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The RSU director said the Jamaica Constabulary Force's Area One division is cause for concern. Area One, located in western Jamaica, comprises St James, Trelawny, Westmoreland and Hanover. |
He said the “white roads” in western Jamaica are a bone of contention for the RSU. |
Lewis is former head of the Jamaica Constabulary Force's Traffic Department. Under his watch, fatalities dropped to 256 in 2012. This was the first time since 1999 that fewer than 300 people had died in crashes. |
In an exclusive with Auto, Lewis said the key in keeping the toll under 300 lies in the Area One division. |
“Special attention was given to Falmouth and St James due to frequent crashes... Also, rural traffic officers should not do other duties. In my time, dem neva used to do station guard duties, cell guard duties and other operational duties… all hands are needed on deck,” he said. |
After 40 years in the force, Lewis retired in 2013. He is currently the franchise and security manager at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company. |
Hare said he's not satisfied with the police prescence in Area One but hopes it improves. |
“I hope the population will work with us and utilise the road network in a proper manner,” he said. |
SOPHIE MEUNIER is a Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. |
An April 23rd, 2012 update to the original article: Over the weekend, the French electorate voted to send socialist presidential candidate François Hollande and conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy to a runoff election, which will take place on May 6. Voters turned out in droves -- an estimated 80 percent of all thos... |
To be sure, Sarkozy's 27 percent (behind Hollande's leading 29 percent) can be interpreted as a vote of no confidence in the sitting president. That outcome was generally expected -- first, because Sarkozy's personal behavior and demeanor had started to rub the French the wrong way, and second, because it is not easy t... |
The real divide in this round was not between the left and right but between openness and closure. Sarkozy, Hollande, and François Bayrou (the centrist candidate who received nine percent of the vote) all adhere to the idea that France benefits from globalization -- even if they don't say so -- and are supportive of co... |
Image Credit: Click Vaticano’s Facebook page. |
There is so much that heads of state can learn from this Head of State. |
The Pope is so funny…such a down to earth person… this is what we needed in our church. |
New Jersey is quickly becoming the romantic hotspot. |
The Mindy Project has never been shy about throwing a few shaded jokes at people and places. Mindy Kaling, the star of the show, is known to be quite a sassy person so it makes sense her show has follow the same pattern. |
A senator from New Jersey seemed to take a playful offense at one particular joke Kaling said involving the city of Newark. Sen. Cory Booker tweeted at the actress to defend the city where he once served as governor. |
Kaling responded to the tweet to shut down her character's view of Newark and offer some mutual love. |
The conversation started heating up when Sen. Booker invited Kaling to Newark for some dinner. Maybe even some Netflix and Chill? |
The "Project" actress accepted the invitation with her trademark sense of humor. |
@CoryBooker yes. Now let me get the PATH train schedule. |
But it looks like Sen. Booker is a smooth operator as he told Kaling he would send a car for her door to door. Honestly that's practically a marriage proposal. |
We don't have a conclusion to this roller coaster love story but we can be sure that Kaling will definitely have a ride there as the PATH Twitter reached out to both her and Sen. Booker with the New Jersey Transit schedule. |
Grammy-nominated singer Angie Stone, who made headlines earlier this year for getting into a vicious physical altercation with her 30-year-old daughter, Diamond, in March appeared on Bishop T.D. Jakes' new talk show to discuss the incident on Thursday. |
"We are talking to Grammy-nominated singer and actress Angie Stone who is here today to rekindle her relationship with her daughter Diamond," said Bishop Jakes in a preview for the episode which airs today. "This is the first time they have spoken publicly since the altercation that tore them apart." |
Stone and her daughter are brought to tears during the episode in which the bishop offered them spiritual counseling. |
"Nothing I do is good enough," said Diamond. "Because she's Angie Stone and I'm nobody." |
Diamond and Stone go back and forth bickering with one another airing out their frustrations, which led Jakes to comment: "Now you know if this is going on on national TV can you imagine what's going on in the house." |
