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THE EDITOR: This country will pay a heavy price for the lack of education of our children during this covid19 lockdown. We still have thousands of children without electronic access to education, and the Education Minister's answer is to send the police for them.
All this while large corporations are declaring profits of tens of millions of dollars in a quarter. How much does an electronic device cost? Maybe $1,000? So for $20 million we can supply 20,000 children with devices. Is that too much for these huge businesses to donate to the country? It is obvious that the politicians will not do it.
If the businesses make these donations they can surely claim some tax credits. Better than that, they will change the perception that the public has of them, which is that they are only interested in profits. Think of it as a PR stunt. They can take all the pictures they want and do some good.
Also, we need TSTT and Digicel to get together and increase the internet reach throughout the country. They must know where the need is. Just do it. Time is wasting.
We keep hearing that we are in this together. Well, prove it!
ANNE DE SILVA
St Joseph
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THE EDITOR: So when will the Ministry of Health get serious about vaccinations?
How is vaccinating 1,500 people a day going to get us to the 'herd immunity?' At that rate we will need 400 days or more.
We have a large portion of the population who are medical practitioners and dentists. All of them know how to administer injections. I am certain they would each volunteer a week of their time to assist the population. Their practice is limited at this time. They have done well in this country. I repeat, they would willingly assist.
This insistence by the Government that it can do it alone and don't need suggestions or help from anybody is unnecessarily short-sighted. It is actually dangerous, because a health emergency has been declared. Emergency means that help is needed.
I tell my grandson not to scream unless he needs help. The Government has screamed. Now accept help. Ask for it. Let's get this vaccination programme going. Now!
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Dear Editor,
My country remained a strange and interesting place in the run up to the National and Regional Elections 2020, for reasons which I never understood.
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Saint Lucia sānt lo͞o´shə, –sēə [key], island nation (2005 est. pop. 166,000), 238 sq mi (616 sq km), West Indies, one of the Windward Islands. The capital is Castries . Morne Gimie (3,145 ft/959 m high) and the twin pyramidal cones known as the Pitons are the most imposing landmarks. The country is subject hurricanes; it suffered significant destruction in 1980, 1994, and 2007. The population is largely of African descent and Roman Catholicism is the dominant religion, although there is a large Protestant minority. English is the official language, but Kwéyòl, a French creole, is also widely spoken, and many St. Lucians also speak French or Spanish.
The economy is largely based on agriculture (bananas, cocoa, and other tropical products are exported) and tourism. Saint Lucia has moved to attract foreign investment to its offshore banking industry, and has diversified its industrial base to include light manufacturing, the assembly of electronic components, and oil refining and transshipment. The United States and France are the main trading partners.
The country is a parliamentary democracy governed under the constitution of 1979. There is a bicameral Parliament, with an 11-seat Senate and a 17-seat House of Assembly; the government is headed by the prime minister. The monarch of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, represented by a governor-general, is the head of state. Administratively, the country is divided into 11 districts called quarters.
THE EDITOR: All our parliamentarians are honourable men and women. They become honourable as soon as they are elected to Parliament as representatives of the people to seek their interest and welfare.
During the lockdowns due to the pandemic, many constituents have either lost their jobs or have had to close their businesses with the concomitant effect of loss of income.
As honourable men and women I am sure the parliamentarians feel the pain and distress of those they represent. Perhaps it is the opportune time to show their solidarity with their constituents and demonstrate that they are truly honourable by cutting their salaries by 50 per cent so that the State can buy enough vaccines to vaccinate the people in their constituencies.
Follow the honourable example of Nicholas Pooran who is donating part of his IPL salary to the covid19 relief in India.
IMAAM IQUBAL HYDAL
Felicity
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Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated by white sniper in Memphis, Tennessee. Assassination precipitated a national crisis and rioting in more than one hundred cities. Forty-six persons were killed in major rebellions in Washington, Chicago and other cities. Twenty thousand federal troops and thirty-four thousand National Guardsmen were mobilized to quell disturbances. Memorial marches and rallies were held throughout the country. Many public school systems closed and the opening of the baseball season was postponed. President Lyndon B. Johnson declared Sunday, April 6, a national day of mourning and ordered all U.S. flags on government buildings in all U.S. territories and possession to fly at half-mast.
