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AUTOMOBILE. Championnat de France des rallyes
Vingt-cinq ans après avoir remporté le rallye Mont-Blanc/Morzine, Simon Jean-Joseph avait annoncé, il y a quelques semaines, son intention de participer à la 74e édtion de l’épreuve en reconstituant le quatuor « Jean-Jo » avec le copilote Patrick Pivato, la « fameuse » Subaru Impreza et une grande partie de l’équipe qui s’était imposée sur ce même rallye en 1998.
Pour « refaire le match », selon l’expression employée par le pilote, Simon Jean-Joseph a su reconstituer ce quatuor magique mais aussi obtenir le soutien de son entourage et de ses partenaires. Et il sera bien sur les routes de la 6e manche du championnat de France vendredi et samedi, avec comme seul mot d’ordre : « le plaisir ! Se faire plaisir au volant de cette voiture mythique au son et au look uniques, mais aussi et surtout faire plaisir aux passionnés au bord des routes,…
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Espace Sud
Depuis le mois de juillet, le ramassage des ordures ménagères dans 6 communes du Sud connait des perturbations. L’espace Sud avait haussé le ton en demandant à l’entreprise délégataire, Fiser, de respecter ses obligations. Une rencontre a permis de mettre toutes les difficultés sur la table pour trouver une solution.
Les élus de la commission environnement de l’Espace Sud, avec à leur tête Ernest Jean-Lambert, ont rencontré une délégation de l’entreprise Fiser afin de discuter de l’organisation de la collecte des ordures ménagères dans 6 communes du Sud. Depuis plusieurs semaines, l’Espace Sud semblait non satisfait de l’organisation de la collecte, et, dans le même temps, les habitants faisaient remonter leur colère. Il n’en fallait pas plus pour tirer la sonnette d’alarme. L’entreprise…
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Cette rentrée 2022 aura marqué un tournant dans l’histoire du Couvent. C’est en effet la première année que les petits garçons sont acceptés dans l’établissement dès la petite, la moyenne et la grande section. Une nouveauté qui ravit les parents ainsi que les équipes pédagogiques. Vendredi, les écoliers de maternelle ont donc fait leur rentrée dans une jolie ambiance.
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Jeudi 1er septembre, les 37 élèves de Fonds-Saint-Denis ont fait, comme ailleurs, leur rentrée dans une des trois classes multiniveaux que compte l’établissement. Une école au cadre privilégié, à l’ambiance familiale qui favorise les apprentissages et les relations, selon les parents et les enseignants.
Au clocher, l’horloge indique 8 heures pétantes. Derrière l’église, après avoir garé les voitures tant bien que mal sur le petit parking en contrebas, parents et enfants forment une procession sur la route qui grimpe jusqu’à l’école. Samantha, elle, descend par un autre petit chemin cerclé d’herbes folles. « On habite à cinq minutes à pied, au quartier Trou-Vent », précise la Denisienne, son fils Taïric accroché à sa taille.
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Hurricane Danielle
(Image source: National Hurricane Center)
Early on Monday, September 5, 2022, Hurricane Danielle remained a category 1 hurricane, displaying maximum sustained winds of about 90 mph (a category 2 hurricane begins at 96 mph on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale).
Wind bands
According to the National Hurricane Center, hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 25 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 115 miles.
Projected track
Hurricane Danielle is moving northeast at 7 mph, representing an increase from its earlier movement in the range of 1 to 2 mph.
Danielle is expected to continue northeast on Monday, then turning east-northeast by Tuesday night.
All indications are that Hurricane Danielle will pass above the Azores Wednesday night and Thursday during the day.
Hurricane Danielle projected to pass above Azores (Source: The Weather Channel)
Warnings and watches
According to the National Hurricane Center, there are no coastal watches or warnings in effect.
Notwithstanding this, if Hurricane Danielle continues on its current track, it could be a threat to London or somewhere else in Europe sometime after this coming weekend.
