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House Speaker Dr McKeeva Bush has said that the things Queen Elizabeth II stood for are now more valued with her passing, which has brought with it solidarity across nations.
Bush’s remarks came as he addressed a special sitting of the Cayman Islands Parliament to pay tribute to The Queen on Monday 12 September.
“We have all seen over the past days that her passing has caused great gloom to many who have known or met her. The grief is unbelievable, unbearable at this time but her passing also brings extraordinary solidarity across nations and we feel collectively a sense of loss and deep sadness,” Bush said.
Speaker of the House Dr McKeeva Bush.
“It is at this juncture,” he continued, “that we more fully value what she represented and stood for. She has left a remarkable spirit of reconciliation and harmony that at this time is felt with particular poignancy.”
Although the session is not a requirement of any Overseas Territories during the period of National Mourning, the meeting was called by the Speaker, who said he felt compelled to honour the late queen along with fellow parliamentarians.
The public was invited to attend as Queen Elizabeth II had been a symbol of constancy in the lives of Caymanians for the last seven decades. Several regional dignitaries were also in attendance.
The Speaker’s tribute was followed by a number of passionate and touching homages including from Governor Martyn Roper and Premier G Wayne Panton, who also thoughtfully imparted words on behalf of the entire Cayman Islands.
Premier G Wayne Panton speaking at the special sitting.
Tributes and well wishes were also paid by Leader of the Opposition Roy McTaggart, Deputy Premier Chris Saunders, Minister for Tourism and Transport Kenneth Bryan, as well as the Opposition Member Sir Alden McLaughlin.
Other heartfelt condolences included those from Minister for Youth Sports Culture and Heritage Bernie Bush, Minister for Planning Agriculture Housing and Infrastructure Jay Ebanks, Minister for Education and District Administration Juliana O’Connor-Connolly, Parliamentary Secretary Isaac Rankine, Minister for Health and Wellness and Home Affairs Sabrina Turner, Opposition Member Barbara Conolly as well as Katherine Ebanks Wilks, Deputy Speaker and Parliamentary Secretary.
The special meeting can be watched here.
There are a number of public events during the National Mourning Period which runs from Thursday, 8 September through Tuesday 20 September. Through these various events, the community will join others around the world in remembering Her Late Majesty’s great legacy.
Here are the highlights of what’s planned so far for the Cayman Islands’ National Mourning Period:
Flowers and Condolences: 9 September – 19 SeptemberGovernment Administration Building and Clock Tower Illuminated in Blue: 9 September – 19 SeptemberRoyal Salute: 9 September
Watch highlights here.
Ship Blasts: 10 September – 19 SeptemberReading of the Proclamation: 11 September
Watch highlights here.
Two Minutes of Silence in Courts: 12 SeptemberSpecial Meeting of Parliament: 12 SeptemberHeroes Square Fountain Turns Off: 13 September – 19 SeptemberChurch Bells Toll: 14 SeptemberNational Day of Prayer 18 SeptemberState Funeral Public Viewings 19 SeptemberSilence on the Airwaves 19 September
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The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) is expected to announce Iceland’s Heimir Hallgrimsson as the new head coach of Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz later this week, according to reports.
The 55-year-old Hallgrimsson stepped down as head coach of Iceland in 2018. He was named assistant to Lars Lagerback in 2011 and became joint-manager in 2014, helping Iceland beat England at Euro 2016.
After Euro 2016, he became sole manager, leading Iceland to their first-ever FIFA World Cup, where they went out in the group stage despite a draw with Argentina.
He was most recently head coach at Qatari League Club Al Arabi from 2018 to 2021.
Hallgrimsson will take over from former interim head coach Paul Hall who had a record of two wins, three draws, and five losses in 10 games since his appointment in December 2021.
Hallgrimsson is also a dentist. He took up that profession after a modest playing career.
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Senator Richard Lewis is disheartened that Greenbay Primary students are being disadvantaged by the thieves who broke into the school overnight, September 12-13, and stole a quantity of items.
Reports say the school’s administration block was breached and ransacked, and thousands of dollars worth of items –recently received for the breakfast and sports programmes – were stolen.
The perpetrators reportedly pounded the lock off the metal door leading to the building, then ransacked the space, scattering and strewing documents and other items onto the floor and over a desk.
Lewis, the United Progressive Party (UPP) Candidate for St. John’s Rural West and a benefactor to the school, says that local donors and those in the Diaspora are losing patience. He notes that members of staff are also fatigued by the constant break-ins.
Accordingly, the Senator is calling on members of the public to “please help” in bringing the perpetrators to justice and recovering the stolen items. He is also asking residents to be wary of persons seeking to sell certain goods, which could have come from the looted school.
Lewis notes that civilian security is provided at the school only between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. daily. However, no arrangements are in place for security coverage at nigh, although the school has suffered several burglaries in recent years.
Therefore, he says the Rural West community must come together and form a Neighborhood School Watch to prevent further incidents of this nature, which rob the children of a proper education.