President Joe Biden will sign the COVID-19 relief bill on Thursday afternoon rather than on Friday as was originally planned, CBS News reports. Vice-President Kamala Harris will join Biden in the oval office where he’s expected to turn the American Rescue Plan into law. .@POTUS will sign the American Rescue Plan in the Oval Office at 1:30pm today instead of tomorrow. @VP will also attend. - Weijia Jiang (@weijia) March 11, 2021 The news comes hours before the president is set to make his first primetime address to the country, addressing the pandemic's past year shutting down much of the country. […]
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Eating dirt in Madagascar to escape famine
1918 : John H. Johnson, Editor and Publisher of JET and Ebony magazines, founder of Johnson Publishing Company, the most successful African American publishing company in the U.S., owner of Fashion Fair cosmetics, and the first African American owned radio station in Chicago, born
Trump's decision to extend a ban on what he calls \"un-American\" diversity training to federal contractors is scaring some leaders in corporate America.
The Labour Party defeated Manley in 1980 and its capitalist-oriented leader, Edward P. G. Seaga, was elected prime minister. He encouraged private investment and began an austerity program. Like other Caribbean countries, Jamaica was hard-hit by the 1981–1982 recession. Devaluation of the Jamaican dollar made Jamaican products more competitive on the world market, and the country achieved record growth in tourism and agriculture. While manufacturing also grew, food prices rose as much as 75% and thousands of Jamaicans fell deeper into poverty.
In 1989, Manley was reelected, but he resigned in 1992 and was replaced by P. J. Patterson. In May 1997, the government signed a “Ship-Rider Agreement,” allowing U.S. authorities to enter Jamaican waters and search vessels with the Jamaican governments permission in order to fight drug trafficking. In 2001, violence between politically connected gangs escalated in Kingston, promoting fears that the tourist industry could suffer. In Oct. 2002, Patterson won his third term in office.
In Sept. 2004, Hurricane Ivan, the worst storm to hit the island in decades, destroyed thousands of homes.
In March 2006, Portia Simpson Miller of the Peoples National Party (PNP) became Jamaicas first female prime minister. In the countrys general election in September 2007, the opposition Jamaica Labour Party narrowly defeated the center-left Peoples National Party, 50.1% to 49.8%. The Peoples National Party had been in power for 18 years. Bruce Golding took office as prime minister days after the election.
Dozens of people died in the Tivoli Gardens section of Kingston in late May 2010 in clashes between police and supporters of drug lord Christopher Coke, who is wanted in the U.S. on gun- and drug-trafficking charges. When police entered the neighborhood to search for Coke, they were fired on by his supporters. About 75 civilians were killed. Coke was arrested in June and extradited to the U.S., where he will face trial in New York.
South Africa expects to receive its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines from the global vaccine distribution scheme, Covax, in the second quarter of 2021.
W.E.B. Du Bois (95), scholar, protest leader and a founder of the NAACP, died in Accra, Ghana.
W.E.B. DuBois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1868. He was raised mostly by his mother, Mary, after his father left the family when he was very young. He was the first black person to graduate from his high school. After high school, he went on to study at Fisk University in Tennessee on full academic scholarship. After graduating with honors in 1888, he then went on to Harvard to pursue a second undergraduate degree. He received a second B.A. from Harvard in 1890, and went on to get his Master’s there as well in 1891. He became the first Black to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1895. DuBois then began teaching at Atlanta University in 1897, staying there until 1910. In 1905, DuBois helped found the Niagara Movement. This led to his work with the NAACP, where he served as editor for The Crisis from 1910-1934. He then became involved with the Pan-African movement, organizing the first four Pan-African Congresses. He continued to write, penning several important works. In 1961, DuBois joined the Communist Party. He expatriated to Ghana in 1964, where he died the same year.
