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Les sapeurs pompiers ont été alertés peu après 7 heures d’un accident de la circulation, route de la Coulée face à l’aérodrome, àSaint-François. Le conducteur a été éjecté du véhicule. Le médecin du Smur n’a pu que constater son décès.
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Members of the public may soon see changes to Cayman’s tobacco legislation. This is according to statements made at a press briefing last week by Dr Autilia Newton, Cayman’s interim chief medical officer and Sabrina Turner, Minister for Health and Wellness.
Speaking about the development, Minister Turner said:
A significant win for our country [is that] recently the Cayman Islands has become the first United Kingdom Overseas Territory in the Caribbean to request the extension of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control legislation to our country.
Now, this convention is an evidence-based treaty that addresses another global pandemic that claims seven million lives every year. That’s tobacco.
I am happy and proud to say that this legal framework will allow us to develop and expand more comprehensive approach to tobacco control that will pay dividends in strengthening the health and wellness of our population.
Explaining why the Cayman Islands is now in a position to have the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control extended to the Cayman Islands, Dr Newton said:
To be able to ask for the extension, you have to fill in this table… [which] shows that your local legislation has already been amended to accommodate the framework requirements.
Cabinet wouldn’t have been able to ask for the extension if the work had not already been done.
Now, the people will be assessed by the FCDO colleagues and Department of Health & Social Care in the UK and they will say “yes that’s right.” Then, there is additional legislation that you can introduce which is to do with the graphics on the package and all the elements… and this is then up to us to see whether we want to that order step forward.
The whole point is [to] reduce prevalence of smoking and support people who want to quit smoking.
Because of the anticipated government campaign to reduce the prevalence of smoking which will accompany the foregoing WHO convention extension, Loop News posed the question to Dr Newton whether she had any particular view if the use of tobacco was more dangerous than the use of cannabis.
In response, Dr Newton said:
To answer this question, I would have to prepare a bit better and so, because it’s … you have to review all your literature.
It’s not only me giving you my personal position.
I will have to look at the evidence to give you a more correct answer, a more precise answer.
As a result of these announcements, smokers and non-smokers alike eagerly await the details of the implementation of the extension of the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to Cayman.
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A 15-year-old boy was shot dead by gunmen in a section of Trench Town in South St Andrew on Friday night.
The decreased is Novado Maitland, otherwise called ‘Teflon’, a student of Tivoli Gardens High School.
Police reports are that Maitland was sitting along Fourth Street in Trench Town shortly after 10pm, when a lone gunman walked up and opened gunfire, hitting him in the head.
The teenager was later pronounced dead.
The police are monitoring the area to quell any reprisal that may follow from the killing of the student.
Death threats have been reportedly issued to the family of a man known as ‘Shamar’, who has been fingered as the main suspect behind the fatal shooting.
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BIG BOTTOMS ON WOMEN ARE AFRICAN ASSETS
Recently a contention about the size of a woman’s derrière made prime time news on the Government station ABS TV, and negative raves among people who should know their history and the physiography which comes with it.
African women have big bottoms which properly attired is a thing of beauty!
The rhythms of its roll under a wrapper is music and eye candy to any energetic male, but definitely nothing handsome in western style clothing, including men’s trousers.
In Africa, where hunger can be the norm, a woman’s big bottom establishes that she is not hungry; her parents or her husband can afford to feed her, she comes with heritage!
The clothes and customs of our African culture has been ridiculed and thrown out by the dominant culture of the white world which we now embrace, even competing with the skinny white models for whom their fashions are designed.
Women are creatures of fashion and wherever they occupy space, the need to look good is often conditioned by their location and its style.
When In Rome …. so it is not surprising that Jeans, Lycra, Spandex, all which make skinny white girls look like a ‘willow in the wind’ only expose those exciting rolls and handle bars of the African woman, making her look quite absurd and unappealing.
When an African woman wraps her nappy head in those colorful artistic headwraps, dons her African gown embroidered at the neck and covering her luscious body, she glides into the imagination of her of her admirers, and as you know it all starts in the head.
Or if she wears a double wrapper below her embroidered bubba, the loose wrap and unwrapping of the outer wrapper becomes part of the sex appeal of African wear. Without a bottom the style and the sexuality of being fully covered in loose and flowing robes can be lost, leaving noting to the imagination!
Africans in the diaspora have grown up on hand-me-downs from the plantation days, when there was nothing more elevating than dressing up in Missus old clothes, and stepping like Missus past those field hands on the way to the back door of the Great House.
Nothing has changed except that Missus and Missy now wear men’s pants and Jeans, Lycra and Spandex, which for the most part suits their body build, but negates all the good in love handles and coveted big bottoms, and which make black and African people look ugly.
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This week’s featured development as Newsmaker of the Week just ended is the pending multi-billion dollar redevelopment of the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine, which is being hailed as one of the largest infrastructural developments in public health in the nation’s history.
