Guyana, Grenada talk enhanced partnership

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Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud with Grenada’s Minister
for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Export Development Joseph Andall

Guyana’s Foreign Secretary, Robert Persaud, recently met with Grenada’s Ministerfor Foreign Affairs, Trade and Export Development, Joseph Andall, to discussenhanced bilateral cooperation between the two countries in several areas.

The meeting was held in St. George, Grenada.

The Foreign Secretary lauded the Guyana/ Grenada relations and highlighted the need forenhanced collaboration in regional integration efforts within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

During the discussion, he also addressed Grenada’s support for President Ali’s regional food security agenda, which will see countries within CARICOM import bill reduced by 25% by 2025. The issues faced by Guyanese living in Grenada were also discussed.

During his visit, the Foreign Secretary met with the Guyanese diaspora, some of whom migrated since the 1970s and 1980s from Guyana.

Grenada has a small Guyanese population who have been contributing to the service and education sectors in the country.

At the meeting, Persaud also emphasised the opportunities and developments currently ongoing in Guyana and the benefits and importance of the collective diaspora.

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Coomacka Mines teen killed in accident

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A 19-year-old female was killed in an early morning accident at Coomacka Mines, Region 10 today.

Dead is Tiffany Forde of Coomacka Mines. The accident occurred sometime around 02:30h on the Coomacka Mines Road.

Reports are that motor car #PXX 7789,  driven by a 28-year-old male also of Coomacka Mines, had two other ooccupants – Forde and 22-year-old Joel Rawlins, also of Coomacka Mines.

Enquiries disclosed that the car was proceeding north along the eastern side of Coomacka Mines access road at a fast rate of speed, when the driver lost control of the vehicle which flipped several times before coming to a halt on the northern side of the road.

As a result, Tiffany Forde who was seated in the left front seat received injuries about her body. She was picked up by an Ambulance in an unconscious condition and rushed to the Linden Hospital Complex where she was seen and examined by a doctor on duty, who pronounced her dead on arrival.

Her body is presently at the Linden Hospital’s mortuary awaiting a post mortem examination.

The driver and the other occupant who was seated in the back seat, were taken to the Mackenzie Police Station and are presently assisting with the investigation.

A breathalyzer test was conducted on the driver and the readings were .29 and .31 micrograms respectively.

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PAHO Director Urges Partnerships In Health, Says Disease Knows No Borders – St. Lucia Times News

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The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Carissa F. Etienne, asserting that disease knows no borders, has called for partnerships in health amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Disease knows no borders. So, as we turn to the task of rebuilding from this pandemic, we must do more to improve the health of our people by working in partnership and building equity as a core value,” a PAHO release quoted Etienne as saying.

She spoke at the fourth edition of Cuba Salud 2022, an international health convention that ended on Friday in Havana.

According to the PAHO release, Etienne noted that the COVID-19 pandemic further set back limited and uneven progress in implementing the 2030 Agenda.

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She said that the world, including the Region of the Americas, is not on track to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, including SDG 3 on health and wellness.

Dr. Etienne said it was vital to place equity at the center of government agendas to build back better and fairer.

She also spoke of the need to help groups in situations of vulnerability “attain optimal physical, mental, and spiritual health and well-being,” leaving no one behind regarding receiving care.

Among the health consequences of the pandemic, the PAHO Director mentioned the sharp decline in routine vaccination rates over the past two years, increasing the risk of polio, measles, and other disease outbreaks in the region.

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COMMENTAAR: Backtrackroute

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DE PRESIDENT VAN Suriname heeft de backtrackroute vrijdag gelegaliseerd. Dat meldt de communicatiedienst Suriname (CDS) in een persbericht. De president

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Les étapes de l’enquête sur la gestion gouvernementale du Covid

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Des premières plaintes au placement sous statut de témoin assisté de l’ex-Premier ministre Édouard Philippe, voici les grandes étapes de l’enquête sur…

Des premières plaintes au placement sous statut de témoin assisté de l’ex-Premier ministre Édouard Philippe, voici les grandes étapes de l’enquête sur la gestion gouvernementale du Covid.

