The Reuters Daily Briefing Wednesday, August 24, 2022 by Linda Noakes Hello Here’s what you need to know. Weary but defiant Ukrainians mark Independence Day, fighting erupts along the border of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, and a win in New York signals the power of the abortion issue for Democrats Today’s biggest stories Ukraine’s President Volodymyr […]

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By Micaiah Morgan CNW- The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has welcomed the Ministry of Education’s decision to allow school boards to hire retired educators to fill vacancies in understaffed institutions. This comes after Jamaica’s Minister of Education Fayval Williams said 167 teachers have migrated resigning from their employment in the local school system in the […]

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Sixty-one years ago a black man was murdered in a racist attack still unsolved today. His memory will be honored at London’s Nottinghill Carnival August 27-29. By Thomas KingsleyCommunity News Reporter Some 63 years ago, a murder took place in London that forced Britain to address its devastating racism. A 32-year-old black man from Antigua […]

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By Patrick Oppmann, Sahar Akbarzai and Paul P. Murphy, CNN Cuban migrants board the Carnival Paradise cruise ship on Friday. (CNN) Six Cuban migrants adrift at sea on a makeshift raft were rescued by a cruise ship last week, video shared with CNN shows. The video captured the impromptu encounter Friday as the Carnival Cruise […]

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Nicaraguas President Daniel Ortega attends a two-day meeting with ALBA group representatives at the Revolution Palace in Havana, Cuba, December 14, 2021. Alberto Roque/Pool via REUTERS Aug 23 (Reuters) – The Nicaraguan government took over the facilities of a long-standing newspaper critical of President Daniel Ortega to turn the space into a “cultural center,” the […]

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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Ten police officers have been arrested in Colombia on suspicion of involvement in the killing of three youths. The three were shot dead while in police custody in northern Sucre province on 25 July. A police colonel, the highest-ranking officer suspected in the case, is on the run and thought […]

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BBC- Dr Yesenia Williams was so shocked by what she saw at a migrant reception centre just north of the notorious Darién Gap, she could not talk about it at first – even to her colleagues. “I did not expect so much suffering and so many difficulties,” recalls the paediatrician. In her nine days at […]

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  NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (August 23, 2022) — A three-day Agri-preneur Conference for women and girls on Nevis, aimed at empowering them to become business persons in the agriculture industry, commenced on August 23, 2022.  The first of its kind on Nevis, a brainchild of the Ministry of Health and Gender Affairs, the three-day conference is being […]

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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (August 23, 2022) — The following is an announcement from the Premier’s Ministry in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) regarding nominations for the Order of National Hero, the Star of Merit, and the Medal of Honour awards. The general public is invited to submit nominations for the conferring of awards in the […]

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CHARLESTOWN, NEVIS, August 23, 2021 (MMS-SKN) — Three movies are on the card this weekend as Nevis’ Convergence Entertainment brings down curtains on this year’s Summer Movie Festival (SMF) big screen experience at the Nevis Performing Arts Centre (NEPAC) in Pinney’s Industrial Site. The Summer Movie Festival, which is the brainchild of Mr Jermaine Stapleton, […]

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