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United Nations Appeals Tribunal Registry (UNAT) Oral Pronouncements.

The UN Appeals Tribunal (UNAT) was established by the General Assembly in 2009, as part of the new UN internal justice system. As the second level appellate review tribunal within the internal justice system, UNAT reviews, within its specific jurisdiction, appeals against judgments rendered by the UN Dispute Tribunal, the Dispute Tribunal of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), as well as appeals of decisions taken by the Standing Committee acting on behalf of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board (UNJSPB), and by those organizations, agencies and entities that have accepted UNAT's jurisdiction.

UNAT usually meets in session three times a year, in spring, summer and fall sessions, to render judgments. The sessions are held in New York, Nairobi, or Geneva (at times at other locations). UNAT consists of seven judge positions. The UNAT President usually designates three judge panels to decide each case. However, under certain circumstances a case may be heard by the entire UNAT bench. UNAT judgments are final and binding on the parties.

The UNAT 2024 Fall Session will be held from 14 to 25 October 2024.  On 25 October 2024,  the outcome of the judgments rendered during the 2024 Fall Session will be announced by the Judges in the UNAT's oral proceedings in CR 6.

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United Nations Appeals Tribunal Pronouncement of 2023 Fall Judgements.

The UNAT 2023 Fall Session will be held 16 - 27 October 2023 in New York, United States. The outcome of the judgments rendered during the 2023 Fall Session will be announced on Friday, 27 October 2023.

The UN Appeals Tribunal (UNAT) was established by the General Assembly in 2009, as part of the new United Nations internal justice system. As the second level appellate review tribunal within the internal justice system, UNAT reviews, within its specific jurisdiction, appeals against judgments rendered by the UN Dispute Tribunal, the Dispute Tribunal of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), as well as appeals of decisions taken by the Standing Committee acting on behalf of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board (UNJSPB), and by those organizations, agencies and entities that accepted UNAT's jurisdiction.

UNAT usually meets in session three times a year, in spring, summer and fall sessions, to render judgments. The sessions are held in New York, Nairobi, or Geneva (at times at other locations). UNAT consists of seven judge positions. The UNAT President usually designates three judge panels to decide each case. However, under certain circumstances a case may be heard by the entire UNAT bench. UNAT judgments are final and binding on the parties.

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A nation that has been swallowed, by PRINCE CHARLES DICKSON

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A nation that has been swallowed, by PRINCE CHARLES DICKSON

“Sà á bí olóògùn-ún ti wí.” Meaning, ‘invoke it exactly as the maker of the charm instructed’. One cannot eat crab in secret. Nigerian politics, economics, social, cultural and every facet of national life naturally should follow Ecclesiastes; nothing is terribly new under the sun.

So let me start this way, from the book of Exodus 7:9-12 Then God spoke to Moses and Aaron. He said, “When Pharaoh speaks to you and says, ‘Prove yourselves. Perform a miracle,’ then tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down in front of Pharaoh: it will turn into a snake.’” Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did what God commanded.

Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his servants, and it turned into a snake. Pharaoh called in his wise men and sorcerers. The magicians of Egypt did the same thing by their incantations: each man threw down his staff and they all turned into snakes. But then Aaron’s staff SWALLOWED their staff s.

The operational word there is swallow. So it was that in the 9th and 10th day of the second month of the year 2018 after the death AD, Nigerians woke up to the story that a sales clerk has been suspended after she told auditors that a snake had swallowed the equivalent of more than £70,000.

The woman, Philomenia Chieshe, was working at the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, which collect examination fees. After N36Million (£72,050) went missing from the exam board, Ms Chieshe blamed the animal. But the government organization dismissed her claim and has started disciplinary proceedings, according to reports.

Local reports said that the clerk claimed her housemaid and a work colleague had confessed to using the mysterious snake to “spiritually” steal the cash from accounts offi ce. And in the year 2004, it also happened that in the 9th Month and the 21st day, Nigeria admitted a “national embarrassment” after a Russian tanker laden with 30,000 barrels of oil disappeared without trace from the custody of its navy. The vessel, African Pride, was seized in Nigerian territorial waters a year earlier on suspicion of oil smuggling. The navy impounded it and detained its crew of 13 Russians.

The African Pride was last seen in August. The navy admits that the ship has since disappeared with its cargo and crew. The Lagos Guardian, a Nigerian daily newspaper, described the whereabouts of the African Pride as the “one billion naira question”.

