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Jamaican senior citizens age 75 years and older received their first monthly payout of $3,400 under the new Social Pension Programme on July 22. Some $800 million has been allocated in this fiscal year to implement the programme, which targets...
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
Democratic representative of New York City, Charles Bernard Rangel, first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1970, is now one of the longest serving members of Congress. Rangel was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1930. He attended De Witt Clinton High School but dropped out in 1948 and entered the U.S. Army. Two years later he served in the second infantry division in Korea where he earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for his actions in combat.
In 1952 Rangel was discharged and returned to New York, graduated from high school, earned a B.S. degree from New York University in 1957 and a J.D degree from St. Johns University in 1960. Upon admittance to the bar Rangel began practicing law in New York City.
In 1964 Charles Rangel spent the year as assistant U.S. attorney for the south district of New York working under U.S. Attorney Robert Morgenthau. In 1965 he was counsel to the Speaker of the New York State Assembly. He also served as counsel to the President’s Commission to Revise the Draft Laws. Throughout the late 1960s Rangel was legal advisor to many civil rights activists in New York and the South.
Charles Rangel was elected to the New York State Assembly, representing the 72nd District (Central Harlem), in 1966. In 1970 he entered the Democratic primary where he narrowly defeated legendary Congressman Adam Clayton Powell. In November he was elected to represent New York’s 15th District in Congress over token Republican opposition. A co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971, Rangel was elected chair of the group. He also served in the House Judiciary Committee’s hearings on the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
Rangel’s three decades in Congress, representing Harlem, the smallest Congressional district in land area in the United States, has been marked by a commitment to control the use of illegal drugs and drug-related violence and to tax relief for the poor. He has also advocated for federal funds to develop impoverished urban neighborhoods, and
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced it is investing up to $30 million from its endowment in voter outreach organizations in the Deep South to increase voter registration and participation among people of color with a lower propensity to vote.
The COVID-19 pandemic has and will continue to have a disproportionate impact on democratic participation for communities of color who have been harmed most deeply by the health and economic crisis and who will encounter greater barriers to voter participation given the new risks of voting in person on Election Day.”
Numerous organizations across the five states are working to promote voter participation and reach communities of color, returning citizens and young people, but they are struggling to secure resources to further their outreach amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an era of social distancing, and major economic recession, the SPLC said in a statement.
Officials noted that Vote Your Voice builds on the SPLC’s ongoing voting rights work to enable every citizen in the Deep South the opportunity to have their voice heard at the ballot box.
In the past two years, the SPLC invested a combined $2 million to help pass the Amendment 4 ballot initiative in Florida and increase voter registration and turn-out in Louisiana and Mississippi state elections.
OPPOSITION Leader Dr Peter Phillips on Sunday chided Prime Minister Andrew Holness for suggesting that the country's crime problem has evolved beyond the capacity to contain it.
The prime minister said that many of the crimes in Jamaica are being fuelled by these external forces, creating a need for more investment, over time, to build out the security architecture.
And if the prime minister thinks it is, that is probably why they have prepared no security plan that the country can line up behind for the whole four years that they have been in office,” Dr Phillips said.
Dr Phillips applauded the stakeholder group that met with both himself and Prime Minister Holness last week on the issue of crime.
In every single area of national life that is in crisis — whether it be crime, whether it be the absence of economic growth, whether it is poor governance — the JLP Government has failed and failed miserably, and the people of Jamaica need to understand that we represent the answer,” Dr Phillips concluded.
HEAD of the Jamaica Association of Principals of Infant and Primary Schools Violet Thomas-Thompson has commended the education ministry for the distribution of tablets to students, but says she is concerned that the devices are not outfitted with SIM cards.She says students and parents will still face a challenge, in instances where there is no access to broadband connection at home.
American Family Insurance steps up to celebrate HBCU students and alumni via virtual homecoming sponsorship. On a mission to acquire and support the best talent, American Family Insurance promotes career opportunities to HBCU students MADISON, WI – American Family Insurance announced today it is joining Target to co-sponsor YouTube Originals’ 'HBCU Homecoming 2020: Meet Me … Continued
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Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony (left) has held what his ministry said were “fruitful talks” with Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana Lilian Chatterjee (centre), focusing on key areas for which technical assistance in the health sector can be provided by Canada.
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[Cameroon Tribune] The Minister of Labour and Social Security made the call during the opening of the 26th and 27th sessions of the Social Dialogue Consultative and Follow-up Committee on November 4, 2020.
Yet the federal correctional institution that housed Manafort had no coronavirus cases, and Manafort had served fewer than two years of his more than seven-year sentence.
Nearly forty percent of those incarcerated in federal prisons are African American, many serving very long sentences for drug-related crimes.
But Manafort, citing “fear of coronavirus,” ended up serving less than a quarter of his sentence.
Manafort had a lot less to fear, at his minimum-security prison, than a Black inmate might.
Other countries have reacted to coronavirus crowding by releasing inmates in the tens of thousands.
