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MP Katherine Ebanks-Wilks
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MP Katherine Ebanks-Wilks appeared on Radio Cayman’s ‘Talk Today’ show recently with host, Sterling Dwayne Ebanks, where she shared information about a seniors’ Thanksgiving lunch that she will be hosting on November 23 at the West Bay Heritage Park from 11am to 2pm.
As to what seniors and their families can expect at the event, MP Ebanks-Wilks shared that “During that time, we’ll be having live music and then, after lunch we’ll be having some games and then a time of art display… and crafts which will be for sale to the general public.”
And then later on in the evening, we’re gonna have a space [called] ‘arts in the park’ which will be focusing on live music. So, if you have musicians out there that just wanna have a jam session, there’s gonna be Jam night, karaoke, floetry.
She explained further.
Regarding the closing time for the evening portion of the event, MP Ebanks-Wilks said that they “will probably try to tie things up between 8 and 9pm since it is a week night.”
Clarifying whether the event was only limited to seniors, MP Ebanks-Wilks said:
We’re also inviting those who are in the community that may not fall in the category of being a senior, but you’re an artist of some sort, please come out, bring your art work, put it on display and maybe someone will appreciate your art and want to purchase it.
MP Ebanks-Wilks also emphasized the value of people simply coming out and showing their support at the event, summing up her thoughts that “Having a good turn out and having the support for our artists will be really beneficial to them and as to the community as a whole.”
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — There won’t be concessions from the U.S. side. No real deliverables, which is government-speak for specific achievements. Don’t expect a cheery joint statement, either.
During President Joe Biden’s highly anticipated meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday, the leaders will be circling each other to game out how to manage a relationship that the U.S. has determined poses the biggest economic and military threat.
At the same time, U.S. officials have repeatedly stressed that they see the two countries’ interactions as one of competition — and that they want to avoid conflict.
Here’s a look at what each side is hoping to achieve out of the leaders’ first in-person encounter as presidents, to be held on the island of Bali in Indonesia:
Essentially, Biden and other U.S. officials are trying to understand where Xi really stands.
In a news conference shortly before leaving Washington, Biden said he wanted to “lay out … what each of our red lines are, understand what he believes to be in the critical national interests of China, what I know to be the critical interests of the United States.”
That mission has become all the more imperative since the conclusion of the Community Party congress in Beijing, during which Xi secured a norm-breaking third term as leader, empowering him even further.
It’s a goal that will be much more readily achieved in person, White House officials say, despite Biden and Xi’s five video or phone calls during the U.S. president’s term.
Biden told reporters on Sunday that he’s “always had straightforward discussions” with Xi, and that has prevented either of them from “miscalculations” of their intentions.
“I know him well, he knows me,” Biden said. “We’ve just got to figure out where the red lines are and what are the most important things to each of us, going into the next two years.”
The U.S. president will want to send a message to Xi on White House concerns about China’s economic practices. Taiwan is sure to come up, and Biden will want to emphasize to Xi that the U.S. will stand ready to defend the self-governing island should it come under attack by China. Biden also will seek to make clear his concerns about Beijing’s human rights practices, as he has in their previous interactions.
Biden will also use the meeting to press for a more aggressive posture from Xi on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Chinese leader has largely refrained from public criticism of Vladimir Putin’s actions while declining to actively aid Moscow by supplying arms.
“We believe that, of course, every country in the world should do more to prevail upon Russia, especially those who have relationships with Russia, to end this war and leave Ukraine,” said U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
Finally, U.S. officials say they’re eager to see where the two superpowers could actually collaborate. Though there are numerous areas in which Biden and Xi won’t see eye to eye, the White House has listed several issues where they conceivably could, including health, counternarcotics and climate change.
Xi has yet to give a wish list for talks with Biden, but Beijing wants U.S. action on trade and Taiwan.
Perhaps most importantly, the Group of 20 gathering in Bali and the meeting with Biden give China’s most powerful leader in decades a stage to promote his country’s image as a global player and himself as a history-making figure who is restoring its rightful role as an economic and political force.
China pursues “increasingly assertive foreign and security policies aimed at changing the international status quo,” Kevin Rudd, a former Australian prime minister who is president of the Asia Society, wrote in Foreign Affairs. That has strained relations with Washington, Europe and China’s Asian neighbors, but Xi is unfazed and looks set to be more ambitious abroad.