Premières plaintes

Le 25 mars 2020, soit huit jours après le début du premier confinement, cinq premières plaintes contre des membres du gouvernement visant leur gestion de la pandémie de Covid-19 sont enregistrées par la Cour de justice de la République (CJR).

Elles émanent de particuliers, de médecins, d’associations et visent le Premier ministre Édouard Philippe, l’ex-ministre de la Santé Agnès Buzyn (qui a quitté ses fonctions le 16 février pour se présenter aux municipales à Paris) ou son successeur Olivier Véran.

Les plaignants les accusent, selon les cas, de mise en danger de la vie d’autrui, d’homicide involontaire, de non-assistance à personne en danger ou de s’être abstenus de prendre à temps des mesures pour endiguer l’épidémie. 

Ouverture d’une enquête

Le 7 juillet, la CJR ouvre une enquête pour “abstention de combattre un sinistre”, neuf plaintes, parmi les 90 reçues par la CJR, ayant été jugées recevables.

Stocks de masques insuffisants, problème d’approvisionnement, risque épidémique sous-estimé: l’enquête s’intéresse à l’anticipation et la gestion au quotidien de l’épidémie.

D’autres plaintes jugées recevables seront ensuite jointes au dossier.

Perquisitions

Début septembre, la Cour commence ses auditions. Le 15 octobre, les domiciles et bureaux de MM. Véran et Philippe, de Mme Buzyn et de l’ancienne porte-parole du gouvernement, Sibeth Ndiaye, sont perquisitionnés.

D’autres perquisitions ont lieu chez le directeur général de la Santé Jérôme Salomon et la directrice générale de Santé Publique France, Geneviève Chêne.

Les plaintes se multiplient

En novembre, la CJR juge irrecevable une plainte contre Jean Castex, qui a succédé à Édouard Philippe à Matignon le 3 juillet. La plainte avait été déposée par une association de victimes estimant que le gouvernement continuait de “naviguer à vue”.

En janvier 2021, l’association Anticor porte plainte contre Olivier Véran pour “favoritisme” dans la gestion de l’application “Stop Covid” devenue TousAntiCovid.

Le 30 mars, un collectif d’enseignants porte plainte contre le ministre de l’Éducation nationale, Jean-Michel Blanquer, accusé de “ne pas protéger les personnels en contact avec les enfants” qui “répandent le virus” du Covid-19.

Agnès Buzyn mise en examen

Le 10 septembre 2021, Agnès Buzyn est mise en examen pour “mise en danger de la vie d’autrui”. Elle est par ailleurs placée sous le statut plus favorable de témoin assisté pour “abstention volontaire de combattre un sinistre”.

Le 18 octobre 2022, Édouard Philippe est entendu par la CJR et placé sous le statut de témoin assisté pour mise en danger de la vie d’autrui et abstention volontaire de combattre un sinistre.

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Ukraine: les autorités prorusses appellent les civils à quitter Kherson “immédiatement”

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Les autorités prorusses de la région de Kherson, annexée par la Russie dans le sud de l’Ukraine, ont appelé samedi tous les civils à quitter “immédiatement” la capitale régionale, face…

Les autorités prorusses de la région de Kherson, annexée par la Russie dans le sud de l’Ukraine, ont appelé samedi tous les civils à quitter “immédiatement” la capitale régionale, face à l’avancée des forces de Kiev.

“Tous les habitants civils de Kherson doivent immédiatement quitter la ville”, a indiqué samedi sur Telegram l’administration d’occupation prorusse de la région, en évoquant une “situation tendue sur le front” et “un danger accru de bombardements massifs”.

Les évacuations vers la rive gauche du fleuve Dniepr, qui borde Kherson, sont en cours depuis mercredi. Mais l’appel de samedi revêt un caractère d’urgence accrue. Environ 25.000 personnes ont déjà été évacuées, a indiqué samedi un responsable de Kherson, Kirill Stremousov, à l’agence de presse russe Interfax.

