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It’s Good News Day on Loop News and our outstanding Barbadians and Caribbean brothers and sisters are taking centre stage.

Check out some of the stories here:

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Fabian said that this new career choice dropped into his lap during the hard financial times of COVID. He said that when he had to bury his dad unexpectedly, the exorbitant cost of a casket made him consider doing the job himself. Taught the basics by his uncle, Fabian got to work and gave his dad a memorable send off.

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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.”

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So how did the Barbados player get from the Rock in the 246 to the 405 Oklahoma? Justin explained, “Well, I attended an exposure camp in Trinidad where I got a film of me playing and I also learnt how to reach out to coaches and schools and how to be seen.

“From there I was contacted by the coach from Panhandle State.”

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“It is such an honour and I can’t wait to give back to our Caribbean Community and to our women,” Mohammed added.

The first of her family to receive the opportunity to study overseas, the University of West Indies graduate who has a First Class Honours degree in Sociology, will be heading to Oxford University in October 2023 to further her studies.

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Loop: How did you feel telling your mum about landing the Grey’s role?

Niko: It was great! I was visiting them for a bit so my mum had known I was up for the role. But it was a pretty great feeling giving her the news that they had actually offered it to me. I think she was at the nail salon when I told her and she screamed; she was so excited.

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“I started questioning her, asking her what was she doing and all she said was that everything is over and she was going to end it,” Turner recounted.

The father of toddlers said that he was worried about the stranger, who had threatened to injure herself fatally.

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“The statistics speak for themselves,” said Clarke.

He indicated that according to a 2019 survey conducted by the SCPD to ascertain the level of bullying at the St Joseph secondary school, bullying stood at 18 per cent, with 8 per cent reporting that they were bullied and 10 per cent bullying others.

However, when tested again in 2022, the level of bullying stood at 11 per cent; seven per cent were bullied and four per cent bullied others.

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Justin Pile left Barbados when he was 21 years old to pursue basketball, and despite the pandemic and all its challenges, he has been able in just four years to move up the ranks to captain his team in Oklahoma now.

my second season… got cut short due to COVID after just playing four games

Chatting with Loop News for Good News Day 2022, today, November 10, the Bajan, who is now 24 years old, was all smiles as he talked about his journey, which started with a scholarship to play at Oklahoma Panhandle State.

A former student of the Garrison Secondary School in Paddock Road, Justin said that’s where he first started playing basketball. At 6’5″ and matching up against players who are 6’7″ and taller, Justin said he tried and played a lot of different sports, and though his height is not the ideal basketballer height, he confessed, “I fell in love with basketball.”

With his stature in consideration, Loop asked Justin who inspires him and his game. He said, “My favorite player is Lebron [James] but being an undersized forward I try to mold my game after Demar Derozan”.

After college I aspire to play professionally and then go into coaching

So how did the Barbados player get from the Rock in the 246 to the 405 Oklahoma? Justin explained, “Well, I attended an exposure camp in Trinidad where I got a film of me playing and I also learnt how to reach out to coaches and schools and how to be seen.

“From there I was contacted by the coach from Panhandle State.”

Playing there for the last four years, Justin said, “My first two years that I played was a huge learning curve, especially my second season when the league got cut short due to COVID after just playing four games.

“In my third and current season I am the starting power forward and captain.”

Talk about a leap to the top!

Asked what’s his hope for after college, he confidently shared, “After college I aspire to play professionally and then go into coaching after.”

Justin has one more year in college, and as it relates to his dream team, with a laugh, he said, “If I ever get the opportunity to play in the NBA, I’d play for any team,”

Not if but when. All the best Justin!

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Retrouvez, chaque semaine, le « Grand JT des Territoires » de Cyril Viguier, diffusé sur TV5 Monde, en partenariat avec France-Antilles.

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It was a normal end of workday in August for Dane Turner, a taxi driver who operates in the Corporate Area, while taking passengers to Half-Way-Tree from Chancery Street (Price Rite).

By the time he got to Constant Spring Road, he realised that he had only one passenger left in his car. It was a woman.

As it was just after 8pm, the taxi driver was thinking that he would be able to get off early that night. However, it ended up being a long night that saw him being ticketed by the police in order to save that passenger’s life.