The meeting is “an important event of China’s head-of-state diplomacy toward the Asia Pacific,” said a foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian. He said Xi will “deliver an important speech” on economic growth.
Zhao called on the Biden administration to “stop politicizing” trade and embrace Beijing’s claim to sovereignty over Taiwan, the self-ruled island democracy that split with the mainland in 1949 and never has been part of the People’s Republic of China.
Beijing wants Washington to lift tariffs imposed by former President Donald Trump in 2019 and to pull back on increasing restrictions on Chinese access to processor chips and other U.S. technology. Biden has left most of those in place and added curbs on access to technology that American officials say can be used in weapons development.
“The United States needs to stop politicizing, weaponizing and ideologizing trade issues,” Zhao said.
Xi’s government has stepped up efforts to intimidate the elected government of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen by flying fighter planes near the island and firing missiles into the sea.
Beijing broke off talks with Washington on security, climate cooperation and other issues after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in August in a show of support for its government.
“The United States needs to stop obscuring, hollowing out and distorting the ‘one-China principle,’” said Zhao, referring to Beijing’s stance that Taiwan is obligated to join the mainland under Communist Party leadership.
Another goal for Xi: Don’t get COVID-19.
The G-20 will be only Xi’s second foreign trip in 2 1/2 years while his government enforces a severe “Zero COVID” strategy that shut down cities and kept most visitors out of China.
Xi broke that moratorium by attending a September summit with Putin and Central Asian leaders. But he skipped a dinner and photo session where Putin and others wore no masks.
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SAYING nowhere, not even in one’s own home, is safe anymore from criminals and gunmen, Oropouche West MP Davendranath Tancoo has likened TT to the Wild, Wild West of yesteryear, where the only power lay in the barrel of a gun.
With at least five murders recorded on the weekend, including that of a policeman in Tobago, and the murder toll reaching 530, Tancoo also wondered what it would take the Government to finally come out of its slumber and take meaningful action on crime and violence.
“Yesterday (Saturday), on the doorstep of Starbucks in Sun Plaza, Monroe Road, a man was murdered in full view of families who went to buy coffee, or who went to buy bread in the Quikshoppe or chicken and chips in Royal Castle or to fill gas on the same compound.
“Yesterday at Movie Towne, families had to run in fear as violence broke out and a man was shot. We have become the wild, wild west,” Tancoo said at the UNC’s weekly Sunday press briefing. He was joined by Senator Wade Mark.
“Everyday we see videos in real time of criminals assaulting, robbing and murdering citizens.”
Painting a picture of the trauma citizens of all ages are enduring because of the crime wave, Tancoo called on people.
“Imagine your infant son or daughter going to school and when they are supposed to be learning to count, read and write and draw, the first thing they have to learn to do is how to duck and hide from bullets.”
He said it was a sad indictment on the country when everywhere one goes, one is at risk of being murdered.
“You are not safe in school, in the grocery or in the parlour, in the mall, in the Chinese restaurant, by the doubles man or coconut vendor. You are not safe even in your own home,” he said.
Tancoo said today’s criminals do not care about race or gender or age.
“Nobody is safe anywhere in this country. Embassies are warning their citizens about travelling to this country because crime is so bad.” Last week the US State Dept in its latest country advisory on TT, asked all Americans to reconsider visiting TT.
He also criticised Speaker Bridgid Annisette-George for blanking Barataria/San Juan MP Saddam Hosein’s call for the House of Representatives to debate crime as a matter of urgent public importance.
“There should have been no objection, because everybody is affected by this crime tsunami burying this country in blood.” Tancoo said he was certain even the Speaker knew someone directly affected by the crime scourge.
Commenting on the Prime Minister posting Facebook photos of himself with retired WI cricket legend Viv Richards on the golf course, Tancoo said he does not begrudge Dr Rowley having fun.
“But when you put yourself up to be elected to office, to represent and serve people, for God’s sake serve the people nah man. If you have been elected to be Prime Minister, for God’s sake be the Prime Minister. Grow up! There is a crisis, lead or get out of the way.
“Corruption is now endemic under this PNM Government, like it was under every previous PNM government. Crime is worse than ever before. Then there is flooding, infrastructural neglect, poverty, unemployment…this government is failing at every turn,” he declared.
