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It’s been over two months since D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser urged District residents to stay at home and enacted an emergency shutdown of non-essential businesses due to
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Netanyahu lashes out at graft charges
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at a Jerusalem court Sunday for the start of his long-delayed corruption trial, rejecting the "ludicrous" charges against him and declaring he was facing the hearing "with my head held
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AMHVoices: COVID-19: A blessing in disguise for Zim health sector
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Re-orient youth from crime by giving them land
About five years ago, some of us started a group called ‘Christians Affected by Crime’ (CABC) where our focus was on providing support for families of perpetrators of
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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Magic Johnson Announces $100 Million in Loans for Business Owners of Color
Since April, when the $2 trillion COVID-19 Stimulus Bill was passed and the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) began to address COVID-19’s financial hits, the first study to look at the novel coronavirus’ impact on Black and Latinx business owners, conducted by the
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Nigeria fines UK airline for illegal operations
Nigeria has fined a UK airline $3,300 for illegally running a passenger service into the country during the Covid-19 travel
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Growth & Jobs | COVID-19 pandemic: An opportunity to strengthen the micro sector landscape
Gillian Hyde, general manager, Jamaica National Small Business Loan (JNSBL), says the COVID-19 pandemic represents an opportunity for Jamaicans to include, high on the ­national agenda, plans to make it ­easier and cheaper for micro entrepreneurs to formalise their
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Holder thrilled with Gabriel return
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies captain Jason Holder says he is happy to see ace fast bowler Shannon Gabriel back to fitness and ready to return to international cricket if the proposed upcoming series in England takes
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People ventured out to beaches over the weekend without masks and failed to keep their distance
Crowds packed beaches in Florida, Maryland, Georgia, Virginia and Indiana over the weekend — many venturing out without masks and others failing to keep their distance even as officials have tirelessly highlighted the importance of both in order to prevent another surge of
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New Fortress Foundation provides PATH students with care packages
THE New Fortress Energy (NFE) Foundation says it immediately responded by delivering close to 200 care packages when the principal of Old Harbour High School in St Catherine called for help to provide meals for students on
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The Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC) is advising that domestic online sales are subject to the same in-person sale requirements of the Consumer Affairs
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ANC MPs rally around Dlamini-Zuma after 'class suicide' question
ANC MPs rallied in support of Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma after she was asked which class she wanted to commit
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Doctors attempt to kick down door at Diamond isolation facility
Shocking video of doctors kicking down the door of a room of a COVID-19 patient at the Isolation Unit at the Diamond Hospital was made public yesterday with patients expressing frustration that despite concerns continually being raised, the authorities continue to pay little heed and take minimal
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Towards the great African promise
This is the day we, the people of the great continent of Africa celebrate the day when the then Organisation of African Unity (OAU), the precursor to the African Union (AU), was formed in
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Coppin State University’s New President Starts Today | Afro
BALTIMORE —  A new era for Coppin State University (CSU) begins on May 26 with the start of President Dr. Anthony
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Growth & Jobs | COVID-19 fast track digital transformation for business organisations
THE EMERGENCE of COVID-19 and the new normal have propelled many companies and organisations to fast-track plans to digitally transform their operations, said Colin McGann, assistant general manager for innovation at MC Systems, the technology company of the Jamaica National
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Chomsky: US virus response fatally 'chaotic'
The United States is on a chaotic path with no federal plan against the coronavirus pandemic as it reduces public health funding and ignores the advances of climate change, according to activist scholar Noam Chomsky, considered the founder of modern
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Rubis in COVID-19 donation to CDC, GPHC
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Barrick pays Tanzania initial $100m after gold shipments resume
Barrick’s Tanzania subsidiary Twiga Minerals has resumed exports of gold concentrate after receiving clearance for its first shipments since the lifting of a government ban imposed during a tax dispute with the mining
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White woman calling cops on black man in Central Park provokes comparison with Emmett Till lynching
A white woman, who was being filmed by a black man because the latter thought the woman’s dog was “tearing through the plantings” in Central Park, New York, called the police on the man, insisting on the phone that her life was being threatened by “an African-American
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Budget Cuts Could Put MLK Community Hospital in Jeopardy
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Zambia frees jailed gay couple as part of prison amnesty
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Mkhize on Glenda Gray matter: 'Let's leave the issue at that'
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Working While Black: My Coworker Used A Master/Slave Analogy
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