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PARAMARIBO — Na de aanhouding van een. Surinaamse vrouw in Sri Lanka, heeft de Surinaamse ambassade in New Delhi, India,
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COTABATO, Philippines (AP) — Flash floods and landslides set off by torrential rains swamped a southern Philippine province, killing at least 31 people, leaving nine others missing and trapping some residents on their roofs, officials said Friday.
Most of the victims were swept away by rampaging floodwaters and drowned or were hit by debris-filled mudslides in three towns in hard-hit Maguindanao province, said Naguib Sinarimbo, the interior minister for a five-province Muslim autonomous region run by former guerrillas.
“The amount of rainwater that came down overnight was unusually (heavy) and flowed down mountainsides and swelled rivers,” Sinarimbo told The Associated Press by telephone.
“I hope the casualty numbers won’t rise further but there are still a few communities we haven’t reached,” Sinarimbo said, adding the rains had eased since Friday morning, causing floods to start to recede in several towns.
Sinarimbo said based on reports from mayors, governors and disaster-response officials, 26 died mostly by drowning in the neighboring coastal towns of Datu Odin Sinsuat and Datu Blah Sinsuat and five others died in Upi town, all in Maguindanao.
Five people were missing in Datu Blah Sinsuat, according to the town’s mayor, Marshall Sinsuat, and Sinarimbo said four others were reported missing elsewhere.
A rescue team was deployed to Kusiong, a tribal village at the foot of a mountain in Datu Odin Sinsuat, to check on reports that floods and landslides also hit houses in the community, Sinarimbo said. There were no immediate reports of casualties, he said.
The unusually intense rains that flooded several towns in Maguindanao and outlying provinces in a mountainous region with marshy plains were caused by Tropical Storm Nalgae, which was expected to slam into the country’s eastern coast from the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, according to forecasters.
Floodwaters rapidly rose in many low-lying villages, forcing some residents to climb onto their roofs, where they were rescued by army troops, police and volunteers, Sinarimbo said. He said many of the swamped areas had not been flooded for years, including Cotabato city where he lives.
“In one area in Upi only the attic of a school can be seen above the floodwater,” disaster-response officer Nasrullah Imam said, referring to a flood-engulfed town in Maguindanao.
The wide rain bands of Nalgae, the 16th storm to hit the Philippine archipelago this year, enabled it to dump rainfall in the country’s south although the storm was blowing farther north, government forecaster Sam Duran said.
Late Friday afternoon, the storm was about 180 kilometers (110 miles) east of Catarman town in Northern Samar province with sustained winds of up to 85 kilometers (53 miles) per hour and was moving northwestward.
Dozens of provinces and cities were under storm alerts, including the capital, Manila. Fishing and cargo boats and inter-island ferries were barred from venturing out to sea, stranding thousands of passengers, the coast guard said.
About 5,000 people were protectively evacuated away from the path of the storm, which was not expected to strengthen into a typhoon as it approached land, government forecasters and other officials said.
About 20 typhoons and storms batter the Philippine archipelago each year. It is located on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” a region along most of the Pacific Ocean rim where many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur, making the nation one of the world’s most disaster-prone.
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After three surgeries and seven years of fighting breast cancer, Donavan Chevannes is crediting God for bringing him this far in his fight against the disease that is a rarity in men.
The 58-year-old former chauffeur is still on the road to recovery, but he’s eagerly anticipating the day he will be declared cancer-free and considered a “breast cancer survivor”.
Until that day comes, Chevannes is thanking God for his mercies so far.
“I wouldn’t want not even my enemy to have this (breast cancer)… I have been fighting from 2015 to 2022, and see, I am still here… To God be the glory, for great things he has done,” he told Loop News in an interview.
The Guava Ridge, east rural St Andrew resident did not know it was breast cancer until 2017, though he was diagnosed with cancer two years earlier.
He shared that he has always used deodorant and would get the occasional “bump” in his armpit that would often disappear. However, on one occasion, he noticed that the bump came up and would not go away over time.
In 2015, Chevannes’ wife, Lorna, nudged him to check out the bump at their family doctor. The medical practitioner prescribed a cream for it, as it was initially thought to be an abscess.
However, the cream did not help, and the bump remained.
Chevannes said he was immediately referred by his doctor to the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) where a biopsy was done. The result: cancer was detected.
