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Ce lundi 1er août, Jean-François Carenco, le ministre délégué aux Outre-Mer a réuni un COPIL (comité de pilotage) exceptionnel avec tous les acteurs du plan Sargasses II, pour accélérer et innover dans la lutte contre les algues brunes.
Ce lundi 1er août, à la demande du ministre de l’intérieur et des Outre-mer, Gérald Darmanin, Jean-François Carenco, le ministre délégué, a réuni un COPIL extraordinaire, ce lundi 1er août, rue Oudinot, ” afin d’accélérer et d’innover sur la lutte contre les sargasses à l’aune des premiers retours des comités territoriaux “.
Le plan sargasses II a été adopté en 2022. Mais, malgré un plan de plus de 36 millions d’euros sur 4 ans, les collectivités rencontrent toujours des difficultés dans la collecte des sargasses qui s’échouent sur nos côtes.
Depuis plusieurs mois, les échouages sont massifs, notamment aux Antilles.
« Dans l’immédiat, pour résoudre la problématique du ramassage rapide, une augmentation à 80% de la part du cofinancement de l’Etat sera accordée, et ce jusqu’au 15 octobre. Le reste à charge des collectivités locales sera de 20% pendant cette période période », précise le ministère, qui indique également qu’une partie de la subvention pourra être versée par anticipation.
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À court terme, un opérateur unique « service public anti-sargasses » sera mis en place au plus tard fin octobre 2022 pour centraliser les besoins, les moyens, les mesures et les responsabilités sur chaque territoire.
Les mesures sanitaires, environnementales, de recherche et d’innovation prévues dans le plan Sargasses II se poursuivent. Les comités de pilotage se réunissent désormais tous les 15 jours.
Comité de pilotage sargasses exceptionnel ce lundi.
– MOM
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Eric Guyader était directeur de l’hôpital Simone-Veil de Beauvais depuis décembre 2011. – Archives / Oise Hebdo
Eric Guyader, actuel directeur du centre hospitalier de Beauvais , succéde à Gérard Cotellon à la tête du CHU de Guadeloupe
Eric Guyader, directeur du centre hospitalier (CH) de Beauvais, est nommé directeur général du CHU de la Guadeloupe à compter du 15 septembre, dans un décret publié dimanche au Journal officiel.
Eric Guyader a auparavant dirigé le Centre hospitalier de Douarnenez en Bretagne.
Il connait l’Outre-mer, car il a été inspecteur des affaires sanitaires et sociales en Martinique, à la DDASS (Direction Départementale des Affaires Sanitaires et Sociales) entre 1985 et 1993.
Les principaux dossiers qui l’attendent sont:
– la réintégration des soignants non vaccinés et le recrutement de nouveaux personnels.
– les finances du centre hospitalier.
– la construction du nouveau CHU.
Loi sanitaire face au Covid: le …
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Man arrested after gun found in dresser
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Dancehall entertainer Shane E is expected to be grilled by the St Andrew South police on Monday in relation to gang activities within the police division.
The question-and-answer session will be held in the presence of his attorney-at-law Christopher Townsend.
“Shane E has been taken into custody. They intend to conduct a formal question and answer tomorrow,” Townsend told Loop News on Sunday.
Shane E had been listed as a person of interest following a flare-up of gang-related activities in Waterhouse, St Andrew recently, and the ‘Hundred Duppy’deejay had been expected to surrender to the St Andrew South police on Friday.
He reportedly surrendered to the police on Sunday.
The police want to question Shane E and another man, Stephen Sterling, otherwise called ‘Tractor’, in relation to activities in an area of Waterhouse called ‘Cuba’.
Shane E, whose real name is Theophilus Edwards, is originally from Montego Bay, St James.
Besides ‘Hundred Duppy’, he is also known for the songs ‘Walk Sleep’ and ‘Anti-Social’.
Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls made it two victories from two games on day three of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England after defeating South Africa 68-49 in Pool A on Saturday.
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An Ananda Alert has been activated for 13-year-old Judah Atkins of Market circle, Fustic Road, Montego Bay, St James who has been missing since Sunday, July 24.
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St Ann native Alywn Brown owns two of the most popular restaurants on Jamaica’s north coast.
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Man arrested after gun found in dresser
Shane E to be questioned by cops on Tuesday
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Police 119 emergency number down
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The number of illegal firearms seized by the St James police since the start of the year is inching closer to the 100 mark following Saturday’s seizure of a gun in the parish.
A man, identified by the police as Keno Gayle of a West Village, Granville address, has since been charged following the seizure of the latest weapon.
Reports from the police are that during an intelligence-driven operation by members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force at premises in West Village, early Saturday morning, a property was searched.
During the raid, a Taurus pistol was found in a dresser and Gayle subsequently taken into custody.
