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Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 6, 2022 (Rotary Club of Liamuiga) — A new cadre of Rotarians have been installed to take charge of the affairs of the Rotary Club of Liamuiga for the 2022/23 Rotary year.

The annual handing-over ceremony was held on Sunday 3rd July 2022 and chaired by Past President Laverne Caines. Framed as an evening cocktail, the ceremony featured inspiring presentations from Outgoing President Claudelle Gumbs, Rotary District 7030 Governor, Leslie Ramdhanny, and Rotary International President, Jennifer E. Jones.

The newly appointed District 7030 Assistant Governor, Rotarian Leah Crag-Chadderton, then installed the following officers, who took the oath of office to serve both club and community:

President Ryeburn Boyce

Vice President Dr Marcus L Natta 

Immediate Past President Claudelle Gumbs 

Secretary Kaii Mills

Treasurer Nichole Liburd 

Directors

Cosbert Woods

Deniece Alleyne

Dominic Matthew

In his first official remarks, President Ryeburn thanked the membership for their support and pledged to continue the work of the organisation to make more than an impact but a positive difference in the lives of the people in the community. 

He also challenged his peers to join him on his journey, as the club is entering its twentieth year, to continue the strong legacy of service, with ingenuity, dynamic projects, increasing membership, and promoting fellowship.

The curtains then came down on a celebratory note with cocktails, on The Ocean View Terrace at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort, on an evening well spent with Rotarians from the Rotary Club of St. Kitts, prospective members, and invited guests.

Picture 1: President Ryeburn Boyce Past President speaking at the 2022/23 Installation Ceremony

Picture 2: Members of the Rotary Club of Liamuiga and guests pose for a group photo following the installation ceremony

About the Rotary Club of Liamuiga

The Rotary Club of Liamuiga was started on the 10 February 2003 by the late Past District Governor (PDG), Ambassador Fred Lam, OBE. The club conforms to the highest ideals of Rotary and continues to lend an empowering hand through annual community projects and often partners with other Rotary clubs and service organizations to pool resources to carry out high impact projects that involve Youth, the Elderly, and Literacy.

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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, July 05, 2022 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Mr. Osmond Petty has stated clearly that there is no easy way for any individual to access St. Kitts and Nevis passports, except through the normal application process.

Mr. Petty’s comments came in response to unfounded claims that a number of persons recently came into possession of a brand new St. Kitts and Nevis passports.

Speaking at last week’s (June 29) Cabinet Press Conference, Mr. Petty said, “I am 99.9 per cent sure that no one can generate a passport very easily from our passport office.”

“Normally it takes three persons to process a passport. In an emergency situation, the supervisor and one other person can do the passport, but the normal process is for three persons to process one passport,” Permanent Secretary Petty added.

He informed that all of the Federation’s passports are supplied and supervised by the Canadian Bank Note (CBN) company – a highly reputable security printing company based in Canada.

Mr. Petty said, “The passports when they come in, they are locked away. To get in to remove any passports the supervisor and our CBN trained technician, both of them simultaneously have to go to the locker and input their passwords and codes to open it and remove passports.”

The number of passports taken out of the locker at any given time is recorded at the passport office, the office of the permanent secretary and at the offices of the Canadian, Bank Note.

“If for instance X amount of passports is taken out then it’s going to crash the system because CBN right away will realise that something has gone wrong. And so when they talk about people going out with bags of passports it is just foolishness, you just cannot get it done. No one person can go into the system and remove a passport or any number of passports,” Mr. Petty reiterated.

The Ministry of National Security, in an official press statement, strongly condemned the false and politically malicious statements and urged persons involved to refrain from circulating such statements that are designed to mislead the public and seek to obtain cheap political points.

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BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese-Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua, who went missing in Hong Kong five years ago, was due to go on trial in China on Monday, the Canadian embassy in Beijing said.

