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Lawmen are at the scene of an unnatural death along Browne’s Beach.
The lifeless body of an adult male was discovered at the water’s edge near Pirate’s Cove in Lower Bay Street, Bridgetown.
Officers from the Central Police Station received the report around 5:24 am today.
More details to come.
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Vingt-et-un jeunes gens, surtout des adolescents, retrouvés morts dans une taverne et toujours pas d’explication dix jours après: L’Afrique du Sud s’est reccueillie mercredi lors d’une cérémonie pour saluer leur mémoire, en présence de cerceuils vides symboliques.
Plus de mille personnes, dont le président Cyril Ramaphosa et de nombreux élus, ont participé à cet office organisé dans le township de Scenery Park, près d’East London (sud-est).
Des groupes de personnes endeuillées ont rempli un grand chapiteau où une vingtaine de cercueils étaient disposés, un bouquet de fleurs sur chacun, et des centaines d’autres étaient rassemblées à l’extérieur pour suivre la cérémonie sur des écrans, selon l’AFP sur place.
Au milieu des pleurs et des prières, une fanfare de police a joué l’hymne national. La plupart des funérailles auront lieu dans les prochains jours, selon plusieurs familles.
“En tant que nation, nous sommes blessés par ce qui s’est passé”, a dit le responsable régional Oscar Mabuyane. “Les jeunes gens que nous enterrons étaient l’espoir de leurs familles et celui de notre pays”.
Le dimanche 26 juin à l’aube, leurs corps, sur lesquels aucun signe de blessure n’était visible, avaient été retrouvés à l’intérieur d’un bar informel de cette banlieue pauvre. Des survivants ont évoqué une lutte pour échapper au lieu bondé et une odeur suffocante.
Mais les autorités ont écarté l’hypothèse de la bousculade mortelle. L’enquête de police se poursuit et les résultats d’autopsie n’ont pas été divulgués à ce jour.
“Nous ne savons toujours pas ce qui a tué nos enfants”, a déclaré le président Ramaphosa. “Les familles ont besoin de réponses, ils veulent savoir ce qui est arrivé à leurs enfants”, a-t-il ajouté dans un discours sévère sur les ravages de l’alcool parmi la jeunesse sud-africaine.
Parmi ces morts, le plus jeune avait 14 ans, le plus âgé seulement vingt, selon les dates de naissance figurant sur le programme officiel de la cérémonie.
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At a recent public meeting in West Bay, Katherine Ebanks-Wilks outlined what she has been doing for the people of West Bay since her election and what the PACT government has recently done to address some of the public’s concerns. In doing so, Ebanks-Wilks stressed the importance of having a united district and indicated that, by working together, a lot more could be accomplished for all electoral districts than working individually as independent MPs. As such, it was fitting that Ebanks-Wilks was joined on the podium by other West Bay MPs, including McKeeva Bush, Bernie Bush and Andre Ebanks.
United district
Regarding the quest for unity in West Bay, Ebanks-Wilks said that she had spoken to constituents in West Bay who repeatedly spoke about elected officials working together.
They want to feel that, although we have constituencies to hold us the members of parliament accountable to you the constituents, everybody still wants to feel that we are all in the same district together.
Ebanks-Wilks said.
This approach to unity and team work reflects positively on Ebanks-Wilks as it is a mature approach to politics i.e., she is not seeking power for herself but to empower the people around her and, at the same time she is holding herself and her team accountable to members of the public.
Tonight, we’re here to really just show you that although we are all independent candidates, we all ran as independents, we are all here to work together to make West Bay the best it has ever been.
She reassured the audience.
Cost of living
Making West Bay the best it has ever been is a goal that is appropriate at this time too as talks of stagflation and recession threaten global economies and changes in circumstances are now impacting the cost of living locally for everyone.
In explaining the cost of living impacts, Ebanks-Wilks stated that the Ukraine-Russia war was a contributing factor to the higher fuel prices that Cayman was currently seeing. In order to address these higher fuel prices and forecasted increases in utility bills over the summer, Ebanks-Wilks highlighted the agreement between the PACT government and Caribbean Utilities Company to provide a fuel credit for some consumers, a helpful gesture to lessen the impact of increased prices on relevant consumers over the summer period.
