Tourism minister launches THARP for workers affected by Hurricane Melissa
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Tourism minister launches THARP for workers affected by Hurricane Melissa
BY CARLYSIA RAMDEEN Observer Online reporter ramdeenc@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 17 06:50 PM
Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett on Tuesday officially launched the Tourism Housing Assistance Recovery Programme (THARP), an initiative aimed at p...
First female sprinter joins ‘Enhanced Games’
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First female sprinter joins ‘Enhanced Games’
December 17 06:42 PM
LAS VEGAS, United States — A 60-metre sprinter from the United States has become the first female track athlete to join the controversial Enhanced Gam...
Muschett High win double against Holland in ISSA basketball
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Muschett High win double against Holland in ISSA basketball
December 17 06:33 PM
TRELAWNY, Jamaica — Muschett High scored a double win, beating Holland High in two Under-16 games in ISSA Rural Area Zone B boys' basketball competiti...
Hunt for US college mass shooter drags into fifth day
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Hunt for US college mass shooter drags into fifth day
December 17 06:22 PM
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A manhunt for the mass shooter who opened fire in an exam room at one of America's top universities stretched into a f...
23-y-o trader charged with murder
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23-y-o trader charged with murder
December 17 04:05 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica – A 23-year-old man has been charged with murder after the stabbing death of a 35-year-old man in Penn Avenue, Kingston 11 on Decemb...
Man found not guilty of firearm charges in Supreme Court
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Man found not guilty of firearm charges in Supreme Court
December 17 03:51 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A man accused of trying to dispose of a gun while trying to evade the security forces has been freed after the presiding judge fou...

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Sign language interpreting. letting your hands do the earning
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Senior Sunday Observer reporter williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 26, 2007
TALK about making a business of your hands will prompt few people, if any, to think of sign language interpreting. But there you have it - sign langua...
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Goat shortage
May 26, 2007
THERE is a shortage of goats locally due to the continued ban on imports from the United States and Canada, according to Derrick Vermont, President of...
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Is your food always safe to eat?
May 26, 2007
Local nutritionist Lorna Edwards says some foods can be consumed up to a week after expiration; however, ingesting expired canned foods can have serio...
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City Centre cops fed up with ‘inhumane’ working conditions
BY PAUL HENRY Sunday Observer staff reporter henryp@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 26, 2007
FED UP of what he described as 'inhumane' working conditions at the City Centre Police Station in downtown Kingston, a police officer has launched a o...
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Anxiety mounts in Portland Cottage as hurricane season approaches
BY TYRONE S REID Sunday Observer staff reporter reidt@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 26, 2007
THE flood waters from Hurricane Ivan have long receded, but the nightmare continues for most Portland Cottage residents still struggling to recover fr...
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More Jamaicans heading to school up North
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Sunday Observer staff reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 26, 2007
FOUR hundred of Jamaica's brightest young minds, from a single institution, will leave the country September to begin undergraduate and postgraduate s...
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Work yet to begin on Palisadoes peninsula
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Sunday Observer staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 26, 2007
WITH only a few days remaining before the start of the 2007/08 hurricane season, work is yet to begin on the Palisadoes peninsula in Kingston, which i...
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Lambie’s RACK
May 26, 2007
Perhaps it was 'written' in the tea leaves or - more specifically - the bushes around Great Pond, Ocho Rios, where Ainsley Lambie grew up, that he wou...
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Deported cleric to preach here
by Ingrid Brown Sunday Observer staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 26, 2007
A confidante of Sheik Abdullah el-Faisal says that the Islamic cleric, who was deported from Britain on Friday after spending four years in prison for...
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Islamic community extends olive branch to el-Faisal
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer senior reporter williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 26, 2007
JAMAICA'S Muslims have made it clear they will welcome reputed hate preacher Abdullah el-Faisal into the community unless he proves himself unworthy, ...
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el-Faisal wants mom to meet wife and kids, says friend
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
May 26, 2007
POINT, St James - Merlyne Forrest can hardly wait to give her son Abdullah el-Faisal a big hug and a kiss. After all, she has not seen him since 1990;...
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Enterprising 11-year-old brings ‘toast’ to children’s home
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Sunday Observer reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 26, 2007
THE need at Marigold Children's Home for a toaster was met last Monday, thanks to the benevolence and enterprising spirit of 11-year-old Danielle Nola...
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Mom forgives son’s killer
BY PAUL HENRY Sunday Observer staff reporter henryp@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 26, 2007
ALTHOUGH still clearly pained by the brutal murder of her only son who was shot and stabbed several times then dumped in a shallow grave some 30 years...
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New Fisheries Act being drafted, says Nicholson
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
May 26, 2007
THE Chief Parliamentary Counsel is drafting a new Fisheries Act that will address fisheries governance, as well as increased fines for illegal fishing...
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Plaque erected at Jamaica’s first free village
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May 25, 2007
A plaque was Wednesday erected at Witter Park in Sligoville, St Catherine to officially recognise the efforts of freed slaves and highlight Sligoville...
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Double police killing under probe
May 25, 2007
MONTEGO BAY, St James -The Bureau of Special Investigation (BSI) has started investigations into Wednesday night's fatal shooting of a taxi operator a...
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Sport college students walk out of final exam
Patrick Foster 
May 25, 2007
APPROXIMATELY 70 final year students of the GC Foster College of Physical Education and Sport yesterday morning walked out of their final examination ...
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Boats, ganja seized in St Thomas
May 25, 2007
THE police yesterday seized two go-fast boats, a large quantity of ganja and took three persons into custody during an operation at Grants Pen, St Tho...
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450 fall to scam
BY T K WHYTE Observer correspondent editorial@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 25, 2007
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - A man on Tuesday pleaded guilty to charges of obtaining money by false pretences and breaches of private security regulat...
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Deported Islamic cleric back in Jamaica
BY INGRID BROWN Observer staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com 
May 25, 2007
JAMAICAN-BORN Islamic cleric Abdullah al-Faisal was deported to Jamaica yesterday after spending four years in a United Kingdom prison for allegedly i...

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