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L’orgueil des champions : le grimpeur équatorien Richard Carapaz a remporté en solitaire la quatorzième étape au sommet de la Pandera samedi en Andalousie, alors que Primoz Roglic a repris près d’une minute au classement général sur un Remco Evenepoel diminué.

Dans une étape soporifique qui s’est terminée en feu d’artifice, le champion olympique a résisté au retour de Primoz Roglic et de Miguel Angel Lopez en conservant huit secondes d’avance sur la ligne d’arrivée.

“Dans le final, on savait que ça allait être une étape difficile et importante. On voulait répéter ce qu’on avait fait la dernière fois (sur la 12e étape). J’avais bien étudié la montée. Ca me donne beaucoup de confiance pour la suite”, a célébré l’Équatorien après la course.

Il faut dire que le rôle de chasseur d’étape lui va comme un gant : seul rescapé de l’échappée de dix coureurs, Carapaz a tenu pour remporter sa deuxième étape sur la boucle espagnole 2022, deux jours après son tour de force au sommet des Penas Blancas.

Son accélération au train à huit kilomètres du sommet a cloué le reste du groupe à l’avant, dont le Français Clément Champoussin (AG2R) puis le vétéran Luis Leon Sanchez (Bahrain).

Destitué de son rôle de leader de la formation Ineos après avoir concédé près de vingt minutes au général après onze étapes, Carapaz se console avec une nouvelle victoire de prestige dans la chaîne de montagne de la Sierra Nevada.

– Evenepoel dans le rouge –

S’il a lâché ses gants de course pour ce week-end, Remco Evenepoel a de son côté paru bien seul dans l’ascension finale.

Privé de son coéquipier de luxe Julian Alaphilippe depuis mercredi et victime d’une chute “sans conséquences” selon lui jeudi dans une descente, le Belge de 22 ans n’a pas été en mesure de suivre l’attaque portée par “Rogla” à quatre kilomètres de l’arrivée, dans les portions à 12% du col de première catégorie perchées à près de 2000 mètres d’altitude.

“Aujourd’hui (samedi, NDLR), je n’avais pas mes meilleurs jambes. Je ne pouvais pas accélérer lorsque Roglic est parti. Après, j’ai encore de l’avance au général, il n’y a pas d’inquiétude à avoir. J’espère que ce sera ma plus mauvaise journée sur ces trois semaines”, a tenté de dédramatiser Evenepoel à l’arrivée de l’étape.

Le train mené par son coéquipier Ilan van Wilder au pied du col n’a pas empêché Primoz Roglic, Miguel Angel Lopez ou encore Enric Mas de le décrocher à quatre kilomètres de l’arrivée.

Huit jours après avoir revêtu le maillot rouge, le leader de la formation Quick-Step a concédé 48 secondes au général sur son dauphin Primoz Roglic (Jumbo) et vingt secondes sur Enric Mas (Movistar).

“C’est une super journée pour nous. Je me sens mieux, on va faire la course maintenant”, a prévenu le leader de la formation néerlandaise samedi en guise d’avertissement pour la suite.

Car “Le petit cannibale” ne possède plus qu’1 minute et 49 secondes d’avance sur le triple tenant du titre slovène et 2 minutes et 43 secondes sur l’Espagnol.

Dimanche, Evenepoel est attendu au tournant alors que le peloton se mesure à l’étape reine de l’édition 2022 de la Vuelta avec l’arrivée au terrible sommet du Hoya de la Mora avec 19,3 kilomètres d’ascension à 7,9% de moyenne et 2500 mètres d’altitude : rien que ça.

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Everton’s goalkeeper Jordan Pickford saves a ball as Liverpool’s Roberto Firmino falls in the net during their English Premier League match at Goodison Park, Liverpool, England, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Super).

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LONDON (AP) — It might be time for Liverpool to start worrying about their slow start to the English Premier League (EPL).

Jurgen Klopp’s team dropped points for the fourth time in six games after an eventful 0-0 draw at Everton in the Merseyside derby on Saturday, with Mohamed Salah hitting the post in the 95th minute.

Chelsea have VAR to thank for not being in a similar position as West Ham had an injury-time equalizer ruled out for a foul at Stamford Bridge, allowing the Blues to hold on for a 2-1 come-from-behind win.