The planned modernisation of the hospital into a comprehensive Type-A health facility is being hailed by several stakeholders and social media users.
Many of them are hoping that the development will signal a shift in urban renewal for the old capital of Spanish Town, putting its crime-plagued past behind for a new dawn of vibrancy.
Additionally, a call is being made for interests to also focus on developing other aspects of infrastructure in the wider town and parish, to boost the economic potential there.
The announced development plans for the hospital were highlighted by Health and Wellness Minister, Dr Christopher Tufton, on Wednesday during his address at St Catherine’s Open House and Exhibition at the Church of the Open Bible in Twickenham Park, Spanish Town, St Catherine.
According to Tufton, the journey in overhauling the Spanish Town Hospital which was built 70 years ago, has been years in the making.
The minister said with the tender process now completed, construction works at the Spanish Town Hospital are expected to begin in the first quarter of next year, with completion projected for the 2026-2027 financial year.
The construction period is anticipated at 24 months, with an additional 12 months for “the defects liability period”, according to Tufton.
He said the hospital will receive the largest infrastructure works of the Health Systems Strengthening Programme being implemented with the support of the Inter-America Development Bank (IDB) and the European Union (EU).
“The work will see the construction of a six-storey modern facility with an estimated area of 17,633.68 square metres, including several points of access for staff and patients, and a skywalk to link existing wards,” Tufton outlined.
Additionally, upgrades will incorporate areas for accident and emergency, a radiology department, outpatient services, pharmacy, endoscopy unit, surgical suite, an intensive care unit, laboratory, medical records, staff lounge and underground staff parking, among other things.
From left – CEO, Spanish Town Hospital, Jacqueline Ellis; Country Representative, Inter-American Development Bank, Lorenzo Escondeur; EU Ambassador to Jamaica, Marianne Van Steen; Garfield Wood, Architect; and Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Christopher Tufton, at the launch of the pending multi-billion dollar redevelopment of the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine.(Photo: Marlon Reid)
“Not only is the investment in the redevelopment of the hospital the largest of the more than US$50 million-dollar Health Systems Strengthening Programme, it is also one of the largest investments that will be made in health facilities in Jamaica’s history,” said Tufton.
“… It is significant. It demonstrates just how serious we are about ensuring that our population receives the standard of care that they deserve,” Tufton indicated.
He noted, also, that the overhaul of the current building at Spanish Town Hospital is timely, as the demand on the medical facility is significant.
Figures cited by the minister suggested that more than 32,000 patients were seen at the hospital’s accident and emergency unit in 2021.
“Those seen in outpatient clinic numbered more than 40,000, even as 17,000 patients were admitted to the facility, and some 1,947 surgeries (were) performed.
“These numbers tell of the kind of demand currently faced by our facility, and which we are determined to continue to meet and to exceed,” Tufton stated.
In reacting to the news of the development plans for Spanish Town Hospital, President of the St Catherine Chamber of Commerce, Dennis Robotham, said it is likely to spur a shift in urban renewal for the town.
Police personnel at the scene of a murder in the Spanish Town market district recently. The old capital has, unfortunately, been experiencing far too many negatives, especially violent crimes and the consequences, over recent years dating back to well over a decade.
He told reporters following the function at which Tufton made the announcement, that St Catherine, specifically Spanish Town, has always been on the “backburner” in terms of infrastructural development, including roads and buildings.
According to Robotham, the project is indicative of the interest now being placed on St Catherine.
“It therefore means that not only the medical services have now got to be on their A-game, the infrastructure, roads and all the other amenities need to be in tandem with the development that is taking place here,” he argued.
He said the project will also create employment opportunities and could trigger a boost in the economy of Spanish Town.
The Government and other stakeholders, said Robotham, should now examine other aspects of the old capital and the wider St Catherine, for development.
“We have the heritage sites… It means the time has come and maybe this is a platform in which St Catherine and Spanish Town are about to take off.
“So we’re looking in that direction to see the productivity and moving to another level,” Robotham indicated.
Social media users have also been weighing into the redevelopment plans for Spanish Town Hospital, and what it will mean for the old capital going forward.
On Instagram, kuhrent1 wrote: “Well overdue. This surely will redeem you Tufton. Hope it don’t go like the one in MoBay though. We welcome this.”
Another social media user, nubian_queen.dixon, shared: “Also train the nurses, doctors and staff customer behaviours”.
On Facebook, Andyandrew Keize wrote: “Nice. Bring it. Well deserved”.
Jermaine Reid shared: “This is good news. This Government always looking out the box, and it is full time we have a modern hospital and Spanish Town can finally get some development.
“The crime is the only thing now that needs to be addressed there, but I’m confident in the police and the Government,” he further commented.
