Thieves rob Greenbay Primary and community’s children of food and sports donations worth thousands, Lewis laments

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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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Pathologist determines that Jamoya Browne died as a result of multiple head injuries sustained in fall from moving truck

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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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Eyewitness: Remembering…colonial rebels

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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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Nederlandse premier Mark Rutte sluit Surinaams bezoek af met koud Surinaams biertje

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Il s’exhibe avec une fausse arme, le « caïd » finit au poste de police

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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.

Jusqu’à 1 an de prison et 45 000 euros d’amende

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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What’s next for the UK as Queen Elizabeth II laid to rest Loop Cayman Islands

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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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Evergo Jamaica builds community with local EV users Loop Jamaica

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World EV Day, recognised annually on September 9, celebrates sustainable e-mobility and EV ownership.

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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Average 8.5 per cent increase in textbook prices — survey Loop Jamaica

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The Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) has reported the findings of this year’s annual school textbook survey, which was conducted between August 8 and 12.

Speaking at a JIS ‘Think Tank’, on Tuesday, the CAC’s Director of Research, Racquel White, said the findings revealed that there was an average 8.51 per cent increase in textbook prices.

“In the Greater Kingston Metropolitan Area, it’s just about seven per cent and among the rural towns it was a little higher, as there was an 11 per cent increase. [The prices for] more than half of the books that we looked at were between one per cent and 10 per cent,” she noted.

White pointed out that the cost for about a quarter of the books increased between 11 per cent and 20 per cent.

“Five Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) books increased in the 21 per cent to 30 per cent range and there were three books that increased just above 50 per cent,” she added.

The findings of the report also showed that “just over one-tenth of the books that we looked at, reduced between 0.1 per cent and 10 per cent. The largest reduction was about 21 per cent for one of the CAPE books,” White said.

On average, there was a 36 per cent difference between the highest and lowest price observed for textbooks islandwide, except for literature novels, where the average was 84 per cent. This was due to differences in the cover (hard/soft), publishers, and sources.

Within the Greater Kingston Metropolitan Area and among rural towns, however, the average difference was 21 per cent and 33 per cent, respectively, for all textbooks, except for literature novels, where the difference between the highest and lowest price was, on average, 56 per cent and 65 per cent, respectively.

White said the survey, which is usually conducted in July each year, “is to provide consumers, parents, and guardians with very important information on a critical consumer item, and that is textbooks.”

“This year we conducted the survey in the period of August 8 to 12, and this is later than the time in which we usually do the survey; the survey is usually done close to the end of July. But we had consultations with the Book Industry Association of Jamaica (BIAJ), and they advised us that this would be a good time for us to do the survey because, by then, the bookstores would have received most of their new stock,” she pointed out.

White shared that the survey was conducted across three educational levels in all parishes except Hanover, as there were no known bookstores identified.

“Unlike previous years when we targeted the entire population of known bookstores, this year we targetted a sample of bookstores across Kingston and rural parishes,” she explained.

To gather data for the survey, a sample of 49 bookstores or 72 per cent of known outlets were visited, 12 of which were in the Greater Kingston Metropolitan Area. The remaining stores were in rural towns islandwide.

Additionally, the CAC conducted an online survey on three of the major book chains that had an online presence.

The Director of Research said the CAC worked closely with the Ministry of Education and Youth to compile a list of the most popular textbooks that are used at the infant, primary and secondary school levels for inclusion in the survey. There was also the use of some tertiary books.

“There is a guideline that the Ministry uses to ensure that we covered the books that parents must purchase for the back-to-school period,” White noted.

In keeping with the ministry’s guidelines, a total of 173 popular textbooks were used in the survey. The list included 12 from the infant level, 57 from the primary level, and 104 from the secondary level. The books, combined, covered 19 subject areas.

White said observations revealed that while infant and primary level texts were readily available in most outlets visited, the availability of other texts was generally low as some bookstores indicated that they had not received their new stocks at the time of the survey.

Other bookstores indicated that they had delayed ordering their new stocks due to the uncertainties experienced in the education sector, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The data from the survey is available on the CAC’s website at https://www.cac.gov.jm/portal/index.php.

People may also download the CAC app from the Google Play and Apple Play stores to view the data.

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Bayern beat Lewandowski’s Barca; Liverpool get late winner Loop Jamaica

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LONDON (AP) — It doesn’t seem to matter which shirt Robert Lewandowski is wearing — Bayern Munich just keep getting the better of Barcelona either way.

Bayern extended their recent dominance over the Spanish giant with a 2-0 win in the Champions League on Tuesday to show they can cope quite well without Lewandowski, who left to join Barcelona in the offseason.

It started out as a friendly homecoming as Lewandowski walked down the familiar steps of the Allianz Arena players’ tunnel before kickoff, hugging every one of his former teammates along the way.

Bayern’s players didn’t extend the same level of hospitality once the game started.

Munich’s Lucas Hern?ndez, right, scores a goal past Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andr? ter Stegen. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)

After Lewandowski missed several good chances to score in the first half, Lucas Hern?ndez and Leroy San? scored within a five-minute span in the second as Bayern took control of Group C with two wins in two games.

