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Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the author(s) do not represent the official position of Barbados TODAY. by Keith Holder In responding to questions at a media conference on Wednesday relating to the selection of the 15-member West Indies squad for the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia next month, lead selector The Most Honourable […]
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\"Everybody on social media does just take everything for a joke.\" She said she did not get any useful information about her missing pet and is constantly at edge wondering if Peep is in pain or worse, dead.
\"Some people love materialistic things and they don't how to value life. I'm not looking for attention or fame, I just want my chicken back.\"
Khan said her mother has been a rock of support and even though she was at first sceptical about posting the missing poster on Facebook, she relented so that \"the person who took Peep will realise just how much that chicken is of value to me.\"
This newspaper decided to not use Khan's image to protect her from further trauma.
The soft-spoken woman was emotional and on the verge of tears as she recalled her time with Peep. She said her pet lived indoors, watched television, and was at her side for most of the day whenever she is at home.
[caption id=\"attachment_952299\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"480\"] The missing poster pleading for people to help find the missing chicken. -[/caption]
On April 24, she let Peep outside to mingle with her companions, Springs and Browns, two other layers she bought to keep her beloved chicken company. Sometime between noon and 3 pm, Peep went missing and led to a frantic search in the rural community where hunting is a vocation. She could not find any feathers or even a trail of blood in the days that followed but still clings on to hope that someone stole her chicken and may have her pet alive in captivity.
\"Even if she is not alive, I still want her,\" Khan said. She said the first day without Peep was the hardest as she could not eat or sleep.
Every time Khan goes home she is reminded of the emptiness and silence without the happy chirping of her pet.
Last April, Khan was diagnosed with covid19 which knocked her off her feet.
She said Peep helped her cope during the pandemic an
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SOURCE: CMC: The London-based Privy Council has reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the former vice president of the International Football Federation (FIFA) and former senior Trinidad and Tobago government minister Jack Warner regarding his extradition to the United States. Warner is questioning whether the Extradition (United States of America) Order is unlawful as […]
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The Immunisation Unit advises the public that COVID-19 vaccines will be available at Building No. 2, Harbour Industrial Park, St. Michael, today, Sunday, May 1, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Getty Images The New England Patriots selected UT-Chattanooga offensive lineman Cole Strange at No. 29 overall during the 2022 NFL Draft. This surprised more than a few people, including the…
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The University of the West Indies (UWI) is working on a new funding model, which if successful, will result in approximately a two per cent increase in funding from regional governments and the private sector, international partners and entrepreneurial activities. This was disclosed on Friday by Vice Chancellor of the UWI Sir Hilary Beckles, who […]
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Chief executive Johnny Grave is confident a “record year” of revenues can transform Cricket West Indies’ finances crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic, and return the organisation to sustainability. Pointing to major money-spinning home tours this year, along with disbursements from the International Cricket Council, Grave said CWI could find itself with a major surplus which […]
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The idea that good will always prevail over evil is constantly being challenged and the current state of politics in many countries reminds us that we should not take our democratic freedoms for granted. Certainly, many Americans would have rejected out of hand any suggestion that they were not the gold standard for democracy. However, […]
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Reports suggest that the players had not been paid bonuses for the two matches they have won in the last five matches, leading to a standoff with club management hours before kickoff.
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The K&N/Denso Racing SuperSpecial at Bushy Park will bring Sol Rally Barbados 2022 to a floodlit climax and introduce an exciting new sponsor to motor sport in the island. The St Philip facility will play a key role in the Barbados Rally Club's (BRC) blue riband event this year, hosting The Rally Show for the […]
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the author(s) do not represent the official position of Barbados TODAY. by Wilberne Persaud A few weeks ago, a regrettable faux pas pushed Guyana’s Local Content Policy (LCP) into news headlines across the region. The Act seeks reasonable retention of benefits generated by activity in the oil sector […]
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TRU-VALU CEO Sunil Maharajh expressed extreme concern after supermarket chain, Massy Stores confirmed that it had undergone a cyberattack, prompting it to close all its 23 branches in Trinidad on Thursday.
Maharajh said such cyberattacks was a concern for every business.
“I don’t think anyone can sleep easily tonight,” he said. “This brings entire operations to a halt. If you lose a day of trading that could hurt you significantly.”
Maharajh said the Tru-Valu chain took appropriate precautions to guard itself against cyberattacks but in light of the incident at Massy Stores, it will do further assessments to find weak points and address them.
He said that many businesses have taken precautions against cyberattacks but in some cases it may not be enough.
“Sometimes these things are done from places far away by people who have infinitely more resources than we have. In many ways we are a small island in a big world, and groceries like Massy are big to us, but it is still a matter of perspective. On a global scale Massy is not very large. It could be people from outside this country with a lot of resources who can conspire to do something like this.”
Amcham – Cyberattacks on the rise
Amcham TT CEO Nirad Tewarie, citing a PWC report on cyber security, noted that cyberattacks were on the rise, noting that there is a need to pay more attention to digital security. He said proper risk assessment and having internal tech teams working with internet service providers would be some of the best ways to mitigate the risk of cyberattacks.
