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Timely gift - Marks praises US donation of field hospital, supplies
WASHINGTON, DC: Jamaica’s ambassador to the United States, Audrey Marks, has thanked the United States government for donating a 70-bed mobile field hospital to Jamaica, saying it is a timely gift that will help fight the coronavirus, especially...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Kartel, co-accused granted leave to appeal murder conviction at Privy Council
Vybz Kartel and his co-accused have been granted conditional leave to go to the Privy Council in the United Kingdom to challenge their murder conviction. The decision was handed down this morning by the Court of Appeal. One of the conditions is...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Trump tries to woo Black Americans with promise of a new holiday | New York Carib News
President Donald Trump's latest bid to win over black folk is pursuing the creation of a federal holiday for Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery.
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Women's Leadership and Decision-Making Urgent | New York Carib News
As part of the Generation Equality campaign and the Generation Equality Forum, UN Women, the Government of Mexico, and the Council of Women World Leaders co-hosted a virtual intergenerational dialogue with women leaders on 17 September 2020, on the sidelines of the 75th session of the UN General
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Source: The New York Carib News
Washington reviewing Ja anti-smuggling MOU
After more than four years of painstaking negotiations, Jamaica and the United States (US) are on the final leg of inking a Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement (CMAA), a memorandum of understanding aimed at stamping out the smuggling of contraband...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Germany's ex-royals want their riches back, but past ties to Hitler stand in the way - L.A. Focus Newspaper
Perched on a steep hilltop in southern Germany, the striking turrets of Hohenzollern Castle rise in contrast to the rolling countryside that surrounds them. The fortress is the ancestral seat of Germany's last imperial family. If the country still had a monarchy today, the castle's owners would be
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WHO says Africa escaped 'exponential' rise in cases | News24
Africa has escaped the "exponential" rise in coronavirus cases seen elsewhere probably due to low population density and a hot and humid climate, the UN health agency said.
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Patterson: DK was a master field marshal
D.K. Duncan, the former People’s National Party (PNP) member of parliament (MP) and government minister, was a “master field marshal”, according to former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson. Patterson, who was a contemporary of Duncan’s, remembered him...
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St Catherine inmate dies at hospital
An inmate at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre died this morning while being treated at the Spanish Town Hospital. Leslie-Ann Brown, director of corporate communications at the Department of Correctional ...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Europe’s Basketball Phenom Keifer Sykes Has Big Dreams for his Chicago Neighbors – Dallas Post Tribune
Keifer Sykes plays professional basketball in Turkey, not Los Angeles or New York. He hasn't yet made his NBA dream fit inside his 6-foot frame. And life off the court has been pock-marked with losses and tragedies tied to the gun violence that has riddled the streets of Chicago for a century. The
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Kenya Power Starts to Relocates Power Lines to Pave Way for the Nairobi Expressway
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya Power says it has commenced the relocation of power lines between Mlolongo, Mombasa road, and James Gichuru road to pave way for construction of the 27.1-kilometer-long Nairobi Expressway.
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Caribbean Airlines Announces Special Flight from Trinidad to New York | New York Carib News
Caribbean Airlines is working with the National Security Ministry to put on a special flight from Trinidad to New York on September 23. 
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Survey: Hispanic Americans Most Opposed to Illegal Immigration, Defunding Police - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… more than white and black Americans, are the most convinced … polls of white and black Americans, conducted by Ian Haney … defunding local police departments. Black Americans, at the same rate … exactly the same percentage of African-Americans agreed, as did an …
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Government pushing for renaming of UWI Cave Hill Campus | New York Carib News
On Tuesday, during her address in the House of Assembly, Prime Minister Mia Mottley declared Government's intentions to rename the university after Barbados' longest-serving prime minister, Owen Seymour Arthur.
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Supermodel Francine goes ‘Volatile’
Francine James, one of the Caribbean’s top modelling stars from Pulse, has scored another cover to add to her illustrious body of work. The beauty graces the August issue of Volatile magazine, which also features her in a 10-page editorial. James...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Fulton County ends National Recovery Month with sober teens
Fulton County Concludes National Recovery Month with Clubhouse for Youth Graduation Event celebrates teens completing program dedicated to sober living The Fulton County Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Disabilities … Continued
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Soldier shot dead while on anti-drug mission
THE Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) is mourning the death of 21-year-old Private Reniel King, who died after sustaining injuries in a firefight with gunmen in Milk River, Clarendon, on Thursday. A release by the Civil/Military Co-operation and Media Affairs Office at the JDF confirmed media reports
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Former president Koroma and others lived above their means and will lose their assets
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2020: Three Commission of Inquiry Reports on corruption and abuse of office by the former APC government led by Ernest Bai Koroma, along with the government’s response to the recommendations of those commissions were published yesterday by the government of
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Untangled from Covid-19, the proud Afro hairstyle rises again
For sure, by 1996, it was an act of defiant rage to wear an afro-puff on your head
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Japan’s new prime minister vows to host Olympics next year
Japan’s new prime minister says he’s determined to host the Tokyo Olympic Games next summer as “proof that humanity has defeated the pandemic.” The Games this year were postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak that has...
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Notorious B.I.G.’s Son Weighs In On Having His Pop’s Moniker Used As Nickname For Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Blavity
C.J. Wallace said there are a lot of similarities between the two Brooklyn icons.
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Moving forward with breast cancer awareness in the midst of COVID-19 - Dallas Examiner
Special to The Dallas Examiner   Breast cancer rates among Black women under the age of 60 are higher than White women in the same age group, but lower among Black women over
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Street People Liberation Foundation steps up to the plate - Fills outreach gap for shelters, homeless
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted the homeless. Not only has it disrupted the philanthropic efforts of many charities and individuals, but it has also resulted in the downscaling of outreach and charitable projects. One organisation...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Breonna Taylor Case Causes Nationwide Protests After Cops Go Unprosecuted
As previously reported, on Wednesday (Sept 23),Cameron revealed that a grand jury failed to indict all three officers involved in the murder of Breonna Taylor and giving just once officer a far lesser charge. Brett Hankison, the only officer terminated for the incident,  was the lone officer
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Democrats’ politics are still on the plantation – Florida Courier
When Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Renatha Francis to the state’s Supreme Court, he made history. She would have become the first non-Cuban of Caribbean heritage to sit on the court and the first Black justice since former Justice Peggy Quince
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Dottin fit but return to bowling will be managed, says Coley - Stabroek News
DERBY, England, CMC – West Indies head coach, Andre Coley, has given the assurance that all-rounder Deandra Dottin’s return to bowling will be carefully managed in an attempt to ensure she is at peak fitness, before resuming her usual work
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5 Ludicrous Lies Being Pushed About The Black Lives Matter Movement - Blavity
The New York Times recently published an article debunking a claim that linked Black Lives Matter to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The original post, published by the conservative Heritage Foundation, is based on financial backing that BLM co-founder Alicia Garza ’s Black Futures Lab was
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Sudden death in prison
Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of National Security Matthew Samuda has denied suggestions that yesterday's death of an inmate at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre in Spanish Town, was caused by COVID-19.Early yesterday reports surfaced that an inmate at the St Catherine-based
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CHTA says online roundtables seek to build stronger Caribbean tourism
FLORIDA, United States (CMC)-The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) has kicked off a series of online round-table discussions saying it is part of its wider efforts to help accelerate the rebuilding of the Caribbean tourism sector and to ensure the region emerges from coronavirus
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