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PARAMARIBO — Suriname en Frankrijk hebben dinsdag een overeenkomst getekend om de uitstaande schulden te herschikken. Daarvan is een deel
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A woman who was denied entry into a Government building in Trinidad and Tobago because of her sleeveless dress has become a viral sensation for her solution to meet the dress code.
Allison Skinner-Bacchus, a caterer, was able to gain entry into the Treasury Building in downtown Port-of-Spain after donning a curtain over her sleeveless dress.
Skinner-Bacchus, who hails from Arouca, went viral on social media when a friend posted the story and a photo of her with a pink curtain draped over her black and white dress.
“I came to the bank and a security officer, who was very pleasant, said I couldn’t come in with my arms exposed. She pointed out the stipulations as to what obtained on entry and I said okay and walked back to my car that was parked on the other street,” she told Loop News.
Skinner-Bacchus said upon reaching the car, she spotted the curtain and had a lightbulb moment.
“I see this curtain watching me fix in my face and I say come here, we going. I extra so I could have done it like a lil scarf, but I shake open the whole curtain and drape it like a superhero and went in, the security was in stitches,” she recalled.
Skinner-Bacchus said when she left the building she stopped a random stranger and asked them to take a photo of her posing in her curtain throw over. She sent the photo to a friend who posted it on Facebook.
“It was never intended to be nothing like this,” she said, noting that people found her actions very funny.
A caterer by profession, she said she always has a curtain or a piece of cloth in her car to cover food or stack them to prevent things from moving while she was driving.
Stating that she hadn’t been to the Treasury Building in years, she said she only went to cash a Government cheque that she could not deposit at her credit union.
She said while as a caterer she has dress codes she must adhere to, she does not understand why she cannot bare her arms in a Government office.
“I think it is archaic and I do not know what is the vulgarity or offense about a woman’s arm. I am into rules and I understand as a caterer there is certain attire not acceptable in my business but to do a certain transaction why can’t I show my bare arms?”
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Two men sustained injuries from a shooting incident in Bexon on Thursday evening.
According to reports, the two were among a group of individuals on their way home when masked men shot at them.
The Saint Lucia Fire Service (SLFS) said it dispatched emergency personnel to the scene after receiving a call for assistance.
But on arrival, private transportation had already taken the young male victims to the hospital.
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Lundi 10 octobre, à l’aéroport Félix Eboué, les agents de la Police aux frontières ont mis la main sur 12,6 kilos de cocaïne selon Radio Peyi, dissimulés dans la valise d’un individu. Le mis en cause était toujours en garde à vue jeudi matin. Selon deux sources distinctes, l’homme en question serait un certain Frédéric Stanley Jean Baptiste, âgé de 29 ans. Placé en garde à vue depuis, l’homme est interrogé par les enquêteurs de l’Office anti-stupéfiants (OFAST). Cet Agent de service de la voie publique (ASVP) au sein de la Police Municipale de Cayenne, fait aussi partie des effectifs…
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This talented artist with disability sketches beautifully detailed portraits using his mouth.
Clutching a pencil in his lips, Phromphan Chotisiradanan, 26, draws on a blank canvas, with each twitch of his head deftly capturing his client’s features.
The young portraitist is based in Thailand’s Chiang Mai province but finds commissions through his social media accounts. The money he earns is enough to pay for his college fees and support himself and his mother.
Phromphan said: “I was born like this, and my mother has always taken amazing care of me. I am disabled physically, but my mind is just like a regular person’s.
“I don’t feel sad for myself because I was born like this, so it’s normal for me. I think it must be a lot worse for people who were born without disabilities but suddenly become disabled.
“I also like to sing during my free time. I’m currently taking my master’s in fine arts and architecture. I want to become a teacher one day.”
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Najan Christopher, director of the International Affairs Secretariat, has been charged in connection with a diplomatic note that was allegedly sent without authorisation to request diplomatic immunity for then-Premier Andrew Fahie shortly after his Miami arrest on drug and money -laundering conspiracy charges, police said.
The note — which was printed on letterhead from the Office of the Premier and carried the secretariat’s stamp — was dispatched to the United States Office of International Affairs five days after Mr. Fahie’s April 28 arrest.
The next day, Mr. Fahie’s Miami lawyer, Theresa Van Vliet, filed it in court as part of an attempt to invoke head-of government immunity. Ms. Van Vliet argued that Mr. Fahie was immune from arrest and detention in the US by virtue of his position as VI premier. The letter made a similar argument.
“The Office of the Premier of the Virgin Islands hereby further confirms that it is the official position of the government of the Virgin Islands that the Honourable Andrew A. Fahie, as the most senior member of the Cabinet, holds high ranking office in the Virgin Islands and on that basis [sic] immunity as recognised by international and domestic law, akin to heads of government immunity,” the letter stated.
It added that Mr. Fahie had such immunity at the time of his arrest and that he had not waived it. Presenting the diplomatic note and other evidence, Ms. Van Vleit requested Mr. Fahie’s “immediate return and free passage” back to the territory.