“The doctor said, ‘You have cancer’, and I asked, ‘Really?’, and he said, ‘Yes’,” Chevannes recounted, adding that, initially, he was not told what type of cancer.
He was in a state of bewilderment.
“It hit me in a way where I was just thinking it was a bump,” he said, adding that he told his doctor his hunch that it may have been caused by his deodorant.
The medical doctor, however, dismissed that theory.
Guava Ridge, St Andrew resident Donavan Chevannes has been battling cancer for the last seven years.
As the news sank in, said Chevannes, the fear grew, but he laid anchor on his Christian faith.
“You know, I’m walking, and I’m talking to everybody just the same. I was worried, but I put my trust in God and just leave it there because he’s the one; he is the miracle worker,” he declared.
An appointment was made, and surgery done to remove the lump in the armpit later in 2015.
Two years later, the medical practitioners advised Chevannes that they needed to do another operation. He was also formally advised that he had breast cancer.
He elaborated: “One of the time, they (doctors) were saying it was the cancer of the skin based on where it was at, but they settled at breast cancer, a very rare thing among men.”
Chevannes also explained that the doctors couldn’t tell him at what stage the cancer was because it wasn’t moving and was not aggressive.
While the disease is rare in males, representing about one per cent of all cancer cases in the US, medical practitioners have stressed the need for men to be aware and report any lumps on the breast or chest.
Breast cancer in men usually presents itself as a lump in the chest, dimpling of the skin, or changes in the nipple.
“They (the doctors) were saying to me that we need to go in wider because they don’t know if it (cancer) spread over on the other side, so they need to go in at a wider margin.
“So, in 2017, they cut me again, the same place under the arm, because I’m not feeling any pain in the breast or anything,” he recounted.
After that surgery, the father of one said he was put on medication.
But his worries weren’t over.
“In 2020, they said I have to do another surgery because that pill seemed it wasn’t strong enough, and it (cancer) came back. It was in the lymph nodes,” he said.
By June 2020, Chevannes underwent another surgical operation, and lymph nodes affected by the cancer were removed and sent overseas to be tested. He said his brother paid for that testing to be done.
When they got the results, the doctors placed Chevannes on chemotherapy. This involved him being injected in his leg and another in the area of his abdomen. Additionally, he started taking one tablet daily.
Chevannes, a member of the Assemblies of the First Born International Church in Guava Ridge, said his cancer diagnosis was also hard on his family.
“[On one occasion] when my wife came to the hospital, she told me she’s walking, but she’s not walking. It’s like she is not here, especially when I do the operations and am to leave the hospital and go home. My God! They take it so hard,” he explained.
Despite the challenges, his wife and daughter, Chantae, continue to play a critical role for him.
So, too, his siblings, who also offered significant support in his conquering breast cancer.
He said that the National Health Fund was also critical, as it assisted with cutting the cost of medications and other expenses.
Although he has passed the worse since his last surgery in 2020, he still receives monthly chemotherapy treatment and takes his oral medications.
The 58-year-old acknowledged that though it is challenging at times, he continues to follow his treatment routine.
Donavan Chevannes is eagerly anticipating the day when he is declared cancer-free.
“I’m still going through my recovery process. Some people go through theirs in a very short while, but mine is very long,” disclosed Chevannes.
“I don’t have it in my thoughts to give up, but you have the moments when you have some dull moments based on how you feel, because… some of the times you have to rise up in the bed and sit up based on how you feel.
“I’ve come so far now, and it’s not as bad as before,” he stated.
Chevannes disclosed that he did an ultrasound last week, and there were positive signs. However, he said he would await the doctor’s assessment of the results before arriving at any conclusions.
“It has been an uphill and a downhill battle for me. I’ve had some sleepless nights. But, you know, I have to just go through what I have to go through,” Chevannes said firmly.
He added: “The greatest thing is God is my evidence to everything. He is the one that brought me through.”
Chevannes, who was previously a chauffeur and now works as a driver for a company, again underscored the importance of friends and family in his battle with breast cancer.
“All of these operations come with a cost, and as I said before, God always put some people in your corner to make things a little easier.
“You have friends and family; those are the persons that come in and make things easier. That is why I keep saying, ‘To God be the glory’, because he always makes a way when there is none’,” he said.
Chevannes is encouraging men to get screened for all forms of cancer.
“Get tested! If it is something you can detect early, it is better for you, and you can get treatment,” he advised.
He said family members should also play a role in supporting their loved ones if cancer is detected.
