News Briefs

Wakanda News Details

News Briefs

Illegal cambio manager fined Clifton Williams, the Sun Investments manager who pleaded guilty to breaches of the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Act, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment or a fine of J$300,000 when he appeared in the St James Parish...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

You may also like

We've been using the same bricks for over 5,000 years. This engineer says it's time for a change. - L.A. Focus Newspaper

Written by Rebecca Cairns, CNN

fave

Source: La Focus Newspaper

New system to track COVID-19 donations

LOCAL civil society organisations have devised a tracking system to account for the US$419 million donated so far towards fighting COVID-19 in Zimbabwe. BY VENERANDA LANGA The COVID-19 resources tracker administered by the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) was set up to try and

fave

Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Officer Involved In Breonna Taylor Killing: ‘It’s Not A Race Thing’

The Black woman was shot by white officers in her home in Louisville, Kentucky. None of the officers involved was charged in her death.

fave

Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

Family sues Nike for alleged racial profiling at Santa Monica store -

LOS ANGELES — A Black couple has filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court against athletic apparel company Nike and a former store manager who accused them of stealing a child-size basketball they had in fact paid for. The incident happened in July 2019 when Joel Stallworth and TaMiya

fave

Source: Homepage -

Jefferson, William J. (1947-- )

William J. Jefferson is a former Democratic politician who represented Louisiana’s Second Congressional District from 1991 to 2009. He was the first African American congressman elected from the state since Reconstruction. His career ended in a bribery scandal that resulted in his conviction in

fave

Source: Black Past

Jun

4

2007

United Way joins Noranda to donate care packages in St Ann

A team of top executives from the charitable organisation, United Way of Jamaica (UWJ), journeyed to St Ann recently to join forces with one of its long-time partners, Noranda Bauxite, to distribute food and care packages to several institutions...

fave

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

South Africa: Popular Disco Musician Patricia Majalisa Dies

[New Zimbabwe] SOUTH African disco queen, Patricia Majalisa has died.

fave

Source: allAfrica.com

Chicago Looting Not Organized Protest But 'Abject Criminal Behavior,' Mayor Says

The overnight chaos amounted to “abject criminal behavior” and was not part of an organized protest, according to the city's mayor.

fave

Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

20-year sentence proposed for violence against women, children

LEADER of Government Business in the Senate, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, says that proposed changes to domestic violence legislation included in a report passed on Friday will contribute significantly to addressing violence against the most vulnerable Jamaicans.

fave

Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Suriname national assembly votes in Santokhi as new president - Stabroek News

Paramaribo, (Reuters) - Suriname's National Assembly voted in former justice minister Chan Santokhi as its new president today, ending the rule of former strongman Desi Bouterse, who had dominated the country's politics in recent

fave

Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

D.C. statehood is a racial justice issue for the entire nation | New Pittsburgh Courier

by Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire.com)—The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people,” the great abolitionist and D.C. resident Frederick Douglass once wrote. More than a century later, the 705,000 residents of

fave

Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Tensing Pen Negril 16th in world’s top 100 hotels

WESTERN BUREAU: One of Jamaica’s quaintest boutique properties, Tensing Pen, has been ranked 16th among the top 100 hotels in the world by readers of one of the sphere’s leading travel magazines, the influential Travel + Leisure. The Negril resort...

fave

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

African American Arrested for Unprovoked Attack on Macy’s Employee - African American News Today - EIN News

An 18yr old African American identified as Damire Canell Palmer in the United States. The African American gave the White Macy’s of the assault showed the African American aggressively landing several blows on

fave

Source: Nigerian Newspaper delivering reports on Politics, Government, Entertainment, Sports and more ⋆ .

We know people are talking about us – Holness

PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness last week admitted that he was well aware and taking note of the public discourse around events affecting the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), of which he is leader, and the Government he leads. He was delivering the...

fave

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Sir Hilary has been misled about the circumstances here - Stabroek News

Dear Editor, I read the statement by Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Sir Hilary Beckles and am replying on behalf of the Guyana Reparations Committee. The article Sir Hilary has been misled about the circumstances here appeared first on Stabroek News.

fave

Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Former LMPD Officer Brett Hankison Reports To Jail But Not For Killing Breonna Taylor

He was booked at the Shelby County Detention Center.

fave

Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

Innocent Social Worker, Anjanette Young, Violated by The Chicago Police Department. | Chicago Defender

Two years ago, 50-year-old social worker, Anjanette Young, returned home from work and began to undress when Chicago Police raided her home. Police rammed her front door down with a battering ram and barged into her house at night to execute a search warrant. Recently released bodycam footage

fave

Source: Chicago Defender

A glory glory hallelujah time? - Dallas Examiner

By MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Children's Defense Fund Is our long-awaited real United States of America baby about to be born?! The one our slave ancestors, grandparents, parents and community co-parents died and struggled [...] The post A glory glory hallelujah time? appeared first on Dallas Examiner.

fave

Source: The Dallas Examiner

Sun Investments manager pleads guilty to banking breaches

WESTERN BUREAU: Clifford Williams, one of three executives of the Montego Bay-based Sun Investments Limited accused of breaches of the Bank of Jamaica Act, pleaded guilty in the St James Parish Court yesterday and is to be sentenced on Monday, May...

fave

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

4. 1 magnitude earthquake rocks sections of Jamaica

The Earthquake Unit at the University of the West Indies has confirmed a magnitude 4.1 quake was felt in sections of the island at approximately 9:02 a.m. The earthquake’s epicenter was 10 km northwest of Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth, with a...

