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Outdoor events, amusement parks and sports bars to resume starting July 21

Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has announced that small outdoor events, amusement parks, water attractions and sports bars will be allowed to resume operations temporarily starting Tuesday, July 21. The arrangement will end on July...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Black Lives Matter at 7 years and the meaning of this movement-moment | New Pittsburgh Courier

by Melina Abdullah, Los Angeles Sentinel Contributing Writer “We are the diviners of change!” proclaims Janaya “Future” Khan. Three thousand people … significantly young and Black … fill the massive concrete steps at Los Angeles City Hall, pouring out onto the sidewalk, into the street, extending

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Joy Reid becomes cable’s first Black female primetime anchor | New Pittsburgh Courier

NEW YORK (July 9, 2020) – MSNBC anchor Joy Reid has been named host of “The ReidOut,” a new weeknight evening program at 7 p.m. ET that will premiere Monday, July 20 on MSNBC. The Washington, D.C.-based show will feature one-on-one conversations with politicians and newsmakers while addressing

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A cross of 'Faith'

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The Opposition People's National Party's (PNP's) majority in the Manchester Municipal Corporation was reduced to just one yesterday after Faith Sampson, councillor for the John's Hall Division in Manchester North Western, changed sides to join the ruling Jamaica Labour

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

Freetown City Council starved of much needed funds to deliver public services

Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2020: Why is the Ministry of Local Government holding up the tax reform proposals - and by implication local taxes which are due for the Freetown City Council (FCC), thus preventing the council from collecting the revenue it urgently needs to deliver

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Palo’s acquittal we are victims of Stockholm syndrome

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 July 2020: I spent two years in Ukraine working in a remote environment in the mining industry in the mid-90’s and greatly appreciated the sense of humour in their folksy yarns. One I liked was about a young man who was about to marry [Read More]

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Palo Conteh treason verdict I salute the Jury – Op ed

Cornelius Deveaux: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 July 2020: Certainly, right thinking Sierra Leoneans and by extension the wider citizenry, will be appalled by a post on the official Facebook page of the SLPP government Ministry of Information and Communications, intending to purport that Sierra

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

After lobbying, Catholic Church won $1. 4B in virus aid

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

What is and isn’t in Milwaukee’s mask mandate

Specific details are now available on Milwaukee’s proposed mask ordinance. The proposal would require individuals over the age of one to wear masks both indoors and outdoors when they leave home, with limited exceptions. Scheduled to be introduced Tuesday, July 7, 2020, by Alderwoman Marina

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COVID-19 test chaos at Sierra Leone’s Lungi Airport – officials accused of corruption

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 August 2020: There was confusion and chaos at Sierra Leone’s Lungi International Airport last week, when passengers arriving at the airport from overseas were told to pay $80 for a COVID-19 test that does not exist. Hundreds of arrivals who had already taken COVID-19 test

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Pavi Fort SL helps 16 Districts in Sierra Leone to Combat COVID-19

Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 June 2020: Chief Executive Officer of Pavi Fort Construction Company in Sierra Leone, Alimou Barrie, has joined the fight against the spread of COVID-19 in the country with a resolve to complement Government’s efforts. Out of selflessness and his passion

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Goya CEO, Praising Trump, Sparks Online Culture Clash

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — The supercharged political landscape in the U.S. has grown even more perilous for companies with the 2020 presidential election looming as Goya, a food company with a tremendously loyal following, has discovered. The company, which makes many products used on Hispanic

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Source: Black America Web

Hundreds of millions paid to ministry advisors, community officers without evidence of performance - Dharamlall - Stabroek News

Hundreds of millions of dollars were paid out to more than 50 contract workers of the Ministry of Communities under the previous APNU+AFC administration over the past five years with no record or evidence of their performance, newly appointed Minister of Local Government and Regional Development

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

ACC reacts to allegations of corruption in Sierra Leone parliament

Patrick Sandi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 September 2020: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) notes public reactions and rightful concerns on allegations of corruption within the House of Parliament in Sierra Leone, emanating from the 2019 Perceptions Survey Report commissioned in April, 2020, by

