Attorney Tova Hamilton takes her seat in the Senate

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Attorney Tova Hamilton takes her seat in the Senate

Attorney at law Tova Hamilton on Friday morning took her seat on the Government benches in the Senate after taking her oath of Allegiance in the chamber.

"It is a truth to say that Senator Hamilton will bring her own love for Jamaica, her own sensitivity to our culture; her own work ethic honed over the years and her deliberation to the debates in this House," said Leader of Government Business in the Senate Kamina Johnson Smith.

Johnson Smith also said, with Hamilton’s appointment to the Upper House, its composition of women has moved to 29 per cent.

Donna Scott Mottley, the leader of Opposition business in the Senate, also extended welcome to Hamilton.

The deadlocked Hamilton in response to her welcome thanked Prime Minister Andrew Holness for the appointment but singled out Senate President Tom Tavares Finson for his effort to get her in the Senate.

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

JHTA calls for clarification on COVID pretesting regime

Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) President Omar Robinson says there needs to be further clarification on the pretesting regime for visitors from certain American states as part of Jamaica’s COVID-19-prevention

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Soldiers on operation during which Bogle was killed, reassigned; weapons confiscated

Civil/military cooperation and media officer for the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), Major Basil Jarrett, says the JDF members who were present during the joint police-military operation in August Town, St Andrew when Susan Bogle, a disabled woman, was shot and killed last week, have been reassigned

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

I’m a Black Scholar Who Studies Race. Here’s Why I Capitalize ‘White.’

I haven’t always uppercased the ‘W’ in my own writing, but I do now

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Source: https://zora.medium.com

Caribbean destinations at odds over region’s tourism reopening

A release from the CARICOM Secretariat following the talks said the leaders recognised “the need for a common protocol for the reopening of regional airports to flights from selected third countries and the reopening of

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Other stranded J'can ship workers to know fate next week

FALMOUTH, Trelawny — Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says Prime Minister Andrew Holness is to give a timetable on Monday when other Jamaican ship workers are to be brought back

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

PM backs online transactions as way forward

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness says the Jamaican economy must now rapidly transition to online transactions, as the COVID-19 crisis has exposed the inefficiencies and riskiness of cash

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Richard Wright , (born Sept. 4, 1908, near Natchez, Miss., U.S.—died Nov. 28, 1960, Paris, France), novelist and short-story writer, who was among the first black American writers to protest white treatment of blacks, notably in his novel Native Son (1940) and his autobiography, Black Boy

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Source: Brittanica

Nigeria: Almajiri As Assets and Curses

In April 2015, barely two weeks after the presidential election when the then newly-formed All Progressives Congress (APC) was waiting to take over the reins of power following its historic electoral victory, the then outgoing governor of Kano State, Mallam Rabiu Kwankwaso, basking in the euphoria

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Source: allAfrica.com

Virgil Abloh’s Controversial Pop Smoke Cover Scrapped, 50 Cent Was Not Impressed

Source: Virgil Abloh / Instagram

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Source: The Urban Daily

Labour Day unity

Now you can read the Jamaica Observer ePaper anytime, anywhere. The Jamaica Observer ePaper is available to you at home or at work, and is the same edition as the printed copy available at http://bit.ly/epaperlive

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar , (born June 27, 1872, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.—died Feb. 9, 1906, Dayton), U.S. author whose reputation rests upon his verse and short stories written in black dialect. He was the first black writer in the U.S. to make a concerted attempt to live by his writings and one of the

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Latinos follow Black Americans in being devastated by police violence, data shows

“Of course the years of systemic racism and voicelessness are not near the same level the Black community has been forced to endure,” AL DÍA News’ Ericka Conant rightfully notes, “but the recent deaths of multiple Latinx individuals at the hands of police have reignited the call to end police

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Source: Daily Kos

Education minister appointment nothing to celebrate, says Speid

MONTEGO BAY, St James — President of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) Owen Speid says while the association welcomes the appointment of Karl Samuda as minister of education, there is nothing to

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Adventure ship workers touch soil today

