Ruckers in basketbalfinale
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Tekst en beeld John Zaalman PARAMARIBO — Ruckers heeft invulling gegeven aan de woorden ‘Ik kom dinsdag niet om te
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Les Argentins punis, les Bleus euphoriques
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The content originally appeared on: Martinique FranceAntilles
GROUPEs C ET D – 1e JOURnée
Lionel Messi et ses coéquipiers ont été cueilli à froid par l’Arabie saoudite (2-1). Championne du monde en titre, la France a fait respecter son rang, face à l’Australie, 4-1.
Coup de tonnerre à Lusail ! Les spectateurs du
stade le plus grand du Qatar avec ses 80.000 places, ont ainsi
assisté à l’une des plus grosses surprises de l’histoire de la
compétition. En signant une performance forcément inattendue face à
l’un des favoris de la compétition, l’Arabie saoudite (gr. C),
l’autre pays du Golfe de cette Coupe du monde a lui fait bien
meilleure figure que son voisin qatari, défait par l’Equateur
dimanche (0-2).
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Les Bleus ont fait vibrer Madiana
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The content originally appeared on: Martinique FranceAntilles
FOOTBALL. MONDIAL. FAN ZONE
Photos : Jean-Marc Etifier
Les Bleus recollent au score. L’équipe de France vient d’égaliser. Les jeunes footballeurs du Pôle d’excellence de Ligue sont aux anges. • JME.
La diffusion du match de l’équipe de France, hier, face à l’Australie, a été l’occasion pour les jeunes joueurs du Pôle d’excellence de Ligue ainsi que monsieur et madame-tout-le-monde d’apprécier leur favoris. Les Bleus ont gagné largement, une donne intéressante pour les prochains rendez-vous cinématographiques programmés samedi à 12 heures contre le Danemark, et mercredi à 11 heures contre la Tunisie.
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Kylian Manhaval conclut en beauté
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Planche à voile. Championnats d’Europe iQFoil Youth & Junior 2022
Melvyn Zamy m.zamy@agmedias.fr
Kylian Manhaval, à Sylvaplana lors des championnats
du monde. • D.R
Début novembre, Kylian Manhaval, le jeune véliplanchiste martiniquais, s’est une nouvelle fois distingué en iQfoil. Cette fois-ci, c’est sur la scène européenne qu’il a décroché un titre de champion d’Europe U15 à Brest. Un résultat qui découle des bonnes performances réalisées tout au long de la saison, y compris durant les championnats du monde en août dernier.
Se mesurer au gotha mondial et européen était
l’objectif de Kylian Manhaval, durant ces derniers mois. Le
véliplanchiste a voulu changer de dimension, lui qui continue
d’étonner les observateurs, tant son talent parle pour lui. Du 22
au 28 novembre, il a participé à sa première compétition
internationale en IQfoil (support de référence pour les JO 2024).
Lors de ce championnat du monde en Suisse, les meilleurs mondiaux
étaient présents. 28 nations représentées (260 concurrents) se sont
données rendez-vous sur le plan d’eau de Silvaplana, un lac à
1 800 mètres d’altitude.
Trois catégories étaient concernées : U15, U17 et
U19. Les U15 et U17, eux, couraient simultanément. Cela permettait
aux U15 de se confronter aux plus grands tout
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La Ginga et le FAX, toujours un sans faute
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Futsal. Championnat Ormat. 6e journée
Par Romain MATTIO
r.mattio@agmedias.fr
Luidgi Mausse, homme du match contre la MIG avait déjà reçu cette distinction lors de la dernière journée, ici à Basse-Terre contre New Team le 11 novembre dernier. Photo d’illustration. • HARRY DAMAS
Les deux formations n’ont toujours pas perdu cette saison et elles n’ont pas failli lundi soir à Petit-Canal. Les Canaliens ont réussi à se débarrasser du FC3M 8 à 5 tandis que le FAX disposait de la MIG 9 à 1.
Le match d’ouverture de cette 6e journée entre le
FC3M et la Ginga a réservé une surprise aux supporters Canaliens.
