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Comment courir sans risques au « Grand JT des Territoires » sur TV5 Monde

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The content originally appeared on: Martinique FranceAntilles

Retrouvez, chaque semaine, le « Grand JT des Territoires » de Cyril Viguier, diffusé sur TV5 Monde, en partenariat avec France-Antilles.

 « Le Grand JT des Territoires » de Cyril Viguier est diffusé sur TV5 Monde et les chaînes de télévision locales et régionales de la TNT. Il présente l’actualité vue par l’ensemble des médias régionaux.

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SANTÉ : COURIR SANS RISQUES
Faire du sport, est-ce dangereux pour les femmes ? Remarques sexistes, et comportements inappropriés, pour courir sans risques une association des Hauts-de-France propose une pratique collective et éminine du sport en extérieur. Un reportage de WeoTV à découvrir dès le début de ce journal.

INSOLITE : UNE HISTOIRE D’AMITIÉ VOLATILE
Une belle histoire aussi dans cette édition, celle d’un retraité breton devenu ami avec un pigeon. Homme et animal ne se quittent plus depuis que le premier a porté assistance au second. Une amitié tout sauf volatil que nous fera découvrir Tébéo, la chaîne du groupe Télégramme.

SPORT : QUE LA FORCE SOIT AVEC VOUS
Enfin, de la fiction à la réalité. La pratique du sabre laser n’est plus réservée qu’à la série Star Wars, elle se développe en France dans les clubs d’escrime. Reconnue sport officiel, le sabre laser attitre de plus en plus d’adeptes. Un sujet en fin de journal de 7ALimoges.

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Des origines de Fort-Royal

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The content originally appeared on: Martinique FranceAntilles

A l’origine, il n’y avait que des marais à Fort-Royal. Seule une bande de terre solide émargeait au-dessus de la mer et des marécages. Elle rejoignait la presqu’île où se trouve aujourd’hui le Fort Saint-Louis. C’est de ce dernier que la ville prit forme. Lentement. Après bien des épreuves.

Voici ce qu’écrivait en 1940 Théodore Baude dans « Fragments d’histoire ou Hier et aujourd’hui » (1) : « Les générations passent, les édifices croulent ou se transforment, aux hameaux et aux bourgs succèdent des villes qui, à leur tour, changent et s’améliorent. Tel a été Fort-Royal, chrysalide qu’une main hardie a posée sur un marais humide, qui s’est dégagée lentement de sa coque et qui s’est développée au cours des ans sous l’infulence d’événements divers ».

Cette main hardie est…


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Comment courir sans risques au « Grand JT des Territoires » sur TV5 Monde

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The content originally appeared on: Guadeloupe FranceAntilles

Retrouvez, chaque semaine, le « Grand JT des Territoires » de Cyril Viguier, diffusé sur TV5 Monde, en partenariat avec France-Antilles.

 « Le Grand JT des Territoires » de Cyril Viguier est diffusé sur TV5 Monde et les chaînes de télévision locales et régionales de la TNT. Il présente l’actualité vue par l’ensemble des médias régionaux.

Sommaire

SANTÉ : COURIR SANS RISQUES
Faire du sport, est-ce dangereux pour les femmes ? Remarques sexistes, et comportements inappropriés, pour courir sans risques une association des Hauts-de-France propose une pratique collective et éminine du sport en extérieur. Un reportage de WeoTV à découvrir dès le début de ce journal.

INSOLITE : UNE HISTOIRE D’AMITIÉ VOLATILE
Une belle histoire aussi dans cette édition, celle d’un retraité breton devenu ami avec un pigeon. Homme et animal ne se quittent plus depuis que le premier a porté assistance au second. Une amitié tout sauf volatil que nous fera découvrir Tébéo, la chaîne du groupe Télégramme.

SPORT : QUE LA FORCE SOIT AVEC VOUS
Enfin, de la fiction à la réalité. La pratique du sabre laser n’est plus réservée qu’à la série Star Wars, elle se développe en France dans les clubs d’escrime. Reconnue sport officiel, le sabre laser attitre de plus en plus d’adeptes. Un sujet en fin de journal de 7ALimoges.

