Tourism to be developed in Alligator Pond

Sunday Brew — May 31, 2020

If information which surfaced over last weekend that there could have been manipulation of Leon Bailey to openly criticise the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) is true, then it would be most

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

World Bank approves $100 million to support Sierra Leone’s economic resilience

The World Bank has today announced that its Group Board of Executive Directors has approved a $100 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA), to support the government of Sierra Leone in promoting sustainable and inclusive growth, and building economic

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

PRETESTING U-TURN - New hurdle for visitors from high-risk COVID US states

Visitors from the high-risk American states of Florida, New York, Arizona, and Texas are now required to pretest for the new coronavirus before travelling to Jamaica, says Prime Minister Andrew

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Rwanda reintroduces lockdown in parts of Kigali as cases rise

A fresh surge in coronavirus cases prompted Rwanda’s government to place six areas of the capital, Kigali, back under a “total

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

Chakwera asks leaders to stop dividing Malawians Malawi 24 | Latest News from Malawi

President Lazarus Chakwera has underscored the need for leaders in the country to pursue peace instead of promoting division, resentment and disrespect among Malawians. Chakwera said this during the 2023 Umodzi Day celebrations which took place at Chilimampunga ground in Lilongwe. He added that

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Source: Malawi 24 | Malawi news

Bad roads hurting schooling in rural hills – Holness

St Andrew East Rural Member of Parliament (MP) Juliet Holness has made an impassioned plea for works authorities to address the ramshackle roads in her constituency, which she said are frustrating the efforts of parents to give their children...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Holness calls for greater access to vaccines by the Caribbean and Africa

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has called for greater access to vaccines by the Caribbean and Africa, as these nations continue their fight against the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Addressing the Africa Day webinar on Tuesday Holness...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Rwanda: How GGGI Is Connecting Rwanda-Italy Investors Exploring Green Investment Opportunities

The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) has partnered with Rwanda Environmental Management Authority (REMA) and Italian Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea (IMELS) in connecting entrepreneurs, investors and institutions between Rwanda and Italy for green investment opportunities in the private

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Source: allAfrica.com

PM sharpening new anti-crime law

While waiting for its day in court challenging a Supreme Court ruling that detentions under states of emergency were in breach of the Constitution, the Andrew Holness administration has signalled that work is well advanced on new legislation to...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Kenya coronavirus: 3,860 cases; corruption probe on donations, funds

Total confirmed cases = 3,860

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

BEYOND THE HEADLINES - The True Citizen

Jesse Sharpe, III is the son of Waynesboro natives Jesse Sharpe, Jr. and Tamika Jones Sharpe. His maternal and paternal grandparents still reside in Waynesboro. He is a graduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University. Social Media has become one of the greatest innovations of the 21st

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Source: The True Citizen

Angola: COVID-19 - Hotel Units Called to Redouble Measures

Malanje — Hotel, restaurant and similar units in northern Malanje have been urged to redouble preventive measures against covid-19, in line with guidelines contained in the Presidential Decree that declared the State of Calamity in the

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Source: allAfrica.com

'Enough is enough' - Holness condemns killing of St James primary schoolboys

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has condemned the killing three persons, including two primary schoolboys in St James last evening, saying when children are attacked, all of society "must stand up and say, 'enough is enough'".

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

No dominoes at church!

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Pastor of the King's Seventh-day Adventist Church in Mount Salem, Charles Brevitt, yesterday warned members of his congregation to “cease and desist” from playing dominoes on the compound, arguing that if the Government is not allowing it to be played in bars, then members

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

Barack Obama to deliver special message at Stonewall Day virtual event

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Source: theGrio

2,300 Jamaicans return under re-entry programme

Prime Minister Andrew Holness, says, to date, 2,300 Jamaicans have entered the island under the Government’s re-entry programme at a cost of

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Spirit.Ed: The Sazerac, New Orleans’ Official Cocktail

I came to this conclusion after making my first Sazerac, a classic drink that serves as the official cocktail of New

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

Jamaica's PM declares emergency to curb crime | New York Carib News

Jamaica’s PM declares emergency to curb crime

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Source: The New York Carib News

PM backs online transactions as way forward

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness says the Jamaican economy must now rapidly transition to online transactions, as the COVID-19 crisis has exposed the inefficiencies and riskiness of cash

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

Greater Bernard Lodge development plan moving ahead

Prime Minister Andrew Holness said the Greater Bernard Lodge master plan will see a new development that will serve as a model for others islandwide. Holness, who had instructed in 2019 that the development master plan for the Greater Bernard Lodge...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

One year too long - PM laments tedious delays in procurement practices

Holness was speaking on Thursday at the commissioning of a $33-million, 110-ft-long bridge spanning the Wag Water River and which links Airy Castle, Bowden Hill, and Stony Hill in the St Andrew West Rural constituency represented by Juliet

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Nigeria: Bayelsa2023 - No Vote Will Be Recorded for Polling Units With Violence - INEC

[Premium Times] "Where there is violence, it will be zero," the INEC chair said in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.

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Source: allAfrica.com

World Travel and Tourism Council endorses Jamaica's COVID-19 protocols

THE COVID-19 Health and Safety Protocols designed for Jamaica by the Ministry of Tourism have been endorsed by the World Travel and Tourism Council

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

Johnson Smith refutes claims that SOEs/ZOSOs not working

Leader of Government Business in the Senate, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, assured the Senate on Friday that the Government is working towards introducing more zones of special operations

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

PNP hunts votes one-on-one - COVID-19 dooms mass meetings; Phillips demands no vote under SOE

People’s National Party (PNP) Campaign Director Phillip Paulwell believes that COVID-19 restrictions will transform political and canvassing strategy in Jamaica as the country prepares for a general election constitutionally due by February

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Holness lauds contributions of Robinson, Gallimore in tribute

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has lauded the contribution of late Labour and Social Security Minister Shahine Robinson to politics and national

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaican ship workers begin disembarking in Falmouth

The first batch of the 1,044 Jamaican ship workers who returned to the island on Tuesday afternoon has departed for government quarantine centres in St Ann after being processed at the Falmouth cruise ship pier in

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Holness calls for more aid to deal with traffic deaths and injuries

Chairman of the National Road Safety Council, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, is calling for more financial aid to developing countries like Jamaica to help with the implementation of sustainable measures to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries....

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Brazil coronavirus toll hits 50,000

Brazil registered its 50,000th death from the coronavirus outbreak on Sunday, underlining Latin America's desperate struggle to contain the disease, as Europe's gradual emergence from lockdown was marked by Spain reopening its

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Source: The East African

Jamaican pastor: No dominoes at church!

(Jamaica Observer) Pastor of the King’s Seventh-day Adventist Church in Mount Salem, Charles Brevitt, yesterday warned members of his congregation to “cease and desist” from playing dominoes on the compound, arguing that if the Government is not allowing it to be played in bars, then members must

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