Police get Saturday deadline to charge soldier in La Romaine heist

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A HIGH COURT judge has given police less than 24 hours to advance their investigations of last Monday’s deadly La Romaine heist and charge the 24-year-old soldier they have in custody or release him.

Late Friday night, Justice Devindra Rampersad gave police until 2 pm on Saturday to decide on the soldier’s fate.

In his ruling, Rampersad said he was of the view he should not release the suspect at this time to give the police time to hold an identification parade.

In opposition to a writ of habeas corpus filed by the soldier’s attorneys, the police told the judge that investigators, at 2 pm, met with the Director of Public Prosecutions and the advice received, so far, was to hold an identification parade.

They said investigators were urged to have this done in the shortest possible time. However, they said the soldier’s release, at this time, “will upstage the entire investigation.”

Investigators also outlined their specific concerns in releasing the suspect. They will return to court on Monday to update the judge on their progress.

On Thursday, Rampersad granted the writ for the police to appear in court to justify their continued detention of the soldier after his attorneys complained of his “arbitrary” detention by police since Monday.

Since Wednesday there has been an exchange of correspondence between the two sides culminating in the parties being locked in a legal tussle in the court and last night’s late order by the judge.

In the application, attorneys Criston J Williams and Blaine Sobrian said the 24-year-old soldier and father of one, of Fyzabad, had been in police custody since his arrest when he went to the police station to report his vehicle, a Nissan X-Trail SUV, stolen after he was ambushed by a group of men.

Sobrian said the soldier was a robbery victim and was being detained “merely for questioning” and should be released. The soldier is assigned to a base in La Romaine and his attorneys say police had the option to release him to the custody of the Army while they complete their investigations

The police have denied the soldier’s detention was arbitrary, insisting it was reasonable and justified. They said they should be allowed the free opportunity to investigate with unnecessary haste to reduce error and ensure fairness to all.

On Thursday, the attorneys were advised their client was a suspect relative to an investigation involving multiple homicides.

Two security guards with Allied Security Ltd, who were transporting money from Pennywise Cosmetics’ La Romaine, branch, were killed by five men who ambushed them and their colleagues. One of the guards, Peola Baptiste, is critically ill in hospital. Those who died were Jeffery Peters and Jerry Stuart.

Police later caught up with the armed robbers, killing four. They have been identified as Kyle and his brother Keyon “Bush” Ramdhan of Delhi Road, Greg Dodough and Deaundre “Monty” Montrose, all of Fyzabad.

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Dennis responds to THA road-repair audit: Claims ‘difficult to accept’

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PNM Tobago Council leader and former chief secretary Ancil Dennis has challenged THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine to name the roads that contractors were paid to repair but no work was done.

Dennis was responding to allegations made in a preliminary audit report laid by Augustine during the ninth sitting of the 2021-2025 session at the Shaw Park Cultural Complex on Thursday.

The report claimed that, in some instances, there were full payments for no work, unsigned contracts, and inflated costs in the road resurfacing programme, by the previous PNM administration, between October 1, 2019 and November 30, 2021.

At a media conference on Friday, Dennis said: “In terms of the projects that it was alleged were paid for and not completed, that to me is very difficult to believe and I want to challenge the chief secretary to name the projects – tell the people of Tobago.

“That is why I said the audit statement was vague…I find that very difficult to believe, with all the checks and balances. Again, the politician is not responsible for engaging in payments and the validation of projects and issuing completion certificates, but I would hope and believe that, based on the democracy and the bureaucracy that we have and based on all the existing checks and balances, it should be very difficult to almost impossible to pay for a whole road that was never done. I find that a bit difficult to accept.”

He said interestingly, this audit statement targeted contractors and senior public servants.

“I hold no brief for any one of them – of course if/when the audit is completed, elements of wrongdoing is found, then let the chips fall where they may. Let the Chief Secretary and others do what is necessary to ensure that the facts and the truth is revealed to the population.”

He said he always prioritised Tobago-based contractors. He said within the Tobago space, when it comes to road paving, “there are several qualified, competent and experienced contractors who have been engaged in road paving for many, many years.”

He expressed confidence that the procurement process “is one that can withstand legal and public scrutiny.”

Switching from defence to attack, Dennis produced documents and accused Augustine of hypocrisy. He claimed the PDP administration had approved $309 million to Trinidad contractors in one month for infrastructural works in Tobago.

