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The president of the Namibian National Students' Organisation (Nanso), Simon Taapopi, says a newspaper article suggesting the student body got N$60 000 linked to the Fishrot scandal has potential to cause reputational harm to the
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My pain has paid me – Melaine Moyston
Melanie Moyston watched her life collapsed before her after she walked away from God in her earlier years. “My life was a mess, and I had to endure hardship through perseverance for change,” said Moyston, who says that the price of change is pain....
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1 Person Dead, 1 In Custody After Shooting At Site Of Breonna Taylor Protests : Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice : NPR
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Quit Playin: The Warrior MethodOrganic and Organized!
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Sierra Leone Commercial Bank urges customers to use Visa and mobile banking
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#FIYAH! LIVESTREAM: Sugar Ray Leonard Talks Boxing, Personal Demons, and Greatest Triumphs
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Newsom: Help us improve COVID-19 models - Black Voice News
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Former Florida Police Officer Arrested After Video Reveals Him Placing Knee on Pregnant Black Woman’s Neck and Using Taser - Black Enterprise
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'We are winning' - cautious optimism at old aged home where there are 52 Covid-19 cases | News24
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Vendor shot dead at Falmouth 'bend down' market
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Admin clerk sentenced to 9 years, convicted on 223 counts of fraud | News24
A former administrative clerk has been sentenced to nine years in jail after she was found guilty of 223 counts of fraud, worth over R3 million.
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The $400-million Manchester Municipal Corporation fraud trial ended on Friday, May 15, 2020 with the conviction of main accused 35-year-old Sanja Elliott, the corporation's former deputy superintendent of road and works; his wife, Tashagaye Elliott Goulbourne; two former employees of the
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(1997) Kweisi Mfume, “A Shining and Powerful Dream”
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Freezing of oil funds among possible sanctions if will of the people subverted - Stabroek News
Jose Cardenas, a political consultant based in Washington, DC, yesterday said that Guyana’s current political situation is “troublesome” and it paves the way for sanctions to be imposed and restrictions can also be placed on the country’s oil funds if the will of the people is not
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UN agency says COVID-19 an opportunity to fix remittance system
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2 Brothers Change Minds, Will Cooperate in Smollett Case
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'I am still trying to tell myself it is not true'
A week after Omari Stephens rushed from one end of the Corporate Area to “rescue” his mother, Susan Bogle, in August Town, St Andrew, after he was told shots were being fired at her residence, he confesses he is now living in a zone between shock and
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Chamisa loses Harvest House row
UNDERFIRE opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has lost legal battle for control of the party headquarters, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, popularly known as Harvest House, after the High Court ruled in his rival Thokozani Khupe’s favour. By Everson Mushava/Moses Matenga High Court judge
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ELECTIONWATCH - PM says economic recovery the focus now, but analyst expects polls sooner rather than later
Even as political watchers zero in on August dates for the next general election, Prime Minister Andrew Holness kept his cards close to his chest as he spoke with The Sunday Gleaner a week ago, giving no hint as to when he will summon Jamaicans to...
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Nepotism, cronyism run Jamaica - Stakeholders say the practice is deeply entrenched in politics, business
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Reopening the economy amidst the rise of Covid-19 in Africa - African Voice Newspaper
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Tova Hamilton sworn in as Gov't senator
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