The waters in the ocean SWALLOWED the ship. It never was and will be found like the snake and the money. In the 9th month also in the year 2017, in the ancient city of Ibadan, the Oyo Assembly Investigates 320 Missing Tractors In 20 LGAs. The tractors that were distributed to 20 of Oyo State’s 33 local government areas in 2013 might have developed wings.

And to know whether or not the 320 tractors are deployed for the purpose they were bought, the Oyo state assembly has mandated the House Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters to investigate. The committee is expected to question present and former chairmen and members of transition committees in order to retrieve the tractors from beneficiaries who have reneged, or neglected to fulfill their responsibilities on the tractors leased out to them.

To be unraveled also are the amount gained or recovered from the leasing out of the tractors and whether the four meant for hiring are at local governments. The committee, led by Hon. Bolaji Badmos was mandated by the Assembly to submit the report of its investigation in the next three weeks. The tractors till date remain SWALLOWED!

We have always had the penchant for swallowing things as a nation, from Plateau State where a fake commissioner was created and he was swallowing all the enumerations and pay of one. To the years of yore when wind blew away tractors purchased by the Bauchi state government.

\The wind just SWALLOWED! Mysteries are a way of life, we SWALLOW all sorts of lies, contortions and deceit from leadership, so do you remember how one Veronica Onyegbula of the Police Pension scam during interrogation in 2012 when she was arrested, said she made $544,000 from sales of pure water. WiTheach passing day we SWALLOW all sorts, from teachers that cannot pass the exams they set for their students, to the fact that budgets have been known to simply either go missing or padded so they can conveniently keep swallowed monies.

Once upon a time it was that woman Hairdresser, beauty therapist & politician and House Speaker SWALLOW-ing monies for House Renovation, the next man in white followed suite SWALLOW-ing, and then there was that Integrity man, the short one, that allowed his CAP to equally SWALLOW. From the local to the federal level, at ministries and MDAs, parastatals, various staff or rods simply turn to snakes and swallow our national patrimony. The truth remains that as a people we are religious, we don’t joke with our Fridays, and Sundays. We don’t joke with our “juju” either.

We swallow all sorts of black powder. We love music, we are intelligent and yes, we excel in many a thing we put our hands to do as a people. We are resilient, while people talk about the American dream, we as Nigerians are not dreamers, we are simply swallowing nation.

Amongst us are the ethnic jingoist and nepotic parapoist, we have those that do not see beyond faith, creed and clan. We are divided on many fronts, united in soccer and corruption.

However we are equally a dramatic national, one full of drama, with so much suspense. Lives have been SWALLOWED in various confl agration points from Zamfara to Benue, Adamawa to Kaduna, Taraba to Nasarawa; no one state is really spared in the ethnocentric faith based and conquest like killings.

We see them swallow but no one is held responsible for the SWALLOWing. Someone appears on the scene picks a target, commences the swallowing and we suffer the tragicomedy of it and case closed. And as with many things Nigerian, this too shall come to pass, that we would soon have forgotten, and move along and ahead to the next SWALLOWing. Are we tired of the bizarre, the laughable, the oddly magically and mysteriously sickening?

No methinks, and would we ever be tired—Only time will tell.

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Bajan Newscap 11/14/2017

Good Morning #realdreamchasers. Here is your daily news cap for Tuesday 14th November, 2017. There is a lot to read and digest so take your time. Remember you can read full articles via Barbados Today (BT), or by purchasing Daily Nation Newspaper (DN).

