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(The Center Square) – There were nearly 243,000 illegal border crossers reported in January nationwide, according to new data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They include 176,205 illegal border crossers along the southwest border. The majority, 124,220, were apprehended between ports of entry. The remainder were apprehended at ports of entry (marine and […]
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South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
They made the call on Friday, May 29 during a budget hearing session by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on National Budget and Patrimony in which the Ministry of Health and its affiliated agencies where defending the budgetary allocation to the health sector during the upcoming financial year.
For instance, the Ministry of Health highlighted that the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK) is facing a funding gap of Rwf540 million for salaries to its medical personnel.
Earlier, on May 26, officials from the Ministry of Trade and Industry expressed concerns that there was no budget for salaries of prospective employees of the newly formed Rwanda Inspectorate, Competition and Consumer Protection Authority (RICA).
\"We had agreed with the Ministry of Finance that we should not employ all workers that RICA needs in the 2020/2021 financial year, but we are concerned that there is even no budget to pay the salary of those it was to start with,\" she said.
Rehema Namutebi, Director General of National Budget at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning said that they will hold talks with concerned ministries to consider how to address the identified funding gaps for employees' salaries.
Whether or not national government ministries are in a similar state, this is a good time to ponder how much longer and further Kenya can go when taxes “chase” spending rather than the other way round.
National government (recurrent and development) costs us Sh1.89 trillion, which leaves Sh60 billion of total receipts for everything else.
Worryingly, our tax collections can’t pay for national government, ignoring counties.
That would leaves Sh600 billion in taxes to run our national and county governments.
In sum, the budget balances by rolling over Sh442 billion in debt and borrowing another Sh804 billion to fund a Sh3.23 trillion government that raises Sh1.62 trillion in taxes, collects Sh260 billion in government services we still have to pay for, and fundraises Sh57 billion in grants that Kenya doesn’t have to repay.
Although the 26 Haitian nationals who were detained for weeks at the state-run Hugo Chavez Centre for Rehabilitation and Reintegration have left Guyana, acting Chief Justice Roxane George yesterday denied a request by Attorney General Anil Nandlall to dismiss the pending application filed on their behalf over the alleged violation of their fundamental rights by the state.
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The Los Angeles City Council voted today to declare a fiscal emergency and approved plans to furlough more than 15,000 city employees and carry out early retirement buyouts for another 1,280 employees to try to recoup as much anticipated lost revenue as possible due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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LOS ANGELES — The more-than-$1 billion the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expected to receive in initial federal COVID-19 relief funding will not be enough to cover all of its losses due to the pandemic, board members said May 29.
The MTA Board voted to adopt a continuing resolution to its budget and accept the federal funding through the county, but the full financial outlook for the transportation authority is not expected to be finalized until September or October.
MTA service plans have been amended to reduce capacities of people on board rail and buses during the pandemic, and there could be service changes coming every two months, officials said.
MTA officials also said they’ve been making weekly or daily changes to service based on the most-used service lines during the pandemic, and a report on service changes will be brought back to the board at next month’s meeting.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who also sits on the MTA Board, said the agency needs to be sure its planned projects are ready to commence once funding is available and the pandemic subsides.
• An ordinance to amend the levy provisions of the Code of Ordinances for the purpose of changing the ad valorem tax rates for personal property, bond indebtedness, parks, school operations/debt and special tax districts, and provide that those rates remain fixed for one year in compliance with the City Code.
• A resolution urging the City of Atlanta and the Georgia General Assembly to adopt policies to implement comprehensive police reform.
An item was introduced to be considered during a special called meeting scheduled for Friday, June 19 at 11 a.m. to consider and adopt the City of Atlanta’s 2021 Fiscal Year budget: • A resolution declaring the intention of the Atlanta City Council to create the Public Safety and Community Support Restricted Fund and requesting that the chief operating officer produce a report of recommendations regarding the City’s approach to public safety, including recommendations for systematic changes in police policies, reinventing the culture of policing in the city and being a model for public safety for cities across the nation, to be provided to the Atlanta City Council by no later than Dec. 1, 2020.