Kerry Ann Smith wrote: “More employment for young people, for this project means unemployment will go down and economic growth. I welcome this redevelopment of Spanish Town (Hospital) with open arms. Long overdue.”
Another social media user, Sean Hall, shared: “Fix up Spanish Town now and get it looking modern. Too rundown.”
Meanwhile, the redevelopment of the hospital will also involve improvements to the information communication and technology (ICT) infrastructure, for enhanced access to medical services, providing, among other things, electronic access to patients’ medical records.
“Recently, the Spanish Town Hospital was provided with secured WiFi access, which is available to staff and visitors to the hospital, as well as with the necessary equipment to breathe life into the electronic health records,” said Tufton on Wednesday.
He explained that those specific initiatives form part of a larger ICT infrastructure buildout to the tune of US$8.4 million, at the Spanish Town facility and 104 others.
“The work has included the installation of workstations and the training of clinical and medical records staff in the use and security of the computers. So far, 13 of the 105 facilities have benefitted,” Tufton shared.
The minister also disclosed that several health centres are to benefit from physical upgrades, the purchasing of new equipment to support the delivery of care, and the design and implementation of an information systems for health (IS4H) under the Health Systems Strengthening Programme.
The health centres to be impacted are: Greater Portmore, Old Harbour and St Jago Park, all in St Catherine; St Ann’s Bay, Brown’s Town and Ocho Rios in St Ann; and May Pen East, May Pen West, Mocho and Chapelton, all in Clarendon.
The St Ann’s Bay and May Pen Hospitals are also to benefit from significant physical upgrades under the Health Systems Strengthening Programme, Tufton stated.
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National Green Party (NGP) leader Andre, ‘Pancho’ de Caires, has welcomed new relaxed COVID-19 protocols announced last week by Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs Minister Moses Jn Baptiste.
“I think Saint Lucians have been compliant and obeyed the protocols without resistance,” de Caires told St Lucia Times.
He noted that citizens have complied with the requirements to wear masks, sanitise and observe social distancing upon entering business places.
However, he recalled many ignored the protocols during carnival and emancipation day activities.
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And de Caires said for Saint Lucia to continue specific protocols makes no sense, which the government has realised.
He said the people deserve a break.
The NGP leader also reiterated the need for accountability because people who refused vaccination lost their jobs.
“People lost their livelihoods because of a personal choice,” de Caires told St Lucia Times.
“I believe in the future somebody is going to have to be held accountable,” the NGP leader declared.
Saint Lucia’s adjusted COVID-19 protocols take effect on Monday, September 5.
The new measures include removing the physical distance and mass crowd limitations, and capacity restrictions on public transportation.
In general, wearing face masks is optional but remains ‘highly recommended’ to reduce the transmission of COVID-19.
But masks are required in certain circumstances, including where many people are in close contact and when visiting certain institutions like elderly homes.
Saint Lucia has also removed the testing and vaccination requirement for entry.
But despite the significant adjustments in the protocols, the Minister of Health has warned that COVID-19 is still circulating in Saint Lucia and remains a major concern.
“Given our low immunisation rate and the growing evidence of long COVID, COVID-19 remains a public health threat. With the general relaxation of the measures, personal responsibility becomes paramount,” Moses Jn Baptiste asserted.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission last week charged Energy Innovation Capital Management, LLC (EIC), a California-based exempt reporting adviser, with charging excess management fees from two venture capital funds. EIC has returned $678,681 plus interest to the funds and their limited partners, and has agreed to settle the SEC’s charges by paying a $175,000 penalty.
According to the SEC’s order, EIC’s limited partnership agreements for the two venture capital funds allow it to charge management fees during certain times based on the funds’ invested capital in individual portfolio company securities, and require EIC to reduce the basis for these fees if certain events occur, such as write-downs of such securities. The order finds that, from January 16, 2020, through March 31, 2022, EIC overcharged management fees by making a number of errors in its favor. As the order states, the errors include:
Failing to make adjustments to its management fee calculations for individual portfolio company securities subject to write-downs;Inaccurately calculating management fees based on aggregated invested capital at the portfolio company level instead of at the individual portfolio company security level;Incorrectly including accrued but unpaid interest as part of the basis of the calculation of management fees for certain investments; andFailing to begin the post-commitment management fee period at the correct date.
“Venture capital fund advisers, even if exempt from registering with the SEC, are not exempt from the anti-fraud provisions of the Investment Advisers Act. They must accurately calculate their management fees consistent with fund documents,” said C. Dabney O’Riordan, Chief of the SEC Enforcement Division’s Asset Management Unit. “This resolution ensures that the funds and investors are repaid and affirms the SEC’s commitment to focus on misconduct by all investment advisers.”
The SEC’s investigation was conducted by Ellen Bortz, David P. Bloom of the Asset Management Unit, and Daniel Faigus of the Division of Examinations’ Private Funds Unit. It was supervised by David A. Becker of the Asset Management Unit.
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