Horror injury overshadows Canada’s first World Cup win
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Horror injury overshadows Canada’s first World Cup win
June 18 07:28 PM
VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) — Canada thrashed nine-man Qatar 6-0 to clinch their first ever World Cup victory on Thursday in a Group B match marred by a h...
Cuba unveils historic package of free-market reforms
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Cuba unveils historic package of free-market reforms
June 18 06:40 PM
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Cuba on Thursday unveiled nearly 200 historic free-market reforms aimed at rescuing the communist island from a severe crisis agg...
Duckie assumes head coach role at Waterhouse
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Duckie assumes head coach role at Waterhouse
June 18 05:32 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica  — Top coach Donovan Duckie has taken over the reins at Waterhouse FC, following the sudden resignation of Argentine Javier Aintein....
Morgan eyes World U20 slot
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Morgan eyes World U20 slot
June 18 05:06 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Edwin Allen High’s Joel Morgan ran an easy 1:54.25 to lead the qualifiers for the finals of the Under-20 boys 800m on Thursday’s o...

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Green Expo 2002 in June
Observer Reporter 
March 17, 2002
GREE Expo 2002, organised by the Jamaica Conservation Development Trust, will be staged from June 7-9 at the Chinese Benevolent Centre, in Kingston un...
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POLICE REPORTS
March 17, 2002
Fire destroys house in Patrick Town, crops in Beacon Fire on Saturday destroyed a six-bedroom house at Patrick Town, Manchester and crops in Beacon di...
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Mugabe thumbs nose at West, vows to speed up land reform
AFP 
March 17, 2002
HARARE, (AFP) -- Zimbabwe's re-elected president, Robert Mugabe, took the oath of office yesterday, vowing to accelerate land reforms while exulting t...
Environment, News
NHD environmental competition to focus on eco-tourism
Observer Reporter 
March 17, 2002
ECO-TOURISM will be the central focus of the Natural History Division of the Institute of Jamaica environmental competition for schools, which will co...
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Across Jamaica
March 17, 2002
St Thomas tax collectorates rake in $6 million MORANT BAY -- The Port Morant and Morant Bay tax collectorates in St Thomas collected more than $6 mill...
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American fraud, money laundering suspect captured
March 16, 2002
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) -- Authorities have captured an American man accused of running telemarketing schemes that bilked costumers in the United St...
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Most Wanted
March 16, 2002
Police specially assigned to track and bring them in describe Andem as a mercenary who "will kill you anywhere, anytime, once the cash is right". "He ...
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CARIBBEAN ROUND-UP
RICKEY SINGH 
March 15, 2002
FBI probing Bajans' overseas money BRIDGETOWN -- The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have under investigation a number of Barbadia...
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Cop said shooting lasted five minutes
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
March 15, 2002
SERGEANT Fitzroy Davis, a police driver assigned to the Crime Management Unit (CMU), whose jeep took one of the seven Braeton youth killed by the poli...
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Demoted cop loses appeal
Observer Reporter 
March 14, 2002
JOHN Luke Davies' demotion from police inspector to sergeant is to remain in effect, the local appellate court ruled on Wednesday. Davies, who joined ...
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CARIBBEAN ROUND-UP
RICKEY SINGH 
March 13, 2002
Push for CCJ follows Privy Council ruling KINGSTON -- Strong criticisms have come from a number of Caribbean countries for the latest ruling by the Pr...
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Opposition, business reject new streetlight cess plan
Observer Reporter 
March 13, 2002
THE government yesterday proposed to credit the planned payments under the controversial streetlight levy to people's property tax, but the offer was ...
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Cop says first round of gunshots sounded like handguns
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
March 13, 2002
CONSTABLE Everton Roberts, of the Crime Management Unit (CMU), told yesterday's sitting of the coroner's inquest hearing the fatal shooting of seven y...
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Seafood never looked this good
March 13, 2002
Mankind has from biblical days sought the treasures of the sea. Some of the crustaceans finds are regarded as proven aphrodisiacs while fish is possib...
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The auditor-general’s report on the Intec Fund
Observer writer 
March 13, 2002
Today we conclude a two-part series on the auditor-general's report on the Intec Fund. The first part, carried on Page 5 of yesterday's Observer, look...
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JLP ready to promote street protest
Observer Reporter 
March 12, 2002
THE Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) yesterday said it was prepared to mount a street protest in Kingston against the proposed streetlight cess and labelled...
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CARIBBEAN ROUND-UP
March 12, 2002
Guyana AG 'disturbed' over prison problem GEORGETOWN -- The Attorney-General of Guyana, Doodnauth Singh, has said he was also very much "disturbed" by...
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Jamaican appointed Lauderdale Lakes police chief
Observer Reporter 
March 11, 2002
MIAMI -- Andrew Smalling, a Jamaican, has been appointed Chief of the Broward Sheriff Office in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida. Smalling, who took up his n...

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