Al-Shabab formally declared allegiance to al-Qaeda in February 2010, sparking further concern that the group posed a global threat. It claimed responsibility for the July bombing at a restaurant in Kampala, Uganda, that killed about 75 people who were watching the final game of the World Cup. The bombing was intended to send a message to countries that have sent troops to support Somalias transitional government.
Prime Minister Omar Sharmarke, who has been criticized for failing to defeat the Shabab and who has been at odds with President Ahmed, resigned in September 2010. He was succeeded in November by Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed.
Piracy continued to plague the waters off Somalia and other parts of eastern Africa into 2011. In February, Somalia pirates killed four Americans who were sailing on their yacht in the piracy-laden water off the coast of Somalia.
The summer of 2011 brought drought to a country already laid low by nearly constant conflict, resulting in a UN-declared famine in two regions in southern Somalia. With tens of thousands of Somalis dead of malnutrition and its related causes and ten million more at risk, those who could, fled, trying to reach neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia for help. According to a report released by the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organizationin in April 2013, about 260,000 died in the famine—more than half under age 6. The figure is double early estimates. The report cites the delayed response by donor nations and the Shabab for not allowing the delivery of aid the affected areas.
In June, Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed resigned; Abdiweli Mohamed Ali became acting prime minister and was approved by parliament and sworn in on June 28, 2011.
"President Biden, we demand justice, equity, policy and everything else that freedom encompasses," the activist said during Lil Baby's moving performance.
Nnamdi Azikiwe, by now the best know nationalist leader in Nigeria, addressed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at its 50th anniversary celebration at the Polo Grounds, New York City, July 19, 1959. His speech appears below.
I am greatly indebted to the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People for the invitation to speak on this occasion of the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary. For five decades, this organization has been in the vanguard of the struggle for human freedom in America. Its objective has been the attainment of equal rights for people of African descent and other peoples of colour who are citizens of this great bastion of democracy.
In the thoughts of Abraham Lincoln, this country was conceived in liberty of the individual and it was dedicated to the idea that democracy as a way of life can only be meaningful not only to its inhabitants but to the rest of the world if all facets of its society respect human dignity in the noble attempt to create equality of opportunity for all.
For 183 years, the people of the United States have been involved in a historic experiment to determine whether democracy can survive as an ideology which places a high premium on the value of the individual in a society which is heterogeneous. Throughout this period, this great country has been the cynosure of the world. Every little mistake in human relations has been magnified out of its proportions. Every error of judgement in the relations of the races has been critically analysed. And every act of injustice based on such extraneous factors as race, colour, creed or station in life has been subjected to the most severe strictures.
Such a negative attitude has not been due to any inveterate hatred of the United States per se (although we must admit that those with axes to grind cannot but make capital out of such slips), but the main reason is the universal respect which the world has for this country. Because of this high esteem, the outside world expects
… ILLEGAL PRACTICE. IT KEPT MANY AFRICAN-AMERICANS OUT OF CERTAIN IT’S … YEARS LATE APPROXIMATELY 90 OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CHRISTIANS WORSHIP IN ALL BLACK …
The National Resistance Army (NRA), an anti-Obote group led by Yoweri Museveni, kept fighting after it had been excluded from the new regime. It seized Kampala on Jan. 29, 1986, and Museveni was declared president. Museveni has transformed the ruins of Idi Amin and Milton Obotes Uganda into an economic miracle, preaching a philosophy of self-sufficiency and anti-corruption. Western countries have flocked to assist him in the countrys transformation. Nevertheless, it remains one of Africas poorest countries. A ban on political parties was lifted in 1996, and the incumbent Museveni won 72% of the vote, reflecting his popularity due to the countrys economic recovery.
Uganda has waged an enormously successful campaign against AIDS, dramatically reducing the rate of new infections through an intensive public health and education campaign. Museveni won reelection in March 2001 with 70% of the vote, following a nasty and spirited campaign.
