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Prime Minister Mia Mottley has used the launch of this year’s Prime Minister's Cup football tournament to appeal to young athletes to take their health and wellbeing seriously. Against the…
The post PM's Proposed Game-Changing Play: It’s About Health & Wellness appeared first on Barbados Today.
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.
PUNE, India — In another step toward turning India into a natural gas-based economy, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on Jan. 5 inaugurated a 450-kilometer (280-mile) liquid natural gas pipeline between two coastal cities during a [...]
Under Armour has announced that it is launching a signature shoe brand for three-time NBA champion Stephen Curry called The Curry Brand.
A Full-Blown Air Attack
The “first round of operations\" against the forces of the state of Tigray in the well-armed northern region has been carried out in the form of airstrikes — as announced by Ethiopia's prime minister Abiy Ahmed on Friday evening. Abiy also asserted that the offensive in multiple locations in the capital, Mekele “completely destroyed rockets and other heavy weapons\" in order to render any retaliatory attack impossible. The airstrikes were the Ethiopian government's military response to the recent attack on federal troops by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front ruling party — the \"last straw\" for the Prime Minister following months of political defiance and mounting regional tensions.
First Blood of Civil War?
There has been no mention of casualties as of yet nor has there been an immediate response from the Tigray government. The region continues under a six-month state of emergency imposed by the federal government.
Experts say that this marks a significant escalation in the inter-regional conflict that could result in an all-out civil war in one of Africa’s most powerful and populous countries.
Aid groups warn a humanitarian disaster is in the making if fighting continues, with the COVID-19 pandemic one of several crises.
It was not clear what mediation efforts might be underway and the African Union — based in Ethiopia, has not issued a statement.
While it may be true that most people recover from the virus, we have no way to not know who will recover and who will die. Old people, young people, sick people, healthy people, children have all been killed by Covid-19. Black people are getting the disease because we are more likely to be around crowds and infected strangers. There is no effective treatment and no cure, so the best plan is to avoid getting the virus. If you can’t avoid getting it, the vaccine gives protection to keep you from getting seriously sick and to keep you from dying.
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The #SharingPositivity movement calls on South Africans to stand up against cyberbullying and online harassment.
By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Newswire Contributor I got my first COVID vaccination last week. No big deal, an achy arm, but otherwise, just like a flu shot. The young lady who administered the shot smiled and said, “after you get your second shot, you can get back to normal.” I wanted to ask her what was normal, but the man in line behind me seemed impatient, so I smiled and made my way out of the store. I thought about it all the way home, though. What’s normal? I don’t think crowding thirty or forty young people into a classroom […]
The post COMMENTARY: Back to Normal? What’s Normal? appeared first on Black News Channel.
THE MOST senior black administrator in British sport has applied for the role of chairman...
The post Candidate for Football Association chairmanship keen to wedge doors open for his community appeared first on Voice Online.
PRIME Minister Dr Timothy Harris, who has been organising monthly health walks since April 2007, is being applauded at the regional level for embracing the regional Caribbean Moves with the launch in St Kitts and Nevis of SKN Moves last year.Caribbean Moves is an initiative launched in 2018 that is based on the successful Jamaica Moves campaign which focuses on physical activity, healthy eating and age-appropriate health checks.
LONDON — London and southeast England may stay under tighter curbs for some time to stem a fast-spreading new coronavirus strain, Britain’s Health minister suggested yesterday, as COVID-19 cases surged by a record number for one day. The government faced criticism for abruptly scrapping plans to ease restrictions for Christmas and imposing an effective lockdown on more than 16 million people. Health minister Matt Hancock defended the decision, saying evidence showing the new strain was causing spiralling cases had forced the action. The variant, which officials say is up to 70% more transmissible than the original, also prompted concerns about a wider spread. Several European countries, including Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium, said they were taking measures to prevent people arriving from Britain, including bans on flights and trains. On Saturday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson tore up plans to allow three households to mix indoors for five days over the festive period, and imposed new Tier 4 level curbs — similar to a national lockdown in March — on London and southeast England. Hancock suggested the tougher measures — which require about a third of the population of England to stay at home except for essential reasons such as work - might remain in place until vaccinations become more widely available. “We’ve got a long way to go to sort this,” Hancock told Sky News. “Essentially, we have got to get that vaccine rolled out to keep people safe. Given how much faster this new variant spreads, it’s going to be very difficult to keep it under control until we have the vaccine rolled out.” Britain began inoculating people using the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech earlier this month. The number of cases in Britain surged by 35 928 yesterday, the highest daily rise since the start of the pandemic, and it recorded 326 deaths, taking the official toll to more than 67 000. Alarm bells Opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer told a news conference that while he supported the new measures, yet again the Prime Minister waited until the 11th hour to take this decision. “The alarm bells have been ringing for weeks, but the prime minister chose to ignore them … He told the country to go ahead and have a merry little Christmas … and yet three days later he tells millions of families to rip up those plans,” he said, referring to comments Johnson made on Wednesday. Soon after Johnson announced the changes on Saturday afternoon, some in London headed for train stations to try to travel to see relatives over Christmas, and there were scenes of crowding - something Hancock called “totally irresponsible”. — Reuters
'I think the youth are given very little power. They’re told what to do, go to school, what to eat and what to wear.'
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COVID-19 disease is a real and serious disease.
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2020: Vice President of Sierra Leone - Dr Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh today committed Sierra Leone to the creation of a ‘Smart Africa’ – a bold vision of transforming Africa into a single digital market through collaboration. Speaking at a virtual board meeting today, vice president [Read More]
THE GOVERNMENT will spend over £400m to support poor children in England. The new funding...
The post Marcus Rashford thanks the public for supporting his free school meals campaign appeared first on Voice Online.
[Cameroon Tribune] Chief Dr. Dion Ngute laid the wreath and handed parcels from President Paul Biya and wife.
Melbourne Absalom, a violence interrupter (VI) working with the Peace Management Initiative in Rose Town in Kingston, is calling on the “society at large” to play a greater role in curbing crime and violence in such inner-city communities. Absalom...