Models showing Hurricane Danielle could impact Europe (source: Weather Channel)
The Hon. Kenneth Bryan, Minister for Tourism and Transport was on hand recently to oversee the donation of thousands of Lateral Flow Test kits (LFT) to the Department of Children and Family Services (
The National Hurricane Center reported that Tropical Storm Earl is expected to pass north of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Sunday, then gradually moving away from the islands by Monday.
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I think Minister Sabrina Turner is on the right track with her ministry
The government confirmed that Public Service pensioners received a one-off sum of $450 on Thursday, September 1, which was added to their pension payment for August.
The payment was funded by
Minister for Health, Wellness & Home Affairs, Sabrina Turner, confirmed on Wednesday that a new mental facility for the Cayman Islands will be up and running by the end of 2022.
Addressing matt
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THE Opposition is warning the nation, especially those families in the middle and lower income brackets, not to expect any relief from the Government in the 2022/2023 budget.
Insisting that the Spotlight on the Economy forum last Friday, staged by the Ministry of Finance at the Hyatt Regency, was nothing short of PR and gimmickry by the Government, the UNC says claims of TT’s improving economy will not be reflected in Finance Minister Colm Imbert’s budget, to be read in Parliament on September 26.
At its weekly Sunday press conference, at the Office of the Opposition Leader in Charles Street, Port of Spain, shadow finance minister and Oropouche West MP Davendranath Tancoo and Opposition Senator Taharqa Obika both described Imbert’s Spotlight on the Economy forum as, “a pappyshow.”
Tancoo said this minister “continues to gloss over the true state of the economy,” by basing the economic uptick on the recent windfall largely caused by the tripling of ammonia, urea and methanol global prices.
“If they don’t have a plan, then say so. All of his celebration at the spotlight last Friday as premised on this temporary windfall. The increased revenue was a result of world price hikes and had nothing to do with increased production.
“It had nothing to do with ease of doing business. It had nothing to do with any policy action by this government. More than that, this windfall is not sustainable,” Tancoo said.
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He added, “Imbert clutched to this windfall like a drowning man clutching to a piece of straw. He is trying to convince the population that this was as a result of fiscal management, fiscal credibility (by government) when this is obviously not true.
“The PNM government has failed to present any plan to transform the economy away from over reliance on the dwindling and dying energy industry or in addressing any of the underlying issues of the economy.”
Tancoo said the Opposition, like so many people in society, just isn’t convinced that Imbert’s “continuous references to financial resilience” can be seen as a sign of hope for citizens.
He expects the government not to provide any incentives that would ease the burden of ever increasing food and gas prices, especially in the new fiscal year. He said, all one could do was hope the Government will inject resources into job creation, enterprise development, national security, education and health.
He accused Imbert of, “cherry-picking data to explain why the country has experienced sustained economic regression for the past seven years.
“The government has been blaming Kamla, covid19, and Russia in an attempt to distract people from the fact that they have been spending $153 million daily, for the past seven years, yet every single sector has gotten worse.”
Tancoo said the government’s inability to maintain its debt obligations, lower the unemployment rate and manage resources are all signs of an impending economic depression.
“The robust growth that the minister boasts about is heavily premised on higher prices in the energy sector, which is still the primary driver of this economy. But what will happen when prices revert to normal levels?
“Ironically, while the minister was stretching backward to pat himself on his back, he admitted that what was helping the economy was higher ammonia, urea and methanol prices, over the last two years which allowed for a short-term windfall. This had nothing at all to do with anything Imbert and his government did.”
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Miss La Reine Rive winner Tineka Francois after she was crowned on Saturday evening at the SAPA in San Fernando. PHOTOS BY LINCOLN HOLDER –
SCIENCE student Tineka Francois, who dreams of one day becoming a neurosurgeon, while still pursuing her passion to be a designer, was crowned the Ms La Reine Rive Best Village Queen 2022 on Saturday night.
