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Wayne M. Hewett
Wayne M. Hewett is Chief Executive Officer of Klöckner Pentaplast Europe. In this role, Hewett leads one of the world’s largest suppliers of films for pharmaceutical, medical devices, food, electronics and general
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Nearly 39 Million Have Sought US Jobless Aid Since Virus Hit
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 2.4 million people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week in the latest wave of layoffs from the viral outbreak that triggered widespread business shutdowns two months ago and sent the economy into a deep
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Wright, Jeremiah A. (1941-- )
Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 22, 1941 to Jeremiah A. Wright, Sr., a Baptist minister who served as pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Germantown, and Mary Henderson Wright.  Wright completed primary and secondary school in that city and in
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Jamaica
In September 2011, Prime Minister Bruce Golding resigned. Goldings political standing never recovered after his handling of the Christopher Coke case. For nine months, Golding resisted a request from the United States to hand over Coke. His resignation was seen as an effort to help the Jamaica
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2011
St Elizabeth teen braces for surgery
TREASURE BEACH, St Elizabeth — The family of 16-year-old Hampton School student Nittia Deleon is to know on Wednesday when a surgery to remove a fast-growing tumour in her jaw will be
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Lincoln Motion Picture Company
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(William) Manning Marable - Birthday
May 13, 1950 April 1, 2011 (aged 60) (William) Manning Marable, (born May 13, 1950, Dayton, Ohio—died April 1, 2011, New York, N.
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13
1950
Speid: Teachers are scared to death of re-entering classroom
MONTEGO BAY, St James —President of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) Owen Speid says the nation's teachers are afraid of re-entering the classroom to facilitate students sitting the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) exit exams in
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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To axe or not?
Former president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica Howard Mitchell explains that capitalism, globally, and to some extent in Jamaica, is moving towards the point where human capital is considered more important than other inputs, but he stressed that this will always be subject to
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Midwifery still relevant, important career, says assn head
Speaking with the Jamaica Observer on Friday, Hamilton said a reduction in the rate of maternal and infant morbidity and mortality hinges on the engagement of midwives with pregnant
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'It was the experience of a lifetime'
SEVERAL residents in Falmouth, Trelawny, paused yesterday to welcome home the more than 1,000 Jamaicans aboard Royal Caribbean cruise line's Adventure of the Seas which docked at the port shortly after
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Brice, Carol (1918-1985)
Contralto singer Carol Brice was born in Sedalia, North Carolina on April 16, 1918 into a musical family.  Eventually she became one of the first African American classical singers with an extensive recording repertoire.  Brice trained at Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia and then enrolled in
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14
1985
Student nurses detail struggles amid COVID-19
STUDENT nurses and midwives from the Caribbean School of Nursing (CSON), University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica are grateful for assistance they have received to shoulder the impact COVID-19 has had on their
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Kenya: Jubilee Party Purge in High Gear as Three Senators Are Quizzed
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Norman Taurog
Taurog acted onstage when he was a child and broke into films as a teenager. In 1920 he became a director of two-reel silent comedies, and he eventually helmed more than 100 shorts; early in his career, he often codirected with Larry Semon, a comedian who also starred in the films. Taurog finally
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Some principals say yes to July exams
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Constitution of the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society of Boston (1832)
Preamble: Whereas the subscribers, women of color of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, actuated by a natural feeling for the welfare of our friends, have thought fit to associate for the diffusion of knowledge, the suppression of vice and immorality, and for cherishing such virtues as will render u
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1832
Mitchell Town recreational park in Clarendon gets facelift
Residents of Mitchell Town in Clarendon joined hands on Labour Day to give a facelift to the rural community’s more than five-decades-old recreational
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John W. Hill
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COVID-19 layoffs in US nearly 39 million
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Coleman, Michael B. (1954- )
Michael B. Coleman is the first African American Mayor of Columbus, Ohio.  Coleman was born on November 18, 1954 in Indianapolis, Indiana to John Coleman, a medical doctor, and Joan Coleman, a local civil rights activist.  His family relocated to Toledo when Michael turned
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Source: Black Past
Nov
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1954
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CONROY STERLING begged his mom, Joan Spence, not to break down and cry as he, twin Conrad, and adopted brother Rohan were repatriated to the island aboard the Adventure of the Seas cruise ship on Tuesday
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Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church, New Haven, Connecticut (1844- )
Established on June 7, 1844, Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church of New Haven, Connecticut, is the fourth oldest black Episcopal Church in the United States.  Born of the righteous indignation of its founding members over continuing acts of racial discrimination meted out by the white vestry of Trinity
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Clarence Otis
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Tivoli incursion - ten years on | Caught in crossfire at KPH
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Jamaica: JDF under fire disabled woman killed in August Town
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