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CARICOM pledges to completely eliminate roaming charges
– Advertising – The Prime Minister of Grenada, the Right Honorable Keith Mitchell, reiterated CARICOM’s commitment to achieving the complete elimination of roaming charges and establishing a harmonized regional regulatory framework. Addressing a meeting of regulators and key stakeholders, hosted by the Caribbean Telecommunications Union on Thursday, the Prime Minister said: “This morning, I tell …
MyCC invites the public, businesses and stakeholders to help survey the chicken and egg industry
PETALING JAYA: Businesses, relevant stakeholders and the public are invited to participate in the Malaysian Competition Commission (MyCC) investigation into the chicken and egg industry. “Interested parties are invited to contact MyCC by phone at 03-2273 2277 or by email at [email protected],” it said in a statement Wednesday, March 9. The Commission said it had …
Ukraine, Russia, Cuba and the war
A column of smoke from the Chuguyev military airport near Kharkiv, Ukraine. Photo: Aris Messinis / AFP. By Eloy Viera Cañive (El Toque) HAVANA TIMES – The war has begun. Russia invaded Ukraine in the early hours of February 24, 2022. Thus, a dispute announced weeks ago became reality, having been only a war of …
fears Cambodia is deploying a Chinese-style ‘Great Firewall’ to limit online freedom | Cambodia
A Chinese-style internet gateway set to be imposed on Cambodia this week would grant the government far greater powers to conduct mass surveillance, censorship and control of the country’s internet, rights groups have warned. Human rights experts and media advocates fear the gateway is a step towards the kind of censorship imposed by China’s Great …
Explanation: stricter accreditation policy for journalists and concerns
The government has released a new journalist accreditation policyintroducing an entire section on the reasons that may lead to the suspension of accreditation. What changed? The new policy, prepared by the Department of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) and issued by the Press Information Bureau, sets guidelines on how PIB accreditation will be granted to eligible …
NDP calls for emergency debate as Ottawa asks province and federal government for 1,800 more officers
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh calls for an emergency debate in the House of Commons as Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson calls on the federal and provincial governments for 1,800 more police officers to deal with the protest against the mandate anti-vaccine that binds the city center. In a letter to House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota …
Joyce says Australia must have ‘eyes wide open’ on Beijing’s new olive branch
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said Australia must not be naive to an olive branch held out by Beijing’s new ambassador, warning there must remain a number of non-negotiables in the relationship. Xiao Qian, who recently served as China’s ambassador to Indonesia, arrived in Sydney last week and issued a public statement that relations between …
It took three years but the SMH and the Age finally got their revenge on Clementine Ford – sort of | Amanda Meade
At the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, it seems revenge is a dish best served cold. Three years after former feminist columnist Clementine Ford walked away from her column and accused the Herald of losing its independence, an interview with the author has been enhanced after being written by an Age reporter, published in …
Tensions between Russia and NATO will affect post-indy plans for Trident
I WAS surprised to see no discussion in the press of the potential impact on independence of the steadily deteriorating relationship between NATO and Russia. It seems almost unbelievable that the UK government would allow any interference in the stable operation of the Faslane base during a time when it thinks nuclear ‘deterrence’ could finally …
New World Tourism Network Vice President for Government Relations
World Tourism Network, home of rebuilding travel, understands the importance of the public and private sectors coordinating and communicating. Tourism is an industry of international understanding and peace, two important factors especially today. Several Ministers and former Ministers of Tourism are already part of this growing global travel and tourism network. The Global Tourism Network …
Treasury Secretary Lord Agnew resigns over government’s ‘dismal’ record in tackling COVID business loan fraud | Politics News
A minister has resigned at the dispatch box after criticizing the government’s record of tackling fraud in coronavirus trade schemes. Lord Agnew, who was both Treasury and Cabinet minister, radically left his role in by Boris Johnson government in the House of Lords on Monday afternoon, claiming that the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial …
Rapid tests to ‘play a role’ in NSW schools | Northern Beaches Review
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has said rapid antigen tests will play a role in the government’s strategy to get children back to school for term one as the state’s COVID-19 situation worsens. worsen. “We see a role in rapid antigen testing…as we open schools…and that’s why we’ve bought tens of millions of them here in …
