Ministres sanctionn?s : les USA ont fait leur part, au gouvernement ha?tien de d?cider de la suite

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Le Charg? d’Affaires am?ricain en Ha?ti, Eric William Stromayer, invit? de la matinale de Magik 9 ce mardi 8 novembre est intervenu sur les sanctions am?ricaines visant des membres de l’?lite politique, commerciale et sociale en Ha?ti et ? l’?tranger. Il a ?t? interrog? notamment sur la situation de ministres dont les visas sont r?voqu?s par les ?tats-Unis, et qui sont toujours membres du gouvernement.

Selon lui, il appartient au gouvernement de d?cider sur le sort des concern?s. “C’est une r?alit?. On a pris des d?cisions. Nous n’avons cit? aucun nom. Les gens vis?s peuvent produire leurs r?clamations. Nous avons nos raisons pour prendre nos d?cisions. C’est entre nous et les concern?s”, a expliqu? le diplomate am?ricain qui a implicitement admis que des membres du gouvernement Henry sont touch?s par les sanctions. Le diplomate am?ricain n’a d?voil? aucun nom de ministres frapp?s par ces restrictions de visas.

“Le gouvernement (ha?tien) est libre de prendre ses d?cisions (concernant les ministres). Il est souverain. Nous n’avons aucun contr?le en ce sens. On va voir o? cela va mener. Pendant qu’ils sont l? on traite avec eux. On traite avec des ?l?ments de diff?rents gouvernements ? travers le monde, m?me si on a des probl?mes avec eux. S’ils continuent d’?tre des fonctionnaires du gouvernement, rien n’emp?che qu’on continue ? travailler avec eux. Si le gouvernement ha?tien d?cide de prendre une d?cision bas?e sur nos mesures ou autres raisons, c’est ? lui de d?cider”, a expliqu? le Charg? d’Affaires am?ricain.

Au d?but de l’entrevue, le Charg? d’Affaires Stromayer a expliqu? pourquoi son pays a adopt? des sanctions visant des acteurs politiques, ?conomiques et sociaux. “Vu la situation que nous vivons ici en Ha?ti depuis un bon moment, nous nous sommes dit qu’il fallait agir. Cela prend du temps avec notre syst?me de justice pour identifier des cas pr?cis et mobiliser le syst?me pour adopter les sanctions. Ces sanctions sont une mani?re d’identifier les forces n?fastes qui ont conduit ? la situation dans laquelle nous vivons (en Ha?ti). C’est aussi une mani?re d’essayer de les cibler pr?cis?ment et de changer leurs comportements”, a-t-il expliqu?.

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Customer service portal now at Ministry of Finance Loop Jamaica

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Customers of the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service will now find it much easier to receive attention, with the recent launch of its Customer Support Portal.

Director of Customer Service at the Ministry, Rory Stennett, explained that the portal will allow the Ministry’s customers to get responses to their queries quickly.

“We have an online platform that allows us to receive emails or allows customers to create a profile and log in and talk to us directly about a service they want to access. We call it the Customer Support Portal. We are adding a range of services to it but, essentially, customers can initiate several of our services from that platform,” Stennett said.

Once persons visit the Ministry’s website, there is a chat box available. When a member of the Ministry’s Customer Service team is available to chat, an icon will be displayed, and the customer can click and interact with a team member directly.

He explained the various ways persons can access the portal. “If you email us using custserve@mof.gov.jm a ticket is automatically generated, and it will also give you a link to access the portal. At that link, you can create a password or just log in without a password, it has what’s called a one-time password,” Mr. Stennett explained.

“You can click ‘contact us on our website, which will give you a link to log on to the portal. And there’s another link on the same page, which is on the footer, which says ‘customer service’. So, those are the methods to get in there. If you call our team and you want to give us something verbally that we have to escalate or work on over a longer time, we will create a ticket for you. We’ll collect your email address, and then that will generate a ticket to you with the way to log into the portal,” he added.

Stennett said the team usually has a quick response time to queries of one to two days.

“But our team has been responding within a day, generally, or even faster, depending on how many of our people are available,” he added.

The Customer Service Director noted that the resolution time to queries varies based on the nature of the issues.

“If it’s Access to Information (ATI), the legislation allows us 30 days to track down the information you need and to give it to you. So that’s built into the portal,” he said.

The Customer Support Portal was launched in April and became fully operational in July.

The Ministry says it has received positive feedback from its customers and plans to build out additional features to make the system even more efficient.

“Customers are quite surprised when they first interface with it because they’re surprised they get an instant ticket. But, over time, they’ve got the confidence that this thing will be handled, that we haven’t forgotten it.” Mr. Stennett said.

