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JHTA says it's ready to safely reopen tourism sector

The Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) says the planned reopening of the island's borders to international travellers on June 15 is an opportunity for a return to normality for the more than 300,000 workers and businesses that depend on tourism for

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

Mauritius ends virus lockdown: beaches reopen, borders still closed

June 13: Mauritius lifts lockdown, beaches to reopen

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

Jamaica acquires four offshore patrol vehicles, two maritime aircraft

This was disclosed yesterday by portfolio minister Dr Horace Chang while addressing a two-day virtual symposium organised by the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) and the Ministry entitled, ‘Resilient Policies for National

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Banjul, Gambia (1816- )

Banjul is the third largest city and capital of Gambia, the smallest nation on the African continent. In 2003 the city had a population of 357,238 people or about 19% Gambia’s total population of 1.89 million people. The city’s name is from a local Mandinka word for a distinct fiber that was

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Source: Black Past

Stakeholder defends CLA in wake of damning Forbes article

MONTEGO BAY, St James — At least one key player in the lucrative cannabis industry has come out in strong defence of the Jamaica Government and the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA), which have recently been blamed for dragging their feet on export licensing, resulting in companies fleeing the

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

Bussa Rebellion (1816)

The Bussa Rebellion was the largest slave revolt in the history of Barbados. The rebellion took its name from the African-born slave, Bussa, who led the uprising. The Bussa Rebellion was the first of the three major slave uprisings that took place in the British West Indies between the

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Source: Black Past

Jamaica and Bahamas officially reopen for tourists, nationals – Here’s what to expect

After weeks of closed borders due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Jamaica and the Bahamas have begun welcoming back tourists and nationals, with safety protocols in

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Where the Black Church Is in the Black Lives Matter Movement – Free Press of Jacksonville

“While you may have had many black pastors and clergy who may have shown up at events, and you may have had a lot of people from black churches who were at these marches and protests, from 2014 to the present, by and large, this has not been a theological movement,” said Watson Jones III, the

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Round II: Chad receives 20,000 doses of Madagascar's COVID-Organics

Says it is of two type, the curative and preventive

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

Mauritius: Reinventing the Mauritian Economic Model

Although Mauritius has reinvented itself before, the consequences this time challenge its economic philosophy and will require vision, creativity and

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Source: allAfrica.com

Wells, Nathaniel (1779 – 1852) - Birthday

Wells was born on September 10, 1779 on the island of St.

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Source: Black Past

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Jamaica: Funeral for Jodian Fearon to be held tomorrow

(Jamaica Observer) THE funeral for Jodian Fearon, the 23-year-old woman who died after being denied access to health care in April, is scheduled for

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Haitian Revolution (1791-1804)

The Haitian Revolution has often been described as the largest and most successful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere. Slaves initiated the rebellion in 1791 and by 1803 they had succeeded in ending not just slavery but French control over the colony. The Haitian Revolution, however, was

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Source: Black Past

Empty grave still baffles Jamaican family

(Jamaica Star) Six months after their story was first highlighted, the Jackson family is still in a painful pursuit for answers, seeking the remains of their deceased relative Jimmy

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Relief and caution

MONTEGO BAY, St James — There is strong support among tourism-dependent workers for the mid-June reopening of the industry, which has been on lockdown for more than two months due to the novel coronavirus

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

Community surveillance under way in West Kingston following COVID-19 cases

The Southeast Regional Health Authority (SERHA) this morning began community surveillance in West Kingston following recent confirmation of five cases of

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Life-saving wards to cut infant mortality

After seven years in gestation, a partnership forged between the Ministry of Health and Wellness and the European Union gave birth on Tuesday to the second of four high-dependency units (HDU) that were promised to reduce infant and maternal mortality rates in

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

World reaches 400,000 virus deaths

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The confirmed global death toll from the COVID-19 virus reached at least 400,000 fatalities yesterday, a day after the Government of Brazil broke with standard public health protocols by ceasing to publish updates of the number of deaths and infections in the hard-hit South

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

Jamaican pilots lead AA's return since the shut down | New York Carib News

Jamaican pilots lead AA’s return since the shut down

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Source: The New York Carib News

Two-in-one election? - Renewed calls for local gov’t, national polls to be held together in COVID-19 era

With both the local government and general elections on the horizon, there are mounting calls for the Government and the Opposition to give urgent consensus to holding both polls simultaneously in light of a number of prevailing conditions being faced by the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Westerners flock beaches

It would appear that the Government’s decision to reopen beaches on Sunday could not have come sooner for hundreds of residents across western Jamaica as they turned out in droves for fun and frolic in Trelawny, St James, Hanover, and

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

The Importance of Self-Care in Different Areas of Your Life

We all know that for a person to function well, their physical health has to be in good

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Source: Brothers on Sports

Bracelet tracking coming

THE Amber Group, after dipping into its coffers for millions of dollars to establish the jamcovid19 website and mobile app, has turned its attention to developing technology to help with monitoring the increased number of people expected to be home quarantined with the recent opening of the

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

Abduction: A hellish nightmare (Part 1)

Carla Brown* was abducted from her Corporate Area home a few years

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Bishop, Clyde (1942- )

Clyde Bishop is a diplomat and public policy educator who served as a United States Ambassador to the Marshall Islands. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, Bishop holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Delaware State University (1964), a master’s degree in Sociology (1972) and a Ph.D. in Public

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Source: Black Past

Toussaint L'Ouverture, François Dominique

Toussaint LOuverture, François Dominique fräNswä´ dômēnēk´ to͞osăN´ lo͞ovĕrtür´ [key], c.1744–1803, Haitian patriot and martyr. A self-educated slave freed shortly before the uprising in 1791, he joined the black rebellion to liberate the slaves and became its organizational genius. Rapidly rising

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Visitors from high-risk US states to pretest before arrival

Prime Minister Andrew Holness made the announcement at a virtual press conference from Jamaica House yesterday evening as the Government continues to reconfigure protocols for entry and re-entry to the island in its push to fully reopen the country in spite of the

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

Relief!

Sheila Sealy Monteith, Jamaica's ambassador to Belgium and permanent representative to the European Union — who also has accreditation to France, Luxembourg, Monaco, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain — confirmed to the Jamaica Observer that plans are far advanced to have a charter flight leave

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

Team Unity wins again in St Kitts | New York Carib News

Team Unity wins again in St Kitts

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Source: The New York Carib News

Teachers will get tablets, Anderson assures

LUCEA, Hanover — Immediate past president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) Dr Garth Anderson says an appeals process has been established to address issues that may arise during the distribution of over 25,000 tablet computers to public school teachers across the

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

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