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Jamaica: Thief arrested after returning to apologise to victim - Stabroek News

(Jamaica Observer) Thirty-two-year-old Richard Scott was charged with housebreaking and larceny following an incident at a home on DeCarteret Road in Mandeville last Friday. The article Jamaica: Thief arrested after returning to apologise to victim appeared first on Stabroek News.

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Blood bank: Zimbabwe partners Facebook

BY Brenna Matendere The National Blood Service Zimbabwe (NBSZ) yesterday launched a key project to replenish the country’s depleted blood bank in partnership with social media giant Facebook to become the second country in the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to achieve the feat. Kojo

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Gov't to introduce COVID antigen testing

Jamaica is to start using antigen tests to check for COVID-19 in people suspected to have the virus. Director of the National Laboratory Services, Dr Michelle Hamilton, says the test is simple, cost-effective and easily accessible compared to...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Rihanna’s fans want her to replace Queen Elizabeth as Barbados’ head of state - Face2Face Africa

Fans of Rihanna have launched a campaign calling for the singer and fashion designer to replace Queen Elizabeth as Barbados’ new head of state after her home nation announced its intention to remove the British monarch and attain the status of a republic as early as next year. Following

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Businesses pivoting to ride out COVID wave - Small operators want curfew at peak sales hours revised

Quality customer service is proving vital to business continuity and pivoting for large and small entities hoping to stay afloat and survive in an environment where their original business models are not fully sustainable. While some have been able...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Facebook Hit by Cultural, Political Storms in Its Largest Market | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star

Political controversies are threatening to derail Facebook's plans of building a business empire in India. India has the highest number of Facebook users - 290 million - and yet only 20 percent of the country's 1.3 billion people, leaving huge potential for growth. By way of comparison, Facebook

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Africa: The Culture of Peace - Change Our World for the Better in the Age of Covid-19

[IPS] United Nations -- Last year, we paid tribute to the 20th Anniversary of the 1999 Declaration of the Program of Action on a Culture of Peace. Today, we need to ask ourselves if we had genuinely carried out our moral responsibilities to transition from a culture of hatred and violence to

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Source: allAfrica.com

Regulator says bars, breweries will ‘do a better job’ – Daytona Times

BY TOM URBAN AND JIM TURNER NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE – After many establishments were closed for months amid the coronavirus pandemic, Florida’s top business regulator believes bar and craft-brewery owners will do a better job this time of self-enforcing state safety restrictions. But

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Source: Daytona Times

Daily Trust invites nominations for African of the Year 2020 award

A leading independent newspaper in Nigeria, Daily Trust, has called for nominations of exemplary personalities for the coveted African of the Year 2020. Nominations are open from August 24, 2020 to midnight of October 24, 2020. In a statement issued at the weekend, the chief executive of Media

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

166 rejected ballots ruled valid as Clarendon NW recount continues

Concerns have been raised over the returning officer’s account of 1,107 ballots from the September 3 election in Clarendon North Western as a judicial recount progresses in the Chapelton Family Court. The official count of votes had seen the...

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Breadfruit gets a nutritional go-ahead from British Columbia researchers | New York Carib News

Breadfruit, which grows in abundance in tropical and South Pacific countries, has long been a staple diet of people in the Caribbean, and is now getting a nutritional go-ahead from a team of British Columbia researchers.

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Source: The New York Carib News

Corporate Hands | ARC Manufacturing gives $250,000 to support those impacted by COVID-19

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Duncan family heartened by support after DK’s passing, PJ lost a friend

The family of former Cabinet minister Dr D.K. Duncan has released a statement saying it is heartened by the outpouring of love and appreciation from across the world following his passing. Duncan died at a hospital on Thursday, weeks after he was...

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Five more COVID-19 deaths

Jamaica on Wednesday recorded five additional COVID-19 deaths, moving the tally to 51. Two of them were previously under investigation. Four other deaths are now being probed, increasing the total to seven. The country also recorded 210 new...

