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The marking of matric exam papers has not been a smooth process as three people have died from COVID-19-related complications so far
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A high school pupil in Folweni, KwaZulu-Natal, died after he was stabbed, allegedly by a school mate, the education department has confirmed.
TOURISM MINISTER Edmund Bartlett said that Monday’s “soft reopening” of the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay was a silver lining for workers at that gateway after a near-three-month layoff.
Bartlett was addressing journalists at the airport where he, along with Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton, was on hand to witness the arrival of the first plane carrying tourists into the island since the country closed its borders on March 24 in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
“The prospects that 5,000 people working at this airport see their jobs coming back, I think, is the most satisfying of all and perhaps the greatest sense of hope that is provided,” the tourism minister said, while cautioning employees to adhere to health protocols.
More than 800 people have registered and booked on the JAMCOVID Visit Jamaica website, which offers disaggregated data on places of origin and other information.
Also on hand to witness the arrivals was Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) President Omar Robinson, who revealed that only a handful of hotels, namely Deja Hotel, Moon Palace, RIU Ocho Rios, Sandals Montego Bay and Beaches Negril, are reopening this week with the others slated for next month.
So, the government's 'back to school' operation is temporarily on the scrapheap. Here's what you need to know about returning grades and new approaches.
Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail, President of Saint Augustine University in Raleigh, North Carolina has died due to the COVID-19 virus.
Jerome McCarthy, has been granted bail of R100 000 after a shipment of 250 000 mandrax tablets was traced from Gauteng to his house in Parow, Cape Town.
As the Education Department weigh-up making changes to social distancing, some new rules for Level 1 have been introduced to schools this week.
Nico Hulkenberg says it was 'crazy and wild' returning to F1 at short notice while Sergio Perez's positive test may force Formula 1 to alter its protocols.
Langeberg Mayor Henry Jansen, who spent the best part of 20 years in the Western Cape's political arena, lost his fight against COVID-19 on Tuesday.
In the following article Dr. Clarence Spigner, Professor of Public Health at the University of Washington, Seattle, describes the life of the first patient to die of Ebola on U.S. soil and the larger crisis of Ebola in West Africa. He views it as a consequence of a long history of disease, poverty, and underfunded health care systems in the West African nations of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia which are at the center of the 2014 epidemic.
On September 20, 2014, a forty-two year-old Liberian native, Thomas Eric Duncan, arrived in Dallas, Texas from a plane flight that originated in Monrovia, Liberia. Duncan came to the United States ostensibly to reunite with his estranged teenaged son and the boy’s mother, Louise Troh, who had at one time been his girlfriend in Liberia. Troh and her son lived in Dallas.
Unknown before that point, Duncan entered the international public consciousness because he had flown from the hot zone of the Ebola virus outbreak then occurring in West Africa. On March 30, 2014, Liberia reported two cases of people with the Ebola disease. Six months later on September 30, over 3,000 people had died from Ebola in West Africa including more than 1,000 in Liberia alone. Duncan, who would be the first reported case of Ebola in the United States and as of this writing, the only fatality, was symptom-free and not contagious when he left Liberia by way of Brussels, Belgium and Washington, D.C.
The deadly Ebola disease has symptoms similar to the mosquito-borne infectious malaria. Both malaria and Ebola are endemic to Africa, though malaria is now far more widespread and dangerous. So is West Nile Disease which like malaria is mosquito-borne and was first identified in 1937 in the East African nation of Uganda.
Unlike those diseases, Ebola is spread by physical contact with an infected person or animal. The virus is not airborne. The rapid spread of Ebola and the even more rapid spread of fear of a worldwide distribution of the Ebola virus comes from the knowledge that diseases like
MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) - Manchester City climbed into the Premier League top four after first-half goals from Raheem Sterling and Kevin de Bruyne secured a comfortable 2-0 home win over struggling Fulham yesterday.
The article Manchester City cruise to 2-0 win over Fulham appeared first on Stabroek News.
The music industry icon passed away on Friday night.
Bonnie Pointer, a founding member of The Pointer Sisters, passed away on Monday, June 8 at age 69 in Los Angeles, California.
“It is with great sadness that I have to announce to the fans of the Pointer Sisters that my sister, Bonnie died this morning,” said Anita.
