ISLAMABAD: Hectic lobbying is continuing for the appointment of Shaukat Tarin as the upcoming federal minister for finance after his acquittal from cases, it was learnt. Shaukat Tarin held hours.
This is really an opportunity to call on world leaders to make sure that the 27 million heroic healthcare workers around the world that don t yet have access to a vaccine can get access over the coming months, said Global Citizen chief executive Hugh Evans.
The concert will air on TV channels ABC, CBS and Fox, as well as on iHeartMedia radio stations and YouTube.
“This is a historic moment to encourage people around the world to take the Covid-19 vaccine when it becomes available to them, call on world leaders to share vaccine doses equitably and to bring people together for a night of music in a way that hasn’t felt possible in the past year, Gomez said in a statement. I can’t wait to be a part of it.”
PA Media reports:
Downing Street has defended the production of a film about the UKâs âextraordinaryâ vaccine programme which is yet to be released more than a month after a trailer was posted online.
Officials have refused to set out how much A Beacon of Hope: The UK Vaccine Story has cost, or how much was paid for the dramatic music which accompanied the online teaser.
The trailer was released on 10 March, with the full version billed as âcoming soonâ and officials indicating it would have been released later that week.
The prime ministerâs official spokesman said âthe documentary will be publishedâ and insisted âthis was produced entirely in house by No 10 staff as part of their workâ and within the existing budget for the digital communications team.
Boris launches independent review amid lobbying row
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April 13, 2021
LONDON: Boris Johnson has commissioned a wide-ranging independent review into Greensill Capital, the collapsed financial firm for which David Cameron lobbied ministers.
Downing Street announced that lawyer Nigel Boardman is due to lead the probe, which will examine how Government contracts were secured by the company and the actions of the former prime minister.
Cameron accepted that he should have communicated with the Government “through only the most formal of channels” rather than text messages to Chancellor Rishi Sunak as he acknowledged mis-steps over the controversy.
Breaking his weeks of silence, the former Conservative prime minister said in a statement to the PA news agency that, having “reflected on this at length”, he accepts there are “important lessons to be learnt”.
iHeartMedia Inc. hired
Becker & Poliakoff P.A. to work on tax provisions and music licensing issues. Omar Franco and Bert Gomez, former senior vice president at Univision Communications, will work on the account.
HEALTH CARE
PSC Biotech hired
The Vogel Group to work on policy guidance on increasing manufacturing in the life sciences domestically. Alex Vogel, former chief counsel to ex-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), will work on the account.
CORONAVIRUS RELIEF
Brookdale Senior Living Inc. hired
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP to work on reimbursement and regulatory issues related to assisted and independent living and COVID-19 related legislation. Kristine Blackwood, former deputy director for congressional oversight at the Department of Health and Human Services under former President Obama, will work on the account.