Equino entra hasta un salón del RUM

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El Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez (RUM) , emitió declaraciones , luego de que se diera a conocer en redes sociales, que un “caballo realengo” entró a un salón de clases de la institución.

“En el Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez (RUM) no estamos exentos del problema de caballos realengos que sufre la isla y por ende, el Municipio de Mayagüez. Tenemos un campus con una extensión territorial amplia, cercana a las 170 cuerdas de terreno, que incluye a la Finca Alzamora. De manera que en ocasiones han llegado hasta nuestra institución algunos animales realengos.

En el caso del caballo en las fotos, desde la Finca Alzamora llegó hasta el Taller de Arte, ubicado frente a nuestra Imprenta. Ayer martes, 6 de septiembre, cuando abrieron la puerta para ingresar los materiales de arte, el animal entró al salón. Luego que lograron que saliera, la Guardia Universitaria lo escoltó a la Finca, donde se ubicó y se le dio agua, hasta que su dueño lo reclame”, concluyó en comunicado.

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‘Klanten betalen voor hun plezier’

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24-jarige wil sekswerk uit taboesfeer halen Beroving, (groeps) verkrachting en mishandeld worden zijn risico’s die sekswerkers lopen tijdens het uitoefenen

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Bruno Blandin « Nous avons des normes trop contraignantes »

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Bruno Blandin, le patron du MEDEF Guadeloupe 

Le patron de l’UDE-MEDEF, Bruno Blandin demande d’avoir un plan de développement politique et économique dans ce monde franco-français pour les Outre-mer.

Comment avec vous vécu ces deux journées de rencontres des entrepreneurs français (LAREF22) ici à l’hippodrome de Paris Longchamp ?

Nous avons pour la première fois reçu le ministre délégué aux Outre-mer, Jean-François Carenco, à la rencontres des entrepreneurs français (REF). Il nous a donné sa feuille de route, dans laquelle, il nous parle de co-construction. Nous sommes preneurs à la co-construction de nos départements d’Outre-mer.

La Première ministre demande la contribution des entreprises…


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Covid-19 en Guadeloupe: 729 nouveaux cas et un décès la semaine dernière

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Les autorités ont communiqué les chiffres de la situation sanitaire liés à la propagation du COVID 19. Selon l’Agence Régionale de Santé, 729 nouveaux cas ont été recensés contre 767 la semaine dernière. Cependant, on constate un prédominance du sous-lignage BA.5 d’omicron.

Ce mercredi (7 septembre), les autorités ont communiqué par voie de communiqué de presse les nouveaux chiffres de contamination à la Covid-19.

Les contaminations

Du 29 août au 4 septembre 2022, le nombre de nouveaux cas positifs dépistés sur le territoire a diminué.Il est de 729 contre 767 la semaine dernière.L’ARS a dénombré 4 122 personnes s’étaient fait tester tests antigéniques réalisés sur le territoire, contre 4651 la semaine passée.Depuis le mois de Juin, une co-circulation des sous-lignages BA.2, BA.4 et BA.5 du variant Omicron est observée sur l’archipel avec une prédominance de BA.5Le taux de positivité perd 1 point Sa valeur affichée est de 15,3 % contre 14,3 % la semaine passée.Le R effectif est de 0,90.

Aucun cluster n’a été recensé depuis un mois. Un homme de 76 ans est décédé la semaine dernière

Les hospitalisations

Le 6 septembre:-  24 patients adultes COVID sont hospitalisés en médecine conventionnelle (stable).- 5 enfants sont accueillis en pédiatrie (1 au CHU et 4 au CHBT)- 39 patients sont hospitalisés en réanimation : 6 se trouvent en réa COVID du CHUG et 33 sonthospitalisés en réa non COVID (soit 4 au CHBT et 29 au CHUG).- 57 se trouvent sous oxygène à domicile (baisse).

La vaccination

Au 6 septembre, on comptait 391 956 injections de:- 1ère dose : 46,04 %- 2ème dose : 43,92 %- 3ème dose : 26,57 %

8 525 adolescents de 12 à 17 ans ont reçu la 1ère injection et 8 098 ont reçu la 2ème injection à ce jour en Guadeloupe.