PM SAYS BARBADIAN LIFESTYLE DRAINING FOREIGN RESERVES – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has suggested to Barbadians demanding answers from his administration over the country’s rapidly declining foreign reserves that they should look no further than their own lavish lifestyles. Speaking at a joint meeting of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) branches in St Michael, which was held at St Michael School, Stuart contended that Government could not be blamed for the state of the country’s international reserves, which plummeted further below the 12 weeks benchmark to reach just 8.6 weeks of import cover or $549.7 million at the end of September. “When you hear that our foreign reserves are under pressure it is because of what we import and because of what you all go on the supermarket shelves and see. It is not that anybody in the Government is stealing foreign currency and carrying it and putting it under their bed,” he said to loud applause from the DLP faithful who packed the auditorium. “The 130,000 vehicles on the streets of Barbados, not one is manufactured here in Barbados. They were all bought with foreign currency out of Japan and those other countries from which we may buy motor vehicles from time to time. That is where the foreign currency goes. With that kind of importing and of course the 10 or 15 different types of detergent we see on the supermarket shelves and the wide range of nuts and salted chips, none of which we produce here but which has captured the taste of the people in the population,” he added. The Prime Minister said that with the global recession making it difficult to earn foreign currency, and with Government’s reluctance to borrow, there is no choice but to use the reserves to finance the lifestyle that Barbadians have become accustomed to. He said that in a five-year period between 1996 and 2001 when the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) was in office, the country borrowed over $1 billion in foreign exchange “to finance the lifestyles that we have grown accustomed to”. Therefore, he said, if Barbadians wanted to continue this lifestyle, “we have to earn foreign currency to do it. “We have spent most of the time supporting that lifestyle by borrowing foreign exchange,” he stressed. Stuart took a shot at BLP leader Mia Mottley, whom he said supported his position on the issue when it suited her. He contended that when former Prime Minister Owen Arthur replaced Mottley as BLP leader in 2010, she made “patriotic speeches” quoting late Prime Minister Errol Barrow on the cost of living, but changed her tune as soon as she was returned to the helm of the party. “When it suits the Opposition you would hear their leader [Mottley] say, quoting Barrow, ‘the problem in Barbados is not the high cost of living, the problem in Barbados is the cost of high living’. You will hear her say that. She said that when Owen Arthur ousted her and she was making patriotic speeches from another part of the Opposition bench. It was convenient to make that admission then but once she got back in the Opposition Leader’s chair, the old demon resurfaced,” the DLP head said. (BT)

ECONOMIST STEPHEN WARNS OF A RISING THREAT – With global oil prices on the rise again, economist Jeremy Stephen is raising fresh alarm that the country’s dwindling foreign reserves are about to take a “nasty hit”, putting the stability of the Barbados dollar in further jeopardy. “The reserves [are] about to take a huge hit, and we have to acknowledge that this hit is coming,” Stephen said in a video on his Facebook page. He explained that while low oil prices had been Barbados’ “saving grace” in recent years, the global market was changing and  “the knock on effect would mean a stronger case for devaluation. “You can do all the monetary policies you want, but as long as the price of oil [was] below US$100, that gave Barbados a fighting chance . . . but [with oil prices again on the rise], I figure we need to have this serious conversation now about what we are going to do,” he said, while describing the situation as “freaky”. Over the past five years there has been some fluctuation in oil prices, from a high of US$125 per barrel in early 2012 to as low as US$30 per barrel in 2015/2016. Government spent about $300 million on the importation of oil, gasoline and diesel last year, compared to $452.4 million in fuel costs in 2015, according to official estimates. So far this year, oil prices have fluctuated between US$55.50 at the beginning of this year and over $60 per barrel at the beginning of this month. Officials are now predicting a “fair price” of between US$70 and US$80 per barrel, and Stephen warned that if the price goes up above the current rate of between US$50 – US$60 per barrel, this is “literally going to drag reserves down”.  (BT)

GET CRACKING, CHRIS! – Despite its ongoing economic challenges, ex-Central Bank Governor Dr DeLisle Worrell suggests overseas investors are still eager to invest millions in the Barbados economy. However, writing in his November newsletter, Worrell said these potential investors were currently holding back due to the unstable economic environment and the threat of a devaluation of the Barbados dollar, which is currently pegged two to one against the United States currency. Worrell therefore called on the local authorities to take “decisive action” to close the national Budget deficit and to improve the performance of the public sector. This has caused much unease both locally and internationally, with some officials calling on the Freundel Stuart administration to take urgent steps to shore up the reserves and cut its spending. Without making any mention of Government’s new National Sustainable Recovery Plan 2017, which is due to go before Cabinet this month, Worrell insisted that any uncertainty could be reduced by “appropriate policy”. (BT)

BUS SERVICE TO RESUME EARLY TOMORROW – The Barbados Transport Board is scheduled to resume work tomorrow morning at 4:45 a.m. This assurance came moments ago from general secretary of the Barbados Workers' Union Toni Moore after hundreds of workers walked off the job this morning. The decision was taken after Minister of Transport of Works Michael Lashley attended a closed-door meeting with members of the union and some workers of the Transport Board this evening. Although the bus schedule is set to return to normal tomorrow, the issues outlined today still remain on the table. The minister, however, has committed to meeting with both the union and management of the Transport Board in an effort to bring some resolve to the outstanding matters. (DN)