In addition to fuel prices, the raising of interest rates by Cayman banks has caused some concern locally. In connection with this, Ebanks-Wilks hinted that updated legislation may be on the way to deal with situations where homeowners face challenges when they default on mortgages due to changes in interest rates.
Finally, Ebanks-Wilks emphasized that, given the combination of challenges, she understood what it must be like for some parents having to look forward to expenses associated with the start of a new school year after the summer. Such expenses, of course, are in the form of school supplies.
In providing a solution to struggling parents, Ebanks-Wilks said:
The West Bay MPs have agreed to provide all of the school supplies for all of the Sir John A Cumber primary school students for the 2022/2023 school year.
Also, for students who are outside of the primary school levels, we’re encouraging you to register with your constituency office for school supplies.
According to Ebanks-Wilks, all the students have to do is to show up to school with their backpacks and the supplies will be provided by the MPs.
Transportation and activity camps
The generous offering by the West Bay MPs was supplemented by an offer for free bus services for vacation Bible school. The aim, as Ebanks-Wilks put it, was to remove some of the burden for parents who would normally have to pick up and drop off their children, often losing time from work in the process.
We have partnered with the churches in West Bay. A lot of them are going to be offering vacation bible school. We are going to be offering bus services.
If you would like to register to have your child picked up on the bus, please come by the constituency office so that we can register you for your child to be dropped off at your homes.
We also recognize that there is a week where there isn’t any vacation bible school in the district.
So, the West Bay Central office has been working with various organisations to host a career themed camp and that is going to be the week of 25th July.
Ebanks-Wilks explained further.
Assistance with the elderly
In relation to a second vulnerable group, Ebanks-Wilks said that help was on the way for elderly persons in West Bay who needed to renew their passports.
Regarding this, Ebanks-Wilks mentioned that she had “partnered with a West Bay photographer” to take photos for the elderly so that they don’t have to leave West Bay just to take a passport photo. This comment from Ebanks-Wilks was met with an applause from the crowd.
Housing
In relation to affordable housing plans in West Bay, Ebanks-Wilks invited Mr Julio Ramos, the manager at the National Housing & Development Trust, to give an update to members of the public.
In his update, Ramos shared that the third phase of 19 houses is currently being completed in Boatswain Bay. While Ramos said that the government wanted to deliver the houses at “an affordable rate,” there were some challenges because they had close to 300 applications for affordable homes, but with only a fraction coming online.
Ramos tried to provide some reassurance to the audience in terms of affordable home availability by saying that the possibility of further land purchases were being considered in order to provide affordable homes on other properties for the persons who were not successful in the recent phases of building affordable homes in West Bay.
Ramos indicated that he was not only thinking of new homeowners, but the owners of affordable homes built almost two decades ago, which were now believed to be “condemned” and solutions were needed for those homeowners as well.
Roads
In terms of road works, Ebanks-Wilks indicated her gratitude to the Minister for Infrastructure and the National Roads Authority for assisting with public roads in West Bay. She indicated that, not only did the new road works benefit that particular area, but benefited the whole of West Bay.
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Hurricane Bonnie forecasted to weaken as it moves westward
Cayman U-12 team participates in 2022 Babe Ruth Baseball championships
MP Wilks says cost of living and other relief coming to West Bayers
Advisory: Aerial and ground mosquito spraying tonight
Pirates Week plans to be released at press conference on July 8
Earlier garbage collection time for Cayman Brac
Man charged with possession of unlicensed firearm following search
$120 million ONE | GT hotel and residences project breaks ground
Man formally charged for BT murder, goes to court on July 5
Cayman’s constitution outdated; many still blocked from voting
Winner of 12U Caribbean region championship will advance to the Cal Ripken Major70 World Series
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U12 baseball team
(Photo provided by Jennifer West)
On Monday, July 4, 2022 after many months of intense training, a delegation of 14 young men and 3 coaches embarked on what is set to be one of the greatest baseball events ever to be held in the Caribbean, the 2022 Babe Ruth Baseball Caribbean Region 12-and-Under Championship set for July 7-11, at the the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex in Nassau, Bahamas.
