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Two dozen police officers and soldiers arrived in Haiti on Thursday, to help bolster a Kenya-led, UN-approved mission against violent gangs. They will be working alongside the country's police and military to tackle the gangs. Around 580,000 people have been displaced since the fighting broke out.
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Protesters are asking Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to resign in the aftermath of Adam Toledo's fatal police encounter.
Mohbad's death sparked nationwide protests leading the police to exhume the body for proper investigations.
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The U.S. attorney general on Wednesday rescinded a Trump-era decision that made it harder for victims of domestic violence and gang violence to win asylum, the latest move by U.S. President Joe Biden to create what he says is a more humane immigration system.
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This is how it’s done! A Pomeroon woman showing a visiting member of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) how the cassava bread is made.
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The Weeknd donated $1M to hunger relief efforts in Ethiopia, writing that his 'heart breaks' for the innocent civilians. The... View Article
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[WFP] How sustainable farming ideas from development startups supported by the World Food Programme's Innovation Accelerator gained global recognition
The Fox News personality's latest incendiary comments came under the spotlight from the "CNN Tonight" anchor.
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Prime Minister Allen Chastanet has urged Saint Lucians to unite in the national day of prayer and fasting on Monday, May 24. The activity will run from 6.00 am to 6.00 pm. 'I urge all Saint Lucians to unite in resolve and purpose and recommit to our faith,' the PM stated. 'Let us come together […]
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More than 30,000 are homeless after a 12-day attack by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group.
There have been 12,000 applications for COVID-19 relief assistance and those who are approved will receive vouchers for between $25,000 and $32,000.
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Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang has expressed outrage at the shooting death of six-year-old Cloey Brown in Trelawny on Monday. “We are deeply saddened by Cloey’s murder, and we strongly condemn the use of children, women and the...
August Town residents who were on edge from sporadic gun violence for the first half of 2020 say a zone of special operations (ZOSO) implemented last July has offered an oasis of peace in a community that has been a powder keg of violence for...
Trinidad and Tobago was the country most affected by covid19 in the Caribbean during the last week, Dr Carissa Etienne, director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), said on Wednesday.
Etienne mentioned TT twice during PAHO's weekly virtual press conference.
“Last week, the Americas registered 1.2 million new cases and 34,000 deaths from covid19.
\"In the Caribbean, TT has been the one with the highest increases in cases and deaths,” she said.
Etienne also reported TT is one of the three countries in the region with the lowest percentage of people vaccinated against covid19.
“Central America, with two million vaccinated, and the Caribbean, with less than three million, are the areas of greatest concern.
\"TT, Guatemala and Honduras have only one per cent of their population immunised.\"
PAHO stressed that each country's priority is to control contagion with public health measures before economic problems.
\"If infections are controlled, countries can relax public health measures and economies could start to recover,\" Etienne said.
She was critical of the differences in immunisations between developed countries and the rest.
She said the progress towards normality has been uneven, with the emergence of two worlds: “The differences are stark. In the region, only the US has more than 40 per cent of its population vaccinated. The situation is especially acute in Central America and the Caribbean.\"
Etienne said many more doses are urgently needed, although the US and Spain had donated 11 million vaccines between them.
\"We hope the countries that have the easiest access to vaccines will take these examples and help the countries most in need.\"
Dr Jarbas Barbosa, PAHO deputy director, said the vaccination plan is important to advance the process of immunisation and free up spaces in hospitals.
“Chile is an example of organisation. Eighty per cent of adults over 60 have already been vaccinated, and this is a breakthrough,” he said.
Barbosa reported the Covax mechanism is working on the delivery of the fourth and fifth round of vaccines in the region in July.
Dr Sylvain Aldighieri, director of incidents for covid19, reported the C37 variant – known as the Andean variant – has already been reported in several countries in the Americas and Europe.
\"It was initially registered in Chile and Peru, and the genomic surveillance teams are already working to identify any clinical changes in time,\" he said.
