Six men charged following storehouse heist
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Six men charged following storehouse heist
December 30 07:37 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Six men, including two taxi drivers and a 62-year-old, have been slapped with multiple offences for their alleged involvement in a...
Soldier charged with firearm offences
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Soldier charged with firearm offences
December 30 07:03 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — A member of the Jamaica Defence Force has been charged after allegedly firing shots in a public place. Charged with possession...
Forex: $159.83 to one US dollar
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Forex: $159.83 to one US dollar
December 30 06:27 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The United States (US) dollar on Tuesday, December 30, ended trading at $159.83, down nine cents, according to the Bank of Jamaica...
Campari signs partnership with Sandz; Skippa headlines Jan 1 staging
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Campari signs partnership with Sandz; Skippa headlines Jan 1 staging
BY KEVIN JACKSON Observer Writer 
December 30 05:45 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Campari has signed a year-long title partnership with popular event series Sandz Music Festival.  The collaboration comes into eff...

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Cooking: it’s a tough career
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January 20, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) - Cameron Cuisinier's dreams of a catering career led him to culinary school. Now he is unemployed and US$43,000 (euro3...
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Woman shot dead in Grant’s Pen
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Sunday Observer staff reporter 
January 20, 2007
The relative calm in the one-time war-torn Grant's Pen community in North East St Andrew was shattered on Friday when gunmen shot dead 30 year-old Elm...
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Exporters believe gov’ts envy, frustrate money-makers
BY TANEISHA LEWIS Sunday Observer staff reporter 
January 20, 2007
Several of Jamaica's leading exporters say it appears that governments envy those who are making money in the economy and do everything to frustrate t...
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Early childhood regulations to benefit all stakeholders
JIS 
January 20, 2007
CONSULTANT for the Enhancement of Basic Schools Project (EBSP) Janet Brown has said that the early childhood regulations, which comes into effect this...
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Signs that it’s time to be moving on
Copley News Service 
January 20, 2007
DO you have a hard time going to work each day? Wish you did not have to be there? People do get stuck in jobs they do not enjoy and become complacent...
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Khalil Campbell remembered for his discipline, wisdom
BY TANEISHA LEWIS Sunday Observer staff reporter 
January 20, 2007
Khalil Campbell was remembered yesterday by his family and friends as a young man who was determined, disciplined and wiser than his years. "We think ...
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Embarrassing moment for Antigua PM in India
BY RICKEY SINGH Sunday Observer Caribbean correspondent 
January 20, 2007
Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer had an embarrassing moment on arrival in India last week on a private visit that climaxed with el...
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Turning up the heat on arsonists
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
January 20, 2007
FROME, Westmoreland - In apparent desperation, the Government says it will, this week, unleash the army and the police on arsonists who are being blam...
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Think tank split over launch document
BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer 
January 20, 2007
Four researchers at the centre of a rift rocking a recently launched local think tank that goes by the name 'Taking Responsibility', have denied that ...
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Gran Bahia Principe hotel officially opens
by Carl Gilchrist Sunday Observer staff reporter 
January 20, 2007
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller yesterday opened Jamaica's newest resort, the Gran Bahia Principe at Pear Tree Bottom in Runaway Bay, St Ann, ami...
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Cooking: it’s a tough career
AP 
January 20, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) - Cameron Cuisinier's dreams of a catering career led him to culinary school. Now he is unemployed and US$43,000 (euro3...
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Clarification and Apology
January 20, 2007
On January 17, we published an article in which we made a certain statement with regards to the award of contracts by the chairman of PETCOM, Ms Barba...
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‘We come to the table with daggers drawn’
January 20, 2007
In a fiery sermon that left some squirming, others cheeering but none unmoved, Rev Karl Johnson, president of the Jamaica Council of Churches (JCC), l...
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Smith sends warning about slow pace of answering questions
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
January 20, 2007
Leader of Opposition Business in the House of Representatives, Derrick Smith, has advised the Government to increase the pace of disposing of question...
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Quakes – the earth in motion
January 20, 2007
Our Habitat looks this week at earthquakes - about which there has been some news in the media over the last two weeks. We begin with a look at what t...
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NEWS BRIEF
January 19, 2007
J'can truck driver sentenced to life in prison HOUSTON (AP) - A truck driver from Jamaica has been sentenced to life in US prison, avoiding a death se...
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We are getting in shape, Portia tells comrades
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer 
January 19, 2007
PRIME Minister Portia Simpson Miller has again put her People's National Party (PNP) on election alert and has told her comrades to get ready, as she ...

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