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Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 16, 2022 (RSCNPF): Resident Pathologist, Dr. Naudia Phillip, performed an autopsy on the body of 26-year-old Luis Kendial James of Farm Site, Sandy Point on Monday, August 15, 2022.
Dr. Phillip concluded that death was as a result of Hypovolemic Shock due to a stab wound to the left suprascapular region.
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Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 16, 2022 (RSCNPF): The Police are currently investigating a Wounding with Intent incident that occurred in Basseterre on August 13, 2022.
Police responded to a report of a wounding on Saturday along Cayon Street in the vicinity of the Methodist Church. Investigations so far have revealed that Eric Williams of Buckley’s Estate received three lacerations, one to the right side of his jaw, one to his chin and one to his throat area with a sharp object by an assailant.
Williams went to the J.N.F. General Hospital where he was treated for his injuries.
Investigations into the matter are ongoing. Persons with information about this incident are asked to contact the Criminal Investigation Department at the Basseterre Police Station by dialing 465-2241, their nearest Police Station or the crime hotline at 707.
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Liverpool’s Darwin Nunez, top, heads the ball past Crystal Palace’s Joachim Andersen during their English Premier League football match at Anfield stadium in Liverpool, England, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Super).
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LONDON (AP) — Crystal Palace defender Joachim Andersen says he received death threats and an avalanche of abuse online after Liverpool’s Darwin N??ez was ejected for headbutting him in a Premier League game on Monday night.
Andersen took to Instagram to share what he said was a sample of hundreds of abusive messages he has received since the 1-1 draw at Anfield.
“Got maybe 300-400 of these messages last night,” the Dane posted Tuesday to his Instagram story, which called on the league and Instagram to take action.
Media reports said Andersen has also spoken to the police.
Some of the screenshots called for the Palace player’s death, and many were full of expletives. Some messages threatened not just Andersen but his family as well.
A Premier League spokesperson confirmed the governing body had been in touch with Palace to offer help, Britain’s Press Association said.
The British parliament had been set to discuss new legislation in July that would have forced tech companies to take stronger measures to tackle abuse and hate on their platforms, but the bill was postponed until a new leader of the ruling Conservative party is chosen.
N??ez was making his first competitive start for Liverpool. The club’s big offseason signing lost his temper after jostling with Andersen off the ball and thrust his head into the face of the defender. He was sent off in the 57th minute. Andersen got a yellow card in the same incident.
N??ez is facing a three-match ban for violent conduct.
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For many families, economic sentiment is deteriorating.
According to newly released consumer and business confidence data, the majority of Jamaicans expect the economy to weaken in the next six months.
Many consumers have expressed great concern about price increases as income remains flat. Also, 98 per cent of respondents expect prices to rise over the next 12 months, including the cost of school supplies.
To minimise the stress of the back-to-school shopping experience, many parents often find creative ways to keep the costs within budget.
The cost of sending a child to school can quickly skyrocket when school fees, uniforms, and stationery supplies are combined.
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The X Factor 2018 winner Dalton Harris had social media buzzing over the weekend when he shared a photo of himself in ripped jeans and a shirt exposing his midriff and rock hard abs.
Besides t
Representatives of the US Embassy in Kingston have stepped in to assist Howard Johnson, a US citizen whose 15-year-old son was shot by a member of the security forces during a joint police-militar
Twenty-one members of the Jamaican team that competed at the recently concluded World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon will represent the country again August 19-21 for the NACAC Open Champio
Bulgin brothers were in country as part of work-and-travel summer programme
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There has been one additional covid19-related death, the Ministry of Health said in its daily update on Tuesday.
The total number of deaths has has now risen to 4,080.
The ministry also reported there were 221 new covid19 cases as of Tuesday afternoon. The cases were from samples taken between August 14 and 15.
The number of total active cases is 6,988.
The update reported there were 228 patients in hospital, with 6,760 patients in home self-isolation and 14 patients in step-down or transition facilities.
