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Although South Africa's fourth wave of Covid-19 infections started in Gauteng, cases in that province are decreasing. Instead, the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal are seeing increases.
An HDC official at the site, who did not what to be named, told Newsday the HDC could not give an exact date for the finishing the repairs.
However, the spokesman said the corporation is working to do so as quickly as possible once the weather does not affect the work.
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The son of a 68-year-old health officer who was gunned down near his Tacarigua home on Tuesday afternoon says law-abiding citizens are doing all that they can to protect themselves, and called on the authorities to do a better job of protecting the public.
Police said Dharan Manoo was shot dead near his Beccles Street home at around 5.30 pm on Tuesday. A relative heard the gunshots and saw Manoo bleeding in the street.
Police went to the area with a district medical officer, who declared Manoo dead.
Up to Wednesday afternoon investigators did not have a motive for the murder.
Newsday visited and spoke with Manoo's oldest son, Ian Manoo, who said he was also baffled.
Asked what more he felt the public could do to protect themselves from criminals, Manoo said the public were already doing more than what was required of them and called on the police to step up.
He said his father's murder was a reflection of the state of crime.
\"At the end of the day, I am severely bothered by this, and it is an indictment on the condition of this country with crime.
\"I have no idea why this happened. It's Christmas time; I don't know if someone tried to rob him or something. I don't know.
\"I think the average citizen actually does more than they are supposed to do. The onus is on us a little too much now. The State and the authorities need to step up their game and be more vigilant to make people feel safer as well. We are doing our part. The responsibility is on them now to do their part.\"
Manoo said the area, one of the streets north of the Eastern Main Road. did not have a lot of crime.
His father worked as a health officer under the port health department of the Ministry of Health and was assigned to Piarco Airport. His son said Manoo retired a few years ago but remained on contract.
One neighbour, who asked not to be named, said Manoo enjoyed joking and exercising and remembered seeing him going to the nearby Eddie Hart Savannah to jog.
\"He was a really pleasant person. This is a really quiet place, so the fact that this happened so close to the main road, where there is so much activity on an afternoon, is even more shocking.\"
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Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele pleaded with the committee to allow him to engage President Cyril Ramaphosa's office to take all matters forward.
The content originally appeared on: Urban Islandz The Christmas holidays just got a little brighter for Jamaicans who are rejoicing at the extended curfew hours announced on Tuesday by Prime Minister Andrew Holness. The new curfew hours are now nightly at 10 PM for December 10- January 13, 2022, while on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, it will be at 1 AM. Many have taken to social media to air their agreement on the new measures as quite a […]
In the light of the rapid increase in Omicron cases, the UK Chief Medical Officers and NHS England National Medical Director have recommended to Ministers that the UK COVID Alert Level should increase from Level 3 to Level 4. A statement issuedon Sunday 12 December by top UK scientists comprising ofChief Medical Officer for England, […]
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Fighting between armed groups aligned with government and opposition forces in South Sudan this year subjected civilians to \"unimaginable violence\" that could amount to war crimes, Amnesty International said.
[TechCrunch] Bento, Nigeria's digital payroll and human resource management platform is expanding to Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda with plans to set up operations in six other markets in Africa over the next one year.
CHRISTMAS is just around the corner, and I know just how to create the perfect Christmas. It's simple: give in ways like you have never done before. Forget digging deep inside your pockets if you have the money to buy lavish gifts for friends or family who don't really need them. Instead, dig deep inside yourself and support your community or the less fortunate among us. Give meaningful gifts to friends and family.
I'll never forget the Christmas when my daughter, Ijanaya, asked her friends to buy books for my Port of Spain Prison library instead of buying a gift for her. She said that would make a meaningful Christmas.
That year, she asked to donate our perfectly good Christmas tree to Port of Spain Prison. She decorated it in the visiting room, and we heard stories of sad people uplifted by that tree when they came to visit relatives in prison. A prison guard told me that people said they could sit and watch that tree all day long. They said it was the most beautiful Christmas tree they had ever seen.
It was a beautiful tree with red, green, blue and amber lights, transparent plastic angels and glittery plastic bulbs. Ijanaya had been deemed the glitter queen since elementary school. I can imagine how that tree must have looked even more beautiful than it was because it sat in such an unimaginable place.
Ijanaya had the idea to give Christmas gifts randomly. Every time we went to the gas station in Maraval, one of our regular attendants always talked about movies, so we bought movie and dinner tickets for his Christmas gift. He was speechless.
She baked sugar cookies, pecan snowballs rolled in powdered sugar, peanut butter cookies topped with Hershey's Kisses and rum balls for friends and decorated gingerbread dogs for police canine officers. The dogs wore K9 vests made from icing. She delivered her treats on fancy plates that could be kept and used throughout the year.
Find a way to give gifts that really make a difference in someone's life. A random act of kindness is never forgotten. Find an NGO or a religious organisation that contributes to the community and offer your services or a financial contribution. It is really the best gift you can give yourself.
Remember the gift of books for Christmas - especially Caribbean books. When you buy a book to give to an NGO like Let's Read or a book to give to a teacher in your child's class you keep our Caribbean voice alive and help children learn because reading is the foundation of all learning.
Throughout this pandemic, I have seen the joy in students who have had teachers reading to them in their zoom classes. We like to say that children don't like to read, but many children do love books, but they can't afford them.
Organise coworkers to buy books for a school library or for a class teacher. A group of people could easily buy a class a set of books. Just check with teachers to get their input.
