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Major sanitisation of St James Street, Sam Sharpe Square on Sunday

CARIBBEAN Cement Company Limited and Jamaica Pre-Mix Concrete Limited are assiting the St James Municipal Corporation to sanitise streets in the parish capital, Montego Bay.Working with the municipality, the police, and the fire service, the two companies will provide cement mixer trucks filled

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

PM: T&T has racism issues | New York Carib News

Prime Minister Keith Rowley said on Saturday, that the country has issues of racism, but he hopes we can learn from what is happening to the US and other places that are reacting to the police killing of an African American man. Rowley was responding to protests which began on May 26 and eventually

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Source: The New York Carib News

Black officers seek change in promotion test

City Councilor Andrea Campbell and labor lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan joined members of the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers (MAMLEO) Tuesday to call for an end to the use of a controversial exam for Boston Police Department

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Source: The Bay State Banner

Democrats Threaten To Block 'Woefully Inadequate' GOP Police Reform Bill

Senate Democrats on Tuesday called Republican police reform legislation “woefully inadequate” and threatened to block debate on the measure, a move that elicited sharp partisan sniping amid ongoing nationwide protests over police

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

It's time for African-Americans to choose a side.

A large part of blacks' indoctrination into leftist orthodoxy was guided by civil rights leaders like Rev. Jesse Jackson, who sold blacks out for seats at the table of their socialist overlords. In a psychologically vulnerable position toward the end of the Civil Rights Movement of the

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Source: ThyBlackMan

Tommy Lee Sparta listed as person of interest

The St James Police have listed dancehall artiste Tommy Lee Sparta as a person of interest. Tommy Lee, given name Leroy Russell, is being asked to make contact with detectives at the Freeport Police Station in Montego...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Campbell, Lee relish looming election battle in St Ann NW

There is no doubt in the mind of People’s National Party (PNP) standard-bearer Dr Dayton Campbell that pulling out the voters in the upcoming general election will be difficult, but he believes he has the organisational machinery in place to trounce Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) rival Krystal

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

JTA happy with PEP placement method

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Owen Speid, president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association, says the organisation is satisfied with the methodology used by the Government for students' Primary Exit Profile

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

Khupe, Mwonzora aides clash - NewsDay Zimbabwe

POWER struggles have ripped the MDC-T faction apart ahead of its extraordinary congress slated for September, with interim leader Thokozani Khupe’s aides allegedly assaulted by party secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora’s security staff at the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House party headquarters in

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Congressional Leaders To Vote for D.C. Statehood | Afro

June 26 will be a historic day in Congressional and District of Columbia record, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D- California) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D- Maryland) announced that is the day when the House will vote on

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Pharrell Teams Up With The Governor of Virginia To Announce Plan To Make Juneteenth a State Holiday

On Tuesday (Jun 16), Pharrell joined Gov. Northam for his press conference in Richmond where he unveiled plans that Virginia will recognize Juneteenth as a paid state

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Source: The Urban Daily

Jewel Scott breaks legal and racial barriers in Georgia

Former Jamaican honorary consul to Atlanta, Jewel Scott, recently created history by becoming the first Caribbean national to be elected to the Superior Court of Clayton County in the southern US state of

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Former Missouri officer charged after hitting man with SUV

Former Florissant, MO police officer, Joshua Smith, has been charged with first-degree assault, armed criminal action, and fourth-degree assault after hitting a man with his police

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Source: theGrio

NYPD Announced Internal Review After Black Mans Violent Arrest. 3 Months Later, Silence.

The trauma for Fitzroy Gayle and others doesn’t end when a viral video of their arrest stops circulating.

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

Tyler Perry To Pay For Rayshard Brooks’ Funeral And Four Childrens Education

“His heart goes out to the family.”

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

Security guard shot and injured in MoBay robbery

WESTERN BUREAU: A security guard is now battling for life in the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St James after he was shot and seriously injured in a daring daylight robbery at a supermarket along Market Street in the parish capital....

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

After record COVID week, some California counties to reverse reopening plans

As COVID-19 cases in California surged past 200,000 and statewide hospitalizations continued to set all-time highs every day this week, Gov. Gavin Newsom started to tap the brakes today — urging especially hard-hit Imperial County to reinstate its stay-at-home

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

Bond Lane wants COVID-positive residents out

MONTEGO BAY, St James — A team from the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) were up to last evening conducting house-to-house surveillance in the Bond Lane section of Norwood, St James, in the wake of confirmation of novel coronavirus cases in the

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

The killing of George Floyd and the pursuit of a murder conviction - TSDMemphis.com

MINNESOTA — “I just want to let everyone know that we’re going to bring to bear all the resources necessary to achieve justice in this case,” said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. That was Ellison speaking at the press conference announcing the decision by Minn. Gov. Tim Walz to transfer

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

West calls Cornyn out over ‘systemic racism’ remarks in DC hearing

The U.S. Senators from Texas, Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, drew a lot of fire for comments during a Tuesday Judiciary Committee hearing when they seemed to reject the notion of “systemic racism” in the law enforcement

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Source: North Dallas Gazette

Edward Waters College – Funding From State Of Florida | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star

Jacksonville, FL – Edward Waters College (EWC) President, Dr. A. Zachary Faison, Jr., spoke today in a press conference taking place on the campus of sister HBCU Bethune-Cookman University alongside Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in which he addressed the historic investment made for the benefit of

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Source: The Florida Star

Egypt: Minister of Energy Praises Sudan's Distinguished Relations With Egypt and Ethiopia

[SNA] Khartoum -The Minister of Energy and Mining, Dr. Adel Ali Ibrahim, has praised the Sudan's distinguished relations with Egypt and Ethiopia, especially in the field of electrical interconnection.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump over Soleimani killing

Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani was killed on January 3, 2020, by a U.S. drone strike at the Baghdad International Airport along with five

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Source: theGrio

Eastside Residents Want Answers About May 31 Police Assault

The Eastside CDC, ACLU and Lowcountry Black Leadership Coalition have joined forces to challenge a May 31 massive police presence that surged through the Charleston Eastside community following protests that began at Marion

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

Pharrell Supports Virginia Governor In Effort To Make Juneteenth An Official Statewide Holiday

Source: Marc Serota / Getty

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Source: Cassius | born unapologetic | News, Style, Culture

Alsobrooks Promotes Velez as Prince George’s Interim Police Chief

One day after accepting the resignation of Prince George's County Police Chief Hank Stawinski, County Executive Angela Alsobrooks announced Friday the police department's second-in-command will take

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Source: The Washington Informer

Kazembe cornered over MDC ‘abductees’ case

HUMAN rights lawyers have put Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe on the spot, demanding that he proves State claims that three MDC Alliance officials currently in remand prison raised false allegations of abduction and torture by security forces to tarnish

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Mule cop! - St James constable says she was offered US$2,000 to carry drugs

Based on an affidavit presented to a US judge by an ICE agent, Gooden reportedly stated that her colleague, Constable Dremar Graham, who was later arrested, was the mastermind behind the smuggling operation, which also resulted in the arrest of Constable Travonne

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

COVID-19 Among Protestors: Coronavirus Resurgence? The Mississippi Link

By Morgan Bridgeman, Contributing Writer, ASU Intern Amid the death of George Floyd on May 25th, millions around the world have gathered in demonstrations to protest his death and other injustices in America. However, these protests come in the midst of a global pandemic due to the

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Source: The Mississippi Link

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