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By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO Gov.-Elect Wes Moore has reached out to some incredibly talented individuals to become members of his front-line team. A couple of his top […]
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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
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell seeks four new members to serve on the Pike Place Market Historical Commission. The open positions are: 1) One architect, 2) One merchant of the Market, and 3+4) Two residents of the Historical District.
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By Amanda Mahan | Operation New Hope | NNPA (NNPA) - Research has found that 70 million people in the United States have criminal records. Of that number, 63 percent are no […]
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THE People's National Movement (PNM) held a gala dinner at the Hyatt Regency, Port of Spain, on Friday night as a fund-raising event. It was due to run from 7 pm to midnight.
It was titled, a September Affair, with the subtitle, Let the flowers bloom. Guests were asked to dress in formal wear in red, white or black.
PNM general secretary Foster Cummings told Newsday the ticket price was $1,500.
\"It was a sold out event, very successful. We have a wide cross section of supporters from various sectors across the country. We are having a good time.\"
On his Facebook page, Prime Minister Dr Rowley posted a photo of himself and his wife Sharon before they left for the gala. Rowley celebrated her birthday on Friday.
The dinner came ahead of Republic Day on Saturday. It also took place as TT culminated the month-long celebration of its 60th anniversary of Independence, the 1962 event which the party has attributed to its founder and the country's first prime minister Dr Eric Williams, although this eminence was recently challenged by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar alleging the United Kingdom had been actively seeking to get rid of its colonies.
The dinner also comes after Dr Rowley recently launched the Dr Eric Williams Memorial Library, formerly the Heritage Library, at Knox Street, Port of Spain. The rebranded facility has been described as a library, archive and museum.
The media was not allowed to cover the September Affair, either inside the hotel or outside.
The post PNM holds $1,500-a-ticket gala at Hyatt appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
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Small and micro-enterprises in the tourism and creative sectors will receive assistance to get themselves digitally ready to market their goods and services on a global scale.
In the budget reading on Monday, Finance Minister Colm Imbert said government will reimburse innovators and entrepreneurs within the sectors with 50 per cent of their investment, up to a maximum of $50,000.
“We are therefore providing assistance for those small and micro-enterprises in the sectors to digitise the provision of their services. Their integration in the global marketplace will thus be assured.\"
The tourism and cultural sectors had been among the hardest hit by the covid19 pandemic, with the temporary closure of the borders to international and regional visitors, a fall in hotels and guest houses occupancy rates, the suspension of the cruise season, and the shutdown of the entertainment industry.
The post Budget snippet: Digitisation help for tourism, creative sector appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
Examples of the Mandela Effect - a term describing a false memory of former South African president Nelson Mandela dying in prison - have gone viral.
The post What Is 'The Mandela Effect'? appeared first on NewsOne.
POINT Fortin policewoman Zelia Christiana Castello, 27, who has cancer, is scheduled to leave for India on October 2, for what could be potentially life-saving surgery.
Even though arrangements have been made with the Apollo Hospital in India to start her procedure, Castello told Newsday on the weekend that she is still woefully short of funds.
The officer is very short of the $1.4 million needed to offset the cost of her treatment, but despite this, Castello said she has to leave, because the chemotherapy treatment, which lasts for a month, is no longer effective.
It has been seven weeks since this municipal police officer, who worked at the Siparia Regional Corporation, had her last chemo treatment, and the symptoms of Hodgkin’s lymphoma have returned with full force.
“I am three weeks off chemo. All the symptoms have returned: body pains, muscle spasms. I can’t even hold my spoon to eat. My hands shake like a leaf.
“My lymph nodes are swollen, my neck, everywhere is starting to swell up. I can’t hold on much longer, I really need to leave for treatment,” she said. She revealed having to cancel arrangements to leave in early September, owing to the lack of funds. Without the treatment, \"there is every indication that I will I could die.”
Castello’s plight was first published in Newsday on September 4, and the mother of a seven-year-old son said the response to her appeal was positive.
While she is grateful for the funds received so far – $70,000 through a First Citizens bank account: 2283611, plus US$3,000 through a GoFundMe account – this is only enough to start the process. Her airline ticket to India has also been sponsored.
