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La contralor de Puerto Rico, Yesmín Valdivieso, reveló este viernes en RADIO ISLA que ha perdido el 28 por ciento de los auditores de la Oficina del Contralor. 

“La realidad es (que) yo he perdido 28 por ciento de mis auditores. Estamos tratando de hacer de tripas corazones, porque he perdido el 28 por ciento, a nosotros no se nos asignó el aumento ese que le van a dar a la Rama Ejecutiva para los auditores. Yo tengo terror de que se me vayan a ir. Estamos tratando de ser lo más eficiente posible y tocando en diferentes puertas, cosa de que no se nos vaya a quedar nada”, expresó Valdivieso.         

Pendientes a RADIO ISLA para la ampliación de esta noticia.

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The votes are in and the public has declared their top 40 songs for the Crop Over season.

Chief executive officer of the National Cultural Foundation, Carol Roberts-Reifer announced the Top 40 artistes in the Student Revolving Loan Fund and Sunshine Snacks Crop Over People’s Choice Competition in association with Banks Beer on Thursday, July 14 during a press conference at the Wildey Gymnasium.

The first round of public voting opened on Monday, July 4 and closed on Tuesday, July 12, with officials reporting up to 166,000 votes. This year, the People’s Choice replaces the Soca Monarch with the top 20 artistes voted on by the public, winning the opportunity to perform at Courtesy Garage 98.1 The One Soca Rukshun on Crop Over Sunday.

The top 40 artistes who advance to the second round, and each will receive $2 000 for advancing. Meanwhile, the top 20 artistes will receive an additional $1 000 for advancing and $4 000 compensation for their performance at the Soca Rukshun show.

Flanked by Entertainer Association of Barbados (EAB) public relations strategist Ruel Ward, EAB president Rudy Maloney and the Barbados Association of Creatives and Artistes public relations officer of Barry Knight, who signed off on the list, Roberts-Reifer reiterated that the rationale behind the People’s Choice”was to be able to allow as many artistes as possible to get a lucrative pay day as opposed to the usual competition where one artiste walked away with a car and a large amount of cash”.

The NCF CEO assured of the voting validation process, explaining that only one vote per device was allowed. Multiple votes from the same device will be removed. She explained that the voting process was simplified to ensure that “the backend was secure as possible”.

With the second round of voting to open at midnight Friday, July 15 and running until Wednesday, July 20, Roberts-Reifer encouraged artistes to “get out there and do their marketing”.

“Don’t depend on being able to make your devices do amazing things. In actual fact, just get out there push your song market yourself and get people to vote for you,” she urged.

The Top 40 artistes that have made it through to the second round include:

ALL – YANNICK HOOPER AMAZING – RAANAN ANYTIME – TARIQUE O’NEAL ANYWHERE, ANYWAY – SUGAHRHE BASHMENT – PARK DE PLUG BEN – KEERAH CARNIVAL IS – KEISHA CHRISTIAN CELEBRATE LIFE – RICHARD ANTONIO CROP OVER WE COMING – ARCHIE MILLER DIBBINESS – RHEA LAYNE & WALKES DON’T KILL MY VIBE – THELIA EXTRAORDINARY – MR. VEEJAY FAMILY AFFAIR – IMARA FREE CHRYSTAL – CUMMINS-BECKLES-HOLDER FREEDOM LAST – DASILVA AND CHRISSY D HAND PON HEAD – SWAGGY HOSTAGE – RENE KING JUDGE ME – QUON LOCATION – GRATEFUL CO LOKK IT AFFF – EDWIN YEARWOOD LOW BUDGET – SIR RUEL MAUBY – BRUCELEE ALMIGHTEE MOCK – TOYAN POP KITE – FAITH CALLENDER PRISON BREAK – MISTAH DALE PROPERTY – RENIECE BONNETT PTSD – AKHNATEN RAW RECOGNIZE RAW (RRR) – LINSKEE READY – NIKITA X MIKEY MERCER RED GYAL ANTHEM – DOYENNE RUM & SOCA – Q~SO SAME ONE – SHAQUILLEGFG AND COOPA DAN STAGE – ASHAWNYA

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Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 14, 2022 (SKNIS): Pursuing tertiary education is a challenging goal that can be made much easier if there are specific subjects that students choose during high school. The strategy was strongly advocated for by Dr. Moyia Rowtham, Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs at the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College (CFBC).

On Wednesday’s (July 13, 2022) edition of Working for You, Dr. Rowtham said that at times some students enter the college and are unprepared for the demands of the courses.

“We are asking that there is a level of diligence as it relates to mapping courses on subjects onto careers so if they want to do Architecture they need to do Physics,” she stated. “It makes no sense saying to them ‘oh Physics is too hard.’ You need to understand what you want to do and how much work you are willing to put into it.

“If you want to do foreign languages, why is it that you are not doing Literature? You want to do Medicine you need to do your Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, and your Physics … so these are things we want to express,” Dr. Rowtham added.

The higher-level critical thinking projects such as history and foreign languages are not readily embraced by some incoming students, the vice president indicated. However, Dr. Rowtham mentioned that courses, even those with more technical requirements are changing.

