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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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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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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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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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