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El vicepresidente de Asuntos Estratégicos de Luma Energy, Kevin Acevedo, confirmó que aún no cuentan con suficientes celadores adiestrados para atender las líneas vivas en el sistema eléctrico del país. La carencia de dicho personal redunda en el cese del servicio para atender una avería única en un lugar, afectando a más personas de las que originalmente no cuentan con el servicio.

“Sé que ya hay discusiones acerca de eso. Parte de la meta de LUMA es tener un personal especializado y, no tan solo eso, sino bien entrenado […] Estamos estableciendo una escuela para certificar los celadores a nivel de Estados Unidos con un programa del Departamento del Trabajo […] Todavía en LUMA no tenemos esas personas, te digo la verdad, pero se está en conversaciones para poder llegar a ese lugar en los próximos meses. ¿Cuándo? No lo sé. Ese detalle no lo tengo”, indicó Acevedo.

El funcionario admitió que la empresa ha sido técnica en su labor, pero reconoció que ya hay 432 celadores adiestrados y que añadirán 50 a la plantilla. Además, señaló que, en efecto, dicha movida pudiera costar más.

Kevin Acevedo, vicepresidente de Asuntos Energéticos de LUMA Energy

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Asimismo, el funcionario informó que han traído nueva tecnología para la limpieza de la vegetación que, en ocasiones, ha sido protagonista o precursora de algunos apagones, puesto que la acumulación de dicho material ha sido una de las excusas de por qué los abonados se quedan sin el servicio. Lo anterior sucede mientras Acevedo afirmó que están preparados para enfrentar un huracán, evento al que Puerto Rico se encuentra vulnerable de cara a las próximas semanas.

“Ya se han trabajado más de 700 millas alrededor de la isla de vegetación. Se han hecho cambios en algunas de esas compañías para buscar compañías que puedan traer nuevas tecnologías”, informó Acevedo respecto a las empresas que trabajan dicha labor, que fueron contratadas bajo la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica (AEE) y que han sido eje de controversia por su desempeño y la inversión que se ha hecho en ellas.

“Se ha hecho el trabajo, lo que estamos tratando es intensificar el trabajo […] No creo que decir que el trabajo no se ha hecho sería lo adecuado”, expresó.

Nota relacionada: AEE advierte sobre posibles apagones selectivos tras averías en AES y Costa Sur

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Por su parte, el representante novoprogresista Víctor Parés Otero exigió a la privatizadora contar con 500 celadores previo al 30 de noviembre, fecha en que caduca el contrato suplementario de LUMA. Según datos compartidos en una vista pública, este personal ascendía a 1,100 bajo la AEE.

“Es importante que ese número aumente”, expresó el legislador al señalar que es hora de traer de vuelta a quienes trabajaron bajo la AEE: “… Esos empleados que están en Puerto Rico, (hay que) llamarlos y, obviamente, reclutarlos […] De hecho, hay varios de esos empleados celadores que están en muchas agencias de Gobierno que me han llamado dispuestos a irse a LUMA”, finalizó Parés Otero.

Hace unas semanas, la privatizadora anunció la implementación de un task force para responder e investigar con inmediatez los eventos de apagones que aquejan al país, aparte del desempeño general de LUMA.

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Eden Lodge Charitable Trust is encouraging private Barbados to give back recognising the influx of families seeking assistance islandwide.

Public relations officer of the Eden Lodge Charitable Trust, Billie-June Langdon shared that over 400 families have sought help from the charity leading up to start of the new school year.

The popular Back-To-School Programme facilitated by the Trust supplies students with basic necessities – pays petty fees, equips students with textbooks, uniforms, stationary, and more.

“It has to be due to COVID but the numbers have increased dramatically. This year we saw over 400 odd families that we had to assist in just our Back-to-School alone,” Langdon commented during the presentation ceremony of uniforms to students at Abed’s Swan Street, Bridgetown.

“I want to take this time to plead to corporate Barbados and those who can help to come onboard with this charity and other charities as well and assist us,” she asserted.

The presentation ceremony was attended by sponsors – Pippa Challis of the Sandy Lane Charitable Trust, Alicia Hintzen, sales and marketing specialist of the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation, Michelle Doyle strategic account executive of Barbados Today and Alex Abed, operations director of Abed’s Co & Ltd.

Alex Abed, operations officer of the Abed’s Co & Ltd, expressed that the retailer was also recognised that more families watching their pockets and reaching out for help post-COVID-19.

“There is always those who need and those who need more and some parents have to decide between buying more than one uniform for four children or one for each of them. So, there is definitely those in need so we are just thankful that we can lend a hand and assist these agencies in doing the job that they do.”

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Mercredi 7 Septembre 2022 – 10h11

La vigilance Jaune est maintenue en Martinique ce mercredi 7 septembre, en raison de la formation de foyers orageux selon le dernier bulletin de Météo-France publié à 5h40.

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Chelsea’s new American owners are proving to be just as ruthless as the man they replaced.

Thomas Tuchel was fired by the Premier League club on Wednesday, only one month into the season and just days after Chelsea’s recently installed ownership — fronted by Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly — concluded a Europe-high spending spree of nearly $300 million in the transfer window.

Chelsea were renowned for regularly changing managers in the 19-year tenure of Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch who had to sell the London club after being sanctioned by the British government for what it called his enabling of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “brutal and barbaric invasion” of Ukraine.