Chelsea already have two losses and a draw in the opening six games, while Liverpool have three draws and one loss, having needed a goal in the eighth minute of injury time to beat Newcastle in midweek.

“It’s not the start we wanted,” Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said. “It’s not a dream, it’s exactly 50% of the points available. But that’s the points we got, and let’s go from here. If we go through these really hard moments together we have a good chance to create better moments in the future.”

Tottenham’s start to the league have been more impressive, and Antonio Conte’s team remained unbeaten after beating Fulham 2-1 at home in another London derby, with Harry Kane scoring his fifth goal of the season.

In the highest-scoring game of the day, Ivan Toney had a hat trick for Brentford in a 5-2 win over Leeds, whose American manager Jesse Marsch was sent off in the second half for protesting a refereeing decision.

Bournemouth came from 2-0 down in the second half to earn a 3-2 away win at Nottingham Forest in a game between promoted sides, while Wolverhampton earned their first victory of the season by beating Southampton 1-0.

Newcastle missed a host of chances as they were held at home by Crystal Palace to 0-0.

Manchester City played at Aston Villa late, while leader Arsenal will travel to Manchester United on Sunday.

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US Coast Guard offloads US$3M in illegal drugs from traffickers in the Caribbean Sea

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The United States Coast Guard on Friday said that a crew from the Coast Guard Cutter, Vigorous, offloaded about 22 pounds of cocaine and 1,256 pounds of marijuana, worth an estimated $3 million at Base Miami Beach.

In a statement, the Coast Guard said that the drugs seized is in keeping with its fight against drug cartels in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean.

“Vigorous is glad to have been able to make an important contribution to the Coast Guard’s counterdrug mission,” said Commandeer Ryan A Waters, commanding officer of Vigorous.

“I’m incredibly proud of the hardworking Vigorous crew’s proficiency, teamwork and devotion to duty that enabled the detection, interdiction and boarding of a vessel suspected of drug smuggling,” he added.

According to Coast Guard officials, the fight against drug cartels in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean, and the transnational criminal organisations they are associated with, “requires a unity of effort in all phases; from detection and monitoring to interdiction and apprehension, and on to criminal prosecutions by international partners and US Attorneys’ Offices in districts across the nation.”

“Detecting and interdicting illegal drug traffickers on the high seas involves significant interagency and international coordination.”

It said the Joint Interagency Task Force South in Key West, Florida, conducts detection and monitoring of aerial and maritime transit of illegal drugs.

Maritime interdiction of illicit maritime activity in the Caribbean Sea is coordinated by the Seventh Coast Guard District, headquartered in Miami, Florida, and the Eleventh Coast Guard District, headquartered in Alameda, California coordinates interdiction of illicit maritime activity in the Eastern Pacific.

The Vigorous generally deploys 185 days a year for patrols lasting 45 to 60 days to a variety of operating areas, extending from the Gulf of Maine to the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

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Two men and a woman are on 67 money laundering charges, stemming from offences three years ago, and have been placed on bail totalling $2.1 million.

The accused are Amelia Maharaj, Terrence Sankar and Rakesh Rahim and they are charged for offences that occurred between May 9 and August 13, 2019, when a former employee at a financial institution allegedly processed transactions amounting to $530,000 from a customer’s account without approval.

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Maharaj is charged with 48 counts of money laundering and one count of conspiracy to defraud a financial institution. She was granted bail of $900,000. Sankar is charged with 14 counts of money laundering and is on bail of $800,000.

Rahim is charged with five counts of money laundering with bail set at $400,000.

The three are expected to appear before an Arima magistrate on September 13. They were charged after an investigation by the police Financial Investigations Branch.

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The investigation was led by Snr Supt Wendell Lucas, supervised by Insp Mc Kenzie, Sgt Samuel and legal counsel Cpl Mings. The charges were laid by financial investigator PC Alexander.

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Duo travelling in minibus robbed of over $5M cash, other belongings

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Police in Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) is investigating an alleged arm robbery committed on two male employees who were relieved of some $5.8million cash and other belongings by two armed bandits.

The incident occurred at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo on Friday, September 2, 2022 at about 11:30 hours.