• A resolution requesting the Department of Transportation Commissioner create a participatory engagement process with the community to select a street where a permanent “Black Lives Matter” mural commissioned by members of the Atlanta City Council may be installed to commemorate the “Black Lives Matter” movement in the city of Atlanta.
• A resolution approving a deployment plan for funds allocated for rental assistance through the consumer grant program in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) the chief policy-making body for the City of Atlanta.
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The five years I spent working in the border town of Musina, a melting pot of cultures, in the early to mid-2000s, sometimes felt like experiencing South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique in one place.
According to Ngaka Modiri Molema in the book The Bantu past and present: An Ethnographic and historical study of the Native races of South Africa, Tabane’s ancestry can be traced back to Mokgatla, after which the Bakgatla tribe is named and is a descendant of Mohurutshe.
In the company of the then Zambian High Commissioner to South Africa, we announced our arrival by paying a courtesy visit to the mayor of Livingstone, as is customary for African folks.
Read: After Covid-19, we must prioritise locals without discriminating against foreign nationals
The freedom of South Africa was plotted in Morogoro, Tanzania, among the many places.
It was the late Tanzanian president Mwalimu Julius Nyerere who told us that: “Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and humiliated.”
Dar es Salaam — The government of Tanzania through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation on Tuesday, May 26, 2020 summoned the acting US Ambassador Dr Inmi Patterson for clarification over issues that the mission has in the recent past posted on its website and social media platforms.
In a statement issued by the ministry, the Ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Affairs office in Dar es Salaam, where she met the Permanent Secretary Colonel Wilbert Ibuge.
Top on the agenda was the different Travel advisories which the Mission has issued on its website this month, pertaining to the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic by the Tanzania government.
\"On Wednesday May 13, 2020 and Monday, May 25, 2020 on the Embassy's Twitter page, which all seemed to be intended to alert US citizens in Tanzania and those who intend to visit the country that Dar es Salaam is not safe due to the presence of a large number of Covid-19 patients,\" reads part of the statement.
In June 2019, the head of mission was summoned by the Tanzania government after the US issued a terror attack alert.
The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana, will this Monday unveil the National Budget for the 2020/2021 fiscal year, The New Times can reveal.
The Chairperson of the Committee on National Budget and Patrimony, Omar Munyaneza, told The New Times in a telephone interview that Covid-19 had come with a set of challenges that were worsened by natural disasters.
Like his counterparts, Ndagijimana is expected to table spending plans for the 2020/2021 fiscal year this month and next, focusing on reviving the economy and livelihoods battered by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Presenting the National Budget Framework Paper to lawmakers on May 21, Ndagijimana said that the government is expected to spend Rwf3, 245.7 billion in 2020-2021 fiscal year, which is Rwf228.7 billion higher than the revised budget estimates of Rwf3, 017.1 billion.
\"In line with the plan to address the impact of COVID-19 on the economy and the well-being of the people, the budget for 2020-2021 will focus on implementing the government's economic recovery plan,\" Ndagijimana said.
GABORONE—A human rights group said hundreds of refugees from Zimbabwe are being forced back home from neighboring Botswana and the refugees haven’t had access to food during COVID-19 restrictions in Botswana.
Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV and AIDS Executive Director Cindy Kelemi is not convinced that most Zimbabweans are opting for volunteering repatriation, and asked Botswana to provide food relief to the refugees.
Kelemi, from the human rights group, criticized Botswana’s refusal to provide food aid to those from neighboring countries, arguing that immigrants in the country operate businesses and have children in school.
Many refugees pay taxes and should receive food aid, she said, adding that Botswana is receiving donations from organizations and private companies.
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Bethune-Cookman University has announced an “Advancing the Legacy’’ national day of giving to raise $100,000 in a single day to assist scholars during their matriculation through college.
B-CU alumni, faculty and staff, and HBCU enthusiasts around the world are urged to support the university during the June 15 fundraising day.
