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Protest forces T&T to deal with at-risk youth
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) The Trinidad and Tobago Government announced Thursday the establishment of a National Recovery Programme (NRP) as it appealed to young people to put down their guns and seek to improve their lives.
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CARICOM SG says has `every confidence in recount report of observers - Stabroek News
CARICOM Secretary-General Irwin La Rocque today said that he had every confidence in the work produced by the observer team at the recount of votes at Guyanas March 2nd general
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Jennifer Hudson On Starring As Aretha Franklin In Biopic ‘Respect’
“It still feels like she’s in me.”
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Anguilla opposition wins election | New York Carib News
The main opposition Anguilla Progressive Movement (APM) won Monday’s general election in this British Overseas Territory, winning seven of the 11 seats, according to the preliminary results released here.
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School-leaving with a difference at Bethel Primary
Western Bureau: Thanks to innovation, the COVID-19 pandemic did not spoil the school-leaving exercise for the grade-six students at Bethel Primary School in Hopewell as in place of the traditional ceremony, the students did a ‘walk-through’ on...
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Lifting the Cone of Silence From Black Composers
astonished to see a young African-American graduate student, Alvin Singleton By that point, the African American Policy Forum had already in the 1960s, the African-American experience has been represented 1971 book “The Music of Black Americans” is, as Mr.
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Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. Donates $50,000 to National Urban League | Dallas Weekly
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. will donate $50,000 to the National Urban League to aid the civil rights organizations youth programming, the fraternity announced today. The fraternitys International President, Micheal E. Cristal, made the announcement during a video interview with National Urban
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Macron tightens grip ahead of 2022 challenge
PARIS, France (AFP) By replacing his popular prime minister with a little-known bureaucrat, French President Emmanuel Macron has signalled that he intends to tighten the reins on government ahead of a bid for re-election in 2022, analysts say.
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(BPRW) HARLEM INSTALL BLACK LIVES MATTER MURAL | Press releases The Black Chronicle
Mural Will Be Created By A Group Of Harlem Artists and Local Community Organizations on Adam Clayton Powell Blvd, Between 125th and 127th Streets   Friday, July 3, 10AM
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Ogunseye was wholly wrong about Elvin McDavid providing me with work - Stabroek News
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President Bio unveils Digital Health Learning Platforms for healthcare workers in Bonthe
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 July 2020: In Mattru Jong, Bonthe District in Southern Sierra Leone yesterday, Friday 3 July 2020 , President Dr Julius Maada Bio introduced a Mobile Training and Support (MOTS) digital learning platform, whilst also unveiling the pilot distribution of laboratory equipment
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Political leader charged following protests in Trinidad | New York Carib News
Police have charged the leader of the New National Vision (NNV) political party, Fuad Abu Bakr, with several criminal charges, including using violent language to provoke people to commit a breach of the peace following his arrest on Tuesday as people protested the killing of three people by police
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No Bud Billiken parade this summer | The Crusader Newspaper Group
Iconic event canceled for the first time in 91 years because of pandemic By Crusader Staff Report There won’t be any marching bands or floats on King Drive this summer. The iconic Bud Billiken Parade, which for decades marched down King Drive in Chicago as it became the largest Black parade in
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London statue of Haile Selassie destroyed | New York Carib News
British broadcaster BBC is reporting that a bust of former Ethiopian leader Haile Selassie was destroyed in a park in Wimbledon, south-west London Tuesday evening.
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A rare occurrence: Spelling bee champion is member of winning Schools Challenge Quiz team
Dave Rodney/Gleaner Writer Chaunté Blackwood, a 17-year-old student at Ardenne High School in St Andrew, has just accomplished a feat that has not happened in recent times - if ever. She is a National Spelling Bee champion who is also a team...
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RUBiS Energy donates PPE to state care facilities
RUBiS Energy Jamaica Limited is continuing its efforts to help alleviate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Jamaicans through a $2-million donation of sanitation products and personal protective equipment (PPE) for staff and residents of...
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Officers fired over photos taken near Elijah McClains memorial - L.A. Focus Newspaper
Interim Aurora Police Chief Vanessa Wilson said officers Erica Marrero, Kyle Dittrich, and Jason Rosenblatt were terminated on Friday. A fourth officer, Jaron Jones, had resigned on Tuesday before a pre-disciplinary
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United Kingdom now third biggest buyer of Kenyan goods
Kenya Flower Council, a lobby for large-scale flower farms, said the UK left its skies open longer than the Netherlands.
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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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The World, Opened Up
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Police Seen Reenacting Chokehold on Elijah McClain Fired - Black News Channel
By PATTY NIEBERG AND COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press/ BNC Contributor AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A police chief in suburban Denver fired officers who smiled in photos as they reenacted a chokehold that their colleagues used on Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after police stopped him as he walked
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Mottley restates concern at delayed election result here - Stabroek News
Outgoing CARICOM Chair, Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley today expressed her concern that Guyanas elections confusion is still to be resolved as of July 3rd and cited the need to await the ruling on Wednesday of the Caribbean Court of
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Seychelles: World Bank Approves $ 15 Million Loan to Help Seychelles Counter COVID's Economic Effects
[Seychelles News Agency] The World Bank has approved a $15 million loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to support Seychelles' response to the economic and social fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Barbican set to reopen - Voice Online
THE BARBICAN announced this week that it will reopen its Art Gallery and Conservatory on... The post Barbican set to reopen appeared first on Voice Online.
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Trinidad PM warns gangsters against retaliation - Stabroek News
(Trinidad Guardian) Gangsters be warned: this is a war you will not win. The article Trinidad PM warns gangsters against retaliation appeared first on Stabroek News.
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I am not a harsh man - Stabroek News
Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) president Conde Riley, who called for Phil Simmons to be fired, said he was unaware that the West Indies coach was permitted to leave the team’s camp in England to attend the funeral of his
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PPP/C asks ERC to probe alleged racial incitement by Ramjattan - Stabroek News
People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) candidate Anil Nandlall has filed a complaint with the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) accusing the Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan of inciting racial hostilities among Guyanese during an appearance on television programme broadcast in
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HOPE to the rescue - Sisters living in squalor get new houses
Annotto Bay, St Mary: Three sisters, along with a combined total of 12 children, who were living in squalor, are now the recipients of the Tenement Upgrade housing development project in Annotto Bay, St Mary, which is part of the Government’s...
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J'cans exempted from UK's COVID-19 quarantine rules
BRITAIN yesterday listed Jamaica among more than 50 countries exempted from its COVID-19 quarantine rules, but excluded the United States, which yesterday posted a record 53,000 new cases of the virus.This means travellers can visit the named countries for holidays without being quarantined for 14
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Move to rename Bloody Sunday bridge has critics in Selma - Black News Channel
By JAY REEVES Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Thousands gathered in this river city in 1940 to dedicate a new bridge in honor of white supremacist Edmund Pettus, a Confederate general and reputed Ku Klux Klan leader. Just 25 years later, the bridge became a global landmark when civil rights
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