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With Saturday's UFC 263 middleweight bout between Israel Adesanya and Marvin Vettori on the horizon, bettors are looking to cash in on the many UFC 263 prop bets available for…
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Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
NAIROBI, Kenya — A petition signed by more than 160,000 Kenyans protesting alleged corruption by top government officials did not dissuade the International Monetary Fund from approving a $2.34 billion loan last week “to support Kenya’s pandemic response and economic-reform program.” The country has been hit hard during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the Kawangware slums west of Nairobi, residents are forced […]
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[The Conversation Africa] A recently released report highlights how societies could move closer to a more gender equal distribution of care work in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Ashleigh Hayes, founder of Drip, an eco-friendly line of yoga and Pilates essentials and Hot Inferno Pilates instructor, took an interest in this particular form of workout in 2017. After being gifted with her first yoga mat, Hayes would notice how the mat would break apart into pieces and never stayed in place when stretching […]
AS workers face hard times now, they should look for inspiration to the struggles of the labour movement in 1937, to confront those who hold power in this society, urged the
Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) in its Labour Day message.
\"On this day we remember those “warrior workers” who 84 years ago took their destiny into their own hands in order to fashion a new society and a better life for themselves and their children. We applaud them for the sacrifices that they made – some paid with their blood, others lost their jobs – and salute them for the victories that they won.\"
In the message, signed by political leader David Abdulah, the MSJ said the victories of the June 19, 1937 Revolution had been hailed by St Lucian economist Sir Arthur Lewis and Tobagonian social historian Dr Susan Craig.
Lewis had said, \"It is mainly on the development of this united labour movement that future progress in the West Indies depends.” These successes were political independence, the establishment of rights of workers, setting proper working conditions, wages and terms of work by collective bargaining; and State's role to provide some equity in the society and equal opportunity for all.
Craig had said the workers of 1937 were in a huge battle against the controllers of economic power such as the oil companies, the sugar estate owners, the foreign banks and insurance companies and big merchants, plus the controllers of political power, that is, the British colonial authorities.
The MSJ said, \"The future nature of the society rested on the outcome of this epic battle. If the controllers of economic and political power won, then we would have remained a colony for very many more years. Workers would have continued to be exploited in the worst possible ways.\"
With the labour gains came a political revolution, including land settlement, fixing minimum wages, expenditure on public works and slum clearance, old age pensions and workmen’s compensation. The MSJ said the controllers never gave up their power, despite making concessions, even with new political parties emerging upon national independence. \"In whose interests would these parties govern - the interests of the workers and poor, or in the interests of the controllers of economic wealth and power? They govern for the few, not the many.\"
The MSJ said many had lost during the pandemic and the accompanying recession but not all.
\"When hundreds of thousands are out of work, some have lost their homes and cars and many small businesses have closed down and the self-employed are barely able to survive, children are going hungry, parents don’t have the money to pay rent and other bills, children don’t have devices or wi-fi so they can’t join their online classes, big capital is making more profits!\" The MSJ said several banks and major conglomerates had reported bigger profits.
\"This can’t be right! It means that even as the national economic pie is getting smaller, those at the top – the controllers – are getting bigger and bigger pieces of the pie. The majority h
Israel Adesanya is a Nigerian UFC fighter and the current UFC middleweight champion. He is one of the fastest-rising superstars in the fight business. Nicknamed The Last Stylebender, he retained his middleweight title after he defeated Marvin Vettori for UFC 263 on Saturday night. Adesanya has a record of 20 wins and only one loss...
In a unanimous decision giving itself jurisdiction, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday set aside the ruling of the Guyana Court of Appeal on valid votes and paved the way for GECOM to finally declare a result for the March 2nd general elections using the figures from the recount.
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Announcing the relaxation of restrictions at a news conference on Monday, Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said starting on Tuesday at 11:59 p.m., Melbourne residents will be allowed to leave their homes and most businesses in the state can reopen with restrictions on the number of people.
\"With 0 cases and so much testing, we are able to say that now is the time to open up. Now is the time to congratulate every single Victorian who has stayed the course,\" Andrews said.
The remarkable milestone of no new cases comes just months after Andrews declared a \"state of disaster\" to stem an outbreak that saw as many as 725 people in the state test positive for the virus in a single day.
The steep decline in cases has allowed the government to lift major social distancing measures that have been in place for weeks.
As cases began skyrocketing this summer, Andrews put in place the type of strict anti-epidemic measures that governments in Western Europe and the United States have been hesitant to enact out of fear of damaging the economy and trampling on civil liberties.
From a public health standpoint, Andrews' decision appeared to have worked. While cases in Europe continue to skyrocket to record-breaking levels and US President Donald Trump's chief of staff said the United States \"will not be able to contain the pandemic,\" Victoria appears to have done just that.
East Asian governments including those in China, South Korea and Taiwan have not needed to put in place such restrictions because early efforts to contain the virus focused on testing and contact tracing, combined with the readiness of their respective populations to wear masks and follow social distancing guidelines, which helped keep the pandemic in check.
Andrews said Victoria was able to rein in the pandemic because of the public's willingness to endure hardship, listen to the science and follow the rules.
\"I could not be prouder than I am today to lead a state that has showed the courage, the compassion, and the character to get this job done. But it is not yet absolutely finished,\" he said.
\"We have to be vigilant in the weeks and months ... until a vaccine comes, there is no normal. There is only Covid-normal.\"
Under the relaxed measures, staff are allowed to immediately return to their businesses in order to prepare for customers and put in place anti-epidemic measures.
Some restrictions, including a 25-kilometer (15-mile) limit on travel and an internal border between Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne, will remain in place until November 8.
Though Victoria, as of Monday, accounts for at least 20,300 of Australia's more than 27,500 cases and 817 of the country's 905 deaths, the number of active cases in Victoria has steadily declined in the past 30 days. The number of new infections has been in single digits since October 13 and has not exceeded 20 in the past month.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison congratulated the state for the drop in Covid-19 cases and lauded Victorians for the making \"great progress in reducing the rate of Covid-19 infec
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by this author are their own and do not represent the official position of the Barbados Today Inc. by Julia Hanschell Will the world of work in the next year continue to be ‘on/off’ or blended, as it has been for much of the last? What, initially, was a […]
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Medical teams from Libya’s UN-recognized unity government on Tuesday exhumed mass graves discovered in the western city of Tarhuna.
According to the government, the operation consists of not only recovering but also in identifying the bodies that could be those of people who disappeared during the conflict.
The government announced a few days earlier that 190 bodies had been found in hospitals and other mass graves in Tripoli since 5 June.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) said it had received credible information on the existence of 11 mass graves in and around the south-eastern Libyan city of Tarhuna, which could constitute evidence of war crimes or crimes against humanity.
Last week, Human Rights Watch called on Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar to investigate alleged war crimes by his fighters after the discovery of the mass graves in territory formerly under their control.
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Former Arkansas governor and Baptist minister Mike Huckabee chose Easter weekend to sink to unimaginable lows practically spitting in the face of Asian American communities, apparently because Republicans lost a presidential election. Democrats argue...
Israel Adesanya was back to his brilliant best on Saturday, defeating challenger Marvin Vettori with a show of superior striking in his middleweight fight at UFC 263.
