Pandemic's effect on remittances to Latin America varied
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) - As the novel coronavirus pandemic froze the United States economy, not all Latin American immigrants living there were affected equally, a look at the money they sent back to their birthplaces reveals.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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PM, deputy, and a minister in voluntary quarantine
NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC) - Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis, Deputy Prime Minister K Peter Turnquest and Education Minister Jeff Lloyd have entered voluntary self-quarantine after their offices were exposed to COVID-19.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Opposition wants Gov't to change course
THE Opposition People's National Party (PNP) says it is not too late for the Government to change course in light of the judgement by the Supreme Court that the extended detention of individuals under the state of emergency (SOE) is unlawful.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Tropical Storm Omar forms as Nana approaches Central America
MIAMI, United States (AP) - Tropical Storm Omar formed off the US East Coast yesterday as Tropical Storm Nana approached the coast of Central America, the US National Hurricane Center reported.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Inside and outside the House yesterday
Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday and during a sitting of the House of Parliment announced September 3, 2020 as the date for Jamaica's 18th general election since universal adult suffrage in 1944. Here are some scenes from inside and outside the Parliament.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Gov't allocates $1 billion for students on PATH, poor relief support
THE Government will be allocating $1 billion in back-to-school assistance to just over 200,000 children who are on the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) and poor relief support.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Survivor of Charlie Hebdo attack recalls 'horror' at trial
PARIS, France (AFP) - The French cartoonist forced by the attackers of the Charlie Hebdo weekly to let them into its offices said yesterday that she had been traumatised by feelings of guilt, as she recalled the horror of the January 2015 massacre.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Delays, but election day incident-free in St Elizabeth
SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Frustrating delays for voters in the southern half marred an otherwise incident-free election in St Elizabeth, yesterday.Encouragingly, with the COVID-19 pandemic providing a menacing backdrop, almost everyone wore masks in the vicinity of polling stations in areas
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Primary schools get $50 million to procure tablets for needy students
MINISTER of Education, Youth and Information Karl Samuda says primary schools across the island will be given a total of $50 million to procure tablets for needy students. The tablets will be provided to students who are in need but are not beneficiaries of the Programme of Advancement through
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Dentist jailed after extracting tooth while on hoverboard
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) - An American dentist who extracted a tooth from a sedated patient while balancing on a hoverboard has been sentenced to 12 years in jail for crimes including illegal dentistry, fraud and reckless endangerment.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
This Day in History — August 14
Today is the 227th day of 2020. There are 139 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2016: Usain Bolt of Jamaica becomes the first person to win three straight Olympic 100-metre titles, blowing down the straightaway in 9.81 seconds.�OTHER EVENTS1385: Portuguese led by Blessed Nuno Alvares Pereira
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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US cuts troops in Iraq on Trump pledge to stop 'endless wars'
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -The US announced a sharp cut yesterday to troop numbers in Iraq, as President Donald Trump seeks to honour his pledge to halt the country's 'endless wars' overseas with just two months to go until the election.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
$5-m drug bust in Portland after car crash
Ganja with a street value of more than $5 million was seized by police in Buff Bay, Portland, yesterday morning from a motor car that was involved in a two-vehicle crash.The Jamaica Observer was told that police assigned to the Portland Division Operational Support Team were on patrol on St George
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Health dept targets taxi operators in COVID-19 fight
THE Westmoreland Health Department is embarking on targeted interventions aimed at influencing behaviour change as part of the fight against the novel coronavirus. Health Promotion and Education Officer Gerald Miller told JIS News that the move comes out of the recent findings of a Knowledge and
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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You might be ineligible for a US visa if...
Q: The consular officer informed me I was ineligible for an immigrant visa. What does that mean?�A: There are many reasons a visa applicant can be determined ineligible for a visa. They can be among the list of ineligibilities stated in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and other
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Upset in Trelawny Northern
FALMOUTH, Trelawny - The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate for Trelawny Northern Tova Hamilton yesterday ended the People's National Party's (PNP's) 31-year dominance of the constituency when she defeated the incumbent Victor Wright by a margin of over 1,700 votes in the parliamentary elections.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Gov't to table Portmore parish motion today
Local Government and Rural Development Minister Desmond McKenzie is to table a motion in the House of Representatives today seeking to make Portmore the country's 15th parish.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
A long night, or more, before president is known
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - There's a fair chance Americans won't know the winner of yesterday's presidential election while it's still Tuesday - or maybe even Wednesday.The main reason? Many states have made it easier to request a mail ballot amid the coronavirus pandemic and concerns
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Morant Bay Tax Office closed for period of St Thomas quarantine
THE Morant Bay Tax Office was closed yesterday and will remain closed during the period of the 14-day, novel coronavirus quarantine imposed by the Ministry of Health and Wellness in the Church Corner area of St Thomas. Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ), in a release yesterday, said the closure was
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Another rejection for Caricel
THE efforts of telecommunications operator Symbiote Investments have reached a dead end as the United Kingdom-based Privy Council has refused the company's application for permission to appeal the Court of Appeal judgement on the revocation of its six telecommunications licences.The Privy
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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New ODPEM head takes office today
Career civil servant Leslie Harrow is the new head of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM).Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie announced the appointment yesterday with Harrow to take up the role of director general of the ODPEM today.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Uganda reports blood shortage amid coronavirus pandemic
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Health authorities in Uganda say the supply of blood has sharply declin ed since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic as fewer people donate and schools remain closed. The consequences are sometimes deadly.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Firefighter dies battling wildfire sparked by gender reveal
CALIFORNIA, United States (AP) - A firefighter died battling a wildfire in California that officials said was sparked by a device used to reveal a baby's gender.The death happened Thursday in the San Bernardino National Forest as crews battled the El Dorado Fire, the US Forest Service said in
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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PAHO warns it will only support safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Carissa F Etienne, on Wednesday warned that while the Americas, including the Caribbean, urgently awaits a breakthrough, the regional health organisation will only support the distribution of a novel
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Oil Trade: Claude Wilfrid Etoka, CEO of SARPD OIL, Wins the Prize of « Builder of the African Economy
The CEO of Société Africaine de Recherche Pétrolière et de Distribution (SARPD OIL), Claude Wilfrid Etoka, received last Thursday the award of « Africa Economy Builder » during a ceremony held in Abidjan (Côte
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As US battles COVID-19, flu shot misinfo spreads
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) - US health officials are pushing Americans to get vaccinated against the flu to help prevent hospitals already busy battling COVID-19 from being overwhelmed this winter, but false claims are threatening their efforts.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Whistle-blower says White House told him to stop reporting Russian election interference
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)- A senior US intelligence official said the White House ordered him to stop reporting on Russian election interference and highlight Chinese and Iran meddling instead, according to a whistle-blower complaint revealed yesterday.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Pandemic devastating to Dom Rep transgender sex workers
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AFP) - Since the novel coronavirus first hit the shores of the Dominican Republic in March, Luna Veras, a transgender sex worker, has struggled to put bread on the table. Between fear of COVID-19 and a nightly curfew, her business has dropped by 80 per cent.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Angola: Covid-19 - Fines for Wrong Use of Mask
[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Minister of State and Head of the Civil House of the President of the Republic, Adão de Almeida, announced on Saturday that the incorrect use of the face mask will be fined from 5,000 to 10,000 kwanzas.
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Source: allAfrica.com
Court: Governor exceeded authority in the appointment of first Jamaican American judge
MIAMI, United States (CMC) - The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that the state's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, exceeded his authority when he appointed the first Jamaican American judge on the Florida Supreme Court.In May, DeSantis appointed Justice Renatha Francis to fill the vacancy of
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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