Wheatley didn’t disclose Deer family link

Integrity Commission accuses Wheatley of being dishonest

“It is the conclusion of the director of investigations that Dr Wheatley was dishonest in his aforementioned representations and, in this regard, sought to mislead and did mislead the director of investigation contrary to Section 48 (3) of the Integrity Commission Act, Section 11E of the Commission

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

Low turnout as France votes in local polls

PARIS, France (AFP) — French voters abstained in their millions Sunday from a final round of municipal elections predicted to deal a blow to the party of President Emmanuel

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

Wheres the money? NERHA head cannot account for excess Petrojam donation

The North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA), chaired by the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) Tyrone Robinson, has not been able to account for more than half-million dollars in excess donation received from Petrojam to buy an incubator for...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Ethiopia coronavirus: 5,846 cases; deaths pass 100

Confirmed cases = 5,846

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

It takes a village ... - Community rescues man from crumbling home

Good Samaritans at home and abroad have come to the assistance of a man living in squalor along Maxfield Avenue in St Andrew just over a week after The Gleaner highlighted his plight. Nigel Townsend, 59, had expressed fear to our news team last...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

A fiscal reckoning is looming for South Africa

Image: GCIS

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Source: TechCentral

Web of corruption?

Some of the people implicated in the Petrojam scandal were so strategically placed in positions at the oil refinery that the Integrity Commission is questioning whether they formed part of “corruption-enabling mechanisms”. Academic friendships and...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

AMHVoices: ED mustn’t defend abusive Chinese employers

I WAS left shell-shocked after watching the ZTV 8pm news bulletin on June 26 when President Emmerson Mnangagwa literally gave the Chinese the right to shoot us because Zimbabweans are also committing similar crimes in other countries such as South Africa, the United States and the United

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Benjamin Banneker, inventor and scientist, dies

Benjamin Banneker, inventor and scientist, dies October 26, 1806 at the age of

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Source: Blackfacts.com

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COMMENTARY: Real Table Talk

Wash your hands frequently and after touching common areas, follow shelter-in-place orders and travel restrictions, cough in the crook of your elbow, keep your hands away from your face, and call your health care provider if you feel

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

One leader! - Bunting ally Golding rallies support around Phillips

THERE IS now no dispute over the leadership of the 81-year-old People’s National Party (PNP), declared Mark Golding, the St Andrew South member of parliament, who, along with 14 of his parliamentary colleagues, signed a letter recently demanding a...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

DRC Justice Minister briefly detained

The Democratic Republic of Congo's Justice Minister Celestin Tunda has been released from custody just hours after his arrest in the

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Source: https://www.news24.com

UNEXPECTED RIFT EXPOSED OVER AFRICA SEAT IN U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL – The Wilmington Journal

The Africa seat at the United Nations Security Council was the subject of a heated duel between two African countries who lobbied fiercely for the powerful

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Source: The Wilmington Journal

Zambia coronavirus: 1,489 cases; drivers, air travellers 'import' new cases

Read more: US Embassy COVID-19 Information

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Burundi restores Prime Minister post, MPs endorse new veep

Read more – Bikes, balls, boots with Nkurunziza: Burundi’s sportsman president

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

'We have not lost grip on taxi industry', says Mbalula

Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula on Monday said he has not "lost his grip" on the taxi industry, emphasising that lawlessness would not be

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Source: https://www.news24.com

NOT TRUE

The disclosure was made by head of the branch, Assistant Superintendent Raymond Wilson, following a Jamaica Observer article last week reporting a claim that District Constable (DC) Lothan Richards was left to fend for himself after being injured in a shoot-out between gunmen and police in Horizon

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

'Taking the bull by its horns'- Taxi operators say they will be fully loaded again from Monday

The South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) and the National Taxi Alliance (NTA) say government is not taking the industry seriously and that they have decided to take the "the bull by its horns" and go back to loading passengers at 100% capacity from

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Call for six-year deadline on harassment claims

Calls are growing for lawmakers to set at least a six-year deadline for the reporting of sexual

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Cops bring relief to destitute senior citizen

Eight-six-year-old Lucius Nathaniel Binns was a picture of happiness after receiving a mattress, courtesy of the St Catherine North

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

PM mum as watchdog demands Belnavis quit

Weeks after St Ann’s Bay Mayor Michael Belnavis became embroiled in controversy over his stewardship of municipal funds, climaxing last Thursday with a demolition related to building breaches, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has reserved comment until he has been fully

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Voter suppression: The new poll tax

The Black vote is still important – as are the votes of other marginalized people who tend to vote Democratic – and for that reason, “the new poll tax,” voter suppression, is in full

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

Ex-military man Waluke bites bitter maize

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Source: Business Daily

Chaos as villagers supervise exams

CHAOS rocked the start of the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) June “O” and “A” Level examinations which started yesterday, with teachers’ unions claiming government hired “villagers and ancillary staff” to invigilate the public examinations after most of their members boycotted over

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

AMHVoices: Zimbabweans can’t breath under Zanu PF

At one time, Zimbabwe was once a very good country, a hub of economic development even when we took over from the colonial

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

‘Minister, we can’t breathe’

Opposition Spokesman on Agriculture and Rural Affairs Victor Wright’s analogy of the police killing of American George Floyd with the Government’s “disgraceful removal” of small farmers from the former Bernard Lodge Sugar Estate failed to ignite a response from State Minister Floyd Green on

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Panton slams lawmakers

Chairman of the Integrity Commission, retired Justice Seymour Panton, has slammed lawmakers for passing a statute that gives no clear directive to commissioners of the anti-corruption oversight body in relation to the filing of their statutory...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

'We are not okay'

A number of the island's district constables (DCs) is crying foul over the “poor” treatment they say is being meted out to them by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), even as the group celebrates District Constable

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

Gauteng could see 'intermittent lockdown' as Covid-19 peak looms - Masuku

The Gauteng provincial government says it may possibly look at "intermittent lockdowns" as the province prepares for a peak in Covid-19

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Johnson Smith refutes claims that SOEs/ZOSOs not working

Leader of Government Business in the Senate, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, assured the Senate on Friday that the Government is working towards introducing more zones of special operations

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

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