“Several months ago, the chief secretary accused my executive council, the former executive council, of being reckless by spending $300 million over a period of six months. In reality, it was over of two years.

“But here we have, under the guise of an emergency, to create roads in time for carnival for people to play mas – $309 million in contracts have either being already approved or some are in the process of being approved by this executive council to give contracts to certain contractors in just one month.”

He said Augustine and the “PDP administration sold the people of Tobago a mandate on a platform that involved putting Tobago first, and therefore I want to ask the question: in circumstances where the capacity and the capability resides on the island of Tobago, under what circumstances was $309 million sole selected?

“No tendering process – and this is the same chief secretary who criticised the previous administration for engaging in sole selection awards in emergency circumstances.”

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President’s Republic Day message: Citizens must help TT realise its potential

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FILE PHOTO: President Paula-Mae Weekes at the ceremonial opening of the 3rd Session of the 12th Republican Parliament on September 12. –

PRESIDENT Paula-Mae Weekes says shortly after returning from Monday’s funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in the UK, she found herself questioning whether TT’s transition to republican status in 1976 was in name only or truly meaningful.

Weekes, in the Office of the President’s Republic Day message, said she found herself “revisiting the issue of republicanism” and asked whether the transition from an independent nation, with the queen as head of state, to a republic, headed by a president, “was more a change in nomenclature and form, than one of real and meaningful significance.”

Weekes said 2022 marked 46 years since the people of Trinidad and Tobago severed the last of the colonial strings and embraced Republican status. What were the tangible benefits, if any, of that change and have they had any salutary effect on our system of governance?”

She noted that while TT gained independent status in 1962, the queen remained its head of state, with the governor-general as her representative.

“Upon taking office, the governor-general, ministers of government, judicial officers and other office-holders pledged an oath of allegiance to Her Majesty, her heirs and successors; not to TT.

“Transferring that allegiance to the people of TT was a natural and necessary next step in our journey of self-realisation. It was felt that true independence required complete sovereignty, with an indigenous head of state, in whom, as written in the Republican Constitution, executive authority is vested.”

She said this was achieved on August 1, 1976, when the country became a republic, introducing the president, “(with a) critical function of ensuring the independence of other important public offices, for example, the chief justice, independent senators and members of commissions.”

Weekes said the president would act in his/her discretion and for others, after consultation with other holders of high office in these offices.

“Interestingly, it is debatable whether the transition to a republic has brought about any sea-change in the roles, function and responsibility of president vis-à-vis governor-general in light of the fact that TT has a non-executive presidency, notwithstanding the constitutional wording.”

Weekes said the average citizen – even after 46 years of Republican statehood – “still, when reference is made to ‘the president’, tends to think of the Guyana and US executive-type president, who is both head of state and head of government, exercises control over the cabinet and other arms of government, and is involved in the day-to-day running of the country.

However, she noted, under the TT Republican Constitution, the president does not exercise any direction or control of the government and has no constitutional or other legal power or authority over the operations of government agencies.

Weekes said for Republican status to have any meaningful significance, the people must be “willing to take up this mantle of responsibility and in order to do so effectively, citizens must be informed and educated.

“At best,” she added, “that can be a jump off point for further reading and investigation and the forming of their own reasoned opinion.

“An alert citizen can become engaged and involved in the political process, not necessarily in party politics, but by voicing and conveying concerns to elected officials, attending public consultations, creating their own platforms where none exist or are accessible, advocating for issues, and of course, voting.”

Weekes said, “(be prepared) to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty.

“Nation-building is no task for the faint-hearted and full immersion by every citizen is required if we are to fulfil our potential as a republic.

“In order for Republic Day to mean more than just another public holiday, it is critical to have enthusiastic, intelligent and sustained participation in all matters that affect us day-to-day and in the long term.

“The price of a model republic is, like that of liberty, eternal vigilance.”

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Tobago road repair wrong turn – THA auditors query payments in $208m PNM programme

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ROAD WORKS: Heavy machinery involved in road repairs by the THA Division of Infrastructure, Quarries and Urban Development earlier this year. PHOTO COURTESY THA –

FULL payments for no work, unsigned contracts and inflated costs were some of the allegations levelled in the preliminary audit report into the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) road resurfacing programme, by the previous PNM administration, between October 1, 2019 and November 30, 2021.

On Thursday, THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine read the 90-page report by independent auditor Caribbean Institute of Forensic Auditing (CIFA), during the ninth sitting of the 2021-2025 session at the Shaw Park Cultural Complex.

