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The Chadwick Boseman Foundation for the Arts is keeping the late actor’s memory alive. The organization, which launched this year, recently announced its collaboration with Girls Who Code and Meta to create a new augmented reality effect uplifting Black women creators.
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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Pepper and Vanessa Lateefah Willaims are the perfect example of the saying “opposites attract. Pepper is all-out, full-blown diva, who will snap on you if you do anything that doesn’t jibe with his spirit, and prance around like a runway model when all is right in his world. Vanessa, on the other hand, is living, […]
More than seven years after the police charged a 38-year-old butcher with failing to provide a specimen of breath, a San Fernando magistrate found him not guilty on Wednesday.
Stephan Boxie, 38, of Palmyra, reappeared before magistrate Natalie Diop, who heard submissions from his attorney Ainsley Lucky.
PC Sookhai, now deceased, charged Boxie in August 2014.
The father of one had pleaded not guilty, got bail and the case went to trial. However, Sookhai died before the trial started, and the State relied on his written summary of evidence to prosecute Boxie.
On Wednesday, Lucky told the magistrate he did not get a chance to cross-examine and challenge the deceased officer on \" mistakes\" in the evidence. The attorney said the State’s evidence suggested that when Sookhai stopped the car, Boxie was driving on the Gulf View Link Road in La Romaine on August 22, 2104, and only one of his eyes appeared red.
The evidence also said Boxie was swaying from side to side. Lucky questioned whether it was his client or the car that was swaying.
Lucky referred to the hearing as \"superfluous\" and quoted three cases to support his claim.
At the trial, Boxie and his wife gave evidence but the State relied only on the summary of evidence.
The magistrate later found Boxie not guilty.
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Sources have confirmed reports of the death of Judge Larry W. Baraka, on Monday, after a lengthy illness.Judge Baraka served as a Criminal District Court #2 Judge from 1985-1997.A graduate of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa; he received his law degree from the University of Houston Law Center. A proud, unapologetic Republican, Baraka was […]
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The murder of Shadie Dassrath, 31, has stirred up bad memories for relatives, as her father was murdered 18 years ago in Tobago.
A grieving relative said, \"This is making me relive all that bad memories. It is very painful. Shadie was 13 at the time. She never got over his killing, and she did not know how to grieve. She held her feelings inside.\"
Brian Singh, the father of four, died after his head was smashed with an object. A woman was charged with the murder, but after a few years was released from prison, the relative told Newsday by phone.
The relative spoke on behalf of the family.
Police found Dassrath's body in her home at Temple Street in La Romaine on Friday morning, hours after she argued with a 24-year-old man. The security guard told police investigators he last saw her alive on Thursday around 11 pm.
An autopsy at the Forensic Sciences Centre in St James found she died from blunt force trauma.
Police held the man, originally from Siparia, who remained in custody up to Thursday.
The relative said Dassrath confided in her that the man was abusive.
\"She told me he used to beat and choke her. He threatened to kill her. She said a day they were eating together, and he tried to shove an egg down her throat,\" the relative said. \"He smashed her phone once, soaked her bed, ransacked the apartment.
\"I do not think Shadie ever reported any of these things about him to the police.\"
W/Cpl Callender, WPC Mohammed, PCs Lall and Vialva of the Homicide Bureau Region III are investigating.
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The Belize government says it is preparing an amnesty program for immigrants from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Central America.
OFFICIALS from both business and labour organisations attested that some workers laid off during the closure of businesses during the pandemic had not received compensation. They were speaking at Wednesday's virtual sitting of Parliament's Joint Select Committee (JSC) on Social Services and Public Administration chaired by Independent Senator Paul Richards.
TT Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) president Mark Edghill lamented that some workers could not access grants when their employers were non-compliant with listed statutory requirements.
Saying grants were not made available to all sectors, he said workers in the pest control industry had suffered when laid off. While that industry was deemed to be an essential service, and so allowed to continue to operate during the pandemic, most of their clients were shut and so pest control operators had little work to do and laid off staff.
Those workers then found it hard to access relief grants, he explained.
Edghill also lamented that during the last lockdown (which ended in early August) many people had not been able to access social relief if their last date of pay had been April 29, just before the officially designated date to qualify of May 1.
\"They were denied salary grants because they did not lose their job on May 1. That is something that is completely ridiculous.\"
He urged corrective measures for the many such people who had been unable to access grants.