BUS STAFF WANT PROPOSAL RELOOK – Transport Board workers are frustrated at not benefiting from a promise made by late Prime Minister David Thompson to puta pension plan in place for the over 600 employees of that statutory corporation. In addition, a letter sent by general secretary of the Unity Workers Union, Caswell Franklyn, to acting human resources manager at the Transport Board, Elaine White, on behalf of supervisor at the board, Marcia Clarke, somehow got into the hands of the drivers indicating that former employees Messrs Bovell, Sabir and Clarke benefited from a gratuity and a reduced pension on their retirement. In the letter sent by Franklyn to White, he acknowledged that the board was not included in the Statutory Boards’ Pensions Act Cap 384 nor the General Orders 1970 (Revised1997). However, Franklyn noted that the Transport Board is a statutory corporation established by Section 3 of the Transport Board Act where at Sub-section 16(3) of the act states: “No pension, gratuity or other benefits may be granted to an officer or servant or to any other person by reference to his service or to dependents or estates of such reasons, except in accordance with such conditions as the board, with the approval of the minister determines.”  (DN)

NO BIG GAINS FOR PSV MEN – What should have been a lucrative day for public service vehicle (PSV) operators in light of a strike by Transport Board drivers didn’t quite turn out that way. Two minibus drivers and two route taxi operators in the River Bus Terminal told the DAILY NATION they did not see the increased number of commuters they expected. “Today was slow. It seemed as though a lot of the children in secondary and tertiary school stopped home because the buses weren’t working,” said Henderson “Cowboy” Lewis, who works on the Bayfield route. “And it had me frustrated, too. I started work at 6:45 a.m. and the first loads going to ’Town was good, but when people heard about the strike on the news things got quiet. I still find that it took me the same time to load up in town as if the drivers weren’t on strike.”  (DN)

SOUTH COAST SEWAGE ‘NIGHTMARE’ WORSENS – Authorities are seeking to get to the bottom of a recurring sewage problem along this island’s south coast, with Manager of the Barbados Water Authority’s (BWA) Waste Water Division Patricia Inniss reporting today that major excavation work was planned this week with a view to clearing a 55-inch micro tunnel in Worthing, Christ Church. Among those affected is Worthing businessman Michael Allamby who told Barbados TODAY this afternoon he had lost a rental car tenant as a direct result of the sewage problem. Allamby, whose complex houses five businesses, including a restaurant, a retail store and a spa, however acknowledged the efforts of the BWA to bring the situation under control, but was eager for there to be a permanent fix. One of Allamby’s tenants, Michelle Hurdle, who owns Christina’s Spa, complained that the “toxic” odour was making her ill. Spokesman for the Worthing, Hastings and St Lawrence communities Adrian Donavan said last weekend was nothing short of a “nightmare” for residents. Meanwhile, the Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) Shadow Minister of the Environment Wilfred Abrahams has described the ongoing sewage mess as a potential environmental and health disaster. Suggesting that it was nothing short of a disgrace, Abrahams, in a statement today, argued that the situation was no longer an inconvenience, but a danger that demanded the full resources of Government to identify and solve the problem immediately. “It is only the grace of God that to date, we have been spared from an outbreak of cholera or another faeces-borne illness. This is no longer a minor inconvenience, but a major environmental and health disaster, and must be treated as such,” the Opposition spokesman on the environment said, adding that the solution may be costly, but it was nothing compared to the fallout from an epidemic and the drain on “our already embattled health services, if the fears of many are ultimately realized”. He said the BLP was concerned about the impact this problem would have on Barbadians living and working on the south coast. (BT)

MISSING TEEN WAS AT A GUEST HOUSE – Sixteen-year-old Richshad Renico Beckles is safely back at home. His mother, Vermadean Beckles, had reported the teen missing on Friday, after last seeing him around 1:45 p.m. on Thursday at their College Land, St John home. When a NATION team visited the house yesterday, Richshad was there. With his mother’s permission, he spoke to this newspaper and said he had gone to the MoonRaker Beach Hotel in Oistins, Christ Church, with “some friends to breeze for the weekend”. He said he and his mother were speaking when he left home and he had even spoken to her on Friday and Saturday. “But I don’t know what happened,” Richshad said. It was only when he returned home that he found out his mother had told no one she had heard from him. However, Vermadean said she did not give the last of her two children permission to leave the house, and she thought something had happened to him. “I didn’t tell him to leave home that day. I told him I am not sending him anywhere, and he just pick up and leave. “I was calling him the Friday night and didn’t hear a response from him. If he goes somewhere, he should contact me and let me know that he is okay and safe. That’s what made me go and report him missing. He came back home about minutes to five yesterday evening, and I called the police . . . to let them know he is home safe,” she said.  (DN)

