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The Chadwick Boseman Foundation for the Arts is keeping the late actor’s memory alive. The organization, which launched this year, recently announced its collaboration with Girls Who Code and Meta to create a new augmented reality effect uplifting Black women creators.
An HDC official at the site, who did not what to be named, told Newsday the HDC could not give an exact date for the finishing the repairs.
However, the spokesman said the corporation is working to do so as quickly as possible once the weather does not affect the work.
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Three days after Thanksgiving, Gov. Gavin Newsom went online to address the new COVID-19 Omicron variant, a version of the virus with at least 50 mutations, according to the World Health Organization.
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article America's Black Holocaust Museum receives a $10 million donation through the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. MILWAUKEE - America's Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee picked up a major donation on Wednesday,…
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Authorities in Kenya said a policeman who went on a rampage in a neighborhood in the capital city of Nairobi on Tuesday fatally shot six people before turning the gun on himself, Reuters reported. In a Twitter post, the country’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said the deceased officer fatally shot his wife at their...
In the filing she says she saw one photo that purportedly shows Kobe's body and since seeing that picture has been \"tormented with thoughts of who took it and whether it depicts my husband.”
POLITICAL analyst Dr Bishnu Ragoonath said the PNM had sought to send a clear message that Tobago was better off sticking with it, but with a chance of some recent initiatives backfiring in Monday's Tobago House of Assembly (THA) elections. He spoke to Newsday on Monday just before the 6 pm close of polls.
Ragoonath said the PNM's message had been that people's jobs at the THA were safe under the PNM, the island's economy did very well under the PNM with an expenditure of $2 billion compared to earnings of $200 million, and that the PNM would keep Tobago in a unitary state while the PDP promoted secession.
Yet issues around the campaign could backfire on the PNM, he said.
Ragoonath said the PNM had run a nightly televised \"air campaign.\"
\"It carried the message not only in Tobago but also in Trinidad.
\"The PDP did not have the resources to pay for that kind of campaign. To that extent I have seen where millions of dollars have been suggested as having been spent by the PNM in this campaign to cover this air campaign.\"
He said while PNM meetings had stated their policies, the air campaign sought to discredit the PDP's leadership of Farley Augustus and Watson Duke as an alternative government of the THA, saying the PNM has successfully used such attacks in Trinidad against UNC leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
\"Negative campaigning has been used a lot in the US. It is something now being used by this new advertising agency the PNM is using. Whether it will pay dividends, we'll have to see.\"
Ragoonath said, up to Monday, from 2001-2021 voter turnout was usually under 60 per cent with all elections won by the PNM.
Yet in 2013, when turnout exceeded 70 per cent, the PNM won all 12 seats.
\"Voter turnout cannot be used as a metric as to how Tobago will vote.\"
Noting a jump in PDP seats in THA elections from two in 2017 to six in January 2021, Ragoonath said other metrics must be considered, amid lessons from the January election.
\"Something had changed significantly. We have to now look and see whether there is a change in the mindset of the Tobago electorate and what would have been the factors.\"
He said Trinidad cannot be used as a comparator. as Tobagonians have a different mindset to Trinidadians.
\"In the January election. one of the things that came to the fore were allegations of corruption within the PNM-led THA. Those allegations have not necessarily gone away. That I think is one of the real issues that would have led some Tobagonians to vote against the PNM.
\"If you looked at the 2020 general election and the January 2021 THA election, the voting population remained largely the same. but we had a different kind of result.\"
He attributed this to many Tobago voters heeding the PDP's allegation of PNM corruption, saying this could affect Monday's outcome.
\"The second issue which came up in the January election was how the PNM treated their own and their opponents. There was the concern about how the former chief secretary (Kelvin Charles) was treated by the PNM and how Dr
Brown made this extraordinary claim about two years before his death. It barely registered in the public consciousness. But it mattered then and it matters now, if indeed it's true,…
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A Black couple in California is suing a real estate appraiser and her company after she lowballed the value of the couple's home by $500,000.
As the world commemorates the UN’s Anti-Corruption Day, the office of the Attorney General and the Anti-Corruption Investigation Bureau have teamed up for a social media campaign to address corrupt practices.
Anti-Corruption Day is marked on December 9.
The partnership aims to raise awareness and sensitise the public as part of a national Anti-Corruption Risk Assessment Programme. The social media campaign can be found by searching the hashtag #thatiscorruption and the slogan “Get to Zero… For a Corruption Free T&T.”
In a media release on Wednesday, the partnership, which also includes the UN Development Programme (UNDP), said the campaign includes promoting Crime Stoppers’ call-in number 800 TIPS to report corrupt actions locally.
“Locally, for the year ending October 2021, over 840 reports of corruption were received by the ACIB. None of the reports on record was made using the 800-TIPS system. The anonymous hotline has traditionally been associated with reporting violent crimes, not white-collar crimes or corruption.”
Snr Supt Deryck Walker of the ACIB is quoted as saying the unit was never promoted as an anti-corruption tool.
“Corruption is not treated as a crime that devastates lives. However, the hotline has played a significant part in combatting violent crime, and it holds the same potential for bribery, fraud, extortion, embezzlement and nepotism.”
The release said with public-sector officers as the main target, the programme seeks to identify threats corruption poses to covid19 recovery efforts with the aim of developing measures to prevent and negate such offences.
In June the Auditor General noted over $8 million was lost after citizens accessed both the salary relief grant and the income support grant. The report said over 2,000 people took advantage of the system put in place to address loss of earning as a result of the pandemic.
Last week Lystra Irving, a senior public servant at the Inland Revenue Division, was charged with stealing $1.49 million and multiple other offices after allegedly falsifying government records.
The release said the theme of this year’s Anti-Corruption Day is to highlight the rights and responsibilities of everyone
in tackling corruption.
“This year’s commemoration also promotes the need to unite and face this global problem with shared responsibility. Every person - young and old – plays a role in anti-corruption corruption for societies to achieve greater resilience and integrity at all levels.”
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Arima police are probing an incident in which alcohol, jewellery and a safe containing a pistol and ammunition were stolen from the house of a 33-year-old flight officer in Arima.
Police said after leaving his house at Ackberali Street East, Malabar, Arima, at around 7.45 am on Monday , the man returned at around 6 pm and found it had been broken into and his jewellery, alcohol and safe were missing.
His Sig Sauer pistol had been inside the safe.
Arima police believe the bandits entered the house through a window.
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