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Prome Minister Evelyn Wever-Croes:

ORANJESTAD (AAN) – Diahuebs 13 di October aki, a tuma lugar e Ceremonia di Cendemento di Luz rose na Bestuurskantoor, cu cual Gobierno a uni su mes den e concientizacion tocante cancer di pecho.

Prome Minister Evelyn Wever-Croes a hiba palabra y a expresa cu October ta e luna cu tur hende ta para keto na cancer na pecho. E mandatario a bisa cu cancer no ta discrimina y ta bati na porta di nos cada un, na e momento talvez menos spera.

            E ta algo hopi cruel cu consecuencianan hopi grandi, no solamente pa e pashent sino tambe pa familiarnan. E dignatario a expresa cu e mes a pasa aden cu familiarnan hopi cerca y stima, hoben y mas grandi, y e ta keda algo sumamente dificil.

            “E luna aki nos ta enfoca mas riba cancer di pecho, y di experiencia mi por bisa cu si e wordo detecta trempan, e efecto y impacto riba abo y bo famia ta menos, y  pesey mi ta haci un yamada na tur hende muher di 18 aña bay ariba, pa ta mas conciente y tuma pasonan di prevencion.

            “Pa cuminza, si bo sinti algo inusual acudi na docter, si mester haci mammogram bay hacie. Y si, ta berdad, e mammogram ta haci dolor pero nada compara cu si bo tin cancer mes.

“Ademas, nos ta muhernan fuerte y balente. No ta berdad? Pues e mammogram nos no mester tin miedo di dje” Prome Minister a señala.

            E dignatario a reitera cu enberdad cancer di pecho ta un di e malesanan cu por wordo detecta trempan, y aki na Aruba tin un sistema hopi bon di salud cu nos por detecta cancer di pecho trempan.

“Bo mes ta haci test of bo por hacie via bo docter, hospital, stichting BOB, tin diferente manera”, e mandatario a subraya.

            El a señala cu ainda tin hende muher ta bisa cu nan tin berguenza, of cu e mammogram ta haci hopi dolor, of cu no kier sa si nan tin cancer. “Cu tur respet, mi no ta comparti e opinionnan aki, pasobra nos como hende muher tin hopi hende ta depende di nos. Nos famia, nos yiunan hopi biaha, nos cas, nos trabao, nos pareha…y pa nos por haci tur esaki pa otronan cu ta depende di nos, nos tin cu cuida di nos mes, prome. Y pesey, awe mi ta asina enfatico di invita tur hende muher un biaha mas pa nos ta mas conciente di cancer di pecho y con nos por detect’e trempan y cu nos por preveni”, Premier Wever Croes a subraya.

            El a gradici tambe tur esnan cu ta pone atencion na e tema aki, dia aden dia afo, aña aden aña afo. El a menciona Mary Joan Foundation, Wilhelmina Kanker Fonds, Stichting Bob y Mamma Poli na Hospital. “Tur instancia y tur persona cu ta enfoca riba e tema importante aki, mi ta convenci cu hunto nos por combati e efectonan, hopi miho”, el a remarca.

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PARAMARIBO — Guno Burleson is op het Panamerikaans kampioenschap dammen als tiende geëindigd. Hij won vrijdag van Amoni Afonsoewa uit Frans-Guyana

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File photo: Attorney General Reginald Armour, SC, addressing the media at a press conference at AGLA Building, Port of Spain.

ATTORNEY General Reginald Armour vowed to bring a bill this parliamentary year to change the retirement age from the current 60 to 65 years old, he said in the Senate budget debate on Friday.

While the Government’s official website still displays an undated article quoting Finance Minister Colm Imbert as having denied any plans to raise the retirement age, in his budget speech he had hinted at a rise by saying a higher retirement age already existed in Jamaica and Barbados. Repeated auditor’s reports for the National Insurance Board (NIB) had spoken of a shrinking pool of contributors alongside more claimants.

Armour also promised an amendment to the Firearms Bill to let prison officers carry guns off-duty. Also lined up is a bill to address the repatriation of the wives and children of men who had left TT to fight for ISIS in the Middle East.

Armour also promised a bill to expunge the criminal records of minor offenders who have successfully undergone a rehabilitation process, so they don’t have to carry such a stigma for their lifetime. Parole and probation will also be addressed, he said.

New laws, the AG said, will also facilitate police sting operations and amend wire-tapping legislation, the Interception of Communications Act. However a new bill, already on the order paper, will allow the polygraph testing, drug testing and biometric testing of members of the protective services.

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– Sureash Cholai

With music, art and traditions, the Venezuelan embassy commemorated the Day of Indigenous Resistance and the Day of the Original Peoples on Thursday night.

Ambassador Álvaro Sánchez Cordero formally opened the exhibition, which includes paintings by featured artist Nerukhi Ato Osei, which will be on show with work by other artists until October 21.

– Sureash Cholai

Activists and representatives of the indigenous movements of TT attended the event, at the Venezuelan embassy on Victoria Avenue, Port of Spain.