The following day, however, then-acting Premier Dr. Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley stated that the letter was sent by a “rogue public officer” without his knowledge or the knowledge of Premier’s Office Permanent Secretary Dr. Carolyn O’Neal Morton.
Dr. Wheatley added that the letter did not represent the VI government’s official position, and he said that Dr. O’Neal Morton was working with Deputy Governor David Archer to investigate the matter. The following week, however, Dr. Wheatley confirmed on May 13 that the “rogue” public officer and Dr. O’Neal Morton had both been sent on leave.
Police Information Officer Diane Drayton announced Tuesday that Ms. Christopher was arrested on Monday and charged with breach of trust by a public officer and false assumption of authority. She was granted bail of $5,000 to appear before Magistrates’ Court on Nov. 30, Ms. Drayton stated.
Ms. Christopher’s charges stemmed from the diplomatic note, according to the information officer.
Mr. Fahie, along with former BVI Ports Authority Managing Director Oleanvine Maynard and her son Kadeem Maynard, are set to go on trial in January. The trio were indicted by a Florida grand jury on May 10 for conspiracy to import a controlled substance, conspiracy to engage in money laundering, and attempted money laundering. They are accused of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States.
Mr. Fahie is currently on house arrest in his daughters’ rented apartment in Florida, where he has been since he was released on bail after spending approximately six weeks in custody at the Federal Detention Center in Miami.
His lawyer secured a $1 million bond offer following a month-long battle with prosecutors. He was released on June 13 after his childhood friend and prominent VI businessman Albion “Bobby” Hodge posted a $500,000 bond and satisfied a Nebbia requirement by proving that the money was not the proceeds of crime.
Besides the bond posted by Mr. Hodge, Mr. Fahie was required to post a $500,000 personal surety bond, which was co-signed by himself, his daughters and his friend Devon Osborne. The Maynards were denied bail and remain in custody.
The US currently has more than 133 hours of video and audio recordings included in its evidence against the trio, according to a document filed last month in the Southern District Court of Florida. If played back-to-back, without interruption, those recordings would last for more than five full days
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File photo: Psychiatrist Dr Varma Deyalsingh.
Independent Senator Dr Varma Deyalsingh said the 2022/2023 budget had the potential of further fuelling a mental health crisis in TT, following the covid19 pandemic. He appealed to government to increase the allocation to mental health in the allocation to the Health Ministry.
He said the Health Minister had understood that the pandemic had created a mental heath crisis and given additional clinics and greater access to medications and resources. He said the pre-pandemic cost of living crisis would be exacerbated by the budget measures.
Deyalsingh said crime had become an additional stress factor and suggested several strategies which could be used to combat this.
“A caring government would allow people to get firearms users licences and give them access to firearms with the relevant licenses and training, especially farmers and fisherfolk. They would give tax rebates on cameras, remove VAT on steel, get YTEPP students to put up burglar-proofing for those who could not afford it, give people access to pepper spray, and deploy army personnel to help municipal police.”
He said he had seen a public relations exercise where the National Security Minister destroyed guns and wondered why they had not been given to farmers and fisherfolk to protect themselves, or sold to other Caricom countries for their defence.
He said the ballistics should have been given to Interpol to see if they had been used to commit crimes elsewhere, and suggested the government ask the US Drug Enforcement Agency for training and assistance since the most recent US travel advisory had embarrassed us.
Deyalsingh called for increased surgeries for common problems such as prostate surgery, cataracts, hernias, etc. He said there needed to be more social workers and mental health counsellors available to reach out to people on the verge of starvation.
He said as TT is an ageing population, and the National Housing Authority should address this by designating areas where elderly people can pay to live or their relatives can pay for them.
“Right now people are looking for hole-in-the-wall places to put their parents and grandparents. They’re always calling me to ask for advice, where can I put mummy and daddy. These places could have pool therapy, mental stimulation etc. The elderly will soon be 30 per cent of the population, an excellent voting bloc if you think of these things.”
He also suggested some retirees could be hired as translators for clinics and to train younger people in various fields.
Deyalsingh said an effort must be made at having public-sector workers work from home where applicable or have staggered working hours, as this would help against wasting fuel, pollution, and traffic. He said traffic is a major problem as medical journals said it increases the risk of diabetes and stroke, and the treatment of these is a major cost to the country.
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door Samuel Wens BOVEN-SURINAME — “De Aucaners laten zich niet uit over interne kwesties van andere stammen, zoals die over de aanstelling van de granman van de Saramaccaners”, zegt
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L’heure est proche. La premi?re r?union du groupe Carimi, juste pour un soir, est pour ce 15 octobre. Une premi?re depuis la dissolution du groupe en 2016.
Rendez-vous est donn? ? l’avenue de Bercy ? Paris, ? l’Accor Arena, l’une des plus grandes salles de spectacle en France avec plus de 20 mille places.