To participate, text the word BCULEGACY to 41444 or visit donate.cookman.edu
The “Advancing the Legacy’’ campaign was announced in January as an awareness and
fundraising initiative created to provide ongoing support of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune’s lifelong mission of ensuring access to higher education for students at B-CU.
Advancing the Legacy has garnered attention from the National Council of Negro Women, philanthropic families Billye and Hank Aaron along with Thomas and Joyce Moorehead, and hundreds of B-CU alumni and friends.
The campaign includes a digital element,asking advocates to make a financial contribution online at donate.cookman.edu and to share their support on social media using the hashtag #AdvancingBCU.
Effective immediately, Jamaica has banned all flights from the United Kingdom for a period of two weeks, ending January 4, 2021.
\tHowever, flights arriving over the next 24 hours and outbound flights to the UK will be allowed up to midnight Tuesday, December 22.
Rwandan chili is set to be auctioned online in China after local coffee performed well in campaigns targeting consumers on China's e-commerce platforms
Chili is among the Rwandan products being exported to China under the electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP).
An example of the events is a recent one that was held last week, where about 1.5 tonnes of roasted coffee beans were sold within a minute on Thursday during an online live streaming event aimed at promoting Rwandan coffee in the Asian country.
Earlier this year, in a similar event held in Hangzhou City, up to 2,000 packets of Rwandan coffee were sold in about 10 minutes
Organised by the Alibaba Group, the online events have been aiming to promote Rwandan coffee which is available on the Chinese e-commerce market.
In an interview with The New Times, James Kimonyo Rwanda's Ambassador to China hinted that they are looking at making an event for chili,
\"We are looking at so many things to do with Rwanda and we are happy that coffee has become a signature export crop,\" he said, adding; \"In fact I should have mentioned that at some point we will do another event on Rwanda chili, it is becoming very popular in Tmall.\"
Last year, Rwandan young agribusiness entrepreneur, Dieudonné Twahirwa, landed a deal to supply 50,000 tonnes of dry chilli worth $100 million (about Rwf90 billion) every year to China, a move expected to significantly boost Rwanda's agricultural exports.
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 daycare.
But as daycare facilities look to gradually scale up operations, parents who require childcare services are weighing the risks of sending their children outside the safety of the home to be cared for by others.
The report also outlines a “three-phased approach” that childcare facilities, schools, restaurants, and other establishments are required to meet in order to move from one mitigation phase to another.
One of the key guidelines given for minimising the risk of spread in the report is “keeping classes together to include the same group of children each day, and consider keeping the same childcare providers with the same group each day”, the CDC report says.
Manager of It Takes A Village Nursery and Preschool, Mark Marshall, explained that he has only received requests for the upcoming school term in September.
MP Théogène Munyangeyo, Chairperson of the Committee, said that agriculture received only 1.5 per cent of the total loans provided by commercial banks in Rwanda in the 2018/2019 financial year.
\"We cannot expect fostered development when a sector which employs for about 70 per cent of the population only gets 1.5 percent of loans offered in the country [by commercial banks],\" he said.
MP Munyangeyo pointed out that the agriculture sector accounted for 13.3 per cent of long-term loans from BRD, while 59 per cent of them went to financing infrastructures, and 16.1 percent was channelled to energy projects.
Munyangeyo said that the agriculture sector is important to the country's economy as the 2018/2019 activity report by the central bank indicated that the sector contributed 29 per cent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Munyangeyo said that during the discussions between the Committee and the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources, it was indicated that the livestock sector has potential to increase output than agriculture (crop value chain) as the former registered an average growth of 14 percent in the last four years compared to the latter which grew by 4.6 percent in the fiscal year 2018/2019.
Western Bureau: The new $700-million artisan village in Falmouth, Trelawny, is expected to become fully operational in the first quarter of the 2021-2022 fiscal year, based on the projections of Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett, who recently...
The National Commercial Ba nk (NCB) Staff Association on Friday won another major victory after the bank lost its appeal against the 2017 judgements of then presiding judge, Justice Bryan Sykes.The now chief justice had ruled in favour of the association after the bank failed to pay staff a share of the profits, worth several millions, declared at the end of the 2002 fiscal year.
