The Patriots did right by rookie quarterback Drake Maye.On Thursday, the team announced veteran Jacoby Brissett will begin the season as the starting quarterback.The move is correct despite first-year head coach Jerod Mayo admitting Maye, the No. 3 overall pick of the 2024 NFL Draft, outperformed Brissett during the preseason.Mayo accurately assessed the Patriots roster and realized that despite Maye’s upside, inserting him into the starting lineup on what should be one of the league’s worst teams would be awful for his development. As NFL Network’s Kyle Brandt wrote on social media, “Drake Maye won the job. The rest of…
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By harnessing their political power, members of the Venezuelan diaspora, like Arellano, are hoping to make a difference from their host countries in Latin America, where a majority of the diaspora is settled. Heads of state in the region are spearheading negotiations with the Maduro government. Colombia and Brazil, allies of the Maduro government, have taken the lead in trying to find solutions to the electoral dispute. They have not recognised either Maduro or Gonzalez as the winner of the elections and instead have called on the government to release paper ballots. “Whatever the will of the Venezuelan people, Colombia…
A Trump official “abruptly pushed” an Arlington National Cemetery employee during former President Donald Trump’s visit on Monday, a U.S. Army spokesperson said. The employee was trying to ensure that Trump and his entourage complied with rules barring political activities at American military cemeteries. Trump’s campaign since the incident Monday has posted online images from his visit to Arlington’s Section 60, where some service members killed in Afghanistan and Iraq are buried, and where recording is typically restricted. An aide to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “abruptly pushed aside” an Arlington National Cemetery employee who tried to ensure that Trump…
Left –Right: Dr Mark Sami, CARPHA Corporate Services Director; Dr Lisa Indar, CARPHA Ad Interim Executive Director; Dr Juan Manual Sotelo, PAHO Subregional Programme Director-Caribbean, Ad Interim; Dr Franka des Vignes, PAHO Subregional Advisor, Disease Surveillance and Epidemiology. PORT – OF- SPAIN, Trinidad – The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and newly appointed Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) subregional programme director-Caribbean, Ad Interim, Dr Juan Manuel Sotelo, recently met at the CARPHA Trinidad Headquarters to discuss collaborations towards improved public health in the Caribbean region. Ad Interim executive director, CARPHA, Dr Lisa Indar, stated: “CARPHA and PAHO have a well-established…
On behalf of the President of the Commission, H.E. Omar Alieu TOURAY, The Vice-President of the ECOWAS Commission attended the 2024 Ministerial Meeting of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) held in Tokyo on 24th-25th August 2024.The meeting which is a preparatory meeting of the TICAD IX to hold on August 2025 in Yokohama, Japan, commits to accelerate efforts to ensure food security while highlighting the importance of resilience against climate change and natural resources, as well as the enhancement of agricultural productivity. The meeting outlined a plan to promote digitalization and emphasized the importance of the effective…
Liverpool Football Club completed the signing of Italy’s forward player, Federico Chiesa from Juventus on a permanent deal.The Reds confirmed the news on its official website on Thursday, August 29 2024. Federico Chiesa joined the rest of the team after he completed his medicals less than a few hours before the end of the 2024 summer transfer window.Federico Chiesa expressed his excitement on his first interview on Liverpool’s website,He said,”I am so happy to be a Liverpool player. When Richard Hughes called me and he said, ‘Do you want to join Liverpool? and the coach called me, I said yes…
The NBA season will not begin for another two months, but that does not stop us from inquiring about every team in the league.Here are the biggest questions facing each Eastern Conference team (last season’s record in parentheses):Atlanta Hawks (36-46): How patient can they be?Atlanta’s situation isn’t desperate — the franchise has a star in Trae Young, a No. 1 pick in Zaccharie Risacher, a young, budding forward in Jalen Johnson and numerous solid NBA players. The problem is none of those players’ timelines match up. Does Atlanta want to sell Young on a future trio of him, Jalen Johnson…
Ukraine’s deep strikes against Russian military targets and its three-week-old ground offensive inside Russian territory have appeared to be yielding military and political results during the past week. Russia was reported to be moving its aircraft back from airfields near the Ukrainian border while glide bomb attacks inside Ukraine were reported to have decreased. Evidence that Moscow was scrambling elite units from Ukraine to defend home turf also mounted during the week. An unnamed White House official told the Politico news website that “90 percent of the planes that launch glide bombs” against Ukrainian front-line positions had been moved back…
A 60-year-old Arizona Wells Fargo employee scanned into her office on a Friday in what appeared to be an ordinary work day. Then, four days later, she was found dead in her cubicle. Denise Prudhomme, 60, was found dead on Aug. 20 inside her office in Tempe, police said. She had last scanned in the building at 7 a.m. on Friday Aug. 16, and there was no further scan in or out of the office, authorities said. Tempe police responded to the Wells Fargo office in the 1100 block of West Washington Street after on-site security called about an employee…
By Sir Ronald Sanders Poverty is the festering wound at the heart of the world’s social, economic, and political tensions. In the Americas, it is a stark reality that not only divides but destabilizes entire nations. Despite advances in the fight against poverty, the rich continue to grow richer, while the chasm between the wealthy and the impoverished remains perilously wide. This division, both within and between nations, is exacerbated by the compounded crises of climate change, insufficient access to concessional financing, and unfavourable terms of trade, particularly for developing nations. The grim truth is that without decisive action, the…