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Female firefighters take charge

Port Antonio, Portland Female firefighters from St Mary and Portland were in a state of readiness during International Women’s Day celebrations last weekend, as they took charge of their station during an eight-hour shift which saw them being on...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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NWA working to clear blocked roads, drains in several parishes

The National Works Agency (NWA) says heavy equipment have been dispatched to several locations in St Thomas, Portland, St Mary, St Ann and Clarendon to clear landslides, washed down silt, and reopen blocked drains in order to reduce...

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St Mary carpenter killed in freak accident

Forty-eight-year-old Kenneth Williams, a carpenter of Mango Valley in St Mary, was killed in a freak accident in the Boscobel Housing Scheme in the parish on Thursday. The police report that about 9:30 a.m., Williams was using scaffolding to...

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NFL Digital Media to provide Super Bowl Week coverage across platforms

NFL plus, NFL Channel, NFL.com, the NFL App and YouTube viewing available during Super Bowl week Now in its 21st year, NFL Media will be on-location providing comprehensive, wall-to-wall coverage of Super Bowl week, according to the NFL. With more than 70 hours of live Super Bowl week coverage, NFL

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15 new fire trucks here and ready to roll

WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Fire Brigade is on the verge of having its fleet of trucks significantly beefed up as reports have surfaced that 15 of the 30 new units ordered by Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie have been cleared from the...

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JFB gets 85 new firefighters

The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) has received a major boost in its complement of firefighters with the addition of 85 new recruits. The men and women, who recently completed a rigorous training programme, will now be assigned to the various divisions...

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Holness: My mind is not on election

Amid speculation that there could soon be a general election, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said his focus now is to restore the economy hard hit by the coronavirus. Holness was speaking in Annotto Bay, St Mary on Thursday during a...

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L’ancien chef des rebelles Guy Philippe libéré après 2 nuits passées à la DCPJ

The content originally appeared on: juno7 - Haïti News L’ancien chef des rebelles Guy Philippe a été libéré ce samedi 2 décembre par la Police Judiciaire après deux nuits passées à la Direction Centrale de la Police Judiciaire. Après avoir été placé en garde à vue à la Direction Centrale de la

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Got You Covered: A Black-Owned Alternative To Band-Aids That Gets Your Skin Tone Right

Whether that be hiring a company’s first Black leader like Harper’s Bazaar, ABC naming it’s first Black Bachelor, or Band-Aids finally creating bandages that match Black and brown

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Switzerland returns marble head around 2,000 years old to Libya | Africanews

Swiss federal authorities indicated on Tuesday that they had returned to Libya a marble head of a young woman from the Hellenistic period, around 2,000 years old, discovered ten years ago in a warehouse in Geneva.

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Movie review: ‘The King of Staten Island’

If you haven’t found Pete Davidson funny after six years on “Saturday Night Live,” two hours watching his semi-biographical film “The King of Staten Island” likely won’t change your

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Corporate Hands | JP Farms commits six acres to reforestation project in St Mary

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Swift firings for Minneapolis officers in death of African-American man

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — To the general public, the video of a white police officer pressing his knee into the neck of a black man prone on the street, crying out for help until he finally stopped moving, was

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Houston ISD schools see declining student enrollment

HISD schools have experienced a major decline in student enrollment compared to last year.

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Wife torches house to fix hubby - NewsDay Zimbabwe

HALF a million dollars worth of property was destroyed by fire on Tuesday when a couple at a house in Hillside in Bulawayo had a heated quarrel, culminating in the wife setting the property alight. The post Wife torches house to fix hubby appeared first on NewsDay Zimbabwe.

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Hopewell Valley Regional School District selects its first African American superintendent - African American News Today - EIN Presswire

After more than two months of searching, members of the Hopewell Valley Board of Education have selected Dr. Rosetta Treece as the school district’s next superintendent. Treece is the first African American to lead the Hopewell Valley Regional School District (HVRSD) as superintendent. The board is

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Policeman charged with assault

Police constable Michael Garrick was on Thursday placed before the St Mary Parish Court, by way of summons, to answer to charges of assault occasioning bodily harm. The charges stemmed from an investigation by the Independent Commission of...

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McKenzie to meet Golden Age Home management today

FALMOUTH, Trelawny - Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie is expected to meet with the management of Golden Age Home later today to investigate claims by a former resident that he was discharged and dumped at an 'abandoned building' with no electricity or door in downtown Kingston.

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Future Unveils His LANVIN LAB Collection

Future has just added yet another notch on his already decorated belt. The Atlantia rapper has launched his first ever collection with LANVIN. On Monday, November 20 the French luxury fashion house unveiled Future's inaugural drop. According to a press release Future drew 'upon the LANVIN archives

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ChiTown mayor up for abuse of office

Chitungwiza mayor, Lovemore Maiko, has been arrested for alleged abuse of office after he reportedly demoted a district officer to council librarian and allegedly gave the position to his friend. BY RICHARD MPONDE Maiko was arrested on Monday afternoon and is also accused of directing council to

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City of East Point selects native son as new fire chief

East Point City Council has announced the selection of Corey Deon Thornton as the City’s new Fire

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Cooking gas may have been source of mystery odour

The mysterious noxious fumes that forced evacuations and early closure at a number of organisations in the Corporate Area on Tuesday may have been caused by a cooking gas leak. The fumes, which were believed to have started emanating late in the...

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Barbados’ Labour Minister virtually attends 21st Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labour | The Bajan Reporter

The ILO has told the 21st Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labour (IACML) that there is a need to seek an inclusive, sustainable and resilient recovery from a crisis that has left a legacy of high unemployment and worrying informality in Latin America and the Caribbean. Speaking at the

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National Organization to Recognize the Class of 2020 and Front Line Workers with Virtual Celebration

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Former tennis pro survives COVID-19, donates blood plasma

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