Holding facility for e-waste should be ready by year end Loop Jamaica

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A facility leased for the holding of e-waste should be ready for operation before year-end, says Executive Director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Audley Gordon.

In an interview with JIS News, Gordon said that “the Government must have in place a facility that can be the go-to for those discarded items and we want to fill that gap”.

The property, located in St. Catherine, is currently undergoing work to make it suitable for e-waste holding.

“We are doing actual retrofitting of that property. We have applied for the [environmental] permit for that property also, to do e-waste over in Hill Run [and] to make it the official e-waste holding area for us,” added Mr. Gordon.

He explained that retrofitting would include fencing of the area and the installation of containers with office spaces and restrooms.

Overseeing the general process, Mr. Gordon said that he is confident that by October the facility should be “more than ready”.

Once in operation, persons commuting in the general area of Hill Run can drop off their e-waste at the facility.

With Jamaica being a consumer market and an importer of electronic items, the NSWMA Head said he anticipates the islandwide collection of e-waste to be “major” and has started the process of seeking international markets for local e-waste.

The NSWMA recently announced that citizens can now take e-waste to any of its facilities islandwide, encouraging persons to no longer place discarded electronics among household waste.

E-waste is electronic products that are unwanted, not working, and nearing or at the end of their useful life.

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Man City’s Mendy labelled ‘predator’ as rape trial starts Loop Jamaica

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CHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy was described by prosecutors as a “predator” who could not take no for an answer as the trial began Monday of the French football player accused of eight counts of rape.

Mendy also has been accused of one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault. He is alleged to have committed the offenses against seven young women between October 2018 and August last year.

He denies the charges.

Timothy Cray, the lawyer for the prosecution, opened the trial at Chester Crown Court in northwest England by telling the jury: “The prosecution case is simple. It has little to do with football. Instead, we say, it is another chapter in a very old story — men who rape and sexually assault women, because they think they are powerful, and because they think they can get away with it.”

Mendy is standing trial with Louis Saha Matturie, who denies eight counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault relating to eight young women in alleged offenses spanning from July 2012 to August last year.

Cray said Saha was Mendy’s friend and fixer, and one of his jobs was “to find young women and to create the situations where those young women could be raped and sexually assaulted.”

“The acts that the defendants did together show callous indifference to the women they went after,” Cray told the court. “In their minds, and this could not be clearer, the stream of women they brought to their homes existed purely to be pursued for sex.”

Cray told jurors they will hear from 13 different women.

“Our case is that the defendants’ pursuit of these 13 women turned them into predators, who were prepared to commit serious sexual offenses,” Cray said.

He said “the fact they would not take ‘no’ for an answer” would be something the jurors will “hear time and time again.”

Central to the case, the jury was told, is Mendy’s home, called The Spinney, which was described as an isolated mansion.

Cray said there were five dates between 2018-21 when nine young women arrived at Mendy’s home and afterward made complaints of rape and/or sexual assault against Mendy and Saha.

Once at the house, the women were vulnerable for a number of reasons, Cray said. They had their mobile phones taken away once they arrived and some believed they were in locked rooms.

Mendy has played for City since 2017 after joining from Monaco. He was suspended by the club after being charged by police.

Both defendants are on bail and the trial is expected to last up to 15 weeks.

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IS 200 YEARS ENOUGH

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Is 200 years enough to get past the trauma of slavery?

This was one of the questions examined in commemoration of emancipation day 2022.

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APPLICATION PROCESS REOPENS

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Government will be reopening the application process to Grenadians seeking housing assistance under the Chinese housing project while developing criteria for the distribution of the units.

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2022 PLANT DISTRIBUTION

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The 2022 plant distribution season is now open and plants both locally and imported are available for purchase.

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THE POSSIBILITY OF LIAT BACK IN GRENADA

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The newly elected NDC Administration is exploring the possibility of reinstating LIAT as one of the main airlines to offer inter-Caribbean flights to Grenada from other Caribbean islands.

 

 

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Pierre Responds To Suggestion Of States Of Emergency In Crime Hotspots – St. Lucia Times News

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Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre says he has not considered the matter of states of emergencies in known crime hotspots in Saint Lucia.

But at the same time, he has not ruled out exploring the idea.

Reporters raised the issue with Pierre, responsible for National Security, on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting and against the backdrop of a violent crime wave resulting in 42 homicides so far this year.

They noted that Jamaica had employed limited states of emergency to address crime surges.

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“I have not considered that, but I see the Commissioner of Police very often and we have a discussion,” the Castries East MP stated.

“You know, it’s on stages. You increase the firearms act and on Friday there was a graduation of 30 members of the SSU who we hope will be out on the streets dealing with crime. It’s incremental – we can’t do everything one time,” Pierre explained.