fave

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Family of Georgia woman killed by deputies demands answers | The Atlanta Voice

The family of a Georgia woman killed by gunfire as sheriff’s deputies executed a search warrant questioned Wednesday the way officers carried out the operation. Latoya James, 37, was fatally shot on May 4 after Camden County deputies with a drug-related search warrant forced entry into a home at

fave

Source: The Atlanta Voice

Hotels hopeful as flights resume

Western Kenya Hospitality Leaders’ Association chairman Robinson Anyal said the move to ease some of the virus containment restrictions came as a reprieve for the sector.

fave

Source: Business Daily

As Black Lives Matter marches go on, Pittsburgh launches a task force to find “people intent on causing destruction”

Pittsburgh protesters on Friday honored what would have been the 27th birthday of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot in March by police officers in

fave

Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Ryan Bane Was ‘Drunk And Uncooperative’ When Coast Guard Met With Him After Sarm Heslop’s Disappearance

CRUZ BAY — Police are pressing the boyfriend of a British woman missing from St. John for nearly three months to begin cooperating fully with their investigation. Sarm Heslop’s Michigan boyfriend Ryan Bane has refused to allow police to search his boat, from where he says she disappeared in the

fave

Source: https://vifreepress.com

Officer involved in Breonna Taylor killing: ‘It’s not a race thing’ - DefenderNetwork.com

Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, speaking publicly for the first time since the fatal Louisville police shooting of Breonna Taylor, stressed Tuesday her death had 'nothing to do with race.' In an exclusive interview with ABC News/The Courier Journal, the sergeant at the center of the controversial March 13

fave

Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

The photographer using vivid symbolism to celebrate the history of black resistance

colonial era, Diop said. Black Americans, for example, rarely have a -keeping impossible. When an African American looks back at their history

fave

Source: CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

California Couple Charged With The Killing of Their 5-Week-Old Son

Earlier this week, a California couple was taken in by police officers and charged with the murder of their 5-week-old son.

fave

Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

Apple wins big EU court case over $15 billion in taxes - Black News Channel

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A European Union court on Wednesday delivered a hammer blow to the bloc's attempts to rein in multinationals' ability to strike special tax deals with individual EU countries when it ruled that Apple does not have to pay 13 billion euros ($15

fave

Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Manchester municipal FID forfeiture case delayed until October 1

The hearing into the application by the Financial Investigations Division seeking the forfeiture of the assets of the persons convicted in the Manchester Municipal Corporation fraud scheme has been postponed until October 1. Sanja Elliott, the...

fave

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Perilous prisons - Correctional facilities most dangerous for sick, mentally ill inmates

More than 400 inmates have been injured in violent altercations inside Jamaica’s prisons since 2018, and more than half of them have had to be taken outside the facilities for emergency medical attention. Many did not survive. At the same time,...

fave

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

More from Jamaica Gleaner

J’can philanthropist loses mother to COVID-19

Wood Hall Primary ensuring no student is left behind

Most community bars breach law – McKenzie

Coronavirus causes learning losses

M & M Jamaica aids in COVID-19 relief efforts

Corporate Hands | VPA donates care packages

Corporate Hands | LifeSpan gifts children’s home with water

Corporate Hands | Sagicor Bank presents grant to Spelling Bee champion

Jamaica records 10 new COVID cases, 10 more recoveries

Tivoli justice ‘impossible’ - Botched police probes doom search for truth forever, say watchdogs

‘Who will mind my kids?’ - Parents mulling back-to-work order ponder daycare dilemma

Gov’t not at fault for miscarriage – Tufton

Amid pain, Coke loyalty lingers

Last pick for Christie corruption team identified

Shaw pushes irrigation as rainfall lags

CB pumps $30m into restaurant revival

IDT rules in favour of BOJ in vacation leave dispute

Families birth businesses from farmers’ market resale

After initial cheers, bar blues set in

Youth councillors create exam study website

#JamaicaTogether Promo | Craig Hendrickson

Adventure cruise ship workers touch soil today

400 ship workers tested for COVID-19

Cocaine seized at Kingston airport

Alleged lottery scammer nabbed in St James

Kings House Avenue in St Andrew to be closed this weekend

Motorists affected by 'bad gas' saga could get compensation in two weeks

Grange announces national, parish projects for Labour Day

Tucker main road in St James getting $114 million rehabilitation

Government rethinking field hospital at National Arena – Tufton

Saluting the #HealthcareHeroes

Jeneil Williams: Pregnant in a pandemic - Supermodel shares her story with ‘Vogue’

Michael Elliott unveils virtual art experience

Hanover bars under scrutiny

Operations of private early childhood institutions in jeopardy

Glenmuir High School, donors provide COVID-19 relief

Brown’s Town Health Department gets boost from JN members

JN Group donates to the elderly

VM Foundation provides tablets for needy students

Fear, anxiety grip maternity ward nurse

Telehealth thrives during COVID-19 pandemic

Mayor: Manchester MC not daunted by corruption scar

COVID cases hit 550, recoveries up to 200

Tourism timeline - Stakeholders pressure Gov’t to set date for reopening ports

Consumer advocate lashes Gov’t over bad gas payout

Senators clash as Crawford questions whether ship workers are suicidal

Mother relives painful event after losing two sons

Jenny Jenny reaches out to the blind

Rearing rabbit, the other white meat

Trelawny Farmers’ Market gets thumbs down from MP

Spirituality Facts

Literature Facts

Blackfacts BETA RELEASE 11.5.3
(Production Environment)