Login to BlackFacts.com using your favorite Social Media Login. Click the appropriate button below and you will be redirected to your Social Media Website for confirmation and then back to Blackfacts.com once successful.
Enter the email address and password you used to join BlackFacts.com. If you cannot remember your login information, click the “Forgot Password” link to reset your password.
Not widely known among Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries as a regional tourism haven Guyana, through its local Tourism Authority, has been seeking to position itself to draw greater international attention to what it has to offer once the menace of the Covid-19 pandemic recedes completely into the background.
The article Ahead of tourist arrivals GTA launches expansive training for service providers appeared first on Stabroek News.
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
The National COVID-19 Task Force is deploying members of the Joint Services to St Cuthbert’s Mission amid reports that lockdown protocols are being breached.
The article Joint Services to help enforce COVID lockdown in St Cuthbert’s appeared first on Stabroek News.
For all the hype and hoopla that has traditionally attended Guyana’s reputation as a producer and exporter of food, a recent study across the country’s ten administrative regions undertaken by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), suggests that challenges associated with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic have posed food availability challenges for some categories of Guyanese.
The article COVID-19 brings food challenges for some local farmers, fisherfolk - CARICOM, FAO study appeared first on Stabroek News.
The African Union has allocated 1.5 million doses of the US manufactured Johnson & Johnson vaccines to the Caribbean Community (Caricom), Guyana's Health Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony announced here on Monday.
Tennessee Governor W.C. Brownlow declared martial law in nine countries in Ku Klux Klan crisis.
New Delhi, India - With a $2.8 billion loss, India was the 'most economically impacted nation' due to internet curbs in 2020, a report from a UK firm states. Major internet shutdowns in 21 countries cost the world economy $4.01 billion, with India's losses accounting for around 70 percent of the total, according to a report by TOP10VPN, a digital […]
The post India’s Losses from Internet Shutdowns Highest in World first appeared on The Florida Star | The Georgia Star.
President Rousseff learned in Sept. 2013 that the U.S. government had spied on her, senior government officials, and Petrobras, Brazils national oil company. The revealation was one of many details about the National Security Agencys surveillance program that were uncovered by Edward Snowden and leaked to the media. Outraged, Rousseff demanded an apology from President Barack Obama. Dissatisfied with his response, she canceled a state visit to Washington scheduled for October.
However, two months later, Brazils government acknowledged that it had spied on countries such as the United States, Iran and Russia. The countrys top intelligence agency, the Institutional Security Cabinet, released a statement that it had spied on diplomats from other countries about a decade ago. The diplomats were under surveillance while they were in Brazil. The acknowledgement came after Brazil had repeatedly criticized the U.S. for its spying operations.
Garvey, Marcus, 1887–1940, American proponent of black nationalism, b. Jamaica. At the age of 14, Garvey went to work as a printers apprentice. After leading (1907) an unsuccessful printers strike in Jamaica, he edited several newspapers in Costa Rica and Panama. During a period in London he took law classes and became interested in African history and black nationalism. His concern for the problems of blacks led him to found (1914) the Universal Negro Improvement Association and in 1916 he moved to New York City and opened a branch in Harlem. The UNIA was an organization designed to promote the spirit of race pride. Broadly, its goals were to foster worldwide unity among all blacks and to establish the greatness of the African heritage. The organization quickly spread in black communities throughout the United States, the Caribbean, and Central America, and soon had thousands of members.
Garvey addressed himself to the lowest classes of blacks and rejected any notion of integration. Convinced that blacks could not secure their rights in countries where they were a minority race, he urged a back to Africa movement. In Africa, he said, an autonomous black state could be established, possessing its own culture and civilization, free from the domination of whites. Garvey was the most influential black leader of the early 1920s. His brilliant oratory and his newspaper, Negro World, brought him millions of followers. His importance declined, however, when his misuse of funds intended to establish a steamship company that would serve members of the African diaspora, the Black Star Line, resulted in a mail fraud conviction. He entered jail in 1925 and was deported to Jamaica two years later. From this time on his influence decreased, and he died in relative obscurity.
