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5 Protests throughout the world demand police accountability and justice for Breonna Taylor. (Courtesy Flickr/Rosanda Tyskar)

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apartment next to Taylor’s.

Cameron and the grand jury never considered that an unarmed and innocent Taylor remains the victim.

“I understand that as a Black man, how painful this is ... which is why it was so incredibly important to make sure that we did everything we possibly could to uncover every fact,” Cameron claimed at a press conference following the grand jury announcement.

“My job is to present the facts to the grand jury and the grand jury then applies those facts to the law. If we simply act on emotion or outrage, there is no justice. Mob justice is not justice. Justice sought by violence is not justice. It just becomes revenge,” he belabored.

Having spoken a month earlier at the Republican National Convention, Cameron has made his way onto Trump’s ever-growing list of potential Supreme Court nominees if the president wins in November.

Following the grand jury’s decision, Trump praised Cameron.

“Daniel Cameron is doing a fantastic job,” Trump swooned. “I think he’s a star.”

Now, approximately one week after the grand jury’s decision, Cameron doesn’t appear ready to release what he presented to the panel.

An old legal adage says that a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich if he or she so desired.

In layman’s term, if a prosecutor wants an indictment, there’s not much to prevent him or her from obtaining one.

Taylor died on Mar. 13 after police mistakenly believed her home to be a drug house, breaking her front door off its hinges while she slept next to Kenneth Walker, her boyfriend.

A frightened Walker, who had a licensed firearm, dialed 911, and when the first unidentified officer breached the apartment, Walker fired and hit the cop in the leg. The officers retreated but managed to blindly fire more than 20 rounds into Taylor’s home.

Eight of the bullets struck Taylor and killed her.

Taylor’s family reported that they never had any confidence in Cameron, a sentiment shared by many, including a long list of celebrities.

“Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor,” NBA legend Jalen Rose demanded during a live ESPN broadcast as the network headed toward a commercial break in its coverage of professional basketball’s playoffs.

Expecting the pushback, Cameron attempted a preemptive strike against celebrities, athletes and others who he believed would take him to task.

“There will be celebrities, influencers and activists who having never lived in Kentucky would try to tell us how to feel, suggesting they understand the facts of this case and that they know our community and the commonwealth better than we do,” stated the attorney general.

“But they don’t. Let’s not give in to their attempts to influence our thinking or capture our emotions. At the end of the day, it is up to us. We live here together. We work here and raise our families here together.”

In the age of social media, there remained little chance that Cameron would escape a wrathful public, including a large number of celebrities.

“I’m just gon’ let this sink into your hollow skull @danieljaycameron,” superstar Rihanna tweeted.

“Bulls--t decision!!! BLACK

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Liberia President Dr. George Manneh George has underscored the importance of the national census, stressing that it directly impacts socioeconomic service delivery for citizens at the grassroots level. Launching the National Population and Housing Census (NPHC) 2021 at the Ministerial Complex Friday, Sept. 25, , the Liberian leader noted that statistics are important for planning and implementing development programs. He added: “If you cannot measure accurately then you will not be able to manage the fair distribution of resources and delivery of services. To address poverty effectively we must use targeted interventions that can be measured, and consult the people about their own development,” the president said. “It is therefore crucial that we mobilize the entire population to come forward and be counted, so that the results of Census 2021 can be used as a tool to improve service delivery.”

After the census, the president in a press release said “we will have accurate data for the formulation of policy as well as implementation, monitoring and evaluation. The results from the census will provide us with a unique opportunity to realign our development strategies, policies and programs.”

In Liberia, the conduct of a census is guided by a constitutional provision that mandates the executive branch of government to undertake the exercise.

The chief executive asserted that since it is not every government that could conduct a census, the NPHC will be a part of his legacy to the people and country.

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He acknowledged that undertaking such a huge national exercise needs a considerable amount of technical, financial and logistical resources.

“At this time of our development, with a pandemic looming large, government cannot provide all the necessary inputs. But we have tried to make the census program happen by doing whatever we can to facilitate the implementation process,” Dr. Weah said.

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Chairman of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association, Geoffrey Roach, encouraged hoteliers to use the time of reduced tourism activity as a result of the vagaries of COVID-19, to improve on their services. In a press statement released on Sept. 26 by Roach in celebration of World Tourism Day, he pointed out that tourism has gone through crises before and recovered and it is for this reason he believes that the tourism industry will indeed be able to recover from this current crisis. “In planning for our recovery we must seize the opportunities that arise to build an enhanced visitor experience and form more strategic and sustainable linkages. The opportunity is before us to retool and upgrade the skills of our people – to develop enhanced leaders, to develop new skills that will appeal to a changing traveling demographic while continuing to provide first-class experiences to our numerous repeat guests,” he said.

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Roach strongly encouraged persons and businesses across Barbados to consider how they could use technology in an effort to make their lives and businesses more comfortable and efficient. Additionally, he stated that opportunities to improve the value chain with agriculture, the cultural industries and others also needed to be explored and advanced as new ways of thinking and operating in these industries were imperative.