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Stinking sore at UHWI
Hospital admits it owes $40b in taxes and backtracks on claim missing files were lost to flooding
April 15 12:20 AM
Stinking sore at UHWI
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US$15 million enough for FAST, says Holness
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US$15 million enough for FAST, says Holness
BY LYNFORD SIMPSON Observer writer 
April 15 12:18 AM
US$15 million enough for FAST, says Holness
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Loyalty or liability?
Big Wall shooting reignites entourage debate
Shereita Grizzle | Observer Staff Reporter 
April 15 12:16 AM
Loyalty or liability?
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Grange says Government better equipped to support new CPL franchise
Daniel Blake | Sports Writer | blaked@jamaicaobserver.com 
April 15 12:12 AM
Grange promises Gov’t support for Kingsmen
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Little support for petition to pay school ‘shadows’ more
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Little support for petition to pay school ‘shadows’ more
Alicia Dunkley-Willis | Senior Reporter 
April 15 12:11 AM
Little support for petition to pay school 'shadows' more
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Cash is still king
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Cash is still king
Digital push grows, but Jamaicans keep reaching for cash
April 15 12:11 AM
Cash is still king
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Big UHWI bill, no repayment plan
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Big UHWI bill, no repayment plan
Jerome Williams | Reporter 
April 15 12:09 AM
Big UHWI bill, no repayment plan
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Flood theory sinks!
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Flood theory sinks!
PAC told missing procurement files not lost to water
Jerome Williams | Reporter 
April 15 12:09 AM
Flood theory sinks!
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JTB starts promotions to support Winter ad campaign
January 7, 2002
TOP British model turned photographer, Helena Christensen, was expected to arrive in the island yesterday to do a week-long photo shoot as part of a r...
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Cops probing MoBay shooting
PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter 
January 6, 2002
WESTERN BUREAU -- The Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) has been called in to investigate the shooting death of Calvin Piggott along Orange Stree...
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West Kingston Commission resumes sittings today
Observer Reporter 
January 6, 2002
THE West Kingston Commission of Inquiry resumes its sittings at the Mutual Life Centre in Kingston this morning, following a three-week break for the ...
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Trelawny fire leaves 29 homeless
Observer Reporter 
January 6, 2002
WESTERN BUREAU -- A fire, which destroyed three houses along Wakeland Drive in Falmouth, Trelawny on Saturday afternoon, has left 29 people homeless. ...
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In-bond merchants say 2001 their worst year
DEVON EVANS, Observer correspondent 
January 6, 2002
IN-BOND merchants have described 2001 as their worst year for business in recent time. According to vice-president of the Duty Free Merchants' Associa...
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Protecting Jamaica’s sea turtles
Observer Reporter 
January 6, 2002
THE first national sea turtle survey has revealed that all species of turtle in Jamaica have suffered serious decline and that only the hawksbill stil...
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Secret club cripples UN environment talks – report
AFP 
January 6, 2002
PARIS (AFP) -- A secret club of seven wealthy countries plotted to hamstring the United Nations' first conference on the environment in 1972 to protec...
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Police Report…
January 6, 2002
Man killed in motor vehicle accident Hilaire Tate, 62, of Yallahs was killed in a motor vehicle accident at the intersection of Wharf Road and Rosemar...
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Northern New England’s prime wildlife refuge expanded
ENN 
January 6, 2002
(ENN) -- The moose, deer, loons, ospreys, bald eagles, and peregrine falcons living in and around Lake Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge will now have ...
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Man fires at dog, shot kills stepdaughter
Observer Reporter 
January 6, 2002
NEHEMIAH Folkes, 76, was being questioned yesterday by the Ocho Rios police in connection with the shooting death of his nine-year-old stepdaughter, S...
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Phillips aims to give back self-confidence to the constabulary
BYRON BUCKLEYSenior political reporter 
January 5, 2002
THERE was a time, recalls Peter Phillips, when the Jamaican police had the self-confidence to apprehend high-ranking politicians, and even Cabinet min...
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Strong pleas to rescue Caribbean Media Corporation
RICKEY SINGH 
January 5, 2002
AS directors and shareholders of the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) were preparing last evening for a crucial meeting in Barbados today, strong cal...
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Police kill wanted man
January 5, 2002
POLICE shot and killed a man they say has been wanted on two murder charges during an operation in Burnside Lane, Red Hills, St Andrew yesterday. They...
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UDC issues quit notices to Fairy Hill squatters
Observer Reporter 
January 4, 2002
THE Urban Development Corporation (UDC) has issued a notice to 32 squatters to vacate the Fairy Hill property in East Portland by February 2. The corp...
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99 per cent of J’can nurses pass regional exam
Observer Reporter 
January 4, 2002
NINETY-nine per cent of the Jamaican nurses who sat the Regional Examination for Nurse Registration in October last received passing grades, the healt...
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Dad asks for help to bury slain children and their mom
Observer Reporter 
January 4, 2002
DELROY Wilson whose daughter, Tanisha Wilson 13; step-daughter, Shakera Malcolm, seven, and their mother, Doreen James, were murdered in the 100 Lane ...
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Cornwall Court homes flooded again
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
January 4, 2002
WESTERN BUREAU -- Heavy rains lashed Montego Bay early Friday morning, leaving several homes in the Cornwall Court Housing Scheme flooded and thousand...
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JTB starts Winter advertising campaign in US Monday
Observer Reporter 
January 4, 2002
THE Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) yesterday said that its Winter advertising campaign will open in the United States next Monday on 10 major television ...
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$1.5-m renovation at Free Hill All-Age School
Observer Reporter 
January 3, 2002
ONE hundred and fifty students at the Free Hill All-Age School in St Ann are expected to benefit from a more comfortable learning environment when the...
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Three injured, cars damaged as Ghanaian goes on rampage in MoBay
CHARMAINE N CLARKE, Western Bureau editor 
January 3, 2002
MONTEGO BAY -- Ghanaian national Francis Boateng yesterday went on a bloody, knife-wielding rampage in Rosemount, St James, injuring at least three pe...
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Massacre!
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
January 3, 2002
RESIDENTS streamed out of the 100 Lane area of Red Hills Road, St Andrew yesterday in the aftermath of the early morning massacre of seven persons, in...
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Court to hear Von Cork’s appeal in Hilary term
PAT ROXBOROUGH, Observer court writer 
January 3, 2002
FORMER resident magistrate Norma Von Cork's appeal against her conviction and jail sentence will be heard during the week of January 14 when the Hilar...
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US$15 million enough for FAST, says Holness
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US$15 million enough for FAST, says Holness
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