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Jamaican senior citizens age 75 years and older received their first monthly payout of $3,400 under the new Social Pension Programme on July 22. Some $800 million has been allocated in this fiscal year to implement the programme, which targets...
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
Luanda — Savings and Credit Bank (BPC) plans to lay off 1,600 of the 4,820 workers by 2022, according to the company's CEO, who said that the move is part of Recapitalisation and Restructuring Plan.
On the other hand, António André Lopes said that, in addition to this measure, the BPC, which is experiencing a chronic liquidity crisis, defined a recapitalisation estimated at 748.3 billion kwanzas, in the period from 2020 to 2022.
For this year, in the framework of the Recapitalisation and Restructuring Plan, the Ministry of Finance has already made available 163.7 billion kwanzas in bonds.
The State is the BPC's shareholder, through the Ministry of Finance (75 percent), the National Social Security Institute (15) and the Social Security Fund of the Angolan Armed Forces (10).
With the recapitalisation, the shareholder structure changes, with the Ministry of Finance holding only 53.3%, IGAPE, a new shareholder, 37.3%, the FAA National Institute of Social Security and Caixa Social reduce its holdings to 5,6% and 5.3%, respectively.
The auditor general urged the ministry to “review its systems to ensure that the controls in place to enforce the eligibility requirements for PATH beneficiaries are operating effectively to reduce the risk of irregular or erroneous payments”.
Monroe Ellis said that the ministry should also take the necessary steps to ensure that only legitimate beneficiaries who have satisfied all the requisite criteria are paid the COVID-19 PATH grants.
Monroe Ellis reported that in response to the findings of her audit, the ministry placed a hold on the payment for the 8,933 beneficiaries and conducted a review to determine the actual eligibility status of each of the additional persons.
The ministry acknowledged that 4,354 new beneficiaries did not sign the agreement letter as required by the PATH Operations Manual, but they satisfied the other requirements of the programme for eligibility.
The ministry also indicated that for the May 2020 payment, “the requirement to sign the agreement letter was relaxed, owing to social distancing, reduced office hours, and other measures implemented by the Government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic”.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A coronavirus outbreak is closing California’s Capitol and forcing the Assembly to put off its return to work as infection and hospitalization rates soar across the state. Assemblywoman Autumn Burke, a Democrat from Inglewood, tweeted Monday that she was exposed to COVID-19 by someone when the Assembly met on June 26 []
The church-based Jamaica Progressive Party (JPP) will abolish income tax, ban go-go clubs, and raise salaries for civil servants if it gains state power.
JPP President Gilbert Edwards, who migrated to the United States when he was 20 years old, says his party also plans to increase the national minimum wage and invest in the mothballed national airline.
Director of Elections Glasspole Brown announced in early June that the registrar of political party was undertaking a review of JPP’s compliance with registration requirements.
General secretary of the JPP, Robert Rainford, said the party will be campaigning once its registration is ratified.
Edwards assured that a government run by his party would not be a theocracy, although the JPP would abolish strip clubs, nude hotels and casinos, because of the adverse sociocultural effects these businesses have on women.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has not ruled out appointing resigned Energy Minister Dr Andrew Wheatley to a future Cabinet.
In 2018, the Auditor General cited Wheatley for questionable conduct in the Petrojam scandal.
READ: Petrojam scandal resurfaces with force as Wheatley labelled ‘dishonest’ in report
At a press conference this morning, Holness said his position in respect of Wheatley's potential return to the Cabinet has not changed.
I'm always a believer in second chances, reforming, and redemption but at this moment there are still things to consider before that can there was nothing to block Wheatley's bid to seek re-election as the Member of Parliament for St Catherine South Central on a Jamaica Labour Party ticket in the upcoming general election.
The prime minister continued: \"Wheatley is an elected Member of Parliament and I think the party would have to look very closely before making any decision about not running him as a part of our slate for the next general election, whenever that would be.”
LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Forbidden by her global superstar mother Gloria Estefan from coming out as a lesbian to her grandmother, singer Emily Estefan said she contemplated suicide.