“No longer is Automotive Arts dealing with grease and grime, we are talking about technology, so it’s the automotive aspect of it coupled with information technology. So we need to start having that dialogue and think seriously about how subjects are chosen in schools and what subjects the students decide to pursue,” Vice President Rowtham said.

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Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 14, 2022 (SKNIS): Students, teachers and faculty of the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College (CFBC) will see changes for the 2022-2023 Academic School year which will officially commence on August 22.

“One such change pertains to the dates related to student advisement and the start of teaching and this would have been as a result of the delayed start of the CXC examinations. So we just want the public to be aware of the changes because persons may be accustomed to the general operations taking place within a certain time frame,” said Dr. Moyia Rowtham, Vice-President of the Academic Student Affairs at CFBC, during her July 13 appearance on ‘Working for You.’

“College officially opens for the Academic Year 2022-2023 Semester One (1) on the 22nd of August. We will be having divisional advisement sessions and registration for incoming and returning students from Monday, August 22, to September 02,” she added.

As it relates to teaching, Dr. Rowtham said that all Divisions will not begin teaching at the same time for all students and this again, is due to the delayed start of CXC. She noted teaching will commence on Monday, September 05 for all students – new and returning – from the Health Sciences and Teacher Education Divisions, as well for returning students in the Divisions of TVEMS (Technical Vocational Education and Management Studies) and ASGS (Arts, Sciences and General Studies). On September 12, teaching will commence for new students in the Divisions of TVEMS and ASGS.

Vice President Rowtham noted that the early application for entry into CFBC is still open and will close on Sunday, July 31. All applications must be submitted online via cfbc.edu.kn. The fee for this period is EC $35.00. The late application period will run from August 01-31 and the fee is EC $85.00.

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By Tomas Chlumecky- Airline Adviser & Executive at Aviation Doctor Consulting 

Any new airline today in the Caribbean MUST be established in either The Bahamas, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad & Tobago.

Read below why!

Lots of talk about a new regional airline in the Eastern Caribbean! but here is the reality, LIAT has just 3 x ATR-42-600 for their LIAT 2020 an hopefully a start this fall.

One Caribbean (Barbados and St. Vincent) had 2 x Saab 340B, repossessed by lessor, like Surinam Airways no aircraft of its own.

SVG Air has 2 x DHC-6-300, Mustique Company has 4-5 DHC-6-300, Guyana has 3 x Beech 1900D, and that is the capacity within the EC today, plus Caribbean Airlines with a few ATR-72-600 flying in and out.

Inter-Caribbean (Turks & Caicos) is not a Caricom carrier but since there is no one around to cover LIAT it operates EMB-120 and ERJ-145 on a few routes, hopefully not for long, OPEN SKIES for Caricom members does NOT cover non-Caricom airlines, just like the EU is open to EU members only!

NEXT, too many aviation regulators, ECCAA is infamously slow and inefficient, Barbados Aviation Department is very small and won’t even do a DHC-6-300 anymore.

And then they are all FAA Category 2 states because they do NOT adhere to international safety standards, which also include Guyana, Sint Maarten, and Curacao, and if they are not careful at CASAS in Suriname they may be next, ACMI to an airline with NO aircraft for 14 months?? where is the oversight? and other issues.

Anyway, for any airline to succeed in the Caribbean it needs to have 2 things:

FAA Category 1, 2. Caricom-based to take advantage of MASA/Open Skies.

Well, that means ONLY The Bahamas, Jamaica Trinidad & Tobago and Suriname, that is it! the situation is horrible in the Eastern Caribbean. High taxes, high airport fees, slow inefficient aviation authorities make it painful to bring on new aircraft, new types, new pilots, new engineers and new airlines.

Time for 1 aviation regulatory body in the Caribbean as Mr. Thompson advocates, like EASA and let’s get rid of the many administrative BS and consolidate under 1 professional organization.

Government bureaucracy has killed many airlines and look at the industry today in the Eastern Caribbean for regional airlines, 7 x ATR-72-600 (CAL), 3 x ATR-42-600 (LIAT), 3 x Beech 1900D (Guyana), and +/-7 Twin Otters (SVG).

At best 20 regional turboprops, basically a small regional airline in northern Canada, and the Eastern Caribbean needs air connectivity between the various island states and Guyana and Suriname to get around, its a necessity not a luxury!

I love this:

AVIATION IS THE BUSINESS OF FREEDOM.

THE CONNECTIVITY THAT AIR TRANSPORTATION PROVIDES BRINGS PEOPLE, BUSINESSES AND COUNTRIES TOGETHER.

AIR TRANSPORT CONNECTS FAMILIES AND LOVED ONES.

THE WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE FOR IT!

AIR TRANSPORT IS PARTICULARLY CRUCIAL TO THE NUMEROUS ISLAND NATIONS OF THE WORLD AS WELL AS THE MANY REMOTE STATES OF DIVERSE CULTURES AND SIZES.

Any new airline formed by Caribbean governments must be under a public-private partnership to be successful. NO more political interference in airlines, government nepotism and interference kills airlines around the world every year!

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