Capleton returns to Best of the Best in Miami
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Capleton returns to Best of the Best in Miami
BY KEVIN JACKSON Observer Writer 
April 15 02:35 PM
The annual Best of the Best Music Festival, which is held in Miami, has announced its lineup for this year’s staging. Scheduled to be held on Sunday, ...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Motorists should see a decrease at the pumps in the price of gasoline effective Thursday, April 16, according to the latest ex-ref...
Lawyer opposes adjournment in murder trial of six cops
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BY JASON CROSS Observer staff reporter crossj@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 15 02:06 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Attorney-at-law Hugh Wildman strongly opposed an application by prosecutor Kathy-Ann Pyke for a judge to grant a short break in th...
Teenager kills nine, wounds 13 in Turkey school shooting
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Teenager kills nine, wounds 13 in Turkey school shooting
April 15 12:52 PM
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP)—A 14-year-old armed with five guns opened fire at a Turkish school on Wednesday, killing nine people, wounding 13 and sparking ...

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Suicide bomber kills 15 in Tel Aviv
AFP 
May 7, 2002
RISHON LETSION Israel, (AFP) - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded pool hall outside Tel Aviv yesterday, killing at least 15 other people, s...
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JTA welcomes plan to increase teachers’ pay
INDI MCLYMONT Observer staff reporter 
May 7, 2002
THE Jamaica Teachers Association (JTA) on Monday welcomed Prime Minister PJ Patterson's announcement last weekend that teachers would benefit from the...
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May 6, 2002
Man drowns in Rio Minho MARLON Scott, 24, drowned in the Rio Minho River at Mullet Hall district, Clarendon on Sunday. Scott, a chauffeur, resided at ...
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Small hotels struggling to stay open
Charmaine Clarke | Executive Editor, Regional Correspondents Network 
May 6, 2002
MONTEGO BAY -- Some small property owners across the island are worried that they may be forced to close their doors, at least temporarily, although t...
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Police to interrogate warders in prison blast
T K WHYTE, Observer staff reporter 
May 6, 2002
POLICE investigating Saturday's explosion at the General Penitentiary in downtown Kingston say they are likely to question warders about possible invo...
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Cabinet approves new NHDC board
Observer Reporter 
May 6, 2002
CABINET yesterday approved a new board for the National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC), following the appointment of Norman McDonald as chairm...
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7 boys arrested
Vernon Davidson | Executive Editor, Publications | davidsonv@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 6, 2002
SEVEN male students of the Frome Technical High School in Westmoreland were yesterday arrested by the police after fierce fighting between students an...
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World welcomes Le Pen’s defeat
AFP 
May 5, 2002
PARIS, France (AFP) -- World leaders breathed a collective sigh of relief yesterday as Jacques Chirac trounced extreme right-winger Jean-Marie Le Pen ...
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NDTC dancer dies in car crash
INDI MCLYMONT Observer staff reporter 
May 5, 2002
ANDREA Lloyd, a 26 year-old lawyer and member of Jamaica's world renown National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC), died in a three-car accident in Kingsto...
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Little expected from PM’s code of conduct
BYRON BUCKLEY, Senior political reporter 
May 4, 2002
HIS government battered by allegations of mismanagement and rampant corruption, Prime Minister P J Patterson last week unveiled a code of conduct by w...
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Coconut Board to strengthen replanting programmes
INDI MCLYMONT Observer staff reporter 
May 4, 2002
THE Coconut Industry Board (CIB) yesterday announced a new programme to plant about 40,000 coconut seedlings yearly in non-traditional coconut growing...
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Dooleys sentenced for son’s murder
May 4, 2002
Canadian Press (Toronto) -- The stepmother of Randal Dooley -- the fatal victim of one of the most horrific child abuse cases in Canadian history -- m...
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…Man dies, three injured in Little London
DALTON LAING, Observer correspondent 
May 3, 2002
LITTLE LONDON, Westmoreland -- A motor vehicle accident involving two motor cars along Top Road in Little London, Westmoreland yesterday left one man ...
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Minister, fishermen fail to reach agreement
Observer Reporter 
May 2, 2002
WESTERN BUREAU: Two meetings on Wednesday with Horace Dalley, the environment minister, and the Whitehouse Fishermen Co-operative, failed to resolve a...
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Gunpowder residue found on four of seven youth
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
May 2, 2002
MARCIA Dunbar, the government forensic expert who analysed swabs taken from the back and palm of the right and left hands of the seven youths killed b...
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AIDS education campaign for St Ann
Observer Reporter 
May 2, 2002
DISCOVERY BAY, St Ann -- The Kaiser Jamaica Bauxite Company in Discovery Bay, St Ann in collaboration with the Ocho Rios region of the Jamaica Informa...
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No deadline for students’ loans
Observer Reporter 
May 2, 2002
SEVERAL students entering colleges and universities in September and others continuing their studies, who failed to meet the April 30 deadline for stu...
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Alzheimer’s’ cruel double blow
INDI MCLYMONT Observer staff reporter 
May 2, 2002
BEVERLY Morrison had always tried to keep her father at home. There were times, though, when he would elude her and wander onto the streets. Tuesday, ...
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Esmie Jones trial delayed again
PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter 
May 1, 2002
WESTERN BUREAU -- The case against failed pyramid scheme operator, Esmie Jones, was hit with another delay yesterday after prosecution lawyers appeare...
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Broilers donates former HQ to EOJ for election centre
T K WHYTE, Observer staff reporter 
May 1, 2002
THE Jamaica Broilers Group yesterday made its former corporate headquarters on Hope Road in Kingston available, free of cost, to the Electoral Office ...

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