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2022 Jamaica Gospel Star Competition kicks off on Sunday | Loop Jamaica

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The content originally appeared on: Jamaica News | Loop News

The top ten finalists of this year’s Jamaica Gospel Star Competition will make their debut during a live televised performance, tomorrow, Sunday, July 10, 2022.

The Gospel Star competition is a rebrand of the JCDC iconic Jamaica Gospel Song Competition.

Unlike its predecessor, which focused on its finalists performing and building momentum for their original songs, this new competition sees contestants performing unoriginal/cover songs in a weekly televised performance/elimination show.

This year’s top 10 finalists include Amoya Thompson-Smith, Sasha Gay Sutherland, Regina Campbell, Chantal Smalling, Danielle Mayne, Michaela Jack, Johanna Morgan, Kimone Martin, Daron Mitchell, Chantal Simon.

They were selected from a pool of 108 entries, by an experienced and qualified panel of Gospel Music experts spanning artistes, musicians, producers and vocal coaches.

The two deciding factors for which performer stays or goes each week will be the number of votes from the at-home audience, (via call or text, and scores from judges, who are experts in the industry.

The four-part TV series will culminate with the competition’s grand final on Saturday, July 30, 2022, at the National Indoor Sports Centre in Kingston.

The link to the JCDC YouTube page is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHXgUh4itGgRQPKb6W7bfpw

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POC sells out; security measures in place | Loop Barbados

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The content originally appeared on: Barbados News

One of Barbados’ highlight Crop Over events returns this weekend at full throttle.

The ultimate J’ouvert experience, Puff of Colour declared they were sold out on Thursday, July 6.

While tight-lipped about the performance and spectacle that will ensue at the new Puffington Field, Searles, Christ Church location, promoter Kirk Phillips told Loop News that patrons can anticipate what is to come.

“If you are a real Puff of Colour follow you know we don’t usually tell you what we will have…Patrons expect a good one.”

The event has annually been an adult playground with jumping tents, games and more for partiers.

Thus far, DJ Salt, Mole and Fadda Fox have confirmed their attendance.

Amid concerns about crime in Barbados, Phillips assured the safety of patrons was paramount.

“Security measures will be in place to make our patrons feel safe,” Phillips told Loop News.

During a press conference held on Friday, July 8, at Government Headquarters, Attorney General Dale Marshall alluded that promoters must share security responsibilities with the police.

While referring to “mischievous” messages that were circulating on social media which threatened the safety of patrons at Crop Over events, Marshall added that as the season kicks in, law enforcement will take these threats seriously and lead an investigation.

“There have been some WhatsApp messages floating around that have come to the attention of the police. Every threat is taken seriously. Every threat to public safety is taken seriously but at the same time, we don’t want Barbadians to develop a siege mentality or to become hysterical over every little thing. The police are on the job, they are doing the job. You take care of your own safety but please do not go into a state of hysteria because of some mischievous WhatsApp going around.”

“The police take every single one of them serious and they follow every thread to the ground,” he stressed.

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Foreday Morning jump back on Mighty Grynner Highway | Loop Barbados

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The content originally appeared on: Barbados News

Foreday Morning band leaders have been successful in their campaign to return to the original route.

The J’ouvert slated for July 29, resumes in Bridgetown, The City and will conclude on the Mighty Grynner Highway.

During a press conference, this evening at the National Cultural Foundation’s, West Terrace, St Michael headquarters, the chief executive officer of the NCF, Carol Roberts-Reifer confirmed that permission to hold the festivities on the traditional route has been granted by Cabinet, the chief medical officer and the Barbados Police Service.

This comes after weeks of lobbying by Foreday Morning band leaders, who also submitted a proposal to the NCF.

Initially, NCF proposed two routes for the Foreday Morning Jam to ensure public health safety and the COVID-19 protocols. However, with the relaxation of the COVID-19 measures, band leaders called for a change.

“We would have lobbied for a change to the routes we were given for Foreday Morning. We would have been struggling with numbers for a number of weeks since we launched. We would have met as a collective as band leaders and the consensus among us was that we believe a change in the route would assist us in increasing numbers in participation for the event,” explained Bryan Worrell, owner of Colorz Entertainment.

Speaking on behalf of the Foreday Morning collective, Worrell expressed that band leaders were hopeful that the return to the original route, will lead to increased numbers, after weeks of low registration.

“The hope is that with a change in the route we would see an increase in registrations for all the bands and further participation in the events surrounding Foreday Morning bands as we proceed to the climax of Crop Over,” he continued.

Worrell noted that the logistics of the route are still being finetuned and also mentioned that band leaders are hoping to have a climax event at the end of the jump.

Meanwhile, the Grand Kadooment jump will follow the new route which starts at Warrens, travels along the ABC Highway to the JTC Ramsey roundabout then returns along the highway and through Waterford Bottom and ends at the National Stadium.

