Farmers count losses as Gov’t pledges support

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King, Betty Eileen (1957– )

Betty Eileen King is a public servant, philanthropist, and diplomat who has spent her career working to improve the lives of people around the world. Born in 1957 on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, King attended Grenadine Girls High School in Kingstown, the island nation’s capital, before

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Source: Black Past

FTC, CAC to merge

The Government is moving to ensure that consumers have increased protection, through the merger of the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) and the Fair Trading Commission

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Youth Literature Authors & Editors

This section of the BlackPast.org bibliographies profiles youth literature. Listed below are the works on African American and global African history that are specifically written for children and young adults. The bibliography is a searchable database where information can be sorted and listed

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St. Vincent and the Grenadines

St. Vincent, chief island of the chain, is 18 mi (29 km) long and 11 mi (18 km) wide and is located 100 mi (161 km) west of Barbados. The island is mountainous and well forested. St. Vincent is dominated by the volcano Mount Soufrière, which rises to 4,048 ft (1,234 m). The Grenadines, a chain of

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

283 Africans were recaptured on American Shores

On Thursday, June 29, 1820, at 3:00 P.M., nineteen years before the Amistad incident, 283 African slaves (two dead and 281 were in chains) were aboard a slave vessel named The Antelope, when they were recaptured by the United States Treasury cutter Dallas, under the command of John Jackson. The

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Jul

18

1827

LETTERS: Climate still biggest challenge of our generation

PHOTO | MANASE OTSIALO

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Mauritius

Mauritius môrĭsh´ēəs, –əs [key], officially Republic of Mauritius, republic (2005 est. pop. 1,231,000), 790 sq mi (2,046 sq km), in the SW Indian Ocean. It is part of the Mascarene Islands , c.500 mi (800 km) E of Madagascar. The island of Rodriguez and two groups of small islands, Agalega and

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

The United States sanctions Cuban company handling remittances | New York Carib News

The US State Department included the Cuban company Fincimex on its list of restricted entities on

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Source: The New York Carib News

Namibia: Farmers Count Veld Fire Losses

[New Era] With swathes of grassland destroyed and hundreds of livestock burned to death, wildfires have brought misery and anguish to communal farmers in the Omaheke region.

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Source: allAfrica.com

TGR COMMENTARY: Arrest the Beasts

Every day in America a Black man, woman or child becomes a victim of police brutality and

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Source: The Orlando Advocate

Francisco José Tenreiro - Birthday

Francisco José Tenreiro , in full Francisco José de Vasques Tenreiro (born January 20, 1921, São Tomé—died December 31, 1963, Lisbon, Portugal), African poet writing in Portuguese whose poems express the sufferings caused by colonialist exploitation of the indentured labourers of the island of

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Jan

20

1921

Rwanda: Over 1500 Ngororero Families Homeless After Heavy Downpour

Residents in Ngororero district have appealed for help following a heavy downpour that hit the area, earlier this month on the night of May

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Somalia: How Somalia Has Been Managing Covid19

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Somalia has reached 1,711 as of 27 May, with 67 deaths and 253

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Nightingale Grove on edge as active storm season looms

AS THE 2020 hurricane season begins in another two days, residents of Cedar Avenue in Nightingale Grove, St Catherine, have reflected on some scary experiences they have had in the past when heavy rains pounded the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Africa: Some Progress, But Africans Still Live With All Forms of Malnutrition - Global Nutrition Report

There is over 200 million undernourished people in the African continent, and with the novel coronavirus sweeping countries, the urgency to address their food and health systems increases as undernourished people have weak immune systems leaving them vulnerable and exposed to

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More deportees coming

ANOTHER group of deportees from the United States (US) is slated to arrive in the island next week, adding more pressure on the Government which is already struggling to find quarantine facilities and money to house Jamaicans returning home amidst the novel coronavirus

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

3 people killed in flash flooding following torrential rains in Ivory Coast

Abidjan – Torrential rains turned the streets of Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan into rivers on Thursday, flooding homes, flipping cars and killing three

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Rhode Island General Assembly

Rhode Island General Assembly in precedent-breaking act authorized the enlistment of slaves.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Feb

28

1778

Million$ drug bust - Ganja valued at J$10.5m seized, three Bahamians nabbed

The weed was confiscated in an operation at Lances Bay, Hanover, in which three Bahamian nationals were

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Rhode Island College is founded; later renamed BrownUniversity, after the Brow

Rhode Island College is founded; later renamed BrownUniversity, after the Brown brothers, who were wealthyNew England shippers who made a substantial profitfrom the African slave trade, Providence, RI.

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Jan

0

1764

Kenya: Police Chopper Crash-Lands in Meru

At least six people were injured after a police chopper carrying a security team crash-landed in Kaithe, Meru on Saturday

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FIRST REPUBLIC SET UP BY FREED SLAVES

After departing New York Port in 1820 the first group of freed blacks landed first in Sherbro Island in Sierra Leone and later moved on to Bushrod Island in what is today in Monrovia and established a state. By the 1847 the country declared its independence.

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Jul

27

1847

Death and destruction as floods hit western Uganda

In a related development in East Africa, floods have killed 65 people in Rwanda on Thursday and nearly 200 in Kenya last

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

#JamaicaTogether | Don’t allow COVID to shake your faith in God, urges SDA head

With the fortitude of the Jamaican people being tested by the COVID-19 pandemic, Pastor Everett Brown, president of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church in Jamaica, is confident that his fellow countrymen will rebound from the crippling effects of the

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Viola Davis

Viola Davis is an actress best known for her award winning performances in the films “Traffic”, “Doubt” and “The Help”. She was born on her grandmother’s farm in St. Matthews, South Carolina. She was the second of six children born to Dan Davis, a horse trainer

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Source: Black History Resources

High cost of locusts: East Africa braces for season III of outbreak

East Africa is bracing for a third outbreak of desert locusts, with billions of the destructive insects about to hatch and threaten food supplies in a region already facing damaging rains and the coronavirus

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Africa: Pandemic Adds to String of Disasters That Render Africa Perpetually Hungry

Recurrent floods since late 2019, an upsurge in locust invasion, and now the Covid-19 outbreak, all make for disaster for food security in East African countries, experts are

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Source: allAfrica.com

Martha's Vineyard

Marthas Vineyard | FactMonster

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Cuba

Cuba kyo͞o´bə, Span. ko͞o´bä [key], officially Republic of Cuba, republic (2005 est. pop. 11,347,000), 42,804 sq mi (110,860 sq km), consisting of the island of Cuba and numerous adjacent islands, in the Caribbean Sea. Havana is the capital and largest city. Sections in this article:

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