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God dump the Queen - Jamaicans ruled by monarch like Jews under a Hitler, says lobbyist

Anti-colonial campaigner Bert Samuels believes that Jamaica should follow in the footsteps of Barbados in dumping the Queen of England as head of state. Samuels, a reparation lobbyist, said that the retention of the monarchy in Jamaica’s...

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WHO commends SA on declining Covid-19 infections | News24

The World Health Organisation has commended South Africa for its declining confirmed Covid-19 cases.

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We have to be balanced and fair about the concerns of the US - Stabroek News

Dear Editor, It is in Guyana’s best interests to expand and deepen our relationship with the USA so that we can become better friends and allies. The article We have to be balanced and fair about the concerns of the US appeared first on Stabroek News.

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PAHO gives another COVID warning as life returns to near normal

DIRECTOR of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Carissa Etienne has noted that countries across the region have continued to resume near normal life even with the imminent risk to populations of the raging spread of COVID-19.

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Consider others; wear the mask | New Pittsburgh Courier

by Oseye Boyd If someone would’ve told me back in March that asking, requiring or suggesting people wear a mask would cause fights, assaults with bodily fluids and even deaths, … Continued The post Consider others; wear the mask appeared first on New Pittsburgh Courier.

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Farming family plants seed of faith - Charlemont clan holds strain as thieves, mongooses test patience

Jermaine Black and his family remain committed to farming though they have repeatedly fallen victim to livestock thieves. In the midst of the struggle to survive the economic ravages of the coronavirus pandemic, thieves paid Black a visit twice,...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Africa: Victor Gomes - Refereeing Is a Passion

Analysis - He is the kind of guy who would run around the field with a smile on his face and it is no coincidence. For South African referee Victor Gomes, refereeing is not a job, but a passion and a hobby, one which he has enjoyed doing since he was 14 years old.

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Source: allAfrica.com

We’re still Zanu PF: G40

BY MOSES MATENGA EXILED members of the Zanu PF’s G40 faction have said they are still Zanu PF members and are fighting tirelessly to force the ruling Zanu PF party to return to constitutionalism, accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa of fraudulently “shooting his way to power” in 2017. This came

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Cummings defends coalition’s handling of pandemic - Stabroek News

Opposition parliamentarian Dr Karen Cummings on Wednesday stated that the former APNU+AFC coalition government managed the COVID-19 pandemic in a timely manner and left the new health minister with “a good pitch and wicket to bat” in the public health

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HR needs support too, says association

Head of the Human Resource Management Association of Jamaica (HRMAJ) Lois Walters is appealing to companies to pay particular attention to their human resource staff who, she stressed, are on the front lines as the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold. She is concerned that HR staff, who play

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Mazowe man wins $56k suit against police

BY HARRIET CHIKANDIWA HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga have been ordered to pay $56 640 as compensation to a Mazowe man whose car was burnt to a shell by law enforcement agents in 2019. Harare magistrate Brenda Dhliwayo ordered Matanga to

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Former cricketer Sheldon Gomes dies - Stabroek News

(Trinidad Guardian) Former T&T cricketer Sheldon Gomes has been hailed “as an excellent team man with an infectious personality” by former West Indies wicket-keeper Deryck Murray. The article Former cricketer Sheldon Gomes dies appeared first on Stabroek News.

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Gov’t pledges to put brakes on JSWIFT hiccups

The Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, in responding to a Gleaner article about the Jamaica Single Window for Trade (JSWIFT) published on Tuesday, said the portal will soon become much swifter. In a release sent to the media on Thursday...

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GIS mapping, COVID data to guide school reopening – MOE

The Ministry of Education says it will be using geographic information system (GIS) mapping, demographic and health data to drive the safe reopening of schools. The initiative will be undertaken with the support of the Ministry of Health and...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Labour ministry warns about job scam

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security is warning the public against a job scam. The ministry says it has been made aware that information is being circulated in the public domain suggesting that it is accepting applications under a ‘New...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Maxhosa presents virtual fashion show at New York Fashion Week

South African designer Laduma Ngxokolo, of the popular Maxhosa Africa label, showcased his second collection at New York Fashion Week.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

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