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/ Toshimi Abe-Janiga, Palm Beach County's Teacher of the Year, teaches English, Black history, and Holocaust studies at Riviera Beach Preparatory and Achievement Academy. Palm Beach County’s Teacher of the Year says Holocaust education and Black history help broaden her students perspective about the world. For the past 14 years, Toshimi Abe-Janiga — who is originally from Japan — has taught English, Black history, and Holocaust studies to predominately Black students at Riviera Beach Preparatory and Achievement Academy. Abe-Janiga, Palm Beach County’s Teacher of the Year, has been ...

New research: unlocking a triple-win for UK ports and shipping New research highlights that Government support for “shore-power” is essential to unlock a triple-win of cleaner air, lower climate pollution, and smart 21st century electricity grids in UK ports. Shore-power, the provision of electricity for ships while in dock so they don’t need to use their diesel engines, is taking off in Europe, but is held back in the UK by high electricity taxes and a lack of Government support. Governments in France, Germany, Norway, Denmark and Sweden are helping their ports deploy shore-power, with...

A new WTO boss who understands Africa is a good thing for the global economy The headquarters of the World Trade Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland. PHOTO: WTO By Tue Feb 16 2021 The impasse over who will become the next director-general of the WTO has at last come to a conclusion. Following South Korean Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee’s withdrawal from the selection process, the path is now clear for Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a widely respected former Nigerian finance minister, to become the first woman and first African to lead the WTO. The Biden administration’s backing of her candidacy – aft...

Post-Brexit Border Hurdles: UK May Lose Businesses, Value Chains if Fails to Act Fast, Academic Says Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/uk/202102091082021522-post-brexit-border-hurdles-uk-may-lose-businesses-value-chains-if-fails-to-act-fast-academic-says/ The UK government is not ready to respond to inquiries by British exporters and business lobbies over significant issues at the borders following Brexit, says economist Dr Sheikh Selim, suggesting that Britons should brace themselves for another full year of low economic growth and low productivity. The UK government ha...

New analysis by Declassified UK has discovered the striking extent to which former senior public officials often find lucrative employment in oil, gas and mining companies after they leave office. Dozens of former secretaries of state, ministers, heads of intelligence agencies, ambassadors and chiefs of the British military take advantage of a revolving door that allows them to work for corporations in a sector whose interests some have promoted while in office. Former secretaries of state Sir Michael Fallon and Philip, now Lord, Hammond, are among the beneficiaries of a process which has be...