Underpaid cops threaten protest vote

Soldiers on operation during which Bogle was killed, reassigned; weapons confiscated

Civil/military cooperation and media officer for the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), Major Basil Jarrett, says the JDF members who were present during the joint police-military operation in August Town, St Andrew when Susan Bogle, a disabled woman, was shot and killed last week, have been reassigned

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Mandela Highway infrastructure works to result in water disruptions for communities

Sections of the Corporate Area and St Catherine are to experience water disruptions as major infrastructure works are to be undertaken on the recently upgraded Mandela

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Zoom Parties, Missed Proms, Uncertain Futures. High School Seniors Share What It’s Like To Come Of Age During A Pandemic | The Oklahoma Eagle

The young adults graduating from high school this year will be defined by their Zoom educations and viral TikToks, but also by their lost summer jobs and unpredictable

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

Sassa R350 grant must be made permanent - SACP

The SA Communist Party (SACP) wants the R350 Covid-19 social distress relief grant paid to unemployed citizens permanently as opposed to the six-month planned

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Business chamber slams Mabuyane's 'knee jerk' call for booze ban, but liquor board welcomes plan

A regional Eastern Cape business chamber has labelled Premier Oscar Mabuyane's call to push for a renewed alcohol ban as "knee jerk", but his call has the support of the Eastern Cape Liquor

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Africa: How Live Music Is Meeting the Coronavirus Challenge

The Urban Sessions, a series of live streamed music concerts, is exploring a new way of online performance to help musicians hit badly by Covid-19

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Source: allAfrica.com

Trinidad records first new case of COVID in a month, as it moves to relax restrictions

(CMC)- Trinidad and Tobago's health authorities, yesterday evening, confirmed its first new case of COVID-19 in almost a month as the country moves to further relax restrictions imposed in March to reduce spread of the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Man in police custody following brother's death

A man who was allegedly involved in a dispute with his brother on Friday, is now in police custody, after his brother died following the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Africans Are Concerned About Ills of Social Media but Oppose Government Restrictions

Governments and public health officials have used Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media to reach large numbers of people, quickly and efficiently, with information on how to stay healthy and limit the

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Source: allAfrica.com

Burundi Goes to the Polls As Authorities Clampdown On Social Media

Social media restricted

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Source: allAfrica.com

Final lap as Suriname votes on Monday

(CMC): More than 383,000 voters in Suriname will go to the polls on Monday to elect a new government amid predictions that voter turnout could

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Crown says why Sanja Elliott cannot be believed

THE $400-million Manchester Municipal Corporation (MPC) fraud trial ended on Friday, May 15, 2020 with the conviction of main accused 35-year-old Sanja Elliott, the corporation's former deputy superintendent of road and works; his wife, Tasha-gaye Goulbourne-Elliott; two former employees of the

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MTRH CEO impersonators detained

Three men accused of impersonating Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) Chief Executive Officer Wilson Aruasa will be detained for 14 days pending

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Manchester Fraud Trial | Former municipal officials found guilty, mom and teller freed

Sanja Elliott – conspiracy to defraud, obtaining money by false pretences, engaging in a transaction that involves criminal property, possession of criminal property and an act of

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Six additional COVID-19 cases in Jamaica

Jamaica recorded six new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing to 517 the number of confirmed

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaica records 10 new COVID cases, 10 more recoveries

Jamaica has recorded 10 new COVID cases increasing the total to 544. Five of the new patients arrived on Royal Caribbean's Adventure of the Seas, which docked in Falmouth, Trelawny on Tuesday.

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Williams new Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal at UWI Five Islands

The University of the West Indies (The UWI) has announced the appointment of Professor Densil A. Williams as Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of its Five Islands Campus, located in Antigua and

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Curfew extended until tomorrow morning; PM to update nation on measures under new order today

The government is to advise on a new cycle of curfew hours today, as it extends the current island-wide restrictions, which ended this morning, to tomorrow morning, June 1, at 5:00

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Malawi: From ACB Statements - How Malawi Judges Rejected K100m to Deliver Electoral Justice

In his statement, Justice Potani speaks of how Mpinganjira "desperately hunted for him for a meeting" which, he said, he dodged

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Source: allAfrica.com

TPDCo begins COVID-19 health and safety sensitisation among hotels

Executive Director of the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo), Dr Andrew Spencer, says sensitisation sessions for the COVID-19 Health and Safety Protocols that will be implemented for the reopening of the tourism sector have

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

UDC attractions remain closed

The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) says all attractions owned and operated by the state agency and its subsidiary, the St Ann Development Company, remain closed at this

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Telethon Jamaica raises $60 million; more donations being targeted

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, says Telethon Jamaica has so far raised $60 million to purchase personal protective equipment (PPEs) for front line

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

NCU to cut salaries, adjusts operations due to COVID-19

Northern Caribbean University (NCU) has announced a 10-per cent salary cut for all its employees effective June 1 in response to reduced revenue inflows caused by the COVID-19

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Uganda: COVID-19 Shows Schools and Universities Have Been Left Behind

In these days when all our schools and universities have been closed, one would expect to see a prominent link to e-learning resources for

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Source: allAfrica.com

Labour Day project in St Catherine shut down by police

Residents of Pear Tree Grove and surrounding areas in the Troja Division in St Catherine are expressing shock and dismay that they were ordered to discontinue their Labour Day project by the Riversdale

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

National Security Ministry receives personal protective equipment valued at $2 million

The Ministry of National Security has received personal protective equipment valued at over $2 million from the Chinese community in Jamaica to assist frontline workers during the COVID-19

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Africa: Possibility of Snow Across South Africa and Lesotho

There is a very real possibility of fairly widespread snow across South Africa and Lesotho from Monday next

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Source: allAfrica.com

St Andrew man charged following gun seizure

A man was charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition following the seizure of a gun at his St Andrew house on

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

FID targets assets after five convicted in $400m Manchester municipal fraud trial

THE WAY is now clear for the Government to begin the legal process of seeking to take possession of properties and other assets valued at more than $220 million that have been traced to former Manchester Parish Council official Sanja

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Holness to co-host high-level meeting with UN official on COVID-19

Prime Minister Andrew Holness, his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will on Thursday co-convene a special high-level panel to look at solutions to the development emergency of

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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