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SATURDAY PROFILE | Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku: We hopefully won't surpass 'maybe 2 000' deaths | News24
Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku says he wants stricter lockdown regulations in the province, and that people should expect more death in the weeks ahead.
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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
8 more imported COVID-19 cases but recovery remains high
EIGHT more people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, bringing Jamaica's number of cases to 715.Five more people have also recovered from the virus since Wednesday and have been released. This brings the number of recovery cases to 560, giving the island a 78.3 per cent recovery rate.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Mudslide Alert
One good shower of rain and this section of the Irish Town main road will be the scene of a mudslide from this partially excavated hillside.Fresh tractor marks yesterday afternoon show evidence that heavy equipment has been digging into the layers of soil, ripping out trees and shrubs with it.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Street vendors hit by coronavirus clampdown
Vendors and informal workers’ groups in Zimbabwe say that city officials, with the support of the national government, are exploiting the lockdown to destroy makeshift shops and market stalls while their owners are observing stay-at-home
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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People
Parents can register online to access PEP results
PARENTS and guardians will be able to register on an online portal to access students' Primary Exit Profile (PEP) results. The student placement and scores will be available tomorrow.Acting Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information Dr Kasan Troupe made the
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Trump pleased with US efforts to stem illegal drugs from the Caribbean
MIAMI (CMC) - President Donald J Trump has described as 'an incredibly successful' operation the cut to the flow of illegal drugs into the United States from Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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China's Inner Mongolia region reports bubonic plague case
BEIJING, China (AP) While China appears to have reduced coronavirus cases to near zero, other infectious threats remain, with local health authorities announcing a suspected bubonic plague case in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Today's Horoscope July 1, 2020
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, July 1, 2020: Highly sensitive and giving, it is essential that you move out into the world to be fully successful. Once there, you are most often adored. That which you love generates a good income. If single, you can become depressed and must overcome this to let
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Hare lashes motorcyclists in west, after 3 die in crash
GREEN ISLAND, Hanover Director of the Road Safety Unit in the Ministry of Transport and Mining Kanute Hare has again...
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Freemasons donate to children's homes
A week after donating a total of $2 million to the Jamaica Cancer Society and the Heart Foundation of Jamaica, Freemasons Association of Jamaica on Monday presented $500,000 each to the National Children's Home and The Wortley Home for Girls. The presentations were made by Thomas Smith, deputy
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Caricom SG says last four months exceptional for region
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretary General Irwin LaRocque said yesterday that the past four months have proven to be the most exceptional periods for the 15-member regional integration movement.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Western Cape's Covid-19 peak could be 'flatter, longer', but that's good news for bed capacity | News24
The Western Cape's Covid-19 peak is likely to be flatter than first expected, but will also last for longer, which could mean the Western Cape may no longer run out of hospital beds.
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Education ministry says all in place for CSEC, CAPE
ACTING chief education officer in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information Dr Kasan Troupe says that all is in place for administering of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE).Approximately 58,720 students have
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Dutch Government to take Russia to court over shooting down of MH17
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The Dutch Government is taking Russia to the European Court of Human Rights for its alleged role in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 over eastern Ukraine six years ago, the foreign minister announced yesterday.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Freemasons donate to Cancer Society, Heart Foundation
Freemasons Association of Jamaica on Wednesday made a donation to the Jamaica Cancer Society and Heart Foundation in the amount of $1 million each. A small delegation of freemasons, led by Dwight Reece, district grand master of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, visited both organisations where he
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
"THEY'RE SCREWING THE NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS"
The President’s order activated the National Guard into federal deployment to help with the Coronavirus
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McLean: Options on table to re-energise students
Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Dr Grace McLean, says several options are being explored to help students who might have regressed because of the disruption to the teaching learning process since the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to close early in March, come the September
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Foreign students must leave US if classes go online
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) International students will be forced to leave the US or transfer to another college if their schools offer classes entirely online this fall, under new guidelines issued yesterday by federal immigration authorities.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Therell be a big party - Tanzanian miner with 30 children becomes overnight millionaire - Face2Face Africa
Saniniu Laizer, a Tanzanian small scale miner has hit the jackpot, becoming an overnight millionaire after digging up two huge Tanzanite stones, one of the world’s rarest gemstones. Laizer earned $3.4 million after selling the gemstones with a combined weight of 33lb to the country’s ministry of
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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice
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Man runs 218 miles to virus-stricken grandma
SCRANTON, United States (AP) Endurance athlete Corey Cappelloni once ran six days through the Sahara Desert in what's considered the most grueling foot race on Earth. But a 218-mile run to grandma after she was sickened with COVID-19 turned out to be the longest, toughest and most rewarding of his
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
UK could lock down city of Leicester after virus surge
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) The central English city of Leicester could be the country's first to face a local lockdown due to a rise in coronavirus cases, the UK's Home Secretary Priti Patel said Sunday.The Midlands city recorded 658 new cases in the two weeks up to June 16, many linked to fresh
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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Eastern Cape needs 3 000 ICU beds for Covid-19 storm, peak expected over next 3 months | News24
The Eastern Cape health department is racing against time to increase its number of general beds to 10 000 and intensive care unit beds to 3 000 to meet the demands of Covid-19 during its peak period.
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Eastern Cape to turn museums, hostels into field hospitals to combat risky self-isolation behaviour | News24
The Eastern Cape government plans to turn 18 state-owned properties, such as museums and hostels, into field hospitals after they found that people engaged in risky behaviour while self-isolating.
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ITA reports delays for driver's and provisional licences
THE Ministry of Transport and Mining reported yesterday that since the resumption of testing of applicants for driver's and provisional licences at the Island Traffic Authority (ITA), under the new appointment protocol, there has been an extremely high volume of requests which have led to
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
1,000 disabled students get online access to classes
However, Digicel Foundation has reached out to to ease that burden through the donation of 1,000 tablets to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information and the Ministry of Labour and Social
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Big COVID-19 risk
LONDON, England (AP) Police around the southern English coastal town of Bournemouth urged people to stay away yesterday as thousands defied coronavirus social distancing rules and flocked to local beaches on what is the UK's hottest day of the year so far.
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Drax saga clouded by mist: Judge
HIGH Court judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda yesterday said the infamous Drax International COVID-19 tender scam, which has led to the arrest of Health minister Obadiah Moyo for criminal abuse of office, was too hazy and suspected the company’s local representative Delish Nguwaya was withholding
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The number of protesters on show was small, but their messages appeared to have struck powerful notes, as motorists honked horns and waved in support of those who turned out yesterday to express their dissatisfaction with higher-than-normal electricity bills sent out by the Jamaica Public Service
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
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GOD SQUAD - Party full of pastors to challenge JLP, PNP
ALMOST 80 per cent of the candidates who have formed Jamaica’s newest political party are pastors, and the man behind the movement is confident that they will win the next general
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