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The requirement for Healthcare workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, is still in place here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Donnie Collins has more with today’s COVID-19 Update.
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The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Indian Heritage Foundation is commemorating Indian Heritage Day today.
Yolande Richards has more in today’s Special Report.
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The Ministry of Education is continuing preparations for the staging of the VINLEC Science and Technology Fair, slated for November 7th to 11th.
The Fair will be held at the Kingstown Anglican School Annex opposite the Victoria Park, with the theme “Scientific Innovation and Creativity – Keys to Our Nation’s Resiliency”.
Addressing this week’s launch of the Fair, Education Officer for Science, Juanita Hunte-King said students from Kindergarten to Post Secondary level are eligible to participate in the fair.
She outlined the categories of the Fair.
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Mrs. Hunte-King expressed appreciation to all stakeholders involved in ensuring the successful staging of the fair.
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The deadline for registration is Thursday October 20th.
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The Old Boys League Football Invitational Tournament (OBL-FIT) standings has a new leader.
After the last two rounds of matches, RX Pro Vintage Masters overtook the Bayland Masters in the nine-team table, with four more rounds remaining.
Last Sunday at the Empire Sports Club, RX Pro Vintage Masters brushed aside Unity FC 3-0, then returned to the same venue on Wednesday evening to secure a similar outcome, but with greater resistance, edging Benfica Masters 3-2.
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Goals from Eddie Barnett in the 6th minute, Jim Bailey in the 20th minute and Rodney Kirton in the 24th minute gave RX Pro Vintage Masters a comfortable lead going into the break.
However, Benfica created an exciting finish to the encounter with second half goals from Mark Boyce in the 43rd minute and Glenfield Lashley in the 45th minute.
The Empire Masters seem to be gradually getting better.
After earning their first point of the competition last Sunday evening in a 1-1 tie with Exactly Unified Masters, the “Mighty Blues” recorded their first win of the 2022 campaign, when Gabriel Goring’s 19th minute strike was enough to earn the victory over the winless Black Rock Masters.
In a rematch of the Barbados Invitational Masters Football Classic (BIMFC) final, Paradise Masters and the Bayland Masters continued their fierce rivalry.
The outcome was sweet revenge for the Bayland legends as they hammered their Dover counterparts 4-1.
Matches continue this Sunday at the Empire Sports Club from 5:30 pm.
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Au sein du magasin, quelques clients s’interrogent, des vendeurs paraissent aussi surpris. La présence d’une délégation de la police nationale, accompagnée de membres de la préfecture, ne passe pas inaperçue dans les allées d’Intersport Dillon.
En réalité, les fonctionnaires, comme ils le font régulièrement, sont venus contrôler la seule armurerie de l’île, présente dans le magasin depuis une trentaine d’année.
Une opération habituelle, qui ne surprend pas Manuel Girier, le directeur. « C’est un contrôle administratif, nous ne sommes pas surpris. Notre enseigne s’est engagée à vendre des armes. L’AFCI (Ndlr : autorisation de vendre des armes) nous a été délivrée par le ministère. C’est normal qu’on vérifie si on respecte les règles ».
Sous la houlette d’une agente de la préfecture en charge du respect de la législation sur les armes, l’équipe de contrôle vérifie les documents administratifs, si la déclaration du nombre d’armes correspond bien au stock réel, la sécurité du bâtiment, de l’armurerie elle-même…
Bien que régulier, ce contrôle intervient, cette fois-ci, dans un cadre particulier, quelques jours après les annonces du ministre de l’intérieur à la Martinique et l’arrêté préfectoral interdisant la vente d’armes de catégorie C et D au grand public. Une mesure, parmi d’autres, censée ralentir les phénomènes de violences observés depuis le début de l’année (23 homicides et de nombreuses tentatives).
« Fin juillet, un premier arrêté du préfet avait déjà interdit la vente de pistolet d’alarme », décrit Cédric, le responsable du rayon. Le nouvel arrêté renforce encore la législation. Avant, on pouvait vendre des Gomm Cogne (pistolets qui tirent des balles en caoutchouc) avec un simple certificat médical.
