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More than 500 migrants and refugees attended the Refugee Day held in La Romine in past weeks. – Grevic Alvarado

The Catholic Church through the Catholic Commission for Social Justice (CCSJ) and the Archdiocese Ministry for Migrants and Refugees (AMMR) has served more than 4,000 refugees so far in 2022 in special community days.

Called “Refugee Day,” the community outreach programme is carried out in the areas with the greatest presence of migrants and refugees.

Matthew Pierre, Community Outreach Co-ordinator for the CCSJ told Newsday he normally provides clothing, food and other items to migrants.

“So far this year, we have visited Freeport, Penal, Arima (Malabar), Diego Martin, Curepe, Scarborough (Tobago), La Romaine and Mayaro,” said Pierre.

He said they have attended about 500 people for each day held.

Pierre said the events are attended by a large number of volunteers from both churches and partner agencies and from the refugee community itself.

Among the collaborators, the following stand out: UNHCR, PAHO, Unicef, Living Water Community, International Organization for Migrants, among others.

In the health services, the participants are checked by general practitioners who do basic health check-ups, sexual health tests, rapid tests for covid19, vaccines.

The collaborating agencies carry out days of legal service, support for gender violence, among others.

Migrant children are also served with friendly spaces, alternative care, donations of clothing, books, religious support.

Not all services are available for all days.

Pierre said Unicef ​​is the main support partner for the care of migrant children. “We have seven spaces in Trinidad for the attention of migrant children in which we provide education and other general services,” he said.

Pierre said the programme started in September 2021 organised by the AMMR.

“It evolved from our health care campaign started before February 2021, and following the model of Refugee Days on a smaller scale organised by our Ministry for Migrants and Refugees of Santa Rosa and Malabar Parishes in Arima since 2019,” He said.

In total, since September 2021, the programme has reached 12 communities.

“Our goal is to organise three more to close the year,” said Pierre.

Maria Flores, a Venezuelan attended at the Arima day, said the attention was very good.

“Migrants here have few opportunities to be treated in hospitals beyond emergencies. On Refugee Day I was able to get a general check-up as well as my two children. They also gave me clothes and food,” she said.

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BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Oct. 20, 2022

The Belize Agricultural Health Authority (BAHA) has not officially declared the end of the Avian flu outbreak that was confirmed to have been detected in Belize over a month ago. Since early September, government ministries have been monitoring an outbreak of Avian Influenza on poultry farms in Shipyard and Blue Creek in northern Belize. A Cabinet release recently confirmed, however, that—in the wake of a depopulation exercise that involved the killing of tens of thousands of chickens—the results of all the tests conducted by BAHA and sent to United States labs for detection of the virus have been negative.

The manager of the Belize Poultry Association, Armando Cowo, confirmed in an interview yesterday, however, that an all-clear has still not been declared in Belize, since some samples are still abroad being tested. As a result, they are not yet able to assess the losses caused by this recent outbreak of Avian Influenza in Belize.

“We don’t have an update on the losses, because we have not done that, because we are waiting until the event is closed by BAHA; it needs to be officially closed. Although the Minister of Agriculture went to Cabinet and told them that it is all contained and so on, we need to have the event closed by BAHA, legally closed,” Cowo said.

It is to be noted that at this time, SI 128 is still in effect, and until it is repealed, losses in the poultry industry caused by the outbreak cannot be definitively determined.

While he confirmed that we are seeing the end of the outbreak, since all the results of overseas testing that have so far been returned have been negative, there is one more batch that has not been returned to BAHA yet. “At the moment most of the restrictions has been lifted, and the industry is operating almost normally,” Cowo said.

He confirmed that there are no potential shortages of poultry products at this time, nor are any foreseen in the short term.

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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Broadcasters were criticized by FIFA president Gianni Infantino on Saturday for what he called unacceptably low offers for rights to screen the Women’s World Cup next year.

Offers of just 1% of the value of men’s World Cup rights deals have been rejected, Infantino said, for the tournament that starts in July in Australia and New Zealand.

The men’s World Cup has driven FIFA’s expected overall income toward $7 billion for the four-year commercial cycle that ends in December after that tournament in Qatar.

“100 times less, even more than 100 times in some occasions, then this is not acceptable,” the FIFA leader said at a news conference ahead of the finals tournament draw. “I don’t want to mention them, but those who are there, they know it.”

The time zones in Australia and New Zealand mean many games, especially in the group stage, will be played in the nighttime hours in lucrative markets in Europe and the Americas.

“We are not going to accept this,” Infantino said of the broadcast offers, “because we know that the viewing figures for these broadcasters in some big footballing countries for the men’s World Cup or for the Women’s World Cup are actually very similar … meaning their commercial income is very similar for men and for women.”

Infantino took a further jibe at broadcasters who he said pushed FIFA to treat women’s soccer more equally on issues such as World Cup prize money.

The 32 teams at the men’s World Cup in Qatar will share $440 million in prize money, while a prize fund of $60 million was proposed for the first 32-team women’s edition in 2023.

“In some countries, they are quite good at telling us … that we should give more emphasis on equal opportunities, on equality, on non-discrimination, on treating men and women in the same way which is, of course, what we have to do, and we try to do that to the best of our ability,” Infantino said.

“It’s important that everyone puts actions, as well, behind words and we all start to treat women’s football the same way.”

FIFA has changed the commercial model for the Women’s World Cup to earn its own income instead of simply being packaged as an add-on for broadcasters and sponsors doing deals for the men’s tournament.

Infantino suggested a further push for equality for women’s soccer, noting that Olympic tournaments have 16 men’s teams and only 12 for women.

“Women should have 16 teams as well at the Olympic Games,” he said. “These are some discussions we are going to have.”

Adding four women’s teams would need more than 70 athlete quota places when the International Olympic Committee is asking some governing bodies to make cuts to help find space for new sports and control organizers’ costs.

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