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Rokhaya Diallo et Ayo Tometi de Black live matter à la rencontre de jeunes Guadeloupéens

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Vendredi après-midi (8 juillet), la journaliste Rokhaya Diallo et l’américaine Ayo Tometi co-fondatrice de Black lives matter ont échangé pendant deux heures leur expérience du militantisme avec de nombreux étudiants à l’hôtel Arawak Beach au Gosier.

Dans le salon de l’hôtel Arawak beach resort, au Gosier, une assistance éminemment attentive et avide de questions. Face à elle, deux femmes. Rokhaya Diallo, journaliste et écrivaine et Ayo Tometi, co-fondatrice du mouvement Black lives matter. Le regard de l’Hexagone sur la Guadeloupe, le pacifisme de Black lives matter ou encore la question d’être une femme noire militante.
 

Deux heures de questions-réponses

Pendant deux heures, les deux militantes se sont prêtées aux jeu de questions de l’audience en grande partie composée de lycéens, étudiants et des enseignants de l’université des Antilles. Parmi eux, une jeune lycéenne qui a pris soin d’exprimer dans un anglais parfait son admiration pour l’activisme de la Française et de l’Américaine. 

Après la conférence de ce vendredi, un dîner gala sera organisé samedi soir, toujours au sein de l’Arawak beach resort. Au menu de cet évènement, il ne sera pas seulement question de cromesquis ou de ceviche, il s’agira surtout pour Rokhaya Diallo et Ayo Tometi de “croiser les regards, les expériences et les idées pour construire la société de demain.”  

Lors de ce rassemblement, aura lieu un colloque débat autour du thème Tout Monde, nouveau monde. “Le Tout monde, c’est un moyen de rendre hommage à Edouard Glissant. La Caraïbe, la Guadeloupe, la Martinique ont été le terreau de réflexions extrêmement riches”, a expliqué Rokhaya Diallo.

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Griffith undergoes performance appraisal by Police Service Commission

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The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

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Gary Griffith. File photo/Sureash Cholai

THE Police Service Commission (PSC) said on Friday it did an appraisal of former commissioner of police (CoP) Gary Griffith’s performance from January-August 2021. It says it hopes to complete the process for the appointment of a new commissioner by the end of the year.

In a statement, the PSC said the Constitution mandated it to appoint a commissioner and deputy commissioner, and do an annual performance appraisal on these office holders.

“With respect to its responsibility for the preparation of performance appraisal reports, the PSC is now involved in the finalisation of the performance appraisal report for the past commissioner of police, Mr Gary Griffith.

“In accordance with the established procedure, the commission is required to meet with Mr Griffith in this regard.”

The appraisal was done on June 28.

The PSC said it designed and developed a recruitment process in line with the Constitution and relevant legal notices.

“The objective of the process is to ensure a fair and transparent procedure for the selection and appointment of the best candidate in accordance with the criteria prescribed by order of the President made pursuant to section 123(2) of the Constitution.

“The process is also designed to ensure fairness to and the confidentiality of the candidates.”

In the process, a vacancy is advertised and applications received, a confidential number is assigned to each applicant, and applicants are screened by the commission’s secretariat (excluding commissioners). Successfully screened candidates are assessed by an independent assessment centre and successful candidates are shortlisted.

“(A) vetting process is conducted.

“Shortlisted candidates are introduced to and interviewed by the commission members.”

Under the Constitution (section 123(3), the PSC creates a list of individuals for appointment to the office, in an order of merit.

“The list is submitted to the President of the Republic of TT for the relevant notifications to the House of Representatives.

Appointments are made by the PSC only after approval by the House in line with the Constitution (section 123(5).

Griffith told Newsday, the assessment had placed the present members of the PSC in a difficult position as they had not been in place during his tenure, to now assess him. Likewise, he had been put in a difficult position, as when he was assessed he was no longer in the post of CoP.

Griffith said, as the former CoP it would be totally irresponsible for him to disclose details of his assessment.

Regarding the year-end target date to now fill the post, he asked why the whole process typically takes seven months (and costs millions of dollars) while in places like New York, it takes seven hours. He urged a reformed process, despite him topping past assessment exercises.

“Under the present process, suppose someone is selected and, God forbid, they then drop dead? You’ll go back to being without a CoP for one year.”