SEA TAKES TWO – A fishing trip at the Animal Flower Cave in St Lucy has turned into a tragedy. Wallace Greenidge, 38, and Kenmore Mayers, 49, vanished at the popular fishing spot in the wee hours of Saturday morning. The Royal Barbados Police Force began a search for the missing men, and one day later a marine patrol discovered Greenidge’s body floating just a few feet from his usual fishing spot. Up to press time, Mayers’ had not been found. One of Greenidge’s neighbours at Four Hill, St Peter, said the community was shocked by his passing. Repeatedly, she described the police constable as “nice” and “friendly” and one who would help her cut her lawn and maintain an open lot in the area. As she tended her garden, the woman said the former scout leader and 1998 Parish Ambassador also trained a group of women in the community. The neighbour said Greenidge would be the first person to have his Christmas lights up, and had been preparing to do so. She said her family had been disturbed to see his body floating at sea during the Evening News on CBCTV8. Mayers’ family is still awaiting word on his whereabouts. A relative said the Hillaby, St Thomas resident was a very quiet but hard-working man who loved his family. Fishing was his passion and she said that’s what the former Alleyne School student would be doing if he was not on the job at a private house in Weston, St James. He leaves a wife and an 11-year-old son to mourn. Meanwhile, Winston Griffith, who frequently fished with the pair, said he left his job at the Animal Flower Cave on Friday evening before they arrived. The landscaper said when he arrived on Saturday morning, he saw Mayers’ car, but not Mayers. Griffith said he had become somewhat of a body retriever at the site and was preparing to recover his friend’s body that Sunday afternoon, but was instructed not to do so by police. He also lost a brother who fell off the cliff, but his body has never been found.  (DN)

GREENIDGE’S LAST PLANS – The last WhatsApp message from police constable Wallace Hayden Odain Greenidge to his Westmoreland Nazarene Church ministries’ group was one of plans for a grand Christmas production. No one in the group or the wider church ever imagined that Greenidge, affectionately known to church members as Brother Wallace, would not be around for Christmas. Greenidge, 38, disappeared last Friday night, while fishing with a friend at Animal Flower Cave in Connell Town, St Lucy. His body was discovered floating on Sunday afternoon by staff at the Animal Flower Cave’s restaurant. His friend’s body has not yet been found. When Barbados TODAY visited his home at Four Hill, Indian Ground, St Peter, no one was present. However, Westmoreland Nazarene Church Pastor John Yarde said they all were shocked at the news of the police officer’s death. “The church is shocked. We feel badly about it. He was such a personable fellow. In his last email on WhatsApp to the church he was ready to plan the Christmas programme. He mentioned what he wanted to do. That was the nature of the person. It really shocked us. We were wishing it was not the police officer we knew,” he said. “He was one to write scripts, direct them, and use his voice. He liked the youth, he liked interacting with the young people and bringing out that creativity. He was a graduate of the Caribbean Nazarene College he was extremely creative in both art and music.” The pastor said as involved as Greenidge was in the church, he always wanted to do more. They last spoke on Sunday, October 29, when they discussed the progress the constable’s daughter was making at school. Back then, Greenidge had a sparkle in his eyes, Yarde recalled. “One of our final conversations at church with him he was speaking in glowing terms about his daughter in terms of how well she was doing at school, in terms of her being in the Girl Guides. She is the head girl at school and he recently won some prize at NIFCA [National Independence Festival of Creative Arts]. At the end of the service he was telling us about plans for her future and so on. Those were his last words to us,” the pastor recalled. (BT)

