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Tunisia's National Judo Team is not letting the COVID-19 pandemic keep them from their Olympic aspirations in Tokyo this summer.
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
Equifax Inc. announced that Audrey Boone Tillman, executive vice president and general counsel at Aflac Incorporated, was elected to its board of directors. 'We are thrilled to welcome Audrey as a new independent director on our board,' said Mark W. Begor, CEO of Equifax. 'Her broad legal and business background, involvement in business strategy and operations, as well as her […]
(Jamaica Observer) USAIN Bolt's return to competitive track and field could be closer than ever after his former coach, Glen Mills gave an indication that the double sprint world record holder might have walked away from the sport prematurely.
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I come to you from a liberated South Africa, a nation that many of you helped to set free. I come from a continent about which more is written but less is understood; so I come with a message that is straight-forward and simple. Like the Apostle Paul on his return from the provinces, I come to bring good news, but I also come with an appeal for your support of a new generation of Africans who have a bold, new futurist vision for their countries and their continent; but who live for the moment between two worlds, an old order that is dying but not yet dead and a new order that is conceived but not yet born.
The reports coming out of Africa are often confusing and contradictory:
Transformation and reconciliation in Southern Africa; conflict and crisis in Central Africa; new leaders with new vision in some areas and old leaders desperately hanging onto the past in others. It is now obvious that one can not speak of Africa as one continuous stream of ideas and social arrangements providing either cultural unity or political uniformity. There is much that unites Africans; W.E.B. Dubois reminded us at the turn of the century of the common bond created by the problem of the color line, for example. But the first thing that must be accepted and acknowledged by any one who dares to write or speak about the new Africa is that what seems self-evident in one area may not be the reality in another. Far too many people who would not dare to speak of a homogeneous Europe or Asia speak of the more than fifty independent nations of Africa as if the continent was a single political entity.
It is indeed difficult for many Americans to grasp either the extraordinary range of cultural, political and economic diversity or the immense size of a continent so large that the whole of China, the continental United States, Europe, Argentina, India, and New Zealand can fit within its boundaries. It is even more difficult for Americans to recognize that any idea of a retreat from the African continent at the very moment so many
Who Was Jesse Owens?
Jesse Owens, the son of sharecroppers and grandson of slaves, was the first person to win four gold medals in track and field in a modern Olympic Games. In the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Owens won gold in the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash, and the long jump. Then, his relay team won the 400-meter relay. Jesse Owens was an Olympic superstar and is considered one of the best athletes of the 20th century.
Dates: September 12, 1913 - March 31, 1980
Also Known As: James Cleveland Owens (born as), J.C., The Buckeye Bullet
Famous Quote: The battles that count arent for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us -- thats where its at.
Family and Childhood
James Cleveland Owens was born on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama as the tenth child of Henry and Mary Emma Owens. James Owens, called “J.C.” by his family, was the grandson of slaves and the son of a sharecropper. The Owens family, like most sharecroppers, were very poor -- living in a dilapidated shanty and barely subsisting.
J.C., the youngest of his family, was a sickly child, suffering from serious bouts of bronchitis and pneumonia throughout his childhood. His family, too poor to call a doctor, often worried that he wouldn’t survive.
J.C., however, wasn’t always sick. When he felt good enough, he would walk the nine miles, each way, to his one-room school in the Baptist Church to be taught by a volunteer teacher.
Despite this, J.C.’s early education was severely lacking, which was something he could never quite overcome.
J.C.’s parents wanted better for him and his siblings and so one day, Henry Owens sold his only mule and all his farm tools to his landlord. It was 1922 -- time to move to Cleveland, Ohio.
The Owens family became part of the Great Migration, a huge exodus of over six million African Americans who moved from the rural South to the cities of the North from 1916 to 1970.
Like others, the Owens family was looking for better jobs and a better life in the
Following in the footsteps of Tessanne Chin who won The Voice in 2013 and Dalton Harris who topped X Factor UK in 2018, two-time Olympian Shevon Stoddart is taking to another track on America’s Got Talent which is aired on NBC.
The episode featuring the Jamaican-born athlete who represented the country in the 400-metre-hurdles at two Olympic Games (Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008) and three World Championships (Helsinki 2005, Osaka 2007 and Beijing 2015), will air on the American network this Tuesday at 7:00 pm Jamaican time, however the producers were so taken by Stoddart’s story and performance that a clip has been released to promote the episode.