Si Kiev enregistre des avancées sur le terrain, elle subit toujours de lourdes représailles par les airs, avec des tirs de roquette russes sur l’ensemble de son territoire, que le président Volodymyr Zelensky dénonce comme une campagne de “terreur”.

“L’agresseur continue de terroriser notre pays. Pendant la nuit, l’agresseur a lancé une attaque massive, avec 36 tirs de roquette”, a dénombré samedi le président ukrainien, sur les réseaux sociaux.

– Un million de foyers ukrainiens sans électricité – 

Les forces russes “ont procédé à une nouvelle attaque avec des missiles sur des installations énergétiques des principaux réseaux dans les régions occidentales de l’Ukraine”, a annoncé samedi l’opérateur ukrainien Ukrenergo sur les réseaux sociaux.

Plus d’un million de foyers sont sans électricité en Ukraine à la suite de frappes russes sur des infrastructures énergétiques dans le pays, a détaillé samedi un conseiller de la présidence ukrainienne, Kyrylo Timochenko.

“A ce jour, 672.000 abonnés ont été déconnectés dans la région de Khmelnytskyi, 188.400 dans la région de Mikolaïv, 102.000 dans la région de Volyn, 242.000 dans la région de Cherkasy, 174.790 dans la région de Rivne, 61.913 dans la région de Kirovograd et 10.500 dans celle d’Odessa”, a-t-il  dénombré.

“S’il n’y a plus de courant, d’électricité et d’eau en Ukraine, cela peut déclencher un nouveau tsunami migratoire”, a prévenu le Premier ministre ukrainien Denys Chmygal, dans un entretien à paraître dimanche au journal allemand Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

La Russie veut “offrir à l’Ukraine un hiver froid, au cours duquel les gens pourraient littéralement mourir gelés. Cela pourrait conduire à une catastrophe humanitaire planifiée, comme l’Europe n’en a jamais vu depuis la Deuxième Guerre mondiale”, a averti M. Chmygal, qui doit participer lundi à Berlin au forum économique germano-ukrainien.

Peur pour nos vies

Dans une gare de la ville de Dzhankoy, dans le nord de la Crimée, péninsule ukrainienne annexée par Moscou en 2014, des habitants de Kherson montaient dans un train pour le sud de la Russie, a constaté vendredi un journaliste de l’AFP. 

“Nous quittons Kherson car de lourds bombardements ont commencé là-bas, nous avons peur pour nos vies”, a déclaré Valentina Yelkina, une retraitée qui voyage avec sa fille. 

Une autre habitante de Kherson, Yelena Bekesheva, 70 ans, a déclaré qu’elle était en route pour Moscou.  “Nous n’avons pas immédiatement pris la décision (de partir) mais ensuite nous avons été invités par nos amis et nos proches”, a-t-elle déclaré à l’AFP.

Le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky s’était félicité vendredi soir dans une vidéo des “bons résultats” de son armée dans cette région très stratégique où, a-t-il affirmé, plus de trente blindés russes ont notamment été capturés.

Kherson est la première ville importante à avoir été prise par les forces russes au début de leur offensive lancée le 24 février.

Sur le terrain, un conseiller de la présidence ukrainienne, Kyrylo Timochenko, a fait état vendredi de “88 localités reprises” aux forces russes dans la région de Kherson.

Des restrictions d’énergie sont désormais “appliquées de force” dans plusieurs régions ukrainiennes dont la capitale Kiev et sa région, selon Ukrenergo.

Parallèlement, les Ukrainiens ont déjà volontairement réduit leur consommation d’électricité de 5% à 20% en moyenne certains jours et dans certaines régions, a pour sa part précisé à l’AFP le patron d’Ukrenergo, Volodymyr Kudrytsky.

Deux personnes ont été tuées samedi dans les frappes ukrainiennes contre la région russe de Belgorod, frontalière de l’Ukraine, a par ailleurs affirmé samedi le gouverneur de la région, Viatcheslav Gladkov.

Les bombardements ont visé des “infrastructures civiles” dans la ville de Chebekino, a précisé M. Gladkov sur Telegram. “Environ 15.000 personnes sont restées sans électricité, a-t-il indiqué.

