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Mom, we’re home! - Portmore woman anticipates emotional reunion with three sons after COVID-19 adventure on the seas
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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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
British say Holness poured cold water on prison offer
PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness told the British high commissioner to Jamaica in August 2017 that his Government “would not take forward” the United Kingdom’s offer to help build a prison here, in the latest twist to the saga of who rejected the...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
PRETESTING U-TURN - New hurdle for visitors from high-risk COVID US states
Visitors from the high-risk American states of Florida, New York, Arizona, and Texas are now required to pretest for the new coronavirus before travelling to Jamaica, says Prime Minister Andrew
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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Business leaders urge caution on return-to-workplace approach
SOME business leaders are urging companies to examine their individual situation, and have employees who are now working from home resume duties at the physical plants safely, and as is
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Gayle Police Station officially opened
The Gayle Police Station and multipurpose centre in St Mary have been officially opened. Prime Minister Andrew Holness opened the facilities yesterday during an official opening ceremony. The multipurpose centre was rehabilitated at a...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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Jamaica: Cabbie uses G-string as COVID mask
Nicosi ‘Jubba’ McLarty, who plies the Half-Way Tree to downtown Kingston route, says he has been turning heads and making people laugh whenever he wears his ‘mask’ in
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Kenya: Jubilee Party Purge in High Gear as Three Senators Are Quizzed
The NEC meeting — which will also endorse changes made in the party’s parliamentary leadership as well as House committees — is dependent on the availability of the party leader, President Uhuru
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Source: allAfrica.com
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PM mum as watchdog demands Belnavis quit
Weeks after St Ann’s Bay Mayor Michael Belnavis became embroiled in controversy over his stewardship of municipal funds, climaxing last Thursday with a demolition related to building breaches, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has reserved comment until he has been fully
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
DPP hopes for another shot at gangs
THE challenge of prosecuting a 50-accused gang case, a first in the Caribbean, is one of the major reasons Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn has decided to take up Prime Minister Andrew Holness' offer to stay on the job for another three years.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
PM hands over new houses to St Mary sisters
Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Thursday handed over a new multifamily house to three sisters living in Annotto Bay, St Mary, under the social-housing component of the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme. The seaside...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Rwanda: Senior Govt Officials Pinned in Multi-Billion Public Tender
A prosecutor said that the purchase of the building was in 2018 entrusted in Rwankunda, in his capacity as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Infrastructure and the building was meant to house different government
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Holness: My mind is not on election
Amid speculation that there could soon be a general election, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said his focus now is to restore the economy hard hit by the coronavirus. Holness was speaking in Annotto Bay, St Mary on Thursday during a...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
$300m Tivoli bill - Figure set to increase with suits pending; public defender laments continued abuse of young men by cops, soldiers
Compensation payouts for the death and destruction that occurred during the internal security operation to arrest drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke have already cost taxpayers a little over $300 million, a figure that will increase when over two dozen lawsuits filed on behalf of detainees are
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Uganda: Museveni 'Clean Up' Moves to KCCA
President Museveni has written to the Public Service Commission (PSU) nominating Dorothy Kisaka as the new Kampala Capital City Authority executive
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Protesters injured by police before Trump photo-op testify: 'It hurts'
Civil rights demonstrator Kishon McDonald answers a question at a U.S. House Natural Resources Committee hearing examining Park Police response to Lafayette Square protests on June 29, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Bonnie Cash-Pool/Getty
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Uganda: World Vison Launches Plan to Support 5 Million Children in Home Learning
As the country continues to fight tirelessly to control the spread of Covid-19, a total of 5 million children are set to benefit from the three phase program of World Vision aimed at mitigating the after-effects of the pandemic in the vulnerable
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China Harbour breaks ground for St Catherine housing scheme
THE Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) on Wednesday officially broke ground for the 1,650-unit Catherine Estate housing project, to be developed in St Catherine, as a joint venture partnership with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), a company known for building roads and
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Protocols coming for reopening of day-care centres, nurseries
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says he will announce the protocols that have been established for the reopening of nurseries and day-care facilities shortly.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Holness headache - Petrojam scandal resurfaces with force as Wheatley labelled ‘dishonest’ in report
The director of investigation was caustic in his characterisation of Wheatley’s response to specific questions during a probe into donations made by Petrojam to various organisations and causes between April 2016 and March
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
PM makes changes at economic growth and job creation ministry
Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday made further changes to ministerial arrangements in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation.Daryl Vaz, who up to yesterday had responsibility for land, environment and climate change, has now been assigned to oversee water, housing and subject
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
ELECTIONWATCH - PM says economic recovery the focus now, but analyst expects polls sooner rather than later
Even as political watchers zero in on August dates for the next general election, Prime Minister Andrew Holness kept his cards close to his chest as he spoke with The Sunday Gleaner a week ago, giving no hint as to when he will summon Jamaicans to the
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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Johnson Smith refutes claims that SOEs/ZOSOs not working
Leader of Government Business in the Senate, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, assured the Senate on Friday that the Government is working towards introducing more zones of special operations
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
JHTA says it's ready to safely reopen tourism sector
The Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) says the planned reopening of the island's borders to international travellers on June 15 is an opportunity for a return to normality for the more than 300,000 workers and businesses that depend on tourism for a living.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Nigeria: Bill to Make Nigeria Industrial Nation Underway
Chairman of the Senate committee on Local Content, Senator Teslim Folarin, told newsmen at the weekend that the bill entitled "A bill for an Act to enact the Nigerian Local Content Act to provide for the Development, Regulation, and Enforcement of Nigerian content in all sectors of the Nigerian
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Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines (1722- )
The compact city of Kingstown is the capital of the eastern Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.  It is also a major port city for the Windward Islands, a chain of Caribbean Islands that includes locales beyond St. Vincent and the Grenadines.  Bananas, coconuts and arrowroot
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Supporters flock Robinson’s house with passing of MP
FOR SOME time it had not rained in Claremont, St Ann, but the showers came down yesterday, forcing supporters of Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament (MP) for St Ann North East, Shahine Robinson, to seek shelter inside her home or other sections of the
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
PM ‘embarrassed’ by inhumane prison death, discloses proposal for new facility
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has revealed that the Government is now mulling a proposal for a new
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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NDERITU: How civil service has been ‘colonised’
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Broadgate headache - Residents weary of prolonged Junction road project, never-ending dynamite blasts
Ongoing works to rehabilitate the Broadgate section of the Junction main road in St Mary have been irritating many residents, who are yearning for the project to be wrapped up, giving them a reprieve from the dust nuisance and dynamite blasts constantly terrorising
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
‘Worse than prison’ - Holness, Tufton apologise for quarantine food fiasco
Smarting from backlash over quarantine conditions for returning Jamaicans at two St Ann hotels, Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton yesterday apologised for a slew of logistical foul-ups, including rooming delays and substandard
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