Recommandations de la préfecture

Face à la circulation virale toujours très active, la Préfecture de Guadeloupe tient à faire quelques rappels:

-Il est fortement recommandé de maintenir les gestes barrières et de porter un masque en particulier pour les personnes fragiles et vulnérables. Cette recommandation vaut également pour tous dans les lieux clos où la concentration de personnes est importante et lors de grands rassemblements, y compris en plein air ;

-S’isoler en cas de signes évocateurs de l’infection et se faire tester au moindre doute que l’on soit asymptomatique ou cas contact. Les personnes fragiles doivent continuer à se protéger.

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Grades requirements temporarily waived for scholarships Loop Cayman Islands

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Minister of Education Juliana O Connor-Connolly.

The Ministry of Education has announced a temporary waiver of grade requirements for students seeking to qualify for Education Council Scholarships to begin undergraduate studies in the fall of 2022 at accredited, recognised overseas institutions, as well as those seeking to further their education locally.

Overseas undergraduate scholarships are administered by the MoE Scholarship Secretariat Unit and awarded by the Education Council to Caymanian applicants fully accepted into accredited, recognised overseas institutions and who obtain certain grade benchmarks from a variety of programmes.

The temporary waiver will apply to those who had been conditionally approved to receive a scholarship for overseas undergraduate studies and will apply to qualifying grades normally required from the following programmes:

Advanced Placement;Advanced Level (A Levels);Caribbean Advanced Placement Examination (CAPE);Associate Level Studies;Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC) Level 3;International Baccalaureate (IB); andScholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).

For those who had been conditionally approved for scholarships to begin studying locally, the temporary waiver will also apply to the following programmes:

Certificate level studies at UCCI and Cayman Career Academy;Pre-college level studies at the UCCI;Associate level studies at the UCCI, ICCI and UWI Open Campus;Bachelor-level studies at the UCCI, ICCI, Truman Bodden Law School and UWI Open Campus;First-year A ‘level studies at the St. Ignatius School and Cayman Prep High School; andSecond-year A’ level studies at the St. Ignatius School and Cayman Prep High School.

Minister for Education Juliana O’Connor-Connolly remarked: “Following the onset of COVID-19, many students worldwide have faced extenuating circumstances that prevented them from realising their full potential.

“By temporarily waiving the grade requirements for students who had been conditionally approved for scholarships to begin overseas undergraduate studies this fall and for those seeking to begin further education programs locally, we will ensure that every Caymanian student has a chance of achieving great academic success irrespective of their circumstances.”

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JMEA members to access VM pension scheme, special offerings Loop Jamaica

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VM Pensions Management Limited has inked a deal which will see the business supporting member companies and employees of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) get access to an approved retirement scheme (ARS) and a suite of other specially curated offerings.

Through the partnership, the association’s members will benefit from enrollment in an affordable pension scheme, with premiums starting as low as $1,000; reduced rates and special access to corporate financing solutions, as well as financial coaching for companies seeking to list on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE).

The agreement for the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association Retirement Account (JMEARA) was officially signed between the two entities at the VM Group’s corporate office on Half-Way Tree Road on Tuesday, September 6.

CEO of VM Pensions Management Limited, Conroy Rose, said the decision to partner with the JMEA was strategic, especially considering data which suggest that only about 12 per cent of Jamaicans are enrolled in a private pension scheme.

“The manufacturing sector is the largest production arm within the country and the wellbeing of workers must be a priority if we want to truly achieve our development goals. Persons should not have to depend solely on their children and loved ones for financial support after they have given their best in their most productive years,” he said. “We were careful to ensure that while the main focus was on tailoring a flexible pensions support offering, there was consideration for other financial goals that the target group would want to achieve even before retirement.”

Included in the JMEARA bundled product offering for member companies is an onboarding discount on investment management fees and on the development of the risk management framework for the fund. Companies will also benefit from reduced fees on business loans, commercial mortgages and auto loans, insurance and other products, as well as access to equity or debt investments.

Employees enrolled in the scheme can access preferential rates for residential mortgages and discounts on property valuations, special VM Drive auto loan packages, an unsecured loan facility and discounts on insurance products from British Caribbean Insurance Company (BCIC), a VM Group affiliated company.

The VM Group will carry out an ‘onboarding blitz’ through financial literacy sessions at member companies across the island and clients will also have access to other awareness products disseminated by the Group.

