in high gear for the staging of the St Ann Emancipation Jubilee 2004 at the Seville Heritage Park in St Ann's Bay. Th...
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Squatters get double blow
Observer Reporter 
July 26, 2004
SQUATTERS occupying the Causeway Fishing Village in St Catherine were yesterday served with a seven-day notice to vacate the property where they were ...
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Cambio dealer voluntarily closes 10 shops
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
July 26, 2004
WESTERN BUREAU - Founding member of the Cambio Association of Jamaica Earl Harriott confirmed yesterday that he had voluntarily surrendered his 10 Cam...
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So you want to be president
Observer Reporter 
July 26, 2004
President of the People's National Party P J Patterson has indicated that he will not lead the party into the next general elections, constitutionally...
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16 year-old up-towner fakes kidnapping
Observer Reporter 
July 26, 2004
Police say they have arrested an upper-St Andrew teenager who on Saturday faked her own kidnapping, causing the Constant Spring police to first go on ...
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Notice thwarts move to boot JLP councillor
JOHN TAVARES, Observer correspondent 
July 26, 2004
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - People's National Party councillors in the St Catherine Parish Council yesterday failed in an attempt to have the council...
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Lamy hard line on farm subsidies
AFP 
July 26, 2004
BRUSSELS (AFP) - EU top trade official Pascal Lamy claimed Monday a strong mandate to negotiate a "rebalancing" of world trade rules at crunch world t...
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A Columbus returns for real
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
July 26, 2004
Last Christmas, the Little Theatre Movement (LTM) pantomime Combolo tackled the issue of a relative of the Italian-born explorer, Christopher Columbus...
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Suspected murderer caught
Observer Reporter 
July 25, 2004
Selvin Robinson has been charged with illegal possession of a firearm and the murder of 35 year-old Phillip "Appleman" Blair, who was shot dead after ...
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6,000 health workers to be trained in telemedicine
Observer Reporter 
July 25, 2004
Six thousand of the island's health care workers will be trained over the next three years in the use of telemedicine - the delivery of medical servic...

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