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Archive for July, 2009


Police make large cocaine seizure

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A STASH of cocaine with an estimated street value of US$385,000 (J$34.2m) was intercepted Thursday night, shortly after arriving in a container from Panama.

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The boxer still goes the rounds

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After flooring a few fighters in his life, it’s his turn to try and rise from the canvas.This is the current fate of a former boxer who know resides in Port Maria.

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Tailor real estate strategies for clients’ needs – Bartlett

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WESTERN BUREAU: For real estate sales to survive the current financial recession, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has advised realtors to change their marketing strategies and tailor them to suit their clients’ needs. “There is need for a different…

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‘Stop meddling’ – Montague warns Portmore councillors to stay out of enforcement matters

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Minister with responsibility for local government, Robert Montague, is demanding that councillors at the Portmore Municipal Council cease influencing enforcement officers as they carry out their duties. Montague handed down the directive after complaints …

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Coping without Windalco – Bauxite family finds other ways to survive after layoff

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Even as the harsh reality of the slowdown in bauxite production comes home to families, Jacqueline Smith, a resident of Charlemont in St Catherine, is not giving up. Smith started rearing goats in her backyard shortly before her common-law husband…

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Armadale smoke had unusual smell – supervisor

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Hortense Higgins, the supervisor who was working for the second consecutive shift on May 22, said yesterday that an unusual smell was given off by the smoke that rose from the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre on the deadly fire that left seven dead…

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Rust in peace – Ewarton businesses suffer from bauxite fallout

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These are days residents of Ewarton wished would never come.With the absence of bauxite and, more important, persons employed in the bauxite industry, businesses have slowed to a crawl. The once well-patronised business establishments are not doing anywhere…

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Wanted ex-cop among 76 deported

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Immediately after he stepped off the charter flight, which arrived with 76 deportees from the United States, Robert O’Riley Cole, a former police constable, was handcuffed by two sergeants from the Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI)…

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