DOUBLE WHAMMY! ALEXANDRA SCHOOL TRYING TO COPE WITH DUAL TRAGEDY – The Alexandra School family was jolted by a double blow this weekend, with the passing of two of its own. Sixteen-year-old Savio Fergusson, a budding young cricketer, drowned at Port Ferdinand beach while on an outing with some of his teammates following the cancellation of a scheduled match on Sunday. Just a few hours earlier, the body of former student and co-director of the Boy Scouts, 38-year-old police constable Wallace Hayden Odain Greenidge, of Four Hill, Indian Ground, St Peter, was retrieved from the waters near Animal Flower Cave in Connell Town, St Lucy. Greenidge and a friend had disappeared on Friday night while fishing. Principal of The Alexandra School Orson Alleyne told Barbados TODAY the “double whammy” was a tough pill to swallow. “Having to deal firstly with Savio’s passing and then to know that we lost a dear friend and someone who was very committed to this school in Constable Wallace is very hard,” he said. Fergusson’s death was particular difficult for the students, some of whom openly wept today, as well as the teachers, prompting the school to provide counselling. The principal said the school would be “looking at what we will do to remember him at this school and we will make some decisions as to how we will recognize his passing”. As is the case with Fergusson’s passing, Alleyne said the school was still in shock over the death of Greenidge who last visited on Friday. “He was here at the school signing off letters to parents to invite them to the installation of new scouts,” the principal said, shaking his head in disbelief. “Wallace not only attended Alexandra but he has been very involved in the school. He worked very closely with the Boy Scouts Association here. He co-chaired the activities. He’s been very much a part of what we do here at The Alexandra School. “He committed to whatever he got involved in here at this school. [He was] very organized [and] had a great passion for the development for the scout movement here,” he said. “Certainly I would want to extend condolences to the families of Savio and Wallace. I know that we at The Alexandra School will miss them quite a bit, but their families are going to miss them more. We assure them that we will still work with them through this difficult time,” he added. (BT)

WANTED: JASON MCDONALD PHILLIPS – Police are searching for a St Joseph man wanted in connection with serious criminal matters. He is 36-year-old Jason McDonald Phillips, alias Fowl, Jolley, or Jug whose last known addresses are Suriname Village, Horse Hill, St Joseph and Bowling Alley, St Joseph. He is five feet, eight inches tall, slim and has a dark complexion. Phillips is advised to present himself to the District ‘C’ Police Station with a lawyer of his choice. Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Jason Phillips is asked to contact the District ‘C’ Police Station at telephone number 416-8200. Police Emergency at telephone number 211. Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIPS (8477) , or the nearest police station. The public is reminded that it is a serious offence to harbour or assist wanted persons. Any person caught committing this offence can be prosecuted. (BT)

LORD EVIL GETS SHORTER CURFEW – The notorious Andre Lord Evil Jackman will remain on $175,000 bail. However, his daily curfew has been slashed by two hours. Acting Judge Alrick Scott today ordered the 38-year-old Stroud Bay, Crab Hill, St Lucy resident to be indoors by 7 p.m., shortening his earlier 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, imposed last December by Madam Justice Jacqueline Cornelius, to the original one imposed by Justice Olson Alleyne after he was granted bail on a charge of murder. Jackman is accused of the April 2014 killing of Charly Dume, who died after he was shot in a bar in Nelson Street, The City. However, instead of revoking his bail, Scott today allowed Jackman to maintain his freedom after his lead attorney Arthur Holder and Crown Counsel Oliver Thomas made submissions on affidavits filed. The Crown had submitted that Jackman’s bail should be revoked on the basis of an October 28 breach and that he be remanded to HMP Dodds. However, Holder maintained that his client had “assiduously” complied with all the conditions and “this was just but one transgression”. Scott ruled in Holder’s favour even as he made it clear that any breach of a court order was grave. He also allowed Jackman to walk free with a stern warning that compliance with a court order was essential. (BT)

MARSHALL PAYS $600 FINE -  Forty-seven-year-old Sylvester Marshall escaped spending time at Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds after paying a $600 fine for the unlawful possession of cannabis. Marshall, of School Lane, Halls Road, St Michael was arrested last Thursday after police found two small ziploc bags containing cannabis while executing a search warrant at his house. Marshall appeared before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant and was ordered to pay the fine in one month or spend three months in prison. (BT)

REMANDED TO DODDS - A St Michael man appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates Court today on a string of firearm and drug related charges. Twenty-three-year-old Jamar Carlieous Browne of 2nd Avenue, Arthur’s Land, Tweedside Road, St Michael was formally charged with unlawful possession of a firearm; unlawful possession of 23 rounds of ammunition; unlawful possession of cannabis; unlawful possession of cocaine; possession of cocaine with intent to supply and trafficking cocaine. The firearm, ammunition and drugs were found at Browne’s home last Thursday while police were executing a search warrant. Browne pleaded guilty to the drug related offences. Magistrate Kristy Cuffy-Sargeant however remanded Browne to prison until December 11 on the firearm offences. He will be sentenced for the drug offences on that same day. (BT)

