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In an effort to pay honor where it is due, West Palm Beach, Florida, City Manager A.E. Parker yesterday paid tribute to two laborers who served throughout the trying period of intern here as volunteer workers. W.A. Watts, he said, worked 18 hours a day making coffins, and M.W. Stark supervised the
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No new COVID-19 cases
However, according to the ministry’s COVID-19 dashboard for May 23, another person has been admitted to the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit
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Dr Sylvia Blyden refused bail by magistrate
Sierra Leone’s former minister of social welfare in the Koroma-led APC government, who was arrested by police and has been in detention for the past three weeks, appeared at the magistrate court today, where many expected her to be granted
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Normality returns to Annotto Bay as St Mary quarantine expires
As residents of the northeast town of Annotto Bay emerged from their homes at the end of a 14-day quarantine, there are calls for caution amid the new-found
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New Denham Town homeowners warned against fire hazards
WITH MORE than 500 residents of the Kingston Western constituency rendered homeless by fire in the last six years, four families who received keys to houses in Denham Town have been warned against the hazard of stealing
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Nigeria: Governors Meet Over Buhari's Autonomy for State Legislature, Judiciary Today
The governors of the 36 states will today meet to deliberate on burning issues, especially financial autonomy for state legislature and
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GECOM may add two stations today
Day 21 of the national recount concluded yesterday with a total of 82 ballot boxes being recounted and as the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) falls farther behind its 25-day schedule two more work stations could be added
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
US Secretary of State urges gov’t to respect wishes of voters
In an independence day message to Guyana, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday called on the Guyana Government to respect the wishes of voters as expressed on March 2nd
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Brazil suffers record daily coronavirus death toll, soon to be world No. 2
Brazil also passed 20,000 deaths yesterday and has 310,087 confirmed cases, up over 18,500 in a single day, according to Health Ministry
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Lesotho: South Africa Worried by Liquor Smuggling From Lesotho
Lesotho could be forced to reinstate the ban on the sale of alcohol after complaints from the South African government about the smuggling of the product from
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Human trafficking victims destined for Trinidad & Tobago rescued
(Trinidad Guardian) Venezuela’s Navy yesterday broke up three human trafficking camps on the country’s Orinoco Delta and rescued 79 people, including 25 minors, whom they said were being trafficked to criminal gangs in
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Uganda: No Budget for Free Government Masks
Government does not have a budget to buy free masks to be distributed to more than 35 million Ugandans as directed by the President in his 14th coronavirus address on Monday, Daily Monitor has
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Zimbabwe: MDC Alliance Youth Leader Granted Zwl$1000 Bail
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly Chairperson Obey has been granted ZWL$1000 bail after he appeared before Harare Magistrates Court
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Mauritius: Accreditation of New High Commissioner of Mauritius to India
Mrs Santi Bai Hanoomanjee presented her Letters of Credence to the President of the Republic of India, Mr. Ramnath Kovind, as the High Commissioner of the Republic of Mauritius to the Republic of India, yesterday, during a virtual accreditation
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International environment group calls on Exxon to cease gas flaring
As ExxonMobil yesterday continued to play up its Guyana investments at its virtual Annual Meeting of shareholders, global environmental and human rights organisation, the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) called on the company to heed environmental pollution warnings and immediately
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Nigeria: Monarch, Prince, One Other Remanded for Defiling 14-Year-Old Girl
A royal father, David Ogungbemi, 62;his son, Gbenga 21, and one Sarafa Olayiwola were, yesterday, remanded in police custody for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old girl in Ilare-Ijesha, Osun
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12 charged in St Thomas for breaching public gathering ban
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Do it now!
The suggestion by Quality Incorporations VII Ltd Director Krishna Vaswani is that the Government starts reopening the economy in parishes where there are few cases of the novel
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Ziyambi taunts MDC abductees
“Police still want to interrogate them over violating the lockdown rules, and if they have a complaint on allegations of abductions, then government can look into that,” Ziyambi
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No decision yet on extension of vote recount
No decision yet on extension of vote recount -85 more ballot boxes completed
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Doctors attempt to kick down door at Diamond isolation facility
Shocking video of doctors kicking down the door of a room of a COVID-19 patient at the Isolation Unit at the Diamond Hospital was made public yesterday with patients expressing frustration that despite concerns continually being raised, the authorities continue to pay little heed and take minimal
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Killer Mike Urges Atlanta Protesters “Not To Burn Your Own House Down” In Emotional Speech
Atlanta Hip-Hop stars, Killer Mike and T.I. joined Mayor Keshia Lance Bottoms emotionally, urging ATLiens not to burn down their city as protests erupted in response to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other victims at the hands of law
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Uganda: Bobi Wine Tasks Govt to Account for COVID-19 Money, Relief Food
Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, has called on the government to account for the relief items and money that has been given to the Covid-19 National
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South Rupununi council renews call for mining stoppage to minimise COVID-19 spread
Noting the ease with which Region Nine’s first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) entered several communities in the South Rupununi area, members of the South Rupununi District Council (SRDC) are calling on the government to halt all mining practices in order to prevent the
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Labour Day activities in Manchester scaled down
MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Unlike previous years, Labour Day activities in this south-central town were scaled down yesterday, in keeping with the Government's restrictions on public gatherings amid the COVID-19
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Adventure cruise ship workers touch soil today
After weeks of voyaging on the high seas as high-level negotiations dragged on between the Government of Jamaica and their employers, the more than 1,000 Jamaican cruise ship workers who sailed into the Falmouth Pier on Tuesday will finally set foot on local soil
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Jagdeo flays COVID-19 Task Force for ‘lack of leadership’
General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday slammed the National COVID-19 Task Force for a lack of leadership and for not providing guidance on the reopening of the
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George Floyd murder: Minnesota killer cops fired
All four officers involved in the Minneapolis killing of an African-American man, have been fired according to the Minnesota
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Police urged to hunt down, hound killers of disabled teen girl
Manchester JPs show kindness to prison inmates at Christmas
Delay tactic?
Candle in the Dark lights up Christmas for less fortunate
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS!
That's the Christmas spirit
GraceKennedy gives tablets to children of household workers for Christmas
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