La Ginga toujours invaincue avant cette journée se fait surprendre
en étant menée 2 à 1 au bout de 21 minutes de jeu. Si c’est
l’inévitable Luidgi Mausse (Ginga) qui a ouvert le score dès la 4e
minute, le FC3M est allé chercher une égalisation méritée à la 11e
minute. Mais l’avantage des Gosiériens ne va durer que trois
minutes, puisque Breter (Ginga) profite d’une erreur de marquage de
Fahresmane (FC3M) pour fusiller le gardien à bout portant. 2-2,
puis 3 à 2 dans la f
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Witness: No warning about Delta P possibility
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The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Christopher Boodram testifies that he felt there was no attempt him and his colleagues who were sucked into the 30-inch subsea pipeline. – SUREASH CHOLAI
THE five men tragically sucked into an undersea pipeline while repairing a vertical berth at sea-level were not warned of the risk of a phenomenon known as Delta P – arising due to a “differential pressure” – in nearby seas, testified Christopher Boodram on Tuesday.
He was the sole survivor of the February 25 tragedy that killed four men – Fyzal Kurban, Kazim Ali Jr, Rishi Nagassar, Yusuf Henry – at an 30-inch pipeline at Berth 6, belonging to Paria Fuel Trading Co Ltd at Pointe-a-Pierre.
Boodram gave evidence for 90 minutes and then underwent cross-examination on the second day of the evidential hearing of the Commission of Enquiry (CoE) into the accident, chaired by Jerome Lynch, KC. Ramesh Maharaj, SC, was CoE counsel and Gilbert Peterson, SC, Paria counsel.
Boodram said five men were working in an enclosed and pressurised space atop berth 6 which suddenly filled with water, with the men being sucked into the undersea part of the pipeline in a vortex of water.
On Monday in his opening statement, Maharaj had said there was no dispute that the tragedy had involved the Delta P phenomenon, and then a water vortex.
On Tuesday, Maharaj asked if anyone had ever told the divers of any risk of being sucked into the pipeline. Boodram replied, “No.”
Later, Peterson asked about an earlier meeting that fateful day and a corresponding toolbox form.
Peterson asked if there had been any discussion about Delta P.
Boodram replied, “No sir.”
Gilbertson said Delta P could occur if two plugs – a mechanical and an inflatable plug respectively, which form a seal in the berth – were ever removed at the wrong time.
Boodram replied, “We put plugs against liquids so there’s a force and Delta P couldn’t arise.”
He added that he was not there when the plugs had previously been installed.
Replying to Peterson, Boodram said the removal of plugs had been discussed before at a toolbox meeting, and Kazim Ali Jnr, ultimately a drowning victim, had okayed the plugs’ removal.
Boodram said twice in the past two years he had done similar jobs, both at LMCS, Paria’s subcontractor which had employed the deceased men.
Peterson asked if Delta P had ever been discussed in either of those two meetings.
Boodram said, “No Sir. Not to my recollection”
Peterson said Delta P was a serious risk.
Boodram replied that Delta P would only be a risk if one didn’t follow the proper steps for a job.
He explained, “If the line was empty there’s a risk for Delta P. If the line is full, you don’t have a differential of pressure.”
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Longdenville mother of 5 gets offers of help
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The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
PLEASE HELP US: Samantha Persad with four of her five children at her Railway Road, Longdenville, Chaguanas home. – Photo by Roger Jacob
Mother of five Samantha Persad is on her way to receiving help.
After her story was published in Tuesday’s Newsday, she received calls from state agencies and the public with offers of assistance.
Persad rents a small plyboard house near Ravine Sable Road, Longdenville, for $500 a month. It has electricity, and running water in the kitchen, but no indoor toilet or shower.
The galvanise roof leaks, and Persad and her children sleep on two beds, which sometimesget wet when the rain comes from a particular direction.
Persad said her day was filled with phone calls on Tuesday.
She did not keep count, but the most important ones, she said, were from the Ministry of Legal Affairs, the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) and the Children’s Authority.
She also received calls “from a few people who were calling to look for a wife.”