Members of the St James Police Division have so far seized 95 illegal guns, which is reportedly the most weapons seized in the 19 police divisions across the island since the start of the year.
Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls made it two victories from two games on day three of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England after defeating South Africa 68-49 in Pool A on Saturday.
The resul
Health and Wellness Minister, Dr Christopher Tufton, says the nation’s declining birth rate could have an adverse impact on the development of various sectors of the country, including its labour forc
Opposition pledges to support Government move
Funeral to get under way at 11 am
An Ananda Alert has been activated for 13-year-old Judah Atkins of Market circle, Fustic Road, Montego Bay, St James who has been missing since Sunday, July 24.
He is of dark complexion, slim
St Ann native Alywn Brown owns two of the most popular restaurants on Jamaica’s north coast.
Brown’s seafood restaurant, Sharkies, and his steakhouse, Plantation Smokehouse, have a combined f
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Shae Millington hits a return during the boys’ Under-18 singles match, on Saturday, at the RBC Jnr tennis tournament, at the Shaw Park Hard Courts, Shaw Park. –
SHAE Millington used his superior serve and ground strokes, to capture the boys under 18 title, on the final day of matches, in the RBC Tobago Junior Tennis Championships, at the Shaw Park hard courts on Saturday.
The number one seed, going into the tournament, had to contend with the grit and finest of losing finalist Nicholas Ready, to carve out a straight-sets, 6-3, 6-4 victory.
All credit to the second seed Ready, he never bowed his head after losing the first set, and the first game of the second set, but battled to the final point, which provided a good spectacle for the spectators.
Millington, who was all grunts and pumping fists, after each successful point, did have his pensive moments during the match, in particular when approaching the net, where he was outplayed by Ready.
During the semi-finals on Friday, Millington easily dispatched Christopher Roberts in straight sets, 6-2, 6-0.
Ready was tested in the opening set of his semi-final versus Jaylon Chapman. A break of Chapman’s serve in the 11th game, gave Ready a 6-5 lead, which he consolidated by holding his next service game, to win the first set 7-5.
The second set was routine for Ready, as a frustrated-looking Chapman succumbed 6-2.
The highly anticipated senior boy’s doubles, brought Saturday afternoon to an anti-climax, as injury prevented the match from being played.
Millington and Roberts were set to face Ready and Luca Denoon, but injury ruled out Ready from taking the court.
The girls under 18 category, was contested on a round-robin basis. Christi-Anna Hills and Shaina Smith were unbeaten, going into the final match on Saturday, and were aware of the importance of a positive result.
The match was played at high intensity and needed a tie-breaker to determine the first set after the games were levelled at 6-6.
Hills prevailed 7-5 in the tie-breaker, and needed one break of serve in the second set, to win 6-3, and complete a straight-set victory.
Hills, had earlier gotten past Charlotte Ready 6-3, 6-5, while Smith who was stretched in the second set by her twin sister Makayla Smith, won 6-1, 7-5.
While most of the matches in the U-10, U-12 and U-14 categories, featured round-robin play. The boys under 10 and 12 divisions went down to the finals.
Justin Duncan defeated Rohan Ramcharitar in a hard-fought under 10 final, 5-4, 1-4, 11-9, while Josiah Hills won the under 12 title, over Jaysean Wells in straight sets, 4-1, 4-2.
Chester Dyrymple, the ITF-certified referee at the tournament, described the tournament as successful, but lamented the difficulty of the Trinidad players, in attending the competition.
He said “the tournament was good exposure for the players after the pandemic.
“But there is so much activities in Tobago at this time, which prevented many of the Trinidad players and their families from attending since they could not secure air or sea-bridge bookings to come for the tournament.”
The tournament which was hosted by the Crusoe Isle Tennis Club, featured forty-five players, along with a host of emerging players, in the red ball competition.
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[NOT WATERMARK ON THIS PIC] Hollis Valdez and Shereen Bailey-Valdez –
The decomposing body of an unidentified man found in some bushes off Rincon Road, Las Cuevas is believed to be that of a suspect in the murders Hollis and Shereen Bailey-Valdez, who were found dead at their home on Friday.
Police sources told Newsday that the body was found by hikers at about 9 am on Monday, a short distance away from the scene of the Bailey-Valdez murder.
The body was in an advanced state of decomposition, police said, so it could not be determined whether there were any wounds or marks of violence on the body. Police sources added that no weapons were found near the body.
The body is expected to be taken to the Forensic Science Centre as investigators seek to identify the body.
On Friday at about 7.45 am, an anonymous caller contacted the Maracas Bay Police Station and reported hearing several gunshots at Rincon Road, Las Cuevas. Officers responded to the call and found the couple dead on their bedroom floor. The couple was last seen at the funeral for 22-year-old Meshach Gibson who was killed in a shoot-out with police in La Fillette, Blanchisseusse on July 19.
