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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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An Arima woman came to the rescue of a 61-year-old relative when he was attacked by bandits in Arima on Tuesday night.
Police said the man was at Demerara Heights, Arima at around 8.30 pm when two men approached and announced a robbery.
One of the bandits beat the man on the head with the gun.
The relative saw the attack and called for help. She then attacked one of the bandits by biting him on his left thumb.
The bandits ran away.
Arima police were called in and are continuing enquiries.
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Public Services Association president Watson Duke has said he isn’t prepared to completely abandon public service workers to focus solely on serving as a secretary in the Tobago House of Assembly.
Duke's party, the Progressive Democratic Patriots, celebrated a 14-one victory in the THA elections on Monday night, breaking the PNM’s 21-year, five-term hold over the assembly.
The new assemblymen will be sworn in on Thursday.
The PSA leader was given an ultimatum – choose between becoming a THA secretary or remaining in the PSA – by deputy political leader of the PPD Farley Augustine.
Augustine, who is next in line for the chief secretary position, said on the TTT morning show on Tuesday, “Duke cannot remain as PSA president, on the payroll of the PSA, and simultaneously be a member of the executive. The rules do not allow for that. So there is no need to worry about Mr Duke’s role.”
Hours later, the PSA executive published a notice of a unanimous decision to withdraw all benefits and remuneration assigned to Duke for the remainder of his term.
“However, the president would continue to carry out his constitutional duties in keeping with the PSA constitution,” the release added.
But Duke told Newsday on Wednesday, “I am still the president of the PSA, and I have chosen to do so, as I have chosen to relinquish all my remuneration and benefits associated with the position. So I am working for free as the PSA president, working for the 80,000 public servants for this country.
“My job as the supervisor and to ensure things within the PSA operates in a manner that promotes and protects the interest and welfare of the membership.
\"I’m not one to abandon my people at any point in time. So I continue to be president of PSA.”
Ravindra Nanga, chairman of the Water and Sewerage Authority, Duke's official employer, when contacted for comment, said it had nothing to do with WASA.
“As far as we are aware, Mr Duke has been seconded to the union in order to perform his duties for the PSA. As long as he continues to do that, and we are aware of (it), the other things have nothing to do with WASA. We don’t have a view on that. It's really for Duke to decide.\"
But he added, “Speaking as an attorney, I’m not familiar with the PSA constitution, so the reference I'll draw is, for example, where somebody is elected to the House of Representatives, if they do not have a ministerial portfolio, they can continue doing their private work.
\"I would not be able to comment beyond that without having sight of the PSC constitution.”
Curtis Cuffie, a former PSA member, said the executive had acted unlawfully in announcing Duke would carry on with his work as PSA president.
“There is no part of the constitution of the PSA that allows for that, and the PSA executive does not have the authority to make such a decision. For something like this to happen there, the first move must be to host a general council (meeting) and there a motion will be moved to take it before the conference for them to amend the constitution to allo
Artist Jade Yasmeen is taking the center spotlight for her recent unveiling of the first hyper-realistic pictorial of abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The Los Angeles-based artist created a 70x60 oil canvas painting of the antislavery activist making it a part of the Aku World exhibit at the Art Basel event in Miami, Because of Them We Can reports . Entitled, \"The Pain Below,\" Yasmeen detailed her excitement for the surreal moment in her Instagram post. \"Well. This feels unreal,\" she said. \"I’m standing next to the first hyper-realistic portrait of Harriet Tubman in COLOR! @artbasel Miami 2021. Funny enough it also so happens to be painted by me.\" Her reasoning for creating the portrait of Tubman, she said \"was a way to commemorate the past.\" “Our ancestry is so rich and deserves to be preserved,” the hyper-realism artist said. “That’s my goal as an artist. To continue the legacy of those that came before myself and others. This is a moment in time I’ll never forget.” View this post on...
Some might remember that 400 survived an ambush where he was shot nine times in 2019, mocking his attackers in the process for not finishing the job.
A North Carolina man who spent 23 years in prison for a double-murder was recently awarded $6 million by a federal jury after it found a detective fabricated evidence and improperly handled the investigation that led to his convictions. According to the Associated Press, Darryl Howard was sentenced to 80 years in prison in 1995...
Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal has accused the National Security Minister of compromising two independent institutions by making \"a politically partisan address\" at a recent function.
The Opposition MP charged that Fitzgerald Hinds delivered a \"flamingly biased and opinionated\" speech at a state event in which he sat between Prisons Commissioner Dennis Pulchan and DCP McDonald Jacob.
Moonilal called on Hinds to apologise to both leaders, adding if he failed to do so, it would confirm his intent to weaken the country’s law-enforcement organisations.
On Tuesday, at a press conference at the Police Administration Building in San Fernando, Hinds once again said his ministry fully supports the prison service in dealing with criminality in and out of the prisons.
He referred to the recent murders of prison officers Trevor Serrette, 48, and Nigel Jones, 38, both of whom worked at the Wayne Jackson Building at the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca.
Hinds said he considered the murders attacks on the State and warned that all arms of the protective services are on high alert.
Moonilal referred to Hinds's remarks as a gross example of impropriety and misconduct.
\"The Prisons and Police Services are critical institutions of law and order and must be respected as fiercely independent and politically impartial,\" he said in a release on Wednesday.
Moonilal considered Hinds’s remarks a \"political bleating\" saying they were the latest coarse example of the PNM Government undermining and destabilising crucial non-partisan agencies.
The Opposition MP threw jabs at the Government, saying it intends to undermine all such agencies.
Moonilal condemned Hinds for his \"pure politicking\" and \"blatant attempt to damage and demoralise the prison and police services\" on behalf, he said, of all patriotic citizens.
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The more than 300 lawsuits that have been filed so far in Houston following a massive crowd surge at theAstroworld festival that left 10 people deadhave been consolidated and will be handled by one judge as the cases proceed through the court system, a judicial board ruled. In an order issued on Tuesday, the Board […]
