ICWI Pink Run to raise JM$5m toward the fight against breast cancer Loop Jamaica

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On Sunday, October 30, 2022, Jamaicans have a chance to actively join the fight against breast cancer by participating in the ICWI/Jamaica Reach to Recovery Pink Run.

The title sponsor, the Insurance Company of the West Indies (ICWI) made the announcement during the official launch event held on September 7 at Toyota Jamaica in Kingston.

The annual charity race event is back on the radar after suffering an unexpected two-year hiatus due to the pandemic.

In her address, Samantha Samuda, vice-president of Marketing, Distribution and Human Resources, at ICWI, announced that this year’s Pink Run is projected to raise five million for Jamaica Reach to Recovery (JR2R) – the sole beneficiary of the run.

(L-R) Acting Executive Director of the Jamaica Cancer Society Michael Leslie; ICWI’s VP of Marketing, HR and Distribution, Samantha Samuda; Jamaica Reach to Recovery’s (JR2R) Chair Carolind Graham, Vice-Chair Eugenie French, Director Sandra Samuels and Race Director for the 2022 ICWI Pink Run Phillip Clarke gathered for a photo op and to show off a symbolic cheque for JM$1m from the ICWI to JR2R following the launch of this year’s staging of the fundraising venture.

The JR2R is the arm of the Jamaica Cancer Society that provides emotional, psychological and financial support to breast cancer survivors.

The non-profit organisation which is staffed by volunteers who are themselves breast cancer survivors relies heavily on the monies raised from the annual charity event to provide adequate support to its members.

Samuda explains that ICWI’s support is indicative of the work of the company to support families by doing what they can to save the lives of breast cancer patients, which are largely women.

“In 2019, the race raised JM$7 million, a significant contribution which went a far way but there is now a tremendous gap in the organisation’s coffers because of the cancellation of the 2020 and 2021 stagings.”

“With the pandemic still causing some restrictions, we believe we’ve set a realistic goal to raise JM$5m for the JR2R this year. We are attempting to again strengthen the work of the JR2R so that breast cancer patients have the support services they need to win the fight,” Samuda noted.

The highly anticipated 5K run/walk takes place each year in October. Globally, October is recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness Month and corporate Jamaica has paid homage to survivors over the years through various initiatives each year.

The ICWI is leading the charge by encouraging other corporate entities to register their teams for the ‘fun run’ for the benefit of Jamaicans at large.

Carolind Graham, Executive Director, JR2R, is grateful for the support from the ICWI while expressing the need for support from other corporates.

“We thank the sponsors that have joined us in this initiative so far and want to appeal to other corporate entities to also join us in this effort. We want to make up for the shortfall that we have been dealing with since the pandemic. Our team has been working hard with the small resources to help our breast cancer survivors; so, we want to not just meet the goal but surpass it with the support of the participants. Each registrant is allowing one woman a chance to access life-saving tests and treatments needed on her journey to recovery,” Graham shared.

Participants are expected to show up in their interpretation of the pink run, be it with tutus and knee-high socks or other versions that have been represented over the years.

This year, the walk and the run event has a new home, at Hope Gardens. Registration is now open and persons may visit the Pink Run website as an individual or team; donations are also accepted.

For further information, persons may contact the Pink Run organisers at 876-936-7980-2 or 876-978-0375 or 876-517-0312 or via email.

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Young dancer stabbed outside club in need of blood Loop Jamaica

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The relatives of a 19-year-old dancer, who was stabbed, allegedly by another dancer, have issued a desperate plea for blood donations as she is expected to undergo major surgery soon.

The injured dancer, Jeneva ‘Spirit’ Sawyers, hails from Greenwich Farm in Kingston. She is a member of the dance group Royalty Divas.

Sawyers was reportedly stabbed a few minutes after an event at a popular restaurant, bar and lounge on Hagley Park Road in St Andrew ended on Monday morning.

The incident has been reported to the police.

“She has lost a lot of blood. I am making an appeal for people to give blood at the Blood Bank for Jeneva, because she has to do major surgery,” Claudine Grant, mother-in-law of the young dancer, told Loop News on Monday.

“Dem just run mi outta the room [at KPH]… They opened up her chest so air could get in her lungs…” Grant said.

“She vomited, and a blood clot came out the hole where she was stabbed and the doctors said it was a good thing it came out,” she added.

Grant alleges that the attack was unprovoked.

“She was in the car when the girl stabbed her in the back with a ratchet knife and punctured her lungs. Oh God,” the dancer’s mother-in-law claimed.

A police officer reportedly visited the hospital to take the report and spoke to alleged eyewitnesses of the attack.

Dancehall artiste RT Boss, who employs the Royalty Divas, appealed for peace to reign in dancehall.

