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In an address to the nation last night United Progressive Party leader Harold Lovell has announced that he will dissolve the government’s main investment mechanism the National Asset Management Company.
“NAMCO is the people’s investment company, and the Jolly Beach property stands to become an asset of the people, as well.
Accordingly, the people DESERVE TO KNOW what deal this Administration has entered into on our behalf, and the Freedom of Information Act entitles us to know.And one final statement on NAMCO. NAMCO is not transparent, provides another needless layer of bureaucracy and doesn’t serve a useful purpose.
The UPP will suspend, audit, then dissolve NAMCO and pursue a more relevant private sector led development strategy; we will EMPOWER Antiguans and Barbudans by selling them the shares of existing companies owned by NAMCO.
Any funds currently held in NAMCO will be transferred to the consolidated fund.
It is important for the people to be able to trust that the Government is making decisions in our best interest, and at this time – sadly – distrust and disillusion are the order of the day.
Our prospects for the future are dim under this Administration. And no amount of rant, rave or rancour will change the fact that, under the ALP Government, there have been virtually NO new investments and our country has regressed by decades.
It is time… for a change.”
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Nouvel essai de missile balistique, passages d’avions de chasse, tirs d’artillerie en mer: Pyongyang s’est livré jeudi et vendredi à des démonstrations de force militaire près de la frontière avec la Corée du Sud, affirmant répondre à des “provocations” de Séoul.
La Corée du Nord a multiplié ces dernières semaines les essais d’armes décrits comme des simulations de frappes “nucléaires tactiques” contre des cibles en Corée du Sud. Séoul et Washington s’attendent par ailleurs à ce que Pyongyang, qui s’estime menacé par les manoeuvres militaires américanes, sud-coréennes et japonaises dans la région, reprenne prochainement ses essais nucléaires.
Selon l’agence officielle nord-coréenne KCNA, un missile balistique a été tiré en direction de la mer dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi, en réponse à un exercice d’artillerie de la Corée du Sud.
Un porte-parole de l’armée nord-coréenne cité dans un communiqué a accusé l’armée sud-coréenne d’avoir effectué jeudi “des tirs d’artillerie pendant environ dix heures” près de la frontière. L’armée nord-coréenne “a pris de fortes contre-mesures militaires” en réponse à cette “action provocatrice”, a ajouté le communiqué diffusé par KCNA.
Pyongyang a lancé “un avertissement sévère aux militaires sud-coréens qui attisent la tension militaire dans la zone de la ligne de front par leurs actions irréfléchies”, a poursuivi le communiqué.
Selon l’état-major interarmées sud-coréen, le missile a été lancé depuis la zone de Sunan à Pyongyang aux premières heures de vendredi.
Et entre 23H30 jeudi et 00H20 vendredi heures locales, soit peu avant le tir du dernier missile, dix avions de combat nord-coréens ont survolé jeudi une zone à 25 km de la frontière avec la Corée du Sud, qui a envoyé à son tour des appareils en réponse, selon l’état-major sud-coréen cité par Yonhap.
Les avions nord-coréens ont franchi une “ligne de reconnaissance”, déclenchant une réponse automatique de la part du Sud, selon la même source. Séoul a fait décoller des avions de combat, y compris des F-35A.
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Il s’agit du deuxième déploiement important d’avions de combat en une semaine.
La Corée du Nord a ensuite procédé à 170 tirs d’artillerie dans ses eaux sur ses côtes est et ouest, en violation d’une “zone tampon” établie lors d’un accord en 2018 avec le Sud pour prévenir les incidents en mer, selon l’état-major sud-coréen.
“Le Nord semble avoir pris très au sérieux le récent essai d’artillerie du Sud”, a expliqué à l’AFP, Hong Min du Korea Institute for National Unification. Selon cet analyste, les tirs dans la “zone tampon” maritime ressemblent à “une tentative pour tester la réponse de Séoul”.
Mercredi, deux missiles de croisière stratégiques de longue portée avaient été tirés par la Corée du Nord. Le dirigeant Kim Jong Un, qui a assisté à ces tirs, a exprimé sa “grande satisfaction” sur l’état de préparation des forces nucléaires de combat du pays, selon KCNA.
Les Etats-Unis ont condamné le dernier tir de missile balistique. “Ce lancement, ainsi que les autres au cours du mois écoulé, violent de multiples résolutions du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies” et “menacent la paix et la stabilité de la région”, a déclaré un porte-parole du département d’Etat.
Il a déploré que la Corée du Nord “refuse de répondre” aux offres de dialogue américaines.
En début de semaine, Kim Jong Un a rejeté l’idée d’une reprise des négociations sur ses programmes d’armement interdits, déclarant que la Corée du Nord “n’en ressentait pas la nécessité”.
Le Conseil national de sécurité sud-coréen a condamné pour sa part les “actions hostiles” au cours de la nuit, avertissant que “de telles provocations auront des conséquences”.
Séoul a également imposé vendredi ses premières sanctions unilatérales en cinq ans, visant des personnes et des institutions nord-coréennes.
