YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: Yves Sakila’s family launch fundraiser for his body to be returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo 🙏🏾💔🇨🇩 www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-n...

Yves Sakila's family launch fundraiser for his body to be returned to DR Congo - Voice Online

Yves Sakila, a 35-year-old Congolese man, was restrained by security guards in Dublin city centre on Friday 15 May.

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YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: Martinque 🇲🇶 and French Guiana 🇬🇫 officially join CARICOM 🎉🌎🙏🏾 The move is being seen as a vital step in efforts to build greater Caribbean regional integration. www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-n...

Martinique and French Guiana officially join CARICOM - Voice Online

Martinique has become the seventh Associate Member of CARICOM, a move which is being seen as helping to build greater regional integration

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NEW: Eastern Caribbean Bank unveils new banknotes featuring regional icons 🎉🌎🥰 The historic redesigns replace the image of Queen Elizabeth II with Caribbean nation-builders, leaders and sporting heroes. The currency is used in 🇦🇬🇩🇲🇬🇩🇰🇳🇱🇨🇻🇨🇲🇸🇦🇮 www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-n...

Eastern Caribbean Bank unveils new banknotes featuring regional icons - Voice Online

In addition, the redesign for Eastern Caribbean coins will see the likeness of Queen Elizabeth II on the front replaced with the ECCU logo.

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NEW: 'His legacy continues': Stunning mural unveiled in Bristol for Rastafari High Priest ❤️💛💚🇯🇲✨ Ras Bandele Selassie I was the Rastafari High Priest of the South West of England. Thank you to his family for sharing these pictures with me. 🙏🏾❤️💛💚 www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news...

NEW: British Virgin Islands to establish a Decolonisation Commission 🇻🇬 The proposed Commission is expected to serve as a public education and engagement body which aims to deepen the understanding of constitutional changes and self-determination. www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news...

British Virgin Islands to establish Decolonialisation Commission - Voice Online

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) are a British Overseas Territory located in the Caribbean

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YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: Grenada's 🇬🇩first Olympic champion to replace Queen Elizabeth on Eastern Caribbean currency 🎉🌎✊🏾 Kirani James will appear on the new $5 bank note, issued by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB). James told me its "an honour." www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-n...

Grenada’s first Olympic champion to replace Queen Elizabeth on Eastern Caribbean currency - Voice Online

The new Eastern Caribbean notes are expected to come into circulation by 2027 and will feature prominent regional figures

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NEW: Deaf Black entrepreneur opens new cafe to show barriers can be broken 👏🏾😊🎉 Meet Oludayo Beyioku — Woolwich-born, Nigerian 🇳🇬heritage, founder of Ochu Coffee in south London. Read my full article here: www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news...

NEW: Man handed community order after he sent racist message to Labour MP Dawn Butler 🙏🏾😡 Daniel Thornton, of Brixham, Devon, sent a grossly offensive message on social media platform X using ‘explicitly racist language with hateful rhetoric’. www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Man handed community order after he sent racist message to Labour MP Dawn Butler - Voice Online

Daniel Thornton of Brixham, Devon, admitted sending the racist message to Labour MP Dawn Butler on social media platform X

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NEW: Togo 🇹🇬 announces visa-free entry for all African nationals 🌍 The policy takes effect immediately as the country joins growing visa-free trend across Africa, part of a push for freer movement across the continent. ✊🏾 www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-n...

Togo announces visa-free entry for all African nationals - Voice Online

All African nationals can now travel to Togo visa-free after the exemption came into effect on Monday, May 18, 2026.

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NEW: Chris Kaba: Firearms office to know by end of July if he will face gross misconduct proceedings 🙏🏾 Chris Kaba, 24, died in September 2022 in Streatham, south London, after being shot by Martyn Blake during a Met Police operation. www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Chris Kaba: firearms officer to know by July if he will face gross misconduct proceedings - Voice Online

Chris Kaba, 24, died in September 2022 in Streatham, south London, after being shot by Martyn Blake during a Met Police operation.