“Right now, Jen is in critical condition and will need major surgery. We are asking for prayers at this time because she was stabbed under her arm, puncturing her lungs and one of her arteries. She’s critical right now, and for what, some petty matter. We need peace to reign in the dancehall, cut out the violence,” dancehall artiste RT Boss told Loop News.

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UPDATE: Upset taxi, bus operators could protest all week Loop Jamaica

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Why St Andrew transport operators have withdrawn their services

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“Some of the police just issuing out the [traffic] tickets as if a pick we pick up the money off the ground fi pay them,” was the claim of one transport operator who was among bus and taxi operators who withdrew their services in sections of the Corporate Area on Monday.

The protesting transport operators ply the Lawrence Tavern and Stony Hill routes in St Andrew to Half-Way-Tree and downtown Kingston.

The bus and taxi operators gathered in Half-Way-Tree on Monday, calling for a traffic ticket amnesty and threatening to continue their protest all week, which will impact commuters’ ability to move around.

Watch the video to hear why the aggrieved transport operators are taking a stand.

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CLASSES have resumed at the Scarborough Secondary School, but students in forms two and three will alternate days.

The school reopened its doors on Monday, having failed to open on September 5, the first day of the new school year.

A press release from the THA Division of Education, Research and Technology on Monday said form three students will go to school on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Form two students will attend on Tuesday and Thursday. This is because of continued repairs next to a block at the southern end of the school compound.

A statement from the principal on Sunday said that this arrangement will last for two weeks. The principal warned that the form three classrooms and the auditorium will be out of bounds. Students are advised to follow the safety signs.

The division said updates to this temporary schedule will be communicated to parents and students through the principal.

It added that infrastructural repairs will only take place at the end of the school day and on weekends, to ensure the safety of students.

Last Monday, late school repairs saw two of Tobago’s 57 schools remain closed. The other was Speyside Secondary, which opened on September 6.

Education secretary Zorisha Hackett said repairs were classified as high, medium and low priority, and only high-priority repairs would affect the reopening of schools.

The Scarborough Secondary School has been in disrepair for some time. In 2019, students protested over the conditions and called for a new school to be built.

In an interview that year, the Prime Minister said the school needed to be relocated further inland because coastal erosion was threatening its foundations.

Then Education Secretary Kelvin Charles had previously said there were plans to build a new school and land had been identified. He did not say where, or whether the school would be renamed if or when it was relocated.

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Sentencian a más de 11 años de prisión federal a hombre por operar un esquema “Ponzi” y cometer fraude bancario

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Carlos Maldonado, dueño de Business Planning Resources International Corporation (BPRIC), Glorimar Fashions and Tailoring, LLC, Global Business Insurance Agency Inc., y asociado bajo los documentos de incorporación con Pet Card Systems, Inc., y Datavos Corporation, fue sentenciado el lunes, a 11 años y tres meses (135 meses) de prisión federal por fraude de valores y fraude bancario, y se le ordenó cumplir cinco años de libertad supervisada.

“A las víctimas en este caso, como en la mayoría de los casos, se les prometió un increíble retorno de la inversión de su dinero duramente ganado. Lamentablemente, las promesas se basaron en mentiras y fueron aprovechadas por alguien que usó su deseo de un futuro mejor para ganarse su confianza y robarles sus sueños”, dijo el FBI SAC Joseph González en declaraciones escritas.

A Maldonado también se le ordenó pagar 1,986,734.26 dólares en restitución a 46 de sus víctimas.

Maldonado fue acusado de 16 cargos de fraude de valores y fraude bancario el 27 de octubre de 2016. En diciembre de 2019, fue declarado culpable de todos los cargos después de un juicio con jurado. El jurado encontró que, desde aproximadamente el año 2007 hasta el año 2012, Carlos Maldonado junto con varios asociados solicitaron y adquirieron de manera fraudulenta más de 5,000,000 de dólares en nombre de BPRIC de más de 100 personas y otras empresas. Como parte del esquema fraudulento, Maldonado y sus asociados proporcionaron contratos de inversión falsos a las víctimas en Puerto Rico y los Estados Unidos continentales a cambio de su inversión monetaria en sus empresas comerciales falsas.

Durante el juicio, el gobierno presentó cheques, registros bancarios, correos electrónicos, otras pruebas documentales y testimonios de testigos y víctimas que probaron que el acusado hizo o provocó que se hicieran representaciones materialmente falsas y engañosas a los inversores, incluyendo: (i) que las diversas empresas estaban involucrados en funciones comerciales legítimas, que él sabía que no eran ciertas; (ii) no revelar a los inversionistas que sus fondos se utilizarían para comprar y comercializar acciones y materias primas en una cuenta de ScottTrade, Foreex Capital Markets, LLC y otras cuentas comerciales personales, y para los gastos de la familia de Maldonado en lugar de financiar las empresas comerciales falsas ; y (iii) no revelar que los fondos de inversión obtenidos de manera fraudulenta serían utilizados por Maldonado para comprar bienes y servicios en tiendas minoristas, restaurantes y gastar dinero en viajes, alquiler, entretenimiento y pagos de préstamos personales para automóviles.

