Tour cycliste 2022 : Le Rwandais Joseph Aréruya (La Team Pédale Pilotine Blue Car) remporte la 1ère étape au Marin

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Le Rwandais Joseph Aréruya (La Team Pédale Pilotine Blue Car) a remporté la 1ère étape du 41 ème Tour Cycliste de la Martinique. Il devance de 58 secondes l’Estonien Gert Kivitski (la Team Crédit-Mutuel Garage Premier) et le Martiniquais Edwin Nubul (VCF). Jean-Eric Habimana (La Team Pédale Pilotine Bleue Car) termine en 4 position. 

Sept coureurs ont animé cette première étape du 41ème Tour Cycliste de la Martinique.

Partis de Sainte-Luce à 10h, Kilian Alger (JC231), Gert Kivistik (la Team Crédit-Mutuel Garage Premier), Joseph Aréruya (TPPBC) et Jean-Eric Habimana (TPPBC), Johan Gobin (Team Energizer), Normann Latouche (Entente CCV-UCS) et Edwin Nubul (VCF) ont effectué une bonne partie de la course en tête devant un groupe de 13 coureurs et le peloton. 

C’est à quelques mètres de l’arrivée que le Rwandais Joseph Aréruya s’échappe en solo pour aller chercher la victoire d’étape.

“Je suis très content de ma performance. J’ai pu compter sur mon équipe qui m’a permis de gagner cette première étape”, a-t-il déclaré au micro d’une des télévisions locales. 

En s’imposant à l’arrivée au Marin, au terme de la deuxième plus longue étape de cette édition 2022 (135 km), Aréruya endosse le maillot jaune de leader, devançant Gert Kivitski à 58 secondes. Edwin Nubul referme le trio de tête. 

“Nous avons réaliser une très bonne course”, se réjouit Gustave Joachim-Arnaud, président de la Team Pédale Pilotine Blue Car. “Les cyclistes roulaient à une très bonne moyenne. Maintenant, nous ne sommes qu’au premier jour, il reste beaucoup de kilomètres à parcourir”.

Dès demain, Joseph Aréruya devra défendre son maillot jaune. La prochaine étape sera composée de deux tronçons. Le premier ralliant le Marin à Fort-de-France (97km). Le deuxième, un contre-la-montre individuel, dans les rues de la capitale. Le départ sera donné en face au siège de la Cacem. L’arrivée, quant à elle, se fera face au siège de la direction de la Mer (8,3km). 

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Elena Rybakina wins Wimbledon women’s final for 1st Slam | Loop Jamaica

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Elena Rybakina has won the women’s title at Wimbledon by beating Ons Jabeur 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.

Rybakina is the first player representing Kazakhstan to win a Grand Slam singles title. She was born in Russia but switched nationalities in 2018.

The 17th-seeded Rybakina dropped only two sets in her seven victories at the All England Club.

Rybakina, who turned 23 last month, is the youngest woman to win the Wimbledon title since a 21-year-old Petra Kvitova in 2011.

Her reaction was muted as can be, a little sigh, a hint of a smile.

“Happy that it finished, to be honest,” Rybakina said, “because really, I never felt something like this.”

She has represented Kazakhstan since 2018, when that country offered her funding to support her tennis career. The switch from Russia has been a topic of conversation during Wimbledon, because it barred all players who represent Russia or Belarus from entering the tournament due to the war in Ukraine.

Since the WTA computer rankings began in 1975, just one woman ranked lower than the No. 23 Rybakina has won Wimbledon — Venus Williams in 2007 at No. 31, although she had been No. 1 and already won three of her five career Wimbledon trophies.

Rybakina used her big serve and powerful forehand to overcome the No. 2-ranked Jabeur’s varied style, with its mix of spins and slices, to put a halt to the 27-year-old Tunisian’s 12-match winning streak, which came entirely on grass courts.

“You have an amazing game, and I don’t think we have someone like this on tour,” Rybakina told Jabeur during the post-match trophy ceremony, then added this one-liner: “I ran today so much, so I don’t think I need to do fitness more, honestly.”

Jabeur also was participating in her first Grand Slam final.

“She deserved this. Hopefully next time will be mine,” said Jabeur, whose exuberance on the court and personality off it have earned her the sobriquet “Minister of Happiness.”

“Elena stole my title,” Jabeur joked, “but it’s OK.”