La Russie a dénoncé à la mi-octobre une “augmentation considérable” des tirs ukrainiens sur plusieurs régions russes frontalières, dont celle de Belgorod, mais aussi celle de Koursk et de Briansk.

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Des habitants de la région de Kherson occupée par les Russes arrivent à la gare de Djankoï, en Crimée, le 21 octobre 2022, à destination de la Russie
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Des soldats ukrainiens près de Kharkiv dans une tranchée le 21 octobre 2022
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Former RCIPS officer and girlfriend sentenced for indecent assault Loop Cayman Islands

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A former 17-year veteran with the Royal Barbados Police Services, who was also an officer with the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS), has been sentenced to 5 years for an indecent assault on his girlfriend’s female friend (the “victim”).

The former RCIPS officer’s girlfriend, a previous employee with Workplace Opportunity Residency Cayman, was also sentenced to 4 1/2 years for her involvement in the crime.

In addition to the custodial sentence, the court imposed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order on the couple for a period of 3 years prohibiting them from any direct or indirect contact with the victim after their release.

Regarding the details of the indecent assault, these were recounted in-depth in the case summary/ judgment.

According to the summary, after the victim was invited to a planned a birthday celebration for the former RCIPS officer, and following time spent at a bar, the former RCIPS officer reportedly pulled the victim’s dress to hold her back and “tried to put his head under her dress. “

The case summary continued: “When the victim was ready to leave, because of the incident that happened when she was trying to exit the vehicle… she attempted to contact her boyfriend to ask him to collect her from the location. She was unsuccessful in her attempts to contact him and so left with [the former police officer and his girlfriend].”

The ordeal continued when they got back to the vehicle outside the bar, where the case summary explained that the former police officer’s girlfriend told him to “get into the back seat with the victim.”

According to the case summary, as they approached the Camana Bay roundabout, the former police officer started to hold the victim down and “pushed his head under her dress, pushed her underwear aside and started to perform oral sex on her.”

The former police officer’s girlfriend also reportedly participated in the indecent assault against the victim.

The case summary then describes how messages were recovered from the phones of the former police officer and his girlfriend, where the former police officer “could be seen bragging” about the incident. “He can then be heard laughing on the voice note,” the case summary stated.

The case summary continued to detail how messages recovered from the phones include a message where the former police officer, having been informed of the complaint, instructed his girlfriend to delete the conversation from her phone.

Although the victim started to give evidence during the trial about the event, the case summary stated that she was unable to “conclude her evidence” and “did not return to court on the adjourned date to complete her evidence.”

The case summary explained: “She was being cross-examined. The court was furnished then with a medical report which detailed, so far as relevant, that at the end of the previous day’s hearing the victim had been hospitalized and examined by a doctor. The doctor’s conclusion upon examination of the complainant was:

She is currently not capable of providing any further testimony. It is possible that if she is given the opportunity to recover in a stress-free environment that she may be able to resume responding to questioning, however this cannot be guaranteed.

It is my assessment that [Ms X] is not capable of proceeding further until she has had adequate opportunity to recover. This possibly will also entail further therapeutic intervention.

Based on the foregoing, the court said it was satisfied upon the Crown’s application that the victim was unable to continue further with her testimony.

For the indecent assault committed by the former RCIPS police officer and his girlfriend against the victim, the case summary said that any time spent by the former police officer and his girlfriend in custody prior to the sentencing would be deducted from the sentence.

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Bryan responds to hotel GM on what is being done about beach erosion Loop Cayman Islands

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During a question-and-answer session at the Cayman Islands Tourism Association (CITA) meeting this week, Hermes Cuello, General Manager of Grand Cayman Marriott Beach Resort, asked the Minister of Tourism, Kenneth Bryan what his ministry was doing about the Marriott beach erosion issue. In response, Bryan confirmed that he was aware of the issue, but said that, ultimately, the issue is being led by the Ministry of Sustainability and not the Ministry of Tourism.

Bryan said: “I want you to know that we are very cognizant of the problem. I indicated to the department to send out a team to assess the situation and I am fully aware how bad it is. I have explained to the Premier that I am responsible for tourism and the product. [But] I don’t want to step out of line and say what the plan of action is because it falls under his remit.”