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A young woman died today shortly after giving birth to her first twin at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
According to a brief statement from the GPHC, the babies were stillborn.
The now-dead 19-year-old female was from the East Bank of Demerara, Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica).
This is the second maternal death reported by the City Hospital today.
This morning, the GPHC reported that a 40-year-old pregnant woman from Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) also died today at the Ocean View Hospital, which houses the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
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Citing the devastating effect of adverse weather on the Region, the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Friday issued a call to action as she headed to the COP27 climate change conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
“Stating the obvious has never been any simpler. We must act now to secure our future,” Dr. Carla Barnett declared.
“Ambitious and credible action in adaptation, finance and loss and damage are paramount,” she stated.
The CARICOM Secretary-General said she would join the Region in advocating for better and more at the climate change conference.
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“The situation is dire. We deserve no less,” the CARICOM Secretary-General explained.
Barnett recalled that six CARICOM member states had been devastated by extreme weather events in the past two weeks, including two hurricanes.
And she explained in a video recording that preliminary estimates indicate damage in tens of millions.
According to Barnett, the extreme weather destroyed homes, shuttered businesses, damaged infrastructure, and kept children away from school.
“It has become a cycle we know too well and one that we cannot long bear,” the CARICOM Secretary-General asserted.
In this regard, she said, as the world gathers in Sharm el-Sheikh for COP 27, the Region is resolute in its position and singular in its demand for climate justice for the vulnerable.
COP27, which opened on November 6, runs until November 18.
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A une semaine du coup d’envoi du Mondial-2022, le trophée de la Coupe du monde est de retour au Qatar, les équipes et les supporteurs commencent à affluer, avant l’un des tournois…
A une semaine du coup d’envoi du Mondial-2022, le trophée de la Coupe du monde est de retour au Qatar, les équipes et les supporteurs commencent à affluer, avant l’un des tournois de football les plus controversés de l’histoire.
Après une tournée de six mois à travers 51 pays, la coupe qui sera brandie par le vainqueur le 18 décembre prochain est revenue dans l’émirat dimanche matin, à sept jours du match d’ouverture Qatar-Equateur le 20 novembre.
Les appels de la Fifa à “se concentrer” sur le foot butent toutefois toujours sur les critiques européennes concernant le traitement des travailleurs migrants et de la communauté LGBT+, et le dirigeant de Qatar Airways, Akbar Al Baker, a rejeté “toute la publicité négative orchestrée dans la presse” contre son pays.
“La désinformation a échoué et, à la fin du tournoi, tous les Qataris se sentiront grandis d’un mètre”, a-t-il clamé lors du baptême d’un immense bateau de croisière qui accueillera des milliers de fans parmi le million attendu pendant un mois de compétition.
“J’ai l’impression que c’est tout ce que nous lisons ces dernières semaines”, a pour sa part commenté Ringo Gonzalez, un Équatorien basé en Allemagne, rencontré par l’AFP au pied de l’horloge marquant le compte à rebours avant la Coupe du monde.
“Ce sera bien de voir enfin les équipes. Je veux que l’Équateur réussisse et voir (l’Argentin) Lionel Messi et les autres grands noms en action.”
L’équipe américaine a pris ses quartiers sur l’île artificielle de The Pearl (La Perle) et la délégation australienne devait atterrir dans la soirée.
Conséquence du décalage du tournoi à l’automne pour bénéficier de températures plus clémentes que durant l’été, les grands championnats européens jouaient encore ce week-end et de nombreuses vedettes étaient sur les terrains.
Messi, le Brésilien Neymar et le Français Kylian Mbappé faisaient partie du onze de départ du Paris Saint-Germain contre Auxerre en Ligue 1 et se sont plutôt amusés (5-0).
Conformément aux lois du pays musulman conservateur, c’est une bouteille d’eau de rose qui a été brisée sur la coque du MSC Europa, plutôt que du champagne, et le casino du bateau restera fermé tant qu’il sera dans le port de Doha.
Le navire de croisière et deux autres similaires, complets pendant les deux premières semaines du tournoi, logeront quelque 10.000 personnes, pour éviter l’engorgement dans les hôtels du plus petit pays à organiser un Mondial (11.571 km², la taille de l’Ile-de-France).
Les vols de la compagnie nationale Qatar Airways sont également pleins en novembre et décembre en raison du Mondial, a indiqué Al Baker.