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4 shot, two fatally ‘in operation in NannyVille’: INDECOM probing | Loop Jamaica

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A team from the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), responded to and began investigations into a multiple-victim shooting incident in Nannyville Gardens, Kingston 3 on July 8.

Arising from the incident, two men were shot and killed while two others were shot and injured. The deceased men have been identified as 26-year-old Prince Davis and 36-year-old Oraine Lee.

The police have reported that a team of JCF officers assigned to CTOC were on enquiries in the Nannyville Gardens community when they were allegedly engaged in gunfire by men exiting a vehicle.

It was further stated that the police officers responded to the confrontation by firing in the direction of the men. The men were transported to a nearby hospital, where two men were pronounced dead and two others are being treated for gunshot injuries.

Three firearms were reported as recovered from the incident scene.

INDECOM processed the incident scene and collected forensic exhibits including the three recovered firearms as well as the weapons of the concerned officers.

Vehicles were also reported as damaged during this incident, which will also be processed by the team. The Investigative Team was provided with initial accounts of the incident, by the concerned officers, and the officers were served with Section 21 Notices to provide statements and attend the office of the Commission to be interviewed.

INDECOM’s investigation is still at the earliest stage of the enquiry and aims to uncover the facts of the incident. The Commission encourages persons to share any information regarding this incident by contacting the Commission’s Head Office at (876)968-8875 or citizens can send information, photos or videos to INDECOM’s official whatsapp at (876)553-5555.

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Dr. Ruby Beryl Viola Lake is 100 not out!

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Happy 100th birthday to Dr (Medical – UWI-1954), Dr (Hon-Phd – UWI – July 2021), Dame (She was knighted – Nov 2021), Lady (her late husband was knighted) Ruby Beryl Viola Lake- Ricards born July 9th, 1922 in Antigua and Barbuda. CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP FOR NEWS UPDATES.

DR. RUBY LAKE-RICHARDS was educated at the TOR Memorial High School.

Ruby furthered her studies at the University of the West Indies and was part of the first set of students to graduate from the UWI School of Medicine. She then returned to Antigua to work alongside Dr. Winter before moving to Trinidad with her husband and step children.

When she returned she was stationed at a government clinic at Carty Hill in Glanvilles. She also maintained a private practice in St. John’s. Dr. Lake-Richards and her husband later moved up north and Ruby went back to school to study Psychiatry at McGill University.

She subsequently taught at that University, retiring only within the last decade. Until the pandemic restricted her movements she continued to spend her free time at the library and in other academic pursuits.

In 2021 she was honoured by UWI and by the government and people of Antigua and Barbuda.

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Masked Bandits Target Two Castries Schools – St. Lucia Times News

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On Thursday night, masked bandits targetted the Castries Comprehensive Secondary and the nearby Sir Ira Simmons Secondary schools.

The intruders escaped with computers and other items from one of the educational institutions.

According to multiple sources, around 11:20 pm on Thursday, a skeleton staff at the Castries Comprehensive Secondary School (CCSS) was making last-minute preparations for graduation the next day.

The sources revealed that’s when a ‘petrified’ security guard brought news that two masked men had entered the school compound.

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One of the men had a firearm and ‘cranked it’ one source revealed.

CCTV camera footage revealed that the men entered one of the classrooms.

But it appeared that the bandits left without taking anything of value.

Armed police responded after receiving a distress call, but the intruders had apparently left after about fifteen minutes while CCSS staff were hiding.

That same night, bandits also targetted Sir Ira Simmons Secondary School near the CCSS.

“The same guys ransacked the place, all the offices, the IT lab – they stole so many things there,” an individual familiar with the incident told St Lucia Times.

However, reports indicate that while at least two bandits were involved in the CCSS incident, four of them entered the Sir Ira Simmons Secondary School compound.

They broke into four rooms at the learning institution and stole computers, electronic tablets, and other items.

Police are investigating the incident.

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Hawaii museum revisits the history of gender-fluid healers | Loop Jamaica

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More than 500 years ago, Hawaiians placed four boulders on a Waikiki beach to honour visitors from the court of Tahiti’s king who had healed the sick.

They were “M?h?,” which in Hawaiian language and culture refers to someone with dual male and female spirit and a mixture of gender traits.

The stones were neglected for many years, as Christian missionaries and other colonizing Westerners suppressed the role of M?h? in Hawaiian society.