But earlier this year, she and Anita released the song “Feels Like June” to honor their sister June Pointer, who passed away from cancer in 2006.
Bonnie Pointer is survived by sisters Ruth and Anita and brothers Aaron and Fritz.
“The Pointer Sisters never would have happened had it not been for Bonnie,” said Anita in her statement.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Overlooking a crowd of hundreds from the steps of Richmond City Hall on June 3, Mayor Levar Stoney pulled down his face mask and apologized for the city’s police force using tear gas on peaceful protesters the night before.
The protests in Richmond since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis have packed city streets, with most people wearing masks but not all.
In Richmond, where the virus’s spread was deemed so severe that the city’s economy had remained largely shuttered after most of the state began reopening, protesters say the need to show up and fight racial injustice and police brutality outweighs the risk of getting sick.
Since Floyd’s death on Memorial Day, thousands of people in Richmond and across Virginia have protested, assembling in large groups while marching and chanting calls for an end to police brutality.
Gatherings of more than 10 people continue to be banned, although the state, except for Richmond and Northern Virginia, will enter its second reopening phase on June 5, raising the limit on social gatherings from 10 people to 50.
Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza, 55, has died as result of a heart attack, government said on Tuesday.
The ANC’s ‘step aside’ resolution is now in focus after party president Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed that party’s secretary general Ace Magashule would be subjected to the ANC integrity commission over the R255 million asbestos contract
Cost: TBD – But early reports are saying anywhere from $499 to $699
CPU: AMD Zen 2-based CPU with 8 cores at 3.5GHz (variable frequency)
GPU: 10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHz (variable frequency)
GPU architecture: Custom RDNA 2
Memory interface: 16GB GDDR6 / 256-bit
Memory bandwidth: 448GB/s
Internal storage: Custom 825GB SSD
IO throughput: 5.5GB/s (raw), typical 8-9GB/s (compressed)
Expandable storage: NVMe SSD slot
External storage: USB HDD support (PS4 games only)
Optical drive: 4K UHD Blu-ray drive
Models
There will be the main model as well as a digital-only edition with similar specs, but it won’t have a disc reader for those who don’t want physical copies of games piling up.
The X Box Series X seems to be running a similar setup, so processing speed will be based on factors like games and how everything comes together.
The PS5’s frequency speed will vary depending on the speed needed from operation to operation and game to game shooting for efficiency while the X Box Series X chipset won’t fluctuate between speeds.
The PS5’s chipset looks more like an emulator for PS4 games, while the X Box Series X will be capable of dragging previous generations’ games to the future.
Currently, the PS5 will be compatible with the majority of the top 100 PS4 games but announced a slew of upcoming releases, including Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Horizon: Forbidden West, Gran Tourismo 7 and GTA 5.
Tamika Palmer is putting pressure on President-elect Joe Biden, urging the incoming administration to open “large scale federal investigations into cases of police brutality.”
The news was announced during the 2020 NFL Draft.
Africa has escaped the \"exponential\" rise in coronavirus cases seen elsewhere probably due to low population density and a hot and humid climate, the UN health agency said.
As students return to in-person learning for the fall semester, school districts are scrambling to find substitute teachers to replace teachers who have retired or taken leaves of absence for fear of contracting coronavirus. In some places, districts are lowering certification requirements to attract substitute teachers. Teachers in at least three states have died after […]
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The fired Minneapolis cop who was captured on video kneeling on the neck of George Floyd during an arrest has been charged with murder.
Chauvin is the officer caught on video with his knee pinned against Floyd’s neck during an arrest as Floyd yells, “I can’t breathe.”
According to KSTP.com, Floyd and Derek Chauvin once worked security at the El Nuevo Rodeo club on Lake Street, according to former owner Maya Santamaria.
Santamaria says she didn’t recognize Chauvin or Floyd in the viral video showing Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck while he yells, “I can’t breathe.”
Andrea Jenkins, vice president of Minneapolis City Council, echoed the information given by Santamaria, and she even went further and told MSNBC, “Officer Chauvin, he knew George.
UNITED STATES (AP) - Scientists are seeing promising early results from the first studies testing gene editing for painful, inherited blood disorders that plague millions worldwide.Doctors hope the one-time treatment, which involves permanently altering DNA in blood cells with a tool called CRISPR, may treat and possibly cure sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia.