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Trinidad and Tobago politicians shocked, saddened by ex-Japan PM’s assassination

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Shinzo Abe waves as he leaves the prime minister’s office on September 16, 2020, in Tokyo. (AP photo)

FOREIGN and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne expressed shock and sadness at the assassination of former Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe.

Abe, 67, was shot dead by a man with a homemade gun while campaigning in Japan’s parliamentary elections in the city of Nara on Friday.

Browne said, the Prime Minister has personally written to Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to express the Government’s formal condolences to him and to the people of Japan.

“I have discussed the matter with fellow foreign ministers of the Caribbean community (Caricom), I join with my peers in remembering the service of Japan’s longest serving prime minister, who had a particular interest and connection with the developing world including our region.”

Browne expressed condolences to Abe’s family and “to all those who were positively affected by his many years of service.”

Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister Stuart Young, who visited Japan in 2016 during Abe’s tenure as prime minister, said his thoughts and prayers are with Abe’s family, friends and his countrymen.

“As a citizen of TT and an elected member of parliament, I would like to extend my personal condolences and dismay at this horrific and tragic event leading to the loss of life of former prime minister Shinzo Abe.”

In a statement, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar said, “The UNC strongly condemns all forms of political violence and stresses that violence is never the answer.”

Abe was the first Japanese prime minister to visit TT. He was here for a Caricom-Japan summit between July 27-28, 2014 when Persad-Bissessar was prime minister.

She expressed her condolences to Abe’s family and country.

Former finance and foreign affairs minister Winston Dookeran remembered meeting Abe in 2014.

“TT was honoured by his visit in 2014, and I remember our meeting. It was a historic visit. He was gracious, astute, and humble.”

Dookeran remembered Abe offering “to set up an antenna for investment with Invest TT in Tokyo, as he commissioned the methanol plant in TT.”

He described Abe’s assassination as a shocking blow to world peace, and a horrible event in one of the world’s most peaceful democracies.

“We were fortunate that he visited TT and cemented a bond between our countries.”

Dookeran recalled Abe was “a clear architect of modern Japan with his economic policies (Abenomics) and active foreign policy.” He said Abe’s death will create a void in Japan.

Former foreign affairs minister Ralph Maraj described Abe’s murder as shocking and tragic.

He said, “Abe made significant steps towards Japan’s economic renewal and also its place in the world.” Maraj observed Abe courageously moved Japan away from is previous pacifist constitution to play a more active role in the Asia-Pacific region.

“He has made an enduring contribution as Japan’s longest serving prime minister.”

Political analyst Dr Shane Mohammed said, Japan has strict laws regarding illegal firearms. It was startling for a peaceful and democratic nation like Japan to experience this kind of tragedy. He said Abe made significant contributions to Japan’s development and the rest of the world.

In a statement, Caricom said Abe’s visit to the region in 2014 took political engagement between Japan and Caricom to a new level.

Abe’s new policy towards Caricom included co-operation towards sustainable development including overcoming vulnerabilities particular to small island states and deepening and expanding bonds founded on exchanges and friendship and co-operation in addressing challenges in the international community.

In expressing its condolences to the Japanese government and people, Caricom praised Abe as a man “who made great efforts to reshape his country and its place in the world.”

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Eyewitness: Letting it all hang out…in the Police Force

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The content originally appeared on: INews Guyana

Your Eyewitness would be foolish indeed if he were to condemn the entire Guyana Police Force. Surely, in an organisation of some 4500 men and women, who’ve literally been given the power of life and death over their fellow citizens, some of them would abuse those powers. There’s that famous experiment wherein some college students were given the roles of guards over other students, and, as “guards”, went as far as torturing the “prisoners”!! Yes, we humans do tend to abuse our powers.

But because this known tendency in humans is taken a whole new level when the Police are handed real weapons – with real laws compelling folks to obey them – imagine what can happen! And in Guyana we don’t have to “imagine”, do we?? Police “harassment” has been part and parcel of Guyanese life ever since the Police Force was formed in 1839!!
It was no coincidence that this was the very next year following the abolition of slavery, was it?? Did you think they were told to “serve and protect” those folks who’d been treated like animals for the past three hundred years?? Their job was to protect the SYSTEM, and the whites who ran the system!! Up to independence, most of the officers were whites, weren’t they?? During the riots in the run-up to independence, the name of British Police Commissioner Peter Owen struck fear in the ordinary people. And that attitude never really changed.

