Showing posts with label Veterans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Veterans. Show all posts

Monday, February 9, 2015

Obama wants to strip funding from veterans" medical choice program - Senate backs bill to address veterans" suicide

President Obama’s 2016 budget blueprint proposes rolling back a program that gives veterans the right to receive faster care outside of the long waitlists at the troubled Veterans Affairs medical system.

Obama signed the Veterans Choice Program into law in August following months of partisan wrangling on Capitol Hill that finally led to a compromise measure to overhaul the agency.

The Veterans Choice Program was a key GOP provision in the deal.

Authored by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the measure provides “choice” cards to veterans that can be used to obtain medical care at designated facilities outside of the VA system.


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Obama wants to strip funding from veterans" medical choice program - Senate backs bill to address veterans" suicide

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Veterans scheduled for "Ochi" seafood festival

Entertainment

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

KEN Booth, Ernest Wilson, Jimmy Riley, General Trees, and Tinga Stewart are some of the artistes scheduled to perform at the Ocho Rios Seafood Festival at Turtle River Park in St Ann on August 6.“The signing of these major family acts is an indication of the direction the Ocho Rios Seafood Festival is going,” said Camille Miller, the event’s director of communications and marketing.“Ken Booth remains one of the biggest names in reggae and Ernest Wilson, General Trees, Tinga Stewart and Jimmy Riley are all legends in their own right. We consider them some of the biggest names in the history of reggae and it’s only fitting that they will be gracing the stage of what is shaping up to be the biggest culinary event in the country.”Miller said that as part of the family-oriented theme, other entertainers booked for the event include Terry Linen, Prezident Brown, Hero, Dadda, PZ, Jah Real, Leroy Tiffany and Eddie Fitzroy.

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Veterans scheduled for "Ochi" seafood festival