The altercation, which happened in March, led to the arrest of Stone who broke two of her daughter's teeth during the melee. Diamond posted pictures up on Instagram of her mouth after the altercation and issued a statement on social media regarding the incident. |
"People are so quick to pass judgement but never really know the full story. Never uphold people in wrong no matter who they are. I'm crushed but I ain't dead. So for the people that praise her, keep right on. Just know that it ain't over," said Diamond. "You so big and bad but had to use a weapon on me in a fight that... |
"I'm sick of putting up these fronts, and because you took [expletive] to another level I will too," added Diamond. "I love all my family but I cannot take anymore abuse so I'm separating myself from it all. I pray God heals us from this, but from where I sit there is no turning back 'cause if you ain't with me you are... |
Diamond also said Stone used a metal plank to break her teeth and shared a picture of the weapon. |
Stone attempts to defend her actions on Jakes' show. |
"It is hard as a mother when a child slanders you and curses you," said Stone on the show. |
Artist and programmer Emil Choski says he bases much of his work off of nightmares. So when he pictured what New York City might look like in 2017 for Envision New York, a public art project that asked artists to imagine the future of the metropolis, he saw one in which technology-enabled inequality had pushed the city... |
In Choski’s vision of New York, human police officers have been replaced by police UAVs patrolling public housing projects. The idea, Choski says, came from a suggestion made by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, when he recommended fingerprinting public housing tenants for building entry. Choski also imagines a future in... |
Choski designed the interactive piece a few months before Bill de Blasio won the mayoral race on a campaign message of reducing inequality. At the same time, Mayor de Blasio is new on the job. Rents are still soaring, and price-gouging runs rampant through what used to be affordable neighborhoods in the outer boroughs. |
“It’s kind of turning into a feudal city where you’ve got the castle and the moat, and all of the serfs living outside it,” Choski says. |
But Choski hasn’t always envisioned horror stories. When he lived in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg seven years ago, he got involved with community organizing around public space, and drafted up renderings for what Bedford Avenue might look like without cars. Oddly enough, Choski’s vision did come true, part... |
Let’s just hope Choski’s second vision remains a fantasy. To experience it, click here. |
The Utah State Capitol is located on Capitol Hill, overlooking downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the home of the Utah State Legislature, the Governor of Utah, Lieutenant Governor of Utah, the Utah Attorney General, the Utah State Treasurer and the Utah State Auditor. |
SALT LAKE CITY — The Parents Television Council announced its support for a new bill put forth by Utah Rep. Mia Love. |
Conservative watchdogs see it as an update to the 2005 Family Movie Act that would give filtering services — like VidAngel and ClearPlay — a chance to edit and filter films without worry of copyright or trademark infringement. |
“This bill is a long-overdue update to the Family Movie Act of 2005 and would give parents the digital ability to plug their kids’ ears and cover their kids’ eyes to harmful and explicit streaming content, just as the 2005 act allows them to do via a DVD," PTC President Tim Winter said in a statement. |
Winter said in his statement that Love battled Hollywood lobbyists to prevent any pushback. |
“Make no mistake: this is a win-win for Hollywood and for parents. Families would be able to protect their children from harmful content in movies they stream; and Hollywood immediately increases its revenue capacity by broadening the marketplace for its products. Any publicly traded studio that opposes either the spir... |
The Protect Family Rights Coalition similarly praised the bill, saying it’s a coordinated effort to defend filtered movie streaming. |
Utah Reps. John Curtis, Rob Bishop and Chris Stewart all support the bill. Meanwhile, 30 pro-family leaders — including Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, James Dobson of Family Talk, Bishop Harry Jackson of ICC Churches, and Ted Baehr of Movieguide — signed a letter sent to House Speaker Paul Ryan supporting... |
India and Bangladesh share a 4,095-km border, of which 1,116 km is along rivers. Krishna said Bangladesh plans to use Indian ports as transhipment hubs. |
NEW DELHI: The government is working on a plan to set up a waterway freight corridor to connect the mainland with the northeastern states via Bangladesh at a cost of Rs 5,000 crore. |
The move would substantially reduce the time taken to transport goods to the eight northeastern states and costs. |