Organise family members, friends, book club members or co-workers to make hampers or contribute money or items to those religious bodies that organ
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Christmas decorations on the statute of Capt Arthur Andrew Cipriani at Independence Square, Port of Spain, came down on Sunday.
Just before 7 pm, a work crew was busy removing the decorations and lights which had been installed by the Urban Development Corporation of TT (Udecott) and the Office of the Prime Minister.
On Saturday, several trade unions called on Udecott and the Port of Spain City Corporation to remove the decorations which covered the statue, saying it was disrespectful to the trade union movement.
The statute was covered with the construction of a decorative Gingerbread house with Christmas ornaments at the Cipriani roundabout.
In response, Port of Spain mayor Joel Martinez said the decorations were installed in an effort to bring Xmas cheer to the city.
He said he understood the concerns and would have a discussion with the corporation's council and Udecott in the week to determine the next move.
On Sunday, the decorations were removed from the statute which was erected in 1959 by former prime minister Dr Eric Williams. Cipriani was a trade unionist, World War I veteran, and former mayor of Port of Spain.
The light installations which surrounded the statue were moved to another part of the Brian Lara Promenade where a Christmas village will be set up.
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Pie in the Sky was on the brink of collapse, but Checkers saved the day.
Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane has thrown his weight behind Shell's seismic survey on Wild Coast despite global fury over its effect on marine life.
[Cameroon Tribune] The peculiarly-clad young crooner shot into instant fame in 2020 through her video of Witty Minstrel's award-winning song, \"Be Proud!\" By ingeniously adding lyrics, colour, sights and sounds from her rich cultural roots.
DAYS after being designated a covid19 variant of concern by the World Health Organization (WHO), omicron has already been confirmed in scores of countries around the world.
But in contrast to these fast-paced developments, the State is yet to clarify the timeline for its vaccine booster programme.
It is also yet to unveil what measures will be implemented for the holidays.
With guidelines and advisories being issued around the world in relation to households' Christmas plans, the process of public education in relation to any renewed measures is missing in action.
The Tobago House of Assembly (THA) elections are no excuse. In fact, the situation in Tobago demands action. With case numbers increasing, all outpatient clinics and elective surgeries have been suspended at the Scarborough General Hospital as the island tries to get to grips with the situation. Fewer than half of Tobagonians are vaccinated.
On Wednesday, with almost 60 countries confirming omicron, the Ministry of Health held one of its usual virtual media conferences. The relatively brief outing by the regular assortment of career public servants yielded little clarity on the Cabinet's plans for Christmas. (Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh was not present.)
With numbers continuing to rise nationally, it is not clear whether the State will revert to previous policies of partial measures being introduced over public holidays and weekends. The business community will likely oppose another state of emergency, but questions abound about what messaging will be given to people planning to hold Christmas limes and family gatherings.
Meanwhile, the omicron variant has underlined the urgency of the vaccination programme as a whole, an urgency that does not seem to be matched by the rollout of plans.
The Ministry of Health announced - more than a week ago - its booster programme would be 'coming soon,' in 'the near future.' It assured it 'has amassed a strategic stock' of vaccines.
Officials have paid attention to the issue of third doses (to the extent that there are doubts over the consistency of the implementation of this policy nationally, with reports of people lying and some getting third doses without being eligible).
While the State may wish to get third doses out of the way, and while it may be holding out hope of more first doses being taken up, it is hard to explain this in the context of a healthy vaccine supply.
Whatever the case, one gift the country seems destined not to get for Christmas is herd immunity.
It is lamentable that both islands have not achieved the benchmark that might have protected the population as a whole ahead of Christmas. That failure underlines the need for a drastic boost in our response. It is time for mandatory measures.
The post Time to boost covid19 measures appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
Press Release - A review of SA's labour laws is long overdue -Employment and labour Minister T.W Nxesi
SOURCE: AFP - The Omicron coronavirus variant is more transmissible than the Delta strain and reduces vaccine efficacy but causes less severe symptoms according to early data, the World Health Organization said Sunday. The Delta variant, first identified in India earlier this year, is responsible for most of the world's coronavirus infections. But South Africa's […]
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University of Pretoria researcher Professor Marietjie Venter has been appointed as chair of the World Health Organisation’s Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens.
Gauteng continues to record the highest number of daily new Covid-19 cases in the country. While the province accounted for 59% of all new cases on Wednesday, hospitalisations and deaths still remained low.
People in Uganda queued up outside vaccination centers in the capital Kampala on Wednesday, a day after the country confirmed its first cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19.
By The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. Omicron – the new COVID-19 variant – is now on the march. While southern Africa appears to be its epicenter, countries across the world, including Britain, Canada, Australia, Israel and many others, now report cases of the new variant. Dr. Anthony Fauci calls it “inevitable” that it will come […]
[Nation] A promise by President Uhuru Kenyatta that the cost of electricity would progressively come down by 33 per cent, in the three-month period between October and December has not been kept, instead, the power now costs marginally more.
The Eastern Cape police do not suspect foul play in the sudden death of Sarah Baartman district municipality mayor Mzimkhulu Scara Njadayi.
Reflecting on past holiday seasons, the memories come in a barrage of festive images of bustling shoppers loading their trimming and trappings into shopping carts to the tune of a classic carol streamed over a loudspeaker ten decibels too high. But the culmination of this year – 2021 – may look a little different, even when it comes to shopping for your favorite spiral cut, honey-glazed ham.
The South African Weather Service has issued a yellow level 2 warning for disruptive rainfall caused by slow moving thunderstorms.