Relatives claimed that Shereen Bailey-Valdez was in an on-and-off relationship with the suspect for 13 years. She got death threats from the man, who gave her four days to live prior to her murder. After the murder, villagers said the suspect admitted to killing the couple to a relative.
Villagers were told that shortly after the murder, a single gunshot was heard in the forest. Police and villagers searched the forest on Friday for a body, but to no avail.
Fiery protests as villagers demand to see body
Villagers staged a protest as police processed the scene and removed the decomposing body from a forested area off Rincon Road as they demanded to see the body and confirm for themselves whether or not the body was that of the suspect.
“Everybody was feeling unsafe since he was on the run so people wanted to identify or confirm that it was him. But the police didn’t want that,” one villager said.
The villagers lit debris on Rincon Road in protest of the police’s refusal to show them the body. The burning debris was removed, but residents formed a human blockade to stop the officers from leaving the scene, demanding that they see the body.
Eventually, police showed a picture of the body to a relative of Bailey-Valdez who said that the body was that of the suspect. Villagers said that the body was missing its hands – supposedly as a result of animals in the forest – and that he may have had a gunshot wound to his head.
“He identified the body by its structure,” the villager said. “Remember he (the suspect) is known to us because he lived in the village too.”
Residents in the village said there is a sense of relief, now that the suspect is believed to have been found.
“Everybody was kind of frightened,” the villager said. “We were in the wake last night and we were kind of jumpy because we were thinking he could be in the bushes – you don’t know. So it is a relief now.”
Relatives – we have not identified him
While villagers expressed relief that the suspect was found, his mother and sister said they had not yet identified the body nor confirmed that it is the suspect’s.
They said they were informed that a body was found in the area and were advised to go to the Forensic Science Centre in St James on Wednesday to identify it.
The suspect’s sister told Newsday the last time she saw the suspect was on Wednesday.
“He came down at my work on Wrightson Road and I gave him a roti. It was chicken goat and beef mixed, because he loves his belly.”
“On Thursday he called me. He asked if food was ready. I say no. When he didn’t stop by on Thursday, I said alright, I will see him Friday please God. On Friday, I finished cook food early. I thought was he going to call me but he didn’t call. A good friend of the family called me and told me what happened.”
She said her family members are now fearing for their lives as other villagers who may have wanted to take justice into their own hands could target the suspect’s family next.
“We have to be alert right now because we don’t know what is going to happen. I have an elderly father and he is living right inside there, so I don’t know what the situation is.”
The relative complained that police treated them poorly when they were informed about the discovery of the body. She speculated that the mistreatment may have been because they were the family of a person suspected in a murder.
“The police officer come and asked for my mother and didn’t even greet us. He just said ‘forensic Wednesday.’ That is all. That is how you come to tell a mother about her son – ‘forensic Wednesday.’ That is how they addressed us today.”
“We know our brother is guilty. We are not going to lie and say that he didn’t do it. We know that he did it and we know why.
“We know how our brother felt. But at the end of the day, the family is not guilty and the family is human beings. So you can’t treat everybody like they are guilty.
“You can’t treat people’s family like they are dogs.”
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A big pink diamond of 170 carats has been discovered in Angola and is claimed to be the largest such gemstone found in 300 years.
Called the ‘Lulo Rose’, the diamond was found at the Lulo alluvial diamond mine, the mine’s owner, the Lucapa Diamond Company, announced Wednesday on its website.
“Only one in 10,000 diamonds is coloured pink. So you’re certainly looking at a very rare article when you find a very large pink diamond,” Lucapa CEO Stephen Wetherall told The Associated Press.
The pink gemstone is expected to fetch a high value when auctioned, but Wetherall said he doesn’t know what kind of premium will be paid because of its colour.
Lulo is an alluvial mine which means the stones are recovered from a river bed. The Lucapa company is searching for the underground deposits, known as kimberlite pipes, which would be the main source of the diamonds, said Wetherall, speaking from the company’s headquarters in Australia.
“We’re looking for the kimberlite pipes that brought these diamonds to the surface,” Wetherall said.
“When you find these high-value large diamonds … it certainly elevates the excitement from our perspective in our hunt for the primary source.”
About 400 staff are employed at the Lulo mine which has already produced the two largest diamonds ever found in Angola, including a 404-carat clear diamond, he said.
The pink gemstone is the fifth largest diamond found at the mine where 27 diamonds of 100 carats or more have been found, according to Lucapa.
The pink diamond will be sold by international tender by the Angolan state diamond marketing company, Sodiam.
Angola’s mines make it one of the world’s top 10 producers of diamonds.