Désormais, seuls les chasseurs en règle ou les tireurs sportifs sont habilités à acheter des armes de catégorie C et D. « C’est plutôt une bonne mesure, confie un policier. On sait que les armes de catégorie D sont trafiquées par certains pour devenir des armes létales. Elles entrent alors dans la catégorie B et on les retrouve souvent dans des affaires ».
Depuis février dernier, les chasseurs ont aussi l’obligation d’être inscrit dans le fichier numérique SIA (Système d’information sur les armes). Ils ont jusqu’à la fin d’année pour se mettre en règle.
À ce jour, seuls 240 d’entre eux (sur 1300 licenciés et 1800 chasseurs estimés) ont effectué cette démarche. « On est en retard », reconnaît madame Caloc, de la préfecture. Dès janvier 2023, ce sera aux tireurs d’effectuer les mêmes formalités. Faute de quoi, en vertu de l’arrêté préfectoral pris ce lundi pour 6 mois, ceux qui ne sont pas en règle doivent aussi restituer leurs armes.
Manuel Girier, directeur et Cédric, chef du rayon armurerie
« Être hyper rigoureux »
Manuel Girier, directeur d’Intersport et Cédric, chef du rayon armurerie
– Rodolphe Lamy
« Nous sommes la seule armurerie officielle de l’île. C’est important d’être hyper rigoureux et en règle. Nous avons trois salariés formés affectés à l’armurerie, plus moi qui ait le CQP sur les armes et munitions. Avec la publication de l’arrêté préfectoral, de nombreux clients, chasseurs essentiellement, et tireurs sportifs dans une moindre mesure, nous ont appelé inquiets. En réalité, s’ils sont en règle, la mesure ne les concerne pas. Elle vise surtout une clientèle qui achète des armes à blanc pour les transformer et les rendre létales. Nos vendeurs sont extrêmement scrupuleux, ils ont un casier vierge et font l’objet d’une enquête de moralité. À tout moment, s’ils ont des doutes sur une vente, ils peuvent toujours trouver un moyen de ne pas vendre l’arme, même à une personne en règle. Je leur conseille toujours de discuter avec le client avant une vente. L’essentiel à retenir, c’est que lorsqu’on achète une arme, il faut être à jour. On s’adapte en essayant de sensibiliser aux nouvelles règles. On a mis l’affichage sur le nouvel arrêté mais aussi sur l’obligation, pour les chasseurs d’être enregistrés dans le fichier numérique SIA. La sécurité est une priorité. Dès qu’il y a des tensions dans le secteur, les armes sont enlevées et entreposées ailleurs pour éviter tout vol. Dans notre vitrine, même si ce n’est pas une obligation, les boîtes de cartouches sont vides ».
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Relatives wailed and collapsed in grief before the small coffins of children Friday after a fired police officer stormed a rural Thai daycare centre at naptime and massacred 36 people.
At least 24 of the dead were children, mostly preschoolers. The grisly gun and knife attack a day earlier was the deadliest mass killing in Thailand’s history, leaving virtually no family untouched in Uthai Sawan, a small rural community nestled among rice paddies and palms.
“I cried until I had no more tears coming out of my eyes,” said Seksan Sriraj, 28, whose wife was a teacher at the Young Children’s Development Centre and was due to give birth this month.
Across the country, flags were lowered to half-staff and schoolchildren said prayers to honour the dead, while at the site of the attack, about 85 miles (137 kilometres) from Laos, a stream of people, including Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, left flowers. The wall outside the small, one-story daycare centre was lined with bouquets of white roses and carnations, along with juice boxes, bags of corn chips and a stuffed animal.
Relatives crowded the grounds of a nearby Buddhist temple to receive the dead after their autopsies. Some screamed as the small, white coffins were opened. Others fainted and were revived with smelling salts.
“It was just too much. I can’t accept this,” said Oy Yodkhao, 51, a rice farmer whose 4-year-old grandson Tawatchai Sriphu was among the dead.
Som-Mai Pitfai collapsed at the sight of her 3-year-old niece’s body.