The clip features a snippet of her performance of her original song Through The Good And Bad, for the panel of judges which includes chief judge Simon Cowell, Modern Family star Sofia Vergara and actor Howie Mandell.
The song and accompanying music video were released in November last year and caught the eyes of the producers of the popular talent show.
Her talents on the track were revealed during her high school years and earned her the New York state championship title over the 400 metres and a scholarship to the University of Southern Carolina.
John Thomas of Cambridge, while an undergraduate at Boston University, was the first high jumper to clear the seven-foot height. In January 1959 at the Milrose Gardens in Madison Square Garden he set a world record of 7 feet and ¼ inch. He went on to win a bronze medal for the high jump in the 1960 Olympic Games and a silver medal in 1964.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- A Kenyan athlete who jumped over a fence to evade registration by Doping Control Officers (DCOs) has been slapped with a three-and-a-half-year ban by the Athletics Integrity Unit.
[Premium Times] Mr Adinuba added that with the confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state since the second wave began three weeks ago, the state had recorded an average of 40 cases per week.
Experts fear COVID could spread even more during the festive period with people travelling across provinces for Christmas and New Year.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, warned against events such as President Trump's upcoming campaign rally with the country still in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic.
When asked whether he would attend Trump's rally, Fauci said no.
\"I'm in the high-risk category,\" said the 79-year-old Fauci.
The Trump campaign said the rally will be held at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this weekend in spite of the ongoing pandemic.
However, attendees will be required to sign a waiver absolving the campaign of liability for any exposure to the coronavirus during the event.
PAUL CANOVILLE is in hospital after complications from emergency surgery. A statement released by the...
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With a myriad of awards under his belt, Andre Braugher is a well known television, film and theatre actor. He was born on July 1, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois to a postal worker named Sally and a heavy equipment operator named Floyd. He initially enrolled at Stanford University as a pre-medical student but later changed his major to theatre, and graduated in 1984. He then enrolled at the prestigious arts school Julliard, where he received his degree, Master of Fine Arts, in 1988, along with the award for “Most Outstanding Theater Student”.
With a promising career ahead of him, Braugher started off with his first film role in 1989, as Corporal Thomas Searles in the movie “Glory”. His character was that of an educated black man who joins the first black regiment of the Union Army. He then played himself in the 1990 TV series “The More You Know”. Another prominent role at the time was that of Detective Winston Blake, the sidekick to New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak in a television based movie revival of the popular TV series “Kojak”.
One of his most famous and career defining roles was in the television series “Homicide: Life on the Street” in which he played the role of Detective Frank Pembleton. His character was that of a no-nonsense police detective and for this role, Braugher won the Television Critics Association awards for individual achievement in drama for two consecutive years in 1997 and 1998. He also received an Emmy nomination in 1996, and won the Emmy Award in 1998. After spending six seasons on the show, Braugher quit the role but returned to star in the television film.
Other than the big and small screens, Braugher is also an accomplished theatre actor. In 1996, he starred in the New York Shakespeare Festival, appearing in plays such as King John, Much Ado About Nothing and Henry V, for the last of which he won an Obie Award. He later co-starred in the off-Broadway production of The Whipping Man produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club.
Some of his other movie roles
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If you thought Memorial Day weekend marked the end of the coronavirus’ first wave of victims, the World Health Organization wants you to pump your breaks on the premature celebrations.
According to Newsweek, Monday, representatives from WHO revealed that even though countries all over Europe and North America have begun to reopen in the wake of widespread quarantines, many nations are still experiencing alarming upticks in the number of novel coronavirus cases.
READ MORE: White House imposes coronavirus travel ban on Brazil
WHO’s Executive Director of Emergencies, Dr. Michael Ryan explained during the press conference that outbreak confirmed by health officials in South America, Africa and South Asia, actually rose sharply just in the last week alone.
Tuesday, it was confirmed that over 5.5 million cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed worldwide since the start of the global pandemic, resulting in at least 346,836 deaths.
READ MORE: The New York Times publishes breathtaking front page as U.S. coronavirus deaths near 100,000
Though many annual events that involved large groups of people have postponed or cancelled their 2020 plans, President Donald Trump asked North Carolina to still hold the Republican National Convention scheduled there for August.