Reports are that a 45-year-old male of Leguan, Essequibo River and a 71-year-old male of Wakenaam, Essequibo River are employees of Elite Protection Service located at Leonora, West Coast Demerara.

On Friday, the two employees were respectively paid three million dollars cash, after which they left the office at Leonora and joined a minibus heading in the direction of Parika, EBE.

Sometime after, one of the suspects also joined the bus at Leonora and went into the third seat, while the second suspect joined the bus at Zeelugt, EBE, and went into the front seat of the bus.

One of the suspects requested the driver to go into Clay Brick Road, Tuschen, to collect his grandmother and he offered to pay $2,000 extra.

However, as the driver proceeded to the direction given to him, while in the vicinity of the northern end aback of Clay Brick Road, the suspect who was in the third seat caused the driver to stop and pulled out a handgun. He then robbed the two victims of the monies.

The suspect who was in the front seat also pulled the keys out of the bus’ ignition after which he ran to a motorcycle that was parked a short distance away from the bus. He was joined by the other suspect, and they both subsequently escaped on the said motorcycle.

The victims were also robbed of a Blu cellular phone valued $5000, a Samsung J7 cellular phone valued $30,000, a Grand Prime phone valued $20,000, and one S10 Samsung Galaxy phone valued $60,000.

Investigations are ongoing.

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Gold miner stab to death during row at Baramita

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A gold miner was on Friday stabbed to death during an argument with another man during a drinking spree in the North-West District (NWD), Region One (Barima-Waini).

Dead is 26-year-old Peter James of Baramita, NWD, who was killed sometime around 22:30h on Friday Barama Line, Baramita.

According to police reports, James and the suspect were known to each other and were both consuming high-wine with water at the location since 15:00h on Friday.

However, later that evening, the two men got into a heated argument which caused the suspect to arm himself with a knife which he allegedly used to stab the victim to his right arm.

James ran away and the suspect gave chase. However, after covering a distance of about 200 feet, the injured man collapsed and fell to the ground in front of a fenced yard.

Public spirited persons stopped the suspect from inflicting any further injuries to the victim.

The suspect, thereafter, walked away from the scene and made good his escape on foot with the knife in his hand.

Meanwhile, James was rushed to the Baramita Health Centre where he was seen and examined by a Medex. He was admitted to the said Health Centre but died whilst receiving treatment.

His body will be transported to the Port Kaituma Mortuary for a Post Mortem Examination.

Checks are currently being made for the suspect, the police said.

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Agriculture stakeholders placed the spotlight on healthy foods for children during a five-day programme in Brazil that was aimed at strengthening public policy on school feeding in the region.

Representatives from 10 Latin American and Caribbean countries, the CARICOM Secretariat and the University of the West Indies participated in the international technical mission that began on 29 August 2022.

The international technical mission was organised by the trilateral south-south cooperation project Consolidation of School Feeding Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

Programme Manager for Agricultural and Agro-Industrial Development at the CARICOM Secretariat, Mr. Shaun Baugh, spoke at the forum on Thursday.

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He told participants that food and nutrition security is accorded high priority in CARICOM which is taking steps to ensure that “our children have food”.

He highlighted the Community’s goal to reduce its high food import bill by 25 per cent by 2025.

“There is a saying that says ‘start them right and make them bright’. This is a profound statement for us in the Region. Our children matter and it is our duty to ensure that we create the conditions that will allow them to contribute positively to national and regional development.

“Food and nutrition security is one of the single most important areas for us in the CARICOM region. It has been agreed that this is an area that must remain on the front burner and be given the highest priority at all times,” Mr. Baugh said.

He referenced the World Food Programme CARICOM Livelihood Survey that was recently completed which found that there was a reduction in incomes and purchasing power of household, which, in turn, have caused families to buy less food, and “even more alarming, less nutritious foods.”

He pointed out that “this affects the children and their ability to learn and, if not addressed, “will cause human development and capacity problems for years to come.”

“We have developed some comprehensive agricultural development programmes which will safeguard against this. We are pushing our 25 by 2025 food security . We are grateful for this opportunity to learn and take back possible solutions to our Region that will enhance the overall food and nutrition status of our children,” Mr. Baugh said.

He added that the partnerships and the lessons from the mission in Brazil will be used to enhance sustainable school feeding programmes in the Region.

