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Families have embraced schools that affirm their students' Black heritage in a country where instruction about race is increasingly under
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Imbert said the government will adjust the criteria for accessing GATE. He said students with good standing, enrolled in accredited institutions and programmes will qualify if they completed an initial programme of study.#ttbudget2023
— T&T Newsday (@Newsday_TT) September 26, 2022
3 GOVT GUARANTEED LOANS FOR THE HDC totaling to $1.5 billion.
Finance Minister Colm Imbert said $500 million will be used for stalled or existing projects, $500 mil for debt owed to contractors and $500 mil for the construction of new housing units. @Newsday_TT
— Narissa Fraser (@rhopico) September 26, 2022
He said the difference in revenue would be better spent in social grants, where $5.4 billion is spent per year, food support, on which $175 million is utilised, disability grants at $630 million, and social assistance grants, which cost $355 million.https://t.co/9lsgAsolSF
Finance Minister Colm Imbert said the government has allocated $300m for agricultural incentives, infrastructure and programmes.#ttbudget2023
Finance Minister Colm Imbert says that right now, the 4 % proposed increase in wages to public sector workers is the best the government can do.#Budget2023 @Newsday_TT
Finance Minister Colm Imbert says that right now, the 4 % proposed
Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media The California Black Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc. (CALBCCF) is offering “game-changing opportunities” for mini micro, micro, and small business proprietors of the state at the Economic Business and Roundtable Statewide Summit 2022. Under the theme, “Pitch Your Business,” the summit is scheduled to be held in Sacramento […]
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PLANNED protest action by the TT Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA) for Monday, was cancelled by the Industrial Court which granted the Minister of Labour an ex-parte injunction and ordered teachers to turn up for duty.
This was revealed by Attorney General Reginald Armour, SC, during a press conference on Sunday at his office in Port of Spain. Armour said the injunction was granted by four Industrial Court judges after a two-hour sitting which ended at 5 pm on Sunday.
In an internal memo last Friday – a copy of which was sent to Newsday – TTUTA called on teachers to stay home Monday and \"reflect\" on stalled salary negotiations with the Chief Personnel Officer (CPO).
This would have been the second day of protests by teachers who heeded the union's call to stay away on September 5 – the first day of the school year.
On that occasion, TTUTA claimed more than 70 per cent of teachers stayed home. The Education Ministry expected 30,100 teachers to turn up to welcome some 305,000 students on September 5, but only 3,243 showed up.
Then on Thursday, teachers were told to come to work for only the second half of that school day, to protest the \"disrespect\" shown by CPO Dr Darryl Dindial. TTUTA claimed 75 per cent of teachers heeded the call on Thursday.
Armour described the planned action of teachers to stay away from school on Monday as illegal since they are deemed part of the essential services and therefore are forbidden from taking strike action.
Asked about teachers calling in sick on Monday, as is their legal right, Armour said that will be left for the judges to interpret.
\"I don't want to prejudge how the court is going to deal with such application or defence that may be put forward by the union. I have every confidence in the Industrial Court. I have no doubt they will look at every reason given for not obeying this order very carefully.\"
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Armour said there is no novelty in Sunday's ruling as there is precedent involving Government and TTUTA dating back to 1997.
He said refusal to obey the court could lead to TTUTA being decertified as the recognised union to represent the interests of teachers. If this happens, current negotiations with the CPO will stop until a recognised union is appointed.
Armour added that TTUTA can also be fined $10,000 for disobeying the court order,r while anyone who encourages members of an essential service to take industrial action, can be fined $20,000.
The order restrains TTUTA from commencing and or continuing industrial action including, “resting and reflecting.”
“It is also ordered that TTUTA is directed forthwith, through its president and executive, to instruct or direct members of the teaching service to report for duty on the 26th of September and continue as they are required to do in the normal course of their employment,” Armour said.
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ATLANTA (AP) — The tale ofbreached voting equipmentin one of the country’s most important political battleground states involves a bail bondsman, a prominent attorney tied to former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and a cast of characters from a rural county that rarely draws notice from outsiders. How they all […]
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SIXTEEN years ago, Charmaine Archer’s late mother, Annetta, received a Hummingbird gold medal for education at the National Awards function.
Annetta’s pre-school, established in Canaan, Tobago, in 1949, is a household name in the community.
In 2019, Archer’s late sister, Martha, also got a Hummingbird gold medal for loyal and devoted service.
On Saturday, it was Archer’s turn to get her national award. But unlike her mother and sister, she received the Hummingbird silver medal for sport (netball).
“I feel very elated and humbled because when you come from a family of service providers and you have been doing it all your life, you do it because of the love and enjoyment you get from doing what you do best,” she told Newsday.
“It is not a matter of doing something to get back something. You do it because you want to provide a particular service and you want to give back. So when you get recognised, it is an added bonus. It is a very good and humbling feeling.”