As of Tuesday, there were 164,426 recovered covid19 patients, with 18 people being discharged from public health facilities and 386 recovered community cases.
The update reported that 715,973 people are fully vaccinated, while 684,027 people have received their first dose or no dose of a vaccine, and 167,786 booster doses have been administered.
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Given the high levels of criminal activity in the scrap-iron industry, Minister of Trade and Industry Paula Gopee-Scoon said there was a clear indication of a need for improvement in legislation dealing with scrap iron.
She made the statement while responding to questions on Tuesday, after a six-month ban on exporting scrap iron was implemented last week and announced on Monday.
“Clearly the situation was out of hand with the looming, worsening levels of criminal activity and therefore it has to be kept in check,” Gopee-Scoon said.
Scoon said government had sought to make amendments to regulations and legislation concerning the scrap-iron industry last year, but there was a delay in implementing the amendments because they had to be reviewed by the Law Revision Commission. She said the six-month period will be used to amend the legislation or bring new legislation forward.
“The idea is to work on this as immediately as possible,” she said.
On Monday, at a joint media conference, Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds and Attorney General Reginald Armour announced a six-month ban on the export of old and scrap iron, in order to deal with rampant theft and vandalism of state and private assets. The ban is expected to be lifted by February 23 or earlier.
People breaching the ban would be slapped with a $15,000 fine under the 1904 Metal and Marine Stores Act, or a $1,000 fine and/or 12 months’ imprisonment under the Trade Ordinance.
Gopee-Scoon said according to Legal Notice 164, manufacturers licensed by the minister of trade to export metal as a by-product of manufacturing goods or as a surplus or surplus materials not required for manufacturing would be exempt from the ban.
“For instance, say you’re involved in the manufacture of aluminium products, and therefore you would be importing…aluminium rolls and you will be by the process of extrusion making several products, there will be significant waste which is usually exported by the manufacturer – those kinds of exceptions will be allowed.”
The decision to ban scrap iron met with criticism from the opposition. At the UNC Monday night forum, Chaguanas West MP Dinesh Rambally lambasted government, calling the decision “dotish.”
He said banning the export of scrap iron may only serve to worsen an already serious crime situation.
“How on earth is throwing the honest and hard-working scrap-iron dealers on the breadline going to stop thieves? That is like saying you going to shut down Special Branch because you vex with one Special Branch policeman. Shutting down the industry for six months will only fuel the thieves. But this is the dotish logic of the Rowley-led PNM.”
In a public statement, Oropouche East MP Roodal Moonilal also knocked government’s decision, saying criminals would simply move on to stealing from other fields of operations and possibly other public and private properties.
“Scrap-iron dealers have always supported legislative changes and the introduction of regulations and had submitted a package of recommendations,” Moonilal said. “The comprehensive operation plan included setting up of a special itemised metals category and other measures that would have effectively dealt with vandalism. The Government tossed aside that practical proposal and, instead, recklessly banned exports by the entire sector.
“The most reasonable and logical measure would be to keep the industry open, increase penalties related to offences and instruct the police service to treat the crime with the urgency and focus that it deserves.
“The Rowley Government has now become the first administration in the world to close down an industry because of thefts pertaining to the trade,” Moonilal claimed.
Jamaica, Barbados and Guyana have imposed bans on the export of scrap metal amid criminal activity.
A Barbados Today report ten years ago indicated that there was a 60-day ban on exports while the government revisited the legislation that regulated the industry in that country.
In 2011, then Jamaican Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Dr Christopher Tufton announced a total ban on exporting scrap metal, pointing out that theft and vandalism of public and private properties over the three years before the announcement had cost government more than $1 billion.
Guyana has imposed and lifted bans on the industry multiple times. In 2007 amid similar reports of vandalism and theft, its government imposed a ban on the industry. It was lifted in 2010, only to be reimposed in 2011. That ban was maintained for about two years.
