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Normalize not giving your money to businesses that treat you poorly.

Bad customer service. Leave.

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I wish we knew more about Jesus’ life as a child.

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Parish Courts are now backlog free. That’s major. Good going Justice Skyes and the judges.

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According to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 1 in 10 young adults in the United States regularly use e-cigarettes.

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Research has shown that men on a vegetarian diet live an average of 10 years longer than men on a non-vegetarian diet and vegetarian women live an average of 6 years longer than their non-vegetarian counterparts.

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Earlier this year, President William Ruto of Kenya announced a decision that unleashed an avalanche of reactions: all visa fees for Africans traveling to Kenya for business purposes would be scrapped.

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Ethel Puplampu rounds up the biggest Africa stories from the week of July 16-22.
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US$700,000 in equipment was handed over to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) recently. The tools will allow for electronic logging of reports from citizens, receipt via email, and the ability to link old case files to current ones.

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The winner of the coming elections in Senegal will oversee the coming oil boom in Senegal. The incumbent, Macky Sall, is pro-France and is said to be working towards the election of someone who shares his defense of the French interest in Senegal.

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Subrina Hall-Azih argues our national birds are in imminent danger and presents various strategies for protecting them.

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We need to ask what museums are here to do, whose interests they are supposed to serve, how they should engage with stakeholders and audiences, and what perspectives they should represent in their exhibitions, publications and programmes.

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In 2018, the UK announced that 22 June would be commemorated as Windrush Day. While this does not suggest that there are no longer racial problems, it nonetheless demonstrates that significant progress has been made.

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The Bridgetown Declaration on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) and Mental Health was launched last week to address some of the world’s deadliest diseases. NCDs cause 74 per cent of all deaths globally, and a large share of fatalities in the Caribbean.

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The National Irrigation Commission (NIC) is urging farmers to take advantage of the irrigation services they are offering.

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Ethel Puplampu rounds-up the biggest stories impacting the African continent in the past week. https://t.co/zak9NoFQb1

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“The African Group has joined us, Ambassador Dragos Tigau said when a monkey appeared at a window in the conference room”.

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Ethel Puplampu provides insight on the biggest stories impacting the African continent in the past week.

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In this column, Dr. Christopher AD Charles weighs in on the renewed call for job descriptions for MPs and Cabinet members.

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The US Vice President Kamala Harris visited the Gopalan family home in Lusaka and paid tribute to her maternal grandfather PV Gopalan, a member of the Indian Foreign Service, while on a visit to Zambia.

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A comprehensive, in-depth assessment of Gaston Tabois’ work is now long overdue.

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