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Everything Vincy expo officially launches Monday 24th October

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Vincentians will have an opportunity to view a range of products and services that would be on display at the Everything Vincy Expo, which takes place next week.

Invest SVG will host the event at the Geest Cargo Terminal in Kingstown, from October 24th to 28th.

Investment Facilitation Services Manager at Invest SVG, Shanna Browne says several local designers will be showcased during the Expo.

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The Everything Vincy Expo 2022 will officially launch on Monday 24th October, 2022 at the Geest Cargo Terminal at 10am.

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NBC’s Special Report – Thursday October 20th 2022

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Contestant number two, Rockel Coombs currently serves as a Constable in the Royal St. Vincent and The Grenadines Police Force and aspires to pursue studies in Psychology.

Ms. Coombs who is sponsored by Intransit Export is guided by the words of Martin Luther King Jr, “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step”.

Rawdica Stephen tells us more in todays special report.

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100-million dollars spent in preparations for construction of the New Port in Kingstown, October 20, 2022, Continue Reading →

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The Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines has already spent 100-million dollars to prepare for construction of the New Port in Capital, Kingstown.

That’s according to Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Camillo Gonsalves who was speaking on NBC’s Face to Face Program yesterday.

The Minister said the Contractor has been actively involved in the preparation phase of the Port Modernization Project.

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Minister Gonsalves said the construction phase of the Port Project will begin in earnest next year.

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Sellhorn Engineering from Germany and Aecon Construction Group will be involved in the construction of the Port.

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Discussions on the continuation of repair work at the Thomas Saunders secondary school ongoing

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Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Camillo Gonsalves said discussions are being held to determine if the repair work at the Thomas Saunders secondary school should continue.

Minister Gonsalves said repair was scheduled to commence on the school immediately after the students were relocated to Arnos Vale.

He said following inspection, the school needs more work than it was previously anticipated.

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Minister Gonsalves said if a decision is made to demolish and rebuild the school, it means that the students will remain in Arnos Vale for at least two years.

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Prescod puts up a fight: Talk to me about houses in my constituency Loop Barbados

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The content originally appeared on: Barbados News

One member of parliament is up in arms following government’s decision to temporarily relocate persons housed at the Barbados Workers Union (BWU) Labor College who were displaced by Hurricane Elsa last year, to new housing units being constructed in Haggatt Hall, St Michael.

“I have a area that it’s demand is unbelievable for housing.”

The 12 housing units are being constructed through the Barbados Construction Gateway Training Initiative which was launched earlier this year by the Ministry of Education, Technical and Vocational Training (METVT) and comprises students from the Samuel Jackman Prescod Institute of Technology, Barbados Vocational Training Board, Technical and Vocational Education and Training and the Barbados Community College.

Speaking to the media on Wednesday, October 18, during a press conference held on the construction site, the representative for St Michael East Trevor Prescod openly voiced his frustrations surrounding the decision which he revealed he was not consulted about.

“I have had this problem with this Party before you know? I’ve had this problem with this party at St Barnabus when Minister Thompson was responsible for housing and it created some unnecessary bad blood. I will hope that this does not occur again!

“I am going to take this matter a little further because it seems to me that there is no intention of any form of compromise, no intention of any discussion with me on this. It seems to be a hard-headed decision that has already been made that the people are coming from at Mangrove here in a transitory form, and that I have to accept that regardless of what the consequences are, and I am not. You hear what I say? I am not! I am not accepting it!

“I have people coming at my house and at my office every day asking for housing and nobody is discussing anything with me. It cannot work!” he lamented.

I’ve even seen people move into houses on a temporary basis and up to now, the government can’t dare to put them out

Prescod professed that he believed the persons displaced by hurricane Elsa should have been given the opportunity to be housed close to their communities as opposed to his constituency.

“I believe that the housing policy should focus on constructing those units at strategic points across Barbados so that people who have been displaced from specific areas will have an opportunity to live in close proximity to where they came from.”

And he challenged the word “temporarily” being used, suggesting that it would be difficult to evict persons after they move into the steel-framed houses.

“I’ve been made to understand unofficially that people would be leaving what was described to me as the Mangrove Barbados Workers’ Union College in St Philip to be placed here temporarily. I know what temporarily means in terms of government. I saw the establishment of a market in Golden Square, a Prime Minister told us that they would be there for just a short period of time and it took decades before they were removed. I’ve seen it in many other places, I’ve even seen people move into houses on a temporary basis and up to now, the government can’t dare to put them out. They were offered to pay rent and in some cases, some of them don’t even pay rent.”

Prescod maintained that this revelation came from a place of concern as he seeks to represent the people in his constituency.

“I believe that I have a strong justification for putting up this fight some more, on the behalf of my people, and I am not doing this because of any effort to embarrass anybody or want to get on the front page of any newspaper, the ones that are popular and the ones which are now being given birth to, I am saying this because this is how I feel inside.”