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U19 volleybalsters Suriname beter dan Trinidad en Tobago

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door John Zaalman PARAMARIBO — Suriname heeft zijn eerste winstpartij in de meisjes U21-selectie van de Cazova Youth and Junior

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Situation toujours incertaine au Sri Lanka, le…

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La situation reste incertaine dimanche au Sri Lanka où le président Gotabaya Rajapaksa a accepté de démissionner la semaine prochaine, après avoir été contraint de fuir sa résidence envahie par la foule dans le sillage des manifestations monstres à Colombo provoquées par la crise catastrophique frappant le pays.

Les Etats-Unis ont exhorté dimanche les futurs nouveaux dirigeants du pays à “travailler rapidement” à des solutions pour restaurer la stabilité économique et répondre au mécontentement populaire face à la dégradation des conditions économiques, “notamment les pénuries d’électricité, de nourriture et de carburant”, a déclaré un porte-parole du département d’Etat.

“Pour assurer une transition pacifique, le président a dit qu’il allait démissionner le 13 juillet”, avait déclaré samedi à la télévision le président du parlement, Mahinda Abeywardana.

Deux proches du président ont, sans attendre, démissionné: le chef du service de presse Sudewa Hettiarachchi et le ministre des Médias Bandula Gunawardana, qui a également laissé son poste à la tête du parti présidentiel.

De son côté, le Premier ministre Ranil Wickremesinghe a tenté d’ouvrir la voie à un gouvernement d’union nationale, en convoquant en urgence une réunion de crise du gouvernement avec les partis d’opposition auquel il a proposé sa démission.

Mais cela n’a pas suffi à calmer la colère des manifestants qui dans la soirée ont assiégé sa résidence, en son absence, et y ont mis le feu, sans faire de blessés.

Un peu plus tôt, le président Rajapaksa, sur la sellette depuis des mois, avait eu juste le temps de fuir quelques minutes avant que plusieurs centaines de manifestants ne pénètrent dans le palais présidentiel, un bâtiment symbole normalement réservé aux réceptions mais où il avait déménagé en avril après l’assaut de son domicile privé.

“Le président a été escorté en lieu sûr”, a indiqué une source de la Défense à l’AFP. Les soldats gardant la résidence officielle ont tiré en l’air pour dissuader les manifestants d’approcher du palais jusqu’à ce qu’il soit évacué.

Selon cette source, le président a embarqué à bord d’un navire militaire faisant route vers les eaux territoriales au sud de l’île.

Autrefois pays à revenu intermédiaire avec un niveau de vie envié par l’Inde, le Sri Lanka a été laminé par la perte des recettes touristiques consécutives à un attentat djihadiste en 2019 et à la pandémie de Covid-19.

La crise, sans précédent depuis l’indépendance en 1948 de cette île de 22 millions d’habitants, a été aggravée, selon des économistes, par une série de mauvaises décisions politiques, dont le clan présidentiel au pouvoir depuis 2005 est accusé par la population.

– Dans la piscine présidentielle –

Les chaînes de télévision locales ont montré des images de centaines de personnes escaladant les grilles de son palais.

Des manifestants ont ensuite diffusé en direct sur les réseaux sociaux des vidéos de la foule déambulant à l’intérieur, certains s’égayant dans la piscine présidentielle ou dans les chambres à coucher.

“C’est la chambre de Gotabaya, voici les sous-vêtements qu’il a laissés”, s’extasiait un jeune homme, brandissant un slip noir sur une vidéo en direct, repartagée sur les réseaux sociaux.

Les protestataires ont également investi les bureaux de la présidence à proximité devant lesquels des manifestants campaient depuis trois mois.

– “Pas le Sri Lanka dont je rêvais” –

Les manifestations pour exiger la démission de M. Rajapaksa ont rassemblé samedi des centaines de milliers de personnes, des manifestants ayant même forcé les autorités ferroviaires à les acheminer en trains, alors que le pays n’a presque plus une goutte d’essence.

Trois personnes ont été blessées par balles quand les forces de l’ordre ont tenté de disperser la foule massée dans le quartier administratif de la capitale, à grand renfort de gaz lacrymogènes.

Inflation galopante, pénuries, le Sri Lanka manque de tout: essence, électricité, nourriture, médicaments.

Le pays négocie un plan de sauvetage avec le Fonds monétaire international (FMI), susceptible d’imposer des hausses d’impôts.

Les Nations unies estiment qu’environ 80% de la population est contrainte de sauter des repas.

“Ma femme et moi, on mange une fois par jour depuis deux mois pour être sûr que notre enfant fasse trois repas”, confiait à l’AFP Janith Malinga, dans les rangs d’une autre manifestation contre le pouvoir à Fort Galle, dans le sud-ouest, où des épreuves de cricket se poursuivent sans encombre, avec l’Australie en vedette.

