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A recorded multi-member Zoom meeting from the 57th Annual Conference of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has gone viral. In an almost two-minute-long video circulating on Twitter, one of the call member’s windows showed sexual intercourse recorded by another conference participant.  Two people can be seen apparently having sex in …

While renewed mask mandates and updated guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have received heavy pushback from critics, a poll conducted by the Washington Post and the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University has found that many want to continue relying on …

“The Board of Governors of the IMF… approved a general allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) equivalent to US$650 billion on August 2, 2021, to boost global liquidity,” IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said in a statement made public on Monday. Georgieva called the decision “historic” and “a shot in …

As if parents needed more subjects to stress about, writer Anjani Trivedi has reminded them that there’s an “ever-changing list of labyrinthine policies to allow travel,” from “home quarantines” to stays in government “facilities” that are more like prisons (try getting out of New Zealand’s). Sure – we somewhat expected …

A report this week from The New York Times about prisoners potentially being taken back into custody has had criminal justice reform activists up in arms, including groups such as the NAACP and ACLU. On Saturday, activists vented their frustrations on social media, led by figures such as lawyer Emily …

As millions of people watched the closing stages of the opening ceremony from the Olympic Stadium in Japan, Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1971 single, which his wife has said is about relinquishing the “divisive control mechanisms of borders, nationalism, warfare, religious constructs or ownership”, received a new rendition on the …

According to the Sun, RT Diagnostics, a company based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, has been charging thousands of unsuspecting customers £79 ($107) for fit-to-fly and day two and day eight quarantine test certificates, then dumping the returned Covid-19 tests in the bin.  Ordinarily, I’d be shocked but not surprised that …

The global number of infections has risen for four straight weeks with the Delta variant now present in 111 countries, and deaths are rising again after 10 straight weeks of declines, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday. Speaking to the WHO’s Emergency Committee on Covid-19, he said the …

An estimated 23 million children worldwide missed their routine immunizations in 2020, the two UN agencies announced on Wednesday, with the Eastern Mediterranean and South-East Asia most affected. Even as everyone focuses on Covid-19 jabs, “we have gone backwards on other vaccinations, leaving children at risk from devastating but preventable …

Published on Monday, the annual UN report, entitled ‘The State of Food Security and Nutrition of Food Security and Nutrition in the World’, illustrated how the Covid crisis has exacerbated world hunger, estimating that a tenth of the global population was malnourished in 2020. “Unfortunately, the pandemic continues to expose …