Burnham picked up right where the British left off, and he ensured an enlarged Police Force was personally loyal to him. All those who didn’t want to toe his line, it was “off with their heads”!! So, the natural propensity of folks to abuse their power was coupled with the free rein Burnham gave the Police to harass folks who opposed him. Many Policemen were even part of the “kick-down-the-door-bandits” squads up to the late eighties – until Hoyte brought in his “hang-em-high” policy!!

The GPF that the PPP inherited in 1992 had been corrupted through and through; but, sadly, rather than immediately launching a thoroughgoing revamping and reorientation of the GPF, they courted the top brass and continued with the system and the manpower they inherited. And that was a mistake that the entire country suffered from – during the twenty years of the new millennium, that saw Bandits holing up in Buxton having absolutely no respect for them. And taking on the Police directly.

So, the breakdown in discipline in two Police killings – of Bacchus on the ECD and Singh in Ruimveldt – and the riot at Mon Repos by the protestors from Golden Grove shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.

…in politics

It ain’t easy being in politics in Guyana nowadays. Used to be you told the folks what they wanted to hear – meaning, promise them the sun and moon! – buy some rum in the rum shops and give your private (racial) spiels under the bottom houses, and that was it!! Since folks voted mostly racially, it was already a foregone conclusion as to who’d win – that depended on the colour of the various noses!!

But now things are different: the noses are almost equal in number – which creates a dilemma for the old order. Suddenly, you gotta be nice to everybody, since the least missteps could cost you those crucial fence sitters’ noses!! Problem is the new “bottom houses” where folks engage in the race talk – the social media. Here, it’s a case of everything hanging out, and since the content’s available to everyone with a smartphone – meaning EVERYBODY – it means everyone’s riled up!!
The politicians now have to be “outing” fires every minute of the day!!

…in Old Blighty

Boris Johnson was never one to keep his thoughts and actions to himself. Letting it all hang out made him stand out in stiff-upper-lip Britain. But party-gate under Covid was too much.
And he’s now out!!

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Attorney calls on police to preserve evidence in triple killing

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A policeman tries to put out a fire on Nelson Street, Port of Spain during protests by residents over the killing of three men by police at Independence Square, Port of Spain on Saturday. Photo by Ayanna Kinsale

ATTORNEY Om Lalla, who is representing the 15-year-old shot by police last Saturday, is requesting of the Office of Commissioner of Police that all evidence be preserved “with the highest security.”

In his four-page letter to acting Police Commissioner Mc Donald Jacob, and copied to director of the Police Complaints Authority David West, Lalla requested that all CCTV footage from the police, national security cameras and surrounding businesses be preserved. He also requested the same for body camera footage; ballistic reports, which include the amount of ammunition used and the officers who fired their weapons; the autopsy report from the Forensic Science Centre; evidence that the police vehicle was shot at; the station diary report, and the medical report of the victims.

Lalla said his client denied that he or anyone of the six people in the car had a gun on them or that a gun was even found in the car after the shooting.

Isaiah Roberts, 17, along with Fabien Richards, 21, and Leonardo Williams, 17, were killed after police officers said they were shot at after the car the three were in crashed into Republic Bank, Independence Square. Police said in a media release that a Smith and Wesson pistol was found in the car and seized.

Lalla’s client was one of three who survived. He was shot in the right arm and grazed on the abdomen and leg. He was hospitalised for four days before he was discharged. He and the two other survivors gave statements to police and were released without charges, pending further investigations.

The autopsy reports of the three killed said they were shot from behind.

Lalla said his client was in the car heading towards Port of Spain when a police vehicle confronted them. The teen said an officer asked the driver to stop but he failed to do so because he became frightened. The teen said he heard gunshots but the driver continued driving.

The letter said when they reached Port of Spain, the driver turned south along Chacon Street and was slammed into by another police vehicle heading west along Independence Square, causing the car to crash into Republic Bank.

“Upon crashing, the occupants of the vehicle who remained in the vehicle alive and unharmed, which included my client, heard the sounds of further gunshots and were hit by bullets. Three of the occupants of the vehicle died as a result.”

