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The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News Public Utilities Minister and MP for Lopinot/Bon Air West Marvin Gonzales tills the garden of farmer Davanand Jadoo, left, alongside officials during an event to commission street lights in Bon Air West on July 22, 2021. - Photo by Sureash Cholai Minister of Public Utilities and MP for Lopinot/Bon Air West Marvin Gonzales has said the pandemic has made his duties challenging. In an interview with Newsday, Gonzales reflected on […]
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
[Premium Times] He is scheduled for a detention hearing Wednesday.
After battling the pandemic for a long time, we’re almost on the finish line. Millions of people around the world already got vaccinated. Cases in developed countries have begun to go down. While there are still problems in various countries, we have a reason to be optimistic. We will soon Read More
The post The Return to Normalcy is Around the Corner and Workplaces Will Be Better appeared first on PensacolaVoice Magazine 2021.
LISTEN to Tichina's full Yes, Girl! episode here: If the phrase, 'If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready' were a person, it would undoubtedly be Tichina Arnold. […]
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On Tuesday, June 29, the Detroit City Council approved a plan to appropriate $826 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds. Detroit will receive the fifth-largest amount of any city in America. The total 1.9 trillion federal stimulus bill was signed into law in March 2021 to help alleviate the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. … Continued
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[Nile Post] Modeste Bahati Lukwebo, the President of the Senate of the Democratic Republic of Congo has paid an official visit to the Nshaara Industrial Park where he commissioned the Zhong Wu Beef Abattoir Imports and Exports Company under the Sino- Uganda Economic Development Special Zone.
Kenya continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic with cases steadily rising each day. Government have locked down a handful of counties including the capital Nairobi and imposed a night-time curfew as part of containment efforts.
This rolling page will continue to give updates on major occurrences as relates to the East African country. You can follow Kenya’s March – April 2020 COVID-19 updates on our earlier page.
Kenya as of July 21 was the most impacted country in the East / Horn of Africa region toppling early leaders like Djibouti, Sudan and Somalia.
Government also rolled out mass testing in virus hot spots, a curfew remains in place but virus restrictions have largely been eased. The school year – from nursery to pre-tertiary level – has been cancelled.
June 24: 16,268 cases; govt spox infected
Government spokesman, Cyrus Oguna, has admitted having contracted Covid-19 and that he is at an isolation facility.
According to a statement posted on social media, Oguna said he had developed mild symptoms after returning to the capital, Nairobi, from an assignment.
He said his family is well and his previous contacts are being traced. Mr Oguna had five days ago denied being hospitalised for coronavirus symptoms.
On Thursday (July 23) 378 patients recovered from the virus, 199 were from the home based care program, while 179 are from various hospitals, bringing the total number of recoveries to 7,135.
With 15,601 confirmed cases, Kenya is the continent’s seventh most impacted country behind South Africa (over 408,000), Egypt (over 90,000), Ghana (close to 30,000). The others are Algeria, Morocco, and Cameroon with over 25,000; 18,000; 16,000 confirmed cases respectively.
Confirmed cases = 16,268
Active cases = 8,548
Recoveries =7,446
Number of deaths = 274
John Hopkins Uni stats valid as of July 23, 2020
Recently, having come from an assignment outside town, I developed mild coronavirus related symptoms & got tested. #KomeshaCorona pic.twitter.com/HjiniqPVeT— Spokesperson GoK (@SpokespersonGoK) July 24, 2020
June 21: 13,353 cases; Nairobi records 1,200+ cases in 3 days
Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja has been fined by a court for flouting curfew order. The lawmaker is to pay 15,000 Kenyan shillings or face three months in prison.
Today’s ruling is the latest in a saga that has seen Sakaja resign his position as chairman of the Senate Ad-hoc committee on COVID-19. He was arrested with others at a bar in breach of virus curfew restrictions in place.
The episode has elicited varied reactions: from those that believe that he had at least done the right thing by resigning his coronavirus role in parliament. Others are of the view that he should have resigned as a Senator whiles for some, the about $150 fine is the headache for others.
On the case front; the stats are heading towards 14,000 mark. At close of day Monday July 20; there was 13,771 cases with 7,917 active cases, 5,616 recoveries and 238 deaths.
Confirmed cases = 13,771
Active cases = 7,917
Recoveries = 5,616
By Stacy M. Brown Mellody Hobson, a Princeton graduate who in 2019 earned the Woodrow Wilson Award, the university’s highest honor, was named Chairwoman of the Board of Starbucks. With the promotion, Hobson becomes the only African American woman to chair a Fortune 500 company. “I am thrilled and honored to take on the role … Continued
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As far as USC firings have gone, Clay Helton’s was among the more civil and organized. No tarmac, no media leaks. On Sunday after a disappointing loss to Stanford, USC athletic director Mike Bohn decided it was time for a change in leadership for the football program. After a day to get all the aspects […]
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Bridging is searching for a Development Coordinator to join its team of passionate, impactful community-minded individuals. The ideal candidate will serve as a strategic and tactical business partner to the …
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Addressing a Press conference in Harare, Zanu PF acting commissar Patrick Chinamasa said Chamisa, who is currently undertaking community interface meetings around the country as he mobilises support ahead of the 2023 elections, was entirely to blame.
The post ‘Mad’ Chamisa provoked us: Zanu PF appeared first on NewsDay Zimbabwe.
The letter, signed by the organization’s president Salena Pryor, argues that the state’s costly plan to enforce AB 5 would only exacerbate that at this time, when California is facing a massive $54 billion deficit and the state’s unemployment rate is 24 percent, it would be fiscally imprudent to spend $20 million on enforcement of a policy that has been detrimental to the livelihoods of Black small business owners,” the letter reads.
In the wake of worldwide efforts to call out systemic racism, Black business organizations are speaking out against the restrictions that AB 5 has placed on African American entrepreneurs in including the bill’s author Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), say they are open to making adjustments in the law as long as its core purpose, fighting against gig worker misclassification, is kept.
The statement signed by Michael Lawson, President of the Los Angeles Urban League, read, “AB 5, the legislation introduced by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez focuses solely on the employee side of the equation and ignored the impact that this legislation has on Black-owned businesses that have suffered through a history of redlining that allowed banks and other financial institutions to legally discriminate against Black-owned businesses, preventing them from gaining access to capital and credit.”
Though there has been no official study of the impacts of AB 5 on Black owned business, the Center for Responsible Lending found that 95% of businesses owned by African Americans and other people of color were unlikely to receive aid from the Paycheck Protection Program because of a lack of commercial banking relationships.
During the June 11 floor hearing, Assemblymember Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin) spoke in favor of the amending the bill by reading from the CBCC’s letter, stating plainly the effects of AB 5 on Black businesses.