Close ties with Rwanda (many Rwandan Tutsi exiles helped Museveni come to power) led to the cooperation of Uganda and Rwanda in the ousting of Zaires Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997, and a year later, in efforts to unseat his successor, Laurent Kabila, whom both countries originally supported but from whom they grew estranged. But in 1999, Uganda and Rwanda quarreled over strategy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and began fighting each other. The two countries mended their differences in 2002. Uganda also signed a peace accord with the Congo in Sept. 2002 and finally withdrew its remaining troops from the country in May 2003.
In July 2005, parliament amended the constitution to eliminate term limits, thus allowing President Museveni another term in office. In August, a multi-party political system was reinstituted after a 19-year absence. In Feb. 2006, Museveni was reelected with 59% of the vote.
Virginian George Washington, having traveled cross country in the company of foster parents and settlied in Washinton Territory a quarter of a century earlier, founded the city of Centerville. Washington, a successful businessman, was revered because of his willingness to help his neighbors. He is often called the A.P. Gianini of the Pacific Northwest.
Born: 2/23/868 Great Barrington, MassachusettsDied: 8/27/963 Accra, GhanaWilliam Edward Burghardt W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community.Business / Schooling:
Harvard University
University of Berlin
Du Bois was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize by the USSR in 959.
The site of the house where Du Bois grew up in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 976.
In 992 the United States Postal Service honored Du Bois with his portrait on a postage stamp. A second stamp of face value 32¢ was issued on February 3, 998 as part of the Celebrate the Century stamp sheet series.
[263Chat] Chitungwiza Municipality has with immediate effect partially closed St. Mary's Clinic after a surge in COVID-19 cases left many of the dormitory town's clinics understaffed.
As Muslims in Guyana anxiously await the start of the holy month of Ramadan which should be either the 13th or 14th of April 2021, we were greeted with some horrible news by the government’s national Covid-19 task force that decreed that no feeding or eating should take place at masjids after Muslims break their fast after fasting for 14 hours every day with no food or water.
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Mayor Ubraj Narine has denied a suggestion that the City Council is considering disposing of its Water Street property that houses the City Constabulary Training Complex.
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Instead of asking ‘whodunit’, it is better to ask: who is responsible for it?
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Despite instability, political progress continued. In May 2005, a new constitution was adopted by the national assembly, and overwhelmingly ratified in Jan. 2006. On July 30, 2006, the first democratic election in the country since 1970 took place. President Kabila received 44.8% of the vote, which was not enough to win the election outright. Fighting broke out between factions supporting the two major candidates, setting off the worst violence the country has seen since the 2002 peace deal was signed. Kabila was declared the winner in the October run-off election, winning 58% of the vote, the countrys first freely elected president in four decades.
In August 2007, a rebel general, Laurent Nkunda, led battles between his militia, made up of fellow Tutsis, and the Congolese Army. The fighting continued throughout the year, driving hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in eastern Congo and threatening to spiral the already fragile country back into civil war. Nkunda claimed he was protecting Tutsis from extremist Rwandan Hutus. In January 2008, the government and the rebels signed an agreement that had both sides withdrawing their troops and the rebels disarming and eventually being integrated into the national army. The cease-fire fell apart in August, and fighting resumed between Nkundas militia and the army. By the end of October 2008, the rebels had captured the major army base of Rumangaboebel and were advancing towad Goma, the capital of North Kivu province. In addition, angry civilians attacked UN peacekeeping troops, who proved ineffectual in both thwarting the rebels and protecting citizens. Nkunda was arrested in January 2009, and a cease-fire was signed on March 23, 2009. Members of Nkundas militia joined the government forces. The militaries of Congo and Rwanda worked together to eliminate remaining rebel fighters from eastern Congo. The joint mission lasts about five weeks.
A report released in January 2008 by the International Rescue Committee found that despite billions in aid, the
Liberian Commission recommended financial aid to Liberia and the establishment of a U.S. Navy coaling station in the African country.
As the country awaits a decision by the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) on whether it will postpone scheduled assessments, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand yesterday said that the government is open to giving students more time.
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