“This record and spectacular pink diamond recovered from Lulo continues to showcase Angola as an important player on the world stage for diamond mining and demonstrates the potential and rewards for commitment and investment in our growing diamond mining industry,” Diamantino Azevedo, Angola’s Minister of Mineral Resources, Petroleum and Gas said, according to the Lucapa website.
The pink diamond is impressive, but many clear diamonds are larger than 1,000 carats. The Cullinan diamond found in South Africa in 1905 tips the scales at 3,106 carats and it’s in the British Sovereign’s Sceptre.
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The main Opposition St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) on Monday welcomed the announcement of the August 5 general election date, saying it brings to an end “an experiment that has been marked by scandals, corruption and greed”.
“Our liberation moment is near, but it will require each one of us, every comrade and every patriot of our beloved country, to take a stand in the fight for the very soul of our country and vote for the St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party on Election Day, Friday, 5th August 2022,” said SKNLP leader Dr Terrence Drew in a radio broadcast.
Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris on Sunday night announced the date of the general election during a rally of his People’s Labour Party (PLP). Nomination Day is July 26.
Harris was forced to dissolve Parliament on May 10, paving the way for the general election after legislators from the People’s Action Movement (PAM) and the Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM) – two members of the coalition Team Unity Government – accounting for seven of the nine seats in the Cabinet, filed a motion of no confidence in the prime minister, who scuttled that move by firing the dissidents and indicating that he would announce a date for the polls within the stipulated 90-day period.
The PLP has since announced that it will contest the eight seats in St Kitts, while PAM and the CCM have announced plans for a coalition of their own and will contest all 11 seats in the twin island federation.
The coalition had won re-election in June 2022, but Drew said the seven years in office could be characterised as one of “suppression and oppression of our people.
“Over the last two months our nation has had a front row seat and made the front pages of news across the region and internationally, as the embarrassing spectacle taking place between the warring factions of what was then the unity concoction.
“Our hearts bled as accusations and counter-accusations of corruption, greed and incompetence were callously thrown back and forth, while important matters of state, governance, and the people of St Kitts and Nevis were neglected and abandoned,” said Drew.
He said he is confident that the SKNLP “can ensure that the year 2022 goes down in history as the year the true patriots of our country took a stand and draw a red line in the sand to say ‘this far and no further; enough is enough.
“The time has come for the tragic story of a nation in decline to come to an end. The time has come for our people to choose a better way. A better way with the St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party. You have the power to bring about the change you seek, need and desire, to transform our federation into one of the best places to live, work and retire. Never forget your power.
“On election day, with just one, neat X on the ballot paper you can usher in a new day and better way that will take our country to a higher level – a higher level of access, a higher level of equity, a higher level of opportunity, a higher standard of living and a higher quality of life,” said the SKNLP leader.
The coalition Team Unity Government had defeated the SKNLP in the last two general elections, but Drew told radio listeners, “We know what it takes to build a strong, successful, diversified, climate-smart and innovative economy.
“We know how to educate our people. We know how to manage the country’s finances well. We know how to encourage business and enterprise. We know how to modernise and make the hard choices to do it.
“The St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party will fight tooth and nail to ensure that the upcoming general elections are conducted in a manner that is free and fair and free from fear. We call on Mr Elvin Bailey, the supervisor of elections, the Hon Vincent Byron, attorney general, and the Electoral Commission to ensure that the business of the Electoral Office is conducted in accordance with the principles of impartiality and fairness and in full compliance with the laws and procedures of St Kitts and Nevis.”
He said the SKNLP would also demand that the government issue the traditional invitations for international election observers from Caricom, the Commonwealth and the Organisation of American States (OAS) to monitor and observe the upcoming elections.
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Danny Mehalal
A 24 year old coconut vendor was killed at Pariag Street, Marabella early on Monday morning.
The deceased was identified as Danny Mehalal from Gasparillo. According to police reports, the incident happened at Pariag Street, Marabella.
A female friend of Mehalal, who declined to give her name was in shock and confused by his murder.
“He was not a trouble maker or anything like that. Danny was a good boy.”
She said, “Everybody knew him as the coconut boy. He brought coconuts for everybody. He sold coconuts in the market.”
The woman said she returned to her home at Pariag Street around 12.03 am.
She recalled seeing Mehalal leaving the place he was staying and telling her he was going out.
The woman said, sometime later, she went walking along the street and saw two masked men dressed in black. One of them was armed with a gun and they called to her.
The woman ran back to her house and locked the door. She said she subsequently heard loud noises and was told that Mehalal was dead. The woman said she was told police officers were at the scene shortly after Mehalal was shot.
She believed that Mehalal was in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
“What did they kill him for? I feel he was caught in the crossfire.”
Police investigations are continuing.
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