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According to Forbes, Robert F. Smith believes that big banks and major companies should spend the next 10 years investing directly in technology, education, telecom, banking and healthcare infrastructures that support Black communities.
“If you think about structural racism and access to capital, 70% of African American communities don’t even have a branch, bank of any type.”
Smith encountered structural racism in banking firsthand during the coronavirus pandemic when he tried to assist Black businesses and banks that help Black communities obtain Paycheck Protection Program loans.
“The deprivation of capital is one of the areas that creates a major problem to the enablement of the African American community,” Smith explained to the more than 200 top philanthropists who attended the 9th annual Forbes philanthropy summit, which was held on Zoom this year.
Smith’s proposal would be a private-sector solution to reparations, and he says the 2 percent funds from the major companies could be used to execute things like strengthen healthcare infrastructure in Black communities, equalize broadband access, fund STEM education at historically Black colleges and digitize Black small businesses.
Yet the federal correctional institution that housed Manafort had no coronavirus cases, and Manafort had served fewer than two years of his more than seven-year sentence.
Nearly forty percent of those incarcerated in federal prisons are African American, many serving very long sentences for drug-related crimes.
But Manafort, citing “fear of coronavirus,” ended up serving less than a quarter of his sentence.
Manafort had a lot less to fear, at his minimum-security prison, than a Black inmate might.
Other countries have reacted to coronavirus crowding by releasing inmates in the tens of thousands.
Democratic representative of New York City, Charles Bernard Rangel, first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1970, is now one of the longest serving members of Congress. Rangel was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1930. He attended De Witt Clinton High School but dropped out in 1948 and entered the U.S. Army. Two years later he served in the second infantry division in Korea where he earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for his actions in combat.
In 1952 Rangel was discharged and returned to New York, graduated from high school, earned a B.S. degree from New York University in 1957 and a J.D degree from St. Johns University in 1960. Upon admittance to the bar Rangel began practicing law in New York City.
In 1964 Charles Rangel spent the year as assistant U.S. attorney for the south district of New York working under U.S. Attorney Robert Morgenthau. In 1965 he was counsel to the Speaker of the New York State Assembly. He also served as counsel to the President’s Commission to Revise the Draft Laws. Throughout the late 1960s Rangel was legal advisor to many civil rights activists in New York and the South.
Charles Rangel was elected to the New York State Assembly, representing the 72nd District (Central Harlem), in 1966. In 1970 he entered the Democratic primary where he narrowly defeated legendary Congressman Adam Clayton Powell. In November he was elected to represent New York’s 15th District in Congress over token Republican opposition. A co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971, Rangel was elected chair of the group. He also served in the House Judiciary Committee’s hearings on the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
Rangel’s three decades in Congress, representing Harlem, the smallest Congressional district in land area in the United States, has been marked by a commitment to control the use of illegal drugs and drug-related violence and to tax relief for the poor. He has also advocated for federal funds to develop impoverished urban neighborhoods, and
Some $10 million will be allocated to procure 2,500 planting kits under a ‘Say Yes to Fresh Backyard Garden’ Programme that is geared at bolstering the country’s food security and emphasising the importance of eating local produce, noted Floyd...
\tPointing to the resurfaced main road passing through the small community of St D’Acre in St Ann South West, a cookshop vendor and her customers say Member of Parliament Zavia Mayne is deserving of a second term. But they are advising Prime...
“I feel lucky and blessed that I’m serving in the Congress… But there is a force that is trying to take us back to another time and another dark period,” warns congressman John Lewis.
Viewers learn the details of what happened before and after that iconic moment on the bridge in Selma, Alabama and how Lewis never lost hope.
Porter peppers the footage with politicians and civic leaders who eagerly attest to Lewis’s accomplishments.
Credit to Porter for also bringing up some of Lewis’s questionable strategies for winning his first congressional seat in Atlanta’s fifth district.
In this more honest doc, the audience learns how Lewis beat Julian Bond out of his Congressional seat by bringing up his rival’s personal foibles.