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Five years already at @TheVoiceNews 🙏🏾❤️📰✍🏾 I’m currently finishing a few articles because of an imminent deadline, but wanted to just say thank you to everyone who has allowed me to tell their stories over the last five years and to everyone who has read or shared my work. ✊🏾

YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: Jamaica 🇯🇲 oil breakthrough? UK firm finds hydrocarbons after seabed analysis www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-n...

Jamaica oil breakthrough? Firm finds hydrocarbons after seabed analysis - Voice Online

Jamaica could have the potential value of

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YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬 drop Oath of Allegiance to King Charles 🌴🙏🏾🌎 www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-n...

Antigua and Barbuda drop Oath of Allegiance to King Charles - Voice Online

The new oath of allegiance will be to the state of Antigua and Barbuda, its Constitution and its laws and not King Charles III

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EXCL: Bob Marley’s children back growing call for landmark Rastafari Rights and Justice Act ❤️💛💚🇯🇲✊🏾 Cedella and Julian Marley, say their father’s work and life was “rooted in Rastafari” and therefore they have a duty to support calls for the Act. www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-n...

EXCLUSIVE: Bob Marley's children back growing call for landmark Rastafari Rights and Justice Act - Voice Online

Cedella and Julian Marley, two of Bob Marley's children are supporting the call for a Rastafari Rights and Justice Act in Jamaica

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NEW: Who was he? Appeal issued to trace mystery ‘redemption man’ as podcast uncovers a hidden Windrush-era story. 🙏🏾✝️ This Black man would walk the streets of West London carrying a huge white cross. He is believed to be of Guyanese heritage. 🇬🇾 www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Who was he? Appeal issued to trace mystery ‘Redemption Man’ as podcast uncovers a hidden Windrush-era story - Voice Online

The elderly Black man was known as 'the man with the cross' in west London for decades before he disappeared

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NEW: Deeply insulting: Caribbean anger at Reform UK plans to block visas over reparations demands 🙏🏾🌎 St Lucia’s 🇱🇨 Prime Minister Phillip J. Pierre has said “we have to fight it” if the controversial plans are true. www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-n...

"‘Deeply insulting’: Caribbean anger at Reform UK Plan to block visas over reparations - Voice Online

St Lucia's PM has said "We have to fight it," responding to Reform UK's controversial visa ban plans on countries seeking reparations

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NEW: Life sentence for killer of ‘deeply loved’ pensioner Franklin Agbotui 🙏🏾💔 The unprovoked attack in West Ham leaves family facing life without a cherished patriarch. Prayers and condolences to the family of Franklin Agbotui, who was 79 years old. www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Life sentence for killer of ‘deeply loved’ pensioner Franklin Agbotui - Voice Online

Franklin Agbotui's family said: "Our father lived a quiet, humble life grounded in integrity, respect, perseverance, education and faith."

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YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: ‘Harmful’ Brazilian Butt Lifts (BBLs) should be banned in the UK according to new report 🍑🙏🏾 BBLs are now the fastest-growing cosmetic surgical procedure in the world. www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news...

'Harmful' Brazilian butt lifts should be banned in the UK, according to new report - Voice Online

According to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Brazilian Butt Lifts (BBL) is now the fastest-growing cosmetic surgical procedure in the world.

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NEW: Warning to Black women over fake hair products sold online 😳🙏🏾 Following my previous report which highlighted how Amazon told one Black customer that a product she purchased was “not authentic” a company is issuing a stark warning to its customers. www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Warning to Black women over fake hair products sold online - Voice Online

Mielle Organics UK is warning Black British women about the rise in counterfeit hair products flooding the market

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YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: Jamaica 🇯🇲 Oil breakthrough? UK firm finds Hydrocarbons after seabed analysis www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-n...

Jamaica oil breakthrough? Firm finds hydrocarbons after seabed analysis - Voice Online

Jamaica could have the potential value of "over 7.1 billion barrels of unrisked prospective resources," according to United Gas & Oil Plc

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YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: Jamaica 🇯🇲 Oil breakthrough? UK form finds Hydrocarbons after seabed analysis www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-n...

