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HEALTH stakeholders from the pharmaceutical industry have called on the country to seriously consider local production of medicines as medical costs and drugs continue to skyrocket. BY PHYLLIS MBANJE This came out during the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ)'s second annual general
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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People
Toll Authority donates court to Toll Gate Primary
The Toll Authority of Jamaica, an agency of the Ministry of Transport and Mining, has outfitted the Toll Gate Primary School in Clarendon with a new, state-of-the-art multipurpose court.The multipurpose court was built at a cost of $1.5 million and will serve students in recreation while doubling
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Bishop Joe Aldred: 'What we need is Black agency... the power of autonomy and self-determination' - Voice Online
WITH ADEQUATE antiracist laws in the UK, what we need is Black agency. This means... The post Bishop Joe Aldred: 'What we need is Black agency… the power of autonomy and self-determination' appeared first on Voice Online.
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New Mental Health Emergency Center Planned for Milwaukee County Residents - Milwaukee Community Journal
Milwaukee County and Four Local Health Systems Enter Negotiations to Develop Joint Venture MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee County, represented by the Mental Health Board and the Behavioral Health Division, along with the four Milwaukee Health Systems – Advocate Aurora Health, Ascension
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Namibia Prepares for Covid Vaccine
[Namibian] Ministry of health and social Services Kalumbi Shangula has established a technical team to implement the requirements for the storage, transport and distribution of a Covid-19 vaccine.
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Obama reunion? Biden fills Cabinet with former WH leaders - Black News Channel
By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is getting the old gang back together. Increasingly deep into the process of selecting Cabinet members and other senior staff, the incoming Biden administration has a distinctly Obama feel. There's Denis McDonough, former
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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel
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Airport employee arrested in $2 billion cocaine bust
An airport employee has been arrested in connection with the seizure of a $2 billion cocaine bust at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston. The police say the drug was discovered on Thursday. They say about 9:45 a.m., the narcotics...
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‘Make example’ of Kraal cops, says resident
Khadane Rowe, who witnessed the condition his uncle Rohan ‘Bulby’ Thomas was in as he ran for his life in Kraal, Clarendon, on that fateful day of May 7, 2003, says it is a memory that will never be erased. Reacting to the news that the United...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
ENTRY PAINS - Duplicate questions, long processing times frustrate travellers at airport
Three-year-old Kenny shrieked with excitement as the airplane dipped closer towards the Sangster International Airport, bringing the “green water” and curvy Montego Bay shoreline closer to view. The boy had been singing about making sandcastles on...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Ethiopia: International Humanitarian Aid Must Be Allowed Into Tigray Refugee Camps Amid Food Shortage Warning
Press Release - The Ethiopian authorities must allow unfettered international humanitarian aid to reach refugee camps in Tigray state, Amnesty International said today, amid warnings from the United Nations of a potential food shortage in the region.
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Namibia: Probe Into 'Missing' N$24m Intensifies... ACC Insists Walvis Investigation Not Compromised
[New Era] Walvis Bay -- The Anti-Corruption Commission says its current investigation into the alleged corruption and lack of transparency in the mass urban land servicing project, as well as the reportedly unaccounted N$24 million at the Walvis Bay municipality, is not compromised.
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Bittersweet Christmas for Jamaica-born philanthropist
CLARENDON: For the past six years, Emanuel Azan had been making the trek to his community of Farm/Effortville in Clarendon, where he aided the many underprivileged and vulnerable by giving them well-needed supplies such as clothing and food items...
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Indian Innovator Lights Up His Village – The Wilmington Journal
GHAZIABAD, Uttar Pradesh — At the Koyla Nagar Hospital in the eastern coal-mining town of Dhanbad, Kamil Topno is a laboratory technician. But, in his village Thakurain Dera, about 240 km west, the 36-year-old is [...]
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TBWA Zimbabwe Appoints new General Manager
TBWA Zimbabwe under Full Circle Comms has appointed Patience Chivaviro as General Manager as from 4 January 2021. Chivaviro joined the Full Circle Comms family in 2019 when she took up the position of Account Manager at Magna Carta Reputation Management Consultants where she has been highly
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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People
Anthony Chen illuminates pathways to renewable energy solutions in Jamaica
This is an edited version of one of the articles in the Caricom Energy Personality Series, an activity of CARICOM Energy Month 2020.THERE is no doubt that the modern world requires evolved concepts and frameworks to combat the effects of climate predictions and projections within impacted
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Black Filmmaker Shares Journey As His Animated Short 'Canvas' Debuts on Netflix: 'I Just Want People to be Inspired'
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'Couldn't Be My Kid': LeBron James Is Outraged Over Video Showing 9-Year-Old Football Player Being Struck By Coach
LeBron James expressed anger and outrage upon viewing a disturbing video of a youth football coach hitting a child at a game that was shared online. James
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Motshekga was never authorised to make matrics rewrite exams, court finds | News24
The decision to have matrics rewrite two leaked papers has been found to be unlawful.
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Cop vows to get gangster 'cockroaches'
'We intend to pursue these cockroaches.'That was the vow from Superintendent of Police Vernon Ellis yesterday, as he disclosed that GCity and Walthamese gangs are high on his radar.Superintendent Ellis, who was speaking at yesterday's St James Municipal Corporation meeting, described gang behaviour
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Canary Islands face migration crisis | Africanews
After a three-day boat trip from Western Sahara, Mohceine Ait Lamadane reached the Canaries and from there travelled to Italy, taking advantage of a system swamped by arrivals and slowed by the
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Here’s how to watch the MLK Day festivities - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
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Why Do So Many Places In Texas Have 'Negro' In Their Name, Despite A Law Against It?
Texas lawmakers voted to remove the word "Negro" from geographic features in 1991. But a federal board blocked the proposed name changes, and since then, almost none of them have been changed.
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Campaigning begins in Central African Republic's tense vote | Africanews
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Just in: Court sets aside matric exam rewrite
Judge Norman Davis found that the decision by the Department of Basic Education, to order a rewrite of two matric examination papers was unlawful
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Harbour Bridge resumes normal operations after completion of repairs - Stabroek News
The Demerara Harbour Bridge has resumed normal operations after engineers were able to swiftly complete repairs yesterday. The article Harbour Bridge resumes normal operations after completion of repairs appeared first on Stabroek News.
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46 Pygmies killed in militia attack in eastern DR Congo | News24
Forty-six Pygmies have been massacred in eastern DR Congo's Ituri province by the notorious Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militia, local sources said.
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A coup: What is it, and are we in the midst of one?
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Morocco: Human Rights Day - Morocco Sign Three Agreements With Three International Organizations
[MAP] Rabat -- The Ministry of State in charge of human rights and relations with the Parliament signed, on Thursday in Rabat, two partnership agreements in the field of human rights with the World Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) and the United Nations
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Africa: Safe Drinking Water Should Mean Safe Collection Too - How to Reduce the Risks
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