Hamaty a friend to all, enemy to none, says 'Butch' Stewart

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Hamaty a friend to all, enemy to none, says 'Butch' Stewart

GORDON Butch Stewart has described the late Captain Robert Robbie Hamaty, master pilot and founder of Tortuga Rum Company, as a supremely decent human being who was a friend to all and enemy to none.

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THE Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA) is furious over delays in the employment of some of its members, which has left medical doctors sitting at home without work.The JMDA told the Jamaica Observer that on July 1 when the 2020 medical year began, doctors were being turned away from health

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Now Guyana must return to its state of respect for the established will of the people; and the new Government must be declared and installed. The article Highlights of the CCJ decision on the Court of Appeal ruling appeared first on Stabroek News.

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A Black medical student who was only taught how to recognize conditions on white patients has created a handbook showing how symptoms of diseases can look on darker skin. Malone Mukwende, a second-year student at St George's, University ofLondon, wrote Mind the Gap to help other medics spot

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(Jamaica Star) Tahj-jai Sharpe, a Jamaican at the Howard University in Washington DC, in the US, had made plans to advance into post-grad school, but he is now worried about his future. The article Jamaican students fear for future after ICE declaration appeared first on Stabroek News.

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