Skills Revolution Needed To Underwrite Future Caribbean Growth: OP-ED Column

Black People, PTSD and COVID-19 | Dallas Weekly

Data reveals that Black people are over four times more likely to die from COVID-19 than white people in England and Wales and that even after adjusting for age, socioeconomic conditions and prior health, the figures show that Black people remain twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than white

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UWI professor urges regional leaders to proceed cautiously

So if you take the countries, United States, Spain, the UK, France, China — these are the countries that are the largest tourism destinations in the world, and these are also the countries that have had the highest rates of

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Holder hails ‘smooth’ safety protocols

MANCHESTER, England, CMC – West Indies captain Jason Holder has praised the England and Wales Cricket Board for the safety protocols implemented for the upcoming Test series, saying yesterday the Caribbean side felt “safe” after arriving here for the historic

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Risk of early reopening of int’l borders

An acknowledgement by Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett, on Thursday, makes as clear as crystal the reason behind the Government’s conviction that now is the time to reopen the country’s borders to international

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Some small-island economies could collapse under the weight of COVID-19 - Mottley

One of the Caribbean’s most experienced politicians, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, has raised the grim spectre that some small-island developing states – numbered among which are several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries – could simply collapse under what might become the

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Eleven Years in the U.S. Navy: The Strange Saga of Robert Shorter

In the account below historian Lorraine McConaghy uses the story of black sailor Robert Shorter to indicate that while the Civil War freed nearly four million slaves, it also set in motion the status decline of antebellum African American

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Earth Today | Build back blue, green and better

Jamaican and Caribbean businesses must strive to ‘build back blue, build back green, build back better’, following the blow dealt to the global economy by

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Forde, George Patrick Alphonse (1882-1967)

George Patrick Alphonse Forde was an important physician in early 20th century Houston, Texas. Forde was born in Barbados in September 1882. Educated in the Caribbean, Forde first became aware of the possibility of a medical profession while he worked in a Panama Canal

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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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National Negro Convention Movement (1831-1864)

After more than a decade of organized abolition among northern free blacks, a group of prominent free African American men organized the National Negro Convention Movement. The convention movement among northern free blacks symbolized the growth of a black activist network by the mid-nineteenth

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HOT 97, WBLS, and Food Bank for New York City Fundraiser Donates Over 225,000 Meals to Those in Need

As a result, the number of people turning to the Food Bank For New York City’s emergency food network has increased by

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Windies ambitious but ‘staying in the present’, says Holder

MANCHESTER, England, CMC – Captain Jason Holder said yesterday West Indies would not be relying on their recent success against England for motivation, stressing the importance of the need to “stay in the present” for the three-Test series here next

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Britain’s culture war and the Caribbean

In events eerily reminiscent of other turning points in history from South Africa to Eastern Europe, a group of protestors pulled down a statue of Edward Colston, a seventeenth century slaver and city benefactor, and threw him into the

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Youth councillors create exam study website

The Junior Council of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation has engineered a website that has already begun providing high-school students with study material in the lead-up to external

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Meet The Black Beauty Influencers Picked For The 2020 #SephoraSquad

"I love to inspire the women who follow me by sharing all about skincare, hair, makeup and my love for Christ," she Kendle

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Source: Black Women's Lifestyle Guide, Black Love & Beauty Trends - Essence

Not all black people are African American. Here's the difference.

Black Lives Matter protests have opened up conversations about the history of privilege, racism, and the lived experiences and identities of black people in

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UN Agency says coronavirus presents opportunity to fix remittance systems | New York Carib News

ROME, CMC – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) says that the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is both a challenge and an opportunity to fix the remittance systems in the Caribbean and other

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Source: The New York Carib News

African Heritage

All Caribbean stories are known as Ananse stories even if Ananse does not appear in them. Ananse is the god of joke and trickery from the Ashanti peoples of Ghana. He was the unseen passenger on the slave ships and played a very important function in keeping the dispossed Africans connected to the

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CARICOM mourns passing of Miles Stoby

The Caribbean region is mourning the death of one of its most highly respected international public servants, Mr Miles Stoby, who retired from the United Nations Secretariat after decades of service, most of it in the area of economic and social

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Mary Alison McLean eulogised by former colleagues

It’s literally difficult to fit the size six shoes of her former boss, but chief executive officer of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), Rosalee Gage-Grey, yesterday vowed to continue Mary Alison McLean’s vision to help realise a Jamaica fit for

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Famous Examples of Early Interracial Marriage

The U.S. Supreme Court did not lift the nationwide ban on interracial marriage until June 12, 1967. But years before the high court’s pivotal decision, dozens of celebrities in and out of Hollywood partnered with couples of different racial backgrounds. This list includes 12

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2,300 Jamaicans return under re-entry programme

Prime Minister Andrew Holness, says, to date, 2,300 Jamaicans have entered the island under the Government’s re-entry programme at a cost of

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James A. Bell

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Lionel Richie

Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. Beginning in 1968, he was a member of the funk and soul band the Commodores and then launched a solo career in 1982. He also co-wrote the 1985 charity single We Are the World with Michael

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Gabriel calls for pace by any means necessary

West Indies fast bowler Shannon Gabriel believes the West Indies should play to their strength and replicate the plans which brought them overwhelming success against England last

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Port-au-Spain, Trinidad (1650- )

Port-au-Spain is the capital and third largest city of the island nation Trinidad and Tobago in the southwestern West Indies and north of the South American nation of Venezuela. The city, which is only about 5 square miles, had a population of 37,074 people in 2011 but its surrounding metropolitan

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Hidden Figures (2017)

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Oliver Clarke dies - Media giant passes away at home at 75

A central figure in corporate Jamaica, Clarke played a pivotal role in the establishment of the powerful Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) in 1976 and was later immortalised among its esteemed leadership over the years when he was inducted into the organisation’s Hall of Fame in

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