China-born Xiao, known to have links to China’s Communist Party elite, has not been seen in public since 2017 after he was investigated amid a state-led conglomerate crackdown. The specifics of the probe haven’t been disclosed by officials.

“Global Affairs Canada, our home office, is aware that a trial in the case of Canadian citizen Mr. Xiao Jianhua will take place today,” a Canadian Embassy official told Reuters over the phone in a readout of a statement from Ottawa.

“Canadian consular officials are monitoring this case closely, providing consular services to his family and continue to press for consular access.”

Xiao was ranked 32nd on the 2016 Hurun China rich list, China’s equivalent of the Forbes list, with an estimated net worth of $5.97 billion at the time.

At the centre of Xiao’s empire is the financial group Tomorrow Holdings Co.

In July 2020, nine of the group’s related institutions were seized by Chinese regulators as part of a crackdown on risks posed by financial conglomerates.

In 2021, regulators extended the one-year take-over period of the nine financial enterprises by another year to “further promote risk disposal work and defuse financial risks.”

The extended custody is set to end on July 16.

The seizures were preceded by a takeover of Baoshang Bank in 2019, a lender once controlled by Tomorrow, by regulators, citing severe credit risks.

The lender, which had operated nationwide, was revamped into a much smaller lender back in its home region of Inner Mongolia in northern China.

In recent years, a number of executives at big Chinese companies have been subject to investigation or prosecution amid a broader crackdown on corruption spearheaded by President Xi Jinping that has also ensnared politicians and bankers.

Among those who have fallen from grace was Jiang Jiemin, former head of China National Petroleum Corp, who was sentenced to 16 years for bribery and abuse of power in 2015.

In 2017, Ai Baojun, a former chairman of Baoshan Iron and Steel who had gone on to become vice mayor of Shanghai, was sentenced to 17 years in jail for bribery and graft.

(Reporting by Martin Quin Pollard in Beijing and Meg Shen in Hong Kong; writing by Ryan Woo; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)

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El reconocido guitarrista mexicano Carlos Santana se desmayó durante un concierto celebrado este martes en la ciudad estadounidense de Clarkston, en Míchigan, como resultado del agotamiento y la deshidratación por el calor, confirmó su representante, Michael Vrionis, en un comunicado publicado en la cuenta de Facebook del músico.

En las imágenes difundidas en redes sociales, se aprecia al guitarrista sentándose con dificultad ante lo cual algunos de sus compañeros y otras personas acudieron a socorrerlo. En un principio, Santana estaba consciente y respondía a quienes le ayudaban hasta que repentinamente colapsó.

Carlos Santana se desploma en el escenario durante un concierto en Michigan. pic.twitter.com/YQ9D29mOyR

— LΞLΞLΔPRUΞBΘ (@lelelx) July 6, 2022

El músico, de 74 años de edad, recibió primeros auxilios y logró recuperarse, aunque tuvo que salir del escenario en una camilla. Vrionis comunicó que el guitarrista fue trasladado a una sala de emergencias para observación, pero destacó que se encuentra “bien”.

Please pray for @SantanaCarlos @PineKnobMusic #CarlosSantana #pineknob pic.twitter.com/QN0PQkpiMX

— Donny (@BrascoProd) July 6, 2022

Tras el incidente, el concierto tuvo que ser suspendido y otra gala programada para este miércoles en la ciudad de Burgettstown, en Pensilvania, también ha sido pospuesta hasta nuevo aviso. En diciembre pasado, Santana canceló una serie de actuaciones en Las Vegas después de que fuera sometido a un procedimiento cardíaco no especificado y que no estaba programado.

Carlos Santana fue pionero en fusionar ritmos latinos con el género rock en la banda homónima que fundó en 1966 y, desde entonces, su figura y su música han obtenido todos los reconocimientos posibles. Fue incluido en el Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll y en la lista de los 100 mejores guitarristas de la historia, elaborada por la revista Rolling Stones.

Noticia original de RT en Español. 

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