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TEXT AND PHOTO BY MARK CUMMINGS Observer staff reporter 
February 7, 2003
WESTERN BUREAU - The administration of the Anchovy Comprehensive High School in St James will hold an emergency meeting next week to decide what actio...
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February 7, 2003
BRUSSELS (AFP) - A committee working on a proposed constitution for the European Union on Thursday released a draft that failed to make any mention of...
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February 6, 2003
JAMAICA and the Netherlands recently signed a grant agreement of 15.87 million euro (J$334.59 million) to purchase wind turbines for the Wigton Wind F...
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PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter 
February 6, 2003
WESTERN BUREAU -- Heavy rains that lashed sections of the island at the end of last month has left St James with a $76.2-million road repair bill. Mea...
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February 5, 2003
A non-profit company, to which the National Commercial Bank has already committed $15 million in equity, is to be established to spearhead the redevel...
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February 5, 2003
EX-parliamentarian Ronnie Thwaites had no written instructions or "engagement of any sort" for his law firm's controversial collection of over $10 mil...
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February 5, 2003
AN American university professor has suggested that security in the Caribbean extends beyond the confines of traditional military actions and has cite...
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February 4, 2003
WESTERN BUREAU -- St James farmer, Cecil Doeman, who was convicted on cocaine charges late last month, lost the opportunity to have his 21-month jail ...
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TK WHYTE, Observer staff reporter 
February 4, 2003
ANDREA Codlin, 5, was yesterday burnt to death when fire destroyed a three bedroom board house at a tenement yard at 26 Cedar Valley Road, a low incom...
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CLAUDIENNE EDWARDS, Observer staff reporter 
February 4, 2003
A pilot project through which Jamaican students will be able to learn courses via the Internet, was launched Monday by a North American company -- Cli...
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Indi McLymont 
February 4, 2003
Jamaica's furniture industry is bracing for what manufacturers say will be another major blow to the industry when the American retail giant, 'Rooms t...
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DAVID PAULIN, Observer writer 
February 4, 2003
DELBERT Tibbs, a former United States death row inmate, yesterday urged the Jamaican authorities to drop plans for the reintroduction of capital punis...
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February 3, 2003
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) -- Gunmen killed an off-duty police officer outside the capital yesterday, while two other people were killed over the weekend...
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February 3, 2003
HALSE HALL, Clarendon -- SIXTY-FOUR employees from the JAMALCO bauxite and alumina plant in Clarendon were recently honoured for between 10 and 35 yea...
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February 2, 2003
RESIDENTS of Payne Land, a volatile inner-city community in Kingston, will soon have easier access to justices of the peace (JPs) who are expected to ...
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February 2, 2003
OPPOSITION Leader Edward Seaga says he wants the director of public prosecutions (DPP) to make public, findings of investigations carried out into irr...
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BY BYRON BUCKLEY Senior political reporter 
February 2, 2003
THE Electoral Advisory Committee (EAC) is seeking parliamentary approval to introduce harsher penalties for electoral offences ahead of local governme...
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February 2, 2003
WESTERN BUREAU - Robert Lewis, 25, is booked to appear in the Savanna-la-Mar Resident Magistrate's Court tomorrow, to answer to a charge of murder, ar...
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February 1, 2003
Three executive members of the Patriots, the group of young professionals affiliated with the governing People's National Party (PNP), sat down with O...
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February 1, 2003
Ministers ended their pre-budget retreat at Jamaica House yesterday, but remained tight-lipped on the specifics of the strategies that the administrat...
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BY BYRON BUCKLEY Senior political reporter 
February 1, 2003
Last week's revelation by the country's senior medical health official that only one paediatric psychiatrist was working in the public health system j...
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BY CHARMAINE N CLARKE Western Bureau editor 
February 1, 2003
Montego Bay - Some mental health providers and the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) have rubbished the Government's planned closure of the Bellev...
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