BROWNE ACCUSED OF HAVING A GUN AND 23 ROUNDS OF AMMO – A 23-year-old man has been remanded to Dodds prison for 28 days on gun and ammunition charges. It is alleged that Jamar Carlieous Browne, of 2nd Avenue, Arthur Land, Tweedside Road, St Michael, had a firearm and 23 rounds of ammunition in his possession, without a valid licence, on November 9. Browne, who was represented by attorney-at-law Kamisha Benjamin, was not required to plead to the indictable charges. However, he owned up to having 4.9 grammes of cannabis in his possession on the same day, as well as a trafficable quantity of cocaine worth $245. The cannabis was found beneath his bed when police executed a search warrant at his home, while the cocaine was found on a ledge in the bedroom in a bag, which contained his identification card. In her mitigation, Benjamin urged the court to be lenient on the first time offender. “He uses the substance for personal use, which isn’t good, but at least he is not engaged in the sale of the drug,” the attorney submitted. However, Cuffy-Sargeant reserved her sentence on the matter until December 11 when Browne is scheduled to reappear in court to face the alleged offences under the Firearms Act. (BT)

AUSTIN ADMITS TO STEALING TEN BAGS OF ONIONS – A 42-year-old man has to be on his best behaviour for the next 18 months if he wants to avoid spending time at Dodds prison. Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant imposed the bond on Noel Alexander Austin, of no fixed place of abode, after he owned up to stealing ten bags of onions worth $500, four truck straps worth $380, a $37 shovel and a $30 rake belonging to Thorpe’s International on November 8. The owner of the business, which is located at Barbarees Hill, secured the building but forgot to lock the gate to the compound. He was later informed that the straps were missing from the delivery area of the property. The CCTV footage was reviewed and Austin was seen taking the aforementioned items. The rake, shovel, three straps and a quantity of the onions were recovered. Attorney-at-law Mohia Ma’at told the magistrate that Austin was gainfully employed at the Cheapside Market shepherding items for vendors and was very helpful. However, he explained that his client had some challenges and was currently an outpatient at the Psychiatric Hospital. Ma’at further submitted that Austin’s early guilty plea was indicative of his remorse. “I begging for mercy,” Austin, who is known to the court, said from the dock, even as Ma’at continued to mitigate on his behalf. He will have to spend eight months in prison if he is found guilty of a crime within the next year and a half. (BT)

TWO YEARS FOR THEFT AND BURGLARY – A graphics designer who admitted running off with another man’s pants and cellphone was jailed for two years yesterday. The sentence was handed down to Junior Winston Decourcey Clarke by Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant when he returned to the District “A” Magistrates’ Court to learn his fate, having earlier pleaded guilty to separate theft and burglary charges. Clarke, 50, of 7th Avenue, New Orleans, The City, who was already serving time at HMP Dodds for another offence, admitted robbing Samuel Agard of a $300 cellphone and pants valued $150 on October 22, 2015. The many-time offender also pleaded guilty to breaking into Fashion Conscious Boutique between October 28 and 29, 2015, and stealing three shirts worth $315. Magistrate Cuffy-Sargeant sentenced him to two years on both charges. They will run concurrently. Prosecutor Sergeant Cameron Gibbons told the court Agard was sitting on a wall by the YMCA around 1 a.m. when Clarke approached him and engaged him in conversation. When Agard told him he wasn’t interested, Clarke locked him from behind and a struggle ensued. The complainant’s pants fell off and the cellphone dropped. Clarke ran off with both items. In relation to the burglary charge, Gibbons said the boutique’s owner locked the store, leaving several clothes on display in the window on mannequins. He returned the next day and found the glass broken and property missing from the mannequins. Police were called in and a print was found on one of the mannequins. CCTV footage also showed Clarke taking the property. In asking the court for leniency, Clarke said his actions were a result of his “instability and substance abuse issues”. He admitted that trying to support his alcohol and drug habits had run him afoul of the law. In begging for leniency, he asked the magistrate for help with his addictions. “. . . My very sorry history is as a result of substance abuse and I realise that I need help,” he said. “I want to be in a drug rehabilitation programme and I also want you to help me get into a work programme so I would not be idle. I don’t want to be going through this again.” Magistrate Cuffy-Sargeant told Clarke he had in excess of 28 convictions, including those for resisting arrest and offences against other people. She added that he would be able to enrol in a drug rehabilitation programme while in prison.  (DN)

