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Householders get $500m for sewerage connections
PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter 
June 1, 2001
IN a bid to speed up connections to sewerage systems in the resort towns of Montego Bay, Negril and Ocho Rios, the National Water Commission has made ...
Regional, Western
$240-M housing development for Cambridge
Observer Reporter 
June 1, 2001
THE Ministry of Water and Housing on Thursday entered into a joint agreement with WAW Developers Ltd to provide a $240-M housing development in Cambri...
Regional, Western
Entertainment out west
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
May 25, 2001
Miss Jamaica World Cornwall pre-judging The pre-judging for the Miss Jamaica World Cornwall 2001, takes place tonight at the Caribbean Showplace, Iron...
Regional, Western
Civic centre could miss new deadline
PETRE WILLIAMS,Observer staff reporter 
May 25, 2001
INDICATIONS are that the $125-million Montego Bay Civic Centre will not meet its revised June 30 completion date, according to superintendent of Roads...
Regional, Western
Senior citizen’s group formed in Darliston
GERALD MILLER, Observer correspondent 
May 25, 2001
DARLISTON, Westmoreland -- Returning resident, Ivabess Crooks-Degrella, is the driving force behind a new senior citizens group being organised in thi...
Regional, Western
200 new IT jobs for MoBay
CHARMAINE N CLARKE, Observer staff reporter 
May 25, 2001
OVERDRIVE Jamaica Ltd this week expanded its operations in the Montego Bay Free Zone to include electronic publishing, which is expected to create an ...
Regional, Western
Briton fined, jailed for drugs
PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter 
May 25, 2001
WESTERN BUREAU -- British resident, Ian Williams, was not spared jail time even though he claimed that he had only attempted to export cocaine because...
Regional, Western
$10m allocated for two Hanover projects
Observer Reporter 
May 18, 2001
SEVERAL residents in Hanover have benefited from a recent $10.1 million allocation from the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, throug...
Regional, Western
ENTERTAINMENT OUT WEST
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
May 18, 2001
Hotty Hotty 2001 at Pier One tonight Pier One in Montego Bay is expected to be hot tonight as several young women from across the island try to out da...
Regional, Western
$8 million for St James flood victims
STEPHEN SHAW, Observer staff reporter 
May 18, 2001
NEARLY 600 persons whose homes and businesses were flooded on January 1 of this year, when torrential rains lashed sections of St James, are to receiv...
Regional, Western
MoBay vendors get notice again
CHARMAINE N CLARKE, Observer staff reporter 
May 18, 2001
VENDORS who illegally ply their trade along the streets of Montego Bay have until June 11 to enter into a formal arrangement to serve their customers ...
Regional, Western
MoBay Chamber, JHTA to merge secretariats
Observer Reporter 
May 11, 2001
THE offices of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and the city's chapter of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) are expected to be merge...
Regional, Western
Cash crunch continues at MoBay Marine Park
Observer Reporter 
May 11, 2001
THE Montego Bay Marine Park is likely to cut its already meagre staff, as its financial problems worsen. The Montego Bay Marine Park Trust, which mana...
Regional, Western
UDC leasing Bluefields Beach Park
Observer Reporter 
May 11, 2001
BLUEFIELDS, Westmoreland -- In keeping with its thrust to have the island's public beach parks run by the private sector, the Urban Development Corpor...
Regional, Western
Curry festival successful
GERALD MILLER, Observer corespondent 
May 4, 2001
WESTMORELAND -- The successful staging of the inaugural Westmoreland Curry Festival has left organisers ready to do a repeat performance next year. "W...
Regional, Western
Pitfour, Granville road repaired
Observer Reporter 
May 4, 2001
The roughly 4,000 residents of Pitfour and Granville in St James are set to benefit from a $1.5-M rehabilitation of Granville Drive, one of the major ...
Regional, Western
ENTERTAINMENT OUT WEST
Observer Reporter 
May 4, 2001
'Western Consciousness 2001' was great From all indications the King of Kings Promotions show, 'Western Consciousness 2001' held at the Llandilo Cultu...
Regional, Western
Shake-up in Hanover police
Petre Williams 
May 4, 2001
WESTERN BUREAU: Three senior policemen have been transferred from Hanover in a shake-up of the local police, apparently because of police chief, Franc...
Regional, Western
New basic school for Westmoreland
GERALD MILLER, Observer corespondent 
May 4, 2001
lAMBS River, Westmoreland - A basic school, with a capacity for almost 200 students, has been opened at Mount Herman in Westmoreland. Costing $5.3 mil...
Regional, Western
Man chopped, beaten to death in Hopewell
CHARMAINE N CLARKE, Observer staff reporter 
April 27, 2001
HOPEWELL Square in Hanover was the scene of a gruesome mob killing, Wednesday night, after angry residents chopped and beat an alleged thief to death....
Regional, Western
Labour Day row
PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter 
April 27, 2001
THE St James Parish Development Committee (PDC) has refused to accept responsibility for selecting and co-ordinating this year's parish Labour Day pro...

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