Glenmuir High’s Max Leiba continuing a trail of excellence

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Glenmuir High’s Max Leiba continuing a trail of excellence

Glenmuir High School student Max Leiba, despite the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, breezed through the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate exams by getting straight A profiles in all but two of his 10 subjects. Among the...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

United States of America (USA)-based musician Maskal, who recently released a single titled ‘Samadziwa’ after over five years’ silence, is set to drop its video Wednesday. The ‘Udalire’ creator said yesterday he had shot the video in Malawi and USA. “Although I am here, I made sure I should not

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Source: The Times Group Malawi - Breaking news, politics, sports, entertainment and more - The Times Group Malawi

Bushiri’s K10m donation turns-up enrollment through school feeding programme

A ten-million-kwacha donation by Prophet Shepherd Bushiri towards Savers from the Heart (SFTH) school feeding programme has started bearing fruit in some primary schools in the capital Lilongwe as the schools have started registering increased enrollment. Headteacher for Kagwandipenya Primary

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Source: Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi

Reliving flood nightmare

As Tropical Storm Grace’s whipping wind and rain pelted Shooters Hill and Weise Road in Bull Bay on Tuesday, residents shovelled way mounds of silt, wary of a replay of last year’s flooding nightmare at the back end of the hurricane season. The...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Southern African Migrants Excluded As Covid-19 Pandemic Grows

[IPS] Johannesburg, South Africa -- Migrants across the Southern Africa region are massively disadvantaged as they find themselves excluded from vaccine programmes - even when the global vaccine initiative COVAX often funds these programmes.

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Source: allAfrica.com

USAID: Haiti Earthquake Death Toll Should Be Far Below 2010 Quake That Killed 200,000

The death toll from the earthquake that hit Haiti Saturday will be much lower than the 200,000 people killed in the 2010 earthquake that hit the island

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Tanzania: Samia - 'Vaccine Safe and Save Lives'

[Daily News] President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Sunday reiterated that the Covid-19 vaccine is safe and encouraged many people to take the jab to protect everyone, especially the most vulnerable.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Mom: They strung up my baby like a guinea pig

Lawyers hired by a disgruntled mother have written to the Bustamante Hospital for Children to have an independent pathologist oversee the post-mortem of her two-month-old daughter who died suddenly after being admitted for a cough. The infant,...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Pamela and Javale McGee Are The First Mother and Son to Win Olympic Gold Metals

NBA star Javale McGee and his mother former WNBA player and USC Trojans starter Pamela McGee made history as the first mother and son to win Olympic gold metals.

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Source: Black America Web

Africa's Oldest Dance Festival Evolves to Overcome the Pandemic

[The Conversation Africa] Now in its 23rd year, JOMBA! is a contemporary dance festival housed at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Centre for Creative Arts, one of five festivals run by the Durban-based centre. It connects South African dance makers to the rest of the continent for performances

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Source: allAfrica.com

Hyperion offers ‘sincere regret’ to El Segundo residents for odor after sewage spill - L.A. Focus News

Representatives of Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, the largest such facility in the country, offered some explanations and plenty of apologies for the aftermath of last month's 17-million-gallon sewage spill during the Tuesday, Aug. 17 El Segundo City Council meeting Four officials from LA

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Small fry battle Big Pond floods

It was just after 2:30 on Tuesday afternoon and shopkeeper Latoya Campbell was perched on a stool outside her business place in Bannister, St Catherine, just like she had done so many times before. However, this wasn’t like any other day. Not with...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Rev. Jesse Jackson Speaks About His And His Wife’s Covid Diagnosis - The Seattle Medium

In an exclusive telephone conversation from his hospital bed on Sunday, August 22, the renowned civil rights leader expressed his ongoing support for vaccinations while explaining why his wife, Jacqueline, had not received the vaccine. “I have had both my shots,” Rev. Jackson said in the telephone

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Source: https://seattlemedium.com

Liberia: Anti-Corruption Commission Seeks Extradition of Accused Former Govt Officials Indicted for Corruption

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Government of Liberia (GOL), through the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) has guaranteed that it will follow all necessary extradition procedures with the Government of the United States to ensure the prosecution of former and suspended Liberian public

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: The Impact of Covid-19 Has Been Lower in Africa. We Explore the Reasons

[The Conversation Africa] There's been an increase in COVID-19 deaths across Africa since mid-July 2021. But the impact of the pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa remains markedly lower compared to the Americas, Europe and Asia.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Grace but no mercy: Storm drenches eastern Jamaica

Jamaica escaped the full wrath of Tropical Storm Grace but the weather system left a canvas of catastrophe as it glanced the island’s northeast, leaving roads littered with downed utility poles and fallen trees, homes swamped, vehicles disabled, with sparking...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

High hopes as Zambia prepares to swear in Hakainde Hichilema | Africanews

The 59-year old businessman has promised democratic reforms, investor-friendly economic policies, better debt management as well as "zero tolerance" to corruption

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Woman set ablaze succumbs to injuries

Nicola Clarke, the woman who was allegedly set on fire by her partner in a fit of rage in Great River, Hanover, on May 19, died from complications from her burn wounds on Sunday. Natalie Feinberg, a sister of Clarke’s, disclosed that her sister...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Rwanda: Auctions Cause Jitters in Kigali

[East African] Banks in Rwanda have run out of patience with their borrowers, with some hotels now put up for auction even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to keep guests away and further dampen the sector's recovery prospects.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Parents, students jubilant about vax blitz

Across the Corporate Area, scores of children came out with their parents to be inoculated as the Government began its national vaccination drive for adolescents 12 to 18 years old. This is viewed by many as the safest way to have the students...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Honored At Last: Initiative Introduces Negro League Legacy to New Generation

Major League Baseball and the NLBM have launched the Negro Leagues 101 initiative, which is an interactive, social media platform that is designed to create greater awareness of black baseball through 101 trinkets of knowledge for baseball and fans of black history.

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Source: Black America Web

US Retail Sales Down As Supply Chain Issues Loom Over Markets – The Wilmington Journal

Shoppers spent less in stores, at auto dealers and online in July, with data showing that consumer confidence may be waning amid a broader economic recovery. Retail sales fell 1.1 percent overall in July, according [...]

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Source: The Wilmington Journal

20-Year-Old White Oregon Man Brags About Destroying a Memorial. It Was for a Black Man Who Took His Own Life After Losing His Father to Cancer.

An Oregon man was arrested on Thursday, Aug. 12, and charged with second-degree criminal mischief, abuse of a memorial and second-degree bias crime after he […]

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Clinton College, a South Carolina HBCU, Offers Full-Time Students Free Tuition

Clinton College, a small historically Black college (HBCU) located in Rock Hill, South Carolina is offering all full-time students free tuition for the upcoming 2021-22 academic year. According to …

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Source: GOOD BLACK NEWS

Man denied bail for ammo possession

A man who was sentenced to two years and nine months for having 50 rounds of ammunition at his home, has been denied bail pending an appeal of his conviction and sentence. Ramon Seeriram, who claimed he had found the box with ammunition at his...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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