Luego de la imposición de esta sentencia sustantiva por parte del Juez de Distrito de los Estados Unidos John Woodcock, Juez de Distrito del Distrito de Maine, el Fiscal de los Estados Unidos W. Stephen Muldrow para el Distrito de Puerto Rico enfatizó que “el fraude de inversión puede presentarse de muchas formas, pero su  característica principal es la promesa de un retorno rápido y alto.

Los estafadores, haciéndose pasar por vendedores o empresarios, contactan a personas desprevenidas y les ofrecen oportunidades de inversión aparentemente emocionantes. Las víctimas son atraídas por la promesa de un trato que es “demasiado bueno para ser verdad” porque no es verdad. Queremos recordar a los ciudadanos de Puerto Rico que ninguna inversión está libre de riesgo y que una oferta de alta tasa de retorno siempre significa mayor riesgo.

Antes de invertir, obtenga información por escrito, como un prospecto o informe anual, y tenga cuidado si un vendedor lo presiona para que invierta de inmediato, le promete ganancias rápidas, lo alienta a pedir dinero prestado o cobrar fondos de jubilación para invertir, le dice que escriba información falsa en los formularios de su cuenta, o utiliza palabras como “garantía”, “alto rendimiento” u “oferta limitada”. Tan pronto como sospeche que ha sido objeto de un esquema fraudulento, comuníquese con las autoridades para que podamos procesar a los responsables e intentar recuperar los fondos robados”.

“En el FBI estamos comprometidos a llevar estos casos hasta el final, pero necesitamos que las víctimas se presenten. Si cree que usted o alguien que conoce ha sido víctima de uno de estos esquemas, llame al 787-987-6500 o deje un aviso en línea a través de tips.FBI.gov. Ayúdanos a llevar a estos criminales ante la justicia”, añadió González.

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Un carril abierto en la PR-2 en dirección de Guayanilla hacia Yauco por accidente de auto

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La Policía informó el lunes, que investigan un accidente de auto, en la PR-2, antes de entrada de Yauco, donde se encuentra el puente en construcción.

Debido a dicho accidente, se encuentra un carril abierto.

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The Barbados Water Authority (BWA) is giving customers who are in the red another one and a half months of amnesty to repay owed monies on their accounts, before taking a direct approach to recover outstanding arrears.

Having tried to exercise leniency over the past 30 months, giving the public the responsibility of honouring all debts to BWA without repercussions for not doing so, the BWA has not seen an acceptable response.

In a statement released today, BWA said that during the last two and a half years, its receivables portfolio has risen by $26 million. “This is unsustainable and has had a negative impact on our operations,” BWA stated.

Therefore, the BWA has promised that it will start seeking to recoup its owed monies now and will encourage all customers with overdue bill balances to visit the Authority’s Pine Headquarters between September 15 and October 31 to make restitution.

BWA General Manager, Keithroy Halliday, explains:

“Following this period of amnesty, the BWA will have no choice but to recommence the disconnection of the water services of customers whose accounts are still in arrears, once no effort has been made to engage the Authority to settle the debt.”

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Un homme blessé au sommet du Nez-Cassé ce week-end

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C’est sur le pan de montagne dénommé le Nez-Cassé au-dessus de la section de Papaye à Saint-Claude, qu’un homme s’est retrouvé en difficulté ce week-end.

Ce samedi (10 septembre) en fin d’une journée plutôt clémente, les gendarmes étaient à la recherche d’un homme, parti en randonnée dans la zone du Nez Cassé ; l’individu aurait fait un malaise, et aurait décidé de rester sur place avant d’appeler à l’aide. Des militaires qui semblaient bien conscients des difficultés et risques éventuels encourus à pareille heure pour accéder à cette zone. Nous les avons quittés au-dessus de la clinique Les Nouvelles-Eaux-Vives à proximité de la station de traitement d’eau abandonnée. C’est d’ailleurs de cette clinique qu’une dame âgée atteinte de troubles cognitifs s’est échappée la semaine dernière ; A noter qu’au même moment, l’hélicoptère Dragon de la sécurité civile était sur toute cette zone au-dessus de la section Papaye.La victime a été retrouvée et ramenée à la Clinique les eaux vives à Saint-Claude, peu avant 7h30 hier (11 septembre). Après un bilan de santé réalisé par le Samu, la victime a été laissée sur place à la charge de ses proches.

Les secours rappellent qu’il est fortement déconseillé de partir seul en randonnée.

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