Les tensions ne cessent de monter dans la péninsule coréenne depuis le début de l’année. En réponse aux essais d’armes de Pyongyang, la Corée du Sud et les Etats-Unis ont intensifié leurs exercices militaires conjoints. Mais la Corée du Nord voit dans ces manoeuvres une répétition à une invasion de son territoire, et a répliqué par de nouvelles séries de tests de missiles.
Le mois dernier, la Corée du Nord a par ailleurs déclaré que son statut de puissance nucléaire était “irréversible”, fermant définitivement la porte à toute négociation de désarmement, et a fait savoir qu’elle s’autorisait des frappes préventives en cas de menace.
Séoul comme Washington mettent en garde depuis des mois contre le risque que Pyongyang procède à un essai nucléaire, qui serait le septième de son histoire et le premier depuis 2017.
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Netflix next month will unveil the first version of its video streaming service with ads, giving cost-conscious viewers a chance to watch most of its shows at a steep discount in exchange for putting up with commercial interruptions.
The ad-supported service is scheduled to debut November 3 as Netflix tries to reverse a drop in subscribers. It will cost $7 per month in the US, a 55 per cent markdown from Netflix’s most popular US $15.50-per-month plan, which is ad-free.
Netflix’s ad-supported option will also be rolling out in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Spain, and the UK, according to a Thursday post by the company’s chief operating officer, Greg Peters.
Besides putting up with roughly four to five minutes of ads during each hour of viewing, Netflix subscribers who sign up for the cheaper service also won’t be able to download TV shows and movies to watch when their devices are offline. Peters also said a “limited” amount of programming available on the commercial-free service won’t be on the ad-supported version because of licensing issues.
Netflix’s 15-year-old streaming service has until now been commercial free, but the Los Gatos, California, company decided to head in a new direction six months ago after reporting its first loss in subscribers in more than a decade.
The customer erosion worsened a wrenching decline in its stock price that has wiped up more than US$200 billion in shareholder wealth during the past 11 months. The shares rallied after Thursday’s announcement, but still have lost about two-thirds of their value since reaching their peak last November when the streaming service was still growing.
Through the first half of this year, Netflix lost 1.2 million subscribers, leaving it with nearly 221 million.
Management in July predicted it would regain about 1 million of those subscribers during the summer months. The numbers for the July-September period are scheduled to be disclosed Tuesday.
Netflix is betting the low-priced option with ads will be particularly popular at a time that persistently high inflation is pressuring millions of households to curb their spending, particularly on discretionary items such as video streaming.
The streaming market also has become crowded with tougher competition from the likes of Amazon, Apple and Walt Disney Co, which also is preparing to offer an ad-supported version of its service soon.
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
AP Technology Writer
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When Constable Owen Graham responded to a call while on duty in December 2019, he had no idea that his life would change forever.
As fate would have it, the vehicle in which the officer was travelling was involved in a crash, leaving his colleague dead and him being paralysed from the waist down.
The incident has left the 27-year-old devastated, in that it caused him to feel like a prisoner in his abode, where his father, two sisters and spouse also reside.
The house, which he explained was not retrofitted to address his disability needs, made it next to impossible to move without being lifted.
The Clarendon native said he now has something to look forward to after being selected for one of the 30 detached two-bedroom units at Roseneath Park Development in St Catherine under the National Housing Trust’s (NHT) Special Home Grant Allotment Policy.
The development, which is approximately one kilometres from Old Harbour town centre, has been retrofitted to improve access, functionality and comfort for the young constable.
Equipped with the installation of grab bars in the bathroom, access ramps, customised shower design and kitchen cupboards, Constable Graham said he is “looking forward for better, because this really gives me peace of mind. I am truly grateful to the NHT.”
Graham is one of the first beneficiaries of the grant, which saw an additional $2.55 million in modification, which also includes a change from drywall to reinforced concrete walls to facilitate the installation of the related accessories, as well as the construction of a reinforced concrete slab with a minimum of four feet wide around the perimeter of the unit.
The NHT has moved towards a new policy on subsidies where persons with disabilities who are beneficiaries of units, will be identified early in the construction process to facilitate personalised modifications to their units. This will be at no additional cost to the beneficiaries, and are to be in place prior to occupancy.
In addition, the Special Grant for Persons with Disabilities has been doubled to $300,000.
By doubling the grant, individuals will be more equipped to upgrade their homes to meet their special needs. The advantage to the recipient is there immediate, rather than over the term of a mortgage.
“Small things are now big. Before, I could move all 10 toes without thinking. (Now) moving just one toe right now would be almost years of accomplishment,” Graham said with a chuckle.
Though a life-altering experience, he remains positive, adding that the prospect of homeownership has been a welcomed move, which has aided with the optimistic outlook.
“I am grateful for the NHT because this incident could have caused me to have a mental breakdown… Persons who end up with a disability tend to think that life is over, but once you tell your mind everything will be fine, then things change.
“Getting this house has given me hope as I look forward to a brand new life,” he stated.
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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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