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[Dalsan Radio] A second wave of COVID-19 infections in Mogadishu is overwhelming in De Martini hospital.
\"We were sitting in a bar that evening when about 60 people burst in,\" says Appolin Tchanga, a 43-year-old house painter.
The former president and first lady gave sound guidance for scary times.
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The year started with the threat of war between the US and Iran and a historic impeachment trial. Those seem like sideshows as we enter the second half of the year.
We've lived through a global pandemic and an unprecedented shutdown of the economy and almost all aspects of contemporary life, from air travel to the regular routines of work and school. But the suspension of normalcy created space for a vast reconsideration of race, class and history not just in the US but around the world.
In some ways the first half of 2020 lasted forever and in other ways it's gone by in a flash, with none of the typical markers of holidays, celebrations, travel, friends and family.
Zoom funerals would have been unthinkable six months ago. Now they are the norm.
Nuclear chain reactions don't just happen
The coronavirus simultaneously jeopardized the conveniences and social contracts that hold up modern society.
But it's also exposed the social and racial walls that make modern society so painfully unequal. The pandemic caused economic calamity, which helped spark massive social justice protests in the space of six months.
It's no longer possible to ignore that it's harder to be Black in America. It's no longer possible to pretend that doesn't need to change.
Millions remain out of work, and may be for a long time.
And it all came in an unexpected avalanche. History feels like it's happening at warp freaking speed.
No one knows what's coming next. But none of this happened overnight.
We could have seen it all coming
We could have seen the pandemic coming, because pandemics happen and scientists and good government types have been warning for a long time that the big one was just around the corner.
\"Of course, the thing that people ask: 'What keeps you most up at night in the biodefense world?' Pandemic flu, of course,\" Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said, prophetically, in April of 2019, at a biodefense summit, as CNN's KFile reported.
He wasn't alone. Two years earlier, during a 2017 speech at Georgetown, Dr. Anthony Fauci issued a stark warning that some disease would strike in a major way, and soon.
\"History tells us that we will definitely get surprised in the next few years,\" he said, warning policymakers to pay attention to the global nature of disease, which doesn't respect borders.
Will this time be different?
We could have already had a national reckoning on race because there have been opportunities every day, not just every few years. We could have had it with Trayvon Martin before Eric Garner, before Michael Brown, before Tamir Rice, before Walter Scott, before Freddie Gray, before Sandra Bland, before Philando Castile, before Botham Jean, before Atatiana Jefferson, before Breonna Taylor, before George Floyd (and countless other people).
We've had national reckonings on
THE EDITOR: Melissa Doughty's article headed \"K2K opts out of any possible Carnival 2022\" spoke volumes about the Norman sisters and others responsible for the production of this band.
In my seventies now, I've retired from mas playing (I think) but if I were to become inspired to jump back in, playing with K2K Alliance would be money well spent not only for the magnificent costumes but for the values brought to the business by this band's management.
Among the stated reasons for their decison, the Normans made it clear that the health of the nation superseded the profit motive. They also alluded to this being a time for reflection on what the country and the world have endured in this period of the pandemic and the need for empathy for those who suffered loss, as they did personally, during this trying time.
As a citizen of this beautiful country, I'm proud of K2K. These young people represent the best of what it means to be Trinidadian.
MARYLIN JONES
via e-mail
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950,000 people \"facing severe hunger\" in Mozambique - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Jamaica on Wednesday recorded five additional COVID-19 deaths, moving the tally to 51.\tTwo of them were previously under investigation.\tFour other deaths are now being probed, increasing the total to seven. \tThe country also recorded 210 new...
The site of 1969's historic LGBTQ uprising had previously launched a fundraiser to stay afloat after being shuttered during the coronavirus pandemic.
We look back on this day in history and remember the people and events that shaped the world we live in today. Every day is worth remembering.