Archer said her father, 99, has also given back to the community. He is the oldest scout master in Tobago.
She said a group of scout retirees honoured him last Saturday.
A retired THA sport co-ordinator, education unit, Archer was involved in sport for much of her youth. She played basketball, hockey, netball and was also a force to be reckoned with in track and field.
“I had a high jump record for 15 years. So I was involved in sport from a young age. But my main focus became netball because I moved into that as a career path from 1990.”
As an administrator, Archer described her career as colourful, adventurous and rewarding.
“It was colourful in terms of the achievements with the schools at primary and secondary level. It was very adventurous and rewarding when you can sit back and look at the children who you would have interacted with at the primary level move on to secondary level.”
She said some of them have advanced to the senior level and are now coaches. Archer singled out Kemba Duncan, coach of the national senior team, for special mention.
“She is a player that would have passed through my administrative years of primary and secondary into advanced. She would have moved up through the ranks from juniors to national coach.”
Archer, who retired in April 2021, said she also nurtured the talents of national senior player Anecia Baptiste and others.
She said she has received numerous congratulatory phone calls and messages.
Archer added her award is testament to the fact that one should always give of one’s best, “because you never know who is watching.”
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(Atlanta, Ga) - Republican senate candidate and former football star Herschel Walker sat down with Rolling outmagazine for an exclusive interview in preparation of the voter registration deadline on Oct. 11. In the midst of a volatile race against incumbent Sen. (D) Raphael Warnock, Walker said it was important for Georgia residents to hear him … Continued
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Authorities in Florida have brought several child sex crime charges against a pastor who also owns and runs a kung fu training academy. According to WESH, Palm Bay police said Roberson Douge - a pastor at Apostolic Church of Christ - was taken into custody on September 21 after two of the victims he allegedly...
Assessments of residential properties are under way as the first step in the rollout of the property tax system.
Agriculture properties will follow, Finance Minister Colm Imbert announced in the budget in Parliament on Monday.
He said the commissioner of valuations will oversee the review to determine the roll on which the taxes will be based. He also said a valuation tribunal is being finalised to handle disputes.
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By Deborah Bailey. Contributing Editor Sheila Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET) has been exceptionally busy over the past 10 years. These days, she can be found serving as […]
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A home located at 410 Nicar Street before demolition. The property has been the site of drug activities, fires, and complaints from neighbors, according to County officials. The county began […]
“Twenty years after we established the initial framework for the Global Fund, it has become a powerful force for change within the global health infrastructure, saving over 44 million lives from AIDS, TB, and malaria,” said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA). “I commend the Biden Administration’s announcement of an additional $6 billion in funding for the Global Fund and look forward to continuing to partner with the administration and our partners in the fight to save lives and see the first AIDS-free generation.”
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Examples of the Mandela Effect - a term describing a false memory of former South African president Nelson Mandela dying in prison - have gone viral.
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THE body of Simeon Roopchand - boyfriend of administrative clerk Marissa Edwards - was found hanging from a tree in the Tabaquite forest on Saturday afternoon. Edwards, missing since September 18, is still unaccounted for.
Team captain of the Hunters' Search and Rescue Team, Vallence Rambharat, confirmed the discovery of Roopchand's body saying members of the team journeyed about a kilometre into the forest where they came across his body at 4 pm.
Roopchand was the last person Edwards was in company with before she went missing.
He was not seen or heard from since he was confronted by Edwards' family, the day after she went out with him and subsequently went missing. Edwards' relatives identified the 51-year-old PH taxi driver's body by the clothing he was wearing. Rambharat said a cutlass and cellphone were found near the man's body.
Roopchand's car was found abandoned in Tabaquite near the entrance to the forest last Tuesday.
Rambharat said his team was searching near the car for Edward's body as they suspect she too may have been killed. The surrounding area near to where Roopchand's car was found was searched twice.
On Saturday, a man who was walking through the forest found Roopchand's body and alerted the search and rescue team.
Roopchand and Edwards, an administrative clerk at the UWI's Faculty of Medicine, left her John Eli Road, Freeport home on September 18. She told relatives she was going out with Roopchand, who she had been in an on-again off-again relationship for about two years.
At the time, the 39-year-old woman was wearing a black and purple dress, black sandals and black clutch purse.
Roopchand told relatives last Monday that he dropped Edwards off at the side of the highway just before midnight, because he had to get gas, and she wanted to get home.
Relatives became suspicious after they tracked her phone signal at a gas station in Couva at 4 am earlier that day. But before they could question him further, Roopchand left and was never seen or heard from again.
On Friday, relatives said they were still clinging to hope that Edwards could still be alive. On Sunday they said they continue to cling to hope.
'We still have hope, even if it reaches five per cent. Faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains, so we have hope and faith,' a relative said.
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No one knows why Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew 50 Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard. He hasn’t disclosed why he
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