Selon les organisateurs, 2,9 millions de billets sur 3,1 millions au total ont été vendus et les fans qui visitent le principal point de vente dans le quartier de West Bay en sortent souvent les mains vides, comme Matthew Coleman, un Australien résidant à Doha, et son ami néerlandais Gijs Beenker, qui n’ont pas trouvé de match “intéressant”.
Non loin de là, dans une boutique officielle de souvenirs, les clients sont surtout européens et intéressés par le ballon du tournoi et sa mascotte La’eeb, raconte le staff.
Des travailleurs migrants d’Asie du Sud ont eux acheté par milliers des maillots du Brésil et de l’Argentine, alors que leur sort est au centre de discussions souvent acrimonieuses depuis que le Qatar a obtenu fin 2010 l’organisation de la Coupe du monde.
Les médias européens et qataris poursuivent d’ailleurs leur guerre des mots sur la légitimité du riche émirat gazier à accueillir l’évènement.
Un journal britannique rapporte que de nombreux fans pensent que des Indiens du Qatar ont été “payés” pour participer à des rassemblements de supporteurs vendredi.
Le journal arabophone Al-Sharq rétorque qu’une telle campagne anti-Qatar “confirme l’arrogance de certains pays occidentaux qui pensent qu’organiser la Coupe du monde doit rester leur monopole”.
Pour le quotidien Al Raya, “l’atmosphère enthousiaste et festive de ces foules de fans de foot de différentes nationalités (…) démontre l’échec des campagnes de diffamation menées par certains médias et politiciens occidentaux”.
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L’inspecteur divisionnaire Pierre Wakin, affect? au Palais national, a ?t? arr?t? dans la nuit du vendredi 11 novembre, ? Morne-?-Cabris pour trafic illicite de munitions et association de malfaiteurs.
L’inspecteur divisionnaire a ?t? arr?t? par la Direction centrale de la police judiciaire (DCPJ) lors d’une op?ration de filature. Le grad? revenait de Bellad?re ? bord d’un v?hicule Toyota Land Cruiser de quatre portes, de couleur blanche, immatricul? SE-00315.
Il avait en sa possession 4 000 cartouches de calibre 5.56, 41 autres de calibre 9mm, trois chargeurs de pistolet, un pistolet ainsi que deux t?l?phones portables. Une somme de plus de 900 000 gourdes, ?galement trouv?e en sa possession, a ?t? saisie par la police.
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A une semaine du coup d’envoi du Mondial-2022, le trophée de la Coupe du monde est de retour au Qatar, les équipes et les supporteurs commencent à affluer, avant l’un des tournois…
A une semaine du coup d’envoi du Mondial-2022, le trophée de la Coupe du monde est de retour au Qatar, les équipes et les supporteurs commencent à affluer, avant l’un des tournois de football les plus controversés de l’histoire.
Après une tournée de six mois à travers 51 pays, la coupe qui sera brandie par le vainqueur le 18 décembre prochain est revenue dans l’émirat dimanche matin, à sept jours du match d’ouverture Qatar-Equateur le 20 novembre.
Les appels de la Fifa à “se concentrer” sur le foot butent toutefois toujours sur les critiques européennes concernant le traitement des travailleurs migrants et de la communauté LGBT+, et le dirigeant de Qatar Airways, Akbar Al Baker, a rejeté “toute la publicité négative orchestrée dans la presse” contre son pays.
“La désinformation a échoué et, à la fin du tournoi, tous les Qataris se sentiront grandis d’un mètre”, a-t-il clamé lors du baptême d’un immense bateau de croisière qui accueillera des milliers de fans parmi le million attendu pendant un mois de compétition.
“J’ai l’impression que c’est tout ce que nous lisons ces dernières semaines”, a pour sa part commenté Ringo Gonzalez, un Équatorien basé en Allemagne, rencontré par l’AFP au pied de l’horloge marquant le compte à rebours avant la Coupe du monde.
“Ce sera bien de voir enfin les équipes. Je veux que l’Équateur réussisse et voir (l’Argentin) Lionel Messi et les autres grands noms en action.”
L’équipe américaine a pris ses quartiers sur l’île artificielle de The Pearl (La Perle) et la délégation australienne devait atterrir dans la soirée.
