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By Musa Zimunya.
Hoza Friday as it is called by many people, is somewhat of an informal tradition that stipulates that the time has come to enjoy and be merry. And for Kathy Hampe, who founded Lebensschule daycare, her 10 staff and 32 children, this could not be truer after receiving a care package from businesses, civil society and charity.
Julie Turney is the CEO and Principal Consultant of [email protected] Consulting Inc., a company that coaches burned out and frustrated Human Resource professionals in their careers.
The Caribbean is preparing to stage one of its largest tourism conventions, and it will be an in-person event, the first such regional conference since the COVID-19 pandemic struck in the first quarter of 2020.
Barbados and the Caribbean have lost another stalwart in the hotel and tourism industry with the passing of the former General Manager of the Sandy Lane Hotel and former President of the Barbados Hotel Association (now Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association), Richard Williams.
Get in the spirit with the charismatic and spirited Maurice Blair, bartender at Kingston's Spanish Court Hotel. Kingstonian by birth, Blair was raised in Kingston as well as St Elizabeth. I install myself at the Skybar around the recently renovated pool bar and immediately wonder how Blair first entered this wonderful world of mixology.
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded The Nobel prize in literature, for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”.
He becomes only the second black African writer to win the prize since Wole Soyinka in 1986.
Gurnah, who grew up in Zanzibar and arrived in England as a refugee in the 1960s, has published 10 novels as well as a number of short stories.
When Kano Pillars shared pictures of their new player, homeboy Ahmed Musa, 28, at the training ground flanked by 25-year-old defender Abdullahi Musa, many accused the latter of being older than he claims.
They arguably had fair reasons to doubt as accusations like this are not new. In fact, age falsification in football is so commonplace in Nigeria that it has earned its own moniker: “football age.”
A man who armed himself with two guns after losing a fight at a strip club has been convicted.
Police intercepted the vehicle that Jason Ferguson was traveling in near St. Barnabas Church and seized an Austria-Glock-21 and an Austria Glock-30 S with 31 live rounds of ammunition on August 24, 2018.
The firearms were found in plain view on the center console of the Chevy Cruze that was driven by Ferguson’s co-defendant Herbert Mackey.
War crimes suspect Alieu Kosiah shot and killed a teenage boy in Voinjama in 1994, a man claiming to have witnessed the incident, told the Swiss Federal Criminal Court on Saturday.
The 43-year-old—the sixth of seven “plaintiffs” to testify to Kosiah’s guilt since his trial began in December last year—told the three presiding judges that Kosiah led a gang of rebels on a weekly killing spree, a routine that he called “Black Monday.”
SANTO DOMINGO, RD. -The president of the Lifestyle Group, Markus Wischenbart, considered the tourism of the Dominican Republic very important and a boost at the same time to tourism in the Dominican Republic, the words of praise from the Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) during his visit to the country, saying that “ there is no better place to invest than this paradise.”