“Luck wasn’t on his side,” Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer said about Lewandowski. “For Lewi, it’s an emotional game, here, a bit like coming home.”

Sporting Lisbon also moved to six points in Group D after netting two late goals to beat Tottenham 2-0 at home. The other group game between Marseille and Eintracht Frankfurt was marred by fan disturbances before kickoff, forcing riot police to intervene when opposing supporters launched flares and fireworks at each other. Frankfurt won the game 1-0 thanks to a first-half goal from Jesper Lindstr?m.

Liverpool needed an 89th-minute goal to get their first win of the European campaign. Joel Matip headed home a corner to give last year’s runner-up a 2-1 home win over Ajax, bouncing back from a 4-1 loss to Napoli in the opening round. Napoli’s game at Rangers was postponed until Wednesday because of limited police resources in Scotland following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

A period of silence was held before Liverpool’s game, while Bayern fans showed their displeasure with UEFA allowing the British monarch’s death to disrupt the schedule by holding up a banner reading: “Last minute match delays and bans because of a royal’s death? Respect fans!”

SAME OLD BAYERN

After losing 3-0 to Bayern in both group meetings last season — and with the 8-2 drubbing in the 2020 quarterfinals still fresh in memory — there was hope among Barcelona fans that things would be different with Lewandowski on their side.

Instead it was just more of the same.

After the Poland striker was uncharacteristically wasteful in the first half, Hernandez did his best Lewandowski impression when the defender popped up at the near post to head home a corner in the 50th minute. It was the kind of goal his former teammate scored so many of during his Bayern career, when he netted 344 in eight years.

Sane then pulled off a great solo effort for the second just four minutes later, bursting into the area and rolling a calm finish inside the far post.

In the other Group C game, Edin D?eko got the better of Viktoria Plze? again.

D?eko had one goal and an assist as Inter Milan beat the Czech club 2-0 in the other Group C game. The Bosnia international now has 10 goals in nine matches against Plze?, and nine in the last six.

Ajax’s Calvin Bassey, left, challenges for the ball with Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira).

LIVERPOOL LEAVE IT LATE

Liverpool got the win they so badly needed, but it was another performance that highlighted that Jurgen Klopp’s team is no longer the high-scoring machine it once was.

Liverpool struggled to convert their possession into goals in the second half and then needed the aid of goal-line technology to show that Matip’s late header crossed the line before cleared by a defender.

“Coming back from the horror show in Naples, it was important we showed a reaction,” Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk said. “It wasn’t easy … but it’s something to work on.”

Mohamed Salah had earlier ended his run of seven Champions League games without a goal by putting the team ahead in the 17th, but Mohammed Kudus equalized when he created space in the area before smashing an unstoppable shot in off the underside of the crossbar in the 27th.

Klopp had urged Liverpool fans to show respect during the tribute to the queen, who died last week at the age of 96, after some of the club’s supporters booed the national anthem ahead of the FA Cup final last season. And the period of silence was respectfully observed, except for a few random shouts that were quickly hushed.

SPORTING

Tottenham had not lost a game in any competition this season before a pair of Sporting substitutes ended that unbeaten run.

Paulinho glanced in a header from a corner in the 90th minute and Arthur Gomes added the second in the third minute of stoppage time when he cut in from the left wing, darted between two Tottenham defenders and shot between the legs of goalkeeper Hugo Lloris.

In Marseille, Lindstr?m took advantage of a defensive error in the 43rd minute to score the winner for Frankfurt. Tottenham and Frankfurt have three points, with Marseille last on zero.

BRUGGE CONTINUE TO SURPRISE

Group B is throwing up some surprising results so far, with Club Brugge atop the standings after routing Porto 4-0 away for their second straight win.

Forward Ferran Jutgla had a goal and an assist for Brugge, which saw four different players score. It was Porto’s fourth straight loss in the Champions League going back to last season.

Struggling Bayer Leverkusen upset Atl?tico Madrid 2-0 for just their second win of the season after six defeats in eight games across all competitions. Robert Andrich and Moussa Diaby scored late for the German team.

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Cab driver held after reportedly abducting mother of his child Loop Jamaica

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A 46-year-old taxi driver from Havana Heights in Clarendon is to face the parish court on Thursday after he allegedly punched the mother of his child stemming from her removing a tattoo of his name.

Leon Reid, otherwise called ‘Nose’, was charged with abduction and assault occasioning actual bodily harm following the incident on September 7, 2022.

Reports from the police are that about 5pm, Reid went to the woman’s workplace where an argument developed about the tattoo that the woman had removed.

Reid allegedly punched her in the face several times and used threats to force her to enter his motor car, after which he took her to his home. She was reportedly rescued by the police, who were contacted by a relative.

Reid fled the scene and was apprehended by the police two days later, on September 9, during a special operation. He was subsequently charged.

He is to appear before the Clarendon Parish Court on Thursday.

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