Conséquence du décalage du tournoi à l’automne pour bénéficier de températures plus clémentes que durant l’été, les grands championnats européens jouaient encore ce week-end et de nombreuses vedettes étaient sur les terrains.
Messi, le Brésilien Neymar et le Français Kylian Mbappé faisaient partie du onze de départ du Paris Saint-Germain contre Auxerre en Ligue 1 et se sont plutôt amusés (5-0).
Conformément aux lois du pays musulman conservateur, c’est une bouteille d’eau de rose qui a été brisée sur la coque du MSC Europa, plutôt que du champagne, et le casino du bateau restera fermé tant qu’il sera dans le port de Doha.
Le navire de croisière et deux autres similaires, complets pendant les deux premières semaines du tournoi, logeront quelque 10.000 personnes, pour éviter l’engorgement dans les hôtels du plus petit pays à organiser un Mondial (11.571 km², la taille de l’Ile-de-France).
Les vols de la compagnie nationale Qatar Airways sont également pleins en novembre et décembre en raison du Mondial, a indiqué Al Baker.
Selon les organisateurs, 2,9 millions de billets sur 3,1 millions au total ont été vendus et les fans qui visitent le principal point de vente dans le quartier de West Bay en sortent souvent les mains vides, comme Matthew Coleman, un Australien résidant à Doha, et son ami néerlandais Gijs Beenker, qui n’ont pas trouvé de match “intéressant”.
Non loin de là, dans une boutique officielle de souvenirs, les clients sont surtout européens et intéressés par le ballon du tournoi et sa mascotte La’eeb, raconte le staff.
Des travailleurs migrants d’Asie du Sud ont eux acheté par milliers des maillots du Brésil et de l’Argentine, alors que leur sort est au centre de discussions souvent acrimonieuses depuis que le Qatar a obtenu fin 2010 l’organisation de la Coupe du monde.
Les médias européens et qataris poursuivent d’ailleurs leur guerre des mots sur la légitimité du riche émirat gazier à accueillir l’évènement.
Un journal britannique rapporte que de nombreux fans pensent que des Indiens du Qatar ont été “payés” pour participer à des rassemblements de supporteurs vendredi.
Le journal arabophone Al-Sharq rétorque qu’une telle campagne anti-Qatar “confirme l’arrogance de certains pays occidentaux qui pensent qu’organiser la Coupe du monde doit rester leur monopole”.
Pour le quotidien Al Raya, “l’atmosphère enthousiaste et festive de ces foules de fans de foot de différentes nationalités (…) démontre l’échec des campagnes de diffamation menées par certains médias et politiciens occidentaux”.
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Une affiche présentant le Français Kylian Mbappe (à gauche) et l’Argentin Lionel Messi dans les rues de Doha, le 8 novembre 2022
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Le navire de croisière MSC Europa le 13 novembre 2022 à Doha
• Andrej ISAKOVIC
Vue générale le 10 novembre 2022 du stade Al-Bayt à al-Khor, au Qatar, où se jouera le match d’ouverture de la compétition, le 20 novembre, entre le pays hôte à l’Équateur
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A total of 28 persons died from 25 fatal motor vehicle crashes during the month of October, according to the Ministry of Transport and Mining’s Road Safety Unit (RSU).
The number is two less than the 30 people who died from 27 fatal crashes in October 2021, and 11 fewer that the 39 who perished from 36 fatal collisions in the same month of 2020.
The parishes of St James and St Andrew each recorded five deaths during the month of October this year. They were followed by Hanover, Westmoreland, St Ann and St Catherine with three deaths each, and Trelawny, St Elizabeth, Clarendon, St Mary, Kingston and St Thomas each with one death.
The parishes of Portland and Manchester had zero fatalities during the month.
A further breakdown of the statistics showed that the top three categories with the highest numbers of fatalities were: motorcyclists with 12, pedestrians with eight, and private motor vehicle passengers with five.
A significant 79 per cent of those who died were males, while females accounted for the remaining 21 per cent.
According to the RSU, the main cause of the fatalities was excessive speeding with no regard for the road conditions.
Meanwhile, a total of 401 people died from 348 fatal motor vehicle collisions this year up to Friday, November 11. A breakdown reveals that the top three categories with the highest number sof fatalities were: motorcyclists with 119, pedestrians with 83, and drivers of private motor vehicles with 74.
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