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Kenya: The Sad Short Story of Kenya's Debt Nightmare
Opinion - The major assignment of the Jubilee administration's two Treasury chiefs has been to raise the debt ceiling.
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JTA happy with PEP placement method
MONTEGO BAY, St James Owen Speid, president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association, says the organisation is satisfied with the methodology used by the Government for students' Primary Exit Profile (PEP) placements.We were pretty pleased with what they did, in terms of using those scores to compute
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Africa: Mobile Money Becomes Lifeline as Telecoms Thrive in COVID-19 Era
Mobile money and data have emerged as the lifeline in revenue growth for African-focused telecoms operators Vodacom Group and Airtel Africa across markets characterised by stiff competition and challenging regulatory
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700 PEP students to repeat
MORE than 700 students who were registered to take the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exam this year stand to repeat grade six in the next school year which begins in September.The bulk of the students 739 missed February's sitting of the Grade 6 Ability Test and subsequently asked to be deferred for
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Courts Optical gives civil servants up to 75% off
Unicomer (Jamaica) Limited says it is giving customers at its Courts Optical stores discounts of up to 65 per cent on select frames and has added a further 10 per cent off for civil
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Nigeria: Report - Nigerians Experience Income Drop After Lockdown
A recent survey carried out by FinMark Trust through the i2i initiative, in partnership with EFInA, reveals that some Nigerian households are beginning to experience reduced income, lower food consumption, and reduced access to financial and health services following the onset of the COVID-19
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Rwanda COVID-19 Recoveries Close in On 300-Mark
[New Times] The number of people who have recovered from the novel coronavirus in Rwanda is about to hit 300, according to figures from the Ministry of Health.
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South Africa mulls return to restrictions, as COVID-19 surges
(AP): Confronted by surging hospitalisations due to COVID-19, South Africa is considering a return to tighter restrictions to combat the disease, which officials say may soon overwhelm the country's health system. President Cyril Ramaphosa has...
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Manufacturers hard hit as earnings drop
You would expect to find him bubbly and dusting his suit to attend a manufacturing industry sales party, now that the Covid-19 pandemic has taken away the cheap imports nightmare that has hurt the sector for
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Uganda: Farmers Stuck With Sugarcane
[Monitor] Sugarcane farmers in Busoga are stuck with about 7.5 million tonnes of sugarcane after millers allegedly failed to consume them.
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World Bank predicts economic decline in Latin America, Caribbean
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC ) The World Bank says economic conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have worsened dramatically as the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have rippled through the region, predicting that the shocks stemming from the pandemic will cause
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Nigeria: Tomato 'Ebola' Resurfaces in Kano, Ravages Farms
The Kano State chairman of Tomato Out Growers Association of Nigeria (TOGAN), Sani Danladi, has revealed that Tuta absoluta, one of the most devastating pests affecting tomato crops, has resurfaced in the state, destroying
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Radical reforms to boost maize, agricultural sector
The government has embarked on reforms to boost the production of maize, the country’s staple
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Covid-19: 51 more test positive - VIDEO
The minister announced Mombasa has the highest rate of Covid-19 deaths recording 27, followed by Nairobi (20) while Siaya, Bomet and Kiambu have one fatality
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Africa: Lafarge Africa Grows Profit By 157% to N8 Billion in First Quarter
Lafarge Africa Plc has reported improved results for the first quarter (Q1) ended March 31, 2020, raising shareholders' hope of good harvest at the end of the
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Strong May exports signal balance of payments hope
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has struck a bullish tone on Kenya’s balance of payments.
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UNDP warns of drop in human development post COVID-19
UNITED NATIONS — Global human development – which can be measured as a combination of the world's education, health and living standards — could decline this year for the first time since the concept was introduced in 1990, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has
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Police killings in Trinidad up by 86% - Stabroek News
(Trinidad Guardian) The number of people killed by police in the last year has risen by 86 per cent, a figure that is of concern to the Police Complaints Authority (PCA). The article Police killings in Trinidad up by 86% appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Botswana: Mining Sector Operates Reasonably Well - Masire
Gaborone — Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security Mr Mmetla Masire says the mining sector is showing some positivity and begining to get back to the new
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KU declares pay cut for lecturers
Kenyatta University has announced a suspension of salaries for staff on contract due to what it terms a decline in revenue attributed to the Covid-19 outbreak which has paralysed services in higher learning
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Tanzania Reopens Colleges, Sports Activities As COVID-19 Numbers Drop
Dar es Salaam — University students will return to their respective colleges on June 1, 2020 as the number of Covid-19 cases drops in Tanzania, President John Magufuli announced on Thursday, 21 May
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Kenya: Floods Blamed on Uganda's Policy on Releasing Lake Water
The East African Community (EAC) Council of Ministers suggests Uganda may have breached the agreements on how much water to release from Nalubaale dam -- the main outlet of the world's largest freshwater
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EDITORIAL: Gradual reopening of economy only option
At some point, the economy has to reopen -- unless the government intends to cushion everyone from the economic shocks of the virus.
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Budget deadlock - Examination of Estimates halted as legal opinion sought on rule breach claim
Solicitor General Marlene Aldred is expected to provide legal guidance to a parliamentary oversight committee that halted its examination of the First Supplementary Estimates of Expenditure yesterday, claiming that it could not proceed until the Government complied with stipulations under the
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Covid-19 battle now turns to small-scale vendors
Vegetable and fruit vendors will be tested for Covid-19 as the Health ministry strives to arrest spiralling infections, which crossed the 1,000-mark
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‘Who will mind my kids?’ - Parents mulling back-to-work order ponder daycare dilemma
Parents and guardians preparing to return to worksites as COVID-19 restrictions ease next month are now mulling over another quandary: whether to risk sending their children to
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Exam headache!
Aleisha Salmon, a grade 12 student at Meadowbrook High, told the Jamaica Observer that since the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) forced the physical closure of schools, she has been worried and fearful as she is not certain what will obtain with the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations
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Ghana: BoG Secures $1bn to Boost Dollar Liquidity ... Maintains Policy Rate At 14.5 Per Cent
The Governor of the BoG, Dr Ernest Addison, who said this in Accra yesterday during the 94th Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) news conference to announce a new policy rate, said the bank had concluded negotiations with the U.S Federal Reserve to that
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70pc of households struggle to pay rent
Nearly 70 per cent of households captured in a State survey had difficulties in paying their rent in May, highlighting the impact of Covid-19 hardships on the property market.
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