The proposed 900-km waterway would be used to transport freight from the northern and eastern states to the northeast and would start near Haldia in West Bengal, go to the Sundarbans, merge into the Padma river in Bangladesh and then join up with the Brahmaputra in Assam. |
“We are working on the details of the project. It would substantially improve connectivity between the mainland states and northeast. The cost of freight transportation would come down substantially,” shipping secretary Gopal Krishna told ET. |
Currently, highway connectivity to the northeastern states is patchy and transportation of goods by road entails a high cost and takes time. According to the ministry’s estimate, the waterway could help reduce the cost of transportation by about 70%. |
The government is already developing a waterway along the Ganga river between Haldia and Allahabad (1,620 km) at a cost of Rs 4,500 crore. This link will also be utilised for trade between India and Bangladesh. |
“Instead of using Colombo or Singapore as a transhipment hub, Bangladesh is now looking at India. Our own container traffic moving to Colombo has come down as transhipment is now happening at our ports,” he said. |
The shipping ministry recently allowed foreign vessel operators to transport containerised cargo meant for import or export within ports located in Indian territory to ensure cargo doesn’t land up in foreign hubs such as Singapore and Colombo. |
He said that in the long term, India plans to develop two ports each on the west and east coasts as transhipment hubs. |
Reflecting a year of soul-searching about race and racism, Paul Beatty’s novel “The Sellout” and Margo Jefferson’s memoir “Negroland” were among the winners at the National Book Critics Circle awards ceremony Thursday night in New York. |
Beatty’s crackling satire involves modern-day segregation, slavery and a host of racial stereotypes upended. Jefferson’s memoir, meanwhile, offers candid and often ironic commentary of her upbringing in an affluent African American family in Chicago during the 1950s and ’60s. |
Just as timely is the winner of this year’s nonfiction prize: “Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic,” by Sam Quinones. In his sweeping study of addiction, Quinones, a former Los Angeles Times reporter, moves from Mexico to small-town America and beyond to explore the conspiracy of poverty, crime and p... |
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s widely praised book about black life, “Between the World and Me,” was a finalist for the criticism prize, but it was beaten out by “The Argonauts,” an equally personal work of social criticism by Maggie Nelson. Nelson’s reflections on gender, family and art offer startling insights and an iconoclasti... |
The biography prize was awarded to “Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley,” by Charlotte Gordon. Gordon’s study emphasizes the radical work of these groundbreaking feminist thinkers and writers. |
for moving your lips just so as I speak. |
Here is a cup of tea. I have spooned honey into it. |
As was previously announced, Wendell Berry received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his many decades as an environmental activist and writer. |
Carlos Lozada, the nonfiction book critic at The Washington Post, received this year’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. Unlike the NBCC’s other awards and honors, this award includes a $1,000 cash prize. |
Founded in 1974, the nonprofit NBCC has almost 700 members. The board chooses the finalists and winners of the annual prizes, except for the recipient of the John Leonard First Book Prize, which is selected by the membership at large. |
Ron Charles, the editor of Book World, is a board member of the NBCC. |
The Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview launched in April and I loaded it up on my Nokia Lumia 1020. My awesome Nokia Lumia 1520 just received the official Windows Phone 8.1 and Nokia Cyan updates yesterday morning and it looks like the Lumia 1520 is my daily driver again . |
The major new feature of Windows Phone 8.1 is Cortana and I have come to find it much better than Siri or Google Now over the past couple of months. I especially love the location-based reminders that let me make shopping lists appear when I arrive at the specific store applicable to that shopping list. |
There are many more improvements in Windows Phone 8.1; check out the Microsoft announcement with all the details. After using the Developer Preview, I just couldn't even use my Lumia 1520 again when I took it back to 8.0 as I waited for the 8.1 update to hit my device. Check out my screenshot gallery to see how some of... |
Most Windows Phone devices are Nokia Lumia devices so most of you will also see the Lumia Cyan update. Windows Phone 8.1 provides backend support for some of these improvements, while others are related to Nokia's work to make their devices even better. |
