MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for January 30th 2020
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Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:19 UTC
Falklands hosting Red Ensign Group Conference in February
More than 50 maritime professionals from across the Overseas Territories, Crown Dependencies and the UK are coming to the Falkland Islands for the Red Ensign Group Conference.
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Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:15 UTC
US and UN launch program to help Venezuelan migrants settle in Brazil
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched a program to help tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants settle in Brazil for the long-term.
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Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:09 UTC
The political responsibility of Beijing in the spread of the coronavirus
By Gwynne Dyer – In an emergency, the good thing about a dictatorship is it can respond very fast. The bad thing is it won’t respond at all until the dictator-in-chief says it should. All the little dictators who flourish in this sort of system won’t risk their positions by passing bad news up the line until the risk of being blamed for delay outweighs the risk of being blamed for the emergency in the first place.
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Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:05 UTC
BBC announces drastic cut in news division staff and new “story led” model
The BBC said on Wednesday it will cut around 450 jobs from its news division as part of an £80 million (US$103 million) savings drive and modernization program. The corporation said it would reorganize its newsroom along a “story-led” model where staff will be assigned to stories and not attached to individual programs.
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Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 07:28 UTC
Falklands names new Director of Development and Commercial Services
The Falkland Islands Government has announced the appointment of Catherine Silva Donayre as the new Director of Development and Commercial Services when the current Director, Ian Robertson, leaves in June 2020.