“There is a portion of this platform where when we resolve tickets, we send it back to the customer through the platform to say we think we’ve solved your issue, go ahead and close if you believe this. I’m surprised that customers are actually going in and closing it themselves, to show they are satisfied with the service,” he noted.

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Rihanna talks motherhood, Super Bowl Loop Jamaica

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Rihanna knew that if she was going to return to the stage less than a year after giving birth to her first child, the performance would have to top anything she’d done before.

“If I’m going to leave my baby, I’m going to leave my baby for something special,” the multi-Grammy winner told The Associated Press in an interview.

That something special turned out to be the upcoming 2023 Super Bowl halftime show.

“It was now or never for me,” she said.

The singer had previously declined to perform in the 2019 halftime show out of solidarity with Colin Kaepernick. But in a recent interview ahead of her “Savage X Fenty Show Vol 4”, Rihanna said that the timing and circumstances this time around were right for her.

“It was a challenge that I welcomed. It was a stage bigger than anything I’ve ever done,” she said.

After the NFL announced in late September that Rihanna would headline the February show, hopeful rumours spread of a long-awaited new album, which she has been teasing in recent years. Her last album, “ANTI”, was released in 2016.

Although the pop star recently dropped her first new song in six years, the lead single for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”, she was quick to shut down speculation that her Super Bowl performance meant an album was imminent.

“That’s not true. Super Bowl is one thing. New music is another thing. Do you hear that, fans?” she said, laughing.

“The second that I announced this, I said, ‘Oh, my God, they’re going to think my album is coming. I need to get to work,’” she recalled.

Despite her quick return to the public eye after giving birth, Rihanna and rapper A$AP Rocky have kept the details about their baby private. The two have yet to share his name or any photos of him.

“We just didn’t get around to it yet, really. We’ve just been living. But I guess there’s a certain freedom that comes with kind of just like getting it out there,” she said.

In addition to adjusting to life as a new mom, Rihanna said she has been busy outdoing last year’s “Savage X Fenty Show Vol 3,” which earned an Emmy and included a long list of high-profile stars.

“It’s always challenging to beat the one before,” she said. “Next year is going to actually be the main challenge because this year was such a huge scale of a show and I don’t know how we’re going to beat it, but we’re going to have to try.”

This year’s show includes performances by Anitta, Maxwell and others, as well as a long list of appearances, including Taraji P Henson, Cara Delevingne and Sheryl Lee Ralph.

AP’s interview with Rihanna came before word leaked that Johnny Depp was slated to participate. Some people unhappy with Depp’s legal battle with ex-wife Amber Heard called for a boycott of Rihanna’s line if Depp was part of the show.

The “Savage X Fenty Show Vol 4” will be available to stream Wednesday on Amazon Prime Video.

By KRYSTA FAURIA

Associated Press

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Family of Tim Hector outraged that ‘vile and senseless social media personality’ awarded something referred to as a Tim Hector Award

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Press Statement from the Family of the Late Tim Hector and the Leonard Tim Hector Memorial Committee

Family members of the late Leonard Tim Hector and members of the Leonard Tim Hector Memorial Committee are outraged by the claim made recently on a popular radio station that a certain vile and senseless social media personality had been awarded something referred to as a Tim Hector Award for Journalism.

Not only do we disassociate ourselves completely from the ridiculous suggestion, but we find it absolutely offensive, and a direct affront to the memory of a man who was held in high regard internationally, for his journalism, his intellect and revolutionary activism.

We ask that persons desist from unauthorized use of the name.

Tim Hector.

Che Hector (son)

Lawrence Jardine (Chairman – Leonard Tim Hector Memorial Committee)

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Jamaicans nabbed by Cayman Coast Guard on boat with ganja Loop Jamaica

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Three Jamaicans are among four men charged after the boat in which they were travelling was intercepted by the Cayman Islands Coast Guard on Saturday.

All four are charged with being concerned with the importation of ganja.

They appeared in court on Monday, November 7, and the Jamaicans were remanded in custody, while the West Bay, Cayman man was offered bail. The four will next appear in court on December 6.

One of the parcels of ganja recovered by the police.

According to a statement from the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service, shortly after 12am on Saturday, November 5, while on patrol, the crew of a Cayman Islands Coast Guard vessel observed a fishing canoe-type vessel approaching the northern coastline of West Bay.

Upon seeing the Coast Guard vessel, the canoe-type vessel attempted to evade the officers but was soon stopped and brought under control.

An initial search of the vessel revealed the presence of several large packages containing suspected ganja, totalling over 500 pounds.