The proud members of the Cayman U12 team members are Tyler Bagley, Alexis Germain, Elvis Ebanks, William McDonald, Keion McLean, Jackson Pawlik, Jon Lutz, Lance Li Ching, Liam Wright, Makane Peterson, Tristan Pearson, Michael Souza, Russel Massias and Tobias Mejia West. Head Coach for the Team is Bill Souza.
A grand opening ceremony, encompassing a historic and cultural display, is set for 7 p.m. at Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium on July 7. For the 12U championship, there will be pool play for the first three days of the tournament. The single elimination playoffs are set for Sunday, July 10 and the championship and bronze medal games will be played on Monday, July 11.
The winner of the 12U Caribbean region championship will advance to the Cal Ripken Major70 World Series at Ballparks of America in Branson, Missouri, from August 4-13, 2022.
The Ministry of Youth, Sports, Culture & Heritage (MYSCH) is hosting a press conference Friday, July 8, 10am to unveil its 2022 plans for Pirates Week celebrations.
The reveal, following reassi
ONE | GT, the highly anticipated George Town boutique hotel and residences, broke ground on Thursday, June 30 with a celebratory event attended by government leaders and various members of t
The Mosquito Research and Control Unit (MRCU) is undertaking aerial and ground spraying tonight starting around 7.30 pm. Locations are set out below.
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In a release today (July 1), Caribbean Utilities Company (CUC) explained that, in anticipation of the sharp increases in electricity costs due to rising global fuel prices, the Cayman Islands Governme
According to the Constitutional Commission of the Cayman Islands, Cayman pauses once per year to “celebrate the importance of having been granted our own constitution – one of the most important docum
As of the morning of July 2, 2022, the National Hurricane Center reported a number of weather disturbances, including Tropical Storm Bonnie, Tropical Storm Colin and another system with a low chance o
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Hurricane Bonnie forecasted to weaken as it moves westward
Cayman U-12 team participates in 2022 Babe Ruth Baseball championships
MP Wilks says cost of living and other relief coming to West Bayers
Advisory: Aerial and ground mosquito spraying tonight
Pirates Week plans to be released at press conference on July 8
Earlier garbage collection time for Cayman Brac
Man charged with possession of unlicensed firearm following search
$120 million ONE | GT hotel and residences project breaks ground
Man formally charged for BT murder, goes to court on July 5
Cayman’s constitution outdated; many still blocked from voting
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Hurricane Bonnie forecast
(Source: 10 Tampa Bay)
The National Hurricane Center reported this morning, July 6, 2022, that is continuing to move west near 14 mph (22 km/h), but maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 100 mph.
A westward to west-northwestward motion is forecast through the week with gradual weakening forecasted to begin Thursday night and should continue through Friday.
In the meantime, hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 25 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 90 miles.
Impacts
According to the National Hurricane Center, swells generated by Bonnie will continue to affect portions of the coast of southwestern Mexico during the next day or so. These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.
Portions of Hawaii may also be affected by remnants of Bonnie by way of flash flooding or mudslides over the next couple of days if Bonnie continues its forecasted track (according to “spaghetti” computer models).
The Ministry of Youth, Sports, Culture & Heritage (MYSCH) is hosting a press conference Friday, July 8, 10am to unveil its 2022 plans for Pirates Week celebrations.
The reveal, following reassi
ONE | GT, the highly anticipated George Town boutique hotel and residences, broke ground on Thursday, June 30 with a celebratory event attended by government leaders and various members of t
The Mosquito Research and Control Unit (MRCU) is undertaking aerial and ground spraying tonight starting around 7.30 pm. Locations are set out below.