Jamaica oil breakthrough? Firm finds hydrocarbons after seabed analysis - Voice Online

Jamaica could have the potential value of "over 7.1 billion barrels of unrisked prospective resources," according to United Gas & Oil Plc

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YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: Black children 8 TIMES more likely to be strip searched than white peers, new shocking report finds 🙏🏾😡 Children as young as eight, are being subjected to ‘humiliating and traumatising’ searches. www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Black children eight times more likely to be strip-searched than White peers, new report finds - Voice Online

The new report shows persistent racial disparities and Black children were more likely to be strip searched than children of other ethnicities.

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⚠️NEW: Domestic violence support groups receive almost £5 million in funding 🙏🏾❤️ The funding will be used to create step-change for women from Black and migrant communities who have experienced domestic violence. www.voice-online.co.uk/news/2026/04...

Community domestic violence support groups receive almost £5 million in funding - Voice Online

The funding will be used to create step-change for women from Black and migrant communities who have experienced domestic violence

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YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: Two men convicted of murder after fatal shooting of innocent mum-of-two outside a wake 🙏🏾💔 Michelle Sadio, a mother of two young children, was an innocent victim of a dispute between two gangs in north west London. www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Two men convicted of murder after fatal shooting of innocent mum-of-two outside a wake - Voice Online

Michelle Sadio was a mother of two young children, and was an innocent victim of a dispute between two gangs in north west London.

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YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: Two men convicted of murder after fatal shooting of innocent mum-of-two outside a wake 🙏🏾💔 Michelle Sadio, a mother of two young children, was an innocent victim of a dispute between two gangs in north west London. www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Two men convicted of murder after fatal shooting of innocent mum-of-two outside a wake - Voice Online

Michelle Sadio was a mother of two young children, and was an innocent victim of a dispute between two gangs in north west London.

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NEW: Health initiative launched to improve wellbeing of Black British communities in Ealing 🙏🏾👩🏾‍⚕️❤️ It will last two years and will deliver a series of events, workshops and community engagement activities across Ealing. www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Health initiative launched to improve wellbeing of Black communities in Ealing - Voice Online

The health initiative will last two years and will deliver a series of events, workshops and community engagement activities across Ealing.

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NEW: St Vincent and The Grenadines’ new Prime Minister calls for indigenous language to be taught in schools. 📚🇻🇨✏️ Garifuna language recognition is gaining momentum, as PM pushes for younger generations with Afro-indigenous identity & heritage. www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-n...

St Vincent and Grenadines' new PM calls for indigenous language to be taught in schools - Voice Online

The Garifuna are an Afro-indigenous community, who are descendants of Africans and Indigenous Kalinagos/Arawak people in St Vincent.

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NEW: Rastafari mark 60 years since Haile Selassie I’s historic Jamaica visit with call for recognition ❤️💛💚🇯🇲🇪🇹 Six decades later, Rastafari communities are pressing the country to move beyond symbolism towards enforceable rights and protections. www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-n...

Rastafari mark 60 years since Haile Selassie I’s historic Jamaica visit with call for recognition - Voice Online

The Rastafari Mansions and Organisations (RMO) are campaigning for a Rastafari Rights and Justice Act to safeguard the Rastafari community from human rights violations

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YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: #Ghana announces visa-free entry for all African nationals 🙏🏾🇬🇭🌍 The West African country said the move will take effect on May 25 which coincides with Africa Day. ✈️ www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-n...

Ghana announces visa-free entry for all African nationals - Voice Online

Ghana is set to offer all African nationals visa-free entry from 25th May 2026, which coincides with Africa Day

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NEW: Barbados announced the launch of its Child Wealth Fund that will give every newborn a BBD$5000 (£1859) investment at birth. 🎉🇧🇧👶🏾 The initiative is a financial asset for the children to use in later life for housing and education costs. www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-n...