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  • 300 doses of swine flu vaccine sent to Guantanamo 11 Nov 2009 01:12 GMT
    ... MIAMI - The Department of Health and Human Services, not the Pentagon, shipped ... as war on terror detainees, some 2,000 Jamaican and Filipino guest workers and the children ... first. ''They get all the same quality medical care and treatment options that are provided ...

  • Gitmo select to gets first 300 swine flu vaccines 11 Nov 2009 01:52 GMT
    ... The Department of Health and Human Services, not the Pentagon, shipped ... as war on terror detainees, some 2,000 Jamaican and Filipino guest workers and the children ... first. ``They get all the same quality medical care and treatment options that are provided ...

  • Positive attitudes help two visually impaired triathletes race on 11 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
    ... else." Scheidies suffers from a hereditary eye disease called macular degeneration. His condition worsened in ... on his bike during a triathlon in Jamaica, will compete despite an injured hip. "I ...

  • On Ft. Hood, Media and Elites Refuse to Deal with Reality ' Again 11 Nov 2009 01:53 GMT
    ... train from Manhattan to Hicksville, N.Y., a Jamaican immigrant named Colin Ferguson pulled a gun ... still does not take protecting soldiers’ mental health as seriously as it does training them ...

  • D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad executed 11 Nov 2009 05:34 GMT
    ... he was going to die. He and Jamaican immigrant Lee Boyd Malvo, then 17, killed ... then injected with a series of lethal drugs beginning at 9:06 p.m., and he was ...

  • D.C. sniper executed by lethal injection (Today) 11 Nov 2009 06:13 GMT
    ... going to die. Mr. Muhammad and his Jamaican immigrant partner, Lee Boyd Malvo, then 17, ... then injected with a series of lethal drugs beginning at 9:06 p.m., and he was ...

  • Virginia executes D.C. sniper who killed 10 11 Nov 2009 06:30 GMT
    ... he was going to die. He and Jamaican immigrant Lee Boyd Malvo, then 17, killed ... table. He was injected with the lethal drugs beginning at 8:06 p.m. and pronounced dead ...

  • Serve burgers, fries at Guantánamo 11 Nov 2009 06:30 GMT
    ... would open up a now-vacant white stucco health clinic, establish small cooking areas to let ... their guards, as well as hundreds of Jamaican and Filipino guest workers. ``This restaurant has ...

  • Continued bloodletting distresses doctors 10 Nov 2009 09:09 GMT
    ... By INGRID BROWN Observer senior reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com A medical doctor working in one of the island's ... severe pressure on an already overburdened public health sector. Dr Dane Miller, junior surgical resident ...

  • Doctors in pain 10 Nov 2009 09:09 GMT
    ... improvise By INGRID BROWN Observer senior reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com Public sector doctors yesterday highlighted extremely difficult ... Miller public relations officer of the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA). Dr Shane Alexis (right), ... on," he stressed. He argued that while health care has been made free, infrastructure and ...

  • Staff shortages affecting efficiency, say doctors 10 Nov 2009 09:09 GMT
    ... Doctors in the public health sector have very little choice but to ... extremely long hours due a shortage of medical practitioners that is being driven by a ... to Dr Shane Alexis, president of the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA). "The numbers that ...

  • Doctors oppose shift system 10 Nov 2009 09:09 GMT
    ... MEMBERS of the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA) have voiced strong opposition ... shift system currently being contemplated by the health ministry to cut costs. If the ministry ...

  • Reggae legend Yellowman returns after 20 years 10 Nov 2009 11:53 GMT
    ... missed with a unique opportunity to see Jamaica's original dancehall superstar Yellowman in his first ... also underwent major surgery to battle skin cancer that, in 1983, had doctors predicting he ...

  • Speech Debelle interview 10 Nov 2009 12:50 GMT
    ... Girl she explores the subject of her Jamaican-born father, who left when she was seven ... living in a permanent winter. There were drug addicts everywhere, little kids with black eyes. ...

  • Macmillan heiress to wed Groucho Club barman 10 Nov 2009 00:30 GMT
    ... the vast Pearson publishing fortune, who married Jamaican Tube driver's son Palma Taylor in 1988. ... college for 17- to 25-year-olds affected by HIV in Durban, South Africa. Adds Karen. 'It's amazing ...


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