The document identified three contractors approved by the Executive Council and noted that resurfacing works were valued at $206,468,925 for 80 roads.

Augustine said: “The findings seem to suggest that there was no competitive tendering process for 80 road projects valued at $206 million. It also suggests that contractors were hand-picked and the $206 million in road resurfacing works were shared among them on the approval of the last Executive Council.”

He said 21 out of the 80 roads were randomly selected to be examined by the auditors. Of the 21 roads visited, Augustine said, there was no evidence of any work started, or in progress, at 11 of the them.

“Notwithstanding that fact, these 11 roads unbelievably have certification of completion. They either have certificate of completion or they formed part of claims being made by contractors even in the court.”

He said contractors have been paid in full for four of the 11 roads, amounting to $15.5 million.

Augustine said he received a pre-action protocol letter on Wednesday from one of the three contractors threatening to sue over the non-payment. He said he threw it into a bin.

Augustine said there are just three steps to complete the report.

“The findings here are facts and will not change. The details of the report will not change. The three steps that are required are administrative steps to ensure that all the legal issues and requirements (are followed).”

Minority Leader Kelvon Morrris asked why one report was addressed instead of waiting for the audit reports for all five programmes.

Augustine said: “We had several delays in getting the report in the first place and I promised sometime in July that I will bring the report to the House in September, and true to form, I have brought the report to the House and to the people of Tobago, but I wish to reiterate that this is one out of five, the other four will come.

“…I am advised that the remaining four reports should all be completed in time for end of this calendar year, so in time for the end of December. So I would like to give myself until the end of January month to present the remaining reports.”

Asked about the policy going forward to prevent future wrongdoing, Augustine said it was not just administrative, but the report strongly suggests that there were coercion and collusion between people “that we pay in the THA to protect our business and the private enterprises that we do business with.”

He said a zero-tolerance approach would be adopted.

“We have to have a zero tolerance on that and make examples of those so culpable. We have to put systems in place such as the whistle-blower legislation to allow for early detection of this kind of behaviour, and I already asked the chief administrator to find some time and some space to have all of our accounting staff retrained in terms of the expectations of the audit and exchequer act, retrain in terms of the public service accounting principles and regulations that guide the country and that too should help in us stemming this flow.”

He added: “I am hopeful with your help, Minority Leader, that we can in fact find a way to stem this tide and to create a cleaner way of doing business.”

He warned the PDP assemblymen that they will be held to the same standard.

“The same rule that applies to those that this report will reveal have either defrauded or attempted to defraud the government and the people of Tobago, applies to all of us. As much as this signals what happened in the past, this is very much a warning to all of us that form part of a significant majority. You take the same kinds of actions, and I would be left with no choice but to take the same kinds of actions against you.”

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Les Mouliens du Csm prennent une option pour une nouvelle finale de la Coupe Vyv

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Football. Coupe Vyv. Demi-finale aller

Quelques instants avant le début de la rencontre, une grosse averse était venue arroser la pelouse du stade de Baie-Mahault, rendant l’air de jeu plus difficile. Une difficulté maitrisée par l’équipe de Richard Albert, composée de jeunes et d’anciens joueurs. En remportant cette victoire sur la marque de 2-0, le CSM prend une sérieuse option sur cette finale en attendant la demi-finale retour de mercredi.

Il faudra tout de même attendre la  12e minute pour avoir droit à une première situation de but. Sur le gauche de l’attaque du CSM, Gotin parvient à servir Wilson plein axe à l’entrée de la surface de réparation, il contrôle, et frappe… au dessus des buts du portier Georges. C’est à nouveau Gotin qui sert sur la droite deux minutes plus tard le même Wilson, mais le contrôle de ce dernier est baveux. L’AS Gosier parviendra à s’aérer à la 21e minute suite à un centre venu de la droite,…


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Patrick Paultre : laur?at du Grand prix d’excellence de l’ordre des ing?nieurs du Qu?bec

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Pour les mois septembre et octobre 2022, l’ing?nieur Patrick Paultre occupe les premi?res pages de la revue de l’ordre des ing?nieurs du Qu?bec. “Patrick Paultre, ing?nieur, l’homme en b?ton”, titre ses pairs de l’ordre des ing?nieurs du Qu?bec en guise d’hommage ? sa longue carri?re et cette nouvelle distinction qu’il vient de remporter : “Grand prix d’excellence de l’ordre des ing?nieurs du Qu?bec.”