The trial in the murder case of Frenchman Hervé Gourdel, has been postponed to February 18. His case opened in Algiers Thursday 7 years after the high-mountain guide was beheaded by jihadists in Algeria.
It is unlikely South Africa will see any vaccine before the country experiences a second wave of Covid-19, says Health Minister Zweli Mkhize.
Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu has tested positive for COVID-19 amid the second wave. He took a test on Monday after showing symptoms.
BY MOSES MATENGA A ZANU PF women’s league executive member has unwittingly exposed human rights violations by the military and threatened to engage President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri and senior party officials to stop the soldiers from abusing villagers. In a leaked audio, Maybe Mbowa, the ruling party women’s league national commissar and Gokwe-Nembudziya senator is heard claiming that a group of soldiers were on a rampage in the district, harassing shoppers and forcing villagers to crawl in water, exposing them to COVID-19. Mbowa was not picking calls yesterday, but in the audio discussion with someone she addressed as a senior member of the security sector in the district, she claimed to have received several reports of soldiers harassing villagers. Zimbabwe National Army spokesperson Colonel Alphios Makotore could neither confirm nor deny the claims, referring questions to national police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi, whom he said was handling the case. “That one is being done by Nyathi. You can get hold of Nyathi,” he said. Nyathi said they were investigating the claims. “So far, we haven’t received any report from Midlands, you can check with us tomorrow (today), we are investigating the claims,” he said. In the audio, Mbowa is heard saying: “As Senator and political commissar of the women’s league, I am not happy with the reports. “I can phone straight to the President because I suspect there is something happening behind the scenes. I don’t know what it is, but I am even ready to engage their (soldiers’) leader here. You can invite me to your meetings and I talk to them.” She added: “I got several reports and I initially ignored them thinking people were lying. The recent report was about a former teacher who was harassed and was beaten by the soldiers while forcing him to crawl. Another victim was forced into the water. Imagine in these COVID-19 times, someone is forced into the water exposing them to the virus. “We want to know what these soldiers stand for. Are they there for the government and are they there to see to it that government regulations have been followed?” She said the military should be friendly to the people and should not instil fear. “Where in town have you seen people running away from soldiers? Why is it it’s only Nembudziya that is experiencing that? “I don’t want to cause problems for security people because I can call (Midlands Provincial Affairs minister Larry) Mavima, I can call our party chairperson and Defence minister (Oppah) Muchinguri to say, are the soldiers working for government or they are working against the government?” She said she had no problem with soldiers dealing with commuter omnibus operators violating COVID-19 rules and regulations, but was concerned about the harassment of ordinary citizens. “We agree when they deal with errant kombi operators, but what pains me is that after doing all that and allegedly extorting money, they then force open a bar and drink beer in the eyes of the public. Honestly, can that be oka
WITH flies hovering all over the vicinity of the crowded slums of Epworth, an urban settlement approximately 25km east of the Zimbabwean capital Harare, laden plastic paper bags lie scattered on streets and sidewalks, with children rummaging through garbage and vendors going about their normal business oblivious to the wafting stench of human waste. Tambudzai Munondo (45), one of the residents of Epworth, strangely, says they have become used to co-exist with human waste. “Most of these homes you see here have no toilets and it’s now common for people to relieve themselves in the open or in plastic bags or even old newspapers in which they wrap up their waste and just throw anywhere,” Munondo, a single mother of five, told Anadolu Agency. The trend of switching to open defecation has also become common even in Harare’s central business district. Reckson Mavaviro, a 27-year-old money changer, said the city’s public toilets are apparently not open to the public anymore. Public toilets out of order in towns “People just sneak behind disused city buildings to relieve themselves in the open even during the day and this is a serious cause of concern. You see us working here in the open and think we have toilets to relieve ourselves. There is nothing of that sort anymore; people just abandon their mess anywhere now,” Mavaviro told Anadolu Agency. A top health officer working for the Harare City Council, on condition of anonymity, said: “Open defecation is not a new phenomenon because the council has no capacity to maintain the existing public toilets that stopped working years ago.” Another official in the Health ministry, requesting anonymity, said: “Local authorities in urban areas are to blame for the open defecation problem in cities and towns and the council authorities should invest more in addressing the worsening sanitation crisis before it reaches a catastrophic level.” Open defecation worse in urban slums Yet not far from the country’s capital, in Epworth, the situation is even worse and residents of the slums here, like Munondo, have had to contend with the rot without complaining anymore. Even as residents in parts of Epworth have tried to construct pit latrines, owing to council by-laws which prohibit urban dwellers from erecting such makeshift structures, they have had no alternative except to now turn to unorthodox ways of relieving themselves — the plastic bags and the unoccupied open spaces. In Harare’s old low-income suburbs like Mabvuku, east of the capital, without running water for years, open defecation has become the way to go for residents there, this amid obsolete sewer pipes. “In Mabvuku’s Chizhanje Street, people are now defecating in the maize fields near houses because our local authority has failed to repair the sewerage blockages,” Reuben Akili, programmes manager for the Combined Harare Residents Trust (CHRA), said. Rural-to-urban migration fuel problem But urban planners, like James Ganyani based in Harare, said: “High concentration of population in towns has meant pressure on resources like
\"The pandemic has managed to stop everything in its tracks except Cancer cells. Those are the only things that are still continuing to grow. So this is a clarion call to say this should be a priority irrespective whatever else is going on. We still need to prioritise care for cancer patients\"
So if you take the countries, United States, Spain, the UK, France, China — these are the countries that are the largest tourism destinations in the world, and these are also the countries that have had the highest rates of infection.
