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Call for special election lines for elderly, sick
Jamaica’s election authorities have been urged to implement exclusive queues for elderly and sick voters to limit exposure to the new coronavirus with 1.9 million people registered to cast their ballots on September 3. Global COVID-19 infections...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
`You have to dance with me’ - Stabroek News
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Guy slams COVID PR as Gov’t gets thumbs up
An RJRGLEANER-Don Anderson poll that shows overwhelming public support for the Holness administration’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic has rankled the opposition spokesman on health, who believes that Jamaicans have bought into a “false”...
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Ramaphosa defends intergovernmental model, DA says he's evasive on 'new command and control system' | News24
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Use game technology to promote online learning - Bunting
Western Bureau: Peter Bunting, the Opposition spokesman on education, wants schools to use modern technology, including interactive gaming software, to access learning material and promote online networking among students. Addressing teachers in...
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BOOK REVIEW: We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World by Todd Hasak-Lowy
For the 10-to-14-year-old who's been riveted by recent news or activities in their hometowns, this book will inspire and inform, and it will help them find parallels between yesterday and today.
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Tracey Brame, Civil Rights Expert and Law Professor, Weighs in on Death of George Floyd
Prior to this weekends protests around the United States over the death of Georg Floyd and others persons of color who have died while in custody of police, WMU-Cooley Associate Dean and Professor Tracey Brame, a civil rights expert,  spoke with media outlets in Michigan regarding the use of
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PNP pays tribute to late councillor Milton Brown
The People's National Party is expressing regret at the passing of sitting Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Councillor for the Mineral Heights Division in Clarendon, Milton
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America is fighting a racial as well as a viral pandemic
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) reports that 20 percent of COVID cases are among persons age 30 to 39 and 19 percent for persons 20 to
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Jefferson County (Ala.) to require face coverings in most public spaces
Jefferson County will require face coverings in most indoor public places beginning at 5 p.m. June 29 and lasting until the county health officer deems public safety no longer requires it in the fight against
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The last thing our country needs is megalomania – Op ed
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 August 2020: “Government of Sierra Leone explores development of domestic air travel”. This is one headline in the Sierra Leone Telegraph that caught my eye this week. According to the newspaper, discussions have been held to explore the possibility of
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Cressida Dick denies Met is institutionally racist - Voice Online
DAME CRESSIDA Dick has denied that the Metropolitan Police is institutionally racist. The Met commissioner... The post Cressida Dick denies Met is institutionally racist appeared first on Voice Online.
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Seat by seat
THE Opposition People's National Party (PNP) says it has employed a 'seat by seat' strategy in its quest to return to Government.While admitting that the party left the blocks behind the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), co-director of the PNP's 2020 election campaign Peter Bunting said the
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KQ State takeover set for take-off as Bill tabled
A Bill that will guide the sale of Kenya Airways (KQ) to the State was tabled in Parliament on Thursday, setting the stage for the buyout of minority shareholders at a premium and converting shares held by banks into Treasury
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How ‘Black Don’t Crack’ Can Describe The Black Professional’s Experience - Blavity
From code switching to feeling invisible, there are many ways Black people might "crack" within white Corporate America.
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Fourth political party applies for registration
A new political entity — Jamaica Progressive Party (JPP) — has applied to the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) to be registered as Jamaica's fourth political
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JLP switches one Simpson for another to face Lisa
THE Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has tapped Maxine Simpson, its councillor caretaker for the Bensonton Division in St Ann South Eastern, to be its standard-bearer in the constituency in the September 3 general election.
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Newcomer keen to widen gap on JLP in Clarendon SW
Lothan Cousins, the man set to replace Noel Arscott on the ballot in Clarendon South Western for the People’s National Party (PNP), has insisted that his party’s superior political machinery on the ground will ensure the seat remains in its winning...
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Jamaica: Robbers caught after motorist rams bike - Stabroek News
(Jamaica Gleaner) A brave motorist foiled a brazen attempt by gunmen travelling on a motorcycle to rob him in Negril, Westmoreland, on Wednesday afternoon when he forced them off the road, resulting in them crashing into a wall at a popular
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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 Labour Party (JLP) local government
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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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PNP says Central Kingston needs crime plan
Member of Parliament for Kingston Central, Ronald Thwaites and the People’s National Party’s (PNP) candidate for the constituency, Imani Duncan-Price, are insisting that an atmosphere of peace and law and order will only be achieved through genuine collective community
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Minnesota African American Heritage Museum reopens Aug. 18 with timely exhibits, precautions -
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UNC complains of 'irregularities' | New York Carib News
The main opposition United National Congress (UNC) Tuesday hinted that the absence of international observers had contributed to its defeat in Monday’s general election and that it would be making its position known on several irregularities “in due course” to the Elections and Boundaries
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Tributes to late MPs take Lower House sitting into late night
THE House of Representatives yesterday spent hours paying tribute to former Minister of Labour and Social Security Shahine Robinson, and former Education Minister Dr Neville Gallimore — both members of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) — who died late last
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On November 4, 2008, Illinois Senator Barack Obama defeated Arizona Senator John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.  On the night of his historic victory, Senator Obama addressed an audience of 250,000 at Grant Park in Chicago.  The text of his speech appears
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