Representing Vance River Village Council, Francois, 20, was crowned by Sports and Community Development Minister Shamfa Cudjoe, as the curtain came down on the month-long festival of folklore and cultural events known as the Prime Minister’s Best Village Competition.
In a show dubbed, Le Gran Z’Affaire, at the Southern Academy for the Performing Arts (SAPA) in San Fernando, Francois was a favourite among the 12 competitors, and wowed both the judges and the audience with her grace and intelligence.
A gown she designed, decorated and helped sew, gave her the edge.
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The question-and-answer segment in which she identified, Best Village, the Tobago Heritage Festival and Carnival as three events any tourist to TT must experience, also secured her place among the five finalists and eventually the top spot.
In an interview with the Newsday on Sunday, the first time entrant in the competition said the experience took her breath away.
“Winning this for Vance River, a small community, this has never been done before and it is something to marvel at and be thankful for,” she said.
She lamented that over the past few years, especially during the pandemic, the youths seem to have moved away from traditional cultural artforms.
“I believe this win could spark a cultural renewal within my community. I want to use this to advocate for more cultural activities within my community.”
A spoken word artiste, Francois recalled that while a primary school student at the Vance River Primary School, she nurtured the dream of becoming a designer.
Plans for this were shelved based on family expectations and replaced with the practical career choice to pursue medicine and specialise as a neuro-surgeon.
Sciences were among the subjects chosen at both Holy Name Convent in Point Fortin and Holy Faith Convent in Penal, where she studied for and wrote the CSEC and CAPE exams respectively.
With online classes giving her more free time during the pandemic, Francois said her desire to occupy her time wisely, rekindled her yearning to design. She has enrolled with a privately-run design school with the intention of registering with the UTT, upon completion of the course with the design school.
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She is also a member of FLVS Management modelling agency, modelling for both local and international designers.
In a brief address, Minister Cudjoe said the Best Village journey over the past few months, from learning to successful execution would undoubtedly be rewarding and fulfilling for the participants.
With the last physical competition being in 2019, Cudjoe noted how the pandemic had put a damper on the competition.
Despite the setbacks, she said, the pandemic provided opportunities to invite new groups and introduce new areas of competition, such as the grow-it-yourself kitchen garden competition.
She congratulated all participants from the different village councils.
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GUNNED DOWN: Nigel “Bulls” Henry, shot dead outside his Petit Valley home on Sunday morning, is seen in this photo posted to social media. –
POLICE say they have no motive for the murder of Nigel Headley of Upper Simeon Road, Petit Valley.
Headley, 45, who was originally from Beverley Hills, Laventile, was gunned down on Sunday morning at his home.
When Newsday visited the area, his immediate family was too distraught to speak with reporters. Residents and family gathered along the pavement leading to his home. A group of men described Headley as a mentor to young men in the community.
One man who didn’t want to be named said, “He was a good one, never in nothing. He was like a father to plenty people up here.”
A police report said that at around 8.30 am, Headley was standing at the front door of his home when the incident happened.
A relative who was at the back, later told police of hearing rapid gunshots and on checking, found Headley bleeding on the ground and gasping for breath. He died minutes later, before medical help could be reached.
His body was removed to the Forensic Sciences Center in St James for an autopsy. Up to press time, no arrest had been made and investigations are ongoing.
Headley was one of at least three men men murdered over the weekend.
On Saturday, around 1.20 pm, Garvan Burke, Josiah Holder, David Williams, Anton Selmon and another man only identified as Akim, were in a Kia Cerato along Prosperity Lane, Upper Gonzales, Belmont when gunmen opened fire at them.
The five were all shot and later taken to the Port of Spain General Hospital where Williams died while undergoing emergency surgery. The others remain hospitalised, up to press time.
Less than five hours later, Carib Street residents reported seeing an injured man on the road. Police found Sherlock “Bandit” Charles, 42, with several bullet wounds to his body. He died shortly after.
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