He recalled that the crime problem has been with Saint Lucia for a while.“It is something that we abhor. It is something we think we should do something about it, but I can’t speak to a state of emergency at this time,” Pierre told reporters.

Asked whether it was an initiative worth exploring, he declared that anything to lessen crime is worth exploring.

Headline photo: Police at scene of Leslie Land shooting on October 12, 2020 

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Las temperaturas máximas durante el día alcanzarán su punto máximo en los bajos 90 grados

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Aguaceros pasajeros breves afectaron a Vieques y Culebra y las aguas locales durante la noche con menos de dos décimas de pulgada de acumulación de lluvia. De lo contrario, las condiciones estuvieron mayormente despejadas a través de la isla. 

Los vientos estuvieron ligeros con algunas brisas terrestres de menos de 5 mph. Para las 5 AM AST, las temperaturas mínimas variaron desde los medios 60 grados en los valles de las montañas más altas hasta los bajos 80 grados en las costas de barlovento.

Humedad persistente asociada a una onda tropical al oeste del área traerá otra tarde activa, con aguaceros y tronadas en el noroeste, norte e interior de Puerto Rico. Se puede esperar la acumulación de agua en carreteras y en las áreas bajas con esta actividad. 

Los vientos estarán del este sureste con brisas marinas de 10 a 15 mph.

Las temperaturas máximas durante el día alcanzarán su punto máximo en los bajos 90 grados con valores de índice de calor sobre los 100 grados posibles en áreas urbanas y costeras.

El oleaje permanecerá por debajo de los 4 pies y los vientos estarán de hasta 10 nudos hoy y esta noche. Puede haber vientos y oleaje más alto localmente cerca de los aguaceros y tronadas. La mayoría de las playas orientadas al norte y al este tienen un riesgo moderado de corrientes marinas.

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Encuentran cadáver de hombre reportado como desaparecido en Canóvanas

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La Policía informó que un hombre que había sido reportado muerto fue localizado a eso de las 9:30 de la noche del lunes, en el kilómetro 7.5 de la carretera PR-185, sector La Vega del barrio Campo Rico en Canóvanas.

 Según el reporte de las autoridades, los familiares de Eduardo Luis Agosto Romero de 38 años y residente de Canóvanas, realizaban una búsqueda por el mencionado lugar y localizaron el cuerpo de este, en avanzado estado de descomposición.

En el lugar, se ocupó una pistola negra, un bulto color verde y un celular Samsung S20.

Agosto Romero, había sido reportado desaparecido por familiares desde el 12 de agosto de 2022, cuando fue visto por última vez al salir de su residencia ubicada en la carretera PR-185 del barrio Campo Rico en Canóvanas.

La fiscal Tania Salas, ordenó el traslado del cuerpo al Instituto de Ciencias Forenses para fines de autopsia.

El agente Alex Olmeda, adscrito a la División de Homicidios del Cuerpo de Investigaciones Criminales de Carolina, tiene a cargo la investigación de caso.

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Harán radiografía para evaluar cuán funcional es modelo de aseguradoras en la isla y saber si cambiarlo

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El presidente del Senado, Jose Luis, compartió el martes en RADIO ISLA que harán una radiografía para evaluar cuán funcional es el modelo de las aseguradoras médicas en Puerto Rico y así saber si cambiarlo.

“Aquí hay que evaluar las aseguradoras, aquí hay que evaluar al Centro Médico. El Centro Médico tiene múltiples divisiones cuando debería ser un sistema integrado. Ese es nuestro primer centro de salud que atiende a los indigentes, atiende a los pobres, donde educamos a nuestros profesionales de la salud. Las aseguradoras es un componente importantísimo porque es la que recibe el dinero, de hecho los recibe por adelantado”, compartió el funcionario en este medio. 

En una mesa redonda que tuvieron la semana pasada con las senadoras Keren Riquelme y Elizabeth Rosa, y el senador Rubén Soto, presidente de la Comisión de Salud del Senado, el amplio grupo también presentó varias recomendaciones de tratamiento para que, aunque no se cure del todo, el paciente pueda al menos salir del coma, abrir los ojos y levantar un poco la cabeza.

Pero la interrogante, una y otra vez, fue si existiría la voluntad suficiente en el Legislativo y el Ejecutivo para administrar al menos algún tratamiento efectivo contra “el problema principal” o “el elefante en el cuarto”, que fueron algunas de las descripciones usadas para referirse a las aseguradoras médicas.

El secretario del Departamento de Salud, doctor Carlos Mellado, quien se unió, de manera inequívoca y categórica, al enfático reclamo de poner freno a las aseguradoras, abundó que esta crisis del sistema de salud se remota a antes del huracán María (2017), y advirtió además que si Puerto Rico no recibe más fondos para septiembre, “no sé qué va a pasar con Puerto Rico, porque esto cuesta $4.2 billones ($4,200 millones)”.

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