In the meantime, former Prime Minister Dr. Baldwin Spencer is commiserating with the staff and students of his alma mater after seeing their loss and the disruption to the operations.
This is not the only school to be targeted by thieves in recent times. Quite a number of government-run and private institutions have been burglarized these past several months.
This prompted the Cabinet, two weeks ago, to promise that each compound would have the presence of an actual security officer at all 37 public schools across the country.
The Executive also agreed that the government will install security cameras on the perimeter of school buildings and within certain offices that are attractive to thieves.
The proposal of building strong-rooms, or large safes, on the compounds, where highly valuable items could be stored, was also accepted.
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Jamoya Browne, the 28-year-old man who fell from the back of a truck at the beginning of August, died as a result of multiple injuries he sustained in the accident, a post-mortem exam has concluded.
The examination was conducted by Government Pathologist Dr. Petra Miller-Nanton, last Friday, September 9, at the Holberton Hospital Morgue.
She reported that the cause of death was intra-cerebral haemorrhage, two multiple skull fractures, and three severe head injuries.
At the conclusion of the post mortem, a death certificate was issued; this will be signed off by the coroner, paving the way for Browne’s funeral service and burial.
Browne, of Lovelace Road, Grays Farm, fell off the truck on Friday, August 5 while on his way home from work. He reportedly lost his balance as the vehicle was travelling through the Fig Tree Drive area.
The young man succumbed to his injuries exactly one week later, on August 12, after he had been put on life support in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.
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Your Eyewitness had to smile when he saw a factoid circulating after the passing of Queen Elizabeth II: it was an atlas that answered the question, “What’s the most widely celebrated holiday?” And the answer was “Independence Day”!! There were so many European colonies that had to be freed!! The British, of course, led the lot with at least the 54 that are in the Commonwealth today.
Nowadays the ex-colonised are slowly taking charge of the imperial-imposed and influenced narratives. In India PM Modi just unveiled a 28-foot statue of Subash Chandra Bose carved out of a single piece of black granite. And who’s Subash Chandra Bose?? Funny you asked!! Subash or “Netaji” – leader – as he was called, was one of the foremost freedom fighters in India – but disagreed vehemently with Gandhi’s satyagraha – non-violent method to achieve independence. You can glean his position from a few of his quotes:
“Freedom is not given, it is taken”; “Life loses half its interest if there is no struggle — if there are no risks to be taken”; “It is blood alone that can pay the price of freedom. Give me blood and I will give you freedom”!! So how come we know about Gandhi and not Bose? Part of the answer is simply because the Colonial Brits loved Gandhi – since they were assured no harm would come to them!! And the second part is that since Subash was killed in an accident in 1945 – after he’d raised the Indian National Army to invade India with the Japanese – Gandhi and Nehru, who supported the Brits in the war, were “granted” independence in 1947 and went on to blank Subash’ contributions!! Subash’s philosophy was simple: the enemy of my enemy is my friend!!
But there’s still a lot of other colonial history that needs to be rectified. Over in South Africa, there was a young medical doctor by the name of Steve Biko who launched the “Black Consciousness” movement in the late 1960s when he was just in his early 20s. The leaders of the ANC and the PAC were mostly in jail or exiled when the young leader launched his movement in the University based on the ideas of Franz Fanon, the US Black Power Movement and Marcus Garvey. Fanon’s focus on the psychological damage of colonialism reverberated with Biko in apartheid South Africa. In a nutshell, his message amplified and operationalised Marcus Garvey’s: “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!”
It helped precipitate the Soweto uprising of 1976, when some 20,000 secondary school students marched through the township. He was killed by SA Police on Sept 12, 1977 – he was just 30.But sadly, the ANC has blanked his memory.
…heroes in British Guiana
With sugar fading in Guyana, it’s already difficult for the young’uns to imagine when EVERYTHING that went on in this country revolved around sugar. Plain and simple – what was good for the sugar industry was good for sugar!! And the sugar barons were so avaricious that they not only left us “underdeveloped” – but dominate even the fledgling “light industries”. The largest sugar company, Bookers dominated shipping, shopping, pharmaceuticals and even the taxi business!! No wonder local wags insisted that BG meant “Bookers Guyana”.
But throughout our history, our people resisted their oppression. We all know about the famous slave rebellions going back to Cuffy’s in 1763 that led to Emancipation in 1838. But the Indentureds who were brought to replace them also rebelled– and were shot in cold blood by the colonial Police. This started in 1872 over in Essequibo and continued in Demerara in 1896, 1903, Berbice 1913; Demerara 1924, 1939 and 1948.Out of these last strikes came the PPP – and Independence!!
…Amerindian Heritage Month
Apart from Pres Ali, looks like most folks have forgotten that this is Amerindian Heritage Month. Have we been integrating aspects of their culture into our Guyanese mosaic – apart from pepperpot??Respect for Mother Nature??
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Sur les réseaux sociaux, pour jouer les durs, l’homme s’est affiché une arme à la main qui s’est avérée factice. Il a récemment été interpellé et entendu en garde à vue.
