Avellon Williams UNITED KINGDOM- There will be a five-week strike at the Passport Office across the UK next month, so anyone with a new document may experience delays. A total of over 1,000 members of the Public Commercial Services (PCS) union in Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Newport, Peterborough, and Southport will strike from April 3 to May 5, […]
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Avellon Williams SOUTH AFRICA- She has grown from a farmer to become an award-winning Chemical Engineer, to obtaining her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). Thandi Princess Ngxongo is from South Africa. A farm along the Mooi River in South Africa is where Thandi was born and raised. Working on the farm with her parents and around cars and other machinery, she […]
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Avellon Williams MARYLAND- “The other sanitation workers were the only people in my life who uplifted me and told me I could be somebody.” Rehan Staton arose before dawn every morning for three years. Having dressed in his neon-yellow uniform at 4 a.m., he headed to Bladensburg, Maryland, to work at Bates Trucking & Trash Removal. His mornings […]
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Avellon Williams TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- Facebook-owned Meta is laying off 10,000 more employees in a restructuring intended to flatten the organization and improve efficiency and sustainability. After undergoing massive layoffs not long ago, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta and creator of Facebook, proclaimed 2023 the “Year of Efficiency.” In 2022, after a rather disastrous financial […]
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Avellon Williams LONDON- “Omari has always had a passion for cooking but he started learning to cook meals from the age of seven after”. The nation’s youngest award-winning chef is 15-year-old Omari McQueen, a vegan chef, and entrepreneur from London who won the award at 11. One of the youngest restaurateurs in the world, he founded and […]
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Avellon Williams NIGERIA- Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, will continue to have disparate pump prices due to the incomplete delivery of products to many filling stations, oil marketers said on Tuesday. There has been a lopsided pattern in PMS distribution lately, according to traders, which will result in scarcity and worsen price disparities […]
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Avellon Williams NIGERIA- Philip Emeagwali, also known as Calculus, is a young Nigerian who has received praise for his stunning creation. Philip, a Black man of Nigerian descent, who was born in 1954 and is nearly 69 years old, was responsible for building the world’s first supercomputer that provided amazing results. Using computational fluid dynamics, the young man created high-performance computing […]
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Avellon Williams PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI- A former Haitian mayor has been accused of political violence and terror in a Boston courtroom, where a trial began Monday that reveals the wider issue of bloodshed and unaccountability in Haiti’s government. A U.S. District Court in Boston heard opening arguments from attorneys who painted vastly different pictures of Jean Morose Viliena. […]
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Avellon Williams NIGERIA- A flamboyant outfit worn by Nigerian singer Temilade Openiyi, also known as “Tems”, at Sunday night’s Academy Awards blocked the view of fellow attendees. A nomination for Tems was given at the 95th Academy Awards, which were held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California, in the United States. In spite of the praise she has […]
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Avellon Williams SOUTH AFRICA- A public health crisis has intensified in South Africa as medics join other public servants in a strike to demand better wages. The public workers have been protesting since Monday last week in demand of a 10% wage increase. A 4.7% rate has been proposed by the government. As long as their […]
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