The voting season is upon us once again. With many important topics at hand, Californians have the privilege and duty, as Americans in a free country, to cast their votes in this upcoming November election. We want to share with you 10 reasons why voting is important. Did you know that the turn out in …
The auditor general urged the ministry to “review its systems to ensure that the controls in place to enforce the eligibility requirements for PATH beneficiaries are operating effectively to reduce the risk of irregular or erroneous payments”.
Monroe Ellis said that the ministry should also take the necessary steps to ensure that only legitimate beneficiaries who have satisfied all the requisite criteria are paid the COVID-19 PATH grants.
Monroe Ellis reported that in response to the findings of her audit, the ministry placed a hold on the payment for the 8,933 beneficiaries and conducted a review to determine the actual eligibility status of each of the additional persons.
The ministry acknowledged that 4,354 new beneficiaries did not sign the agreement letter as required by the PATH Operations Manual, but they satisfied the other requirements of the programme for eligibility.
The ministry also indicated that for the May 2020 payment, “the requirement to sign the agreement letter was relaxed, owing to social distancing, reduced office hours, and other measures implemented by the Government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic”.
ATLANTA, GA – Attorney General Chris Carr is warning older Georgians, their families and their caretakers to be on the lookout for signs of financial exploitation, especially with regard to the recent issuance of federal stimulus checks.
Medicaid recipients who reside in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, along with their family members, should make sure that the economic stimulus payments of these residents are not utilized by the facility or individuals working in the facility.
Although Medicaid recipients may sometimes be required to sign over certain resources to the facility where they reside, this does not apply to the economic stimulus payments.
To report abuse, neglect, and exploitation of an older adult, disabled adult or resident in a facility, contact Healthcare Facility Regulation: 1-800-878-6442.
If you believe that the stimulus payment of a Medicaid recipient who resides in a nursing home or assisted living facility was improperly taken by the facility, you can contact the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Division by calling (404) 656-5400 or by emailing
If information which surfaced over last weekend that there could have been manipulation of Leon Bailey to openly criticise the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) is true, then it would be most unfortunate.
It seems quite mind-boggling that Cricket West Indies (CWI) continues to guard the audit report that it commissioned last year as close as my granny used to guard her thread bag under the mattress.
Now, the man who was mentioned as the lead actor in what seems like a high-budget film, Whycliffe Cameron, who lost in his unrealistic bid to preside over the affairs of West Indies cricket again last year, is taking CWI to court to squeeze the report out of the organisation's hands.
Prime Minister Holness, Cabinet minister Olivia “Babsy” Grange, and Member of Parliament Pearnel Charles Jr were at National Heroes' Park to mark the 97th anniversary of the birth of the humble Jamaican man from Martha Brae in Trelawny.
Well, apart from serving as Jamaica's third prime minister (PM), he was one of the finest men to have walked the length and breadth of this north Caribbean island.
And while in some cases retirement decisions will be voluntary, retirement may be essentially decided for some older workers due to jobs being eliminated as struggling companies restructure.
One report showed retirements of people from 50 to 65 and over have surged because of the pandemic.
And for older workers who planned to work long enough to collect full Social Security benefits but instead retire earlier, that could have permanent financial consequences.
Whereas every year you delay filing for Social Security past full retirement age brings an additional 8% until you turn 70.
When trying to figure out how to protect your retirement portfolio in the uncertain months ahead, remember that sometimes, trying to save yourself from future market volatility can result in major investing mistakes.
By Professor Chris Imafidon - The hashtag generation speak a totally different language, which is difficult to understand if you don’t know the power of a mobile phone. This ignorance tragically gave birth to the fundamentally flawed response that led to the shooting of innocent, unarmed, defenceless and flag waving youths in Lekki, a wealthy suburb […]
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Willie Murphy, 82, is definitely not your regular grandma. Her strength amazes people. She won the World Natural Powerlifting Federation of the Year award in 2014. She holds the national records in the bench for reps, the strict curl and Ironmaiden categories. She holds the New York state and national records across multiple WNPF age...
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Dr Peter Phillips has admitted that his failed attempt more than a decade ago to wrest control of the People’s National Party (PNP) from then President Portia Simpson Miller was ill-advised. And, while the PNP continues the search for answers for...
WITH face-to-face classes scheduled to resume on a pilot basis at select schools next week, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is imploring parents to keep ill children at home.
LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Forbidden by her global superstar mother Gloria Estefan from coming out as a lesbian to her grandmother, singer Emily Estefan said she contemplated suicide.
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MONTEGO BAY, St James Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips says he will not fail to discipline members of his party who are found guilty of corruption when it is warranted, but currently there is no need for him to to do so.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced new COVID pre-testing requirements for visitors to Jamaica from high-risk US states.
At a press conference at Jamaica House on Monday, Holness said as of July 10, people visiting Jamaica from Florida, New York, Arizona and Texas must upload the results of their COVID tests to the visitjamaica website before their landing may be approved.
According to Holness, Jamaica has to implement the measure as it prepares to welcome more people to the island.
Other people returning to the island will be screened at the airport.
Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton said the new pre-testing requirement will ease the pressure on the local staff.
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