In September 2020 another ban was imposed after a major drug find of 11.5 tons of cocaine discovered in Belgium was traced back to Guyanese ports.
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Over the next four days, 30 teachers from across Region Four will be engaged in a Specialist Mathematics Teacher Training programme.
The programme aims to prepare primary school teachers to serve as SpecialistMathematics Teachers of the Number and Operations Strand of Grades One to Fourcurriculum and develop a repository of resources for them to utilize when planning theirsessions.
The programme is being hosted in NCERD’s auditorium and is a collaborationwith the Government of Canada through the Canada Caricom Expert EmploymentProgramme (CCEP).
During brief remarks, Director of NCERD, Ms Quenita Walrond-Lewis said that theprogramme plays a significant part in the rollout of the renewed curriculum. Sheexplained that while the new Mathematics curriculum is guided by international bestpractices, it is contextually prepared for Guyana.
NCERD Director Quenita Walrond-Lewis
“We are not plucking and transplanting. We are assessing what is good what is quality,and what is best for our indigenous setting because that is the only way that theseinitiatives work. When we take the best that we can find around them and adapt for ourcontext.”
She added that also aligns with the education sector plan to create citizens who arecritical thinkers, problem solvers, and who are future stewards of this nation.
“So, we are excited because we get to do a new thing in primary mathematics educationwhere we bring learning back to the hearts of children, back to play, back to pedagogythat requires us to be curious, experimental, ask questions and seek answers in waysthat are endemic to the ways that children learn naturally which is throughmanipulation and experimenting implementation.”
Chief Education Officer, Dr Marcel Huston deemed the programme as transformativefor primary education and urged the participants to view the sessions as such.
“When we look at our strategic plan 2021-2025 Vision 2030, you will see thatMathematics is central to what we need to do in terms of reforming the school systemfor better results.”
High Commissioner of Canada to Guyana, His Excellency Mark Berman highlighted thisis the first in-person technical assistance initiative through CCEP being carried out inGuyana. He further expressed that this will be the first in many areas of expertiseCanada can bring to Guyana to work with professionals in several sectors.
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Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre has urged resilience amid the current difficult times in remarks at Tuesday’s press launch of the 53rd annual meeting of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).
Pierre is the current Chairman of the CDB Board.
He recalled that when he accepted the Chair, he noted that finding solutions for difficult times would define his one-year tenure.
“If there is one lesson to be learned from the pandemic and the ongoing fallout from the Russian-Ukraine conflict is that the sooner we understand and expect that “difficult times” may now be more the norm than the exception, the sooner we can set about focusing on resilience to ensure that no matter the degree of difficulty – we have what it takes to chart a sustainable life for our people,” the Saint Lucia Prime Minister told his audience.
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In this regard, Pierre declared that he will be promoting two issues of regional importance.
He identified them as social and economic empowerment of youth which he has coined the ‘Youth Economy’ and relatedly, access to adequate and affordable finance for development
The Saint Lucia Minister of Finance and the Youth Economy noted that Approximately 17 % of the region’s population comprises young people 15-24 years old and 25% between 10-24 years old.
Pierre said given this large youth demographic, the potential contribution to social and economic development is significant.
However, he asserted that for this potential to be realised, optimal engagement of youth in the economy is imperative.
Concerning access to adequate and affordable financing, Pierre said it is well accepted that given the region’s debt sustainability constraints, it needs to develop new and innovative financing mechanisms to foster social, economic, and environmental resilience.
He explained that the classification of many countries in the region as middle and high income solely based on per capita Gross National Income (GNI) is devoid of consideration for their inherent vulnerability to environmental and economic shocks and our low propensity for a speedy recovery.
“This has significantly constrained access to much-needed concessional resources to fund development priorities such as the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change,” Pierre said.
And he declared that for this reason Saint Lucia is firmly behind the innovative work being undertaken by the CDB to develop the Recovery Duration Adjustor that seeks to incorporate a resilience-adjusted GNI measure to determine access to concessional finance
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