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Pour Bernard la Toussaint devient une fête commerciale. • KA

Les visiteurs du cimetière de Sainte-Anne était nombreux en ce 1er novembre. La Toussaint est une tradition chère et transmise aux plus jeunes. Nettoyer les tombes, rencontrer la famille, accorder du temps et parler des disparus sont les actes les plus souvent cités. Beaucoup expliquent que les défunts restent présents dans leurs souvenirs quotidiens mais ce jour est essentiel pour les partager.

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In what the police are describing as “particularly troubling”, children between ages 15 and 17 have been charged with 875 major crimes over the last four years.

This was disclosed by Police Commissioner, Major General Antony Anderson, at the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF) monthly media briefing on Tuesday.

“In recent weeks, we’ve been dissecting the crime figures and looking more closely at both perpetrators and victims.

“When we examine children as the perpetrators of major crimes, some concerns begin to emerge,” Anderson pointed out.

He noted that though a child, by definition, is a person below the age of 18 years, “most of the perpetrators in this category are between 15 and 17 years old”.

For the four-year period of 2019 to present, children have been slapped with 79 murder charges and 66 shooting charges, Anderson informed.

“A total of 175 children have been charged with rape over the period. There have been 256 charges for breaches of the Firearms Act, 175 for break-ins, 89 for robbery, and 65 for aggravated assault,” he outlined.

“These individuals, if we do not act collectively, are getting into an early career of violence and crime.

“We are bringing this to the nation’s attention, because as a society, we have to decide how we are going to save them,” stated Anderson.

Major General Antony Anderson (file photo)

In furtherance of that point, the commissioner explained that as a constabulary, they also took the initiative of informing the nation relative to these trends “associated with the pandemic of violence impacting our country”, to “demand collective responsibility and action if we are to make a sustained change in behaviour.”

He added that, “We have a responsibility to investigate every crime, but there are some that are particularly troubling.”

Despite the troubling trend relative to children, Anderson reminded that the police have formed various early intervention strategies through its Community Safety and Security Branch (CSSB) and programmes such as the police youth clubs.

He advised, as well, of the police’s collaborative efforts with the Education and Youth Ministry and its safe school’s programme.

“However, we all must take this matter (children as perpetrators of crime) more seriously.

“The pandemic of violence is affecting our children; they are not merely innocent victims of violence. In far too many instances, children and adolescents are actually the perpetrators themselves,” Anderson reiterated.

The top law enforcer also stressed the importance of “all institutions of society” being vigilant towards the issues and engage in early surveillance of children in the home, school or elsewhere, to identify the early signs of violent tendencies.

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Si nos ta biba, nos ta biba pa Dios,

Y si nos muri, nos ta muri pa Dios,

Por lo tanto, si nos ta biba of muri,

Nos ta pertenece na Señor nos Dios.

Romans: 14 

Cu inmenso tristesa na nos curason,

nos ta participa fayecimento di:

Sr. Jacinto Francisco Quandus

Mihor conoci como “Frans”

*04-12-1948  † 30-10-2022

 Na Nomber di su:

Esposa:

Filomena Quandus-Tromp

Yiunan:

Xiomaira (Mayra) Quandus

             Milanchela y Eldridge Wolff-Quandus

             Govan y Jennilaine (Jenny) Quandus-Ras

Su unico nieto stima:

Dustyn Quandus

Mayornan:

† Aurelio y † Asuncion Quandus-Tromp

Rumannan:

† Rosaria Magdalena(Chileen) Geerman-Quandus

† Hose Salomon Quandus 

Subrinanan:

Shajaira (Sasha) Geerman-Quandus

Zulaica Flanegin-Quandus y famia

Suegra y Suegro:

† Sebastiana y † Ramon Tromp-Werleman

Swa y cuña(nan):

† Felis Geerman y famia

Colastica (Lica) Henriquez y famia

†Juan Tromp

Benny Tromp y famia

† Ciro Tromp

† Ramiro Tromp

Lourdes Tromp y Franklin Martinus y famia

 Tanta y omo(nan):

† Anna y † Pedro Francisco(Pancho) Ridderstaat y famia

 † Pablo y † Theresita Tromp y famia

Thomasa y † Franciscus Quandus y famia

 † Catharina y Theodor Farro y famia

 † Clara y † Otilio Tromp y famia

 Juan y † Julieta Tromp y famia

† Fermina y † Bernardo Tromp- Tromp y famia

† Nicolas y Aura Quandus- Lacle y famia

† Miguel y † Suzette Quandus y famia

Primo y prima (nan)

Comer y Comper(nan):

Lima Dijkhoff y famia

Jacky Tromp y famia

Benny Wolff y famia

Roque Ras y Lisette Werleman y famia

Madrina y Padrino (nan)

Iha: Vilma Tromp

Amigonan, conocirnan y demas famia: 

Quandus, Heide, Tromp, Wolff, Ras, Werleman, Henriquez, Geerman, Flanegin, Ridderstaat,

Cathalina, Carrasquero, Hoftijzer, Farro, Eckmeyer, Pak, La Rosa, Figaroa, Leest, Martinus,

Lacle, Korsen, Esser, Giel, Jacobs, Ridderstap, Vrolijk, Da Silva, Martijn, Wever, Angela, Britten y Koolman.

 Ta invita tur famia pa asisti na e acto di entiero cual ta ta tuma lugar Diabierna 4 di November 2022

pa 4 or di atardi. Saliendo for di misa St. Anna na Noord pa Santana Catolico na Noord.

Nos defunto stima “ Papa” lo ta reposa for di 2 or di merdia den misa St Anna. 

Enbes di Flor of Krans lo tin un box disponibel

pa un donacion pa Wilhelmina Kanker Fonds Aruba.