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Sierra Leone Commercial Bank urges customers to use Visa and mobile banking

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 June 2020: As the world moves gradually away from use of paper currency to cashless transactions, which carry the convenience of safety and security from theft, management of Sierra Leone Commercial Bank, the country’s largest profitable financial service provider has

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

DPP hopes for another shot at gangs

THE challenge of prosecuting a 50-accused gang case, a first in the Caribbean, is one of the major reasons Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn has decided to take up Prime Minister Andrew Holness' offer to stay on the job for another three years.

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

SPORTS DIGEST: Games will resume, but some players will be missing -

These are different times we are living in. After virtually no sports for almost four months due to the coronavirus, most of the sports leagues in this country are starting to gear back up. The Galaxy and Los Angeles Football Club are back in Florida ready to resume the Major League Soccer season

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Schools may return to 100% distance learning - Black Voice News

Good morning, California. It’s Thursday, July 9. Schools aren’t ready to reopen, teachers say Image via iStock To the millions of exhausted and frustrated parents out there, I apologize for the news I’m about to share: Some school districts may return to 100% distance learning this fall as

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

Water, jobs big-ticket items in North Central Clarendon

With the lack of potable water among the chief concerns for residents of North Central Clarendon, the two men gearing up to face the electorate in the impending general election are already looking into solutions to address the long-standing...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

The Measure of a President

By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq (TriceEdneyWire.com) – As a student of philosophical principles, I am aware of the school of thought that does not believe in the existence of “NORMAL” as a universal state of being. A testament to that idea is the fact that each of us has a unique set of experiences

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

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

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

Harvard, MIT sue to block ICE rule on international students

BOSTON (AP) — Colleges and universities pushed back Wednesday against the Trump administration’s decision to make international students leave the country if they plan on taking classes entirely online this fall, with Harvard University...

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Huawei CFO loses bid to dismiss US extradition request

Image: Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters

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Zimbabwe: No 2023 Elections Without Electoral, Political Reforms - Chamisa

[New Zimbabwe] The MDC Alliance president, Nelson Chamisa has promised to block the 2023 national elections if necessary political and electoral reforms are not implemented.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Sierra Leone Journalist Sylvia Olayinka Blyden Detained, Charged Over Social Media Posts

On May 1, police arrested Blyden, publisher of the Awareness Times newspaper, at her home in Freetown for alleged "cyber-related" offenses, according to Messeh Leone, a legal activist familiar with the case, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app and phone, and a June 4 police statement, which CPJ

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Source: allAfrica.com

Sierra Leonean technologist’s app helps to fight COVID-19

Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2020: Evelyn Lewis, a Sierra Leonean social entrepreneur and technologist, has developed an application to aid the fight against COVID-19. His software company, SBTS Group, developed the Health Outbreak Manager (HOM) software which consists of

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Ashes Instead of Soap: Inside Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 Fight – Free Press of Jacksonville

COVID-19 has worsened the underlying structural and perennial problem of water shortages in Matabeleland North, South and Bulawayo provinces, said Dumisani Nkomo, chief executive officer for Habakkuk Trust, a nonprofit

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

President Bio unveils ten million Euro EU support for decentralisation and improved local service delivery

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 July 2020: President Dr Julius Maada Bio yesterday launched a 10 Million Euro programme in Makeni – northern Sierra Leone, aimed at supporting development projects across the district councils of Bombali, Kenema, Pujehun and Kambia. Supported by European Union

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

President Bio calls on regional leaders to unite on single currency adoption

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 June 2020: Yesterday, president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone chaired a zoom online meeting of the West African Monetary Zone Authority of Heads of States and Governments, where he encouraged his colleagues Heads of State and Governments across the region to unite, in

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Malusi Gigaba: 'I hold no grudges and still have a future in the ANC' | News24

Gigaba was speaking in a radio interview.

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