Former chief executive officer of @UHWI_JA Kevin Allen declared emphatically yesterday that he could not have signed a C-84 Customs form to allow for the hospital to apply its tax-exempt status to benefit two private companies in 2023 and 2024.
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Jamaican pilot Jabari Brown has been released by authorities in Paraguay after prosecutors determined there was no evidence linking him to an alleged drug trafficking operation involving a private aircraft that arrived from Miami. Brown had been detained as part of the investigation, but authorities later concluded he had no involvement or knowledge of the alleged operation. Three other individuals remain in custody while the case continues.
Make it make sense.
A real-time audit conducted by Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis, published on May 12, revealed that up to April 2, over five months after Hurricane Melissa, ODPEM had disbursed only $26.2 million.
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We have spent 12 years on a Road Traffic Act that still does not enforce itself. We have spent $21.3 million on cameras that cannot issue a fine. We have spent years announcing body-worn cameras while officers kill people with none activated.
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This Palestinian boy in Gaza broke down in tears after his glasses were damaged. Amid Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and blockade on the entry of supplies, it may be impossible for him to replace the glasses.
This is a really grim decision alongside Cenk.
People often talk about dangerous road we'd go down under a Reform government - this is another clear warning we're down there already.
A Labour government doing everything possible to silence criticism of the Israeli Government.
Fox News says Hasan Piker used a antisemitic trope by saying Israel advocacy groups pushed for his ban. And then in the following sentence details how said groups pushed for his ban.
🧵1/2 THE BROKEN PROMISE OF CUBAN INDEPENDENCE
The massacre must be understood against Cuba’s post-independence betrayal of its Black population. Many of the murdered men were veterans who had fought in Cuba’s wars for independence from Spain (1868–1898), yet after independence, White Cuban elites consolidated political and economic power, excluding Afro-Cubans from meaningful participation in national life despite their enormous contributions.
THE PARTIDO INDEPENDIENTE DE COLOR (PIC)
In 1908, Evaristo Estenoz, a war veteran and journalist of Haitian descent, and Pedro Ivonnet, also a war hero, founded the Partido Independiente de Color (PIC), the first Black political party in the Americas explicitly addressing racial equality. The PIC demanded an end to racial discrimination, economic justice for Black workers, land reform, and access to education for Afro-Cubans.
The Cuban state’s response was immediate and telling. The government passed the Morúa Law in 1910, banning political parties based on race, a measure directly aimed at destroying the PIC.
THE UPRISING AND MASSACRE
After being outlawed, the PIC called for mass protests and an armed uprising in May 1912, centred in Cuba’s eastern Oriente Province. The protests were not a large-scale revolution but rather a combination of political mobilisation and scattered armed resistance. The Cuban government under President José Miguel Gómez declared martial law and launched a brutal crackdown. Cuban Army units, white militias, and U.S. Marines were deployed, and between 3,000 and 6,000 Afro-Cubans were killed, many of them unarmed civilians, including women and children. Estenoz was killed under suspicious circumstances in June 1912; Ivonnet was captured and summarily executed in July. Bodies were left to rot in public spaces, and terror tactics were used to intimidate Black communities.
Critically, many Afro-Cubans who had nothing to do with the PIC or the uprising were also arrested, harassed, and killed on mere suspicion. Black skin alone was sufficient grounds for execution. Men and women were attacked while walking home from work or visiting friends.
As historian Aline Helg documented, “entire families were machine-gunned in their bohíos,” with witnesses recounting that cries of the wounded could be heard in the distance, and for days vultures circled the area.
114 years ago, #Cuba, May-July 1912: 3-6,000 black men, women, children, including many #Jamaican migrants were slaughtered during “Levantamiento Armado de los Independientes de Color/ Armed Uprising of the Independents of Colour”; rebellion of Afro-Cubans disgruntled by discrimination and poor conditions; many of whom had played a crucial role in the 1895 war of independence from Spain; led by Evaristo Estenoz and Pedro Ivonnet; brutally suppressed by the Cuban army and U.S. soldiers. #Caribbean #Jamaica
BREAKING: Israel’s military issues warnings of imminent attacks for the Lebanese towns of Mlikh and Kfarhounah, telling residents to immediately flee their homes.
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3rd place in 2025 ➡️ NATIONAL CHAMPIONS in 2026 🏆🇯🇲
Spanish Town Primary dethroned defending champions Lyssons Primary to capture the INSPORTS Primary School National Championship.
Track & Tingz spoke with Principal Roogae Kirlew about what this title means for the school, students and community ❤️👏🏾
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