“Businesses have to, as best as they can, stay current and assess risk and close whatever avenues to intrusion as quickly as possible,” he said. “The other thing that businesses would have to do is be very aware of social engineering. This is where people – most often employees – are tricked into allowing malware into a system. That could take the form of someone getting to know someone else and encouraging inadvertently or introduce a file that has malware, or it could be as simple as clicking on an email or opening an attachment that may in fact be malware.”
He added that government offices, too, should be aware and assess and mitigate such risks.
He said many tech consultancy companies perform risk assessments.
Tewarie said cyberattacks are staged to hold information at ransom, where all data on a business’ system can be locked and the attackers offer to release the data for a fee, or to access information that would later on be sold on the dark web.
PWC report – cybercrime the biggest threat to business
A PWC report indicated that 46 per cent of surveyed businesses reported experiencing fraud, corruption or other economic crimes in the past 24 months, and cybercrime tops the list of threats facing businesses.
The report was done from a survey of 1,296 businesses from across 53 countries including TT and indicated that cybercrime, customer fraud and asset misappropriation were the most common crimes experienced by businesses regardless of how big or small they
THE EDITOR: There is so much darkness in this small country of ours of barely one and a half million people - 12 murders on the Easter weekend when Christ would have resurrected to bring light into the world. But amidst this all-pervading darkness there are little pockets of light that keep flickering, like the luminescent algae on a moonlit night in Manzanilla, giving us some hope of redemption, as the Resurrection was intended to do.
Like with the Public Service, often stereotyped as 'no service,' but where I found such rays of light, in two instances, first at the Licensing Office in San Fernando, where the darkness loomed initially, my wife and I being turned away because we overlooked the need to confirm the appointment details and so did not in fact have an official appointment although the computer chit gave the details of the date and time et al.
However, the officer nonchalantly sent us packing to return in another six months, my only peeve being that he could have been a little more considerate about senior citizens like ourselves, not being computer savvy and likely to err. But he did not, and in hindsight he was simply doing his job.
But when we did get another appointment only six weeks after instead of six months as the officer had said, as if by divine intervention, redemption came in the form of a buxom security officer, seemingly intimidating and 'huff and puff,' who initially refused my request to accompany my wife, often prone to little bouts of weakness while standing in a line.
But the security officer was far from discourteous, as I came to realise afterwards. She was merely insisting that 'the lady can take care of herself,' which she facilitated by personally seeing to it that she was well placed in the line and then ushering her to the photography section in front of all others as a senior citizen. And in 'two twos,' as we say in Trinidad, she was done and we were smiling on our way out.
Not, of course, without the 'tongue-in-cheek' response from the security guard with her 'I told you so' remark as she smiled at me.
Goodness can often come in unforeseen packages like these. We only have to look a little more closely.
In the second instance at the Pensions Division section on Cipero Street in San Fernando, as against the stereotype of 'no service' in the Public Service, the group of officers was as professional as you can get, doing their jobs as the officer at the Licensing Office, but with a kindness and consideration to all the elderly people present that seemed all part of that professionalism.
My wife and myself were no exception, with me goofing up once again with the wrong form and our attending officer effusive in her expressions of understanding the plight of the elderly, politely assuring me about not worrying about my error, again unlike my licensing officer who sent us packing for a single error.
She advised I could just fill out the correct form, which she made available on the spot, even doing the copies for us. And her associate officer going so f
A year after the Children’s Authority admitted a security lapse at a safe house in north Trinidad led to the escape of five teenage boys, two of whom were gunned down in Laventille, the organisation is still working on addressing its security issues.
At a joint select committee hearing to inquire into and report on social services and public administration on Friday, deputy director of care service Rhonda Gregoire-Roopchan said, “The authority is addressing all of the concerns in relation to any gaps throughout the process, including and quite importantly any security issues that we may be having.”
Responding to JSC committee member David Nakhid who sought an update on the status of the authority’s security lapse, Gregoire-Roopchan said, “We are working on ensuring our children have adequate supervision, and they have been. As we continue to do so our service delivery evolves, we continue to make sure we have any risk assessment that needs to be done to provide for the safety and security of the children in our care.\"
March 20 marked the one-year anniversary when the boys squeezed through a burglar-proofed window and escaped while the caregiver was preparing snacks for the boys.
On March 21, Laventille residents reported hearing gunshots and police later found the bodies of Antonio Francois and Semion Daniel, both 15, on the roof of an abandoned building. The roof was level with the road.
At a virtual press conference after the incident, former director of the authority Nichola Harvey-Mitchell admitted there was “a gap in our security and supervision at the time the incident occurred, but certainly, I would not say the authority failed the boys.
“And while the authority will take some measure of responsibility for the lack of supervision for the short moments we didn’t have the proper supervision, as well as when we didn’t have the security in place.”
At the time, she said there was an urgent need to introduce additional security measures.
At Friday's JSC sitting, Gregoire-Roopchan further revealed 55 children were staying at the authority’s three centres in Trinidad and six in the Tobago centre. Of these children, two females and one male, have been diagnosed with mental health problems.
Gregoire-Roopchan said the authority is monitoring eight additional children who are showing mental health symptoms. They have not been referred to St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital for a diagnosis, but are receiving treatment at health centres.
She said there is a great need for a long-term facility, under the authority, to treat and house children with mental health issues.
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