The three men who were aboard the vessel, Jamaicans ages 35, 42 and 57, were arrested on suspicion of importation of ganja.

RCIPS officers conducted searches of the shore in the vicinity and discovered a fourth man, age 40, of West Bay, who was in possession of several fuel drums.

He was arrested on suspicion of being concerned with the importation of ganja. The others were subsequently arrested.

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Chanderpaul inducted into ICC’s Hall of Fame

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Shivnarine Chanderpaul –

FORMER WEST Indies cricket team captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul will join late Pakistan leg-spinner Abdul Qadir and ex-England batter Charlotte Edwards in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Hall of Fame, and they will be honoured at a special ceremony before Wednesday’s ICC T20 World Cup semi-final match between Pakistan and New Zealand at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney.

Chanderpaul, who was the coach of the 2022 Caribbean Premier League (CPL) champs Jamaica Tallawahs, scored 11,867 runs in 164 Test matches at an average of 51.37, and 8,778 runs in 268 One Day Internationals. His international career spanned from 1994 until 2015. He also served as WI captain from 2004-2005.

“I’m grateful for the recognition and would like to enjoy the moment with family, friends and most importantly the West Indies cricket fans and fans around the world who passionately supported me throughout my career,” Chanderpaul said.

There is a total of 109 inductees in the ICC Hall of Fame, including 21 West Indians – Chanderpaul, Sir Curtly Ambrose, Learie Constantine, Joel Garner, Lance Gibbs, Sir Gordon Greenidge, Sir Wes Hall, Desmond Haynes, George Headley, Michael Holding, Rohan Kanhai, Brian Lara, Sir Clive Lloyd, Malcolm Marshall, Sir Viv Richards, Sir Andy Roberts, Sir Gary Sobers, Sir Clyde Walcott, Courtney Walsh, Sir Everton Weekes and Sir Frank Worrell.

“Only the very best are honoured in this way and it is wonderful to commemorate the lasting contributions of Shivnarine, Charlotte and Abdul,” ICC chief executive Geoff Allardice said in a statement Tuesday. “These three ambassadors of our great game enjoyed tremendous success on the international stage and are richly deserving of their status as ICC Hall of Famers.”

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Investigation launched into fatal Pomeroon River boat mishap

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Dead: Trevor Patrick

A photographer is now dead after the boat in which he was travelling on Tuesday capsized in the Pomeroon River, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam).

Dead is 48-year-old Trevor Patrick, a father of two of Charity, Essequibo Coast who was employed at a local radio station and was also a freelance photographer.

Reports are that at around 09:30hrs, Patrick and a group of media workers were travelling in a boat to cover a presidential visit to the region when the incident occurred.

The other media workers include personnel attached to the Press and Publicity Unit of the Office of the President.

INews understands that President Dr Irfaan Ali was returning from the Lower Pomeroon region following an emergency meeting with flood-affected residents. The media workers were in their own vessel behind the President’s.

The boat suddenly flipped over, causing the media workers to fall into the river. The victims were rescued and taken to the Charity Oscar Joseph Hospital where Patrick was pronounced dead.

At the hospital, President Ali spoke with the victim’s wife and offered his condolences. An investigation has since been launched into what caused the vessel to flip.

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NGP Leader: Climate Change Conferences A Talk Shop For The Elite – St. Lucia Times News

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The leader of Saint Lucia’s National Green Party (NGP) has expressed concern over the value of climate change conferences amid the ongoing COP27 UN Climate Change Conference in Egypt.

 “Since COP26, we have been contemplating the successes of these meetings, and it seems to be just a talk shop for the elite,” Andre ‘Pancho’ de Caires told St Lucia Times.

“People go there and they talk, but what tangible has been done?” The NGP leader stated.

According to de Caires, man has caused climate change, global warming, and the increase in the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.

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“Please remember that there was a time called the Ice Age before man had any internal combustion engine or was heating their homes with oil and the glaciers melted,” he stated.

The NGP leader said many scientists believed it was due to the universe’s solar cycles and other natural features.

As a result, de Caires believes climate change is due to a combination of humankind’s activities and natural forces.

Regarding what man can do, he observed that the economy is built on capitalism.

And de Caires lamented that no company making internal combustion engines is speaking about cutting production.

“Is Toyota going to say, ‘We’re going to cut this year’s production in half’? Are any of the airlines cutting their routes in half? Are any of the cruise ship companies going to cut their ports of call in half?? No. This is not going to happen,” the NGP leader asserted.