The Ministry of Legal Affairs told her it would “help with the birth certificate, the financial part with the affidavit and stuff. They trying to put everything in place that I would only have to go in and collect it.”
Persad has never had a birth certificate or any other form of official ID. As a result, her children’s births were never registered, and she cannot access social welfare nor seek maintenance from her children’s fathers.
To register her birth, the Legal Affairs Ministry initially said she must search its records. If none is found, she can apply for late registration. Someone older than Persad must swear an affidavit saying they know her family and that she was born in TT. She must then be interviewed.
Anyone with valid ID can apply to register her children on Persad’s behalf. It requires a letter from the hospital certifying where the children were born. After Tuesday’s call, she hopes to get the birth certificates very soon.
The HDC also called Persad and took details of the place she is renting. Officials told her “that they go around building houses for people with their own land, but my situation different. I waiting on them to call back.”
The Children’s Authority also took her details and her children’s.
“Basically everybody taking the information and saying they will get back to me with whatever they get. So right now, I very grateful.”
In addition, Persad said, “A next guy called, Steve, he not calling from any work, he say he doing it on he own behalf. He said he’d support the kids with groceries for every month.
“Another guy called from Siparia, and he said within the next ten days he will come up and help me out with some groceries as well.”
Because of Persad’s location in Longdenville, there was some uncertainty about which parliamentary constituency she lives in. Initially, Newsday contacted Caroni Central MP Arnold Ram, but in fact he is not not her MP.
Calls to Caroni East MP Dr Rishad Seecheran went unanswered.
Anyone who wants to help Samantha Persad and her family can contact her at 274-2483.
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CoE hears Paria survivor’s tale: Nightmare
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The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Paria diving tragedy survivor Christopher Boodram is emotional during his testimony at the commission of enquiry hearing at Tower D, International Waterfront, Port of Spain on Tuesday. – SUREASH CHOLAI
CHRISTOPHER BOODRAM, the sole survivor in the Paria tragedy which claimed the lives of four divers, on Tuesday gave a harrowing account of being sucked into an undersea oil pipeline before escaping.
“I did not know if I was in heaven or hell, or in a pipe,” Boodram said at the Commission of Enquiry (CoE) at the International Waterfront Centre, Port of Spain.
He wept openly at times as he spoke. Chairman Jerome Lynch, KC, allowed him to step outside briefly to compose himself. He summed up his experience inside the pipeline as “an unbelievable nightmare.”
Divers Fyzal Kurban, Kazim Ali Jr, Rishi Nagassar, Yusuf Henry and Boodram were sucked into a 30-inch pipeline at Pointe-a-Pierre on the compound of Paria Fuel Trading Co Ltd on February 25.
Christopher Boodram testifies that he felt there was no attempt him and his colleagues who were sucked into the 30-inch subsea pipeline. – SUREASH CHOLAI
While Boodram couldn’t get rescuers to his trapped colleagues as he had promised, his fellow divers had saved his life by directing him to the open berth six, not the sealed berth five.
“If they didn’t know which direction to go in, I’d be dead today,” he attested of Ali, Kurban and Henry.
Boodram complained of no rescue efforts to save his colleagues. He said upon emerging from the pipeline, he couldn’t access a decompression unit and relied on his wife for a salve to clean oil from his sinuses.
He felt his life under threat in a covid19 isolation ward, even though he was covid-free, next to a woman who died shortly after he was placed there.
Boodram disputed Paria manager Collin Piper’s evidential claim that Boodram had said the trapped men were already dead.
“I would not say something like that. Why would I call Mr Piper to say I think them fellars dead?”
He recalled the incident of a their work chamber (“the habitat”) suddenly filling with water.
“I said, ‘Let’s get out of here.’”
Jumping into the sea, he was spun rapidly as if in a tornado, beating up his body.
“It happened so fast.”
In a foetal position, he was pulled through the pipeline at “unbelievable speeds,” debris hitting him.
Boodram had to hold his breath so long his lungs made gasping noises, which he hauntingly replicated for the CoE.
“I said, ‘God, I’m coming. Ma, look for me.
“I was in a state of panic. I was not sure if I was dead. I was not sure if I was alive.”