Alors que les forces de sécurité de l’île participent, pendant trois semaines, à l’opération « Trigger VII », impulsée par Interpol pour lutter contre le trafic d’armes et de drogue, c’est une image qui ne pouvait pas passer.
La direction territoriale de la police nationale (DTPN) en fait état ce mardi 13 septembre sur sa page Facebook.
Un peu ironique, elle décrit le cas de cet « apprenti acteur », néanmoins déjà « défavorablement connu des services de Police, qui lors d’une fête bien arrosée, s’est mis en scène avec une arme de catégorie B, et cela sur plusieurs séquences vidéos. Il tentait de se faire passer pour un dangereux caïd à qui il ne fallait pas se frotter », indique la police.
Mais, au lieu d’impressionner les amis, c’est au commissariat que le jeune homme a dû répondre de sa mise en scène.
« Après une enquête des fonctionnaires de Police du Service Territorial de la Police Judiciaire du groupe Vols à main armée, l’auteur de la scène ainsi que l’individu filmé étaient retrouvés et placés en garde à vue. Les investigations permettaient la saisie d’une arme factice (USI) “, précise la police, pour qui « les réseaux sociaux sont un terrain propice où des inconnus recherchent le plus souvent à faire le buzz ».
L’affaire a finalement été classée sans suite. Reste que le fait de poster ou de propager des images d’incitation ou de provocation publique à la haine et à la violence, est passible d’un an d’emprisonnement et de 45 000 euros d’amende.
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The death of Queen Elizabeth II set in motion a tightly choreographed series of ceremonial and constitutional steps, as Britain undergoes a period of national mourning and enters the reign of King Charles III.
A long-established 10-day plan, code-named Operation London Bridge, covered arrangements for The Queen’s final journey to London and state funeral. Here is what the plan includes for the coming days:
Tuesday, September 13
— The queen’s coffin is taken by hearse from St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh to Edinburgh Airport. It will be flown by the Royal Air Force to London and taken to Buckingham Palace.
— King Charles III and his wife, Queen Consort Camilla, visit Northern Ireland, where they meet politicians and faith leaders and attend a service of remembrance at St Anne’s Cathedral.
Wednesday, September 14
— The coffin is transported from Buckingham Palace to Parliament on a gun carriage, with the king and other royals walking behind.
— It is placed in Parliament’s medieval Westminster Hall, where the archbishop of Canterbury conducts a short service. The queen will then lie in state for four days, until the morning of her funeral. Members of the public will be able to pay their respects and troops will keep a round-the-clock vigil.
Friday, September 16
— The king and queen consort visit Wales, following their visits to Scotland and Northern Ireland, the other devolved nations that make up the United Kingdom.
Sunday, September 18
— Britain holds a “national moment of reflection” with 1 minute of silence at 8pm. (1900 GMT, 3pm EDT).
Monday, September 19
— The queen’s coffin will be taken from Westminster Hall to nearby Westminster Abbey for a state funeral that begins at 11am Leaders and dignitaries from around the world are expected to attend.
— The funeral marks the end of 10 days of national morning, and the day will be a public holiday across the UK.
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To commemorate Jamaica’s transition to clean mobility, Evergo Jamaica hosted its first annual EV Link Up on Saturday on the lawns of Chukka Cove and Cliffs in Llandovery, St Ann.
Fun Fact: Chukka Cove and Cliffs is home to two Level 2 AC ‘semi-fast’ chargers.
Evergo’s EV Link Up was a checkpoint for battery electric vehicle (BEV) and plug-in electric vehicle (PHEV) owners in Jamaica, to connect, and share their expertise and enthusiasm for their cars while showcasing some of the vehicles currently on our roads.
(L-R) Tropical Battery principal Daniel Melville; IDB Country Manager Roberto Aiello; Tropical Battery exec Oliver Hill; Evergo President & CEO Wayne McKenzie; and JPS Marketing Manager Andre Mangue, posed for a photo during Evergo’s EV Link Up.
The main attraction was no-emission electric vehicles, which included Nissan Leaf, Tesla Model Y, the MINI Cooper SE, Jaguar I-Pace, Hyundai Kona, BYD Tang and E6 – electric bikes were also on show.
“Who would have imagined that last year when [Evergo] started, there was only a handful of EVs, and now we have 150 registered in the country,” said Evergo Jamaica President and CEO Wayne McKenzie.
“As Evergo continues to grow, the EV market will grow significantly more, and I am looking forward to next year’s EV Link Up,” he added.
Approximately 70 guests attended, the majority of whom were EV owners and enthusiasts.
Additionally, dealers from ATL Automotive, Stewart’s Automotive, Jetcon Cars and other players in Jamaica’s expanding e-mobility sector such as Sol Jamaica, Tropical Battery, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Jamaica Public Service (JPS), were present.
With 45 active stations and a goal to hit 60 by the end of the year, Evergo Jamaica operates the largest network of charging stations on the island.
Visit evergo.com for updates.
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