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Jamaican pastor: No dominoes at church!

(Jamaica Observer) Pastor of the King’s Seventh-day Adventist Church in Mount Salem, Charles Brevitt, yesterday warned members of his congregation to “cease and desist” from playing dominoes on the compound, arguing that if the Government is not allowing it to be played in bars, then members must

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Desert Storms: Coronavirus and food insecurity impact local organizations | The Crusader Newspaper Group

While science and politics argue the numbers about how many Americans are affected or how long COVID-19 will impact the nation, there are some who meet the coronavirus on the ground serving the people with the most basic

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Gauteng will overtake Western Cape with most Covid-19 cases in coming days, says Mkhize

Gauteng will emerge with the highest number of Covid-19 cases in the coming days, overtaking the Western Cape, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Elliot showed criminal intent to obtain monetary advantage for himself, says Crown

* Count 23: Sanja Elliott, on a date unknown between February 1, 2016 and December 31, 2016, with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of $400,000 from the Manchester Parish Council by falsely pretending that the said monies were bona fide payments for work done by TM on behalf of the Manchester

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

A tax waiver on mules or bicycles

PRESIDENT of the United District Constables Association Damion Pryce is calling for changes to the Constables (District) Act, 1899, amid mounting pressure from his subordinates for better representation.Pryce's call follows comments from district constables islandwide who have told the Jamaica

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Uganda: Our Manifesto Plan Now At 77 Percent - NRM

Government has said it has so far implemented 77.9 per cent of its manifesto in the last four years and that the remaining threshold will be completed before the next General

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Source: allAfrica.com

Guyanese natural hair promoter and entrepreneur Denisha Victor dies

Dinesha Victor, a local entrepreneur and co-founder of the Curl Fête Guyana Natural Hair and Beauty Expo, has

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Help of all democratic governments and institutions needed for democracy to prevail in Guyana

In view of the current political stalemate and anticipated crisis in Guyana, where a barefaced and prolonged attempt to steal the will of the Guyanese electorate by the losing coalition in order to impose itself on the people by remaining in power, we the defenders of democracy plead with all the

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Perverts take aim at children

THE police have made two more arrests in connection with the alleged rape of young girls across the island, at a time when child protection agencies are expressing concern that Jamaica's children, who are out of school, are at

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Jamaica: Hospital accused of negligence after woman plunges to death - Stabroek News

(Jamaica Observer) THE family of 43-year-old Carsha Johnson Sinclair, who died at the National Chest Hospital yesterday after plunging one storey through a garbage disposal chute from the ward on which she was admitted, is accusing the hospital of

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‘Politricks’…Family of late JLP councillor Owen Palmer defends his reputation amid corruption allegations

The family of late Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor for the Homestead Division in St Catherine South Central, Owen Palmer, has come out to defend his reputation amid allegations contained in a report by the Integrity Commission. The...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

COVID-19-stranded Canadians look forward to going home

TREASURE BEACH, St Elizabeth When the Canadian husband and wife pair of Tom and Susan Little arrived here back in March, they had a flight booked to return to Toronto on May 15.The thinking back then was that by May the crisis surrounding the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) would have passed.

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Cameron seeking to become ICC chairman

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Dave Cameron confirmed Friday he will be seeking to become the next head of the International Cricket Council (ICC) and will be asking Cricket West Indies (CWI), which he led for three terms, to back his

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Religious party to ban strip clubs, casinos

The church-based Jamaica Progressive Party (JPP) will abolish income tax, ban go-go clubs, and raise salaries for civil servants if it gains state

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaican woman stranded in The Bahamas, 'I'm down to $50 right now'

(Jamaica Observer) A Jamaican woman stranded in The Bahamas is begging the Government to focus on repatriating nationals stuck in smaller islands across the region as it moves to ramp up its admission of citizens back into the country by air travel next

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

#AAMAM: “Black and Proud” – Celebrating Black LGBT Musical Pioneers (LISTEN)

As June is both African-American Music Appreciation Month and Pride Month, and today is the anniversary of the beginning of the landmark Stonewall Riots marking the unofficial launch of the gay rights movement, Good Black News today brings you a musical playlist celebrating some of the Black LGBT

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Source: GOOD BLACK NEWS

Farmer accused of raping 12-year-old

Police sources told the Jamaica Observer the sometime last year the child and her mother, who was in a relationship with the farmer, overnighted at his

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

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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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Major hitch in push for early referendum

“With adequate budgetary facilitation, the commission is ready to deliver on its constitutional mandates, among them conducting elections and referendums,” Mr Chebukati

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COVID test blunders

Patients were also told that if their last COVID-19 test result was negative, they would be tested on June 3, but sent home for isolation, and that a follow-up on their progress would be done by the regional health authority responsible for the community or parish in which they

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Supporters weigh in on PNP, JLP candidates for St James Southern

The Jamaica Observer visited the battleground constituency of St James Southern last week, where the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Homer Davis and the People's National Party's (PNP) Dr Walton Small are expected to contest the parliamentary seat in the upcoming general election, and asked diehard

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Jamaican doctor defends herbal medicine use

And we estimate that 80 per cent of the rest world of the world still use some form of traditional herbal treatment,” Dr Gordon told the Jamaica Observer in an extended interview last

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Western Jamaica high schools ready for partial resumption of classes

(Jamaica Observer) Principals of high schools across the western region say all is in place to ensure a seamless start on Monday to the temporary reopening of schools to facilitate students sitting secondary level exit examinations in

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Port Antonio gets a facelift with mural

Port Antonio has got a facelift with the painting of a mural spearheaded by Member of Parliament for Portland Eastern Ann-Marie Vaz, which welcomes people to the Portland parish capital and gives an artistic history of it, at its West Palm Avenue

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

COVID-19-stranded Canadians look forward to going home

TREASURE BEACH, St Elizabeth — When the Canadian husband and wife pair of Tom and Susan Little arrived here back in March, they had a flight booked to return to Toronto on May

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

J'can health expert praises WHO boss

THE opening speech by World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus at the 73rd World Health Assembly's virtual meeting on Monday has been lauded by one local public health expert as “the most brilliant watershed speech by any WHO director

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

After long wait, J'cans stranded in C'bean to be repatriated

CARIBBEAN Airlines will, as of this weekend, be operating flights for Jamaicans stranded in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, The Bahamas, and Antigua and Barbuda, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith has

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Jamaican teacher's claims of racial discrimination in China said to be unfounded

Jamaican teacher’s claims of racial discrimination in China said to be unfounded

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

More funds needed to improve housing stock - Councillor laments paltry allowance to assist residents

Whitfield Town Division Councillor Eugene Kelly is lamenting that the $180,000 allocated to him to help constituents improve their housing conditions is woefully inadequate. “For the last two years, each councillor gets $180,000 – and is Jamaican [...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Four J'can cops arrested in Charlotte with 8 kilos of cocaine

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica — Four members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force were arrested Tuesday at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina for allegedly smuggling eight kilogrammes of cocaine into the United

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