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Red Bay
Prospect
Sava
In a release today (July 1), Caribbean Utilities Company (CUC) explained that, in anticipation of the sharp increases in electricity costs due to rising global fuel prices, the Cayman Islands Governme
According to the Constitutional Commission of the Cayman Islands, Cayman pauses once per year to “celebrate the importance of having been granted our own constitution – one of the most important docum
As of the morning of July 2, 2022, the National Hurricane Center reported a number of weather disturbances, including Tropical Storm Bonnie, Tropical Storm Colin and another system with a low chance o
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The Government is providing $2.7 billion in additional social intervention expenditure, which includes $750 million towards a campaign to clean up parish capitals and major townships ahead of Independence celebrations in August.
Of the amount, $550 million will be allocated to the National Solid Waste Management Authority, and $189 million to Members of Parliament via the Constituency Development Fund (CDF).
The announcement was made on Tuesday by the Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr Nigel Clarke, during a ministerial statement in the House of Representatives.
He said amounts allocated via the CDF can be used for beautification, bushing, drain-cleaning activities, and any other activity a Member of Parliament deems fit.
Clarke also announced that $150 million will go towards the trucking of water under the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development to areas experiencing water challenges “due to the erratic nature of rainfall islandwide and especially in the parishes of St Elizabeth, Clarendon and Portland but not limited to these parishes”.
There will also be $550 million in General Welfare Support for beneficiaries who are not on the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) in the following amounts: $189 million through the Ministry of Labour and Social Security; $189 million through the CDF for welfare and economic enablement activities; $70 million through municipal corporations for welfare and economic support; $52 million for poor relief through Ministry of Local Government and Community Development; and $50 million through the MLSS’s Public Assistance Department.
And, Clarke said $550 million has been allocated to pensioners at the bottom of the income ladder; $450 million for 45,000 NIS pensioners who receive pensions less than $15,000 per month, and $100 million for 10,000 social pensioners who are not PATH beneficiaries.
The finance minister also disclosed that $1.789 billion in back-to-school one-off grants, which will be implemented through the MLSS and directed towards 160,000 PATH school-aged children, has also been earmarked.
This is in addition to $189 million in back-to-school education grants and assistance to non-PATH vulnerable students through the CDF.
“You will note a total of $9 million per constituency in additional support to the Constituency Development Fund for the above-mentioned activities. I am advised by the CDF that each Member of Parliament should consult with the Director, CDF to be guided on the administration of these additional allocations,” Clarke told the House.
He explained that the additional $2.7 billion brings to $3.8 billion, the amount in social intervention expenditure provided by the Government. He said $1.1 billion is already accounted for in the budget, while the incremental $2.7 billion expenditure will initially be funded by advances from existing budgeted resources.
“These advances will be cleared following regularisation of the expenditure in the First Supplementary Estimates 2022/23,” Clarke said.
In giving reasons for the additional expenditure, Clarke highlighted that “the world is facing challenging times”.
“After enduring two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the worst pandemic in 100 years, and the historic economic contraction it induced around the world, the world now faces the highest levels of global inflation in 40 years. Supply chain pressures related to the dynamics of COVID-19 had a negative impact on prices towards the latter half of 2021,” he said.
He added that: “This has been seriously compounded by the war in Ukraine, which began earlier this year. So even as we celebrate 8.2 per cent GDP growth for the 2021/22 fiscal year released by STATIN yesterday (Monday), which represents a strong start to our recovery, and as unemployment at 6.2 per cent is at a historic low, we need to ensure that we continue to provide protection for the most vulnerable and those impacted by global conditions who are least able to absorb these shocks.”
Clarke pointed to his closing budget presentation in March when he announced $3.5 billion of measures to alleviate the impact of these conditions.
The amounts included: $800 million to assist public transport operators as a means of protecting the substantial number of Jamaicans who depend on public transportation; $750 million for a food assistance programme targeting 75,000 Jamaicans; $152 million for an increase in the allocation toward transportation assistance to students on PATH; and approximately $2 billion to the GOJ Energy Co-Pay where theGovernment of Jamaica contributes 20 per cent of the JPS bill for all post-paid households that consume 200kWh of electricity or less, per month, over the four months of April 2022 to July 2022 as well as $3,000 per month over the same period for pre-paid residential customers.
