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The former Air Jamaica plane bombed in March seen here at London Heathrow in the United Kingdom on June 17, 2005.
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Former Air J plane bombed in Iran

When the Israeli Air Force reported the destruction of Iran’s presidential VIP Airbus A340-300 often dubbed ‘Iran Force One’ during a military strike in Iran in March of this year, the repercussions were felt beyond the Middle East, reaching Kingston, Jamaica. The long-range jet was once in the fleet of the now-defunct Air Jamaica. And for veteran aircraft pilot Edward Miller, who regularly captained the airplane on flights from Jamaica to London and Manchester in the United Kingdom, news of its demise hit a personal chord.

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In this file photo, residents of Bundy Lane in St Andrew play in water from a burst underground National Water Commission pipe.
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Dr Andrew Wheatley.
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Attorney-at-law Gloria Brown of Brown, Findley and Company.
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Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett (left) seated next to St Kitts and Nevis’s tourism minister, Marsha Henderson, and other leaders during the Council of Ministers meeting in Guyana on Tuesday.
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Members of the Jamaica Defence Force and Trekkers Adventures lead participants in the Sandals Foundation Island Challenge on a military-style trek through the Blue Mountain range, starting at Newcastle in St Andrew.
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Daiana Arapiuns, who is part of the Arapium Indigenous group, sits with relatives holding a box containing a donated solar-power system in the Nova Sociedade community near Santarem, Para state, Brazil, September 3.
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Students represent Jamaica at Robotics Olympics

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