Rose emphasized that while the VM Group gives access to attractive financial products, this is only a piece of the puzzle.

“As part of the product offerings, we always need to ensure that we play our part to empower individuals to make the best decisions for their financial wellbeing. Statistics show that our population is aging and, conversely, the birth rate is declining. Therefore, individuals need to make retirement planning a priority and so in our quest to transform lives, we are seeking to ensure that we not only offer the products, but also provide the education so that the products can provide optimum benefit to our Members and clients,” he said.

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Reparations key to equality in conversations about slavery past

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Ubuntu Connected Front (UCF) Caribbean draws attention to reparations in the conversations about the slavery past during the visit of the Minister and State Secretary for Kingdom Relations to St. Maarten, St. Eustatius and Curaçao. UCF Caribbean also wants them to listen to the voice of the ‘ordinary’ man/woman in the street and not just talk to a programmed selection of interlocutors. UCF Caribbean President Kenneth Cuvalay: “There is too much talk about our slavery past in romanticized terms. Much more research is needed into the crimes committed by the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonialism, and more attention to historical reparations is needed.”

Slavery has been recognized as a crime against humanity by the United Nations and the European Parliament. The UN program “International Decade for People of African Descent” will run until 2024. Like UCF’s ‘Black Agenda’, it is based on three pillars: recognition, justice and development. Cuvalay: “We cannot talk about ‘healing’ if so many crimes from the past on our ancestors have not been investigated and recorded. The impact of this in the present is equally important. We cannot build an equal future if we don’t talk about reparations.

Free according to the law but not in practice

The abolition of slavery in the Netherlands on July 1, 1863, did mean legal freedom, but as Martin Luther King put it in an interview: “It was freedom to hunger. It was freedom to the winds and rains of heaven. It was freedom without food to eat or land to cultivate.” Slavery has lasted not five years, but almost 300 years and the crimes are greater than the forced labor on the plantations. In Suriname the Afrikan men were forced to work on the plantations for another ten years. On St. Eustatius, many plantation owners refused the then free Afrikans permission to build a house on the plantation, so that many were forced to emigrate to St. Croix.”

Effect of slavery to the present day

The color black became a stigma. The violence and racism did not end on July 1, 1863, and to this day, much of the Afrikan diaspora community lives in survival mode and is not treated equally. Research by Follow The Money shows that the Dutch government has been keeping the inhabitants of the Caribbean Netherlands poor for twelve years. Research by the Central Bureau of Statistics has shown that the Caribbean and Surinamese Dutch have been hit hardest in the allowance affair. On St. Eustatius, an island with less than 4,000 inhabitants, the government has not been able to give citizens back their democratic rights for more than four years. Cuvalay: “I see that as colonial rule squared”.

Reparations is more than money

When the term reparations for our slavery past is used, politicians often get on edge because the association with financial compensation is immediately made. But it is about much more than money. The ‘Black Agenda’ of UCF provides the framework for this. First of all, the Dutch government must recognize slavery as a crime against humanity and offer state apologies. But it also involves visibility and representation of people of Afrikan descent and their heritage. For St. Eustatius, the St. Eustatius Afrikan Burial Ground Alliance has therefore submitted an application to the Unesco’s Routes of Enslaved Peoples for the preservation of our historic Golden Rock and Godet cemeteries. In a press release issued last week, we reported on the ‘liberated Afrikans’ of St. Helena. A UNESCO application is also underway for this invisible cemetery. The legacy of the ‘Middle Passage’ must be made visible and commemorated on a grand scale.

Wish for vast Memorial on St. Eustatius

An example of historical restoration of rights is also a commemorative monument such as in Barbados, Brazil, Curaçao, Haiti, Jamaica. Cuvalay: “We made a video of the Caribbean commemorative monuments for slavery. UCF Caribbean wants the Dutch government to make funds available to St. Eustatius for a monument of allure that symbolizes the suffering of our Afrikan ancestors and is a recognition of everything they have built and produced with their bare hands on this island. A place to commemorate and say “never again”. It is absurd that such a monument is not yet there on St. Eustatius, while the island was the largest transit port of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the 18th century.”

