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The Signs Say Black Lives Matter - My WordPress
Commentary By Jesse Jackson The sign says Black Live Matter. Yet the very people who are supposed to protect us too often, in too many places, don’t seem to agree. Demonstrators march down I-94 in St. Paul, Minnesota, protest after the death in police custody of George Floyd on May 31. Scott
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Governments backtracking as confirmed virus cases surge
NEW DELHI, India (AP) Governments are stepping up testing and reimposing restrictions as newly confirmed coronavirus infections surge in many countries. India reported 20,000 yesterday, while the caseload in the US is growing by about 40,000 a day.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday he has tested positive for the coronavirus, after months of downplaying its severity while deaths mounted rapidly inside the country.The 65-year-old right wing populist, who has been known to mingle in crowds without
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Jamaica to benefit from $498m under Canada-Caricom fund
JAMAICA is to benefit from a provision of CA$4.7 million or $498 million, for which the country is eligible under the CA$20 million Canada-Caricom Climate Adaptation Fund facility, to be implemented by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
British pubs, US beaches reveal summer virus dilemma
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) Drunken celebrations on English pub reopening night and US beach closures prompted a global rethink yesterday of coronavirus measures during the summer holiday season.Hopes of the sun making the new disease go away are fading as the United States racks up record daily
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Pandemic, Racism Compound Worries about Black Suicide Rate - Black News Channel
By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press/ BNC Contributor  CHICAGO (AP) — Jasmin Pierre was 18 when she tried to end her life, overdosing on whatever pills she could find. Diagnosed with depression and anxiety, she survived two more attempts at suicide, which felt like the only way to stop her pain. Years
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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel
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T&T could keep borders closed until after Aug 10 polls
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) The Trinidad and Tobago Government says it has no plans to rush towards reopening the borders of the country closed since March in a bid to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).Oppositions parties have been calling on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Today's Horoscope June 30, 2020
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, June 30, 2020: Extremely motivated and technically gifted, you will be in demand this year. And with your astute financial sense, you will do better than most. If single, you let so few into your private world that it could take a long time before you allow yourself
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Several Jamaicans contract COVID-19 at Florida birthday party - Stabroek News
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican community in West Palm Beach, Florida, is in mourning following news of the passing of community activist and businessman Norman Perkins, affectionately known as ‘DC’ even as reports swirl of several Jamaicans contracting the virus at a recent
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St Kitts PM reiterates intention to step down at the end of second term
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC) Less than a month after he led the coalition Team Unity into office for a second consecutive term, Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris has reiterated his desire to step down at the end of this current five-year term.
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Aubyn Hill is new JLP treasurer
THE Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) yesterday announced the appointment of Senator Aubyn Hill as treasurer for the party, effective June 30. According to a JLP release, Senator Hill, whose appointmnent was approved by the party's Standing Committee, brings to the table a wealth of experience in
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Flood kills 55 in Japan
TOKYO, Japan (AP) Soldiers used boats to rescue residents as floodwaters flowed down streets in southern Japanese towns hit by heavy rains that were expanding across the region yesterday. At least 55 people have died and a dozen remain missing.
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Thanksgiving service for Michael Gordon tomorrow
A thanksgiving service for the life of retired Jamaica Observer Senior Photo Editor Michael Gordon will be held tomorrow at Boulevard Baptist Church in St Andrew.
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Police Execute Search Warrant at Home of White Couple - Black News Channel
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities executed a search warrant at the St. Louis mansion of a white couple whose armed defense of their home during a recent racial injustice protest drew widespread attention, their attorney confirmed Saturday. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who are personal injury
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Today's Horoscope - July 6
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, July 6, 2020: Passionate and magnetic, you draw your object of desire straight toward you. This year, you do this with a project and it is fantastically successful. Personally, you do best by keeping it light, but that only comes with time. If single, you may be fixated
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Brazil's World Cup humiliation that became an expression
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) - Six years after Brazil suffered their most humiliating experience on a football pitch, the 7-1 World Cup thrashing on home soil at the hands of Germany has become a joke, an expression and even a meme.That infamous scoreline has taken on a meaning of its own to
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Mississippi set to remove Confederate emblem from its flag
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) Mississippi is on the verge of changing its state flag to erase a Confederate battle emblem that's broadly condemned as racist. The flag's supporters resisted efforts to change it for decades, but rapid developments in recent weeks have changed dynamics on this issue in
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Tourism faces minimum US$1. 2-trillion hit from virus, says UN
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) The novel coronavirus crisis could cost global tourism and related sectors from US$1.2 to US$3.3 trillion in lost revenue, the United Nations said yesterday.Lockdown restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 have hammered the tourism sector particularly hard, the UN
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Jamaican among four charged with murder of businessman
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC) Police have charged four people, including a 34-year-old Jamaican with murder after the body of a 64-year-old businessman was found buried behind an unfinished concrete structure in Lowlands, Tobago last month.
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Youth accused of shop-breaking charged
EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Kenroy Patterson of Hart Street, Old Harbour, in St Catherine was arrested and charged with shop-breaking and larceny after he was...
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JN Foundation donates to Missionaries Of the Poor
Missionaries Of the Poor (MOP), the Catholic charity that cares for the country's poor and dispossessed, last month received 500 care packages of basic food items, toiletries, canned food and household cleaning products to help beneficiaries cope with the effects of COVID-19.The JN Foundation made
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Gaps in national COVID response could leave abuse victims vulnerable, says group
A regional women's group is pointing to gaps within national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, which could leave abused women and children even more vulnerable.   The Women's Entrepreneurship Network of the...
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Legal Experts Review Black Minnesota Teen's Life Sentence
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An independent panel of national legal experts will review the conviction of an African American man sentenced as a teenager to life in prison for the murder of a little girl struck by a stray bullet, Northwestern University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions and the New York-based
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Legal experts review Black Minnesota teen's life sentence : TheGrio
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An independent panel of national legal experts will review the conviction of an African American teenager who... View Article The post Legal experts review Black Minnesota teen’s life sentence appeared first on TheGrio.
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The Washington Redskins NFL team is changing its name — what does it mean for American sport?
The Washington Redskins NFL team announces it will drop its franchise name, but why have they done it, what happens now, and what could it mean for the rest of American sport?
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Low turnout as France votes in local polls
PARIS, France (AFP) � French voters abstained in their millions Sunday from a final round of municipal elections predicted to deal a blow to the party of President Emmanuel Macron.Amid persistent fears of the novel coronavirus contagion, just over a third of voters had turned out by 5:00
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Oxygen runs low as COVID-19 surges in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The coronavirus storm has arrived in South Africa, but in the overflowing COVID-19 wards the sound is less of a roar than a rasp.Medical oxygen is low in hospitals at the new epicentre of the outbreak, Gauteng province, home to the power centres of Johannesburg and the
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The Massacre That Destroyed Tulsa’s ‘Black Wall Street’
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Major crimes down over January
Jamaica recorded significant decreases in what the police label Category One crimes last month, data from the constabulary are indicating.In fact, for the January to June period this year, there were 26 fewer murders, 65 fewer shootings, and 78 fewer robberies compared to the same six months last
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Medics insist on self-regulation
THE Medical and Dental Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe (MDPCZ) has rejected government moves to take over and regulate the training of junior doctors. By NQOBANI NDLOVU Government recently made moves to amend the Health Professions Act (Chapter 27:19) to allow the Higher and Tertiary
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