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VIENNA — OPEC countries are mulling a possible cut to oil production in an attempt to stabilize prices as they meet for a second straight day.Heavyweight Saudi Arabia has been pushing a cut of about 1 million barrels a day, but the oil cartel was not able to make a decision on Thursday.Analysts say they’re likely waiting to hear from non-OPEC Russia to better co-ordinate the cut.Heading in to Friday’s meeting in Vienna, Nigerian Petroleum Minister Ibe Kachikwu told reporters he was “hopeful” the nations would be able to reach an agreement.Ahead of the meeting Brent, the international standard, was down 59 cents at $59.47 a barrel while benchmark New York crude was 61 cents lower at $50.88.Oil prices have fallen about 25 per cent in recent months.The Associated Press
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — Fort St. John and District Chamber of Commerce President Nelson Stowe will be meeting with several members of Premier John Horgan’s cabinet in Victoria today.Stowe will be representing the local Chamber while others from across Northern B.C. will also be meeting with the Ministers to bring forward issues they have to the new government. The meetings have been organized by BC Chamber President and CEO Val Litwin.“We have received a tremendous response from the community and appreciate those that have taken the time to talk with us,” said the Chamber’s Executive Director Lilia Hansen. “We work hard advocating for our members at all levels of government, and being able to give specific examples and possible solutions from members, will help when meeting with provincial ministers.” Speaking at Tuesday’s Chamber Luncheon, Stowe said that he’ll be bringing up three major issues from Chamber members at the meetings: support for the oil and gas industry, health services in Northern B.C., and the issue of taxation for out-of-province contractors working in the area.City council proclaimed February 19th – 23rd as Chamber of Commerce Week in Fort St. John at last Monday’s Council meeting, and Stowe issued a statement about the proclamation.“Chambers – and their members – are the people who power BC. Whether that means acting as a cheerleader for local businesses, being an loyal advocate for members, or stepping in at the right moment with a great benefit or resource, Chambers have been supporting businesses and communities for over a century.”
“I was married in this country and I lived here for many years and I was shown so much affection whilst I lived here, that this gave me the impetus to say what I would like to say.“The main problem today is not the policies of this country or of that country – the main problem of today is that there is not enough education.“That there is not enough education for music, we have known for a long time. But now there is not enough education about who we are, about what is a human being, and how to relate with others of the same kind. At the concert on Saturday night he conducted the Berlin Staatskapelle orchestra.He said: “Our profession, the musical profession, is the only one that is not national. No German musician will tell you, ‘I am a German musician and I will only play Brahms, Schumann and Beethoven.’”To illustrate his point, the orchestra played Land of Hope and Glory as encore.A BBC spokesman said: “The Proms is not a political platform and all artists are booked on the basis of their musical excellence.” Want the best of The Telegraph direct to your email and WhatsApp? Sign up to our free twice-daily Front Page newsletter and new audio briefings. The main problem of today is that there is not enough educationDaniel Barenboim “That’s why I say it’s not political but it is of human concern, and if you look at the difficulties that the European continent is going through now you can see why that is: because of the lack of a common education.”He described the current wave of “nationalism in its very narrow sense” as something “very dangerous”.Barenboim’s comments drew warm applause from many in the audience. But his speech angered the critic, Norman Lebrecht, who wrote on his classical music blog: “The Proms are, and must be, politically neutral… the Proms podium is not a place for sermons, however brief or apposite.”Using the Proms as a political platform risks damaging a national treasure. What if a pro-Brexit conductor were to get up and demand equal time? Or a Corbynist? Or an Erdogan supporter? Barenboim should not have spoken.” He described it as “a very bad night for the reputation of the BBC Proms”.Levit’s previous choice of the EU anthem – Beethoven’s Ode to Joy – also drew criticism from MPs including Jacob Rees-Mogg, who said: “The BBC has become the EU’s Ministry of Information, so what would anyone expect?”Barenboim, 74, was born in Argentina, moved to Israel as a child, lived in England during his marriage to Jacqueline du Pré, has Palestinian citizenship and is now resident in Berlin. Barenboim’s (pictured) comments drew warm applause from many in the audience. But his speech angered the critic, Norman LebrechtCredit:Chris Christodoulou Daniel Barenboim, the acclaimed conductor and opponent of Brexit, interrupted a BBC Proms concert to make an impassioned plea for European unity.A day after pianist Igor Levit performed an improvised version of the EU anthem, Barenboim took to the podium to warn about the dangers of nationalism in what are fast becoming the anti-Brexit Proms.Beginning by telling an audience at the Royal Albert Hall that his words were “not political”, Barenboim said: “When I look at the world with so many isolation[ist] tendencies, I get very worried and I know I’m not alone.
