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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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Gas prices down $3.06, Diesel down $3.06
December 17 03:50 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica—Motorists should see a decrease at the pumps in the price of gasoline effective Thursday, December 18, according to the latest ex-re...

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Get the political debates going now, Golding urges Commission
ERICA VIRTUE, Observer writer 
September 10, 2006
Opposition Leader Bruce Golding wants the National Debates Commission (NDC) to organise and arrange political debates more regularly, and has promised...
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PNP helps relatives of Norwood murder victims
KERIL WRIGHT, Observer staff reporter 
September 10, 2006
Montego Bay, St James - Surviving relatives of eight persons murdered this year in Norwood near Montego Bay were presented with the sum of $221,000 by...
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Nation urged to counter values of media, dons, musical icons
PAUL A REID Observer writer 
September 10, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James -The Calvary Baptist Church's Reverend Everton Jackson yesterday challenged the nation to counter the negative values he said we...
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‘I’m no wife-beater!’
Observer Reporter 
September 10, 2006
Dr Raymoth Notice who resigned as Spanish Town mayor last year, following accusations of beating his wife, Verna, is suggesting that a slow- growing t...
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Contraband danger
BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer staff reporter 
September 9, 2006
CREATIVELY smuggled inside tubes of toothpaste, bars of soap, the hemlines of clothes and even in frozen items, inmates of Jamaica's prisons and lock-...
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Crime reduction in East Kgn not by chance, says McGregor
BY OLIVIA LEIGH CAMPBELL Sunday Observer staff reporter 
September 9, 2006
DEPUTY Superintendent Steven McGregor of the Kingston Eastern division is a proud man, and he's not afraid to show it. He has good reason to be please...
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The next great Jamaican chef emerges
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
September 9, 2006
OJI Ashebre Jaja (gift bearer, artist and honoured one) recalls his Saturday afternoon forays in the kitchen: "We would, as a Rastafarian family, spen...
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Do it for the Dolphins
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer staff reporter 
September 9, 2006
Marine biologist Dayne Buddo is having a difficulty containing his excitement after sighting four bottlenose dolphins inside the Kingston Harbour. But...
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Born and raised in England, but not British
BY VAUGHN DAVIS Sunday Observer staff reporter 
September 9, 2006
At the tender age of two months, Carol Lee Soares was among the hundreds of Jamaicans who left Jamaica during the early 1960s for the seemingly greene...
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Culture’s train bound to glory – PM
BY BASIL WALTERS Sunday Observer staff reporter 
September 9, 2006
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller yesterday promised to live up to the expectations of late reggae stalwart Joseph 'Culture' Hill, who some years a...
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Remember the Sabbath day?
By Kimone Thompson and Joanna Ferguson Sunday Observer writers 
September 9, 2006
While it may be less challenging for most Sunday-worshippers, working outside of the normal 40-hour work week often poses a problem for persons worshi...
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Murders decline 26%
September 9, 2006
MURDERS dropped 26 per cent in August, continuing a seven-month trend since the start of this year that has so far seen a 22 per cent reduction in maj...
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Peart returned as Horne’s challenge fizzles
September 9, 2006
Mandeville, Manchester - Michael Peart, chairman of the ruling People's National Party's (PNP's) Region Five organisation which includes Manchester an...
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Issues of images and identity
MARCIA FORBES 
September 9, 2006
Why Worry? Access to technology is one feature of the modern state. Some argue that this often comes at a high price. Within the small and developing ...
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The tradition lives on
Desmond Allen | Executive Editor 
September 9, 2006
WITHIN a day of the publication of the last in the series of opinion survey results in the latest Stone Polls, Dr Ian Boxill's telephone was ringing o...
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NWU presidential race heats up
Observer Reporter 
September 8, 2006
National Workers Union (NWU) presidential aspirant, Danny Roberts, says that this month's election for the post will be the "most fundamental and sign...
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Unlucky Friday for Kingston gunman
Observer Reporter 
September 8, 2006
TEACHERS and students of the Holy Childhood Prep School in Kingston had to take cover yesterday as a gunman, in an attempted robbery, fired at a man w...
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BWIA to close, makes way for new regional airline
AP 
September 8, 2006
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - Caribbean airline BWIA will close and a new carrier will be established in its place with the Trinidadian government st...
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Supporters heckle, jeer as PNP aspirants debate issues
KERIL WRIGHT, Observer staff reporter 
September 8, 2006
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Supporters of the five People's National Party candidates seeking Karl Blythe's Central Westmoreland seat Thursday nigh...
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Office of the Children’s Advocate gets new staff
PETRE WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter 
September 8, 2006
CHIDREN's advocate Mary Clarke will no longer have to run to the Child Development Agency (CDA) every time she needs legal counsel on how to proceed w...

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