Avant Carimi, tout seul, aucun groupe ha?tien ne s’?tait lanc? un tel d?fi.
Au terme d’une s?ance de r?p?tition, mercredi 12 octobre, Ticket, au coeur des pr?paratifs, a parl? aux principaux acteurs qui ont partag? leurs attentes ? l’approche du jour-j et ont d?crit l’ambiance apr?s 6 ans de s?paration.
<>, s’est exclam? Richard Cav?, au micro de Ticket. Converti en vrai front man avec sa nouvelle formation musicale Ka?, Richard Cav? a soulign? que le jeu d’ensemble de l’?quipe Carimi est rest? intact, en d?pit du temps. <>, s’est-il ?tonn?. Mickael Guirand, le lead vocal, confirme. <>, explique-t-il.
? c?t? de la sant? musicale, entre ces anciens collaborateurs qui se sont quitt?s avec tension, quelle ambiance r?gne-t-il alors qu’ils s?journent dans le m?me h?tel ? <>, affirme Mickael Guirand. <>, reconna?t Richard Cav?. <>, poursuit-il.
Carlo Vieux, pour sa part, met en avant le d?passement. <>, avance-t-il, en insistant, comme ses anciens coll?gues, que la r?union n’est pas motiv?e avant tout par l’argent comme certains seraient tent?s de le croire. Et m?me si c’?tait le cas ? questionne Carlo Vieux. <>, exhorte-t-il.
Heureux d’?tre l? et pr?t ? offrir le meilleur
Mis ? part les vieux souvenirs qui pourraient hanter ce moment, les messieurs de Carimi sont heureux d’?tre l? et sont pr?ts ? faire bouger Paris. <>, raconte Mickael Guirand. <>, avoue pour sa part le Carlo Vieux.
Mickael Guirand promet un Carimi dans sa <>, servant son compas en trois dimensions (Ca-R-i-Mi), comme dans vos souvenirs >>. Mikaben qui a collabor? dans le temps avec le groupe sur quelques projets, est aussi pr?sent dans la capitale fran?aise pour l’?v?nement. <>, s’exalte-t-il. Michael Benjamin rappelle que <> ?tait le num?ro 1 de Spotify sur l’album <> (2009) et que c’?tait pareil pour <> sur <>, en 2013, sur la m?me plate-forme. On retrouve la voix de Mika sur ces deux morceaux. <>, assure-t-il.
La premi?re r?union d’une s?rie ?
Apr?s Paris, les mordus de Carimi de partout doivent se demander s’il y aura d’autres rendez-vous avec cette gloire de la musique ha?tienne. Notamment, en Am?rique du Nord, dans les Antilles et particuli?rement chez eux, en Ha?ti. C’est une possibilit? que Richard Cav? n’?carte pas. <>, a prudemment r?pondu le lead vocal de Ka?. <>, dit simplement Mickael Guirand.
Carimi a ?t? fond? le 20 juillet 2001. Le nom est tir? des deux premi?res lettres du pr?nom des 3 membres fondateurs, CArlo, RIchard et MIckael. C’est l’un des plus populaires groupes ha?tiens des ann?es 2000, tant au niveau national qu’international, pour avoir gravi les sc?nes les plus convoit?s du monde. Carimi n’existe plus depuis juillet 2016, quand le lead vocal Mickael Guirand a annonc? son d?part pour des raisons <>. Ce dernier a fond? Vayb, Richard Cav?, Ka? et Carlo Vieux a arr?t? de faire de la musique pour se consacrer ? une carri?re dans la technologie de la sant?. C’est la premi?re fois que des membres de Carimi, avec 6 albums studio ? son actif, se r?unissent pour un spectacle depuis la rupture.
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The richest race in the English-speaking Caribbean, the inaugural running of the Mouttet Mile offering a record purse of US$125,000, will be run at Caymanas Park on Saturday, December 3, with Mayberry Investments Limited coming on board as title sponsor.
In addition to the US$125,000 for the Mouttet Mile, Solomon Sharpe, chairman of Supreme Ventures Racing Entertainment Limited (SVREL), pointed out that there will be a US$25,000 purse for another race on the card.
“I dare say we should not just look at the purse of $125,000 for the feature race as we will also have the inaugural running of the Peter Stewart Memorial for US$25,000 so that is two races for US$150,000,” said Sharpe at a press conference at Mayberry Investments Limited headquarters on Oxford Road earlier today. “We are also working on the undercard and an announcement will be made soon.”
The Mouttet Mile is an invitational race that is expected to feature the maximum field of 16. Four spaces will be reserved for overseas entries.
Damian Whylie, general manager of asset management at Mayberry Investments Limited said the announcement represents “a testament of how valuable this game-changing event is, and we are honoured to be part of it.”
Whylie further pointed out that “Mayberry Investments has always been a strong supporter of the many sporting activities islandwide. As such, we had to join hands with Supreme Ventures in this esteemed race. We must laud the team for having taken on the initiative to host this grand invitational that will see both local and international competitors vying for the top spot.”
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