Three private labs engaged for COVID-19 testing - Reduction expected in turnaround time for results

Wakanda News Details

Three private labs engaged for COVID-19 testing - Reduction expected in turnaround time for results

Three private laboratories have been granted permission by the Ministry of Health...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

You may also like

African American History and Women - Timeline 1950-1959

[Previous] [Next] • Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize (for Annie Allen) • Althea Gibson became the first African American to play at Wimbledon • Juanita Hall became the first African American to win a Tony Award, for playing Bloody Mary in South Pacific • (Ja

fave

Source: ThoughtCo

Dec

21

1959

Rapid COVID tests get green light

Jamaica is set to introduce rapid antigen testing that will have a faster turnaround in results than the model originally backed by the Government. Also called F200, the COVID-19 antigen testing will come on stream in October. However, the new...

fave

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Spokesman raps US ambassador for targeting Chinese firm

THE Chinese embassy in Jamaica has come out swinging against United States Ambassador Donald Tapia, describing his recent comments about a Chinese company in business with new local lottery firm, Mahoe Gaming, as 'baseless and discriminatory'.

fave

Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Trump vows to end Dream Act despite court ruling

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — President Donald Trump said yesterday that he will renew his Administration's effort to end legal protections for young immigrants after the Supreme Court blocked the first

fave

Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Ethiopia coronavirus: Cases pass 1,000 mark; total tests top 100,000

May 30: Cases pass 1,000 mark; total tests top 100,000

fave

Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

No work for doctors amid public health crisis - Hospitals reportedly not employing medical professionals due to budgetary constraints caused by COVID-19

Ironically, the very health crisis that Jamaica is battling has reportedly pressured the country’s resources so severely that it has caused a number of doctors to be out of work. In spite of the country’s need of healthcare workers to fight the...

fave

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Oxygen already runs low as COVID-19 surges in South Africa - Black News Channel

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The coronavirus storm has arrived in South Africa, but in the overflowing COVID-19 wards the sound is less of a roar than a rasp. Medical oxygen is already low in hospitals at the new epicenter of the country's outbreak, Gauteng

fave

Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

State agents, political operatives inseparable in St Mary COVID-19 relief - Mayne says Bull Bay, Corn Piece quarantine lessons learnt; Alexis says first six days of lockdown illegal

Government agencies, non-profit organisations and political operatives were inseparable in communities under COVID-19 lockdown last Thursday as The Sunday Gleaner toured the area, but South East St Mary Member of Parliament Dr Norman Dunn has insisted that his bee-like presence was purely

fave

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

The crew member, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was among the first batch of Jamaicans from the vessel to set foot on home soil following the closure of the country's air and sea ports to incoming passengers on March 24 due to the COVID-19

fave

Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

The police are the real outside agitators

While the mainstream press has sought to distract from the protests by claiming it’s being orchestrated by outside agitators, they fail to reveal that much of the mayhem that came with the overwhelmingly peaceful protests was created by the police operating as undercover

fave

Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

AG: Have the prisons not learned from past cases? - Calls mount for audits, intervention for inmates lost in system without trial

Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has admitted that there is a failure in the system after so many years of similar cases popping

fave

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

In Fight Against Virus, South Africa Expects a Long Wait | Afro

The country with the continent’s most developed economy also has its highest number of confirmed infections — more than 21,000, representing 20% of

fave

Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

In midst of pandemic, east Africa braces for another locust invasion

East Africa is bracing for a third outbreak of desert locusts, with billions of the destructive insects about to hatch and threaten food supplies in a region already reeling from damaging rains and the coronavirus

fave

Source: https://www.news24.com

Covid-19: AU hails 'African jewel' as continental medical supplies platform launched

African leaders have lauded the launch of the continent's first medical supplies platform as the "jewel in the crown of Pan-African

fave

Source: https://www.news24.com

Musician turns to social media

SOUTH AFRICA-BASED award-winning gospel artiste Knowledge Nkiwane has turned to YouTube to connect with his fans amid indications that the latter would be able to connect with him online beginning end of this

fave

Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Education minister appointment nothing to celebrate, says Speid

MONTEGO BAY, St James — President of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) Owen Speid says while the association welcomes the appointment of Karl Samuda as minister of education, there is nothing to

fave

Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

GB Energy-Texaco donates $1m to PSOJ's COVID-19 fund

GB Energy-Texaco Jamaica recently donated $1 million to the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica's (PSOJ) COVID-19 Response Fund, which was established to assist vulnerable citizens affected by the coronavirus

fave

Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

African-American Men and Women of the Progressive Era

Despite the presence of Jim Crow Era laws and politics, African-Americans attempted to reach achieve equality by creating organizations that would help them lobby few anti-lynching legislation and achieve prosperity. Here are several African-American men and women who worked to change life for

fave

Source: ThoughtCo

SATURDAY PROFILE | Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku: We hopefully won't surpass 'maybe 2 000' deaths | News24

Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku says he wants stricter lockdown regulations in the province, and that people should expect more death in the weeks ahead.

fave

Source: https://www.news24.com

Former ACP boss decries lack of official result in Guyana's elections

GEORGTOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Former secretary general of the African Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP), Dr Patrick I Gomes says it is “shameful” that four months after a regional and general election, voters in Guyana are yet to know the official

fave

Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Mozambique: Number of COVID-19 Cases Tops 900