“What many people don’t realise is that when you are going through a situation, they can’t determine what you’re feeling, what you’re going through, what is on your mind, but it is best for you to just encourage as much as you can,” he urged.
“It is the time when families are supposed to draw near when you’re going through such a situation and help because the words that you use can… encourage an individual to go on.
“They won’t be in that stage forever. In such a time like that, family is most important to you,” Chevannes insisted.
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Heatwaves have become an unavoidable health hazard for many nations, but new data indicates that they are set to affect virtually every child on earth by 2050, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, warned on Tuesday.
Today, at least half a billion youngsters are already exposed to a high number of heatwaves, placing them on the front lines of climate change, the UN agency noted.
By the middle of this century, moreover, it estimates that more than two billion children will be exposed to “more frequent, longer lasting, and more severe” heatwaves.
“The climate crisis is a child rights crisis – and it is already taking a devastating toll on children’s lives and futures,” warned UNICEF Executive Director, Catherine Russell.
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This year’s wildfires and heatwaves that have swept through India, Europe, and North America were “yet another sobering example of the impact of climate change on children”, she added.
Youngsters at greater risk
New data from the agency published in its report, The Coldest Year Of The Rest Of Their Lives, underscores that young children face greater risks than adults when faced with extreme heat events.
This is because they are less able to regulate their body temperature compared to adults. The more heatwaves children are exposed to, the greater the chance of health problems including chronic respiratory conditions, asthma, and cardiovascular diseases.
“The world urgently needs to invest in building their resilience – and in adapting all the systems children rely on to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing climate,” UNICEF maintained.
This is regardless of whether average global temperatures rise by 1.7 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels if greenhouse gas emissions are low, or whether they rise by 2.4C, if emissions are high.
Protecting children from the escalating impacts of heatwaves should be a priority for all countries, UNICEF said, in a call for “urgent and dramatic emissions mitigation measures to contain global heating – and protect lives”.
Children in northern regions will face the most dramatic increases in high heatwave severity, while by 2050, nearly half of all children in Africa and Asia will face sustained exposure to extreme high temperatures over 35C (95F), UN Children’s Fund data showed.
“This will have a devastating impact on children,” said Vanessa Nakate, climate activist and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. “The more frequent, longer lasting and more severe heatwaves children are exposed to, the greater the impacts on health, safety, nutrition, education, access to water and future livelihoods.”
Adaptation call
Highlighting the devastating impact of drought in the Horn of Africa after four failed rainy seasons, Ms. Nakate insisted that “lives are being lost from preventable causes because the world is acting too slowly on mitigation and not providing enough support for adaptation”.
Children “who are least responsible for climate change are bearing its biggest costs”, she continued, noting that although Africa produces less than four per cent of global emissions, it suffers some “most brutal” impacts of the climate crisis.
“Almost every country is experiencing changing heatwaves,” UNICEF said. “What each government does now will determine the survival of those least responsible for this crisis – our children and young people.”
SOURCE: UN News
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door Ivan Cairo PARAMARIBO — Om te voorkomen dat er geen stagnatie optreedt na de overname van Rosebel Gold Mines
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Miss Beauté Noire 2022 groupe • DR
Ce samedi 29, les candidates à Miss Beauté Noire vous donnent rendez-vous à l’espace Perrine au Lamentin, samedi soir, à partir de 20h30. Elles sont neuf à vouloir la couronne : Jenna, Leyanna, Aurélie, Keyranne, Clarysse, Annia, Lovaina, Tracy et Constance.
Les neuf prétendantes au titre de Miss Beauté
Noire 2022-2023 sont prêtes pour le grand soir. Celui de
l’élection. Pendant plusieurs mois elles se sont préparées pour
relever ce défi. D’abord dix puis finalement neuf, elles devron
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Loic Gombauld bénéficiait d’un aménagement de peine, il était en semi-liberté. • SHUTTERSTOCK
Loic Gombauld bénéficiait d’un aménagement de peine, il était en semi-liberté. La fin de sa peine est fixée au 12 mars 2023, cependant il s’évade entre temps à plusieurs reprises. A la barre du tribunal correctionnel, il menace le président. Il est condamné à 6 mois d’emprisonnement et sans aménagement de peine, cette fois.