The school feeding project in Brazil is part of the actions of the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Programme.

It is developed jointly by the Brazilian Cooperation Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (ABC/MRE), the National Fund for Educational Development of the Ministry of Education (FNDE/MEC), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

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El Departamento de Justicia de EE.UU. detalló este viernes el contenido de las 33 cajas incautadas en agosto pasado en la casa del expresidente Donald Trump en Mar-a-Lago, Florida. La publicación del inventario ampliado completa una lista más corta publicada en los días posteriores al polémico allanamiento.

Fue la jueza federal de distrito Aileen Cannon quien ordenó publicar esta información, aun antes de decidir si designa a un experto para revisar los documentos incautados. El equipo legal de Trump insistió en que muchos de los archivos están protegidos por el llamado privilegio ejecutivo o el de la relación abogado-cliente, y exigió la devolución de todos los documentos que no fueron expresamente demandados en la orden de registro.

El caso es que la orden no era muy específica acerca de lo que se iba a incautar, y se refería en términos vagos a “documentos físicos y registros que constituyen evidencia de contrabando, frutos de crimen u artículos poseídos ilegalmente en violación” de las leyes federales sobre el almacenamiento de material confidencial, incluida la Ley de Espionaje y otras de registros presidenciales. Fue expedida en respuesta a una declaración jurada del FBI, que sostenía que sus agentes habían intentado repetidamente acceder a los archivos clasificados en Mar-a-Lago, y que no lo podían conseguir de otra manera que por medio de un registro.

La familia Trump guardaba en esa mansión más de 100 documentos clasificados, aunque el inventario deja claro que la mayor parte de lo requisado son cosas de uso común, incluso prendas de vestir o regalos, metidos entre los papeles en las mismas cajas. Esa forma de tener documentos secretos mezclados al azar con distintas cosas personales, y no en algún lugar seguro, está ahora en el foco de muchos medios, tras la publicación, y puede representar un problema para el exmandatario.

Así, una caja contenía 99 recortes de periódicos y revistas de los años 2017 y 2018 junto con 15 documentos “secretos” y siete “ultrasecretos”. Allí mismo encontraron los fiscales 43 carpetas vacías marcadas como “clasificadas” y 28 carpetas vacías marcadas como “devolver al secretario de personal / asistente militar”.

Otra caja contenía, según el inventario, 68 recortes de prensa de entre 2015 y 2017, una prenda de vestir, supuestamente un regalo, un libro y dos documentos gubernamentales no clasificados. La siguiente incluía 11 documentos marcados como “confidenciales” y otros 21 “secretos”, mezclados con 30 recortes de prensa. Una más, solo dos documentos “clasificados” entre 357 documentos y fotos del gobierno no clasificados, entremezclados con 24 recortes de prensa.

Los fiscales calificaron la situación como una posible “obstrucción” intencionada, alegando que el equipo de Trump ocultó y eliminó deliberadamente algunos documentos clasificados que deberían estar en los Archivos Nacionales, para así frustrar la búsqueda de los agentes federales.

Por su parte, el expresidente republicano insistió en que desde antes su equipo estaba cooperando plenamente con los agentes, según recogió Fox News. Además, afirmó que había una orden permanente para desclasificar cualquier documento que se llevara a casa después de dejar la presidencia.

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NV GEBE takes another two weeks to consider disconnections (Updated with Commentary) – StMaartenNews.com – News Views Reviews & Interviews

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PHILIPSBURG — Embattled utilities company NV GEBE is “counting on people to come in with their payments,” Temporary Manager Sharine Daniel said in an interview with Lady Grace during the radio broadcast The Breakfast Lounge on Thursday. Daniel acknowledged that GEBE is in financial dire straits but that it will take another two weeks until it will consider disconnecting non-paying clients.

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GEBE has put its clients in four different categories, simply labeled A, B, C and D (see images below). Those in the A-category (residential, commercial and industrial users) are the most at risk of being disconnected Daniel said.

“In the A-category are 76 percent of our customers. There is no discrepancy, the bills are accurate but there is no payment,” Daniel said. “This is where GEBE will go back to its procedures, to disconnect them, because Category A-clients have no reason not to pay. If you have not made a payment we will disconnect because consumption is taking place. If you have a bill and you don’t pay but you are still using the service, that is not fair to GEBE.”