Kenneth Cuvalay, President of Ubuntu Connected Front (UCF) Caribbean and the “St. Eustatius Afrikan Burial Ground Alliance”

About Ubuntu Connected Front (UCF)Ubuntu Connected Front is a political party in the Netherlands founded in 2017. It participated in the 2021 Parliamentary election and although it did not receive enough votes to win a seat in the House of Representatives, it was the most popular party in St. Eustatius, receiving 50,8% of the votes. Motto: “Equality is a human right, not a privilege”. UCF focuses on equal rights for people of Afrikan descent. Website https://ubuntuconnectedfront.com/

About the St. Eustatius Afrikan Burial Ground Alliance

The St. Eustatius Afrikan Burial Ground Alliance arose from the protests against the excavations at an 18th-century cemetery of enslaved Afrikans that started in June 2021 by a team of international archaeologists (see (see https://www.change.org/LeaveOurAncestorsInPeace) These protests were started from Ubuntu Connected Front (UCF), a political party that participated in the parliamentary elections in 2021 led by human rights lawyer Regillio Vaarnold. UCF did not get enough votes for a seat in parliament, but became the largest party on St. Eustatius with 50.8% of the votes. “Equality is a human right, not a privilege” is the motto of UCF, which focuses in particular on the interests of Dutch people with Afrikan roots: UCF goes out of the three pillars of recognition, justice and development (defined in the ‘Black Agenda’). When it became clear that the activities surrounding the controversial excavations would last longer than a few weeks or months, the group started to organize itself outside the political spectrum and in November 2021 the St. Eustatius Afrikan Burial Ground Alliance” became a fact. The Alliance has since grown into a movement that liaises with other groups fighting for the preservation of Afrikan historic cemeteries. In response to the protests, we published a scientific article in January 2022 “A Future That Does Not Forget: Collaborative Archeology in the Colonial Context of Sint Eustatius (Dutch Caribbean)”

Black Agenda. The ‘Black Agenda’ of Ubuntu Connected Front (UCF) can be found in the “Manifest for NL Transformation” at the UCF website (Chapter 5).

The Black Agenda consists of three pillars:

Recognition concerns the impact of our slavery past as a crime against humanity.
Justice is about historical restoration of rights.
Development aims to achieve equal development opportunities for people of Afrikan descent throughout the diaspora meaning “Equality is a human right, not a privilege”.

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Guyanese broadcasting icon Prince Maison passes on

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Prince Maison died on Saturday in Maryland, USA after a period of illness at the age of 77.

The Crystal Award winner was an iconic member of GBS radio (later GBC) where he was best known for hosting Action Line and Face the Nation and anchored the news on major newscasts “The World at Noon” and “The World at Seven” before it was shifted to the 7.30, and then the 8.00 o’clock news.

His great-niece and author and writer, Daniella Maison on Wednesday confirmed his passing and said the Maison family, and the wider community have lost an icon saying “My Great Uncle Prince was loved dearly by his family. His legacy lives on in his loved ones and in the vast impact he made across the world. Guyana has lost a true son of the soil.”

Tributes have already begun pouring in from his former colleagues at GBS Radio, one of whom wrote: “This one hits hard. He will surely be missed, but forever be remembered.”

Prince Maison

These and other reminisces are some of the accolades of endearment for the late Programme Director of the Guyana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Prince Maison, who joined the then Guyana Broadcasting Services (GBS) radio newsroom as a reporter in the 1970s.

One colleague said ‘His work ethic, willingness to learn and absorb ideas within the industry, professionalism, abilities towards mentorship, charisma as a great boss, competitiveness in endeavours; along with the required drive to complete varying tasks, producing, and hosting documentaries and other programmes including ‘Face the Nation’ and ‘Action Line’, helped towards his achievement of becoming one of the Programme Directors.

His ‘last’ meeting where he was seen by a large number of colleagues, was during the 50th-anniversary celebrations of Guyana’s Independence, where the ‘Guyana Radio Group’ of North America hosted a ‘get-together’ for those visiting and those at home, where we reminisced of collaborations, competitions, excellence, dynamic broadcasting, and hilarity of faux pas, rounding out the evening, without realisation of this being the last glimpse of our ‘Prince’. You’ve served your country and broadcasting well so, be at peace.”