He heard the other divers, asking, “Kazim, you all right?”. He said Ali replied, “No. I in real pain. I mash up bad.”
Commission of enquiry chairman Jerome Lynch, KC. – SUREASH CHOLAI
Henry said, “My foot break.”
Boodram recalled, “I said ‘no, we’re not going to die. We’re coming out of here, boy. We have to get out of this. God is good.’”
Boodram said the men formed a chain, pulling and pushing each other along the pipeline.
“Inside there was like an unbelievable nightmare. Your eyes burning. Every time you try to open your eyes it burning. Pitch black – you can’t see anything.
“Your throat burning. Your ears ringing. Your body sore.”
The men, in pain, linked up themselves.
“We drag and pull, drag and pull.”
Wiping his nostrils with a wash rag, he asked to go outside and Lynch ordered a short break.
A tearful Boodram returned and apologised. Lynch said, “No need for an apology.”
CoE counsel Ramesh Maharaj helped by relating Boodram’s evidence which he had previously given in a statement.
Lead counsel for the Paria Commission of Enquiry, Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj, hold up a hula hoop to demonstrate the approximate width of the pipeline in which five LMCS divers were trapped on February 25. – SUREASH CHOLAI
Boodram said the men were in eight-ten inches of water, but moving along it got deeper – aiding their mobility but providing less air.
He recalled telling Kurban, “Nobody can help us here but God.”
The men found a scuba tank, also sucked into the pipe, and he told them each to take “two or three pulls” to avoid becoming delirious from the pipeline air.
“Trying to stay calm and keep those fellars calm was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do in this life.
“Yusuf was in pain but was a fighter. He had resilience to a different level.”
Boodram recalled finding a GoPro camera.
“I was think(ing) of leaving a message for my family.” However, he decided against it and made up his mind to fight his way out of the pipeline and get help for the others.
He said he went ahead of the men for 15 feet to explore, fearing he’d end up trapped in berth five.
“I have to try because failure is death.” He wiped his tears.
“Kaz said, ‘Don’t go. I said, ‘I have to.’”
He said he kicked his foot free of someone’s grasp.
“I had to yank it out, force it out.”
“I started to move through the water. My tank started to go dry. I could only hope I’m reaching a next air pocket or get a next tank. My tank hit a next tank, ‘tong!’”
Using that tank “was like eating oil.”
“My mind was just on forward, forward!
“Fyzie said, ‘Christopher, I’m right here. Wait for me.’
“I said, ‘I can’t wait for you. If we have to save anybody, we’ve got to get out of here. Fyzie, I can’t wait.”
In the habitat, he clung desperately to a chain, feeling exhausted and faint. His first rescuer appeared. The person was someone he knew but did not recognise.
“I swear to God it was the angel of death.”
He then saw one of Kurban’s sons, Nicholas, and told him to rescue his father, saying, “Now boy, now!”
Unable to get treated at a decompression unit, Boodram reflected, “I felt like nobody cared for me. Everybody was like a headless chicken.”
Saying potential rescuers could have bypassed any six-inch wide scuba tank in the pipeline, as he had done to exit, he said he begged for a rescue but said Paria officials repeatedly cited the scuba gear available, presumably as being inadequate equipment for a rescue.
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FLA seizes weapon of gun holder following New Kingston incident Loop Jamaica
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The content originally appeared on: Jamaica News Loop News
The Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) has seized the firearm of the gun holder who was seen pulling his weapon on a homeless woman in New Kingston.
FLA officials told Loop News that the firearm was confiscated as the organization launches its own investigation into the matter.
The FLA has also confirmed that the man has a permit for the weapon.
Last week a 40-second video showed the woman, who is known to beg for a living, walking towards the man close to the intersection of Knutsford Boulevard and Trafalgar Road.
The man is seen backing away while he appears to warn the woman to stay away, but after a few steps, he pulls his firearm and points at the female.
Social media users have been divided following the incident with even several firearm holders giving their views on the situation.
One firearm holder said he felt the action was justified. The firearm holder who spoke to Loop was of the view that the man felt threatened and pulled his firearm to keep away the threat.
