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An acknowledgement by Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett, on Thursday, makes as clear as crystal the reason behind the Government’s conviction that now is the time to reopen the country’s borders to international
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Diaspora: Jamaica needs soul-searching, too - Countrymen overseas condemn US racism, call for greater protection of vulnerable back home
Black people in America have been behind the social, economic and political eight ball ever since the first set of slaves were forcibly transported there from Africa four centuries ago, and a significant portion of them are of Jamaican and Caribbean
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10 things about Oliver Clarke
Media giant Oliver Clarke died late Saturday evening at his St Andrew home after a battle with
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PAC may subpoena CMU treasurer as it probes Auditor General’s report
Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has not ruled out using its subpoena powers to summon the new treasurer of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) to attend its sittings as it reviews the Auditor General’s report into allegations of malpractices at the scandal-hit
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African diaspora in the Americas
The African diaspora in the Americas is used to refer to people born in the Americas with predominantly African ancestry. Most are descendants of people enslaved and transferred from Africa to the Americas by Europeans, to work in their colonies, mostly in mines and plantations as slaves, between
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Amistad Digital Resource: Marcus Garvey
Born in 1887, in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, Garvey had been employed as a journalist, printer and labor organizer in the Caribbean and England before returning to Jamaica to establish the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), an organization rooted in the notion that black people throughout the
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Caribbean business leaders worried about second wave of COVID-19
NASSAU, Bahamas, Jun 20, CMC – A new survey conducted by the audit, tax and advisory firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), has found that the greatest concern for Caribbean businesses is a new wave of the coronavirus
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Holness to co-host high-level meeting with UN official on COVID-19
Prime Minister Andrew Holness, his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will on Thursday co-convene a special high-level panel to look at solutions to the development emergency of
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Black, African-American or Caribbean-American?
Indeed, the Black Lives Matter protests now rocking America and the world have opened up renewed and uncomfortable conversations about the history of privilege, racism, and the experiences and identities of Black people in
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Bermuda's City Of Hamilton To Host The 40th Annual Conference Of Black Mayors
Bermuda’s Corporation of Hamilton has announced it will host the 40th annual Conference of Black Mayors Convention later this
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CARICOM again calls for closer ties to Africa | New York Carib News
Mottley said it was also important to recognize that 75 years after the establishment of the United Nations and the Bretton Woods institutions –the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank – “to come together to determine how best we can re-fashion how they function and how they look to
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Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte is an eminent African-American figure in the American entertainment industry. He is a notable singer, lyricist, actor and social activist. Belafonte came to international stardom as “King of Calypso” for his popular Caribbean musical style. He is famous for his
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According to CWI chief executive, Johnny Grave, the two boards had a productive first meeting two weeks ago which included all the key stakeholders from captains to chief medical
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Coordinates: 8°30′N 11°30′W / 8.500°N 11.500°W 15% others Sierra Leone (/s iː ˈ ɛər ə l iː ˈ oʊ n iː, -l iː ˈ oʊ n/  (  listen)),[6] officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north-east, Liberia to the south-east, and the Atlant
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Established on June 7, 1844, Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church of New Haven, Connecticut, is the fourth oldest black Episcopal Church in the United States.  Born of the righteous indignation of its founding members over continuing acts of racial discrimination meted out by the white vestry of Trinity
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IDB helps to keep governments in LAC connected
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says it has joined with a number of firms, including Microsoft, to provide governments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) with immediate digital solutions, helping to ensure the continuity of administrative
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Rotimi was born to an Ijaw mother and a Yoruba father, and cultural diversity was a frequent theme in his work. Educated in Nigeria in Port Harcourt and Lagos, he traveled to the United States in 1959 to study at Boston University. After receiving a B.A. in fine arts in 1963, he attended the Yale
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Some small-island economies could collapse under the weight of COVID-19 - Mottley
One of the Caribbean’s most experienced politicians, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, has raised the grim spectre that some small-island developing states – numbered among which are several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries – could simply collapse under what might become the
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(BPRW) TOURISM: SUN SEA AND MASKS. Anticipating the Post COVID-19 Recovery of the Caribbean Tourism Sector – The Black Chronicle
(Black PR Wire) Amidst plans to resuscitate the Caribbean region’s economy post Covid-19, robust debate ensues as to the viability of Tourism as a main pillar of countries’ economies.   In a earlier release, Mrs. Jibrilu, Director General Source link
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Chelsea Edghill is an inspiration and my target – Thuraia Thomas
National junior table tennis champ Thuraia Thomas has made a bold pronouncement, making it known that she is aiming to tussle with Guyana’s number-one female player Chelsea Edghill down the
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Not all black people are African American. Here's the difference.
Black Lives Matter protests have opened up conversations about the history of privilege, racism, and the lived experiences and identities of black people in
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Cannabis agency defends its stewardship on ganja
THE Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) is insisting as false, a recent report by Forbes magazine that Canadian marijuana companies have pulled out of Jamaica because of a lack of positive action on the part of the Government and the
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COVID-19 exposes sub-standard regional health services - ECLAC
The global onset of the coronavirus and the attendant need for health-related responses have exposed the debilitating limitations of the health services in Latin America and the Caribbean countries, says a recent report prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America
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OPINION | Anant Singh: All lives matter, especially black lives
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By the 1500s, black slaves had been distributed through much of the Caribbean. Slavery, however, began much later in Central America. By 1724 the British were transporting slaves from Jamaica to Belize to cut logwood, particularly Mahogany. These slaves became known as
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