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Jodian Fearon's mom wants answers

APPROXIMATELY two months after the completion of the autopsy for Jodian Fearon, the first-time mother who died after being denied access to health care at several hospitals in April, her family is yet to receive a copy of the

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

Henry calls for more women in Seasonal Overseas Work Programme

Newly appointed Minister of Labour and Social Security, Mike Henry, says he wants to see more women involved in the Seasonal Agriculture Workers programme (SAWP) between Jamaica and Canada. Henry made this disclosure during a courtesy call at...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Uganda: Inside 100 Days of Lockdown

[Monitor] It is 109 days since President Museveni communicated a March 16 Cabinet decision to place the country under a partial lockdown for 32 days as one of the measures to curb the spread of Covid-19.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Gov’t supporting farmers during COVID-19

State Minister for Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Floyd Green, says the Government is committed to supporting farmers during the coronavirus pandemic and safeguard the country’s food security. Green stated that among the...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Campbell rakes JLP councillors for shoddy roads

Being in the unenviable position of having no councillors umbilically linked to his People’s National Party (PNP) operating inside the St Ann North West constituency, two-term Member of Parliament Dr Dayton Campbell has fired a salvo at the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) local government

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

The country's oldest law school names its first Black dean

A. Benjamin Spencer is nationally renowned civil procedure and federal courts expert and current professor of law at the University of Virginia will begin at William Mary Law School July

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Source: theGrio

Ethiopia: Foreign Ministry Affirms Sudan Readiness to Bring Closer Views of Ethiopia and Egypt On GERD

[SNA] Khartoum -The State Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Omer Gamar Eddin Ismail, headed the Sudan's delegation participating in the extraordinary ambassadorial meeting of the Arab League Council at the ministerial level to discuss developments in Libya, and the special session on

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Source: allAfrica.com

Somalia: South West President Fires Minister in Mini Cabinet Reshuffle

[Dalsan Radio] The president of Southwest of Somalia Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed (Laftagaren) has on Wednesday fired two ministers from his cabinet in new changes.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Gov't hiring 1,300 new community health aids

Approximately 1,300 new community health aids are being employed by the Government to strengthen the country's public health system under a new strategic framework designed to ensure that the population can live their normal lives despite the presence of the novel coronavirus

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

Home, sweet home! - Visually impaired man seizes chance at independence

“Oh, gosh! I’m blown away!” were the first words uttered by Mark Sweeney shortly after he was presented with the keys to and documents for his new home. Two hundred homes were handed over at SilverSun Estate in St Catherine on Wednesday by the...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

David Monroe Bids Farewell To City of San Diego Parks & Rec – Voice and Viewpoint

David Myron Monroe began his career with the City of San Diego on November 18, 1977 before embarking on a 42 year career in Public

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

Social Security's Online Services Are Ready For Business

Our newest my Social Security feature, Advance Designation, enables you to identify up to three people, in priority order, who you would like to serve as your potential representative payee in the event you ever need help managing your

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Source: The Florida Star

Old, Sick and Incarcerated

Yet the federal correctional institution that housed Manafort had no coronavirus cases, and Manafort had served fewer than two years of his more than seven-year

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

Rangel, Charles Bernard (1930- )

Democratic representative of New York City, Charles Bernard Rangel, first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1970, is now one of the longest serving members of Congress. Rangel was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1930. He attended De Witt Clinton High School but dropped out in 1948

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Source: Black Past

Uganda Commissions Port Health COVID-19 Laboratory At the Main Uganda-Tanzania Border Point

Mutukula, 19 May 2020: - The Minister of Health, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng and State Minister for Health in charge of General Duties, Hon. Robinah Nabbanja commissioned the first Port Health laboratory at Mutukula border entry point shared by Uganda and

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Source: allAfrica.com

BET To Air Special Coverage Of Rayshard Brooks' Atlanta Funeral Today

BET is bringing live coverage from the Ebenezer Baptist Church beginning at

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

Algeria: President Tebboune Conducts Cabinet Reshuffle

[Algerie Presse Service] Algiers -President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Tuesday conducted a cabinet reshuffle.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Holness not ruling out Wheatley in future Cabinet

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has not ruled out appointing resigned Energy Minister Dr Andrew Wheatley to a future

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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

Jamaica: Unregulated ambulance services, uncertified emergency technicians could be putting public in danger

(Jamaica Gleaner) Three weeks after a probe revealed that most local private hospitals were unregistered, The Sunday Gleaner has learnt that the island’s private ambulance service is operating without oversight, putting members of the public at

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

IDT rules in favour of BOJ in vacation leave dispute

The Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) has sided with the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) in a long-standing dispute with the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) over a change in the bank’s vacation leave policy, over which the union has expressed strong

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

NDERITU: How civil service has been ‘colonised’

In 2011 when I worked for the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC), we published Kenya’s first ethnic audit of the civil service, which is the largest employer in the

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Source: The East African

Speculation grows over date of next election in Sierra Leone

It will be recalled that the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) Candidate, Brig. (Rtd) Julius Maada Bio, and the All Peoples Congress (APC) Candidate, Dr. Samura Matthew Wilson Kamara, emerged first and second respectively, during the first round of the fiercely contested presidential election held

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Trinidad nationals stuck in Canada again beg to come home

I tell them Trinidad owns an airline and the Government can very easily fly us home without opening borders,” Bayne said

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Trinidad Good Samaritan flies pregnant Antiguan home

(Trinidad Guardian) Pregnant student Sheniequa Lewis is now safe in quarantine in her homeland of Antigua, days after Guardian Media highlighted her struggles to return

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Adventure cruise ship workers touch soil today

After weeks of voyaging on the high seas as high-level negotiations dragged on between the Government of Jamaica and their employers, the more than 1,000 Jamaican cruise ship workers who sailed into the Falmouth Pier on Tuesday will finally set foot on local soil

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

(1787) Gouverner Morris “The Curse of Slavery”

The Constitutional Convention in 1787 debated the institution of slavery. In the speech below Gouverner Morris, a Pennsylvania delegate, described the negative impact of the institution on both North and South and in doing so made public at the highest level the division that would eventually

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Source: Black Past

PM mum as watchdog demands Belnavis quit

Weeks after St Ann’s Bay Mayor Michael Belnavis became embroiled in controversy over his stewardship of municipal funds, climaxing last Thursday with a demolition related to building breaches, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has reserved comment until he has been fully

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Smythe, John Henry (1915-1996)

Jurist and Royal Air Force (RAF) Flight Lieutenant John “Johnny” Henry Smythe was born on June 30, 1915, in the West African port city of Freetown, Sierra Leone. He received a grammar school education and had worked as a civil servant before joining the Sierra Leone Defence Corps (part

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Source: Black Past

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It's a good look

SEVERAL residents of the troubled St Andrew South Western community of Greenwich Town yesterday welcomed the decision by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to declare the area a zone of special operation (ZOSO), and their Member of Parliament Angela Brown Burke is sharing their joy.A flare-up of gang

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