Covid-19 cases in India: 2.68 Lakh new Covid cases in India, positivity up from 14.7% to 16.66%
Covid cases in India: 6,041 cases of Omicron variant have been reported in 28 states so far. New Delhi: India added 2.68 lakh new Covid cases today, taking the total to 3.67 crores, including 6,041 Omicron cases. Active cases now represent 3.85% of total infections. Here are the top 10 updates on this big story: …
‘Ill-Designed’ Trophy Hunting Bill Put Wildlife at Risk, UK Government Says | Hunt
A proposed UK ban on imported trophy hunting risks jeopardizing the conservation of rhinos, elephants and other endangered wildlife, according to a group of leading scientists and environmentalists who have said the African outlook had been ignored by the government. On Friday, MPs will vote on a private member’s bill to ban imports of hunting …
Nepalese schools to close for three weeks amid increase in Covid cases, South Asia News
In response to the increase in Covid cases in Nepal, the COVID-19 Crisis Management Committee (CCMC), the government body on Sunday proposed a ban on gatherings of more than 25 people in public spaces. They also announced the closure of schools until January 29. A CCMC meeting called in the wake of the increase in …
The Fiji Times »2021 – The year that was: December
As the country rejoiced in the revival of tourism with swarms of visitors arriving on our shores, the Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health, Dr James Fong, announced the arrival of Omicron. The month also ended with the announcement that Fiji was entering its third wave with 476 new cases for the seven days …
Growing calls on the government of Western Australia to withdraw the ‘unacceptable’ indigenous heritage bill
There are growing calls for the government of Western Australia to withdraw its Aboriginal cultural heritage legislation, with nearly 150 prominent Australians putting their names on a letter of concern. Key points: The proposed laws are currently before the Parliament of Western Australia 146 leaders signed a letter of concern opposing the bill They say …
Global races to contain a new variant of Covid
Fears are growing that a new strain of highly infectious coronavirus is making its way into Europe, as the world closes the shutters to contain the new Omicron variant. New suspected cases have emerged in Germany and the Czech Republic, while Dutch authorities quarantined 61 South African passengers who tested positive for Covid-19. South Africa …
Golding Says PNP Won’t Pay Political Price for Voting Against SOE | New
National People’s Party (PNP) chairman Mark Golding scoffed at suggestions that the party would pay a heavy political price for voting against extending the state of emergency in seven police divisions. State-owned enterprises announced by Prime Minister Andrew Holness expire tomorrow. The government criticized the parliamentary opposition for voting against extending the crime-fighting measure. Speaking …
Elizabeth Eakins steps down, flurry of promotions at Kravet, and more
This month, members of the design world are advancing as a series of promotions sweep the industry. Read on for Home affairsthe monthly recap of arrivals and departures in design, manufacturing, media and more. Trade Kravet recently announced a series of executive-level promotions, appointing Alana moskowitz as vice-president of communication, Alice guercio as senior vice …
Gladys Berejiklian leads an investigation for a second day into her relationship with Daryl Maguire
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Day 11 of the ICAC investigation into former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and former Liberal MP Daryl Maguire. Ms Berejiklian was the last witness to testify in the public inquiry, which has now adjourned to allow the ICAC to consider its findings. The final reports from the …
Corporate Ladder: Your Weekly Guide to Executive Meetings
Caroline Rhodes Simon maddock Movements in primary industries Managing Director of Grain Producers SA Caroline Rhodes resigned after being appointed inaugural CEO of parent organization Primary Producers SA. It follows a restructuring of governance at PPSA, which also this week announced the appointment of the former vice-chancellor of Charles Darwin University. Simon maddock as president. …
RSS, Council of Catholic Bishops welcomes Prime Minister Modi to meeting with Pope Francis at Vatican
The RSS and the Kerala Catholic Bishops Council (KCBC), an organ of the state’s Catholic bishops, welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Saturday. RSS said the meeting bolstered the nation’s prestige while KCBC said the prime minister’s decision to invite the pontiff to India was historic. The prime …
UN suspends flight after Ethiopian government airstrike in Tigray region
A UN humanitarian flight is interrupted as conflict between the Ethiopian federal government and the TPLF in the Tigray region escalates, severely hampering humanitarian operations. 24 October 2021 Assistance to people displaced by conflict in northern Ethiopia. (AFP or licensors) NEW YORK: A United Nations humanitarian flight to Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray …
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Southern African bloc says king of Eswatini open to dialogue after protests
King Mswati III of Swaziland addresses the United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York, USA, September 2018. REUTERS / Eduardo Munoz / File Photo / File Photo MBABANE, October 23 (Reuters) – The southern African regional bloc, SADC, said on Saturday that King of Eswatini, Mswati III, Africa’s last absolute monarch, had …
Federal government to spend $ 7.4 billion on new COVID-19 benefits
OTTAWA – The federal government has announced a series of changes to popular income and business support programs put in place during the pandemic that will expire on Saturday. Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland reminded Canadians on Thursday that the measures were still meant to be “temporary.” “We are moving from the …
Businessman ready to seek order requiring DUP to attend north-south meetings
A A businessman will seek a court order compelling the DUP to end the boycott of North-South political structures if he does not change his stance next week. Belfast businessman Sean Napier was back in court on Friday to demand that the current ‘confused picture’ be cleared up after one of the party ministers failed …
NunatuKavut Community Council accused of not being Inuit organization, as identity tensions escalate
Tensions over the Labrador Inuit – and the benefits they are entitled to from the federal government – have escalated nationally and in the Prime Minister’s Office. Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, who represents Inuit in Canada, sent a letter on October 7 to Justin Trudeau, rejecting the position of the NunatuKavut Community Council as a separate …
UK lobbying regulator questions David Cameron for second time this year
Receive free updates on political lobbying in the UK We will send you a MyFT Daily Summary email bringing together the latest political lobbying news in the UK every morning. Former British Prime Minister David Cameron is under investigation for the second time this year by the lobbying regulator as to whether he should have …
Conversely, the new Israeli government engages with the Palestinian Authority
JERUSALEM – One night last month, an Israeli senior minister traveled the winding roads of the occupied West Bank to meet with Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority. The meeting between Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Mr. Abbas at the private residence of the octogenarian Palestinian leader – less than a 10-minute drive …
Gill pins Nawaz vaccine entry incident on PML-N
The Prime Minister’s Special Assistant for Political Communication, Shahbaz Gill, at a press conference in Lahore, September 25, 2021. – YouTube / HumNewsLive LAHORE: PML-N ‘plot’ is behind ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s fake coronavirus vaccine entry, Prime Minister’s special assistant for communications said on Saturday politician, Shahbaz Gill. The plot was hatched to defame the …
New Salisbury Tax Decision | Mirage News
With your leave, Mr President, I would like to make a statement on today’s announcement by the Counter Terrorism Police that the Crown Prosecution Service has authorized charges against a third person in connection with the Salisbury attack in 2018 – a terrible event that shook the whole country and united our allies in condemnation. …
Moroccan FM: Israel must be involved and not a foreigner in the Middle East
Israel must be part of a new order in the Middle East linked both by regional opportunities and the need to tackle common threats, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said on Friday at a landmark virtual event the anniversary of the Abrahamic accords. “There is a need for a new regional order where Israel is …
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Unions ‘not surprised’ by outcome – and hope grievances will be addressed
Supporters from both parties greet voters as they arrive at the polling division of Thelma Gibson Elementary School. Photo: Tanya Smith-Cartwright By FARRAH JOHNSON Journalist of the Tribune [email protected] LEADERS of the country’s main unions said they were not surprised by the Liberal Progressive Party’s victory in yesterday’s election and hope their various grievances can …
Shamima Ali calls on Prime Minister to dismiss GA or GA to resign for the sake of Fiji
Fiji Bureau of Statistics CEO Kemueli Naiqama. [Image: Ministry of Rural Development/Twitter] Fiji Bureau of Statistics CEO Kemueli Naiqama has been sacked. A government statement now says that the Economy Ministry, through Acting Permanent Secretary Shiri Goundar, has terminated the contract of the CEO of the Fiji Bureau of Statistics for failure to comply with …
Morning mail: warning from Dfat before visit to Afghanistan, international vaccination passport plan, woolly mammoths | Taliban
gHello. There is light at the end of the tunnel for families waiting to reunite across international borders, with digital reporting plans that include vaccination status set to facilitate international travel. The future of Afghanistan and its relations with the Gulf countries are of constant concern. And there could be an unexpected future for the …
