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June 22, 2016

India lightning strikes leave 93 people dead

At least 93 people have been killed and more than 20 injured by lightning strikes in the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, officials say. Most of the people who died were working on farms during…

Jamaica prepares to tap into climate change fund

Jamaica is preparing to tap into US$10.3 billion available to fund climate change adaptation and mitigation projects. The country is joining 200 other developing states in formulating viable proposals to access financing from the Green…

Mixed progress at UN on rights of persons with disabilities

Nearly 10 years after UN members adopted a progressive Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), progress implementing the convention has been mixed, even at the UN itself, say disability advocates. Last week the 165…

Another gun found

(ZIZ News) -- The police have seized another illegal firearm. According a police source on Monday officers found a 40 millimetre pistol and a number of rounds in St. Pauls. Details are still sketchy but ZIZ understands that one person is…

Youth Department staff and volunteers clean up Bay Front

(SKNIS): Prospective group leaders for the Department of Youth Empowerment’s 33rd Annual Summer Residential Camp lived up to the theme: “Team Work Makes the Dream Work” when they spent hours on Saturday (June 18) cleaning up the Bay Front…

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