Anti-government demonstrations gripped several countries in the Middle East in early 2011, and protests in Libya followed those in Egypt, Tunisia, and Bahrain. The crackdown by the government in Libya, however, was the most vicious. The protesters took to the streets on Feb. 16 in Benghazi, the countrys second-largest city, demanding that Qaddafi step down. The next day, declared the Day of Rage, saw the number of demonstrations burgeon throughout the country. Security forces began firing on protesters, and by Feb. 20 Human Rights Watch estimated that as many as 200 people had been killed by troops. Several government officials and diplomats defected, and members of the military joined the ranks of the opposition as the government attacks on civilians grew increasingly brutal. Some reports had fatalities numbering near 1,000 or more. Qaddafi refused to resign, but offered to double the salaries of public workers and freed some Islamic militants from jail. Protesters dismissed the move as a hollow gesture and continued their actions throughout the country. Qaddafi enlisted the help of mercenaries as the number of defections by troops swelled. He cast blame for the uprising on the West, which he claimed wants to assume control of Libyas oil, and Islamic radicals who want to expand their base.
On Feb. 27, the UN Security Council voted to impose sanctions on Qaddafi and several of his close advisers. The sanctions included an arms embargo on Libya, a travel ban on Qaddafi and other leaders, and the freezing of Qaddafis assets. The Security Council also requested that the International Criminal Court investigate reports of widespread and systemic attacks on citizens. The UN sanctions followed unilateral action by the U.S., and the European Union also sanctioned Libya. By Feb. 28, rebels had taken control of Benghazi and Misurata and were closing in on Tripoli. The rebels organized a military and formed an executive committee, the Transitional National Council, illustrating that they could establish a
The Caribbean Community, (CARICOM), says it continues to support the United Nations’ efforts towards a two-state solution as the best way forward in the escalating Israel and Palestinian conflict.
The post Caribbean News - CARICOM Says It Supports Two State Solution In Israel, Palestine Conflict appeared first on Haiti News.
[Shabait] President Isaias Afwerki in the morning hours of today, 4 May, departed to the Sudan for a two day working visit.
[WHO] World Mental Health Day on 10 October to highlight urgent need to increase investment in chronically underfunded sector
Pushed by China, Guyana cancels Taiwanese investment office GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP): Under pressure from mainland China, Guyana's government has cancelled permission for Taiwan to open a trade and investment office in the South American country....
[New Times] Rwanda and Zimbabwe have expressed commitment to double their efforts in order to boost trade between the two countries in an effort to facilitate the business communities to tap into opportunities available in either country
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Forbes Magazine has listed Kenya among 9 countries open for both tourism and business travel, citing 'fairly good' COVID-19 trend.
Breaking her silence, Chrissy Teigen has shared an update with fans after she and husband John Legend lost what would have been their third child, a baby boy named Jack..
This day markst the 26th anniversary of the Treaty of Chaguramas which was signed in Trinidad, July 4, 1973 to establish the Caribbean Community and Common Market - CARICOM. It was the result of a 15 year effort to fulfil the hope of regional integration which began with the establishment of the British West Indies Federation. CARICOM member states are Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago.
Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders have taken a major step towards resuscitating the coronavirus (COVID-19) challenged travel and tourism sectors with agreement to institute a travel bubble among member and associated members states, according to a statement issued here by the Guyana-based Caricom Secretariat.
Ambassador William Davis Clark was born in 1941. Currently, he is retired and resides with his wife, Katsuko M. Clarke, in Maryland. Clarke has two sons William Clarke Jr. and Robert Clarke, and one daughter, Christina Armstrong. In 1963, Clarke earned his bachelor’s degree at Howard University. Years later, in 1995, Clarke attended the College of the Armed Forces in Washington, D.C. and received the U.S. State Department’s Equal Opportunity Award.
Clarke began his career in the United States Foreign Service in 1967. For over 30 years, he worked in different parts of the world for the Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Clarke served as a Regional Security Officer in Japan, France, Germany, Ivory Coast and Egypt. In those countries, he was part of the team responsible for protecting U.S. embassies, their personnel, and classified information. He also served as the U.S. embassy’s law enforcement liaison to the host nation, arranging training for foreign police and security officers and advising American citizens about safety and security abroad. Eventually, Clarke moved to Panama where he served as the State Department’s Regional Associate Director for Security for all U.S. embassies in South America.
