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A Jamaican man has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment in the United States and has been ordered to pay more than US$150,000 in restitution for making false statements to receive Medicaid benefits. Fifty-year-old Marvel Johnson, who says...
\t While no one claimed responsibility for the attack, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pointed the finger at Israel, calling the killing an act of ``\"state terror.''
\t ``Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice _ with serious indications of Israeli role _ shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators,'' Zarif wrote on Twitter.
The United States has 4% of the world’s population, but almost 22% of COVID infections. What we are doing and have done is not working.
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Immigration advocates want President-elect Joe Biden to do more than just restore DACA and are putting the pressure on him to make up for Obama's mistakes
On Friday, President Donald Trump's case to block President-elect Joe Biden from winning Pennsylvania was dismissed in the federal appeals... View Article
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[Nation] ODM leader Raila Odinga has dismissed claims that he was not party to the final changes touching on the IEBC in the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020 that was unveiled yesterday.
America enters the somber holiday weekend following a Thanksgiving Day that saw more than 100,000 new Covid-19 cases and 1,200 deaths - skyrocketing numbers given that 20 states did not report data. Traditionally the start of a time of shopping and giving, the final days of November have seen record highs in the worsening pandemic - surpassing previous surges and […]
A mysterious metal obelisk found buried in the remote western US desert inflamed the imaginations of UFO spotters and conspiracy theorists.
… Troops, a unit composed of African Americans from New York, and a …
Catholic Archbishop of Washington DC Wilton Gregory, 72, was elevated to cardinal on Saturday in a formal ceremony in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican presided over by Pope Francis.
NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan has made a $2 million donation to Feeding America to assist in its mission to help end hunger
[This Day] Burna Boy has been nominated for the 2021 Grammy Awards. It is in the category for Best Global Music Album, for the second year running, writes Ferdinand Ekechukwu
Health care workers will be the first people in Texas to receive a COVID-19 vaccine once one receives emergency approval from the U.S. government, and on Monday a state panel of vaccine experts and politicians revealed which workers in the health field will receive top priority. The “first tier” recipients, according to the panel’s new guidelines, include: Hospital-based nurses, doctors, […]
Born 1948 in Newark, New Jersey as Wayne B. Pray, Akbar Pray had a criminal career that started in the 1960s but saw his rise during the 1970s. The thing about Pray's criminal career and empire is that it isn't one of the more widely covered enterprises. Instead, he is often overshadowed by the operations ran by […]
THE 2021 budget presented by the finance minister Mthuli Ncube to Parliament shows that the minister was living in a ‘fantasy world,’ according to academic, Professor Austin Chakaodza. “Some of the major challenges facing our society are issues of poverty and unemployment. Ninety percent of the people of Zimbabwe were already unemployed before the eruption of COVID-19. The majority of the people continue to lack certain basic capabilities which are encapsulated in the socio - economic rights guaranteed in the constitution,” he said. “They continue to be deprived of basic capabilities - such as the capability to be free from hunger, to live in good health, to be literate and access to a social security safety net. This budget does not fulfil a number of human rights such as the right to food, health, education and training,” Chakaodza said. A big part of Mthuli 2021 budget is a range of new tax measures to fund the ambitious $421,6 billion budget. The highlight of this plan is how the taxman plans to go after the informal sector, which is the bulk of the economy but pays little tax. From new and higher taxes to a new tax unit targeting SMEs, it is a budget that gives away very little, but takes a lot. Here is how some of Mthuli’s measures will affect you. If you are a low-income earner There is not much tax relief for you. The tax-free threshold has only been raised slightly from $5 000 per month to $10 000 per month. Tax bands will begin at $10 001 and end at $250 000 per month. This does little for the poorest workers. For perspective; in October, a Zimbabwean family of five needed $18 750 just to stay above the poverty line. If you earn more than $250 000, you pay the highest marginal tax rate of 40%. If you are expecting a bonus, the bonus tax-free threshold has gone up from $5 000 to $25 000, with effect from 1 November 2020. If you were tired of the 2% tax, sorry The 2% tax on mobile money and other electronic transfers stays. The tax has been unpopular since it came in 2018, but Mthuli says it has “generated substantial resources that have enabled Government to support various infrastructure projects”, including the COVID-19 response. So, the Minister isn’t giving much of this cash-cow away. You will no longer pay the 2% for transactions of up to $500, which is just a small increase from the current $300. For forex transactions, this tax will apply above US$5. The maximum of this tax that your business can pay has been raised from $25 000 to $800 000 on transactions with values exceeding $40 million, with effect from 1 January 2021. If you were planning to import a car Government will now control the importation of cars that are 10 years or older. Owning a car has just slid further from the reach of the majority, who cannot afford new vehicles. According to Mthuli, Zimbabwe has spent around US$1,3 billion importing buses and used cars over the past five years. Cars older than 10 years are now off the Open General Import Licence. This means that, from 2021, you will need a special import licence for older cars.
The police are questioning a third person in relation to the murder of Manchester businesswoman, Marcia Chin-Yoo. The 63-year-old was found stabbed to death in her car in Ingleside, Mandeville on Thursday night. Police reported that two...
Dear Editor,
In his golden gift to the literary world the 12th century Persian poet, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher Omar Khayyam and author of “The Rubaiyat” wrote the following illuminating quatrain:-
Yon rising Moon that looks for us again
How oft hereafter will she wax and wane;
How oft hereafter rising look for us
Through this same Garden and for one in vain.
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Pablo Defendini, a publisher of Fireside Fiction, posted a lengthy apology on Twitter after a white man was hired to... View Article
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[This Day] -Says news network exhibiting panic by seeking to clarify its tweet 35 days after