While Bryan emphasized throughout his answer that the beach restoration efforts do not fall within his ministry, he explained that the estimates were “between 16 and 20 million dollars” to restore the Marriott’s beach by placing new sand there.

The challenge with doing this, as Bryan explained, is the uncertainty in terms of the length of time that the restored beach would last after the money is spent to restore it.

Bryan said: “The difficulty is… it is that… if we were to put that sand back and another storm comes and just takes it right away, that’s a substantial amount of money that would be lost.”

Regional stakeholders, including the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network, also have concerns about the effectiveness of beach restoration, in particular where there is development near the beach and where seawalls are present.

On their website, they said:

The linkages between development and the persistence of sandy beaches are complex, and should be considered with care before construction near sandy beaches is permitted or undertaken. If dunes are leveled, vegetation removed, and/or solid jetties or seawalls constructed, the likelihood of committing the owners to repetitive and increasingly expensive beach restoration and renourishment is heightened. Rebuilding a natural beach is costly, and often ineffective. The forces precipitating the erosion generally cannot be allayed by the act of restoration, and in many cases the cycle inexorably begins anew.

Although the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network were not present at the CITA meeting, Bryan’s next comments at the CITA meeting mirrored their concerns regarding the impact of the “development” factor mentioned above.

Bryan said: “I think the part that we need to start talking about is the sustainability of our tourism product and the fact that we should no longer allow buildings to be built so close to the beach. And I’m telling you right now this government is going to put everything in place to stop it.”

Bryan noted that he accepts that his explanation “doesn’t solve the problem” for Marriott, but said he has “expressed that, on behalf of the industry, that it needs to be resolved because it is affecting the product.”

“I will make sure that there is some sort of notice to the public and particularly to the CITA membership as to what the Premier’s plans are for it as I can understand your concern.”

Bryan concluded.

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Gun, 5 rounds of ammo seized during joint police/military operation Loop Jamaica

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A team of officers assigned to the Westmoreland Police Division seized one firearm and five rounds of ammunition during a joint police/military operation in Top Geneva district, Grange Hill in Westmoreland on Friday, October 21.

Reports from the Morgan’s Bridge Police are that at about 12:30 pm, lawmen were in the area when they saw a man standing at a shop. Upon seeing the lawmen the man entered the shop. His actions aroused their suspicion and he was accosted and searched. A search of the shop was also conducted.

During the search, one Browning 9mm pistol with a magazine containing five 9mm rounds of ammunition was found in the shop. He was subsequently taken into custody. However, his identity is being withheld pending further investigations.

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Prison officer expresses disappointment with AT&LU and Minister Benjamin as protesting employee is victimized

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Victimization has commenced since prison officers took protest action on Monday, October 17, and one officer says she is disappointed with the representation being accorded by the union representing some of her colleagues.

Junior Officer Jones was one of the vocal staff members on the protest line, and she made a guest appearance on Thursday night’s Captain’s Corner programme.

Jones says the victimization began on the day the staff took action.

In spite of paying dues to the Antigua Trades and Labour Union (AT&LU), the prison officer claims the bargaining agent has not stood with the aggrieved staff of His Majesty’s Prison.

Further, says Junior Officer Jones, the non-national prison officers are afraid to take a stand since they believe their livelihood will be threatened.

However, all the workers are disappointed that everyone has failed them, especially the Minister of Public Safety, Steadroy “Cutie” Benjamin, who, they claim, has abandoned them.

If the workers’ claims of being prevented from protesting are true, then such action goes against the country’s Labour Code, notes Harold Lovell, the Political Leader of the United Progressive Party and an attorney by profession.

Officers gathered outside the Prison’s Coronation Road compound on Monday to voice their frustration over the treatment meted out to them by the authorities and their poor working conditions.

Lovell says the ultimate solution to their plight is not necessarily union action, but to “get rid” of the Gaston Browne Administration. Once this is done, then the issues at the institution would be seriously addressed and remedied, he says.

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