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Persons looking to purchase authentic Jamaican-made gifts and souvenir items for the upcoming Yuletide season will, for the first time, have two days to explore the products on display at the annual ‘Christmas in July’ trade show.

The event will be held from July 12-13 at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in Kingston from 9 am to 5 pm each day.

Director, Tourism Linkages Network, Carolyn McDonald Riley has said year’s staging will feature 180 producers of locally made items in the categories of desktop solutions, aromatherapy, d?cor, fashion and accessories, fine arts, souvenirs, processed foods and products made with organic and natural fibres.

The trade show is being staged under the theme ‘Tropical Wonderland’ and will also celebrate Jamaica 60 through the various items on display.

“It’s going to be a really exciting two days. We will have live streaming on Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica (PBCJ) and we will have a number of other media [and] persons on, especially the diaspora. I am looking forward to just another interesting two days,” said McDonald Riley, adding that people may also watch the live stream on the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) social media platforms.

She noted that that there will be an opening ceremony on Day 1, hosted by media personalities Dr Terri-Karelle Reid and Neville Bell, while Miss Kitty and Brithney Clarke will guide the proceedings on Day 2.

McDonald Riley further informed that the public will be allowed inside the venue this year as opposed to the last two years when there were gathering restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

She pointed out that persons will be required to wear masks and practise social distancing.

McDonald Riley said that upon entering the venue, persons will receive a buyers’ toolkit or ‘passport’, which they will use to “navigate the space and find persons, in terms of what is being displayed”.

The passport will include the name and contact number of all the suppliers participating in the trade show, so that patrons can follow up after the event.

Christmas in July is a collaborative effort of the Tourism Linkages Network and its partners, Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters’ Association (JMEA), Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC), and the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA).

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A 51-YEAR-OLD salesman for the Kiss Baking Company was robbed of cash while conducting sales at a mini-mart in Sangre Grande on Monday morning.

Police said the salesman was at the mini mart on Bois Bande Road, North Eastern Settlement, at around 11 am when he was confronted by two men.

One of them pointed a gun at the salesman saying this was a robbery. The bandits stole $800 before running away.

The salesman called the police and officers of the Sangre Grande CID visited the scene. Up to press time, no arrest was made and Sangre Grande police are continuing investigations.

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THE Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) said it was working on providing a consistent water supply to customers in parts of Icacos and Cedros.

In a media statement on Tuesday morning, it said about 40 customers from Grand Chemin Beach Road, including Bilwah, Lalla, Siewrelal James Street and Uncle Ben Avenue, were experiencing disruptions.

It said those areas are in the extremities of the Granville Water Treatment Plant distribution system, which recently experienced an inconsistent water supply due to reduced production at Granville Well 17, leading to an overall deficit in water supply, relative to demand.

“The authority has been delivering a truck borne service to the affected households, which is ongoing. The authority wishes to assure customers in the Icacos area that it will be undertaking several short to long-term measures, over the coming weeks and months, in order to improve production and boost pressures to the area.

“The authority apologises to customers for any inconvenience caused and assures that it will continue to liaise with parliamentary and local government representatives for the area, regarding the issues impacting their service, as well as providing a supplementary truck borne service as required.”

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15 November 2022 is predicted to be the day that the global population reaches eight billion.

The projection is revealed in the UN’s World Population Prospects 2022 report, which also shows that India is on course to surpass China as the world’s most populous country in 2023.

The latest UN projections suggest that the world’s population could grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050, before reaching a peak of around 10.4 billion people during the 2080s. The population is expected to remain at that level until 2100.

Slowest growth rate since 1950s

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However, the annual World Population Prospect report, released on Monday to coincide with World Population Day, also notes that the global population is growing at its slowest rate since 1950, having fallen to less that one per cent in 2020.

Fertility, the report declares, has fallen markedly in recent decades for many countries: today, two-thirds of the global population lives in a country or area where lifetime fertility is below 2.1 births per woman, roughly the level required for zero growth in the long run, for a population with low mortality.

In 61 countries or areas, the population is expected to decrease by at least one per cent over the next three decades, as a result of sustained low levels of fertility and, in some cases, elevated rates of emigration.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an effect on population change: global life expectancy at birth fell to 71 years in 2021 (down from 72.9 in 2019) and, in some countries, successive waves of the pandemic may have produced short-term reductions in numbers of pregnancies and births.

“Further actions by Governments aimed at reducing fertility would have little impact on the pace of population growth between now and mid-century, because of the youthful age structure of today’s global population,” said John Wilmoth, Director of the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).

“Nevertheless, the cumulative effect of lower fertility, if maintained over several decades, could be a more substantial deceleration of global population growth in the second half of the century”.

Growth concentrated in eight countries

More than half of the projected increase in the global population up to 2050 will be concentrated in eight countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and the United Republic of Tanzania.

Countries of sub-Saharan Africa are expected to contribute more than half of the increase anticipated through 2050.

Liu Zhenmin, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, warned that rapid population growth makes eradicating poverty, combatting hunger and malnutrition, and increasing the coverage of health and education systems more difficult.

Source: UN News/SLT. Headline photo courtesy Ravi Sharma (Unsplash.com)

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La primera dama de EE.UU., Jill Biden, fue objeto de fuertes críticas luego de afirmar que los latinos eran tan únicos como los “tacos de desayuno”.

Durante un evento anual de UnidosUS, grupo de defensa de derechos civiles de hispanos en el país, celebrado este lunes en San Antonio (Texas), la primera dama hizo el comentario mientras elogiaba al expresidente de la organización, Raúl Yzaguirre, recoge Reuters.

“Raúl ayudó a construir esta organización con el entendimiento de que la diversidad de esta comunidad, tan distinta como las bodegas del Bronx, tan hermosa como las flores de Miami y tan única como los tacos de desayuno aquí en San Antonio,es su fortaleza”, declaró Jill Biden.

Once again, Dr. Jill Biden butchers the Spanish language in furtherance of pandering to a client constituency (the org FKA National Council of La Raza). I hereby bless your timelines with Dr. Jill’s rendering of “bodega”. pic.twitter.com/Z4FSXtlUMe

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 11, 2022

Asimismo, cuando se refirió a las bodegas, pronunció mal esa palabra y dijo “boguedas”.

Por su parte, la Asociación Nacional de Periodistas Hispanos manifestó que Biden y sus redactores de discursos deberían “comprender mejor las complejidades” de la comunidad latina del país.

“Usar tacos de desayuno para tratar de demostrar la singularidad de los latinos en San Antonio demuestra una falta de conocimiento cultural y sensibilidad hacia la diversidad de los latinos en la región”, declaró la asociación. “No somos tacos. Nuestra herencia como latinos está formada por una variedad de diásporas, culturas y tradiciones alimenticias, y no debe reducirse a un estereotipo”, agregó.

Asimismo, el sector conservador se preguntó cómo sería la indignación si un republicano prominente hubiera dicho las palabras de Jill Biden.

“¡Con razón los hispanos están huyendo del Partido Demócrata!”, se pronunció el republicano y miembro de la Cámara de Representantes por el estado de Arizona, Andy Biggs.

Noticia original de RT en Español. 

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