Lalla said his client is a witness, is now fearful for his life and is in urgent need of counselling. He lamented that since the incident no state official reached out to his client to facilitate this.

The teen cried at the funeral for his friend Roberts, who was buried on Friday. Richards will be buried on Monday and Williams on Tuesday.

“The shooting incident, according to the facts, represents a wholly unwarranted and blatant example of excessive force by the police which has resulted in serious injuries to my client and, regrettably, the death of other young men.”

Lalla said the matter should be investigated swiftly given the severity of the incident, adding that the anxiety by the country should not shirk the police’s responsibility.

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Man killed in hit-and-run accident in Mayaro

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A driver found the body of an unidentified man in Mayaro on Thursday night with multiple injuries.

The police believe the man might have been the victim of a hit-and-run accident.

The report said the driver found the body at about 9.45 pm on the roadside in Grand Lagoon and called the police.

Cpl Douglas and other Mayaro police visited the scene.

A district medical officer also visited and ordered the body’s removal.

Investigations are ongoing.

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Man pleads guilty to murder, rape, kidnapping of 2 cousins and taxi driver

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Justice Lisa Ramsumair-Hinds.

A man initially on over a dozen indictments for the murder and rape of a 19-year-old girl, the assault of her cousin, and the robbery and false imprisonment of a Curepe taxi driver in 2008 will be sentenced on July

Keston “Chucky” Allen, 35, was allowed to plead guilty to ten counts of felony murder, false imprisonment, robbery with aggravation, grievous sexual assault, larceny of a car, and rape which he did on Friday.

He returns to court on July 29 when it is likely he will be sentenced by Justice Lisa Ramsumair-Hinds who has ordered bio-social and probation officers’ reports to assist in his plea of mitigation which will be submitted in writing and to guide her in the sentencing process.

It is the State’s case that Allen and three others accosted the taxi driver in St Augustine on October 19, 2008, and ordered him to drive. The incident began at 12.30 am when the taxi driver was leaving a party when he offered a woman a drop. It turned out the woman was Allen’s accomplice since he and another man entered the car and she said they were with her.

The taxi driver was ordered to drive and 15 minutes later, they saw the two cousins and he was ordered to stop. The cousins were robbed of their cellphones and money and then were bundled into the stolen taxi and taken to an abandoned house in the Mt Lambert area. The girls begged to be let go.

At that house, the teenager was raped and told “she was a waste of time” after the act. Her cousin, who was 22 at the time, had her period but was sexually assaulted. Allen and his accomplices also forced one of the girls to perform oral sex on the taxi driver who later managed to escape and find his way to the St Joseph police station.

Allen and the others went in search of the taxi driver but were unable to drive his car because it was a manual. When they got to the Mt Dor, Champ Fleurs, area, they shot the women. When police found the car, the teenager was dead while her cousin received gunshot wounds about the body but survived the ordeal.

Allen was later arrested and identified by the older woman and the taxi driver.

Allen entered plea discussions with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and on June 22, it was agreed he would plead guilty to the ten counts while he will be discharged of the others.

On Friday, prosecutor Danielle Thompson said the State agreed to a starting-point sentence of 22 years for kidnapping and 25 for the rape count. She also gave the State’s position on the other counts. The count of felony murder will be at the discretion of the judge.

Also at the hearing, Thompson read from the victim impact statements of the teenager’s mother, the other victim who was sexually assaulted and shot, an aunt, and the taxi driver.

The cousin spoke of the ordeal and said her younger cousin “did not deserve to die like that.” The mother of the 19-year-old said her daughter’s death was traumatic. The girl was her only daughter. She was so torn by her death she did not want reminders of her at home and gave away her things in an effort to cope with her loss.

She said her daughter’s intention was to go to university and was, at the time, doing hairdressing to save for her further studies.

“I real miss her.” She said she still breaks down in tears at Christmas time. “I know nothing I can do can bring her back but I just want justice for her as all I have of her is her memory.”

The taxi driver said he too was traumatised and did not work for a year because he was afraid the men who abducted him would find him.

“I could have lost my life.”

The girls’ aunt, who also provided an victim impact statement, said it seemed that God had answered the family’s prayers when Allen was arrested.

Representing Allen was public defender Michelle Gonzales.

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