So I think moving forward, with respect to tourism, countries will be very careful even as they seek to rebuild the industry, and especially in the Caribbean where tourism is critical in terms of earning foreign exchange,” he said.
According to The UWI Mona deputy principal: “I do not foresee any immediate move towards reopening these borders unless places like the United States and the United Kingdom, Germany, et cetera — where most of our tourists come from — unless they also have the pandemic under control and they have also determined what sort of protocols have to be here if their citizens need to visit other countries.”
We don't know for sure when the borders will be reopened and when these tourists will arrive, but I suspect that what I said earlier about understanding what other countries will be doing will also help to inform our decision to go forward.
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett last week indicated that Jamaica's tourism industry will be reopened in short order, with a date to be declared.
Stabroek Sports’ Boxing’s Hall of Fame -Our latest inductee is Adrian Dodson also known as Adrian Carew a boxer that was always destined for greatness
There are some who believe that Adrian Dodson should not be on my Mount Rushmore list of greatest Guyanese boxers.
Dodson was born September 20, 1970 in Guyana and is a two-time Olympian representing Guyana at the Summer Olympic Games in 1988 and Great Britain in 1992.
Because he refused to fight for Guyana opting to represent Britain at the Barcelona Olympic Games is one of the reasons why boxing aficionados argue that Dodson should not be honoured.
In 1988, the then Guyana Amateur Boxing Association had Dodson come home for trials to assist them in selecting their Olympic medal hopefuls.
Dodson won the vacant IBO World title defeating Paul Jones kayo round three March 3, 2001 for the super middleweight title.
Meredith Charles “Flash” Gourdine was born on September 26, 1929 in Newark, New Jersey. His father worked as a painter and janitor and instilled within his son the importance of a strong work ethic. Meredith attended Brooklyn Technical High School and after classes he helped his father on various jobs, often working eight hour days. However, his father believed that education was more important than just developing into a hard worker and he told him “If you don’t want to be a laborer all your life, stay in school.” Meredith minded his father’s advice, excelling in academics. He was also an excellent athlete, competing in track and field and swimming during his senior year. He did well enough in swimming to be offered a scholarship to the University of Michigan, but he turned it down to enter Cornell University. He paid his way through Cornell for his first two years before receiving a track and field scholarship after his sophomore year. He competed in sprints, hurdles and the long jump. Standing 6′ and weighing 175 lbs., he starred for his school, winning four titles at the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America championship and led Cornell to a second place finish at the 1952 NCAA Track and Field Championship (The University of Southern California won the meet but boasted 36 athletes while Cornell had only five c). Gourdine was so heralded that he was chosen to represent the United States at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland. He received a silver medal in the long jump competition, losing to fellow American Jerome Biffle by one and a half inches. “I Would have rather lost by a foot,” he would later say. “I still have nightmares about it.”
After graduating from Cornell with a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Physics in 1953, he entered the United States Navy as an officer. He soon returned to academia, entering the California Institute of Technology, the recipient of a Guggenheim
Which Zodiac sign lays claim to the most Olympic gold when 51 Olympiads are viewed through the lens of the Horoscope?