“C’est le bazar complet, et ce n’est pas le Sri Lanka dont je rêvais”, ajoute ce manifestant.

Selon les autorités, quelque 20.000 soldats et policiers avaient été dépêchés à Colombo pour protéger le président.

En mai, neuf personnes avaient été tuées et plusieurs centaines blessées lors de manifestations.

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Buzz City Light lands Knutsford Park Cup at 5-1 | Loop Jamaica

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BUZZ CITY LIGHT rounded off a miserable day for form players at Caymanas Park on Saturday, landing the Knutsford Park Cup at odds of 5-1 for leading trainer Jason DaCosta and champion jockey Anthony Thomas.

The last of nine upsetters, mild and massive, on the 10-race card, BUZZ CITY LIGHT ran past SUGAR DADDY coming off the home turn.

SUGAR DADDY was afterwards relegated by a cavalry charge with 6-1 chance JOSH claiming second ahead of PRINCE SANJAY and BUGATTI, running at odds of 52-1 and 55-1, respectively.

BUZZ CITY LIGHT clocked 1:15.2 on a track running heavy for the first meet after three days’ resanding of the round course.

Favourites were floored in every race except the eighth won by SONNY T AND CHIPPY at odds of 3-5.

Ryan Darby’s BUNKSY BOY struck at 86-1 in the seventh event at seven and a half furlongs whereas 10-1 outsiders, EXPEDITIOUS and UNCLE FRANK, plus VANQUISHER making every post a winning one in the sixth race, resulting in a $6.5 million Reggae 6 carryover to Sunday afternoon’s nine-race card.

All exotic bets closing on the Knutsford Park Cup were carried over, the Superfecta, Hi-Five, Pick 4, Pick 5 and Twilight 6, which will open at $3.5 million in Sunday’s fourth race.

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BTMI appoints two new directors: Aprille Thomas, Jameela Hollingsworth | Loop Barbados

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Aprille Thomas and Jameela Hollingsworth have been promoted to new roles at Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc (BTMI).

Thomas is the new Director of Public Relations and Communications, and Hollingsworth is now Director of Human Resources and Corporate Services.

Chair of the Board of Directors of the BTMI, Shelly Williams, stated that the promotions represent a new direction for the organization.

“Our Board is really pleased with the healthy mix we have at the BTMI. We have both seasoned professionals as well as young, creative minds like Aprille and Jameela who bring a new energy to the organization as we seek to remain ahead of the curve in this competitive market. I am confident that they will both do well in their new roles and I’m looking forward to the new ideas they will bring to the table.”

In her new role, Thomas is responsible for spearheading the organization’s global public relations and communications strategy across its five main source markets of the US, UK, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe. She will lead on communications programmes to heighten awareness of Barbados as a destination while working with global media partners to communicate developments in the island’s tourism sector.

Thomas served for five years at the BTMI as Public Relations and Corporate Communications Manager, where she most recently developed the ‘Tourism Forward’ national public relations campaign to mobilize internal audiences as the local industry rebounded from COVID-19.

She is also now responsible for the planning of the Barbados Food and Rum Festival, which is scheduled to make a return in 2022 following a two-year hiatus.

Prior to the BTMI, Thomas was Public Relations Manager at Sandy Lane Hotel, and International Marketing and Communications Manager for Joe Fresh, Canada.

Hollingsworth is a highly trained human resource professional, who will now oversee the human resource development of the organization’s employees both locally and across its four satellite offices. She will develop programmes to recruit and maintain the best talent at the organization.

Since joining the organization in 2019 as the Human Resources Manager, Hollingsworth has digitized the human resources function to a completely paperless operation and has spearheaded the launch of BTMI’s employee engagement and development initiative, BTMI Brilliance.

Previously, Hollingsworth held posts as the Human Resources Business Partner and Human Resources Advisor throughout her career and also currently serves as the Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Barbados Public Worker’s Credit Union and is a Board member of Capita Insurance Brokers, Allied Co-operators Incorporated, the National Sports Council and the Barbados Youth Development Council.

The appointments were effective July 1 and both report directly to the Chief Executive Officer, Dr Jens Thraenhart.

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EYEWITNESS: Running scared… of the PPP

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From where your Eyewitness sits (on a high perch, like those tennis umpires!!) it’s clear to him that much of the hysteria from the Opposition side is because they’re deathly scared of the PPP using the oil revenues to win over enough members of their constituency to make them irrelevant!! And the PPP’s clearly bent on achieving that goal – claiming that’s what democracy’s all about!! You get into Government on a programme and a manifesto that attract a majority of the voters, and by delivering the goods, (literally!) you expect to win new converts come the next elections!!

