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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CVM cameraman says he took wrong camera to court
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
March 7, 2002
THE Sony digital video camera that CVM Television cameraman Milton Reid testified he used to tape footage at Braeton on March 14 last year and which h...
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Prosecution responds to Von Cork’s lawyers
PAT ROXBOROUGH, Observer court writer 
March 7, 2002
BRYAN Sykes, one of the DPP's top men, Wednesday began to respond to the arguments with which former Resident Magistrate Norma Von Cork's lawyers hope...
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Gov’t raids English Sports
Observer Reporter 
March 7, 2002
THE technology ministry last night confirmed that it has seized the V-SAT telecommunications system being used by English Sports, the Montego-based In...
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Health Department clears portable toilet firm
Observer Reporter 
March 7, 2002
THE Public Health Department yesterday said it found no evidence that Rentalot Equipment Limited, a company that rents portable toilets, was causing d...
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The shooting of Shane
ARLENE MARTIN, Observer staff reporter 
March 6, 2002
SHANE didn't want to go to school on Tuesday. "But we sent him because both my wife and I work out and we couldn't leave him alone," said his father, ...
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Colin Powell and the Caribbean: From CBI to TBI
RICKEY SINGH 
March 6, 2002
THE war cries of President George W Bush may be so upsetting for some that they can fall into the error of losing hope for the future prospects of our...
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CARIBBEAN ROUND-UP
RICKEY SINGH 
March 6, 2002
Six killed in Guyana road accident GEORGETOWN -- The Covent Garden community on the East Bank Demerara, south of the Guyana capital, was in mourning y...
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Negril man on the run
Observer Reporter 
March 6, 2002
WESTERN BUREAU -- Thirty-one year-old contractor, Glen Broomfield of Red Ground, Negril, is being sought by the Westmoreland police for questioning ab...
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Idling away at Negril’s veggie patch
March 6, 2002
Restaurant crawlers have had a great couple of weeks -- two new restaurants have opened in the city and over in Ocho Rios, our friends from Passage to...
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Mbeki emulates history … of the wrong kind
ELIZABETH SHUMBA 
March 6, 2002
As Zimbabwe slides into chaos, many are looking to regional powerhouse South Africa for guidance. But President Thabo Mbeki has remained stoically sil...
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Cops kill 4
T K Whyte and Philecia Campbell 
March 6, 2002
FOUR of five men who the police suspect of engaging in a robbery spree in St Mary Tuesday night, were shot dead in Worthy Park, St Catherine yesterday...
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$59 million to repair roads in central Jamaica
Observer Reporter 
March 5, 2002
TRANSPORT and works minister, Robert Pickersgill, yesterday signed a $59-million contract for the patching of 30 roads in central Jamaica. The contrac...
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CARIBBEAN ROUND-UP
RICKEY SINGH 
March 5, 2002
What region's private sector needs to do BRIDGETOWN -- The region's private sector has to strengthen its own capacity to take advantage of internation...
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Unedited footage shows filming started at daybreak
Claudienne Edwards | Writer 
March 4, 2002
UNEDITED footage captured by CVM Television cameraman Milton Reid, five minutes after he arrived at Braeton, at 4:55 am on March 14, 2001, to cover th...
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NetServ sues gov’t
Observer Reporter 
March 4, 2002
THE government yesterday revealed that it is being sued by rogue IT company NetServ Caribbean, which claimed ownership of the software used by its col...
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Dominican fugitive held here
Observer Reporter 
March 4, 2002
A Dominican fugitive, Francis Mouland, alias "Miller", listed by United States Customs as one of their 10 most wanted men and who is believed to have ...
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Fires leave 50 homeless in St James
CHARMAINE N CLARKE, Western Bureau editor 
March 4, 2002
MONTEGO BAY -- Twenty-four children were among 50 persons who lost their homes in Montego Bay and nearby communities between Friday and Monday after f...
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POLICE REPORTS
March 4, 2002
Man hit off parked motorcycle, dies Dalton Kinlocke, 32, died from injuries he received in a motor vehicle accident on the Broughton main road in Sava...
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CARIBBEAN ROUND-UP
Ricky Singh 
March 3, 2002
Former US Army general encourages Fidel Castro to release political prisoners HAVANA (AP) -- Retired US Army Gen Barry McCaffrey said yesterday he tal...
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…gets $50-m boost from CIDA
Observer Reporter 
March 3, 2002
THE Canadian Industrial Development Agency (CIDA) has pledged another J$50-m (Cdn $2-m) for the "Trees For Tomorrow" project of the Forestry Departmen...
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TPDCo stages beautification fair in ‘Ochi’ tomorrow
Observer Reporter 
March 3, 2002
THE Tourism Product and Development Company (TPDCo) will tomorrow stage a beautification fair in Ocho Rios as part of the organisation's efforts to en...
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Whylie to chair new board of Broadcasting Commission
Observer Reporter 
March 3, 2002
DWIGHT Whylie has been appointed chairman of the board of the Broadcasting Commission. The nine-member board, which was appointed recently by the gove...

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