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JET urges PM to reverse mining permit

Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) yesterday said it was disturbed by a decision to overturn the denial of a mining permit in a vital natural resource on Jamaica's north coast and urged Prime Minister Andrew Holness to reverse what it described as 'misuse of ministerial discretion'.

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BOSTON, United States (AP) When Mahdi Hashemian was looking for a bicycle for his seven-year-old daughter Zeynab last week, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, resident decided to skip his local cycle shops in favour of a Black-owned one a few miles away in Boston's Dorchester neighbourhood.

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Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday he has tested positive for the coronavirus, after months of downplaying its severity while deaths mounted rapidly inside the country.The 65-year-old right wing populist, who has been known to mingle in crowds without

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Students continue push for change regarding school resource officers | The Crusader Newspaper Group

By Patrick Forrest The Chicago Board of Education voted 4-3 late last month to keep a $33 million contract that allows Chicago Police officers to be stationed in the city’s public high schools. Students and youth activists had used the contract as a starting point toward police reform in the

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Major crime hot spot left out of August Town ZOSO boundaries

A major crime hot spot in Greater August Town, Payton Place, has seemingly not been included in the area declared a zone of special operations (ZOSO) by Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday.Just over a month ago two brothers 36-year-old Demar Francis and 25-year-old Robert Clarke were fatally

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Disabled man chooses brain over brawn to launch farming business

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Chalky Hill Primary assists families of needy students

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St Kitts PM reiterates intention to step down at the end of second term

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PEP joy turns to sadness

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Supreme Court says states can punish Electoral College voters | The Crusader Newspaper Group

By Ariane de Vogue and Chandelis Duster, CNN The Supreme Court said Monday that states can punish members of the Electoral College who break a pledge to vote for a states popular vote winner in presidential elections. The case comes as the election season is heating up, putting the Electoral

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NAACP, ACLU And Law Enforcement Leaders Unveil Plan Adopted For Better Police Policy | Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Law enforcement leaders, NAACP and ACLU reps at press conference. The list of 5 top concerns for policy changes. The President of the Hillsborough County Branch NAACP, a member of the ACLU and chiefs of police throughout the county and the sheriff held a press conference in the

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4 Aurora Police Officers Out After Photo Reenacting Chokehold Of Elijah McClain | The Crusader Newspaper Group

“They don’t deserve to wear a badge anymore,” Aurora’s interim Police Chief Vanessa Wilson said. By Sebastian Murdock, Huff Post Three Colorado officers with the Aurora Police Department have been fired and one has stepped down after a photo surfaced of three officers mocking the police killing of

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The most wanted man

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Approximately two hours after news emerged that former Energy Minister Dr Andrew Wheatley had filed a court challenge to conclusions made about him by the Integrity Commission in its probe of the Petrojam scandal, the commission admitted that it had erred in an aspect of the same report relating

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LAPD funding slashed by $150M, reducing number of officers

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