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Westmoreland fisherman Mark Watson, who is charged with murder, was today offered $500,000 bail when he appeared in the parish court. Watson was ordered to report to the Westmoreland police three times per week. In making the bail application, his...
A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
Persons can apply for immigration bail if the Home Office is holding them on immigration matters.
Those persons can apply for bail in two main ways, but it will depend on the situation whether they apply to:
• The Home Secretary (‘Secretary of State Bail’) any time after arriving in the United Kingdom
• The First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) – only if those persons have arrived more than eight days prior to applying
Please be aware that persons might be automatically referred for a bail hearing if they have been in detention for four months or more.
Persons can apply to the Home Secretary for bail from the first day they arrive in the United Kingdom.
As previously mentioned, persons could apply to the independent First-tier Tribunal for bail if they arrived in the United Kingdom more than eight days prior to applying.
The Home Office will automatically refer persons to the First-tier Tribunal for a bail hearing if all the following are true:
• They have been in detention for four months or more;
• They are not being detained in the interest of national security;
• There is no action being taken to deport them from the United Kingdom;
• They have not applied for bail to the First-tier Tribunal in the last four months.
For most, the year 2020 has been the most trying year of our lives. The…
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PATIENT CARE at the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital in Westmoreland got a significant boost on Tuesday with a joint donation of several items from the Issa Trust Foundation and Food For The Poor.
The five monitors, which were presented alongside other medical items, were from a batch of 50, distributed to hospitals across the island over the past week, through an initiative spearheaded by the Issa Trust Foundation in March.
“This thrust came in early March when the rush was on for ventilators and we realised that patient monitors were the next hot items disappearing from the world.
Diane Pollard, from the Issa Trust, called me and said she found 50 patient monitors, but because COVID-19 took us by storm, they didn’t have enough funds to buy them,” Clarke explained.
“I suggested to Ms Pollard to arrange a meeting between Issa Trust and other charitable organisations, such as American Friends of Jamaica and Food For The Poor, to pool together to buy these 50 critical patient monitors,” continued Clarke.
The State has accused those implicated in the multi-million-dollar fisheries bribery scandal of having contributed to the country's economic demise.
\"They (accused) have killed the economy.
They directly contributed to the demise of the country's economy,\" stated prosecutor Cliff Lutibezi.
Lutibezi said this during his oral submissions for a bail application in which one of the Fishrot accused, Ricardo Gustavo, is the applicant in the matter.
Gustavo, who is a former Investec Asset Management Namibia senior manager and director of Namgomar Pesca Namibia, is charged alongside former fisheries minister Bernhard Esau (61), former minister of justice Sacky Shanghala (42), former Investec Namibia managing director James Hatuikulipi (44), Esau's son-in-law Tamson Hatuikulipi (38) and Pius 'Taxa' Mwatelulo (31).
Watson died February 18, 1983 in Washington, D.
[Nairobi News] A 22-year-old woman who allegedly beat up a 35-year-old woman on accusation of snatching her lover was charged with assault and causing actual bodily harm.
Sandals Foundation has delivered 28 tablets to the Ocho Rios Primary School in St Ann to serve grade six students, who are just above the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education programme threshold, but whose needs were assessed and...
More than a month after the U.S. presidential election, YouTube says it will start removing newly uploaded material that claims... View Article
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HOUSTON — Bob “The Bull” Watson, the first African-American GM to win a World Series, died Thursday due to kidney disease.
The Astros provided background on Watson’s impressive history in baseball, which reached success at many different levels, including as a player, coach, general manager and MLB executive.
When Watson was honored with the B.A.T. Lifetime Achievement Award at Minute Maid Park in 2017, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred and Torre traveled to Houston to take part in the ceremony.
In March of 2020, the Astros hosted a special ceremony dedicating the new Bob Watson Education Center, which is located at the Astros Youth Academy in Houston’s Acres Home.
Watson took part in the ceremony, and was joined by Astros Owner and Chairman Jim Crane, Torre, Houston Mayor Pro Tem Dave Martin, Astros Executive Advisor Reid Ryan, former Astros teammate Craig Reynolds, Astros Foundation Executive Director Twila Carter, and Director of the AYA Daryl Wade.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has signalled that the murder case involving popular Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald will bypass a preliminary hearing in the parish court and will be sent directly...
(Fulton County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge on Tuesday ruled that the former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks can be free on bond while his case is pending.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jane Barwick set a bond of $500,000 for Garrett Rolfe, who faces charges including felony murder in the killing of Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man.
Brooks’ wife, Tomika Miller, made an emotional plea to the judge, asking her not to grant bond for Rolfe.
Police body cameras showed Rolfe and another officer having a calm and respectful conversation with Brooks for more than 40 minutes after complaints that Brooks had fallen asleep in his car in a Wendy’s drive-thru lane on June 12.
Prior to the judge’s bond ruling on Tuesday, one of Rolfe’s attorneys, Noah Pines, denied the district attorney’s accusations that Rolfe kicked Brooks after shooting him and shouted “I got him!”
[Nairobi News] Government spokesperson Colonel (Rtd) Cyrus Oguna has denied claims that President Uhuru Kenyatta will be proceeding to a month-long sabbatical beginning December 15.
