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The National Health Fund (NHF), in partnership with the Transport Authority, has donated three new haemodialysis machines to the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine.

The $12-million project culminated in an official handover ceremony held on the hospital grounds on Wednesday.

The Renal Dialysis Unit at the facility sees approximately 4,500 kidney patients within a 12-month period. The additional renal equipment will allow more people to receive treatment, and positively increase the quality of life for many, NHF said in a release.

Director of Pharmacy Services, NHF, Ainsley Jones, speaking at the event on behalf of Chief Executive Officer Everton Anderson, expressed that NHF is committed to providing support to the healthcare sector through various projects.

“Within the 2021/2022 fiscal year, $612.05 million was approved for 10 Institutional Benefits Projects, 66.50 million being allocated to the South East Regional Health Authority. Additionally, the NHF has budgeted $100 million for this fiscal year 2022/2023 to support the infrastructural development across the South East Region,” he said.

“The NHF team is happy that the agency has played a significant part in a project that has improved another healthcare facility as well as patient care. We are dedicated to strengthening Jamaica’s healthcare system, whether through collaboration or as an individual entity,” Jones added.

This marks the second collaborative effort between the NHF and the Transport Authority. The Fund has previously teamed up with the organisation to provide screening tests, including PSA/DRE exams, for taxi drivers within varying parishes.

Managing Director at the Transport Authority, Willard Hylton, emphasised the importance of partnership among organisations.

“The signal that we are sending to the country is that when we partner as agencies of the government we can get more done. You can find another agency who is willing to partner with you and that is how we are going to get things moving in Jamaica,” said Hylton.

The NHF said it continues to work closely with several partners, including the Ministry of Health and Wellness and the Regional Authorities, to improve the health services in Jamaica.

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Makeup transformations are usually amazing, but ultra-talented makeup artist, Annada Aaliyah Anthon is creating a buzz on social media with her jaw-dropping creations.

The Guyanese woman is transforming herself into almost anyone, including popular dancehall and reggae artistes, with a flick of her wrist and a small army of vibrant pencils, powders and palettes.

She is sharing these transformations with her more than 43,000 followers on Instagram and 76,000 followers on TikTok and they are loving them.

“It was always my ambition. I love doing makeup basically, but I never thought about doing artistes,” she told Loop News.

“One day, I was fooling around. I actually did one with Shenseea where I was mocking her, and at the bottom of the comments, people were calling different [names of] artistes [and] I picked Skeng.

“I said I am going to try doing my face like him, and when I tried, it actually looked like him,” the spunky 20-year-old said.

Annada Anthon as entertainers Skillibeng (left) and Skeng

She said she then began to do other artistes.

“People are approaching me more and more, but I am getting a lot of heat from my own country. No one in my country doesn’t want to do interviews and these stuff with me, and my fan base is more in Jamaica,” she told Loop News.

Asked to define “heat”, she responded:

“They don’t like me, I don’t know why.”

The young woman has a growing fan base in Jamaica, especially among dancehall artistes. She recently did a make-up transformation to look like Beenie Man, recording herself as the ‘Girls Dem Sugar’ while performing ‘Dude’.

The Doctor himself reposted the TikTok video of her ‘Beenie-rific’ transformation on his Instagram account with audio of ‘King of the Dancehall’ bouncing in the background and giving Anthon his stamp of approval.

Jada Kingdom, one of the other recording artistes Anthon has transformed herself to look like, recently performed at a stage show in Guyana and invited the young woman to join her.

“She called me up and said, ‘I think you should come and chill with me,’ and she sent her number to me on Instagram, and I called her,” she said.

Among the other dancehall and reggae artistes she has recreated looks of are Skillibeng, Spice, Bob Marey, D’Yani, Kemar Highcon, Ninjaman, Ding Dong, and Laa Lee.

The Guyanese makeup artiste even recreated Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness.

Annada as dancehall artistes D’Yani, Jada Kingdom and Kemar Highcon

Born and raised in Guyana, she still lives in the South American country. Anthon went to Tutorial Secondary in Berbice, New Amsterdam, which is located on the eastern bank of the Berbice River. The town of New Amsterdam is the regional capital of East Berbice-Corentyne, Guyana, and one of the country’s largest towns, located about 100 kilometres from the capital, Georgetown.

She previously worked as a cashier before her social media influencer career took off. Now, Anthon wants to go overseas to hone her skills.

“One of my biggest plans is to migrate from my country to another country where I can develop and improve my talent. Another one of my future plans is to work along with some of the artistes I do (recreate) in some way,” she said.

Annada Anthon, 20, has her sights set on migrating to be able to hone her skills as a make-up artist.

The young woman also hopes to one day work in the movie mecca of Hollywood as a make-up artist.

Anthon is among women using makeup for self-expression as they tweak their looks in a largely post-lockdown world. Many women are hungry for methods to showcase their individuality, and when it comes to self-expression, the 20-year-old has that in abundance.

“I don’t do makeup like other people; I do makeup on my own level. I can’t answer for all females, but I will be able to answer from my perspective makeup is important to me coming out of a pandemic era because…let’s just say, it has helped me make a lot of money and push what I want more out there and get me to the public,” she told Loop News.

Today, the Caribbean. Tomorrow, Hollywood movies and the world.

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El informe preliminar de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el viernes 3 muertes y 263 personas hospitalizadas.

La cantidad total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,063.

Hay 236 adultos y 27 menores hospitalizados. Este monitoreo cubre el periodo del 30 de agosto al 13 de septiembre de 2022.

La tasa de positividad está a 20.16 por ciento.

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Two government authorities received approval for lump sum payments at the meeting of Cabinet on September 6, 2022.

The first approval was an award of a single performance- based payment to employees of the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange.

The second approval was the award of a 4.5% honorarium (single payment) to all employees of the Maritime Authority of the Cayman Islands on record as at 31 December 2021.

Sources close to another government agency told Loop News that their board of directors has also approved cost of living payments to staff and will apply to the Cabinet for approval of a one-time payment to their employees. It is expected that, as other agencies learn of the Cabinet’s approval of lump sum payments, they will also apply.

Why Cabinet must approve

The obvious question you may be asking is why these agencies are going to the Cabinet to get these approvals. After-all, they should have enough independence and autonomy with respect to their operations to approve these payments themselves.

Well, the answer is set out in the Public Authorities Act (PAA). This states that “A public authority shall not introduce a bonus or performance payment scheme for staff of the public authority unless the public authority is permitted to do so by the Cabinet.”

The PAA also says:

A public authority shall not award cost of living adjustments for staff of a public authority unless permitted to do so by the Cabinet.

As a result, the approval of the Cabinet must be sought in these cases.

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