Cyprus, Greece and Israel affirm values-based alliance
Foreign Ministers of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, Greece, Nikos Dendias, and Israel, Yair Lapid, on Friday affirmed in Jerusalem the close ties of their countries, based on shared values. Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias noted that the whole region is experiencing “extremely worrying developments” in recent times, namely religious fanaticism and spoke of an “arc of fundamentalism” …
Japan: Prime Minister Should Support LGBT Equality Law
(Tokyo) – The failure of the Japanese government to pass a national non-discrimination law to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games was a missed opportunity to advance rights of everyone in Japan, J-ALL, Athlete Ally, All Out and Human Rights Watch said today, posting …
United Nations grant to help finance disability policies in Trinidad and Tobago
New Shane Superville An hour ago In November 2019, Tourism Secretary Nadine Stewart-Phillips, right, hugs an official as two wheelchairs are presented through binoculars. – Photo courtesy of the Tobago House of Assembly It is hoped that a UN grant of US $ 100,000 (TT $ 673,000) will go a long way in bridging the …
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney reshuffles his cabinet
Prime Minister Jason Kenney moved some ministers and promoted six UCP backbench MPs as he reshuffled his cabinet on Thursday. Rajan Sawhney, MLA for Calgary Northeast, has left Community and Social Services (SSC) to lead the Department of Transportation. Calgary-Foothills MPP Jason Luan, former Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, holds the CSS portfolio. …
AIPEF writes to the Prime Minister and requests “detailed deliberations” from stakeholders on the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021
The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has written to the Prime Minister to seek “detailed deliberations” with various stakeholders on the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021, before submitting it to Parliament. The federation, in a letter to the prime minister, stressed that the bill should not be rushed to parliament during the pandemic period and …
Sausage truce marks moment of peace for post-Brexit EU-UK relations
THE MOOD MUSIC on Brexit trade talks between the EU and the UK is starting, dare we say it, to sound more positive, perhaps for the first time this year – raising the question of what will be the next step for the new leadership of DUP. Since the high-level tensions at the G7 summit …
18th Amendment and its future prospects
In 2014, Narendra Modi stormed the national and international scene as a rock star. One of the first decisions of the nationalist government of the BJP was to adopt a leonine mark containing four lions of Emperor Ashoka symbolizing strength, courage, pride and confidence. India, the elephant, now wanted to become a lion and was …
Defiant Johnson dismisses Matt Hancock sacking calls … for now
Mr Hancock apologized after images emerged of him kissing a close associate he named in his office at the Department of Health and Welfare (DHSC). Labor said his position had become “hopelessly untenable” and demanded that he be sacked if he was not prepared not to resign voluntarily. However, a Downing Street spokesperson said Mr …
The Difference Between Metro and Greater Sydney Rules Explained
In the days following the onset of the most recent Covid-19 outbreak in Sydney, residents of the New South Wales capital heard the terms “Greater Sydney” and “Metropolitan Sydney” often used by locals. authorities regarding the new travel rules and limits. While most of the restrictions announced earlier this week – including mandatory mask wear, …
Stakeholders eagerly await Madurai-Thoothukudi industrial corridor for development in southern TN
Chennai: N Jegatheesan, president of the Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Madurai, said on Saturday that the state government had yet to launch the ambitious project announced in 2013. Of greater significance is the recent meeting of Chief Minister MK Stalin with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi as it had renewed …
Making the gold metal loan a solid financial product is the key to the success of a GMS: Mehrasons
ANI | Update: March 30, 2020 1:06 PM STI New Delhi [India], March 30 (ANI): Banks must sanction a gold metal (GML) loan to the weight of gold and allow it to roll over on paper without importing physical gold, said a leading industry expert.At the same time, authorities should take action to relieve GML …
Nirmala Sitharaman instructs Rahul Gandhi for confusing as waiver
On Tuesday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman instructed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on his false claims about “willful defaulters, bad debts and write-offs”, calling them an attempt to “brazenly deceive people. And sensationalize the facts. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s response to Rahul Gandhi came after Gandhi-scion claimed the BJP government had waived loans worth Rs 68,607 …