Cordero thanked the indigenous peoples for their particiation, while recalling it was exactly 20 years ago, in 2002, that the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez decreed the Day of Indigenous Resistance in his country on October 12.

He said the government of his country has been working in the last two decades to promote and accommodate indigenous peoples by creating the Institute of Indigenous Languages, the Guaicaipuro Mission, the Presidential Council of Indigenous Peoples and the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, as well laws to promote the development of indigenous peoples and the protection of their rights.

Cordero sent condolences to the families of the victims of the landslide last weekend in the city of Las Tejerías, in central Venezuela, as a result of bad weather. Before the formal opening, shaman Raould Simon, from the Warao community of San Fernando, led a ceremony of exaltation to fire and a libation dedicated to the victims of the Las Tejerías tragedy.

Trinidadian indigenous leader Roger Belix, president of the organisation Partners for the Development of Original Peoples, said he was very saddened by the Las Tejerías tragedy, but at the same time he and his group are very optimistic.

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“Venezuela will recover from this mishap, as it has done in the face of ruthless financial blockade and unilateral coercive measures,” Belix said.

Osei thanked the embassy and people of Venezuela for the opportunity to exhibit his work, which recreates natural landscapes of the Trinidadian environment and indigenous rituals.

“I am extremely pleased with this opportunity that the Venezuelan embassy offers me and for granting us an important space for the anti-colonial struggle that is sorely lacking in the current circumstances,” he said.

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The event featured performances by TT musicians and singers Abbi Blackman, Rochelle “Luna” Antoine and saxophonist Pedro Lezama. They offered their solidarity with the indigenous peoples of the world, as well as the people of Las Tejerías.

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Soca icon Austin “SuperBlue” Lyons sings Joy in my Soul at the funeral of calypsonian Winston “Explainer” Henry at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, Friday. – ROGER JACOB

Former President Justice Anthony Carmona has called for the launch of a calypso hall of fame.

He was speaking on Friday morning at the funeral for the late calypsonian Winston “Explainer” Henry.

His was one of many tributes at the celebration of Explainer’s life, at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain. A private cremation was held after.

Explainer died on October 7. He was 74.

Carmona said to the friends, family and supporters gathered that if there was no calypso hall of fame, a case should be made for one now with a “well-deserved place” for Explainer.

“Surely, if there is not a calypso hall of fame, the case for its erection begins now with the induction of Winston Explainer to a well-deserved place in the pantheon of calypso gods and goddesses.

“We know that we should treat our heroes so. I call for a place where his writings, videos, commentaries, artistic portrayals would be stored both physically and virtually in a continuation of the tradition innovated by phenomenal great Angelo Bissessarsingh, the founder of TT’s first virtual library.

“And I am bold enough to commend Pearl Eintou Springer to chair this initiative.”

During his speech, he said Explainer had a unique understanding of human nature and spirit.

Quoting from the calypsonian’s music, he said, “Explainer, the messenger, had his pulse on issues that plagued our society. This is what calypso is all about.”

He, like many others, said Explainer was a master composer and calypsonian.

National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds and Trinbago Unified Calysonians Organisation (TUCO) president Ainsley King also delivered remarks.

National Carnival Commission (NCC) chairman Winston “Gypsy” Peters said Explainer was a practical joker whom he grew up with. He said Explainer would do anything to pull a prank on him.

“The Winston I knew, he was a jovial man and he made fun even of death.”

He recalled that they both started singing calypso in San Fernando.

“Winston Henry, my dear friends, was a man of dignity. A man who carried himself in a particular (way).

“Nobody in the world is perfect, and a lot of people have a lot of things to say but all I can say is the Winston I know, was a man who cared about his children….”

Gypsy said traditional calypso, as it is known, was taking a back seat and nothing was wrong with that.

He called on calypsonians to take an introspective view of themselves to “ensure that when we can no longer perform we have a better life, we have a better life for ourselves.”

He said calypsonians should not continue to sit back and complain about life not being good to them.

Gypsy called on them to take stock of their lives so whatever life they had left would be lived in way they could enjoy.

Many musical tributes were also paid to him including Krisson Joseph’s performance of When Basil Come. Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation (TUCO) PRO Rondell Donawa performed To God Be Glory and Lady Melody gave a spirited performance of the late calypsonian’s 1982 hit Rasta Chick.

Former Calypso Monarch Chuck Gordon’s performance of Ras Mas also had the audience on its feet. Former Calypso Monarch Karene Asche became emotional during her performance of Lorraine but the calypso fraternity assisted her, including Gypsy.

After the service, those gathered proceeded along Frederick Street with a music truck playing Explainer’s many hits. Some people along the street came out to view the procession.

Asked about the suggestion of a calypso hall of fame by Carmona, King said the fraternity will try to protect the calypsonian’s work and make it live on.

He said the organisation will try to ensure the names of deceased calypsonians remain relevant. King said TUCO is currently working on ways to revolutionise the artform.

“In these changes, yes, having a place where we can recognise outstanding work of the calypsonian is necessary but it is a step-by-step process,” he said.

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