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$203m for rural road repairs
THREE CONTRACTS valued at $203-million were yesterday signed by the Government and private contractors to begin repairing some of the badly scoured roads in rural Jamaica.

'Do whatever possible'
LUCEA'S MAYOR, Councillor Lloyd Hill is calling on the Ministry of Transport and Works "to do whatever possible" to have work resume on the troubled Northern Coastal Highway project which was shut down by the Korean firm, Bosung Engineering in late April.

Take Our Word, Contrary the problem
CONTRARY: A reader who listens avidly to Mr. Perkins' programme on radio has sent me the following note:

JP summoned to explain false document
SENIOR RESIDENT Magistrate Glen Brown on Tuesday ordered an immigration officer to summon a Justice of the Peace to court to explain his role in the procurement of a false passport for a deportee named Omar Lewis.

More gunplay in Mountain View
ANOTHER VIOLENT confrontation between members of the security forces and gunmen in the Mountain View Avenue area of eastern Kingston Tuesday night has left one dead and two injured, including a 19-year-old police constable.














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