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Students of schools around Tobago learn the basics of computer coding and programing, on a chart using a mouse, while Chief Secretary Farley Augustine seems also intrigued at Digicel Foundation and We Code Caribbean’s launch of the five-week programme at Tobago Information Technology Ltd, at Signal Hill on Monday. Photo by David Reid

Two hundred students from 13 primary schools, including one special-needs school, across the island will, over the next five weeks, be taught coding.

On Monday, the Digicel Foundation and We Code Caribbean launched its Tobago leg of the Caribbean Code + programme at the Tobago Information Technology Ltd in Signal Hill.

The students will be taught how to write codes, making them think like a computer programmer.

Founder and CEO of We Code Caribbean Safiya Olugbala said the registered non-governmental organisation exists to introduce youth, particularly those in rural communities, to code and other computer programming languages.

She said the organistion is fully committed to ensuring equitable access to 21st-century education.

“Our targets are girls, migrant women, the dynamically able, and youths within rural communities.”

In his address, THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine said Tobago’s development is dependent not only on infrastructural advancements but on the development of young people and making young people self-sufficient.

The development of the island’s people, he said, is securely fastened to Tobago’s economic fortunes.

“The pandemic underscores the importance of exploiting technology to advance the economy. As like it is done across the globe, the pandemic has brought momentum to the island’s thrust towards technological advancements.

“What is stopping our young people from becoming the next Bill Gates, the next Mark Zuckerberg – who says that the next best thing to replace Facebook cannot come out of Tobago? Who says that the next big app cannot come out of little Tobago? It actually can, and how we do that is to start teaching those who are very young among us how to code, how to create games, how to create new opportunities online, how to create solutions to work problems online.”

Augustine said whatever the solution, the island’s young people can create those solutions.

He said parents should not be fearful of their young charges getting involved with technology, and urged them to get involved themselves.

“Teaching in 2022 must go beyond the manual mode that you’ve grown accustomed to. Parenting in 2022 means that you also have to learn how to parent virtually. So if you are a parent in 2022, and you are yet to understand the text lingo associated with technology, then parents you’re outdated and your parenting modes are outdated.

Digicel Foundation director Georgina Peterkin speaks at the launch of the Caribbean Code + programme at the Tobago Information Technology Ltd, Signal Hill on Monday. Photo by David Reid

“You cannot in 2022 not know what LOL and BRB mean. Parents in 2022, your parenting skills must transcend the physical space and must also exist in the virtual world. To be a responsible parent, it means that you have to be able to responsibly monitor what they do on the devices that they have.”

The programme, Augustine said, shouldn’t just be seen as a vacation camp or programme.

“Let’s begin to see how far we can take this, how far we can go with this. Open up your minds young people.

“The world of careers has gone past being a doctor or a lawyer and a teacher or even a politician. The world of careers is so advanced, so many opportunities await you – wealth creation awaits you from these new career opportunities that are available.

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In its efforts to help shape the wholistic development and positively influence collectivebehaviors within the nation’s youth, the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice and Empowerment via its Social Transformation division, teamed up with subsidiary agency, the National Conservation Authority (NCA), to host a day of fun and learning for Grade 6 students of the Gros Islet Primary School.

The recent activity saw over 40 young people gathered at the southern end of thePigeon Point beach to listen to exciting presentations from representatives of the St.Lucia Solid Waste Management Authority, the Department of Fisheries, St LuciaNational Trust and Prugus, the latter being a business entity located in Beausejour,Gros Islet.

During the morning session, students were encouraged to reduce, reuse and recycletheir waste and to avoid littering. They were also schooled on how to help strandedturtles make their way back to the sea.

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The young presenter from Prugus informed students on how her business survivability and that of many families in the touristic town of Gros Islet depended both directly and indirectly on the ocean, hence the plea for students, their friends and family to help keep the beaches and wider environment clean.

For the afternoon session, students were divided into groups, each to create an itemusing materials along the sea or synthetics of the like. Students expressed gratitude forthe experience and information learned.