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Prime Minister Hon. Philip J. Pierre delivered his inaugural address to The CARICOM at the 43rd Regular Meeting of Heads of Government in Paramaribo, Suriname on July 3, 2022.
Hon. Pierre reaffirmed Saint Lucia’s allegiance to the regional bloc and also advocated for solutions that will bring about meaningful and tangible improvements to the framework of The CARICOM.
“I want to assure you that I come to the Prime Ministership of Saint Lucia in the firm and abiding belief in CARICOM. Mr. Chairman, my regional philosophy has been shaped by the small population and territorial size of the country that I lead, but I stand here to affirm that Saint Lucia will always be less than it can be without CARICOM.
Whenever we are faced by external challenges, not of our own making, I am always guided by the words of the late Prime Minister of Barbados Owen Arthur that “we should face it and fix it.” I am also always guided by the warning of our respected colleague, the distinguished Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, that we should avoid the reflexive learned helplessness which arguably stems from an inherited colonial consciousness. So, colleagues, I intend to use the responsibility that the people of Saint Lucia have placed on my shoulders to engage constructively with you and the CARICOM secretariat and to draw on your collective experience to advance the cause of CARICOM. In this regard, I pledge to engage energetically within CARICOM.”
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In the face of external uncertainties affecting the Member States, the Prime Minister addressed the more pressing challenges impeding CARICOM’s long-envisioned pathway to holistic regional integration. Hon. Pierre espoused optimism for CARICOM’s potential and underscored the region’s collective intellectual wherewithal capable of devising and implementing workable strategies and models to make the regional bloc more agile, flexible, and responsive to the social and economic needs of its citizens.
In closing, Hon. Pierre implored his colleague Heads of Government to prioritise the well-being of the people who elected them to serve and to demonstrate the change CARICOM and its inhabitants need to forge a unified front.
“My dream is for a CARICOM that never forgets that the only reason why we have committed ourselves to public life, is to serve the people and so we must put the people first in all that we do…
My friends, let’s be honest and acknowledge that CARICOM’s image throughout our region needs to improve. That must change, and change now. Too much time has already been lost. We must begin that vital change by being the change the people have for a very long time been crying for.
We must not only talk unity. We must demonstrate to our people that we are together confronted by similar problems that can be resolved only by a United CARICOM.”
Source: Office of the Prime Minister. Headline photo: Philip J. Pierre stock image.
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El teniente coronel Roberto Rivera compartió el miércoles en RADIO ISLA que entre hoy y mañana pudieran radicar cargos contra Anthony Salvá por el asesinato de Jennifer Maldonado.
Según Rivera compartido a la prensa, el acusado tiene antecedentes criminales previos. Rivera informó este martes que Anthony Salvá Rivera, de 26 años, confesó a las autoridades haber asesinado a Jennifer Michelle Maldonado Padua, de 33, a quien él mismo reportó como desaparecida.
Salvá Rivera fue arrestado en la tarde. Inicialmente, alegó a los agentes que la mujer había desaparecido luego de montarse en un vehículo, minutos antes de iniciar su jornada de trabajo en la Planta Central Hidroeléctrica en el lago Dos Bocas, de Arecibo.
Rivera reveló que Salvá Rivera enfrentó cargos en el 2019 por escalamiento, violación y sodomía contra una menor de 16 años. Sin embargo, se encontró culpable solo por el escalamiento.
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Agentes del Negociado de la Policía de Puerto Rico detuvieron en la noche del martes a Harold Carrión Butter por violación a una orden de protección, emitida por un juez a favor de su ex pareja.
Carrión Butter, de 23 años, fue quien provocó una movilización de recursos estimada en 1.2 millones de dólares por parte del Estado, tras reportarse como desaparecido la semana pasada en el área conocida como la Poza del Obispo en Arecibo.
El caso será consultado con los fiscales para la radicación de cargos.
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door Valerie Fris PARAMARIBO — De zittingstermijn voor de leden van het uitvoerend bureau van de Nationale Anti-drugs Raad (NAR)
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