Turner told Loop News that the drive into Half-Way-Tree was quiet, until he noticed blood on the passenger’s hands. She was holding a razor blade.

“I started questioning her, asking her what was she doing and all she said was that everything is over and she was going to end it,” Turner recounted.

The father of toddlers said that he was worried about the stranger, who had threatened to injure herself fatally.

“She had razor blades, so I didn’t want to try to take them from her.

“I decided that I couldn’t let her leave the car and hurt herself, so I started driving her around. She said she wanted to go downtown, but I think that once she get to her destination she would hurt herself,” he said.

The taxi operator said that he told his passenger that he would take her to a police station but she said she would open her wrist before he could get help.

According to the taxi operator, at first, the passenger refused to say what was troubling her.

Turner said he offered her something to eat or drink as he wanted to get her help without things escalating. When she refused the offer, he decided to get the police to help, but he had to do it in such a way that she wouldn’t realise what was happening.

“By that time I was just driving all over Kingston. I wanted to get the police to stop me, so I started doing some things, but the police wouldn’t pull me over.

“I broke stoplights, drive through stop signs and no police stopped me. When that didn’t work, I disconnected one of my front light and drove on Mandela Highway,” he recounted.

It was then that he was stopped by a team of police officers carrying out traffic operations on the highway.

He said that when he explained to the police what was happening, they didn’t believe him. Turner said he was ticketed and told that he was just trying to get out of receiving the ticket.

Turner said he insisted that they help him with the woman. According to the taxi operator, he managed to convince two of the senior police officers on the team and they came up with a plan to get the passenger out of the car and get her help.

After getting a policewoman to assist, Turner recounted that they accosted him and took him over to his vehicle.

The police then reportedly began roughing up the taxi driver while asking him about illegal weapons. Once they were satisfied that the woman in the car was convinced that they were looking for guns, the policewoman asked her to step out the vehicle so it could be searched.

When she stepped out of the vehicle, they noticed the blades and the blood and, after some time, they convinced her to drop the blades.

“She was screaming and crying saying that she lost her job and she doesn’t have a place to live. Life was hard for her and she just didn’t see her way out,” Turner recalled.

“My conscience couldn’t allow me to walk away. I know I couldn’t bear it if I was to put her out of my vehicle and then I see her on the news dead,” he told Loop News.

The taxi operator said in the confusion, the police did not cancel the ticket and he had to pay the fine in Traffic Court.

However, Turner said he didn’t mind because he recently saw the passenger again when she boarded his taxi.

According to the taxi driver, she thanked him for what he had done that night in August and told him that she is now employed and is trying to improve her life.

Jamaicans can contact the Ministry of Health’s mental health and suicide prevention helpline at 888-NEW-LIFE (639-5433) for mental health support.

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The Salvation Army has called on thieves who recently entered its Castries Headquarters on High Street and made off with several items to ask for help if they are in need rather than resort to theft.

Commanding Officer Wousdel Louis said his organisation would assist where possible.

However, he advised thieves that the Salvation Army does not have money.

“I want them to know that we don’t have money. They don’t need to come if they want money. Maybe the things we have for the less fortunate they will take them. But I can tell them please, instead of robbing us, it is better for them to bring something to us,” the Salvation Army Commanding Officer declared.

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In addition, he advised individuals in need to ask rather than steal.

“Everyone who comes to ask, if we have, we give,” he observed.

Louis said on Sunday he discovered that two windows at the front of the Salvation Army building were open and items were missing.

“Because they did not have keys to pass through the doors, they had to go back through the windows. So they took transformers, fan, a box and some other things,” the Salvation Army official told St Lucia Times.

“Everything they could carry through the windows they took,” Louis stated.

He said he reported the theft to the police, and the Salvation Army would secure the windows through which the thieves entered.

“Because we are alive, we give God thanks,” Louis declared.

In addition, Louis explained that the Salvation Army does not work for itself but in the interest of the people of Saint Lucia.

“We feed  people from Monday to Friday – the street people, those who cannot help themselves, and we feed the people at Cornerstone at Vigie Monday to Friday,” he said, adding that the number involved is some 120 individuals.

The Salvation Army also runs a Day Care for children and a thrift store.

Headline photo: Wousdel Louis (Courtesy HTS News)

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