Le prévenu était autorisé à sortir du centre
pénitentiaire uniquement le mercredi matin dans le cadre d’une
mesure du semi liberté. A plusieurs reprises au mois d’avril, il
n’a pas regagné sa cellule, à Baie-Mahault. Au tribunal
correctionnel ce jeudi matin, devant
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Prime Minister Gaston Browne says that well over $100 million has been spent, to date, by National Housing.
This sum is only an estimate, Browne admits, since he did not have the precise figures on hand when questioned by Barbuda MP Trevor Walker in Parliament, on Monday, October 24.
However, on average, Browne says, about $15 million is spent yearly on the government’s housing project.
According to the Prime Minister, National Housing, which began operating in 2015, has net assets totaling over $105 million.He adds that any accumulated assets held by the company are not in the hundreds of millions of dollars, as is being claimed. Rather, he says, they are just shy of EC $10 million.
Consequently, Browne promises to file the agency’s current accounts – if not the audited statements, then the draft accounts, as presented by the auditors – with the Parliament.
The call for National Housing’s statements to be laid before the House has been made for years. Hence, MP Walker says he hopes the Prime Minister will keep his promise, noting that he would, indeed, love to see and examine the audited statements.
In the meantime, complaints about the quality of National Housing’s workmanship continue to be circulated, with home-owners alleging that corners were cut in the construction of their houses.
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1 – Keni Piperol et Carole Grandjean, ministre déléguée chargée de l’enseignement et de la formation.
2- Le jeune était entouré de sa marraine et de son parrain, deux personnalités prestigieuses.
3- Damien Seguin, parrain de Keni Piperol prononçant ses voeux.
4- Dans le public, des spectateurs venus spécialement de Guadeloupe.
5 -Le public commence à affluer sur le port de Saint-Malo.
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Interventions initiated in 2018 to breathe life into Saint Lucia’s sea moss industry have resulted in increased exports and major economic benefits for all involved in sea moss production.
Export Saint Lucia, the national trade export promotion agency of the Government of Saint Lucia continues to work assiduously with actors in the sea moss value chain, including farmers and manufacturers, to expand Saint Lucian Sea Moss’s reach all over the world.
This work included assistance with entry requirements for major markets like the USA and creating opportunities to export sea moss to other destinations.
Noting the successes, and potential of the sea moss industry, the Government of Saint Lucia allocated five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to Export Saint Lucia for the continued development of the sector.
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“We know that our producers require a little assistance in going along the value-added chain. Therefore, part of the $500,000 will be used to help producers move up the ladder. Export Saint Lucia will also work towards making various components of the industry as sustainable and world class as possible. This involves conducting an audit of sea moss facilities to provide relevant training and certification where necessary” notes Export Saint Lucia’s Chief Executive Officer, Sunita Daniel.
Export Saint Lucia intends to assist in the development of value-added sea moss products including gels, powders, and drinks.
The Agency will also ensure that manufacturers of value-added products meet all relevant standards for the entry of their products into international markets.
Additionally, plans are underway to employ the services of a food technologist to consult and advise on natural and organic preservatives to extend the shelf-life of value-added products.
Saint Lucia Sea Moss is highly regarded the world over. One success of the recently staged Expo 2020 Dubai is the shipment of sun-dried sea moss to distributors in Dubai. Export Saint Lucia
reports that future shipments are being planned. The Agency also reports that discussions are underway with five (5) distributors in Dubai who wish to stock Saint Lucian products, including condiments, on shelves in the Middle Eastern country.
Brand Saint Lucia notes this as one of the many achievements of Expo 2020 Dubai. Saint Lucian Sun Dried Sea Moss was one of several products that completely sold out within Saint Lucia’s pavilion.
Since then, all producers have received cheque payments from Export Saint Lucia for the items sold at the Expo. All unsold products are enroute to Saint Lucia and will be returned to their owners for sale locally, and in export markets.
Creatives too, including dancers, singers, and musicians have been paid for their services at performances in Dubai. Following the completion of Expo 2020 Dubai, many of these creatives have been booked for performances in external markets.
Invest Saint Lucia and the Citizenship by Investment Programme have reported ongoing discussions with luxury real estate firms, while the Saint Lucia Tourism Authority records increased interest in Saint Lucia from non-traditional countries. The Government of Saint Lucia has pledged support to ensure each promising lead is delivered.
The Agency is pleased with the prospects for stakeholders in both the sea moss industry and those exposed to new markets and consumers during Expo 2020 Dubai.
SOURCE: Export Saint Lucia
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