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City of Arlington Facilities will Reopen Friday, Feb.19, 2021 | Dallas Weekly
With power and water service restored after this week’s extreme winter storm, City of Arlington facilities will reopen on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021. Please note that city buildings will have a delayed 10 a.m. opening. Meanwhile, Arlington Water Utilities also continues efforts to restore water pressure
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Source: Dallas Weekly
George Davis back for a second term
THE Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) last Sunday re-elected broadcast journalist George Davis for a second two-year term as president at the organisation's annual general meeting (AGM).Following the AGM, Davis told the Jamaica Observer that the PAJ executive is the most diverse it has been in
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Gov't tables $830.8 billion budget for new financial year
The government is projecting to spend $830.78 billion to finance the affairs of the country for the 2021/2022 financial year. This is a reduction when compared with the previous fiscal year. For 2020/21, the government had programmed the spending...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
J-FLAG backs IACHR ruling calling for Jamaica to abolish buggery laws
J-FLAG (Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays) yesterday welcomed the recent ruling of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) calling on Jamaica to repeal its buggery law following petitions filed by two Jamaicans who claimed they were victimised because of their
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
US Coast Guard seizes $40 million in illegal drugs in Caribbean waters
PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 19, CMC – The United States Coast Guard said on Thursday that its Cutter Harriet Lane has returned to its homeport after a 71-day counter-drug patrol in the Caribbean Sea, in which crew members seized a significant...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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Going Loco For Vintage Steam Engines – The Wilmington Journal
CHENNAI, India — The Perambur Loco Works Yard in Chennai, South India, released the oldest working steam engine in the world — a locomotive built in 1855 — for public viewing in January. Called the East [...]
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Source: The Wilmington Journal
Mayor Lightfoot and CDPH Announce Significant Improvement in Racial Equity in Vaccine Distribution | Chicago Defender
Racial equity has been the driving force behind the city’s COVID-19 vaccination roll-out and Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and the Chicago Department of Public Health today announced a significant improvement in the percentage of vaccine administered to Chicagoans of color. These improvements are the
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Source: Chicago Defender
LAUSD teachers’ union contemplating a refusal to return to in-person work | L.A. Focus News
Faced with mounting pressure by some elected officials, parents and others who want schools to reopen, the union representing Los Angeles Unified School District teachers announced Friday, Feb. 19, that its members will soon take a vote on whether they should refuse to return to campus if in-person
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Source: La Focus Newspaper
Delivery man charged for illegal possession of firearm, ammunition
A 27-year-old delivery has been charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition following a police operation on Law Street, Kingston on Wednesday, February 17. He has been identified as Ricardo Burton of Hanover Street...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Jordan five-wicket haul delivers first win for Pride - Stabroek News
NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Fast bowler Akeem Jordan flattened Windward Islands Volcanoes with a devastating five-wicket haul to earn Barbados Pride their first win of the Super50 Cup and keep alive their slim chances of a semi-final
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Black History Spotlight: Cori Gordon joins Amazon - Atlanta Tribune
Cori Gordon, 28, never imagined she’d join Amazon as one of its youngest Delivery Service Partners when she migrated to the U.S. from Jamaica in 2013. Bright-eyed and eager post completing her studies at Northern Caribbean University, Gordon began her professional career working in the retail and
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Source: Atlanta Tribune
Unions want details on 'modest' wage offer to public servants
TWO senior trade union leaders are calling for an early meeting with Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke to discuss the 'modest' incremental offer promised by the Government in lieu of a one-year delay in implementing a new public-sector compensation structure.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Returning couple donates dietary trays to hospital
A St Ann couple, Charles and Hyacinth Henry, recently donated 75 dietary trays to the St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital. The trays, measuring 21 x 13 inches, are designed for safe, professional in-room patient meal service. The trays were accepted by...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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Prosecution threat for JAMCOVID breach
The Jamaican Government has hinted that it will punish anyone found guilty of breaching the JAMCOVID web portal with findings from an independent review expected to be turned over to the Holness administration today. The warning comes after the...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Biden rolling out plan for $4 billion global vaccine effort