They pledged to do their part in environmental conservation and preservation and to become advocates for change.

Through the Ministry of Equity, other primary schools will benefit from similar activitiesduring the new academic school year.

Source: Ministry of Equity

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El Centro Médico Episcopal San Lucas expande su oferta académica en el programa de Educación Médica Graduada introduciendo una nueva subespecialidad en cirugía reconstructiva de pie y tobillo. La institución hospitalaria hace historia, ya que este es el primer programa en su clase en Puerto Rico, en alianza junto al doctor Carlos Arroyo Romeu.

“El Centro Médico Episcopal San Lucas es el primer hospital en ofrecer este programa en Puerto Rico. Este proyecto va a ayudar a muchos ciudadanos ya que los médicos internistas y generalistas, entre otros, tendrán más opciones para referir casos a especialistas en esta rama. Contamos con lo último en tecnología y procedimientos quirúrgicos para que este programa se desarrolle con éxito”, expresó el doctor Carlos Arroyo Romeu, cirujano podiatra y director del Programa de Cirugía Reconstructiva del Pie y Tobillo en comunicación escrita.

El doctor Gilberto Vilá Arroyo fue seleccionado como el primer “fellow” de Cirugía Reconstructiva del Pie y Tobillo. El programa de subespecialidad tiene una duración de un año. Pueden cualificar candidatos que hayan completado su doctorado en medicina podiátrica, que luego hayan completado sus  tres años de residencia en cirugía podiátrica, y haber aprobado los exámenes de certificación (“boards” en su especialidad). El “fellowship” se enfoca en cirugía reconstructiva del pie y tobillo y corrección de deformidades. Además, tiene un interés especial en salvar extremidades, tratar pie diabético y pie de Charcot con técnicas de ortoplástica y de fijación externa utilizando el método de Ilizarov.

“Estamos muy emocionados de darle la bienvenida a esta nueva oportunidad educativa. Nuestros pacientes diabéticos con complicaciones en pie necesitan un cuidado multidisciplinario, y nuestro hospital ofrece el mismo al tener una amplia facultad que incluye infectólogos, ortopedas, cirujanos periferovasculares, nutricionistas entre otros. En Puerto Rico no contamos con escuela de podiatría por lo que esto representa una gran oportunidad de desarrollo académico para nuestros médicos residentes y aporta al cuidado de nuestros pacientes”, añadió la doctora María Valentín Mari, Médico Internista y Directora de Educación Médica Graduada San Lucas en Ponce.

El Programa de Educación Médica Graduada del Centro Médico Episcopal San Lucas está acreditado por el Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Educa­tion (ACGME), organismo que rige las residencias médicas en Estados Unidos, y es el programa de residencias privado más grande en Puerto Rico. Cuenta con programas académicos en medicina interna, pediatría, medicina de emergencia, obstetricia y ginecología, cirugía general y subespecialidad de cardiología.

Para información sobre el Centro Médico Episcopal San Lucas Ponce y otros servicios puede visitar su página web www.sanlucaspr.org, seguirles a través de Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn y YouTube/CentroMedicoEpiscopalSanLucas o comunicarse al 787-844-2080.

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El informe de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el martes, sobre 473 casos positivos confirmados, 1,560 casos probables y siete muertes.

Las personas fallecidas fueron 4 hombres y tres mujeres de 54 a 81 años de las regiones de Arecibo, Bayamón, Caguas, Fajardo y Ponce. 3 de ellos estaban sin vacunas al día, tres no vacunados y uno con vacunas al día.

El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 3 de julio de 2022 al 17 de julio de 2022.

La tasa de positividad bajó a 26.32 por ciento.

Hay 328 adultos hospitalizados y de ellos, 42 están en intensivo. Mientras, 41 menores están hospitalizados y uno está en intensivo. 21 adultos están en ventilador y ningún menor.

Las personas con vacunas al día son 991 mil, 056 personas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 4,691.

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