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More SOEs possible before election

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has not ruled out declaring more States of Public Emergency before the next general election due by February next year. However, the prime minister says where a State of Emergency exists when he is ready to call an...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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“Of course the years of systemic racism and voicelessness are not near the same level the Black community has been forced to endure,” AL DÍA News’ Ericka Conant rightfully notes, “but the recent deaths of multiple Latinx individuals at the hands of police have reignited the call to end police

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The leaders of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia agreed late Friday to return to talks aimed at reaching an accord over the filling of Ethiopia’s new hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile, according to statements from the three

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St Mary man charged with shooting, illegal possession of firearm

The St Ann Police have charged 28-year-old Kevin Mitchell, otherwise called ‘Frost’, a labourer of Retreat, St Mary with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition as well as three counts of shooting with

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Jodian Fearon's mom wants answers

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Open letter to Prime Minister Mia Mottley & the citizens of CARICOM | New York Carib News

Without seizing herself of the full set of facts, Prime Minister Mottley, in her capacity as CARICOM Chairman, jumped into Guyana’s elections politics, like a bull in a China shop, to support her friend Bharrat Jagdeo, leader of the opposition People’s Progressive Party

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PJ Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy launched

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As Numbers Spike, California To Begin “Smart Testing” for COVID-19

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US group disappointed in Mottley's position on Guyana elections

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