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden will use his first big presidential moment on the global stage at Friday’s Group of Seven meeting of world leaders to announce that the U.S. will soon begin releasing $4 billion for an international effort to...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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 Businessman, activist Richard Goddard passes away - Stabroek News
(Barbados Nation) Prominent Barbadian farmer, businessman, activist and environmentalist Richard Goddard has died. The article  Businessman, activist Richard Goddard passes away appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Cybersecurity gets $1 billion
As concern grows over Jamaica’s cybersecurity infrastructure in the wake of a data breach involving the JAMCOVID-19 application, it has been revealed that the Government has allocated a little over $1 billion to carry out related initiatives. The...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
G-7 commits to 'equitable' vaccine access but without exact timeline | New York Carib News
Following a call by the Director Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Carissa F Etienne, for equitable vaccine distribution, the leaders of the Group of Seven (G-7) economic powers promised on Friday to immunize the world’s neediest people against the coronavirus by giving money, and
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Source: The New York Carib News
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JCC supports urgent dialogue on Urban Renewal Incentive
The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) said it strongly supports the call by the Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr Nigel Clarke,  for dialogue ahead of any decision regarding the future of the Urban Renewal Incentive. The...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Covid-19: More than 2 000 healthcare workers have had Johnson & Johnson jab so far | News24
A total of 2 260 healthcare workers received the Johnson & Johnson vaccination by Thursday night, according to the Ministry of Health.
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Source: https://www.news24.com
Biden urges allies to show democracies can 'still deliver' - Black News Channel
By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In his first big appearance on the global stage, President Joe Biden called on fellow world leaders to show together that 'democracies can still deliver' as he underscored his administration's determination to quickly turn the page on Donald
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Nourishing the body for perfect hair and skin
Avocado pears are usually consumed for the many health benefits they offer the human body. Now, one entrepreneur is offering to take that a little further by using this tasty fruit to nourish from outside in, by incorporating it in a shampoo in the...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
R126m worth of ivermectin seized at OR Tambo in biggest medicines bust of the year | News24
Police have intercepted medicines worth R126 million at OR Tambo International Airport, in what they described as a "major breakthrough".
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Coalition blasts Baker's vaccine rollout - The Bay State Banner
Public health, racial justice and immigrant rights advocates are calling on Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker to implement steps to improve the vaccine rollout to better include communities of color and those hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic. The newly formed “Vaccine Equity Now! Coalition” held
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It’s Not So Black and White: Getting The COVID-19 Vaccine May Depend On Your Race | Digital Daily | The Michigan Chronicle
With COVID-19 still raging in America, according to nationwide case reports there are over 27 million positive cases and nearly 470,000 deaths, numbers that we never thought to reach. And with new strains popping up locally, many Black residents might be wondering when they can roll up their
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Stevie Wonder is moving permanently to Ghana - Here's why - Face2Face Africa
For five decades and more, Stevie Wonder has resided in the hearts, minds, discotheques and living rooms of millions of people across the world as his silky voice and soulful lyrics became permanently etched in lives. Now, one of the greatest American singers and songwriters of all time has decided
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“Myth of a Colorblind France” – Poetry in motion [MOVIE REVIEW] - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… clear-eyed. When African American soldiers arrived in Paris … Sartre. Another young African American ex-patriot he mentored … French society. That African Americans avoided such racism has … perhaps not directed at African Americans, is definitely present whether …
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Greenwich Town fishers bemoan lack of consultation
Christopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer MEMBERS OF the Greenwich Town Fisherfolk Benevolent Society (GTFBS) are concerned that major decisions affecting the lives and livelihoods of fisherfolk are being made without any input from or...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Tourism infrastructure to be improved during slowdown period
GOVERNMENT will be using the slowdown in tourism activities due to the novel coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to upgrade the sector's infrastructure and improve the quality of Jamaica's product.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
...Fishing village has come a far way
THE DAYS when criminals held sway over the affairs at the Greenwich Town Fishing Village are long gone and the relationship between the fisherfolk and the marine police, as well as their counterparts on land, is very good. However, chairman of the...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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