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A DeSouza Road family of five was left shaken following a shooting incident in the early hours of Monday, September 5.

A family member spoke to REAL News on the condition of anonymity, reporting that, at around 3 a.m., he heard four loud explosions that sounded like gunshots.

He says he turned to his girlfriend and said the gunshots sounded as though they were coming into the house.

The father of three says he got up and looked through a window, but did not see anyone. Not wanting to venture outside at that time, he says he waited until sunrise to inspect.

Much to his surprise, he says, when he and a neighbour went looking around the house they discovered several bullet holes.

One of the bullets damaged the styling around the door frame and was lodged there, he says, while a bath left on a table in the front yard was split by another bullet.

On the eastern side of the house, the man says, he was able to trace the path where a bullet penetrated into the living room and burst his son’s book bag – mere hours before he was to return to school.

The child was in the living room at the time and could have been seriously injured or killed, the father says – admitting that the very thought brought tears to his eyes.

Allegedly, another bullet went through a neighbour’s fence and struck the house; but that one reportedly was not retrieved.

In the meantime, the man says he is still frightened and is wondering what could have caused this incident.

He is speculating that someone was being chased and ran into his yard. He believes the attacker opened fire, thinking that the person had entered his house.

The victim further speculates that two persons were chasing the individual, and one ran into his neighbour’s yard, breaking his pipe. The other came through his property, which is fenced on all four sides, he says.

The man reports that he and his family moved into the area only three months ago, and he has not been in any confrontations since then.

He notes that he or his daughter could have been injured, given where they were sleeping, and he implores persons to think about the safety of others before discharging a weapon in a residential area.

The Police were notified and have since visited his home and conducted investigations. Three bullets were retrieved from the house and four spent shells from the road.

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El representante por el Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño, Denis Márquez Lebrón, informó en RADIO ISLA que ayer la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica (AEE) les dijo ayer que la negligencia de LUMA está afectando las plantas generatrices.

“La propia Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica nos dijo ayer y nos sometió ayer mismo en un documento de que las consecuencias que está teniendo esto en las plantas generatrices, por la falta de acción o de negligencia de LUMA”, expresó Denis Márquez.   

Denis Márquez agregó que en la Autoridad de las Alianzas Público Privadas “no hay un solo funcionario que tenga conocimiento o peritaje en el área de transmisión y distribución que pueda entender los documentos o entender lo que está viendo”. 

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La production de Meurtres au paradis, la célèbre série télévisée franco-britannique, a tourné, jeudi dernier, le 3e épisode de la saison 12. Celui-ci sera diffusé sur le petit écran en juin 2023.

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Several subjects sat by students in this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) recorded declines in their overall pass rates.

CSEC mathematics and English language are among them.

This was outlined by Director of Operations at the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC), Dr Nicole Manning, at a press conference in St Lucia on Monday, to release the results of the 2022 CXC exams.

Manning explained that this year’s exams faced challenges, including the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and a deferral of the exams by three weeks to facilitate student preparations.

Starting with the results for CAPE, she advised that in Caribbean Studies, there was a reduction in the performance of students who achieved grades one and two.

However, the passes for candidates who attained grade three were stable, while there was increase in the number of students attaining grades four and five when compared with the 2021 sitting.

In Communication Studies, 92 per cent of the Caribbean candidates passed those exams. This, according to Manning, represents a reduction from last year’s pass rate.

She said there was also a reduction in the number of students attaining grades one and two in the subject, but stable in grade three and increases in the number of people attaining grades four and five.

“In Information Technology Unit One, we saw a reduction for both grades one and two, an increase for grades three onwards to five, and an overall reduction for Unit One,” Manning outlined.

However, for Unit Two in that subject area, there was a 96 per cent increase in the number of students passing the exam, with the number of candidates achieving grades one and two increasing when compared to last year’s preliminary data.

For Food and Nutrition Unit One, there was no candidate across the Caribbean who achieved a grade one pass, representing a reduction.

In contrast to Unit Two, there is a four per cent increase in the number of students passing with grades one. Overall, the pass rate for that unit has risen by 97 per cent, Manning stated.

CAPE Law was one of the subjects where student performances remained consistent, with Unit One having an “overall all-time high” pass rate of 93 per cent, Manning reported.

In CSEC, there was a regional reduction in passes for English A.

While not providing the regional pass rate for the subject, Manning said there was stability relative to the 19 per cent of students who sat the exams achieving grades one.

At the same time, the number of Caribbean students receiving grades two and three declined.

The performance of regional students in Mathematics declined to 37 per cent, Manning informed.

“For Mathematics, we saw a reduction for grades one and two, but stability at grade three,” she advised.

For English B (Literature), there was an increase in students attaining passes of grades one and two, and a reduction of passes with grade three.

But there was an overall increase in passes from 63 per cent last year to 72 per cent in 2022.

The pass rate for Biology for the 2022 CSEC exams is 78 per cent, while the pass rate for Chemistry declined to 59 per cent.

“While we saw an increase in grades three (in Chemistry), we saw a reduction at grades one and two,” Manning disclosed.

“Now, Chemistry, of course, like Biology… is a very practical and hands-on subject. So, we are looking as we go back to face-to-face for some improvements in this area, because those components where we saw the reduction, I believe would have been major alignment with the fact that candidates would have been out,” she explained.

Physics declined to 64 per cent this year, in comparison to the 67 per cent pass rate recorded last year.

There was a 69 per cent increase in the pass rate for Principles of Accounts, while Principles of Business also recorded an increase of 80 per cent.

Social Studies also had a decrease in both overall performance rate and the number of students attaining grades one, two and three when compared to previous years.

Students were expected to receive their results at approximately 6pm Monday.

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