The steel-framed housing units are expected to cost between BBD $180,000 and $190,000.

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Eerste Oktoberfest met Falsch und Verrückt uit Nederland

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Tekst en beeld Sharon Singh PARAMARIBO — Het podium staat er al, het bier is op temperatuur en nu alleen

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Attentats de janvier 2015: la perpétuité en appel pour le complice Ali Riza Polat

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Près de huit ans après l’électrochoc des attentats jihadistes contre Charlie Hebdo et l’Hyper Cacher, Ali Riza Polat a été de nouveau reconnu coupable de complicité des crimes des frères Saïd et Chérif Kouachi et d’Amedy Coulibaly, et condamné jeudi…

Près de huit ans après l’électrochoc des attentats jihadistes contre Charlie Hebdo et l’Hyper Cacher, Ali Riza Polat a été de nouveau reconnu coupable de complicité des crimes des frères Saïd et Chérif Kouachi et d’Amedy Coulibaly, et condamné jeudi à la peine maximale, la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité.

En première instance, en décembre 2020, ce délinquant qui a toujours nié être un “terroriste” avait été condamné à trente ans de réclusion criminelle. 

La cour d’assises spéciale de Paris statuant en appel a alourdi cette peine, suivant les réquisitions du parquet général qui lui demandait de “protéger” la société d’un homme à la “dangerosité extrême” et d’”adresser un message clair” à ceux qui seraient “tentés d’aider un terroriste”.

Les magistrats professionnels ont assorti cette peine d’une période de sûreté de vingt ans.

Après six semaines de débats et plus de neuf heures de délibéré, Ali Riza Polat, un Franco-Turc de 37 ans, large carrure dans un sweat-shirt blanc, s’est levé après l’énoncé du verdict et a fait mine de quitter le box, avant de se rasseoir.

Dans la salle d’audience, la poignée de parties civiles présentes ont accueilli le verdict dans un lourd silence et une once de stupéfaction.

En prenant la parole une dernière fois jeudi avant que la cour ne se retire pour délibérer, Ali Riza Polat s’était redit innocent des accusations portées contre lui. “Je ne me suis jamais réveillé un matin pour détruire la vie de ces gens-là”.

“Aide déterminante”

Se présentant volontiers comme un voyou qui “aime l’argent”, ce proche du tueur de l’Hyper Cacher Amedy Coulibaly a juste reconnu avoir récupéré un sac d’armes “pourries” à l’été 2014, en assurant qu’elles étaient destinées à un “braquage”. 

“Si j’avais fourni les armes, j’aurais assumé”, a-t-il affirmé. 

Pour l’accusation, ce “bras droit” et “complice idéal” d’Amedy Coulibaly, avec lequel il a grandi à Grigny (Essonne), était “au cœur des préparatifs de ces tueries monstrueuses”. 

Il a “apporté une aide déterminante aux terroristes” qui avaient agi de manière concertée les 7, 8 et 9 janvier 2015, et “en parfaite connaissance de cause” de leurs projets, avait asséné l’avocate générale Manon Brignol. 

“La nature de ces armes ne peut que signer une volonté évidente d’action violente”, a souligné le président Jean-Christophe Hullin, en rendant le délibéré.

La cour a par ailleurs condamné à treize ans de prison – dont deux tiers de sûreté – un autre proche d’Amedy Coulibaly, Amar Ramdani, également rejugé pour avoir fourni des armes au futur tueur de l’Hyper Cacher.

“Rien à voir”

Le parquet général avait demandé la confirmation de la peine maximale de vingt ans de réclusion pour association de malfaiteurs terroriste criminelle prononcée en première instance. 

Le visage très marqué, Amar Ramdani, 41 ans, a semblé assommé par la décision.

Il “est condamné pour terrorisme, ce qu’il a toujours réfuté et ce qu’il a continué à réfuter à l’énoncé du verdict”, a réagi l’un de ses avocats, Me Yves Leberquier, soulignant le “sentiment extrêmement mitigé” de sa défense qui avait plaidé l’acquittement. 

Les avocats d’Ali Riza Polat n’ont pas souhaité faire de déclaration. 

La défense avait appelé mercredi la cour à “la rigueur”, estimant que les “hypothèses” présentées par l’accusation sur la récupération des armes via deux filières utilisées par Amedy Coulibaly, l’une lilloise, l’autre belge, ne pouvaient constituer des “preuves” de culpabilité.

“L’histoire judiciaire se termine, mais l’histoire des victimes continuera. (…) Après deux procès, on a compris qui avait fait quoi”, a estimé Riss, de son vrai nom Laurent Sourisseau, le directeur de la publication de Charlie Hebdo, et l’un des survivants du massacre dans cette rédaction. 