SUMMER KICK-OFF – The inaugural Islands Cup Open tournament is still on stream, and new plans are under way for a kick-off in the summer of 2018. Caribbean Football Trust Limited board member and media consultant for the project, David Hinds, confirmed that the wheels were in motion, and the project had become even larger than first anticipated. The tournament, which was officially launched in April, was said to have several committed franchises from across the region, including the Jamaican Ruff Necks FC, Trinbago Oilers, FC Barbados Challengers, Suriname Gladiators FC and FC Combined Islands. The tournament affords each player involved the opportunity to earn an income ranging from US$3 000 and up to $10 000 per month. International footballers are also involved, including the likes of Rivaldo, Florent Malouda, Alan Tate, Ronaldinho, and Ricardo Kaka. Additionally, Hinds revealed that the Italian company Immobiliare was set to close a deal, as early as next week, for the purchase of 65 per cent of the franchise. He also said that former Trinidad and Tobago national footballer Chris Anderson would hold the substantive position of chairman, while all other posts would remain as originally stated throughout the tournament, which would be played in two parts: summer to be played in July 2018, and winter to be played in January of 2019.  (DN)

GIFTS FOR ISLANDS – Hundreds of cricket fans enjoyed the spectacular, light-hearted battle between the Sagicor UWI Icons and the Prime Minister’s XI, but people of the islands ravaged by Hurricanes Irma and Maria were the main beneficiaries when the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus put on the Sagicor Celebrity T20 Benefit match on Saturday night at the 3Ws Oval. The Prime Minister’s XI won by seven runs via the Duckworth/Lewis/Stern method, but the highlight of the evening came after the on-field contest, when Donald Austin, chief executive officer of Sagicor Life Eastern Caribbean, presented a cheque worth US$100  000 to UWI Vice Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles. Sir Hilary had earlier excited the audience with a breezy knock of 29 that included two sixes out of the Icons total of 183 for five. In reply, the Prime Minister’s XI were given an explosive start by openers, former West Indies players Dwayne Smith and Omar Phillips, who posted 123 before both retired on 50 and 84, respectively. (DN)

CHINA SHOPPING FESTIVAL SMASHES RECORD WITH $25 BILLION HAUL – Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, said on Saturday its Singles’ Day sales extravaganza hit $25.4 billion, smashing its own record from last year and cementing it as the world’s biggest shopping event. Once a celebration for China’s lonely hearts, Singles’ Day has become an annual 24-hour buying frenzy that exceeds the combined sales for Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the United States, and acts as a barometer for China’s consumers. As tills shut midnight on Saturday, Alibaba’s live sales ticker registered 168.3 billion yuan, up 39 per cent from 120.7 billion yuan last year. The dollar figure was up more steeply due to the strength of the yuan against the greenback this year. The event began soon after a star-studded event in Shanghai late on Friday. As midnight hit, a deluge of pre-orders helped drive a billion dollars of sales on Alibaba’s platforms in the first two minutes and $10 billion in just over an hour. (DN)

THOR: RAGNAROK THUNDERS TO $56.6 MILLION SECOND WEEKEND – Showing plenty of staying power, Disney-Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok is dominating the North American box office with $56.6 million at 4 080 locations in its second weekend.  The figure gave the third Thor movie the 29th highest second weekend of all time and the fifth best of 2017. It also took in nearly the combined total of the two new titles – Paramount’s family comedy Daddy’s Home 2, with $30 million from 3 575 sites and Fox’s mystery Murder on the Orient Express with $28.2 million at 3 341 venues.  Thor: Ragnarok, starring Chris Hemsworth and directed by Taika Waititi, declined 54% from its $122.7 million opening last weekend and is already the ninth highest domestic grosser of 2017 with $211.6 million in its first ten days. It’s also been a stellar international performer with $438 million in less than three weeks – topping $650 million worldwide. On November 8, Thor: Ragnarok became the 12th consecutive Marvel Cinematic Universe film to top $500 million worldwide. The movie has reversed a box office slump that persisted through October and left 2017’s overall domestic movie going down 5% from last year at $9.14 billion as of Sunday. With Warner Bros.’ Justice League opening next weekend, Disney-Pixar’s Coco on November 22 and Star Wars: The Last Jedi launching on December 15, the industry is now poised to end the year on an upbeat note. The overall weekend totalled about $148 million, down 6% from the same frame in 2016, according to comScore. “Now it will take the dream team of Justice League, Coco and of course The Last Jedi and a host of other films big and small to rally the industry toward a year end total that could rival last year’s record $11.4 billion,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at comScore. “The clock is ticking and there’s not a lot of time left on the calendar to make up the difference.” (DN)

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