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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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External forces fuelling crime - Holness tells stakeholders that more money needed to build out security architecture

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has admitted to weaknesses in the country’s national security infrastructure as he bemoaned the lack of investment over time to build out Jamaica’s security

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Parks, Gordon (1912-2006)

On November 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kansas, Sarah and Andrew Parks welcomed their fifteenth child, Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, into their home. Though struggling against poverty and racism in Fort Scott, young Gordon was nurtured there. His mother was especially influential, and her

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Antananarivo, Madagascar (1600s- )

Antananarivo (formerly known as “Analamanga” and “Tananarive”) is the capital of the Republic of Madagascar and its largest city. It is located on a high plateau overlooking the Ikopa and Besiboka Rivers. In the southern part of the city lay Lake Anosy, an artificially

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JA first choice

MONTEGO BAY, St James — An American doctor who has been treating COVID-19 patients in her country for several months was among the more than 500 tourists and locals who arrived in the island on six flights from the US yesterday, saying that she decided to vacation in Jamaica on the first break she

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Diaspora: Jamaica needs soul-searching, too - Countrymen overseas condemn US racism, call for greater protection of vulnerable back home

Black people in America have been behind the social, economic and political eight ball ever since the first set of slaves were forcibly transported there from Africa four centuries ago, and a significant portion of them are of Jamaican and Caribbean

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

5,000 airport workers to get back jobs

TOURISM MINISTER Edmund Bartlett said that Monday’s “soft reopening” of the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay was a silver lining for workers at that gateway after a near-three-month

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Taylor, Susan (Susie) Baker King (1848-1912)

Born on the Grest Farm in Liberty County, Georgia, on August 6, 1848, Susie Baker King Taylor was raised as an enslaved person. Her mother was a domestic servant for the Grest family. At the age of 7, Baker and her brother were sent to live with their grandmother in Savannah. Even with the strict

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Madagascar

Madagascar măd˝əgăs´cär [key], officially Republic of Madagascar, republic (2005 est. pop. 18,040,000), 226,658 sq mi (587,045 sq km), in the Indian Ocean, separated from E Africa by the Mozambique Channel. Madagascar is the worlds fourth largest island. The country also claims several small

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Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines (1722- )

The compact city of Kingstown is the capital of the eastern Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. It is also a major port city for the Windward Islands, a chain of Caribbean Islands that includes locales beyond St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Bananas, coconuts and arrowroot

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Kerbside classrooms get support

THE EFFORTS of Taneka McKoy Phipps, who has been teaching scores of children through a curbside classroom initiative in Delacree Lane and surrounding communities off Spanish Town Road in Kingston, have been bolstered with support from a proven corporate

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Hall, Juanita (1901-1968)

Juanita Long Hall, a 20th Century actor and singer, was born in Keyport, New Jersey on Nov. 6, 1901 to an African-American father, Abram Long, and an Irish American mother, Mary Richardson. Raised by maternal grandparents, Long attended New York City, New York’s Juilliard School of Music. While

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AG: Have the prisons not learned from past cases? - Calls mount for audits, intervention for inmates lost in system without trial

Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has admitted that there is a failure in the system after so many years of similar cases popping

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Stranded in Panama

FOUR Jamaican missionaries stranded in Río Abajo, Panama, are seeking the Government's assistance to return to the island, as they struggle to stay afloat in the Spanish-speaking country despite support from the Jamaican consulate in Panama

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Earth Today | COVID-19: An opportunity to ‘build back better’ in the Caribbean

“I am concerned that efforts to rebuild economies and societies will be prioritised, without an understanding that the lack of concern for man’s interaction with nature caused this pandemic and some other outbreaks in recent years,” said Dr Lorna Inniss, coordinator for the Cartagena Convention

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaican pilots lead AA’s return to ‘The Rock’

MORE THAN 40 American Airlines pilots were born in Jamaica, and of that lot, two of them were responsible for steering the first flight of 126 passengers to the island on Monday as the island reopened its tourism

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News photographer killed on assignment in Barbados

The Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago extended condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of

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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

We’ve been living under COVID for years, say craft merchants

Craft vendors across the island who have been for years struggling to get a share of the multibillion-dollar tourism pie say that the current coronavirus pandemic has now robbed them of the occasional crumb they would get from the

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Kenya

Deputy President William Ruto pleaded not guilty to charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in early September 2013. The charges stem from the violence that followed the 2007 election. President Kenyatta is scheduled to appear before the court in November. Days before

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Apr

2

2015

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

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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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: 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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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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Wells, Nathaniel (1779 – 1852)

Nathaniel Wells, a former slave, plantation owner, and businessman who lived during the 18th and 19th centuries, was also the first person of African ancestry to become a High Sheriff in England. Wells was born on September 10, 1779 on the island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean to William

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10,000 J'can citizens, residents expected home by month-end

ALMOST 10,000 Jamaicans and non-nationals are expected to return home by the end of June under the Government's controlled re-entry

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

Mary J. Blige Launches Her Own Brand Of Wine

Now, the Grammy-winning singer is expanding to the wine and spirits industry with a collection of wines just in time for

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Historic brain surgery - Woman sings through procedure at KPH as doctors remove tumour

When 49-year-old Marjorie Pearson went into surgery three weeks ago at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), it was not lost on her and the medical team that the high-risk brain procedure could go horribly

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