The disease has meant she is unable to work. “I have been under some financial strain, because cancer medication is expensive.” Her insurance policy does not cover cancer.
She explained, in a previous interview, that in January 2021, she was diagnosed with cancer of the lymphatic system, which is part of the body’s germ-fighting immune system. She was first treated at San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH).
“Chemo puts the cancer to sleep. It stays in the body for one month. As soon as the chemo wears off, the cancer wakes back up. My last treatment was seven weeks ago and doctors said there is nothing else they can do for me here.”
Castello said the cancer has progressed to stage 4, meaning urgent bone marrow transplant is what is required.
The first procedure she will need once she gets to India, she said, is high-dose salvage chemotherapy, which is not done at the Indian hospital, but privately.
A US$15,000 down payment had to be made for this aggressive form of chemo before the transplant can be done. This involves removing the patient’s bone marrow, clearing out the cancer cells and reimplanting it.
“Once this happens, I will be on my way to recovery and can live to see my son grow up,” she said.
The post Still short on funds but cop with cancer prepares to fly to India appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
By Rev. Dorothy Boulware, AFRO Managing Editor, Dorothy@Afro.com How fortuitous to be reviewing the AFRO book, The Thing I Love About Baltimore, at the eve of our 130th anniversary; seeing […]
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An \"all-white jury\" acquitted former Texas police officer Shaun Lucas of murdering Black man Jonathan Price during a 2020 confrontation, Lee Merritt said.
The post No Justice For Jonathan Price: 'All-White Jury' Acquits Ex-Texas Cop Accused Of Murdering Black Man appeared first on NewsOne.
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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FINANCE MINISTER Colm Imbert has said the government has deposited over $1 billion in the country’s piggybank.
“As a result of higher-than-expected oil and gas prices, we have deposited US$163 million dollars, or TT$1.1 billion, into the Heritage and Stabilisation Fund (HSF) for intergenerational benefits.”
To address financial concerns raised during the height of the covid19 pandemic, the government withdrew US $900 million from the HSF.
Imbert boasted that the country's debt-to-GDP ratio has been reduced from 80 per cent in September last year to 70 per cent this year.
This reduction, he said, will allow the country to access loans from both local and international banks such as the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
The post Budget snippet: Government deposits $1.1b into Heritage Fund appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
The woman who alleged rapper Mystika sexually assaulted her gave details about the alleged incident that could put him behind bars for life.
(Atlanta, Ga) GA Republican senate candidate and former football star Herschel Walker sat down with rolling out magazine 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 […]
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U.S. Department of Commerce awards North Central Minority Supplier Development Council $1.6M grant WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin announced that Wisconsin is receiving federal funding to establish the state’s first Minority Business Development Center. The U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) has awarded the Wisconsin North Central Minority Supplier Development […]
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In addition to posting bail at no cost to the person or their family, The Bail Project works to connect its clients to social services and community resources based on an individual’s identified needs, including substance use treatment, mental health support, stable housing and employment.
The post Fighting an Unjust System, The Bail Project Helps People Get Out of Jail and Reunites Families first appeared on Post News Group.
By Michael Phillis, Associated Press Sprawling industrial complexes line the drive east along the Mississippi River to the majority-Black town of Reserve, Louisiana. In the last seven miles the road […]
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By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, Report for America Corps Member, msayles@afro.com JPMorgan Chase, in collaboration with Women of Color and Capital, on Thursday will host a free workshop for […]
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9-25-22 Thursday, I attended the Worthing vs. Scarborough game at Butler Stadium. Both teams have been experiencing a rough start to the season. Worthing came in at 0-3 and Scarborough […]
The work-from-home craze that was sparked by the coronavirus pandemic threatens to create another segregated societal system that could put
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COURIER MANAGING EDITOR ROB TAYLOR JR., COURIER SPORTS COLUMNIST AUBREY BRUCE, COURIER PHOTOGRAPHER/VIDEOGRAPHER BRIAN COOK SR. (PHOTO BY MARLON MARTIN) The New Pittsburgh Courier took home six first-place awards at the annual Pittsburgh Black Media Federation Vann Media Awards ceremony, held, Aug. 24, at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Downtown. Longtime Courier sports … Continued
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