Dans son ouvrage, “ses Qu?b?cois venus d’Ha?ti”, le professeur Samuel Pierre pr?sente le professeur Patrick Paultre dans une liste s?lecte de membres de la communaut? ha?tienne ayant contribu? ? l’?dification du Qu?bec moderne.

Patrick Paultre a fait ses ?tudes secondaires en Ha?ti, au coll?ge Max P?nette de P?tion-Ville avant de rentrer ? l’Institut sup?rieur technique d’Ha?ti o? il obtint son premier dipl?me en 1974.”Arriv? au Qu?bec en 1974, il s’est dirig? en g?nie civil ? l’?cole Polytechnique de Montr?al o? il obtint en 1978 son dipl?me de bachelier et, deux ans plus tard, sa ma?trise en sciences appliqu?es. Sa th?se intitul?e “Evaluation of seismic performance of concrete frames structure in Canada”, sous la direction du professeur Dennis Mitchell, lui valut son dipl?me de doctorat (Ph. D.) de McGill University en 1987. Depuis cette date, il est professeur au d?partement de g?nie civil de l’universit? Sherbrooke et titulaire de la chaire de recherche du Canada en g?nie parasismique”, ?crit l’ing?nieur Samuel Pierre ? son sujet.

Le Dr Patrick Paultre est connu pour avoir fait sortir de terre des multiples constructions de grande envergure et celles dont il assure la s?curit? en r?visant r?guli?rement les outils de surveillance et d’?valuation. Il a fond? en 2002, le Centre d’?tudes interuniversitaire des structures sous charges extr?mes (CEISCE) qui vaille ? la s?curit? des plus grandes infrastructures du Qu?bec comme les ponts, les barrages, les ?coles, les h?pitaux etc.

Sa caract?ristique exceptionnelle qui lui a valu honneurs et distinctions, c’est qu’il arrive ? transcender la traditionnelle querelle entre chercheur et praticien qui existe dans presque tous les corps de m?tiers. “L’ing?nieur Patrick Paultre a su conjuguer recherche fondamentale et application pratique de ses d?couvertes tout au long de sa carri?re”, souligne Pascale Gu?ricolas dans la revue de l’ordre des ing?nieurs du Qu?bec.

Le Grand Prix d’excellence de l’ordre des ing?nieurs du Qu?bec vient de rejoindre une longue collection de distinctions d’un professionnel qui cherche toujours ? se perfectionner. Auteurs de plus de 190 publications scientifiques et deux livres dont un paru aux ?ditions Herm?s ? Paris, le docteur en g?nie civil a re?u, entre autres, le prix Moisseif d?cern? par l’american society of civil Engineers et la m?daille Gzowski de la soci?t? canadienne de g?nie civil.

Chevalier de l’ordre national du Qu?bec depuis 2018, il n’a cess? de contribuer au progr?s du g?nie civil en r?ussissant ? mettre sur une m?me table tous les grands noms de son domaine. Lui-m?me, il travaille en parfaite collaboration avec des ing?nieurs et ing?nieures de grande envergure du Qu?bec ou de l’?tranger, notamment le feu Roger Nicolet, Leslie Robertson, qui a con?u les deux tours du World Trade Center, Michel Virlogeux, qui a donn? naissance au fameux viaduc de Millau, en France.

Auteur du livre, “les structures en b?ton arm?”, il explique que sa passion pour le b?ton et les risques sismiques des structures qui ont la capacit? de s’?tirer ou se tordre sans se rompre tire son origine de son enfance en Ha?ti. Il souhaite ? tout prix rendre moins fragiles aux risques sismiques les anciennes constructions semblables ? celles qu’il a l’habitude de voir en Ha?ti. Ses recommandations sont inscrites dans le code national du b?timent du Canada et adopt?es par l’Association canadienne de normalisation, qui r?gulent la construction de tous les b?timents au Canada.”Des pays comme la France et les ?tats-Unis ont aussi suivi ses recommandations”, relate Pascale Gu?ricolas.

?g? de 70 ans, l’ing?nieur Patrick Paultre n’a pas h?sit? ? se rendre ? plusieurs reprises en Ha?ti apr?s le tremblement de terre de 2010 o? il a constitu? une ?quipe pour d?velopper une expertise locale en g?nie sismique. Il a en outre fond? l’Association ha?tienne du g?nie parasismique. Il a ?galement accompagn? plus d’une centaine d’?tudiants et ?tudiantes aux cycles sup?rieurs, dont 20 au doctorat.