After weeks of voyaging on the high seas as high-level negotiations dragged on between the Government of Jamaica and their employers, the more than 1,000 Jamaican cruise ship workers who sailed into the Falmouth Pier on Tuesday will finally set foot on local soil

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Shaggy pushes for US visas for Bounty, Beenie

On the heels of last weekend’s titanic clash between dancehall artistes Beenie Man and Bounty Killer that captured the attention of international fans, media outlets, and industry players, there is a push for the two to be reissued with United States visas to promote Jamaican music and

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Visitors from high-risk US states to pretest before arrival

Prime Minister Andrew Holness made the announcement at a virtual press conference from Jamaica House yesterday evening as the Government continues to reconfigure protocols for entry and re-entry to the island in its push to fully reopen the country in spite of the

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Usain Bolt And Kasi Bennett Welcome Baby Girl

Sprinting legend Usain Bolt and his longtime girlfriend Kasi Bennett welcomed their first child, a baby girl, on

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After long wait, J'cans stranded in C'bean to be repatriated

CARIBBEAN Airlines will, as of this weekend, be operating flights for Jamaicans stranded in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, The Bahamas, and Antigua and Barbuda, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith has

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Pavi Fort – SL helps 16 Districts in Sierra Leone to Combat COVID-19

Pavi Fort –Sierra Leone, on Friday 5th June 2020 donated a huge consignment of hand sanitizers, five thousand clinical face masks, 50 bags of rice and a cheque for ten million Leones (Le10, 000,000) to the District Emergency Operation Centre (DICOVERC) in

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

MADNESS! - Mentally ill man languishing without trial 16 years for smashing windscreen

An elderly man who is mentally ill and who was deemed unfit to plead has been locked away between jails and prison for 16 years for smashing

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Govt's NIDS funding reduced in new estimates

The Government's plans to resume efforts toward establishing a national identification for all Jamaicans suffered a serious financial setback with a significant reduction in funding in the newly tabled First Supplementary Estimates

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

‘Murder emergency’ as gangs spread wings - SOEs blanket Kingston as Gov’t vows to protect highway project from extortionists

The entire capital is now blanketed under SOEs as the Government moved to include Kingston Western and Central, pushing to 10 the total number of police divisions under emergency

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

PM ‘embarrassed’ by inhumane prison death, discloses proposal for new facility

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has revealed that the Government is now mulling a proposal for a new

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Grange announces national, parish projects for Labour Day

Culture Minister Olivia Grange has announced that the cleaning of the statues of the nation’s founding fathers — The Right Excellent Sir Alexander Bustamante and the Right Excellent Norman Manley — at St William Grant Park in downtown Kingston will be this year’s National Labour Day

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaica: Shaggy urges US visas for Beenie Man and Bounty Killer

(Jamaica Gleaner) On the heels of last weekend’s titanic clash between dancehall artistes Beenie Man and Bounty Killer that captured the attention of international fans, media outlets, and industry players, there is a push for the two to be reissued with United States visas to promote Jamaican

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Racial segregation in the United States

Racial segregation in the United States, as a general term, includes the segregation or hypersegregation of facilities, services, and opportunities such as housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation along racial lines. The expression most often refers to the legally or

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Source: ThoughtCo

PM, JLP officials pay tribute to former May Pen mayor

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness was among Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) officials who paid tribute to former mayor of May Pen Milton Brown, who died peacefully

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

(1905) Roscoe Conkling Bruce, “Freedom Through Education”

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Source: Black Past

Harriet Tubman born

*Possible* date of Harriet Tubmans birth. Born into slavery in Maryland, Tubman escaped to the North only to return in over 80 trips to help other blacks escape their bondage. As part of the Underground Railroad, Tubman helped more than 300 African Americans escape slavery.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

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Holness under tourism pressure

DAYS AFTER tourism advocates called for the Holness administration to declare a timeline for the resumption of incoming air and sea travel, Jamaica’s most powerful private-sctor lobby has added pressure for a clear road map towards a “date for a safe and sustainable

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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