“When I looked, I saw she had been slashed in the face with a knife,” the 58-year-old said, holding back tears after being revived by paramedics.
Elsewhere, King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida visited two hospitals where some of the 10 people who were wounded were being treated.
Police identified the attacker as Panya Kamrap, 34, a former police sergeant fired earlier this year because of a drug charge involving methamphetamine. He had been due to appear in court Friday.
Authorities believe Panya may have been triggered by an argument with his wife. He took his own life, police said, after killing his wife and son at home.
“As of now, the police assume that he became stressed because he was afraid that his wife would leave him,” National police chief General Dumrongsak Kittiprapas said.
In interviews with Thai media, Panya’s mother said there was tension between her son and his wife, and talking with 3Plus News, she said he was stressed by debt.
An initial autopsy of Panya did not detect any dangerous drugs, police said. A second autopsy was planned.
Children at the daycare centre had been taking an afternoon nap at the time of the attack, and photos taken by first responders showed their tiny bodies still lying on blankets. In some images, slashes to the victims’ faces and gunshots to their heads could be seen. An employee of the centre told a Thai TV station that Panya’s son had attended the daycare but hadn’t been there for about a month.
In an interview with Amarin TV, Satita Boonsom, a worker at the centre, said staff locked the building’s glass front door after seeing the assailant shoot a child and his father out front. But the gunman shot and kicked his way through.
Satita said she and three other teachers climbed the centre’s fence to escape and call the police, and seek help. By the time she returned, the children were dead. She said one child who was covered by a blanket survived the attack, apparently because the assailant assumed he was dead.
The centre usually has 70 to 80 children, she said, but there were fewer at the time of the attack because the semester had ended for older children and monsoon rains prevented a school bus from operating.
“They wouldn’t have survived,” she said.
One of the youngest survivors was a 3-year-old boy who was riding a tricycle close to his mother and grandmother when the assailant began slashing them with the knife. The mother died from her wounds, and the boy and grandmother were being treated at hospitals, according to local media.
Mass shootings are rare but not unheard of in Thailand, which has one of the highest civilian gun ownership rates in Asia. The rate is 60 times the level in Japan, though still a fraction of the rate in the U.S, according to a 2017 survey by Australia’s GunPolicy.org nonprofit organization.
Thailand’s previous worst mass killing involved a disgruntled soldier who opened fire in and around a mall in the northeastern city of Nakhon Ratchasima in 2020, killing 29 people and wounding nearly 60 others.
In 2015, a bombing at a shrine in Bangkok killed 20 people.
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By DAVID RISING and TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press. AP writers Chalida Ekvitthayavechnukul, Elaine Kurtenbach and Grant Peck in Bangkok and Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.
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La s?lection ha?tienne de football amput? ne verra pas la finale de cette ?dition de la coupe du monde. L’Angola, seul repr?sentant africain toujours en lice, a eu raison des Grenadiers ce vendredi 7 octobre en 1/2 finale sur un score de 4-2.
Pour la premi?re fois depuis le d?but de la comp?tition l’?quipe ha?tienne s’est mesur?e ? plus forte qu’elle. Men?e au score pour la premi?re fois et battue pour la premi?re fois.
S’il est vrai que des adversaires tels que le Lib?ria, la France, la T?rkiye, les ?tats-Unis ou encore la Tanzanie n’ont pas su se d?faire des Grenadiers, l’?quipe angolaise elle, a r?ussi ? faire la diff?rence.
Tenants du titre et vice-champion en 2014, les Angolais ont ?trill? la s?lection ha?tienne (4-2), en d?pit des efforts r?alis?s par Saviola Charles (17′) et John Spinoza (25′).
La belle aventure des grenadiers arrive ainsi ? son terminus, mais Ha?ti aura quand m?me marqu? les esprits avec 23 r?alisations. Elle n’a peut-?tre pas r?ussi l’exploit d’atteindre la finale, mais cette ?quipe durant 6 rencontres a su redonner le sourire ? tout un peuple en proie aux frustrations et au d?sespoir.
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