\"The first tranche of grants in 2020, people did see their grants coming in. For 2021 however, I think that less than ten per cent of people that have applied have received their grant.\"
Aviation, Communication and Allied Workers Union secretary general Peter Farmer said he knew of people who had applied for a grant but received none, some being told the grants had been approved but no funds were available to pay them.
TT Manufacturer Association director George Naime later said he thought staff at the Ministry of Social Development probably had felt they were \"sucked into a vortex\" of demands and had felt overwhelmed.
TTCSI CEO Vashti Guyadeen named sectors worst hit by the pandemic as tourism, arts and entertainment, recreation, sports services, personal care, and daycare, the latter which was still shut.
Conversely, she said growth areas during the pandemic had been business and professional services, consultants, IT and architects, with some professionals going online to work internationally on 4-5 projects per year compared to a usual rate of one project. Edghill said tour operators could now be partially eased up by letting them operate safely under covid19 protocols at certain sites.
He said his membership was split right down the middle over a workplace vaccination policy. His own view was that it could be considered by each sector and by specific business operations.
However Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union (BIGWU) general secretary Trevor Johnson said rather than mandatory vaccinations, workplaces could simply apply the Ministry of Health's usual covid19
In her lawsuit earlier this year, Hough claimed that Nicki, Petty and their team of lawyers were harassing her to recant her claim that Kenneth Petty raped her in the 90's.
The more than 300 lawsuits that have been filed so far in Houston following a massive crowd surge at theAstroworld festival that left 10 people deadhave been consolidated and will be handled by one judge as the cases proceed through the court system, a judicial board ruled. In an order issued on Tuesday, the Board […]
*BlackFacts Minute: December 7, 2021 On this day in 1941, Doris “Dorie” Miller defends U.S. ships during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was the first black American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the highest decoration for valor in combat after the Medal of […]
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TikTok user @fuxktdub uploaded a video of a white woman accusing a Black man of stealing her phone, Newsweek reported . While visiting a variety store called Spencer's in Palm Desert, California, an unidentified woman, now nicknamed \"Spencer's Karen,\" can be seen going back and forth with an unknown couple over the whereabouts of her phone. “Karen really pulled this at a Spencer’s. Racism is alive and well,” the video's caption read. In the video, the woman is seen shuffling through her purse, while the other woman can be heard asking, “Can you [store clerk] call it because she won’t let us call it.\" Believing the Black man opted to silence her phone as a way to keep it, the woman said, “He could have turned off the ringer.\" “Oh my God, do you want him to get f**king naked, lady?” the woman with the man said in response. One of Spencer's store clerks tried to offer assistance telling the group, “Guys, let’s try to stay calm and cool.” The white woman then replied, “I want my phone...
The Good Morning America host is set to travel as an “honorary guest” of the Blue Origin flight Dec. 9. Michael Strahan is heading to space. In a recent interview, the Good Morning America anchor broke down what personal items he plans on bringing with him as he […]
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During a town hall meeting on Wednesday, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson suggested gargling mouthwash as a viable treatment for COVID-19 saying, “Standard gargle, mouthwash, has been proven to kill the coronavirus.”
For the past few years, the NGO Moruga Poverty Reduction Centre has spread Christmas cheer in the area.
But the effects of the pandemic have put a damper on the annual festive event, and its director and founder, Natalie Patrice, is calling on corporate TT for help.
At Grand Chemin Village, the centre plans to host its annual \"Free for all event\" on December 17. Representatives from UNHCR, the refugee agency and UN Association of TT are expected to attend.
Patrice said, \"We are accustomed to giving out huge hampers to locals and also to the Venezuelan migrant community. They look forward to this every year. We want the business community to help donate money or items.
\"We hope to give out about 500 food bags as well as snack bags with goodies,\"
\"The centre does not have the money. We would be grateful to anyone or any organisation that can help to make the event a success.\"
The centre caters to underprivileged families in communities in Moruga and environs. Services offered include literacy programmes, food distribution drives, psychotherapy and counselling free to the public.
The NGO also runs a thrift store, allowing people to buy new or lightly used clothing and household items at low cost.
\"Since we started this NGO in June 2016, we have helped over 5,000 people from Marac to Sixth Company. If people out of this boundary ask for help, as many have done, we help them too,\" Patrice said.
\"This year, we cannot do this drive alone. We need the help to help people have a joyous Christmas.\"
The centre also accepts clothing, household items, furniture, electronics, food items and cash donations.
People willing to help can do so via Patrice's RBC bank account, number 00110000003191147.
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