Another firearm holder and a retired policeman who asked that his name not be published because of security reasons said he did not feel the action of the man was justified.
“Look at the small frame of the woman and look at the firearm holder who towers over the woman. Where was the threat the woman did not have a weapon or any corrosive substance so the licensed firearm holder did not have to pull his gun.
Another firearm holder said the man ran the risk of getting charged with assault at common law for his action and he also ran the risk of exposing himself to other members of the public that he was the holder of a weapon.
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Contrasting evidence presented in Paria CoE
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Paria and Heritage attorneys Jason Mootoo (left ) and Senior Counsel Gilbert Peterson at the CoE into the Paria diving tragedy. – SUREASH CHOLAI
There was contrasting evidence in the Paria Commission of Enquiry as lawyers sought to determine whether procedure was followed during the changing of a faulty riser which resulted in the death of four divers on February 25.
Gilbert Peterson, SC, who represents Paria and the Heritage Petroleum Company, showed surviving diver Christopher Boodram an account by Paria’s HSE officer of the toolbox meeting which took place on the morning of the incident.
Peterson said, “In that list of 16 steps, there is no mention of any activity involving the removing of the barriers, the mechanical plug, or the inflatable plug.”
CoE Chairman Jerome Lynch, KC, took Boodram through the Land and Marine Construction Services Ltd (LMCS) method statement, which was attached to the work permit governing the job. “I can’t recall seeing this document but you have to remember I wasn’t there every day. I have no recollection of seeing this document at all.”
Lynch read through sections of the document.
“Paragraph 56 said to manually remove the migration barrier from the line – that’s the plug, the metal one with the bolts on; and paragraph 57 said manually deflate line plug and remove from the line. Paragraph 58 said manually install the blind flange on riser by positioning end flange on newly installed slip-on flange and securing with fasteners. Paragraph 59 said the chamber crew to demobilize and return to exterior, 60 said disengage air supply and allow chamber to flood, and 61 said unbolt the 50-inch flange at the top of the chamber stove-pipe.”
He asked Boodram whether this was his recollection of what was to happen on that day.
“Yes sir, this is what I was told. This is the topic we had on that day, excluding the flood, well we had to flood the chamber when we were leaving, including the flooding of the chamber, but the removal of the chamber and thing would have been done, providing the 25th went smoothly, on the 26th.”
Lynch asked, “Did anyone say to you that under no circumstances must that plug was to be removed, from LMCS or from Paria, at any stage.”
Boodram replied, “No Sir, on the contrary, that was the plan, to remove the plug.”
Lynch said Boodram had testified that it took an hour to two hours for that process to occur.
“During that two-hour period, did anyone from Paria or LMCS say, do not remove that plug?”
To which Boodram replied “No Sir.”
Lynch said the work permit document also had attached a lift document and job safety analysis (JSA) document, which were together in a series of documents supplied by Paria.
“Do you remember if this document at all was shown to you on the day you were going to carry out this work?”
Boodram said he could not remember seeing the document attached to the work permit, but it was read to him by LMCS’ safety officer.
Peterson asked Boodram if he knew , between the method statement and the PTW for the day, which one actually dictates what workers were supposed to do on the day.
Boodram replied, “the method statement is, in my view, the one you would work with and go to, because the method statement is what you would use to obtain the contract.”
When Peterson asked if Boodram accepted that the PTW took precedence over the method statement, Boodram said, “Which part in the PTW say that you could not take out the plugs? There was nowhere stating you should not have done it.
“If there was a ‘must not’ do something, it would have been bold, as it is here – bold in writing that all steps below shall be carried out to full compliance with Paria PTW system. When Paria at any time found that the job was going out of their PTW, they would have stopped the job, that’s what they had officials there for.”
In response to questioning from Seaman and Waterfront Workers’ Trade Union counsel Nyree Alfonso, Boodram said when he used a tank to get air from while escaping the pipe, it was not lodged anywhere in the pipe, as he was able to swim over it. He said he did not believe camera footage which showed the pipe was blocked.
The CoE was adjourned until Thursday at 10 am.
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