‘I allowed myself to feel guilty for a very long time’: the teenage cashier who took George Floyd’s $20 bill Oliver Laughlandand Amudalat Ajasa in Minneapolis
Christopher Martin lived above a bricked grocery store in south Minneapolis, with a maroon awning and bold red signage that reads Cup Foods. So when a cashier’s position came up last year, he took it without thinking.
He quickly learned the regulars’ orders by heart, their specific tobacco preferences, their favored snacks. The job was more than just a paycheck. “A family, community base,” he remembered. “A lot of jokes and laughs.”
But on 25 May last year, he served a customer he had never met before, igniting a chain of events that rippled around the world and irreversibly changed Martin’s life.
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Since Digicel opened its doors to conduct business on Jamaican shores in 2001, the country has benefitted from a number of groundbreaking initiatives on the social and economic front.
In recognition of Digicel Jamaica s 20th anniversary, Loop News has compiled 20 facts about the trailblazing company.
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Breaking the monopoly - In 2001, Digicel entered Jamaica s telecommunications market and broke the decades-long monopoly which had its knee in the neck of local consumers. Digicel’s entry into the fray made it easier for the general public to access a mobile phone and brought down the price of communication to an acceptable level. Prior to that time, ownership of a cell phone was a status symbol and a privilege enjoyed only by the well to do.
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Latest civil service & public affairs moves May 17
New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at Dods People
Government departments
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – Lord Benyon appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Rural Affairs and Biosecurity), replacing Lord Gardiner.
Sea Fish Industry Authority – Michael Sheldon appointed as Chair and Jeff Halliwell as Deputy Chair.
Department for Health and Social Care – Thomas Waite appointed as Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England on an interim basis for the next year.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy – Vikas Shah and Stephen Hill appointed as non-executive board members.