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Savanna-la-Mar Hospital gets five patient monitors, supplies

PATIENT CARE at the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital in Westmoreland got a significant boost on Tuesday with a joint donation of several items from the Issa Trust Foundation and Food For The

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Massive Robert E. Lee Statue In Richmond, Va., Will Be Removed

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Source: Stories About Black History

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The publisher of the Barbados Advocate newspaper and owner of Barbados Broadcasting Service Ltd, Sir Anthony Bryan, died on Friday at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the eastern Caribbean

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Sunbelt states rush to line up hospital beds, not barstools

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida and other states across the Sunbelt are thinning out the deck chairs, turning over the bar stools and rushing to line up more hospital beds as they head into the height of the summer season amid a startling surge in confirmed cases of the

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Bond Lane wants COVID-positive residents out

MONTEGO BAY, St James — A team from the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) were up to last evening conducting house-to-house surveillance in the Bond Lane section of Norwood, St James, in the wake of confirmation of novel coronavirus cases in the

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

WHO declares Anguilla COVID-19 free

8|24 #MambaMentality

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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

New COVID pre-testing requirement for some US visitors

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced new COVID pre-testing requirements for visitors to Jamaica from high-risk US

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

One year too long - PM laments tedious delays in procurement practices

Holness was speaking on Thursday at the commissioning of a $33-million, 110-ft-long bridge spanning the Wag Water River and which links Airy Castle, Bowden Hill, and Stony Hill in the St Andrew West Rural constituency represented by Juliet

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Clansman Gang burial site found after 18-month probe

AN 18-MONTH investigation by law enforcers led to the exhumation of skeletal remains in an open field at Waterloo Lane, Spanish Town, St Catherine, on

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Black, African-American or Caribbean-American?

Indeed, the Black Lives Matter protests now rocking America and the world have opened up renewed and uncomfortable conversations about the history of privilege, racism, and the experiences and identities of Black people in

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Source: OpEdNews

Mauritius: EU Lists Country as High Risk Country for Money Laundering

Companies operating in Mauritius face a test of integrity after the European Union included the island on its revised list of high risk jurisdiction for money laundering and terror

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Source: allAfrica.com

Mauritius: Reinventing the Mauritian Economic Model

Although Mauritius has reinvented itself before, the consequences this time challenge its economic philosophy and will require vision, creativity and

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Source: allAfrica.com

#JamaicaTogether | Former principal launches storytelling YouTube channel for children

A retired educator has launched a YouTube channel dedicated to storytelling, aiming to ignite a passion for reading in young

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

External forces fuelling crime - Holness tells stakeholders that more money needed to build out security architecture

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has admitted to weaknesses in the country’s national security infrastructure as he bemoaned the lack of investment over time to build out Jamaica’s security

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

5,000 airport workers to get back jobs

TOURISM MINISTER Edmund Bartlett said that Monday’s “soft reopening” of the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay was a silver lining for workers at that gateway after a near-three-month

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

We’ve been living under COVID for years, say craft merchants

Craft vendors across the island who have been for years struggling to get a share of the multibillion-dollar tourism pie say that the current coronavirus pandemic has now robbed them of the occasional crumb they would get from the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Welfare of children concerns lecturer

Senior lecturer, researcher, and coordinator of early childhood programmes at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Dr Zoyah Kinkead Clark is expressing concern for the welfare of young children, many of whom she says might be displaced come September, given the upheaval in a number of private

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

Saharan dust warning for Jamaicans - Persons with respiratory illnesses urged to take cover

JAMAICANS PRONE to respiratory illnesses have been warned to take precautions as swathes of the country become covered with the hazy Saharan

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Liberia: Team Andy Identifies With District#13 Residents

"In these troubling times our leader, Mr. Andy Bropleh Jallah had asked me to inform residents that their welfare remains his foremost priority", said the Chairman of Team Andy, Emmanuel

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Source: allAfrica.com

Visitors to Bermuda must pay US$75 for COVID-19 tests

HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC) — Bermuda will introduce a strict COVID-19 testing regime when it opens its borders on Wednesday to international flights for the first time in more than three months — and tourists will have to help foot the

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

World reaches 400,000 virus deaths

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The confirmed global death toll from the COVID-19 virus reached at least 400,000 fatalities yesterday, a day after the Government of Brazil broke with standard public health protocols by ceasing to publish updates of the number of deaths and infections in the hard-hit South

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

Why Nintendo’s sales are skyrocketing during the global pandemic

Collaborative, multiplayer games, casually referred to as “couch-cooperative,” such as “Animal Crossing: New Horizons,” “Mario Party” and “Mario Kart” that can be played virtually with others, are making a huge comeback in the gaming world and driving Nintendo’s profits through the

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A Guide To Black-Owned Wine And Spirts For Your Summer Activities

As you prepare your bar with your favorite wine and spirits, add a few Black-owned brands to your top

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

Fighting physical and emotional scars - Man injured in 2010 West Kingston incursion accuses Office of the Public Defender of misleading him

Still suffering from a gunshot wound he said he is sure came from a shot fired by a member of the security forces during the 2010 manhunt for West Kingston strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, George Harriott has expressed, 10 years later, that he may have been misled by the Office of the Public

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Dominica calls for Commonwealth aid to help cope with COVID-19

LONDON, England (CMC) — Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Wednesday said that the Commonwealth is uniquely placed to advocate on behalf of its members, particularly small states, on issues that threaten their survival such as the novel coronavirus

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

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a famous twentieth century Haitian-American artist. He earned his reputation being part of an informal graffiti group called SAMO. He drew graffiti and wrote enigmatic epigrams in the lower east side of Manhattan known as a cultural hotbed. Later in his career he earned

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Source: Black History Resources

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Cuba thanks OPEC for support as US tightens blockade

HAVANA, Cuba (CMC) — The Government of Cuba has thanked the Organization of Petroleum Exporting countries (OPEC) for supporting the economy of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean island, even as the United States continues to tighten its restrictions against the

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

Tourists Threaten to Sue Antigua and Barbuda Over Mandatory COVID-19 Testing – The Black Chronicle

With the spread of COVID-19 causing new restrictions on air travel, many saw a small ray of hope of enjoying some summer vacations as numerous islands, including Bermuda, Barbados, Jamaica, and others resume leisure

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Source: The Black Chronicle

#JamaicaTogether | Don’t allow COVID to shake your faith in God, urges SDA head

With the fortitude of the Jamaican people being tested by the COVID-19 pandemic, Pastor Everett Brown, president of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church in Jamaica, is confident that his fellow countrymen will rebound from the crippling effects of the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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