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Project delay angers McKenzie

WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie got in a fit of rage during his tour of Westmoreland on Thursday after discovering that a matron’s quarters and male ward at the Savanna-la-Mar Infirmary were still incomplete despite...

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1855

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16

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2003

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1970

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Jonathan Gibbs, minister and educator, appointed secretary of state by the Florida governor.

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Loretta Thompson Glickman

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1967

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