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Apr?s celui des Gonaives, l’entrep?t du PAM aux Cayes a ?t? pill?

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Le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM), organisme du syst?me des Nations Unies, confirme qu’un de ses entrep?ts a ?t? attaqu? et pill? dans la ville des Cayes, en Ha?ti, le mercredi 21 septembre 2022, selon un communiqu? publi? jeudi 22 septembre 2022.

<>, a rappel? ce communiqu? du PAM.

L’entrep?t du PAM pill? aux Cayes contenait 762 tonnes m?triques de nourriture du PAM, pr?positionn?es dans le cadre de son programme d’urgence et en pr?vision de la saison cyclonique. Ces vivres ?taient cens?s permettre, en cas d’ouragan, de r?pondre rapidement ? une urgence dans le sud du pays et ainsi nourrir plus de 46 000 personnes, a indiqu? le PAM, soulignant <>.

<>, a d?plor? Jean-Martin Bauer, directeur pays du PAM en Ha?ti, cit? dans ce communiqu?.

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Le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM) des Nations Unies est le plus grand organisme humanitaire au monde. Il sauve des vies dans des contextes d’urgence et utilise l’assistance alimentaire pour ouvrir une voie vers la paix, la stabilit? et la prosp?rit? au profit de celles et ceux qui se rel?vent d’un conflit ou d’une catastrophe ou subissent les effets du changement climatique, a ?galement rappel? ce communiqu?.

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Cit? Soleil : La population ne re?oit ni aide humanitaire ni transfert direct

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Des membres de la population de Cit? Soleil moisissent dans la mis?re sur la place Hugo Chavez. Ils se plaignent de n’avoir pas re?u l’assistance des autorit?s de l’?tat. Alors que le Premier ministre Ariel Henry a annonc? que 50 mille familles vont b?n?ficier de transfert d’argent via l’application Moncash ? partir de leur t?l?phone afin de soulager leur mis?re, personne n’est au courant de ce processus sur la Place Hugo Ch?vez.

“Nous n’existons pas ? leurs yeux”, a l?ch? une femme d?plac?e. M?me l’assistance humanitaire se rar?fie sur la place Hugo Chavez, a fait savoir Robenson Paul, pr?sident du comit?. “Les d?plac?s perdent espoir chaque jour qui passe. Il n’y a que l’OIM qui a promis de nous d?placer sans nous donner une date”, a confi? Paul.

Joint par t?l?phone, l’agent ex?cutif int?rimaire de Cit? Soleil, Jo?l Jan?us, dit n’?tre pas au courant que les habitants de Cit? Soleil ont re?u de l’argent via le service de transfert d’argent MonCash.

Jo?l Jan?us se plaint que l’aide humanitaire ? Cit? Soleil soit mal distribu?e. “Les chefs de gangs la contr?le. Les organisations ne passent pas par la mairie de Cit? Soleil pour la distribution. La population qui n?cessite cette aide n’en b?n?ficie pas”, fustige M. Joan?us.

? propos des r?fugi?s qui fuient la guerre des gangs ? Cit? Soleil et qui se trouvent actuellement sur la place Hugo Chavez, Jo?l Jan?us refuse d’admettre que ce sont des habitants de Cit? Soleil qui ont ?tabli domicile sur la place. “La majorit? des r?fugi?s qui squattent la place Hugo Chavez n’est pas de Cit? Soleil. Les d?plac?s ne se sont pas tous sur la place Hugo Chavez. Plus de 3 000 personnes sont ?parpill?es soit chez des parents, des familles ?loign?es ou chez des amis”, a indiqu? M. Jan?us.

“Quand j’ai visit? la place, il n’y avait que 16 familles. La place est bond?e de gens peu de temps apr?s la pr?sence des ONG pour voler au secours de ces familles. Tout le monde se trouve dans le besoin dans ce pays. Les gens se bousculent sur la place, une fois qu’ils apprennent que des organisations donnent ? manger”, avance l’agent ex?cutif int?rimaire de Cit? Soleil.

Si pour l’instant il y a un calme apparent ? Cit? Soleil, la situation reste tendue puisque des membres de la population continuent d’?tre tu?s par des ca?ds en conflit, a confirm? M. Jan?us pour qui la guerre va se perp?tuer tant que les armes ill?gales sont entre les mains des bandits.

