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JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament (MP)-elect for Kingston Central Donovan Williams says his first order of business for the depressed constituency is a social housing programme.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Rwanda: Parliament to Summon Health, Finance Ministers
Parliament has resolved to summon the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, and the Minister of Health to give explanations for funding and medical issues that have persisted despite resolutions made for them to get solved in previous
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Source: allAfrica.com
Malawians suspect foul play in Chizuma's rejection | Malawi 24 - Malawi news
Malawians have questioned Members of Parliament’s decision to reject the appointment of Martha Chizuma as Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) boss. Chizuma appeared before Public Appointments Committee (PAC) of Parliament this morning for confirmation following her appointment by President Lazarus
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Source: Malawi 24 | Malawi news
Uganda: MPs Query Nytil Masks Contract
Members of Parliament have questioned how textile firm Nytil was awarded a contract to produce and supply facial masks across the
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Tanzania: Sterling Show By Nominated MPs
Among the nominated MPs whose history will go down in memory for their outstanding services are Minister for Finance and Planning, Dr Philip Mpango, Prof Palamagamba Kabudi, who was a nominated MP and later appointed the Minister for Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation and Minister for
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Tanzania opposition says attack on leader 'politically motivated'
Tanzania's main opposition party on Tuesday said its chairman had been hospitalised after being beaten up in a "politically-motivated" attack as police said they would investigate the
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Wiper’s diaspora mourns Kalembe Ndile
Kalembe's burial will be held on Tuesday at his family home in Mbui Nzau, Kibwezi.
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Source: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke
Ghana: The COVID-19 Testing Controversy in Parliament Needless
In the last few days, all 275 Members of Parliament (MPs) and staff of Parliament have been undergoing a mandatory COVID-19 test ordered by the Speaker Mike
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Each constituency to get at least one major road upgraded
AT least one major road rehabilitation project will be undertaken in each constituency, in the next financial year.This was disclosed by minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, with responsibility for works, C Everald Warmington, in an interview with JIS
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Uganda: Suspected Karimojong Warriors Attack Napak Police Station
Napak — Police officers at Kongole Police Station in Napak District on Thursday repulsed suspected armed Karimojong warriors who attacked their
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Parliamentary committee meets ministry of planning and economic development officials
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Trelawny MPs square off over road repair
The Hyde community currently sits in the Trelawny Northern constituency, which is represented by Victor Wright of the Opposition People's National Party (PNP), but a recent change of the electoral boundaries will see the area forming part of the Trelawny Southern constituency, which is represented
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Horne in the race
Senator Norman Washington Horne has confirmed that he is interested in becoming president of the People's National Party (PNP),...that is if the organisation's delegates so desire.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Martha Koome closer to becoming Kenya’s next Chief Justice after Parliament’s approval
National Assembly approves nomination of Martha Koome as Kenya’s 15th Chief Justice; President Uhuru expected to gazette her approval ahead of swearin
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Fort Lawton (Seattle) “Riot” and POW Lynching, 1944
On August 14, 1944, African American soldiers “rioted” against Italian prisoners of war at Seattle’s Fort Lawton, an Army staging area for combat in the Pacific. American officers and POWs under their guard were severely beaten. The next morning one of the POWs, Guglielmo Olivotto, was
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Uganda Shouldn't Be First Country to Prematurely Pay Out NSSF - Experts
Financial experts have warned those pushing for a 20 percent pay out of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) savings to its members to cushion them against the Covid-19 economic
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Keep off Jubilee, Duale tells Atwoli
Leader of Majority in the National Assembly Aden Duale has told Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu) Secretary-General Francis Atwoli to keep off Jubilee Party affairs after the trade unionist called for his
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Ann-Marie Vaz lists road improvement, access to amenities as success in first year as MP
Reflecting on her victory over People's National Party (PNP) candidate Damion Crawford in a hotly contested by-election for the constituency of East Portland, Member of Parliament Ann-Marie Vaz has listed road rehabilitation and improved access to some basic amenities as her main success so
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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Raila’s men plan purge to rid House of ‘rebels’
Two days after Jubilee Party leader Uhuru Kenyatta carried out a brutal purge in the Senate that saw him sack high-ranking members, including the deputy speaker Kithure Kindiki, ODM leader Raila Odinga is this week set to de-whip a number of legislators from committees in the National
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Zimbabwe: Police Formally Charge Abducted MDC Activists From Their Hospital Beds
Police have formally charged three female MDC Alliance activists who were abducted and tortured by suspected state security agents some two weeks ago for conducting a street demonstration during the country's lockdown
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Chilima report tells Chakwera to merge ministries, fire deputy ministers | Malawi 24 - Malawi news
The report compiled by a taskforce led by Vice President Saulos Chilima says President Lazarus Chakwera should merge some ministries, fire deputy ministers and ensure that Members of Parliament do not double as ministers. Chilima's report was presented to Chakwera last week but the president has
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Source: Malawi 24 | Malawi news
Leave of absence for Wright
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is set to ratify that George Wright, the embattled Westmoreland Central member of parliament, go on a leave of absence from the party until investigations into allegations that he was involved in a brutal beating of a...
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MP defends record as MP as constituents clamour for factories, water
Incumbent St Ann South West Member of Parliament (MP) Zavia Mayne has defended his stewardship of the constituency since being elected in February 2016. Mayne, whose performance has drawn criticism from his political rivals, argues that his work...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Uganda: Museveni Rejects Move to Split NSSF
President Museveni has rejected a proposal to split oversight over the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), saying it should be placed wholly under the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic
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It takes a village ... - Community rescues man from crumbling home
Good Samaritans at home and abroad have come to the assistance of a man living in squalor along Maxfield Avenue in St Andrew just over a week after The Gleaner highlighted his plight. Nigel Townsend, 59, had expressed fear to our news team last...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Campbell rakes JLP councillors for shoddy roads
Being in the unenviable position of having no councillors umbilically linked to his People’s National Party (PNP) operating inside the St Ann North West constituency, two-term Member of Parliament Dr Dayton Campbell has fired a salvo at the Jamaica...
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Rwanda: Government to Establish Sex Offenders' Registry
Rwanda Public Prosecution Authority (NPPA) has started the process to a national registry of all individuals convicted for offences of rape and
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Africa Asked to Reverse Effects of COVID-019 On Continent
The most efficient way for Africa to reverse the effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and prepare for any future pandemic is to assert its independence in economic, scientific and political terms, Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has
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MPs welcome grading system but caution against inaccuracies
Members of Parliament (MPs) from the two main political parties have embraced an initiative by one civil society group that seeks to empower citizens to hold them accountable, but with an important caveat. The first-of-its-kind ‘MP Tracker’ is an...
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