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Mayberry Superstars Marlin Tournament launched Loop Jamaica
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Mayberry Investments Limited vice president of sales and client relations, Christine Benjamin, speaking at the recent launch of the Superstars of Port Antonio International Marlin Tournament 2022 at the Royal Jamaica Yacht Club in Kingston. (PHOTO: Contributed).
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Mayberry Investments Limited (MIL) has once again displayed its commitment to the development of sports in Jamaica.
The brokerage firm in alliance with Superstars of Port Antonio (SOPA), has reignited the flames of the SOPA International Marlin Tournament 2022, which will commence on Tuesday, September 27, and will come to a halt on Saturday, October 1.
Mayberry has thrown its ‘line out’ as title sponsor for the exciting tournament, at the launch event at the Royal Jamaica Yacht Club in Kingston recently.
Mayberry is anticipating another successful tournament set to take place at the Errol Flynn Marina located in Port Antonio, Portland.
Christine Benjamin, vice president of sales and client relations at Mayberry, spoke highly of the event, saying that Mayberry was elated to be back onboard the prestigious tournament.
“Our partnership is a commitment to sport and nation-building. Anglers have widely acknowledged the tournament as having the highest marlin catch rate per boat compared to any other event on the island. The prominence and value of this sporting event and the lives it impacts is tremendous. We are elated to be on the journey to grow sport fishing in Jamaica,” Benjamin said.
The people of Portland are set to benefit considerably from the staging of the event as they will get an opportunity to earn. Bobby Stewart, chief executive officer of the Port Antonio Superstars Blue Marlin Tournament, is happy to see the event back after the COVID-19 lockdowns.
“I am anticipating a rather good and exciting tournament and I’m looking forward to some marvellous catch. It will be great for the people of Portland. We should have three wonderful gruelling days of friendly rivalry,” Stewart asserted.
Anglers will be vying for the top prize of US$100,000 along with varied sectional prizes.
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Sagicor reorganises senior management structure Loop Jamaica
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Sagicor Group Jamaica has announced changes to its senior management structure.
Chris Zacca, President and CEO of Sagicor Group Jamaica said, “These changes are designed to effect greater efficiencies, streamline and strengthen our operations and transform our business with an ultimate goal of deepening our focus on our clients, and the development of our people.
Three key executives of Sagicor have been promoted to have oversight over key areas in the Insurance, Technology and Shared Services areas of the Group.
Mark Chisholm, former Executive Vice President for the Individual Life Division will become Chief Revenue Officer, Insurance.
Willard Brown former head of the Employee Benefits Division is now Chief Technology and Insurance Operations Officer.
Karl Williams, former Senior Vice President Human Resources & Corporate Services will be promoted to Executive Vice President – Shared Services.
A new position has also been added to the organizational chart given the critical importance of digitalization to the Sagicor Group.
The role of Senior Vice President, Group Technology & Sagicor Life Operations, will be filled by Howard Gordon.
Gordon, the former Senior General Manager – Operations and Technology at National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited possesses a wealth of experience in auditing, risk management, operational management, business process re-engineering and productivity management as well as a working knowledge of information systems.
“These changes will allow us to put our clients first, grow revenue faster and be more flexible as we work to make Sagicor better equipped to innovate as fast as our clients and our industry requires,” said Zacca.
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Judge rejects plea by terrorist’s son to visit mother in Trinidad
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Justice Ricky Rahim. –
A High Court judge has dismissed an application by a 17-year-old – whose TT-born father has been deemed a terrorist by both the United States and Trinidad and Tobago – to be allowed into TT to visit his mother.
On Friday, Justice Ricky Rahim dismissed an application to have the court review a decision by the immigration department to issue a rejection notice without a special inquiry. Attorneys for the teen also sought an interim application to compel the chief immigration officer to hold the inquiry.
The rejection notice was ordered after the teenager was detained at Piarco International Airport over the weekend. His father and a brother are incarcerated in the US for terrorism offences.
The US family court had given the teenager permission to visit his mother for two months.
Rahim said the teen had the opportunity to let the immigration officer know he wanted to challenge the rejection notice, since the procedure is set out on the order. He said if he had done so, it would have led to the special inquiry he wanted, and also given him an opportunity to provide further proof he was entitled to enter the country.
Rejecting an argument that the teen was not told he could “appeal” the rejection order, the judge said he was accompanied by an adult – a social worker from the US – whose duty it was to assist him.
Immigration officials also detained the social worker . It has been telegraphed to the judge that the teen and the social worker want to return to the US.
In his ruling, Rahim said it was in the teen’s interest that the “process of return not be unreasonably delayed so that the trauma of the event may be brought to an end sooner (rather) than later.”