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Trafic d’armes: mandat d’amener contre le pr?sident permanent de l’?glise ?piscopale d’Ha?ti

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<>, a indiqu? le chef de la poursuite, faisant ?tat de son inconfort comme professionnel du droit face ? cette situation o? la DCPJ continue d’enqu?ter alors que le dossier a ?t? d?f?r? au cabinet d’instruction.

<>, a expliqu? le commissaire du gouvernement, rappelant que le p?re Jean Mardoch? Vil a ?t? invit?, ? deux reprises, par la DCPJ dans le cadre d’une confrontation avec le p?re Cole. Ne s’?tant pas pr?sent?, un mandat d’amener a ?t? ?mis contre lui.

Un peu plus t?t dans la journ?e, une source judiciaire a confi? au journal que trois marchandises prohib?es ont ?t? d?couvertes dans la v?rification d’un container ayant rapport ? ce m?me dossier. Notre source n’a pas voulu donner plus de d?tails sur la fouille.

Me Samuel Madistin, avocat de l’?glise ?piscopale qualifie de <> la d?cision prise pour ?mettre un mandat contre le p?re Jean Mardoch? Vil. En interview avec le journal, l’homme de loi a indiqu? que le pr?sident du comit? permanent de l’Eglise ?piscopale d’Haiti a r?pondu personnellement ? une convocation de la DCPJ ? travers le BAFE.

Selon Me Madistin, il s’agit d’ une situation scandaleuse pour plusieurs raisons. <>, a-t-il pr?cis?.

<>, s’insurge Me Madistin.

Ce dossier de trafic d’armes et de munitions ne cesse de hanter les dirigeants de l’?glise ?piscopale d’Ha?ti. En date du mardi 23 ao?t 2022, le comptable de l’institution Jean Gilles Jean Mary, a ?t? interpell? par des agents de la Direction Centrale de la Police Judiciaire. Son interpellation est survenue suite ? plusieurs documents de 2017 ? 2021 qu’il a sign?s, autorisant le d?caissement de fonds ? partir du compte de l’?glise ?piscopale sur le compte d’un trafiquant d’armes international, recherch? par la DCPJ.

Le comit? permanent de l’?glise ?piscopale d’Ha?ti, communion anglicane, dans un message, en dat? du 19 ao?t 2022, adress? au clerg? et aux fid?les, a r?affirm? sa coop?ration avec les autorit?s et indique <>. Un message qui intervenait 48 heures apr?s l’audition et la mise en garde ? vue du p?re Frantz Cole par la Direction centrale de la police judiciaire (DCPJ) <>.

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Deaf Empowerment Programme making it easier for deaf, Hoh people Loop Barbados

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Visiting Government offices and private businesses will now be less cumbersome for the members of the deaf community.

The Deaf Empowerment Programme which launched today, the International Day of Sign Languages, signals efforts for Barbados to be more accessible, says Minister of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs Kirk Humphrey.

The programme, facilitated by the National Disabilities Unit (NDU), will offer communications support – sign language training, interpreting services – telecommunications services, employment training and placement, counselling as well as information and referral services to the hearing impaired.

“The Deaf Empowerment Programme is a consolidation of services for the deaf and the hard of hearing (Hoh), offered through the NDU, and it seeks to facilitate full inclusion in all aspects of society by focusing on addressing their most urgent need.

“From the provision of communication services to focusing on vocational and rehabilitation services with the intent to ensure that persons with this sensory impairment are able to function effectively, that is going to be the bulk of making sure that people who have different sensory impairments are able to function effectively and independently in their homes and communities,” explained Minister Humphrey.

The Minister emphasised that one of the biggest challenges persons with disabilities faced was communication. He disclosed that five sign language interpreters will be hired to be on call as part of the communications support aspect of the programme.

“This communication support service, believe me, will make a big difference to people’s capacity to be able to communicate with other people.

“What we are trying to do is when a person who is deaf or hard of hearing goes to a business place, that they can ask the receptionist or they can pull out their phone and that we will have on call five persons who will be able to communicate using sign language with them to communicate that back to the business place with who they are interacting to make sure they can communicate there and then,” he stated.

The launch at the HIV/AIDS Commission offices in Warrens Complex, St Michael was also attended by Parliamentary Secretary Corey Lane.

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