“So, for the time, it’s a lot of talk, and nothing substantial is happening. I think man is a virus on the earth. Plastic and pollution are big concerns,” he told St Lucia Times.

In this regard, he pointed to flooding being the result of rivers clogged with ‘our nastiness’.

“Man does have a detrimental effect on the earth, but these leaders of multinational corporations that build engines that produce CO2 are going to continue doing that,” the NGP leader noted.

“As a result, we will require fossil fuels past 2015. So from our perspective, looking at what has happened since the Rio climate conference many years ago to now, we have done absolutely nothing to curb our diet of fossil fuel,” de Caires told St Lucia Times.

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Chastanet: Saint Lucia Needs Firearms Examination & Analysis Expertise – St. Lucia Times News

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Opposition leader Allen Chastanet has called for firearms examination and analysis expertise in Saint Lucia while lauding the forensic Lab’s current accreditation status.

The Office of the Prime Minister recently announced that with the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation, the local laboratory has become the first and, currently, the only accredited forensic laboratory in the OECS and the second accredited forensic Lab in the entire CARICOM region.

Chastanet said on Facebook that as Saint Lucia continues to battle rising crime, forensic evidence is vital in assisting the police in crime solving.

For that reason, the former Prime Minister congratulated the director of the Forensic Lab and the entire team on the accreditation milestone.

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“Getting this accolade has not been easy, and Fernanda Henry truly has an unwavering passion for seeing this Lab succeed,” the Micoud South MP asserted.

He attributed the success to the hard work of Henry and her team.

And Chastanet recalled that further enhancement of the Forensic Lab formed part of his administration’s Medium Term Development Strategy for dealing with crime and justice.

“During our tenure in office, we made investments to significantly increase the capabilities of the Forensic Laboratory, allowing it to contribute meaningfully to the investigative arm of the Royal St Lucia Police Force,” the former Prime Minister stated.

Chastanet said the Lab was able to clear a large backlog of cases and assist in solving major crimes, including murders and rapes.

” In the past, Saint Lucia would have spent millions on outsourcing of DNA services, and in our term, we purchased two pieces of equipment to upgrade the DNA unit, reduce turnaround time and increase output. We also made needed allocations for additional staffing,” he noted.

“We had other plans for the Forensic Lab, which we hope the Government will continue in the interest of the people of Saint Lucia and in the interest of solving crimes and bringing a level of closure to the victims and their families,” Chastanet stated.

“We want to see the Scenes of Crime Unit and the Lab work more closely together and the launch of a new area of expertise called Firearms Examination & Analysis. Saint Lucia needs this now more than ever as we continue to grapple with increased gun-related crimes and more high-powered weapons on our streets,” he declared.

The former Finance Minister disclosed that his administration had allocated for this programme in his last budget.

“I am hopeful it proceeds as this new technology will assist the Police Force in connecting gun violence to perpetrators,” he said.

” This is one area we cannot afford to politicise, and there must be continuity,” the United Workers Party (UWP)  leader observed.

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Bajan inventor Alan Emtage gets highest McGill University Honour Loop Barbados

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Alan Emtage now holds the honour Doctor of Science, honoris causa (D.Sc.) conferred upon by McGill University.

He attended McGill in 1983 as an undergraduate scholarship student and left the university eight years later with two degrees and “at the same established himself as one of the pioneers of the Internet.”

Presenting the highest honour which could be bestowed upon someone by McGill was Chancellor Emeritus The Honourable Michael A. Meighen, C.M., Q.C., LL.D.

Reading the citation, Professor Bruce Lennox, Dean of the Faculty of Science, McGill, said that it was Emtage who found a way to browse and access the millions of files that were now quickly being uploaded onto the Internet but for all intents and purposes, not easily accessible.

“Mr Emtage came up with the idea in 1989 to index the Internet and created a programme he called Archie. Archie is recognised as the world’s very first search engine.

“With Archie, what once took hours and hours of manual searching, could now be achieved in seconds. After completion of his MSc, Mr Emtage and his colleague Peter Deutsch cofounded the company Bunyip Information Systems, Inc. This was the first company in the world dedicated to information services on the Internet. He went on to play a leading role in web technologies.”

He chaired several working groups in the Internet Engineering Task Force including co-chairing the uniformed resource identifier working group which created the standard that is very familiar to all of you – the uniformed resource locators or more commonly known as URLs. This is the standard by which websites are accessed to this very day.”

With his company, Mediapolis, he showed the need for the advancement of social good while using the Internet as a tool, and made sure that is an inclusive platform.

In 2017, he became the first person from the Caribbean to be inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame – a most prestigious lifetime achievement award.

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