GEBE closed its doors on March 17, after it was hit by a ransomware cyber attack and it only reopened its offices on June 6. The effect of the attack on the company’s finances are significant, due to the fact that people stopped paying because they did not receive any bills.

NV GEBE collections down to 30 to 40% of monthly revenues after attack.

“GEBE was accustomed to making 15 million guilders in revenue per month,” Daniel said. “After the attack it went down to 5 or 6 million.”

Daniel said that GEBE was able to bill 76 percent of its client-base after the attack; that is the complete A-category. She noted that GEBE adopted its cyber security internet response protocol and that under this regime the company was unable to say much in public about the situation.

She said that she is open to Prime Minister Jacobs’ suggestion to establish a crisis management team, but added that GEBE already has such a team in place.

The temporary manager claimed that negative publicity has not been helpful. ”Our vendors are reading that and this has had a negative effect on GEBE’s credibility.”

However, Daniel insisted that GEBE has not stopped paying its vendors, after Lady Grace suggested that suppliers are no longer willing to extend credit to the company. ”That is somewhat true,” she said. “But it has nothing to do with GEBE. It has to do with the negative publicity that has caused suppliers to think that we are almost bankrupt. So they wonder whether they can still trust us and whether they will still get their money.”

NV GEBE has tapped into its reserves; unsustainable

Daniel acknowledged that GEBE’s financial situation is “critical” and that the company has financed the continued supply of electricity and water to the community from its reserves, but that approach is obviously not sustainable in the long run.

Daniel declined to discuss numbers or to say how long GEBE can continue using its financial reserves “because our vendors are watching.”

Between March and July 2021 GEBE produced 132 million KWh of electricity. Over the same period in 2022 production increased to 139 million KWh. “GEBE is producing and distributing, but it is not collecting,” Daniel observed soberly before finally providing some numbers.

Before the cyber attack GEBE collected at times 550,000 guilders a day. Now it is down to 20,000 of 30,000 guilders a day.

“GEBE also has expenditures,” Daniel pointed out. “GEBE has to sustain GEBE.”

What is going to happen next and what does this mean for GEBE-clients? That mostly depends on the category they fall in. The A-category-clients are the most at risk for disconnection if they fail to pay their bills.

The B-category consists of clients who have disputed their bill. “They will never be disconnected because it is up to GEBE to rectify incorrect bills,” Daniel said.

Customers have approached GEBE after they received bills for four months (March to June) and wondered how they could pay this in one go. Daniel said that the company has encouraged clients from category C (who have not received a bill) to pay at least their estimated average into their account. “You don’t have a bill but you know it is coming,” she said. “And yes, I know the struggle out there is real but we still have to run GEBE as a business. We are urging these clients to pay, not only to protect GEBE, but also to protect themselves.”

In category D are new clients and clients who have recently moved whose details have not been uploaded into the system. “They can pay through the bank using their name or their account number. We will reconcile it,” Daniel said.

While category A-clients have to be concerned about a disconnection, Daniel also had a stern warning for clients from the other three categories. “Guys, the bills are coming. GEBE can no longer use its reserves to finance the people of St. Maarten. You have had April, May, June, July and August to make provisions. When these bills come GEBE will revert to its procedures; that means a 30-day notice.”

During the next two weeks, GEBE will evaluate its disconnection process and when the situation has not improved by then, it will have to take the unpopular decision of disconnecting non-paying customers.

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The news coming out of NV GEBE changes by the day and now by the hour. The latest news today is that the Temporary Temporary Manager is no longer the Temporary Temporary Manager as the Temporary Manager is back from sick leave and is now the COO and the Temporary Temporary Manager who was the prospective incoming CEO is now being suspended pending an investigation while an external Crisis Management Team, which NV GEBE already has its own in place within the company, is now being appointed by the Shareholder Representative and will be headed by an External Financial Consultant, who now as a financial wizard has to work his financial magic since NV GEBE’s reserves is precariously down to 30M while owing SOL 10M and owing the extremely nervous Wartsila an unknown amount that only the Temporary Temporary Manager as Head Internal Auditor would know better than anybody else within the company while a lien on the company’s bank accounts is hanging over the company’s proverbial head like a ‘Sword of Damocles’.

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