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Timoci Vula 13 May, 2021, 1:58 pm Customers line-up outside a supermarket in Valelevu, Nasinu to do their shopping. Picture: ATU RASEA/FT FILE Fijian consumers are urged to refrain from panic buying during this time and rely solely on credible news sources to make decisions for their households. This follows reports of thousands of people flooding supermarkets earlier this week, particularly after the closure of three supermarkets for disinfection, and people acting on misinformation of a nationwide lockdown that was later confirmed to be untrue. Fijian Competition and Consumer Commission (FCCC) CEO Joel Abraham has urged members of the public not to rush to shops and engage in panic buying. ....
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: This week, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED turns 50. Joel Abrams of Boston recalls making dinner one night in 1991 and listening to a story about Haitian cane cutters in the Dominican Republic. Here is an unnamed cutter heard through an interpreter. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Through interpreter) When you live here, this is all you know - cutting cane. Even if you re born here, if you have skin as dark as I do, you are Haitian - you cut cane. AILSA CHANG, HOST: Abrams says the story changed him. JOEL ABRAMS: If you had asked me was I interested in farm workers in Haiti, I would have said no. But I listened to this, and it really made me care about them and brought them to life as people for me and in a remarkable way. ....
More must be done to curtail racial profiling during police stops, clergy members tell N.J.’s top court Updated May 06, 2021; Dozens of New Jersey clergy are asking the state’s top court to more explicitly ban racial profiling during police stops, arguing that Black residents disproportionately endure scrutiny that causes “tremendous damage” to “entire communities.” The Supreme Court should block officers from detaining people who only match the race and gender of a suspect, 66 ministers, rabbis and one imam wrote Monday to the seven justices. A “description containing only race, gender, or other extremely common features, without more, cannot contribute to a finding of reasonable, articulable suspicion,” the brief said. ....
By Joel Malkin May 1, 2021 Surprise Best Actor Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins turns up in another movie this weekend and Hap Erstein with PalmBeachArtsPaper.com misses another horror film. That means, I ll have to check it out. ....