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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March 3, 2002
TPDCo hosts beautification fair in Ocho Rios OCHO RIOS, St Ann -- The Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) will be hosting a beautification fai...
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Caution
March 2, 2002
THE National Works Agency is advising motorists and pedestrians using the Rock River Bridge between Frankfield and Grantham in North Clarendon to proc...
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Election race tightensJ LP just ahead
March 2, 2002
THE ruling People's National Party (PNP) made a marginal (0.8 per cent) gain in voter support in the February Observer/Stone poll, but not enough to c...
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Aristotle Marr pleads guilty
March 2, 2002
JAMAICAN, Aristotle Marr pleaded guilty in a Seattle court on Friday to six felony charges arising from a bank robbery, but his family still maintains...
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Cases against company directors drag on
NICOLA RAMANAND Observer staff reporter 
March 2, 2002
LITTLE progress has been made in bringing the directors and managers of the five financial institutions implicated in the financial meltdown of the mi...
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Woman shot and killed
March 2, 2002
A lone gunman shot and killed a woman at St Joseph road in Kingston 13 Friday night. The police have identified the woman as Kazzeta Orane, a 24 year-...
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286 killed in India’s Hindu-Muslim feud
AFP 
March 1, 2002
AHMEDABAD, India, (AFP) -- A new wave of Hindu-Muslim blood-letting yesterday pushed the death toll to 286 in western India, as troops patrolled Gujar...
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Training of election day workers starts March 11
Observer Reporter 
March 1, 2002
THE Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) said the training of election day recruits will begin on Monday, March 11. Public information officer at the EOJ...
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Have you seen any of these men?
Observer Reporter 
March 1, 2002
THE following men have been placed on the police most wanted list: Alexander Hutton, 35, otherwise called "Chris" of Eight Miles, Bull Bay, St Andrew....
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Training of election day workers starts March 11
Observer Reporter 
March 1, 2002
THE Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) said the training of election day recruits will begin on Monday, March 11. Public information officer at the EOJ...
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Sitel provides 200 more jobs for MoBay
CHARMAINE N CLARKE, Western Bureau editor 
February 28, 2002
MONTEGO BAY -- Sitel Caribbean, a customer service-based call centre, has hired another 200 people at its Montego Bay Freezone facility, bringing its ...
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Riu’s budget rates give JHTA cause for concern
CHARMAINE N CLARKE, Western Bureau editor 
February 26, 2002
MONTEGO BAY -- Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) president, Josef Forstmayr, has expressed concern about the impact the bargain basement ra...
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Sad end to a teen’s short, miserable life
CAROLINE TURRIFF, Observer reporter 
February 26, 2002
WHEN the body of 14 year-old Monique Tamara Gray was discovered naked, raped and strangled, it was, her friends say, an inevitable end to her short, m...
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Cops have suspect in teen’s grisly murder
Observer Reporter 
February 26, 2002
THE police have the alias of the man they say is the prime suspect in the brutal rape and murder of 14 year-old Monique Tamara Gray, but say he has go...
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Police Reports
February 26, 2002
Cocaine seized in Nightingale Grove raid, three arrested THREE people were arrested Sunday for breaches of the Dangerous Drugs Act at Cedar Drive, Nig...
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CARIBBEAN ROUND-UP
Ricky Singh 
February 26, 2002
PNM-UNC meeting again but eyes are on new poll PORT-OF-SPAIN -- Another meeting has been scheduled for today between the People's National Movement of...
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Double murder in Duhaney Park
Observer Reporter 
February 25, 2002
A young couple was gunned down and a man shot and injured on Wordsworth Avenue in Duhaney Park late Sunday night in what some residents said is a fres...
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More trouble on JPSCo site
PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter 
February 25, 2002
WESTERN BUREAU -- One week after work resumed on the Jamaica Public Service Company's (JPSCo's) $126-million expansion project at Bogue, workers again...
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Majority say Seaga should go
Observer Stone Reporter 
February 24, 2002
THE majority of voters -- six of every 10 -- would like to see the back of Edward Seaga and someone else at the helm of the Opposition Jamaica Labour ...
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Prince Philip visits Earth House
Observer Reporter 
February 24, 2002
FOUNDED in 1991, the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) arose out of the need to foster greater environment awareness among the Jamaican public and to sp...
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Manufacturers go East
Observer Reporter 
February 24, 2002
THE Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) is gearing up to "green" the industry, implementing environmental management systems (EMS) and other simi...

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