At one point a bowling alley was built over the boulders.

The Kapaemahu stones are seen at Waikiki beach in Honolulu on Tuesday, June 28, 2022. A new exhibit at Honolulu’s Bishop Museum draws attention to the stones which honour four “M?h?” healers from Tahiti who visited Hawaii for more than five centuries. (Photo: Audrey McAvoy)

Officials restored the stones multiple times since the 1960s but informational plaques installed next to them omitted references to M?h?.

The stones and the history of the four healers now are featured in an exhibit at Bishop Museum in Honolulu.

The display highlights the deep roots of gender fluidity in Polynesia.

Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu is M?h? and one of the exhibit’s curators. She said the healers were revered for their skill and hopes their story will show children in Hawaii that “proper Hawaiian culture” doesn’t pass judgment against those “who have elements of duality.”

“They were respected and honoured because the people knew that their male and female duality made them even more powerful a healer,” Wong-Kalu said.

Kapaemahu was the leader of the four healers, and the exhibit is named The Healer Stones of Kapaemahu.

Their story was passed down orally, like all Hawaiian stories, until a written language was developed in the 1800s.

But Hawaiians were discouraged from talking about M?h?. DeSoto Brown, a Bishop Museum historian and the exhibit’s lead curator, said Christian missionaries who arrived in 1820 forbade anything that deviated from “clearly defined roles and presentation” of male and female genders.

The earliest known written account of the M?h? healers is a 1906 manuscript by James Alapuna Harbottle Boyd, the son-in-law of Archibald Cleghorn, who owned the Waikiki property where the stones were at the time.

Cleghorn’s wife, Princess Likelike, and daughter, Princess Kaiulani, were known to place seaweed and offer prayers at the stones when they swam.

Boyd’s manuscript Tradition of the Wizard Stones of Ka-Pae-Mahu said the Hawaiian people loved the healers for their “tall stature, courteous ways and kindly manners” and their cures became famous across Oahu.

“Their ways and great physique were overshadowed by their low, soft speech, and they became as one with those they came in contact with,” Boyd wrote.

“They were unsexed, by nature, and their habits coincided with their womanly seeming, although manly in stature and general bearing.”

When it was time for the healers to leave, four boulders were brought down from Oahu’s Kaimuki area.

Two were placed at the site of the healers’ hut and the others where they bathed in the ocean. Idols indicating the dual spirit of the healers were placed under each stone.

Many Hawaiians grew up not knowing about Hawaiian concepts of M?h? or the stones because the American businessmen who overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 banned Hawaiian language instruction in schools and discouraged speaking it in homes.

Generations of Hawaiians lost connections to cultural traditions.

Wong-Kalu, 50, said as a child she was made to believe M?h? was a derogatory word. She remembers being among those who would sit on the stones and drape towels over them after swimming, oblivious to their significance.

Mahu are akin to “two-spirit” common in many Native American cultures, Wong-Kalu said, adding there are physical, emotional, mental and spiritual elements to being M?h?. The representation of males and females depends on the person, she said.

“In Hawaii, one could exist really in the middle,” she said.

The stones nearly were lost just before the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. At the time, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin reported the boulders would be blasted or removed after a developer leased Cleghorn’s property to build a bowling alley.

Following an outcry, plans emerged for a concrete walkway between the stones. But the developer instead built over them.

The stones were uncovered two decades later when the city tore down buildings to build a public beach park.

Elders recalled the story of the stones and urged they remain. The city agreed and created a plaque that mentioned the Tahitian healers but didn’t say anything about them being M?h?.

In 1997, the city fenced off the stones and dedicated a new plaque. It also didn’t reference M?h?.

During both periods, waves of homophobia and transphobia washed over Honolulu. In the 1960s, new state law prohibited cross-dressing and police forced drag performers to wear a button saying: “I Am A Boy”.

Three decades later, there was a backlash in Hawaii and nationally when the Hawaii Supreme Court sided with same-sex couples seeking the right to marry.

The Bishop Museum exhibit, on display through Oct. 16, recounts this history and displays artefacts like massage sticks and a medicine pounder that healers would have used centuries ago.

Islander concepts of gender fluidity are explored through stories like that of King Kamehameha III and his male lover.

A map shows terms used in Polynesia for those who don’t identify as male or female, including “fa’afafine” in Samoa and “leiti” in Tonga.

Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson helped curate the exhibit and hope it will spur the city to tell the full story of the M?h? at the site of the stones.

Ian Scheuring, the spokesperson for Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi, said the city is researching the issue and local leaders plan to meet with members of the LGBTQ and Native Hawaiian communities to learn how they can help tell the “true and complete” story of the healers.

Tatiana Kalaniopua Young, a Native Hawaiian anthropologist, M?h? and director of the Hawaii LGBT Legacy Foundation, said the story the stones and healers helped her family understand that she was not “this weird creature that’s outside of the norm.”

And that in a Hawaiian sense, she was part of the norm.

“It gave me a sense of place and purpose as a M?h? and it really made me proud to be Kanaka Maoli or Native Hawaiian,” she said.

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Tips for Carnival Virgins from the Vets: DJ Matt Camps | Loop Jamaica

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SASOD Guyana welcomes Antigua court decision to decriminalize same-sex intimacy

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SASOD Guyana welcomes the decision of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court following the conclusion of a challenge brought by a gay man against the state, who argued that the Sexual Offences Act (of 1995) contained several unconstitutional and discriminatory sections. CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP FOR NEWS UPDATES.

According to the Court’s ruling, sections 12 and 15 of the Sexual Offences Act which prohibited several acts of same-sex intimacy were deemed by the Court to be unconstitutional and discriminatory.

SASOD Guyana emphatically celebrates with the people of Antigua and Barbuda, civil society and other partners who contributed to the success of the legal challenge.

Celebrating the victory, Co-Chair of the Caribbean Forum for Liberation and Acceptance of Genders and Sexualities (CariFLAGS) Lucien Govaard, stated that “we reiterate that it is time governments in the region let go of these colonial structures as they have no place in a modern, diverse, and developing Caribbean.”

The leader of the regional LGBTIQ+ network went on the urge regional leaders to “tackle these issues as a united region, one Caribbean, where all our peoples can live without fear, discrimination, harassment, or violence.”

Similarly, the Caribbean Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Observatory and the Caribbean Family Planning Affiliation (CFPA) are urging Caribbean Governments to repeal discriminatory laws that continue to marginalize and infringe upon the human rights of LGBTIQ+ people and to firmly adopt and promote a culture of inclusion and respect for all people.

The Court’s decision in Antigua and Barbuda follows rulings in Belize (2016) and in Trinidad and Tobago (2018) where similar legal provisions were struck down. There are currently ongoing constitutional challenges of the same nature in St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis and Barbados, where final rulings are expected to be handed down by the end of the year.

SASOD Guyana notes that there are now fewer Caribbean nations where these archaic laws remain on the books.

Joel Simpson, Managing Director of SASOD Guyana, reminded that “We have been lobbying and working with the Government of Guyana for over 19 years to remove these discriminatory and dangerous laws here in Guyana. We remain among a rapidly decreasing number of Caribbean nations that continue to allow these colonial remnants to endanger the lives of LGBTIQ+ people, in spite of the human rights implications.”

Simpson went on to state that “we hope that the Guyana government can see that this issue is now practically settled law. These provisions are discriminatory and unconstitutional, and they must go! We hope the government is encouraged to table legislation in the National Assembly to repeal similar provisions which criminalize same-sex intimacy in our law books.” CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP FOR NEWS UPDATES.

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Car of visiting Surinamese businessman broken into, valuables stolen

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A parked car belonging to a visiting Surinamese businessman was broken into and his valuables stolen, police said.

The incident occurred sometime between 21:00 hours and 23:00 hours on Thursday in the vicinity of Umana Yana, Georgetown.

Reports are that the businessman, 53-year-old Rakeesh Kalloe of Paramaribo, came to Guyana in the company of his friend, who is another Surinamese businessman, to conduct business. At the time, they were using a motor vehicle owned and driven by Kalloe.

On the day in question, the businessman parked the vehicle on High Street in the vicinity of Umana Yana after which he and his friend went into the Pegasus hotel where they had dinner.

On returning to the vehicle at about 23:00 hours, they observed that the back window glass was broken.

Upon checking, it was discovered that several articles were missing. These include: one brown leather bag valued US$800, which contained one (1) vaccination paper, one black wallet valued $50 Euros, one entrance visa, one silver grey Lenovo laptop valued $800 Euros, and one bottle Hennessey whiskey valued US$70.

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