Prisoner jumps out of bus, injures head

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Prisoner jumps out of bus, injures head

The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News File photo by Roger Jacob A prisoner who tried to escape custody injured his head when he jumped out of a moving bus on Monday afternoon. Police said the man was being transported with two other inmates in an Amalgamated Security prisoner transport bus at around 4.45 pm on the Uriah Butler Highway when he pried open a back door and jumped out. When he fell he injured his head, […]

Source: Trinidad News

NCB loses again to its Staff Association

The National Commercial Ba nk (NCB) Staff Association on Friday won another major victory after the bank lost its appeal against the 2017 judgements of then presiding judge, Justice Bryan Sykes.The now chief justice had ruled in favour of the association after the bank failed to pay staff a share

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

Soldier injured during August Town firefight

THE Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is awaiting more details as it continues its probe into the shooting of a member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) and a civilian in the eastern St Andrew community of August Town, Thursday night.Assistant Commissioner of INDECOM Hamish

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

Oh, what one Chuck(le) can do!

MINISTER of Justice Delroy Chuck's argument for not delaying the reporting of allegations of sexual harassment under the new Bill before Parliament seems to have done more than the paid advertisements and media coverage have done to increase interest in the process since last year.

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

St Kitts PM reiterates intention to step down at the end of second term

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC) Less than a month after he led the coalition Team Unity into office for a second consecutive term, Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris has reiterated his desire to step down at the end of this current five-year term.

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

London police probe destruction of Haile Selassie statue

LONDON, England (AFP) British police say they have been investigating the criminal damage of a statue of former Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, which was smashed in a London park.Emperor Selassie, who visited Jamaica in the 1960s, is revered by Jamaica's Rastafarians, with some regarding him as

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

Major crime hot spot left out of August Town ZOSO boundaries

A major crime hot spot in Greater August Town, Payton Place, has seemingly not been included in the area declared a zone of special operations (ZOSO) by Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday.Just over a month ago two brothers 36-year-old Demar Francis and 25-year-old Robert Clarke were fatally

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

COVID-19 testing sites unfriendly to walk-up traffic -

LOS ANGELES — As a pandemic loomed, local health officials and government leaders scrambled to set up an accessible testing system, devising a series of drive-through coronavirus testing sites around Los Angeles County. In early May, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti made his city the first in America to

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Harvard, MIT sue to block order revoking visas for foreign students

BOSTON, United States (AP) Colleges and universities pushed back yesterday against the Trump Administration's decision to make international students leave the country if they plan on taking classes entirely online this fall, with Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

Chalky Hill Primary assists families of needy students

TWO hundred and forty care packages, valued at more than $600,000, were recently distributed to the families of needy students who attend the Chalky Hill Primary and Infant School in St Ann, as well as vulnerable residents of the community, through a joint initiative between the

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

LAPD funding slashed by $150M, reducing number of officers

LOS ANGELES (AP) — City leaders voted Wednesday to slash the Los Angeles Police Department budget by $150 million, reducing the number of officers to a level not seen for more than a decade amid nationwide demands to shift money away from law enforcement agencies during America’s reckoning over

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T&T could keep borders closed until after Aug 10 polls

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) The Trinidad and Tobago Government says it has no plans to rush towards reopening the borders of the country closed since March in a bid to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).Oppositions parties have been calling on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley

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

LOS ANGELES, United States (AP) For two weeks, Rachael Jones has stayed home, going without a pay cheque while waiting and waiting for the results of a COVID-19 test from a pharmacy near Philadelphia. I'm just so disappointed. I just don't know how with the resources and the people we have and

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

PSOJ wants speedy action on Petrojam reports

THE Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) says it expects a speedy review of the long-anticipated reports on the Petrojam investigations by the various parliamentary oversight committees.

