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Jamaica's new cabinet sworn into office - Voice Online
JAMAICA'S GOVERNOR-General Sir Patrick Allen has urged the 14 government ministers and the attorney general... The post Jamaica's new cabinet sworn into office appeared first on Voice Online.
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COMMENTARY: "Trump the Biggest Threat to Our Democracy Since Civil War" | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Donald Trump’s lies and hateful rhetoric are not only destructive to our democracy, they have cost the United States over 6 million coronavirus infections and nearly 200,000 coronavirus deaths. No one should be in the least surprised that Donald Trump would boast to the Washington
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Congrats, Minister Vaz
Minister of Energy, Science and Technology Daryl Vaz and his wife, Member of Parliament for Portland Eastern Ann-Marie, were feted in an intimate setting on Monday with a small group of family and friends present. Among the guests were United States Ambassador to Jamaica Donald Ray Tapia, British
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Pompeo also going to Suriname - Stabroek News
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will also visit Suriname on Thursday before arriving in Guyana. The article Pompeo also going to Suriname appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Mike Pompeo’s visit - Stabroek News
With preparations now underway to facilitate the visit here later this week by the United States’ Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, there has been a brisk burst of chatter in some quarters over the significance of his coming here and just what the key issues on the agenda for the visit might
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UK to ration COVID-19 testing amid testing failures - Black News Channel
By DANICA KIRKA and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. lawmakers criticized the government's handling of the COVID-19 testing crisis for a second day Wednesday as opposition leaders claimed Prime Minister Boris Johnson lacked a cohesive plan to tackle the virus at a time when the
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Barbados moves forward with plan to become a Republic | New York Carib News
Barbados has announced its intention to remove the Queen as its head of state and become a republic by November 2021.
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JLP's Portland push
After comprehensive victories in the September 3 General Election, the husband and wife team of Daryl and Ann-Marie Vaz have now set their sights on leading their councillors to a clean sweep of all nine divisions in the Portland Municipal Corporation.The two Jamaica Labour Party
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
The Prince and the Panther | Afram News
Our shining prince, John Lewis, channeled a message to all peace and freedom loving citizens of America. I believed in “good trouble” after my superhero mentor Dr. Martin Luther King reinforced my core belief that life’s most pressing question was ‘what are we doing to help others?’
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JetBlue planning major expansion in the Caribbean | New York Carib News
United States-based carrier JetBlue is set to launch a major Caribbean expansion in November, with new routes across the region from Aruba to St. Maarten.
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New minister wants more young people in agriculture
NEWLY appointed Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green wants to see more young people involved in farming as a viable business, a stronger agricultural research and development framework, and an increase in the island's agricultural export offerings.Providing much-needed assistance to
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
A 4F commander in chief - The Bay State Banner
Thoughtful Americans will now have to be worried about a commander in chief who has no patriotic attachment to the country whose citizens he is obligated to protect against enemies, foreign and domestic. The post A 4F commander in chief appeared first on The Bay State Banner.
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Women, youth, and education top agenda of young senator
AS she takes her place as one of the youngest Jamaicans ever to be appointed to the Senate, Opposition Senator Gabriela Morris has put youth and education as well as issues affecting women at the top of her agenda.
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Sunday Brew — September 13, 2020
My eyes caught a letter penned by Honourable Justice Seymour Panton, retired president of the Court of Appeal and a man of impeccable integrity and character. It essentially called on Prime Minister Holness to begin the process of finding a successor for current Court of Appeal president, Mr
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'I am up to the task'
FORMER mayor of Montego Bay Homer Davis, who is now a Member of Parliament, says he is raring and ready to fulfil his mandate as the new state minister for local government and rural development. Davis defeated Dr Walton Small of the People's National Party (PNP) in the September 3 General Election
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Lead by example
NEWLY installed Speaker of the House of Representatives Marisa Dalrymple Philibert yesterday laid down the 'Riot Act' to 60 Members of Parliament (MPs) sworn in at a meeting of the House of Representatives at the Jamaica Conference Centre.
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12-y-o Jamaican tests positive for COVID in Barbados
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - A 12-year-old Jamaican girl has tested positive for the novel coronavirus on arrival in Barbados earlier this week, as The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana all recorded deaths and positive cases linked to the virus.Bridgetown said that the child tested positive
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Bachelet highlights LGBTQ rights abuses in U.N. Human Rights Council speech - African American News Today - EIN News
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Monday highlighted LGBTQ rights abuses in Poland and Honduras during a speech at the opening of the U.N. Human Rights Council's latest session in Geneva.
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Barbados to move towards republican status - Voice Online
BARBADOS HAS announced plans to remove Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as the head of state, moving... The post Barbados to move towards republican status appeared first on Voice Online.
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PM Holness names new slate of Cabinet ministers | New York Carib News
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has named a new slate of Cabinet ministers. Holness announced this evening that the following ministers and the attorney general will be appointed.
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Davis homing in on rural revival
Returning growth and development to rural communities is crucial to the Holness administration’s bid to stem urban drift and brain drain, says State Minister Homer Davis. Davis, the member of parliament-elect for the farming-dependent St James...
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Guyana’s agony - Stabroek News
Violence at elections time or immediately thereafter in Guyana, though devastatingly painful, particularly to the victims, is nothing unusual. The article Guyana’s agony appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Nine judges promoted
Nine members of the judiciary were sworn into higher office today by Governor General Sir Patrick Allen during a ceremony at King’s House in St Andrew. They are David Fraser and Nicole Simmons, who have been appointed as judges of...
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SAG-AFTRA STATEMENT ON THE ARREST OF JOSIE HUANG - Los Angeles Sentinel
SAG-AFTRA today released the following statement regarding the arrest of KPCC journalist Josie Huang on
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Nigerian youths to petition ED over rights abuses
BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE NIGERIAN youths have vowed to mobilise civic organisations in Africa’s most populous nation to picket the Zimbabwean embassy in Abuja over human rights abuses by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government. Godbless Otubure, who is the global president of the ReadyToLeadAfrica
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Bolt party probe on track - DPP could receive file on birthday bash investigation in two weeks
It will take at least another two weeks for the police to complete investigations and present a case to the director of public prosecutions (DPP) into last month’s surprise birthday party for sprint legend Usain Bolt that reportedly breached COVID-...
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CHARACTER TEST - Cabinet members warned as PM hints of scrutiny over corruption and incompetence
Prime Minister Andrew Holness issued a thinly veiled warning to the newly appointed Cabinet ministers as he admitted that it was not an easy feat for him to assemble the chief architect of policy for his new administration. The advice appeared to...
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Nigeria gov't under fire for sentencing 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy - Face2Face Africa
It has emerged that on the same day 22-year-old Nigerian musician Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was sentenced to death in the northern state of Kano for blasphemy, a 13-year-old boy was also given 10 years in prison with menial labor for blasphemy. Omar Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State
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Murderer on Death Row Sworn In as Member of Sri Lanka’s Parliament
Jayasekara, also known as Chokka Malli, was found guilty by the High Court of Ratnapura on July 31 of murdering activist Sunil Perera, popularly known ...
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Indian State Gets MIT Help to Boost Startups - L.A. Focus Newspaper
Startups in the southern state of Kerala are getting a boost from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in research, materials and job creation. MIT's Super Fab Lab, a fabrication laboratory, allows startups to not only carry out their own research, but also to access scientific research to
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