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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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July 30, 2006
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) - More than one million supporters of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rallied here yesterday to denounce alleged electio...
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Hope for victims of stalking
Desmond Allen | Executive Editor 
July 30, 2006
In a precedent-setting ruling, a judge has granted an injunction against a woman who stalked a well-known broadcaster for 15 years, claiming that she ...
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Mullings wants int’l audit of Jamaica-Nigeria oil transactions
Balford Henry | Observer Writer 
July 30, 2006
Clive Mullings, the Opposition spokesman on mining, energy and telecommunications, wants the government to retain an international oil consultant to a...
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Israelis kill 56 in Lebanon
AFP 
July 30, 2006
QANA, Lebanon, (AFP) - Fifty-six people were killed, many of them sleeping children, when Israeli warplanes blitzed the Lebanese village of Qana yeste...
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Knowles loses extradition appeal again
By Lloyd Williams Sunday Observer writer 
July 29, 2006
The Judicial Committee of the United Kingdom Privy Council has ordered that Samuel 'Ninety' Knowles, a Bahamian, named as a drug kingpin by the United...
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A nurse bares her soul. and her meagre earnings
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Sunday Observer staff reporter 
July 29, 2006
They are not allowed to shrink at the sight of blood, neither can they run from a frantic mother in the throes of delivery. They work endless hours, a...
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‘I’m HIV-positive but I want to have a baby’
by Ingrid Brown Sunday Observer staff reporter 
July 29, 2006
Being diagnosed with HIV has not deterred some couples from wanting to be biological parents, even with the strong likelihood of passing on the virus ...
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‘You have the wrong hotel, sir’
Observer Reporter 
July 29, 2006
Gorstew, the aggrieved partner in the controversy-hit Sandals Whitehouse Hotel project, appears willing to spare the contractor-general any of its ire...
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Golding tells gov’t to keep MPs’ salary increase
Mark Cummings | Observer Writer 
July 29, 2006
BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth - Opposition Leader Bruce Golding has said his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) members of parliament would decline an increase in...
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Peart puts stop order on Burnt Ground cemetery
BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer Reporter 
July 29, 2006
ENVIRONMENT Minister Dean Peart has ordered that work on the development of the contentious $50-million cemetery at Burnt Ground in Hanover cease, pen...
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Six dead in Montpelier tragedy
Horace Hines | Observer Writer 
July 29, 2006
MONTPELIER, St James - Six persons were killed and 11 others hospitalised, some with severe injuries, in a bloody three-vehicle collision in dense fog...
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Deacon in sex case remanded until Sept 8
Vaughn Davis, Observer staff reporter 
July 28, 2006
JAMES Rogers, 18, who is charged alongside former deacon of the Church Dayton Diamond Ridge, 46-year-old Donovan Jones, for the alleged sexual assault...
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JLP team moves into St James, Hanover
Observer Reporter 
July 28, 2006
MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) yesterday moved into the third of its five-day islandwide tour, with largely inciden...
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‘Zeeks’ back in court
Observer Reporter 
July 28, 2006
FORMER Matthews Lane strongman Donald Zeeks Phipps appeared in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court Thursday to answer to charges of abstract...
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Nurses end sick-out
Observer Reporter 
July 28, 2006
THE nation's registered nurses, who have been on a sick-out since Thursday, agreed last night to resume normal duties, starting with the 7:00 am shift...
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Flood of tributes for ‘Miss Lou’
Observer Reporter 
July 27, 2006
THE flood of tributes kept pouring in yesterday for Jamaica's cultural icon Louise Bennett-Coverly, as the reality of her death in Toronto, Canada, on...
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Cops say ‘all hell will break loose’ next week
Alicia Dunkley 
July 27, 2006
RANK and file cops have threatened to protest next week if government fails to place a "reasonable" wage and fringe benefits offer on the negotiating ...
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Walk good, Miss Lou
Observer Reporter 
July 26, 2006
BELOVED Jamaican cultural icon Louise Simone Bennett-Coverly, affectionately called 'Miss Lou', died yesterday at the Scarborough Grace Hospital in To...

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