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JAS wants to help drive down food import bill
Western Bureau: With Jamaica importing more than US$900 million worth of agricultural produce annually, Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) Vice President, Denton Alvaranga, wants urgent steps to be taken to improve local production and reduce the...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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Tears of relief and joy as mom beats Covid-19 to meet her premature baby at last | News24
A mother gave birth to a baby via emergency C-section at only 25 weeks while she was unconscious and on ventilator support for Covid-19. She thought her baby died but has since been reunited with him.
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White Supremacy In The Church: Black Leaders Discuss The Way Forward – Free Press of Jacksonville
BY GRADY CAPSTONE JOURNALIST  - Mandisa Thomas was never made to go to church or believe in God. She learned about various gods through literature and history. Daryl Bloodsaw grew up beneath the shadow of white [...]
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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly
PICS | Paw patrol: Cape Town firefighters rescue puppy from sewerage pipe, go back to fix it | News24
After rescuing a puppy from a sewerage line, City of Cape Town firefighters have returned to the scene to fix the homeowner's damaged infrastructure.
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Trelawny laments trail of broken promises
Western Bureau: While Trelawny has benefited from significant infrastructural developments over recent years, including a multibillion-dollar cruise shipping pier in Falmouth, some residents are nonetheless disappointed with the growing list of...
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Bellaire combo Elijah Lawrence & Jacolb Cole are a duo to watch - DefenderNetwork.com
In the last year's basketball playoffs all eyes were on Bellaire High School after they ran through five rounds of the playoffs, ending their season just one game away from a trip to the state tournament after a 70-61 loss to Dickinson High School. Yet, with three Cardinal starters returning from
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Africa: Elections and Instability As Africa Enters 2021
Analysis - No fewer than 10 presidential elections are planned for 2021 - in Benin, Cape Verde, Chad, The Gambia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, the Republic of the Congo and Zambia. Ethiopia is also having all-important general elections.
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Expecting trouble, DC locks down a week before inauguration - Black News Channel
By ASHRAF KHALIL and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — All through downtown Washington, the primary sound for several blocks was the beeping of forklifts unloading more fencing. There were no cars or scooters and seemingly no tourists Wednesday, just the occasional jogger and
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‘We have suffered enough’ - Gov’t urged to press ahead with MoBay bypass
Western Bureau: A decision by the Government to delay the commencement of works on the long-awaited Montego bay bypass is not going down well with business leaders, who are yearning for an end to the traffic gridlock which has plagued the Second...
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SA great Jacques Kallis enjoying time in 'arch-enemy' England camp
SA great Jacques Kallis says he's come to enjoy working with England even though it had initially felt odd to be assisting the "arch-enemy".
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It’s Thursday 14 January 2021, and this is The South African's Daily News Wrap - with the latest news you really need to know.
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Southern California leaders see Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy in Black Lives Matter movement | L.A. Focus News
Two weeks after scores of people of all races flooded downtown San Bernardino to protest police brutality and systemic racism in the wake of George Floyd‘s death, local school board President Gwen Dowdy-Rodgers and her colleagues did something new. Representing more than 47,000 students, as well as
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MoBay Chamber pleads for Gov't to urgently start bypass
FREEPORT, St James - The Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) is urging the Government to reconsider its decision to push back, until next year, the start of the planned construction of the US$220-million Montego Bay bypass.At a press conference held in the resort city
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Africa: Global Fund Signs $8.5 Billion Grants to Fight HIV, TB, Malaria
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Rafael Nadal targets Roger Federer's record Down Under without coach
Rafael Nadal will try to overtake Roger Federer's Grand Slam record without his coach Carlos Moya who will not attend the Australian Open.
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When no news is good news - JCF celebrates suicide-free 2020, looks forward to better 2021
Chief chaplain of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), Pastor Dr Gary Buddoo-Fletcher, led law-enforcement officers into a praise break yesterday, highlighting that there had been no suicides within the police last year. “Sometimes no news is good...
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Team GB ‘hugely confident’ Tokyo Games will go ahead - Stabroek News
LONDON, (Reuters) - Team GB Chef de Mission Mark England said yesterday he was confident the Tokyo Olympics would go ahead this year but athletes could expect them to be very different due to the COVID-19
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Ciara Styles On The Cover Of Self Magazine; Reveals Shocking Details About Giving Birth During The Pandemic
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Dr. King, Sports and Music! - Los Angeles Sentinel
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Covid-19: KZN hospitals can't increase bed capacity for critical care due to doctor, nurse shortage | News24
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Global virus death toll hits two million
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) - The global death toll from COVID-19 topped two million yesterday, crossing the threshold amid a vaccine roll-out so immense but so uneven that in some countries there is real hope of vanquishing the outbreak, while in other, less developed parts of the world, it seems
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Kenya: Trouble Brewing At LSK Over Sh186 Million Tax Bill
[Nation] The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) is staring at a financial crisis as it grapples with a Sh186 million tax bill, risks losing a prime piece of land in Nairobi and more millions to corruption perpetrated by staffers colluding with lawyers.
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Curfew extended in Jamaica | New York Carib News
The Andrew Holness led administration extended the islandwide curfew and all other previously announced measures under the Disaster Risk Management Act until Sunday, January 31.
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HUNDREDS of people have, since March 2015, been empowered through the Welfare, Health, Education, Empowerment and Local Community (WHEEL) Fund, established by the Central Jamaica Conference (CJC) of Seventh-day Adventists.
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NRZ suspends commuter trains
BY NIZBERT MOYO THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) on Friday suspended commuter trains in line with the COVID-19 regulations recently announced by the government. The suspension of commuter trains came amid reports that some commuters were taking advantage of the trains to evade police
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Covid-19: If NCCC keeps schools closed, independent schools will go online - association | News24
Talks on whether schools should reopen amid the second wave of Covid-19 infections and the newly detected variant affecting young people, are ongoing.
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By William J. Ford  - (Source): Washington Informer - The leaders in D.C., Maryland and Virginia released a joint statement Monday with a message not only for their constituents, but Americans nationwide who want to attend the [...]
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