Connect with us

Caribbean News

Media Fact Sheet for 2017 Flow CARIFTA Games – Curacao

Published

on

Turks and Caicos, March 28, 2017 – Providenciales

  • Flow has signed a three-year partnership with the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) to be the exclusive broadcast partner and sponsor of the CARIFTA Games.
  • The event is now known as the Flow CARIFTA Games.
  • Curacao will host the 46th CARIFTA Games on Easter Weekend between April 15th and 17th; more than 650 athletes and officials have confirmed their participation; this is the first time that Curacao will host the CARIFTA Games.
  • Flow Sports will broadcast the 46th CARIFTA Games in High Definition (HD) across its network in the Caribbean on its premium sports channel, Flow Sports Premier
  • Coverage will feature commentary from veteran Caribbean journalists from across the region, including Nadine Liverpool, internationally renowned sports broadcaster and host of Flow Sports Premier Weekly, and Dalton Myers, Director of Sports at the University of the West Indies. Also newly added to this year’s line-up are well-known OECS Sports journalist, Terry Finesterre from St. Lucia and former Caymanian star athlete, Kareem Streete-Thompson, an Austin Sealy Trophy holder and CARIFTA record-holder in the long jump.
  • Flow, which was also the region’s exclusive broadcast partner for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, will present more than twenty hours of live coverage during the three-day event in Curacao. NACAC has commissioned 6 Gear to do the production of the event.
  • The Flow CARIFTA Games will be shown in ten (10) countries around the Caribbean on Flow Sports Premier; Flow will once again broadcast the Games live in HD across the region, offering customers the best-possible viewing experience of one of the region’s most important home-grown sporting events.
  • Sports fans can access the Flow Sports Channel in Antigua, Barbados, The Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Vincent, St. Lucia and in Trinidad.
  • Flow is once again raising the bar for sports viewership by providing fans with anytime, anywhere access with the new Flow Sports App; simply download the Flow Sports app on Android or iOS smart devices, or visit the online microsite at flowsports.co from any lap top or tablet device.
  • Flow’s sponsorship and broadcast of the Flow CARIFTA Games is another way for the Company to further demonstrate its support for up-and-coming Caribbean athletes, as well as solidify Flow Sports’ commitment to become the ‘home of sports’ in the Caribbean.
  • More than 35 collegiate coaches from North America are likely to be in attendance at the 2017 Flow CARIFTA Games to scout and recruit some of the region’s best young athletes.
  • The Flow CARIFTA Games adds to an ever-growing line-up of exciting sport partnerships Flow has signed over the past year including the CONCACAF 2018 World Cup Qualifiers, Rio 2016 Olympic Games and the hugely popular English Premier League football.
  • Flow also has an expanding list of Olympian brand ambassadors including Rio 2016 gold medalist Elaine Thompson (100m & 200m – Jamaica) & Silver Medalist Kirani James (400m – Grenada), Gold Medalist Shaunae Miller (400m –Bahamas) , Machel Cedenio (400m – Triidad & Tobago), Ashley Kelly (400m – BVI) Delano Williams (200m – Great Britain), Lavern Spencer (High Jump – St. Lucia), Khalifa St. Fort (100m – Trinidad & Tobago), Darian King (Tennis – Barbados) and Jason Wilson (Triathlon – Barbados).
  • Flow believes that the heightened exposure of the Flow CARIFTA Games will ultimately raise the bar for these significant regional championships, from which many Caribbean athletic champions have already emerged.
  • Flow invites you the “Watch the Future” as the Caribbean’s best and brightest Junior athletes take center stage. The Flow Carifta Games have been the launching pad for the careers of some of the Region’s brightest athletic stars.
  • Flow is also the headline sponsor of the Boys and Girls ‘CHAMPS’ in Jamaica, the largest high school athletics championships in the Caribbean.
  • Tweet us @MyFlow using the hashtag #FlowCarifta

Continue Reading

Caribbean News

CARPHA Progresses to Eligibility for the First Disbursement of Pandemic Funding

Published

on

Following a landmark Public Signing Ceremony for the Pandemic Fund (PF) Technical Cooperation Agreement (“Reducing the Public Health Impact of Pandemics in the Caribbean through Prevention, Preparedness, and Response” [RG-T4387] Project) on December 14, 2023, in Trinidad, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) continues to progress towards the start of implementation.