[AIM] Maputo -The Mozambican health authorities on Wednesday announced the diagnosis of a further 14 cases of the respiratory disease Covid-19, bringing the total number since the pandemic began to over 900.

fave

Source: allAfrica.com

'Extend curfew hours'

WITH the country set to head to the polls in three weeks amid a second wave of novel coronavirus infections, public health expert Dr Peter Figueroa is urging the Government to reintroduce earlier curfew times and reduce the numbers allowed for public gatherings.

fave

Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Norton, Eleanor Holmes (1937- )

Eleanor Holmes Norton was born on June 13, 1937 in Washington, D.C. to parents Coleman and Vela Holmes. Both her parents were government employees. Growing up in a well educated and politically conscious household caused Eleanor Holmes to be very aware of the surrounding struggles for African

fave

Source: Black Past

Jun

13

1937

Harris, Markey, Smith, Booker to Introduce Legislation to Make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Kamala D. Harris (D-CA), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Tina Smith (D-MN), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Friday announced they will introduce Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, legislation to make Juneteenth a federal

fave

Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

Tufton takes COVID-19 fight to communities

THE Ministry of Health and Wellness is undertaking community consultations aimed at engaging stakeholders at the parish level in the process of heightening public awareness and adherence to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection-prevention measures.The first in the series of meetings was held

fave

Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Mayor Johnny Magee Signed An Order Banning The Mississippi State Flag

Laurel, Mississippi, Mayor Johnny Magee held back tears as he signed an executive order removing the state’s flag from city-owned

fave

Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

Byo residents pursue independent water tests

BULAWAYO residents have engaged private laboratories to run independent tests on the city’s water after five children reportedly succumbed to diarrhoea due to contaminated water being pumped to Luveve high-density suburb by the local

fave

Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

THE NEW NORMAL: 173rd Session of Allegheny Annual Conference held virtually

REV. JONATHON COUNTS, Pastor of Homewood AME Zion Church, communicating with conference attendees via the new

fave

Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

‘HAVE A POSITIVE DAY’ Brenda Waters retires after 35 years at KDKA-TV

Courier Staff Writer

fave

Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

ELECTIONWATCH - PM says economic recovery the focus now, but analyst expects polls sooner rather than later

Even as political watchers zero in on August dates for the next general election, Prime Minister Andrew Holness kept his cards close to his chest as he spoke with The Sunday Gleaner a week ago, giving no hint as to when he will summon Jamaicans to the

fave

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

More from Jamaica Gleaner

COVID & mental health

What stops my prayers from being answered?

250 ship crew arrive today - Carnival Glory with homesick Jamaicans aboard to dock in Falmouth

Shaggy pushes for US visas for Bounty, Beenie

Hoteliers back pretesting of tourists

Tivoli incursion - ten years on | Woman: I witnessed point-blank murders

Tivoli incursion - ten years on | Gary Spaulding cried, ‘Yuh gwine mek dem kill wi!’

Tivoli incursion - ten years on | 'It was one scary firefight'

Tivoli incursion - ten years on | Caught in crossfire at KPH

Will Jamaica still be blacklisted? - Opposition senator questions scale of COVID-19 effect on economy

Labour Day project in St Catherine shut down by police

Mitchell Town recreational park in Clarendon gets facelift

More than 50 rounds of ammunition seized in St Catherine, man arrested

St Catherine man listed as person of interest in murder probe

McKenzie saddened by passing of former May Pen mayor

Former May Pen mayor Milton Brown has died

12 charged in St Thomas for breaching public gathering ban

Higgler murdered in Westmoreland home invasion, attackers on the run

Popular Hanover political activist says he’s undeterred by reported threat

Japan’s Abe says vaccine a priority for Olympics

Williams new Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal at UWI Five Islands

St Mary man arrested following ammunition seizure

Basic-school principal hosts free online lessons

Glenmuir High doubles efforts to help COVID-19 affected families

Digicel Foundation pumps $42m in humanitarian project

88-year-old praises God for sending help

Recoveries from COVID-19 outnumber new cases of disease

Holness pledges $750,000 to support NCU students affected by COVID-19

Teen arrested in connection with eight year-old's killing; two others accosted for separate incidents

Holness under tourism pressure

Treasure Beach hotels to make push for J’can tourists

Quarantined flight returnees ‘pushed to back of the line’

Things are cooking for Miss Ina!

Hanoverians reject COVID-19 patient, saying he’s from Portland

Mandeville cops clean up home away from home

St Thomas tackles garbage woes

FTC, CAC to merge

Opposition demands protocol for reopening economy

Holness to co-host high-level meeting with UN official on COVID-19

Manchester man charged with murder

PNP pays tribute to late councillor Milton Brown

Taxi driver reported missing

Coronation Market gets Labour Day cleaning

Quiet Labour Day in St James

Growth & Jobs | Spend wisely! - Conserving fuel during an economic downturn

Growth & Jobs | COVID-19 pandemic: An opportunity to strengthen the micro sector landscape

Growth & Jobs | COVID-19 fast track digital transformation for business organisations

New Denham Town homeowners warned against fire hazards

Family, friends mourn late Milton Brown

VM labours for learning

Literature Facts

Blackfacts BETA RELEASE 11.5.3
(Production Environment)