The PNC had their opportunity when they were voted in back in 2015, and if they were rational, they’d have done exactly what the PPP’s now doing. Now, you may say that they didn’t have oil revenues to spend and hand out goodies like Santa “PPP” Claus. True, but shouldn’t they at least have tried to keep the voters who’d put them in office? In our ethnically divided country, that meant holding on to the Indian Guyanese brought in by Nagamootoo and Ramjattan. But NO!! Granger just had to pi55 them off (and worse) by firing 7000 of their sugar worker cohorts!! Did he have a political death wish for the PNC??
Anyhow, the PNC and its troglodytes can jump high, or they can jump low, but they ain’t gonna change the PPP’s push to secure a majority to return them in the driver’s seat come 2024. Now, what can the PNC do about it? Right now, seems they figure they gotta undermine the PPP’s programme of delivering the good life. And they’ve decided to do this by invoking the race card. So, it doesn’t matter what the PPP does, African Guyanese are told they’ve been subjected to “racism” and “vindictiveness” and discrimination at every step of the way!! The PNC figures if they throw enough mud in the PPP’s direction, some of it gotta stick!!

And it will!! After years of being conditioned to hearing those accusations from both sides of the divide, most folks are pre-disposed to believing them: “Cognitive bias” and all that!! Like when the PM and seven Ministers visited Buxton and promised to fix up streets etc?? “Why were the streets of Buxton and other ‘Black’ villages allowed to deteriorate?” the PNC yelled. Well, apart from the fact that the PPP just got back into power after 5 years of PNC rule, and what they’d done back then, weren’t all village streets – including Indian Guyanese ones – also deteriorated? Were those pics of the streets of Tuschen any better than those of Buxton??

What’ll be gained by further polarising Guyana when votes from the “other side” are needed??

…of compassion showed

The Opposition troglodytes are kvetching (and worse) about Pres Ali extending compensation as compassion to those Indian Guyanese vendors at Mon Repos, who’d been robbed, beaten, “arsoned”, and terrorised by their “justice” marchers, who’d “come down like the wolf on the fold”, and did what wolves do!! Wonder what would’ve happened if these wolves weren’t imbued with the spirit of justice? Rape of the Sabine Women?

Anyhow their attacks have taken two prongs – first: the identity of the victims; and secondly, the source of the funds. Racial strife, of course, is what motivates the first objection!! The President’s only helping his “own”!! That none of those presumably “not his own” have been violated isn’t mentioned!! Then they want to know if “due diligence” was undertaken before the funds were handed over.

That’s like asking that tests be conducted to ensure that a person raped in full view of the public was “actually” raped before help is rendered!!

What a bunch of wankers!!

…of guns in Japan

Out of all the 200 or so countries in the world, Japan is the last one your Eyewitness would’ve figured an ex-Prime Minister would be assassinated in by a gunman. But there it was, Shinzo Abe’s gone.

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Gun, several rounds of ammunition seized as cops raid St Thomas party | Loop Jamaica

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Police assigned to the St Thomas Division seized one Glock 9mm pistol with a magazine containing nine 9mm rounds of ammunition during a targeted operation in Ginger Hall, Bath, St. Thomas on Saturday, July 09.

Reports are that at about 2:00 am, lawmen acting on information carried out a targeted operation at a party in the area. The premises was allegedly searched and the firearm was found.

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Monkeypox patient, who fled health facility, back in isolation | Loop Jamaica

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The monkeypox patient who fled the May Pen Hospital in Clarendon on Saturday afternoon is back in isolation after reportedly being picked up at his home, Loop News understands.

In its statement, the health ministry said it received reports that sometime after midday – the patient, who presented to the public health system on July 5, having arrived in Jamaica some five days earlier from the United Kingdom – was placed at an isolation facility, but left through a bathroom window of the facility and had a car waiting on Saturday about midday.

The ministry had appealed to members of the public for information on the whereabouts of the patient. He is being held in isolation until the highly contagious viral disease is cleared up.

Symptoms of monkeypox, a viral disease, include fever, intense headache, swelling of the lymph nodes, back pain, muscle ache, lack of energy, and/or rash. Person-to-person spread occurs through: direct contact with monkeypox skin lesions or scabs; contact with clothing or linens (such as bedding or towels) used by an infected person; and coughing or sneezing.

The virus enters the body through broken skin (even if not visible), the respiratory tract, or the mucous membranes (eyes, nose, or mouth). The incubation period is between five and 21 days.

Members of the public who experience fever, intense headache, muscle aches and/or rash on the skin, must immediately isolate and call ahead to their health centre or doctor before visiting.

All members of the public should wear a mask, frequently wash hands and practice physical distancing, as part of infection prevention and control efforts, the health ministry said.

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