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

China's Inner Mongolia region reports bubonic plague case

BEIJING, China (AP) While China appears to have reduced coronavirus cases to near zero, other infectious threats remain, with local health authorities announcing a suspected bubonic plague case in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

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

Coalition wants to clear the air above Southern California -

MAKING A DIFFERENCE The mission of the Coalition for Clean Air is to protect public health, improve air quality and prevent climate change. Those are no small challenges. The coalition has been working on those goals since 1971, approaching its work through policy advocacy, education and behavior

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Vendor shot dead at Falmouth 'bend down' market

FALMOUTH, Trelawny Investigators assigned to the Falmouth Police Station who are probing yesterday's killing of a vendor at the Falmouth 'bend down' market are seeking another vendor with whom he allegedly had a physical confrontation hours before being gunned down.The dead man has been identified

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

Approximately two hours after news emerged that former Energy Minister Dr Andrew Wheatley had filed a court challenge to conclusions made about him by the Integrity Commission in its probe of the Petrojam scandal, the commission admitted that it had erred in an aspect of the same report relating

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

Jamaican students in US worried

A decision by United States (US) federal immigration authorities to revoke the visas of international students whose colleges offer only online courses this fall have left Jamaicans studying in America worried about their educational and financial future.

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

July 4 test for US

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) The US headed into the Fourth of July weekend with many parades and fireworks displays cancelled, beaches and bars closed, and health authorities warning that this will be a crucial test of Americans' self-control that could determine the trajectory of the

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

Chicago issues quarantine order for travelers from states with high COVID-19 infection rates | The Crusader Newspaper Group

By Rob Elgas adn ABC7 Digital Team Chicago has issued an emergency travel order requiring anyone coming to the city from states experiencing a surge in COVID-19 infections to quarantine for 14 days. EFFECTIVE MONDAY: To preserve the gains Chicago has made, were issuing an Emergency Travel Order

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Opposition secures victory as CCJ rules in Guyana election appeal

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) Guyana's disputed March 2 regional and general election took a step towards the official release of the results after the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday unanimously upheld a motion filed by two senior members of the main Opposition

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

Black-owned businesses surge

BOSTON, United States (AP) When Mahdi Hashemian was looking for a bicycle for his seven-year-old daughter Zeynab last week, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, resident decided to skip his local cycle shops in favour of a Black-owned one a few miles away in Boston's Dorchester neighbourhood.

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

Flood kills 55 in Japan

TOKYO, Japan (AP) Soldiers used boats to rescue residents as floodwaters flowed down streets in southern Japanese towns hit by heavy rains that were expanding across the region yesterday. At least 55 people have died and a dozen remain missing.

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

Walmart to reopen looted stores after weeks of silence | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Retailer makes a $35-50 million investment to reopen all stores throughout city with additional community benefits By Crusader Staff Report After weeks of silence, Walmart will reopen its stores that were looted during the George Floyd protests, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Walmart CEO Doug McMillon

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

MPs discuss parameters of Integrity Commission Oversight Committee

GOVERNMENT and Opposition members of the Integrity Commission Oversight Committee, which held its first meeting yesterday, haggled over the approach that deliberations should take, and whether the committee should tread lightly when it comes to reports from the commission.

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

Be Safe While Having Fun: River Safety Starts With A Life Jacket - Milwaukee Community Journal

MADISON, Wis. – Summers make for long, busy days on the 84,000 miles of Wisconsin rivers as residents and visitors load picnics, canoes, kayaks and kids’ toys for memorable fun along the shores and in the waters. This season, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ conservation wardens, local

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

Children are lagging and COVID-19 harming AIDS care

ï¿½WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) New numbers on the global AIDS epidemic show some big successes, such as fewer deaths and new infections. But there are also some tragic failures: Only half the children with HIV, the virus that causes the disease, are getting treatment.

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

Huntington Park police make major fireworks bust -

HUNTINGTON PARK — Police confiscated more than 1,400 pounds of illegal fireworks from a business on the 2900 block of Randolph Street and the business owners’ home on the 6700 block of Malabar Street on June 23, according to the Huntington Park Police Department’s Facebook page. Acting on an

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West Side Leadership Academy to finally get new roof | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Gary Schools to spend $25M to fix dilapidated buildings By Crusader Staff Report West Side Leadership Academy will finally get a new roof under a plan from the Gary school district to spend $25 million to repair dilapidated school buildings. On Friday, June 26 the Indiana Distressed Unit Appeals

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Llewellyn gets three more years as DPP

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness yesterday dismissed objections raised by Opposition leader Dr Peter Phillips to an extension of the tenure of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn, and announced that he was pushing ahead with a recommendation to the governor general for a three-year

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

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