Avec cette décision, “on a opposé à la barbarie et à la haine la justice. La justice est passée”, ont affirmé MMes Marie-Laure Barré et Nathalie Senyk, conseils de victimes de Charlie Hebdo. 

Pendant trois jours de terreur, du 7 au 9 janvier 2015, les frères Kouachi et Amedy Coulibaly avaient porté le combat jihadiste sur le sol français, contre la liberté d’expression, les forces de l’ordre et la communauté juive, et tué 17 personnes, dont les caricaturistes Cabu et Wolinski.

Leur périple meurtrier et coordonné avait pris fin avec leur mort lors d’un double assaut policier. 

Ces attentats ont marqué le début d’une funeste série d’attaques jihadistes, avec celle du 13 novembre 2015 dont le procès s’est achevé en juin et celle de la Promenade des Anglais à Nice le 14 juillet 2016, actuellement jugée dans le même palais de justice.

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JUST IN: Five life sentences for mass murderer Rushane Barnett Loop Jamaica

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The content originally appeared on: Jamaica News Loop News

Confessed mass murderer Rushane Barnett was on Thursday given five life sentences by a Home Circuit Court judge who referred to the murders he committed as being beyond “adjectives and descriptions”.

Barnett will be eligible for parole after 61 years and eight months.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecution was seeking to have Barnett remain behind bars for a minimum of 60 years.

The accused man pleaded guilty and was convicted on five counts of murder in July.

Barrett killed his cousins Kimesha Wright, 31, and her children Kimanda Smith, 15, Shara-Lee Smith, 10, Rafaella Smith, five, and 23-month-old Kishawn Henry in Cocoa Piece district, Clarendon in June this year. They were his cousins.

On Thursday, Justice Leighton Pusey indicated early in his statement on the sentencing that Barnett would be given life in prison. He said what the court struggled with was how much time Barnett should serve before he may be paroled.

Justice Pusey said the murder is shocking even in a country such as Jamaica where murder is prevalent.

The judge, who struggled to find adjectives to deal with the matter, said that Barnett lacked remorse, and the nature of the crimes were few of the factor influencing the sentence.

Justice Pusey said that he hopes that Wright is being remembered as a good mother who struggled to take care of her children and for them to go to school and find time to run a shop.

He said, too, that he hopes the children will also be remembered for their dreams that they will never get to realise and baby Henry, whose relatives will not hear his words.

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Ronaldo left out of Man United squad for Chelsea match Loop Jamaica

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Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo warms up ahead of the English Premier League football match against Tottenham at Old Trafford in Manchester, England, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson).

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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo will be left out of Manchester United’s squad to face Chelsea, the club said Thursday after the Portugal international walked out of the team’s 2-0 win over Tottenham before the final whistle.

United manager Erik ten Hag said after Wednesday’s walkout at Old Trafford that he would “deal with” Ronaldo a day later.

“Cristiano will not be part of the Manchester United squad for this Saturday’s game against Chelsea,” United said in a statement Thursday. “The rest of the squad is fully focused on preparing for that fixture.”

United said they fully backed the decision made by Ten Hag.

Ronaldo headed to the changing room after being left as an unused substitute in the match.

It left Ten Hag fielding questions about the incident on a night when United produced arguably their best performance of the season.

“I don’t pay attention today,” the Dutchman said after the match. “We deal with that tomorrow. I want to keep the focus on this team. It was a magnificent performance from all the 11 players.”

Ten Hag has already proved himself a strict disciplinarian — cancelling his team’s day off after the 4-0 defeat to Brentford in August, while he was also critical of Ronaldo and other players for leaving a preseason friendly after Rayo Vallecano at halftime in July.

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UPP condemns Troy Allen and Pointe FM for defamatory and dangerous remarks and calls on Police Commissioner to investigate

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UPP condemns Troy Allen and Pointe FM for defamatory and dangerous remarks and calls on Police Commissioner to investigate

 The Leadership and Executive of the United Progressive Party (UPP) categorically deny and condemn the scurrilous accusations made by radio host Troy Allen on Pointe FM on October 19, 2022.

Allen, knowingly and willfully, accused the UPP of involvement in criminal activities, not only in the past, but stated that the Party is behind the spate of unlawful acts that now have residents fearing for their safety and security.

These filthy lies and dangerous statements have been widely broadcast, locally and internationally, doing damage to the good name and character of the Party and its membership.

There has been no condemnation, distancing, or apology for this outrageous display of political partisanship from the owners and management of the radio station on which the defamatory remarks were made.

However, we fully expect that Commissioner of Police Atlee Rodney will investigate these spurious allegations with a view to uncovering what Mr. Allen knows about such criminal activity, and we call on the Commissioner to do the right thing, without fear or favour.

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