Boehly was the face of the consortium that bought Chelsea for 2.5 billion pounds ($3.1 billion) in May and, despite having little football experience, quickly made himself chairman as well as interim sporting director in charge of transfers.

Not only has he overseen a record splurge on new players, Boehly has now decided Tuchel — the coach who led Chelsea to the Champions League title last year — is no longer the right person to lead the team in the new era.

The decision to fire Tuchel, who was manager for 20 months, came a day after Chelsea surprisingly lost to Dinamo Zagreb 1-0 in their first group match of the Champions League. Chelsea have also lost two of their first six games — to Leeds and Southampton — in an underwhelming start to the Premier League that has seen the team’s new signings fail to gel.

Tuchel has been a frustrated and prickly figure after matches this season. In interviews after the loss to Dinamo, he said “everything is missing” when asked to sum up Chelsea’s performance and complained that his players “lacked hunger.”

In a feisty Premier League game against Tottenham, Tuchel was sent off — along with rival manager Antonio Conte — and later fined after they went head-to-head in a post-match scuffle because Tuchel failed to let go of his grip in the traditional handshake.

“As the new ownership group reaches 100 days since taking over the club, and as it continues its hard work to take the club forward, the new owners believe it is the right time to make this transition,” Chelsea said in a statement, which also said Tuchel “will rightly have a place” in the club’s history.

After all, the 49-year-old German guided Chelsea to the Champions League title less than six months after taking over as manager in January 2021, as the replacement for Frank Lampard. Tuchel only had one full season at the helm and that saw Chelsea eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Champions League — to eventual champion Real Madrid — before finishing third in the Premier League, 19 points behind champion Manchester City.

A big reason why Chelsea faded in the second half of last season was the turbulence caused by the change of ownership and it was a wild offseason at Stamford Bridge, too, with dozens of players — including Cristiano Ronaldo — linked with a move to the London club as Boehly looked to make his presence felt in the transfer market.

Raheem Sterling, Kalidou Koulibaly and Marc Cucurella came in for big fees, before the final days of the transfer window saw Chelsea spend 75 million pounds ($87 million) on French center back Wesley Fofana and then bring in Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Barcelona to plug a gap in its striker options.

Aubameyang cited playing under Tuchel before — at Borussia Dortmund — as a benefit of the move and was handed a debut against Dinamo. That proved to be Tuchel’s last game in charge, perhaps leaving Aubameyang’s long-term status uncertain.

That will depend who comes in to replace Tuchel. British media has already linked Graham Potter, currently manager of in-form Premier League club Brighton, and Mauricio Pochettino, with the vacancy.

Potter has no real experience of handling a squad of star players but is highly regarded for his tactical astuteness and entertaining style of play. Pochettino has experience of overseeing a locker room of egos — he was recently coach of a Paris Saint-Germain team containing Kylian Mbapp?, Lionel Messi and Neymar — and has been out of work since parting ways with the French champions in July.

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American multinational technology company Google is honouring the late Jamaican poet and activist Louise Bennett-Coverley, also known as Miss Lou, with a Doodle on her 103rd birthday, September 7.

The Doodle, which is the fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists, was illustrated by Jamaican guest artist Robyn Smith.

“The Jamaican poet, folklorist, activist and entertainer empowered the country to take pride in its language and culture. Known by many Jamaicans as “Miss Lou”, Bennett’s social commentary and sense of humour made her a popular personality in the country,” Google said as it provided background on who Ms Lou was, her journey and her contributions.

The tech company thankedthe Louise Simone Bennett Coverley Estate (LBC Estate) for their collaboration on this project while sharing her son Fabian Coverley’s thoughts on Miss Lou’s legacy.

In a Q&A posted by Google Doodle, the artist, Smith, shared her reaction when she was approached about working on the Doodle.

“I screamed. I was just so excited about getting to work with Google, but then on top of that to have it be about a Jamaican subject, and that subject being Miss Lou, I was washed with pride for Jamaica,” Smith said.

She also said, through the Doodle, she hopes people can learn a little about the impact Miss Lou had and her passion for preserving Jamaica’s culture.

Born on September 7, 1919, Ms Lou received her education from Ebenezer and Calabar Elementary Schools, St Simon’s College, Excelsior College, and Friends College (Highgate).

She was described as Jamaica’s leading comedienne, as the “only poet who has really hit the truth about her society through its own language”, and as an important contributor to the country of “valid social documents reflecting the way Jamaicans think and feel and live”.

Through her poems in Jamaican patois, she raised the dialect of the Jamaican folk to an art level which is acceptable to and appreciated by all in Jamaica.

The late Louise ‘Miss Lou’ Bennett-Coverley

Her contribution to Jamaican cultural life was such that she was honoured with the MBE, the Norman Manley Award for Excellence (in the field of Arts), the Order of Jamaica (1974), the Institute of Jamaica’s Musgrave Silver and Gold Medals for distinguished eminence in the field of Arts and Culture, and in 1983 the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of the West Indies.

The Jamaica Government also appointed her Cultural Ambassador at Large for Jamaica. On Jamaica’s independence day in 2001, Bennett-Coverley was appointed as a Member of the Order of Merit for her distinguished contribution to the development of the Arts and Culture.

She died in Canada on July 26, 2006.

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