By 1992, Clarke returned to the United States and worked as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Countermeasures and Information Security. This position required Clarke to help develop security policy and plans for countermeasures for the Department of State’s overseas and domestic operations and facilities. Clarke held this position until 1997.
On June 23, 1998 President Bill Clinton nominated Clarke to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Eritrea. With that nomination he was the first member of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security to be named an Ambassador. After confirmation by the U.S. Senate on June 26, 1998, Clark arrived in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea on June 29 of that year.
As Ambassador, Clarke worked to improve the image of the United States among Eritreans who felt it did little to
The COVID-19 situation in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) is not improving, according to Regional Health Officer Dr.
The article Region Seven’s COVID-19 cases continuing to rise appeared first on Stabroek News.
Last week’s reinstatement of a 12-hour curfew by the one-month old People’s Progressive Party/Civic political administration is being reported in the Sunday September 6 Caribbean Business Report as a microcosm of a wider ‘running for cover’ by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries that had, just a few weeks ago, moved to return to conditions of normalcy after it had appeared that the intensity associated with the earliest wave of the pandemic had somewhat abated.
In reporting that an earlier 12-hour (0600 hrs to 1800 hrs) curfew has been re-implemented, the Caribbean Business Report said that exemptions were being allowed for “essential workers including parliamentarians, healthcare officials, the disciplined forces and the Guyana Revenue Authority,” among others.
The article As businesses fret over on-again, off-again curfew, late night ‘bashments’ frustrate COVID-19 protocols appeared first on Stabroek News.
NEW YORK, USA (CMC) A group based in the United States has expressed disappointment by what it says is Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley's misguided position on Guyana's March 2 elections impasse.
International travel must reopen for the tourism industry to recover from the devastating effects of the COVID-19, say the DA.
“Of course I am disappointed that it won’t happen this year, but we’ll be ready to go stronger than ever in 2021.”
Morocco | FactMonster
Home /
Morocco
Previous Next
Index
Morocco Main Page
French and Spanish Colonization
Independence and Sovereignty of Morocco
Moroccos Occupation of Western Sahara
Arab Spring Protests Reach Morocco
During the 17th and 18th centuries, Morocco was one of the Barbary States, the headquarters of pirates who pillaged Mediterranean traders. European powers showed interest in colonizing
Phillippa Duke Schuyler was a child pianist, composer, and later journalist. Schuyler, born August 2, 1931, grew up in Harlem, and was the only child of George S. Schuyler, a prominent black journalist, and Josephine Cogdell, a white Texan from a wealthy and socially prominent family. Her parents were not Harlem civil rights crusaders, but rather conservatives and members of the John Birch society, who believed that interracial marriage and the resulting children could solve America’s race issue. They also fed Phillippa a strict raw food diet, believing that cooking removed all of the vital nutrients from food. By playing Mozart at the age of four and scoring 185 on an IQ test at the age of five, Phillippa quickly proved to her parents and the world that she was a child prodigy.
Phillippa began giving piano recitals and radio broadcasts as child, and with the help of her journalist father she quickly attracted an enormous amount of press coverage. In 1940 when she was nine, Phillippa became the subject of Evening with a Gifted Child, a profile written by Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker, who heard several of her early compositions. Phillippa’s mother kept her isolated from other children by exclusively relying on tutors for her education. At the age of 13, Phillippa’s delusions and memories of her happy childhood were permanently tarnished when she stumbled across her mother’s scrapbook which described in detail how her parents thought of her as a genetic experiment. These feelings plagued Phillippa for the remainder of her life, and motivated her desire to travel, write, and play, so that she could find her place in the world.
She plunged herself into her music, and once she outgrew the child prodigy years she struggled to find a place in the American music community. On tour, especially in the South, she began to experience racial prejudice, something of which she had been mostly unaware during her sheltered upbringing. In order to continue to perform and make money, she became a world traveler,
(Special to Advocate from NY CaribNews) As the final days to the Nov 3 election draws near, there is a fierce battle to sway voters for results in Florida and ultimately determine who wins the White House. This time around campaigns are relying less on Latino support and heavily on the Caribbean community. Florida represents […]
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Dec 5, CMC – Grenada says it will place a temporary ban on the importation of poultry products from the United Kingdom as of Monday.\tThe Ministry of Agriculture, Lands & Forestry said that the ban is due to an...