 CARPHA fulfilled the IDB’s nine conditions prior to first disbursement, achieving full eligibility on March 15, 2024, and is now eligible for the first disbursement. This milestone achievement in just 3 months after the signing speaks to the commitment of both CARPHA, the Executing Agency, and IDB, the Implementing Entity, toward the regional PF project with the objective of supporting the reduction of the public health impact of pandemics in the Caribbean by building pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPR) surveillance & early-warning systems (EWS), laboratory systems and workforce capacity, regionally at CARPHA and in countries.

Since the signing of the Technical Cooperation Agreement and as part of the conditions prior to first disbursement, CARPHA has achieved the following key outputs (i) the development of the PF Project Operations Manual, Multi-annual Execution Plan, Procurement Plan, Financial Plan, Procedure for CARPHA’s Financial Reporting System; (ii) vacancy announcements for two tranches of consultants with the subsequent hiring of five (Technical Coordinator, Financial Specialist, Procurement Specialist, Operations Officer and Project Operations Coordinator) and (iii) the establishment of the Project Execution Unit (PEU) and Project Execution Steering Committee (PESC). The dedicated PEU will be responsible for execution according to its planned timelines, which will be led by the Dr. Lisa Indar, the Project Director (CARPHA’s Director of Surveillance, Disease Prevention and Control Division).

 CARPHA, as the lead regional public health agency and an expression of Caribbean Cooperation in Health is mandated by its Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) to support its 26 CARPHA Member States (CMS) in bolstering national systems and coordinating regional response to public health threats. The Agency works closely with regional and international agencies and uses regional mechanisms, surveillance systems, and networks for coordinating its public health response work.

In July 2023, the PF Governing Board announced that CARPHA’s regional entity proposal, entitled ‘Reducing the Public Health Impact of Pandemics in the Caribbean through Strengthened Integrated Early Warning Surveillance, Laboratory Systems and Workforce Development’ was successfully selected for the first round of financing. It was one of only 19 proposals selected from over 300 submissions and the only regional project. The three priority areas in the proposal are: (i) Comprehensive disease surveillance and EWS, (ii) Laboratory systems and (iii) Human resources and public health and community workforce capacity.

This project is expected to begin implementation in March 2024, starting off with a blended onboarding session. A Stakeholder Meeting with countries is tentatively planned for July 2024.

CARPHA remains dedicated to working together with the IDB, CARPHA Member States and the Pandemic Fund to successfully implement the regional proposal geared toward reducing the public health impact of pandemics in the Caribbean.

Continue Reading

Caribbean News

Men who had Murdered Man, Marley Higgs’ cell phone face Court

Published

on

Wilkie Arthur

Freelance Court Correspondent

The prosecution intends to try two young North Caicos men, both age 21 for the offense of possession of property of a murdered man, property that was stolen and landed in their possession.

The phone belonged to Peureton ‘Marley’ Higgs, who is believed to have been an innocent gunned down at his apartment complex in the Glass Shack area in a spray of bullets on February 2 that killed another man and wounded two others, including a ten-year-old little girl.

The cell phone was described as white in colour, an iPhone, in a hard black case. 

On Monday, March 18th, JEFFVANO HANDFIELD of North Caicos pleaded not guilty to the offense, and the matter was adjourned to April 2024. He was granted bail in the matter.

A second North Caicos man was charged similarly.  

SARENO CAPELLAN aka, Kino Williams is the second individual brought before the court pertaining to the said cellphone. He appeared in court a week after JEFFVANO HANDFIELD, the date being Monday March 25th 2024.

The case for the Crown is that both men sometime in February of this year possessed the cellphone knowing or suspecting it to be stolen property.

Continue Reading

Caribbean News

Supreme Court Closed for Easter

Published

on

NOTICE is hereby given that the Easter Recess shall commence on Friday 29th April, 2024 and end on Friday 5th April, 2024. During the Easter Recess Judge Selochan will be available to deal only with matters that are urgent or require prompt attention.

Court Business During the Easter Recess

A person who wishes to have a matter heard during the recess must file a certificate of urgency along with an affidavit, which must set out the reasons why the matter is urgent or requires prompt attention. The matter will not be listed during the recess unless the Judge deems it fit for urgent hearing.

Opening Hours During the Easter Holiday

The Supreme Court’s last sitting day for the first term is Thursday 28th March, 2024. The Court will officially resume sittings on Monday 8th April, 2024. The Supreme Court Offices in both Grand Turk and Providenciales will continue to operate while the Court is not sitting during the recess.

The Court Office will be closed on the following public holidays:

  • Friday 29th March, 2024 (Good Friday) CLOSED
  • Monday 1st April, 2024 (Easter Monday) CLOSED

Continue Reading

FIND US ON FACEBOOK

TRENDING