I am particularly interested in checking out the improved camera software and Bluetooth LE support that will finally allow me to use my Fitbit, and hopefully Pebble, with my Windows Phone devices. WPCentral has more details on the Lumia Cyan update. |
You can use Cortana as a voice control assistant, as well as a personal assistant showing you what matters to you each day. |
Microsoft strikes the right balance of notifications, actionable shortcuts, and quick settings access. |
Fitbit looks to be the first to support the new BLE mode on Windows Phone. My Fitbit One now syncs perfectly and I look forward to future Pebble and UP24 support too. |
Your Windows Phone can now track your steps and share this data with apps written to collect it from your phone. |
Similar to an HTC One Zoe, Living Images capture movement before and after your still image capture. This adds a bit of life and context to the image you captured. |
Microsoft is actively rolling out Windows Phone 8.1 after three months of being in preview mode. The Lumia Cyan update is also coming to supported Nokia devices. |
Earlier this week I wrote an essay for our “Department ofComplaints” against hugging . Iexplained that while I enjoy hugging family and close friends (at least oncertain occasions), I don’t like — forexample — embracing people I hardly know at dinner parties, or greeting hugs: Hi! (hug)… Bye! (hug). I was delighted to ... |
For the skeptics out there, I offer the followingphotographs as proof that greeting hugs are incredibly awkward and should bephased out. |
Photographs of: Sarah Palin and John McCain by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; Will Smith and Gabriele Muccino by Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images; Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank by Win McNamaee/Getty Images. |
Dish Network and Hearst Television have reached a deal on a new multiyear carriage agreement, ending an impasse that has left satellite customers in 26 markets unable to watch the broadcaster’s stations since March 3. Terms of the new contract were not disclosed. |
Hearst has 15 ABC affiliates and 12 with NBC along with a handful of CBS and the CW outlets in markets including Baltimore, Boston, Kansas City and Pittsburgh. |
Per usual, the companies had disagreed about price: how much Dish should pay Hearst to carry its stations. Their original retransmission consent contract had expired at the end of February, and despite a two-day extension, the channels went dark. |
Blackouts have become normal as stations and carriers stand their ground over fees. The American Television Alliance — a group supported by several pay TV providers, including Dish, that wants to change federal rules governing retrans negotiations — says there have been 102 cases so far this year where broadcasters’ si... |
Dish, the nation’s No. 2 satellite service, had about 13.8 million subscribers as of the end of 2016. |
CHILLICOTHE – City leaders approved a resolution on Tuesday authorizing the city to apply for $220,000 in grant funding from the Ohio Public Works Commission. |
Council members conducted a noon emergency meeting so they could meet the 5 p.m. Tuesday filing deadline with the Ohio Department of Transportation. The funding would be used for street, alley and curb ramp work in the city next year if it receives the money. |
Mayor Jack Everson said the resolution was tied to a separate resolution passed by council on Monday related to a resurfacing project on Ohio 159. That project consists of resurfacing Ohio 159 from the Marietta Road intersection north of Hopetown Road, according to the city. |
City Councilman Dave Tatman, who serves as chairman of the city’s Engineering Committee, said the emergency meeting had to be called because Law Director Sherri Rutherford didn’t get the necessary information she needed to get the resolution done in time. Tatman said someone from the city would be delivering the applic... |
The richest Americans are the most likely to wake up bright and early in the morning. |
Middle-class, rich, and low-income Americans don't have the same morning routines. |
A study from Business Insider partner MSN shows just how much their morning routines differ — and how they're similar. |
The super-rich are most likely to wake up before 6.a.m., get in a full workout each morning, and plan their daily schedules the night before. |
From the moment they wake up, middle-class, rich, and low-income Americans go about their mornings in different ways. |
A poll from MSN surveyed Americans on their morning routines. It then used machine learning and big data, such as the census, to model how a representative sample of the US would have responded. It's as accurate as a traditional scientific survey, MSN said. |
Those who earn more than $175,000 are most likely to wake up before 6.a.m., plan their daily schedules the night before, and get in a full workout each morning. |
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