 

Nos ta lamenta cu despues di misa nos no por ricibi bishita di Condolencia na cas.

 

Disculpa nos si den nos  dolor y tristeza nos por a lubida algun famia.

 

 

 

                                 

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Chief Secretary Farley Augustine, centre, said the assembly will be addressing outstanding gratuities. FILE PHOTO –

THE THA is moving swiftly to address the issue of outstanding gratuities and increments across all of its divisions.

Chief Secretary Farley Augustine made the announcement on Wednesday at the close of the THA’s two-day executive and administrative heads meeting at the Shaw Park Cultural Complex.

Chief Administrator Ethlyn John, administrators and technical advisers and officers from the various divisions attended the meeting.

Augustine said the assembly will be focusing on outstanding gratuities for contracted officers and arrears of increment for public officers.

They also intend to look at severance benefits for those who are retiring as daily-rated workers and a proposed strategy to liquidate and bring gratuities and arrears up to date and current.

“That is a huge problem and I am sure many of you looking on will be happy to know that very soon we will announce a strategy by which you will get your gratuities, your increments, get your severance benefits in the most efficient manner,” he said.

“But the goal is to bring it all up to date, so that going forward we are not trying to treat with a large backlog as we see in some divisions such as education, community development, youth development and sport.

“That also includes treating with overtime payments for some categories of workers such as those in the division of tourism and elsewhere.”

Earlier, Augustine said the intention of the meeting was to reprioritise its agenda for fiscal 2023 based on predicted income flow from its $2.4 billion allocation from the national budget.

“This exercise became extremely important following the $1.4 billion shortfall in our parliamentary allocation.”

Augustine recalled that in June, he had requested $3.9 billion from central government to manage the island’s affairs over the next year.

“This was the lowest ask from the Tobago House of Assembly within the last decade, to fund the proposed work programme of the THA for fiscal 2023, but the THA was only allocated approximately $2.5 billion.”

He said owing to the shortfall, the THA had to recalibrate its budget.

Augustine added that later this month he will present a stream of projects that they intend to execute across the fiscal year “so that you will be at home and able to create your own checklist and be able to check off with us – that is accountability, that is transparency as we deliver on these projects.”

Saying the THA reshaped its work plan for each division, Augustine said a clear pathway for cross-divisional collaboration was also established.

“So divisions are no longer operating in silos but we will have a case where divisions will collaborate on some projects, sometimes two or three divisions coming together to execute some much needed projects.”

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NATIONAL Commission for Self Help chairman Adrian Winters told Parliament’s Public Accounts (Enterprise) Committee (PAEC) on Wednesday that the commission displays no bias in awarding funding to those in need, replying to concerns raised by Mayaro MP Rushton Paray.

While senior project officer Gary Romain said the commission had just begun a drive to tell applicants if they had been approved, Paray alleged there had been no response to more than 400 applications his office had helped constituents with. These included 13 fire victims for 2016-2022, plus 43 residents hit by storm winds last year, he lamented.

Paray said his office had assisted his 404 constituents to lodge applications for self-help assistance over the past 12-18 months.

“We have had no responses.”

Paray said these requests were for routine things such as home extensions and repairs, plus emergencies such as fires and landslips.

He recalled the claimants hit by high winds in 2021.

“Forty-three went to the Disaster Management Unit, and my understanding is that 25 of them fitted the criteria. That is September 2021. Up to this day, as far as our records indicate, and communications with those 25 persons, no grants have been forthcoming.

“I want to be very careful with what I am going to say here, without putting myself in any trouble. There is the perception out there that there is preferential treatment – and I want to use that word very, very nicely – in terms of which areas get served.”

He wondered how these Mayaro claimants felt about the commission distributing $3 million in help to people in other areas, just four days after high winds had hit Mayaro.

“We are over one year. How can you rationally tell the people of Mayaro to wait a bit longer?”

Winters replied, “What our records reflect is that we conducted about 54 site visits. As of July of this year, 35 of those which were on the list submitted to us for an update were not even registered on our database.

“We may have given the application forms to the clients but they would not have fulfilled their end of the bargain in terms of bringing in those applications.”

Paray interjected, “Mr Winter, I want to respectfully tell you that our office is very meticulous with those forms. Even so, if I give you the benefit of the doubt that the applications were not done or it was done incorrectly, (but) it is still over one year.”

Paray doubted that applicants in other constituencies were any more efficient than those in Mayaro, as helped along by the MP and his office.

“From July 2021, we are in November 2022, and I cannot believe and I will not accept that not one out of those 25 applications could be processed. I doubt very much that (even) one out of those 25 applications has not been correctly done to get that grant.”

He said Mayaro residents were hurting.

Winter replied, “I just want to assure this committee and the public that there is no preferential treatment when it comes to the distribution of our services.”

He said the commission tries to ensure help is spread across the country. Winters said 404 claims, each estimated at a maximum level of grant, could amount to $6 million in total value, out of the commission’s $21 million budget nationwide.

“I would have looked at the details as far back as 2010, to 2022, and I’ve not seen any data to suggest there is any preferential treatment in the distribution of grants.”

PAEC member Keith Scotland asked if the criteria for awarding help needed to be changed.

Winters replied, “We have had instances in the past where persons would have been afforded grants and landlords just came afterwards and put them out of the property. We look at that as taxpayers’ dollars down the drain.”

Paray said many applicants had problems showing any land title or tenancy, given that many homes relied on deeds of gift, such as from a grandfather,

He asked the commission to consider reverting to its pre-2016 practice of accepting a sworn affidavit, on pain of perjury charges, that someone had been living on a property for, say, 20 years.

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