He also suggested the immigration division allow the teen a supervised visit with his mother before he leaves TT.
Rahim said the teenager had not successfully argued he was a citizen of TT by descent.
He also referred to the teen’s travel to Syria at the age of seven and the “not so subtle inference that he is also trained in or participated in warfare and terrorism.”
But Rahim said this had no bearing on the denial of entry.
“As far as the court is concerned, the relevance of the information lies more…with the hardship and indescribable long-lasting trauma that the minor must have endured having been plucked from normal living at the age of seven and placed in a country ravaged by a war in which he may have been made to participate.”
He said the teen was a victim.
“In fact, the presence of so many representatives of agencies of the US on the court link all with the best interest of the minor as their priority speaks volumes to the level of attention and care that he appears to be benefitting from in the US.”
Information had been presented by a police officer with the Special Branch’s terrorism interdiction unit, received from foreign intelligence service, that the teenager is the son of an ISIS fighter deemed a terrorist in the US and TT.
The court was told the teen travelled to Syria with his father and siblings in 2015, aged seven, and when the father and an older brother were captured in 2019, they were returned to the US, where the latter two were convicted and jailed.
The teenager was put in foster care and his mother was deported to TT.
Contacted on Friday by phone, the boy’s mother declined to speak about her son’s rejection.
On Monday, Rahim is expected to rule on the issue of costs and a separate application filed by the State for a wasted-cost order.
This means the teen’s attorneys may find themselves having to pay the State’s costs personally. But they will be given seven days’ notice to say why such an order should not be made.
The teenager was represented by attorneys Criston J Williams and Celeste Jules. The chief immigration officer was represented by attorneys Gregory Delzin, Domonique Bernard and Jinai Chong Sing.
Delzin said the court’s jurisdiction was invoked on a frivolous basis, there was non-adherence to court orders, affidavits were filed without permission in an attempt to “steal a march” and the law on judicial review was disregarded.
He also said this caused the teen to be detained for much longer, possibly causing him anguish, when there was an alternative remedy which could have led to the special inquiry being completed in a day. Delzin urged the court to send a message to attorneys that judicial review should not be the first port of call.
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Guanapo scavenger killed in freak accident
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A 33-year-old woman was killed on Thursday in a freak accident at the Guanapo Landfill.
A police report said Victoria Nelson of La Retreat Road Arima, a scavenger at the landfill, was working when she was killed.
Police said at about 10.30 am, an excavator was working near Nelson.
Some time later, other scavengers raised an alarm, and the excavator operator stopped.
Nelson was found pinned under the bucket of the excavator.
She was taken to the Arima Health Facility, where she died at about 10.50 am.
Cpl Fletcher of the Arima Police Station is continuing investigations.
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VC Bird International Airport to close ahead of TS Fiona’s impact Loop Barbados
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Commercial flights in and out of the V C Bird International Airport in Antigua and Barbuda will cease from 5 pm in anticipation of the impact of Tropical Storm Fiona.
The Antigua and Barbuda Airport Authority said it expects to reopen the airport from 7 am on September 17.
Travellers affected by the cancellation have been advised to contact their airline.
Regional carrier LIAT has suspended the following flights to and from Antigua:
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Antigua and Barbuda and several territories in the Northern Leeward Islands are under a Tropical Storm Warning.
At 8 am, the US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said TS Fiona’s centre was located 285 kilometres east of Guadeloupe.
NHC said data from its Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate that TS Fiona’s winds remain near 50 mph (85 km/h) with higher gusts. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 125 miles (205 km) from the system’s centre of circulation.
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Acting Prime Minister remembers DLP stalwart Dr Denis Lowe Loop Barbados
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Barbadian politician Dr Denis Lowe has been remembered for his contributions to the political landscape of Barbados.
The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) stalwart who sat as the parliamentary representative for the constituency of Christ Church East between 2008 and 2018 died today, Friday, September 16. Dr Lowe served two terms under the Freundel Stuart administration and was a former Minister of Environment and Drainage.
Acting Prime Minister Santia Bradshaw recalled Dr Lowe’s “colourful language on the political platform” as a DLP stalwart, and his devotion to his party and to the people of Barbados.
“His robust use of colourful language on the political platform endeared him to many and ensured he was always one of the DLP’s most sought-after speakers,” she said.
“We may not have agreed often with his political style or the policies that his party pursued, but we do believe that as a Barbadian, Dr Denis Lowe cared about his country; and at this moment of his passing, it is appropriate to set aside the cut and thrust of politics to say: ‘Thank you for your service to Barbados!’,” continued the Acting Prime Minister.
Bradshaw expressed her condolences to Dr Lowe’s family, friends and the Democratic Labour Party.