Prince Maison was born in Golden Grove Village, on Guyana’s East Coast of Demerara. He secured Certificates in Management Studies and Caribbean Studies and a BSc in Public Communications from the University of Guyana and the University of the West Indies. He was a double PhD student at Kansas University, Medical Anthropology, and American University, Cultural Anthropology. He once said one of his real passions was ‘for change and development and growth in a young, independent Guyana.’

Before migrating, Prince served Guyana as a clerk, high school teacher of a range of subjects, and in the roles of Broadcaster, Programme Moderator, News Writer/Producer, Director of Current Affairs, Assistant Programme Director, and Programme Director.

Wordsworth McAndrew, supervised Prince when the latter was one of the producers of the Today programme in 1977 and they became great friends and Maison was featured in his presidential campaign.

Outside of Guyana, Prince served radio and television stations in various capacities, winning the Crystal Award for outstanding contribution to broadcasting. He has also served at American University as a research assistant and George Mason University and Howard University as an instructor. At the time of his death, he was Assistant Professor at Kansas University.

Among the many highlights of Prince’s career were radio correspondent for Radio Antilles (Montserrat), broadcaster on assignment with the late President Burnham as he travelled internationally, a correspondent for the United Nations radio and television in New York, and radio correspondent for the BBC in London. He worked for the World Bank in Africa and the Caribbean on HIV/AIDS Awareness, and Social and Behaviour Change, with the main premise of those programmes being culture.

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Guyana, Dominican Republic sign MoU to boost economic, commercial ties

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(from left): Sharmayne Balram, Foreign Service Officer, Secretariat of the Minister; Department of the Americas, Vernon Robinson; Chief of Protocol Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ivan Evelyn, Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister, Hugh Todd; Foreign Affairs Minister of the Dominican Republic, H.E. Roberto Alvarez; Deputy Minister of Bilateral Foreign Policy, Ambassador José Julio Gómez Beato; and Ambassador of the Dominican Republic in Trinidad and Tobago, H.E. Wellington Bencosme

The Governments of Guyana and the Dominican Republic on Wednesday fortified their ties with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a bilateral cooperation plan between the two countries.

Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister, Hugh Todd and Foreign Affairs Minister of the Dominican Republic, H.E. Roberto Alvarez signed the agreement at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Georgetown.

The MoU provides for the strengthening of cooperation, examining opportunities, developing capacities, facilitating partnerships, and sharing experiences in industries including energy and mining, logistics, air, sea, and land transportation, tourism, agriculture, manufacturing, investment advancement, and private sector growth.

A committee will also be established to advance trade and technical cooperation between the two nations. Ambassador of the Dominican Republic in Trinidad and Tobago, H.E. Wellington Bencosme; Deputy Minister of Bilateral Foreign Policy, Ambassador José Julio Gómez Beato; Department of the Americas, Vernon Robinson; and Chief of Protocol Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ivan Evelyn also attended the meeting.

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Bajan footballer could join Australian team – Macarthur FC, very soon Loop Barbados

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Tridents Barbados’ Mario Williams is set to join Australian professional football club, Macarthur FC., if all goes well health wise.

On Tuesday, ESPN reported that sources have disclosed Williams will join the A-League Men’s team pending the completion of a medical.

Should the talented defensive midfielder and centre back join Macarthur FC, he will be the second Barbadian international sportsman to play in the League after former Wellington Phoenix Paul Iffill, who though born in England, represented Barbados – his father’s birthplace – between 2004 and 2008.

According to ESPN, former Barbados Tridents coach, Russell Latapy, who is the new assistant to fellow Trinidadian Dwight York, recommended Williams. Latapy was the head coach of the Barbados national team for three and a half years, until he resigned in June this year.

“Latapy, who was appointed as fellow Trinidadian Dwight Yorke’s assistant after coaching Barbados from 2019 to 2022, has vouched for Williams’ ability to contribute at an ALM level despite his lack of exposure outside of his home region; believing that his talent hasn’t been recognised due to external scepticism over Caribbean football’s level.” ESPN said.

Williams will be the second international player to land at Macarthur this offseason, joining Georgian Bachana Arabuli.

Set to open their 2022-23 A-League Men campaign away to Brisbane Roar on October 8, Macarthur FC will meet the Oakleigh Cannons on Wednesday, September 14 in the semifinals of the Australia Cup.

Macarthur FC has until 5 pm the day prior, to register Williams if they want to include him in the side to take on the Cannons.

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