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Les sc?nes de pillage se poursuivent ce vendredi aux Gona?ves, un bless? par balle
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Des habitants de Gona?ves ont gagn? encore une fois les rues de la cit? de l’ind?pendance ce vendredi 16 septembre 2022. Dispers?s en plusieurs branches, ils ont attaqu? presque simultan?ment des institutions dont des ?tablissements scolaires de la ville. Ce vendredi, l’organisme international UNOPS, un d?p?t abritant des produits de la brasserie nationale pr?s des locaux du PAM, le coll?ge la Sainte-Famille l’Universit? publique de l’Artibonite aux Gona?ves (UPAG), le Coll?ge Immacul?e Conception (CIC) et le centre cardinal Keller ont entre autres ?t? attaqu?s par les manifestants.
Pr?s de Bigot, un jeune homme a ?t? atteint d’un projectile ? la jambes alors qu’il venait de jouer au football. On ignore l’origine de ce tir. La victime a ?t? transport?e d’urgence ? l’h?pital La Providence.
Au cours de la journ?e d’hier, outre le pillage de la Caritas et du PAM, les protestataires avaient pill? “Lama Cosmetics appartenant aux #1 des agents int?rimaires de la ville”, Donald Diog?ne ainsi que “Lama tissus” et “Lama ?lectronic”, propri?t? respective de la m?re et d’un fr?re de Donald Diog?ne. Aux Gona?ves, l’inqui?tude est mont?e d’un cran en ce qui concerne l’issue de ces mouvements.
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Asafa Powell joins advisory team of EV company Flash Motors Loop Jamaica
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Flash Motors Limited (Flash), an electric mobility solutions company, has announced that former 100-metre world record holder Asafa Powell has joined its leadership team.
This week Flash launched its first TV commercial featuring Powell, who will sit on its advisory board.
According to Xavier Gordon, CEO of Flash, the move demonstrates a key part of the company’s core values, ensuring that authentically Jamaican voices have a seat at the decision-making table.
“Jamaican car culture is unique. We believe Asafa embodies the spirit of the Jamaican driver. He knows cars and how we, as Jamaicans, relate to them.”
Gordon added: “Apart from being a sports legend, Asafa is a notable leader in local auto culture. We are excited to have him on our team.”
Powell’s love for cars has evolved into the development of auto expertise, including technical knowledge and training in Motor Sports.
The sprinter has raced vehicles locally at Dover and Vernamfield and overseas in Australia and Europe.
According to Powell, the partnership represents him shifting into a new gear.
“Cars have always been my passion, everyone knows that. I grew up working on cars and to this day I still work on them in my spare time, so partnering with Flash was a natural fit. Every athlete is an entrepreneur; our success is literally powered by our body, our mental focus, our sweat.”
Powell added: “Just like the EV, we generate our own power, and it’s how and where we focus that power that matters most. It is up to each person how they choose to build their dream and I have chosen to build mine alongside Flash Motors”.
Powell hopes to set an example for young athletes whose resources often burn out quickly.
“Athletic careers start earlier and retire younger, so you need to have finances for the long haul to build your legacy,” he noted.
This is not the first of Flash’s local partnerships. The company, which focuses on electric transport solutions, including electric vehicles (EVs) and charging infrastructure, has joined forces with the Stewarts Auto Group, which conducts retail sales and service for Flash’s EV brands.
Recently, Flash led the charge for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) sponsored GOJ-EV Trial Program, with support from Stewart’s and the Jamaica Public Service Company.
This programme sees five government ministries, each receiving BYD EVs and ABB brand charging stations on loan so that government bodies can have first-hand experience of the cost efficiency of EVs.
Flash has also initiated discussions with the University of the West Indies regarding potential partnerships.
Gordon noted: “As members of the Jamaican Diaspora, myself and my co-founder Carey Escoffery understand the importance of circling back to reinvest in Jamaica’s future, and we truly take that to heart. Flash will continue to partner with local industry and icons at every level and in all territories”.
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VIDEO: Man chopped to death, another injured by man on Red Hills Road Loop Jamaica
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Two men were attacked and chopped, one fatally, by a machete-wielding man along Red Hills main road, St Andrew on Friday.
Reports are that at about 7:00 am, a construction worker was walking along the roadway when he was chased and chopped by the alleged perpetrator.
Another man who was in the area was also chopped, he managed to run to a nearby police station to inform officers about the incident.
A team of police responded and went to the location where the man, with the machete, was seen running along the roadway.
Sources report that as the police team approached the reported attacker, was seen running towards a woman. One officer from the team fired several warning shots and other members were able to apprehend the man and the weapon taken from him.
The two injured victims were rushed to the hospital where one, the first man who was attacked, succumbed to his injuries.
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