A NEW YORK City man has been arrested in connection with the death of a 3-year-old girl who got caught inside a sofa bed.Fifty-year-old Mohamed Barry was charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Police say he was supposed to be watching Aissante Diallo and her 10-year-old sister when the accident occurred Monday at a Harlem apartment in New York City.ArrestBarry is the boyfriend of the girls’ mother.Barry told police he had stepped out of the apartment for about ten minutes when the incident occurred.Police say the sofa bed folded up when the sisters were on it, trapping them. The older girl managed to get out.Aissante was pronounced dead at a hospital. The medical examiner will determine the cause of death.Read: Gardaí make arrest after man killed in Tallaght stabbing>Read: Man dies running Phoenix Park half marathon>
Thursday 2 May 2019, 1:46 PM May 2nd 2019, 1:46 PM ‘Staggering’ 12% of motorcyclists have been involved in a collision in the past two years More than half of motorcyclists have had a near miss in the same period. Share21 Tweet Email1 File photo 62 Comments 10,460 Views THE ROAD SAFETY authority has called on motorcyclists to take care on the roads ahead of the May bank holiday weekend.Research carried out by the RSA showed speed was a factor in 49% of fatal motorcyclists collisions.Preliminary results from an RSA survey of 450 motorcyclists also found that 12% of bikers reported having been in a collision in the past two years.Of those 450 bikers surveyed, more than half or 59% had a near miss in the same period.Moya Murdoch, chief executive of the RSA said the amount of road deaths involving motorcyclists on Irish roads was “staggering”.“Motorcyclists account for approximately 12% of road deaths on average each year, but motorcycles represent less than 2% of the vehicle fleet in Ireland – that’s a staggering fact,” she said.“Of the motorcycle drivers killed over the last five years, from 2014-2018, the vast majority of these were male riders [and] the highest risk groups were those aged between 25 and 44 years.“My message to these riders is to ease off the throttle and stick within the speed limits.”Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross called on motorcyclists to “act responsibly” when using the roads as we enter the summer months.July was found to be the most dangerous month for collisions involving motorcyclists, according to RSA research.“Over the coming months, as the weather turns finer, there will be more motorbikes on our roads. Motorcycle riding is fun and challenging yet it requires very high levels of knowledge, skill, and understanding,” Ross said.“Any mistake on the road can lead to very serious consequences for all involved.”Quad bikesMeanwhile, gardaí have issued caution to motorcyclists ahead of the long weekend, but are also warning of the dangers associated with scramblers and quad bikes, which they say should not be used as a toy.Keith Synnott, a consultant at the National Spinal Injuries Unit in the Mater hospital said: “Quad bikes and scramblers are not toys, they are heavy dangerous pieces of machinery that can cause life changing injuries or death.“Riders risk spinal injury following a collision on a quad bike or scrambler. Impacts often happen on areas of uneven ground or as a result of unstable vehicles, especially in the hands of children.”Three of the four people who died in Ireland as a result of an incident involving a quad bike or scrambler were aged 18 or under in the period 2014 to 2017.
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Facebook Twitter Google+LinkedInPinterestWhatsApp Recommended for you PNP has new Natl Chairman, same top two Leaders Related Items:Brian Cyrus, captain harold williams, collector of stamp duty, deputy chairman, John Williams, Natasha Hall, national insurance board, naysia missick, norman hamilton, Paul Gardiner, Physical Planning Appeal Tribunal, Royal Robinson, Secretary of the Physical Planning Tribunal, tci civil aviation authority board Bench warrants issued for TCI insurance defaulters Facebook Twitter Google+LinkedInPinterestWhatsAppProvidenciales, 11 Sept 2015 – Several key appointments made to statutory bodies on Wednesday during governments Cabinet meeting.Those appointments include that of Captain Harold Williams to Deputy Chairman of the TCI Civil Aviation Authority Board. Williams will hold that post for one year.Norman Hamilton joins the National Insurance Board as an Employer Representative for one year. While, Naysia Missick was appointed to the post of Collector of Stamp Duty in accordance with the Stamp Duty Ordinance.Meanwhile there will be some new faces appointed to the Physical Planning Appeal Tribunal. Royal Robinson joins as Chairman, while John Williams, Paul Gardiner, Brian Cyrus and James Parker are all now members of the board. Natasha Hall is the new Secretary of the Physical Planning Tribunal.These appointments are to be executed by His Excellency Governor Peter Bechkingham NEW CHAIRMAN, PNP keeps Ewing
Related Items:#anticrimepetitionlaunched, #BennettWilliams, #magneticmedianews, #Williamsdemandingleaderstolead Facebook Twitter Google+LinkedInPinterestWhatsAppTurks and Caicos, August 2, 2017 – Providenciales – A petition urging government leaders to take action against crime was launched Tuesday by Editorial Cartoonist, Bennett Williams and up to midday on Wednesday, over 200 people had signed. Williams explains that the TCI has changed, that the diversity of peoples living in the country has contributed to the boom in crime.He said ‘our superiors have been slow to act.’ The petition is in response to a US advisory, issued on Monday warning travelling and resident Americans of the spike in violent crimes against citizens. Williams appeals in the petition, which is set up at ‘change.org’ for readers to review and then sign so that elected officials and police ‘do something to make these beautiful islands a safer place to live and work, a place that people will take their kids and family!’It is noted that the petition is also delivered to the Governor, Dr. John Freeman; Premier Sharlene Robinson and Deputy Commissioner of Police, Trevor Botting.#MagneticMediaNews#anticrimepetitionlaunched#Williamsdemandingleaderstolead#BennettWilliams Facebook Twitter Google+LinkedInPinterestWhatsApp
The cost of hotel accommodation in Macau fell by 6.46% year-on-year in the three months to 31 December 2018, according to information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).However, prices increased significantly compared with 3Q18, rising 24.80% sequentially due to higher room rates during the National Day holidays, the Macao Grand Prix and Christmas holidays. Galaxy offers first glimpse of new Galaxy Macau convention center ahead of 2021 launch RelatedPosts JW Marriott at Galaxy Macau named venue and Galaxy Entertainment Group named Venue Sponsor for 2019 Asian Gaming Power 50 Black Tie Gala Dinner Macau GGR tumbles 8.6% in August Load More Macau’s Tourist Price Index (TPI) across all sectors for the fourth quarter of 2018 decreased by 1.90% year-on-year to 139.81, due primarily to accommodation costs and the falling prices of women’s clothing, the DSEC said. TPI reflects the price change of goods and services purchased by visitorsThe price indices of Food, Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco and of Restaurant Services grew by 4.11% and 1.63% respectively year-on-year.
Copyright 2019 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. NEAR FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WSVN) — A woman shot while driving her car near Fort Lauderdale has died from her injuries.According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, 31-year-old Rebecca Sama Karns was heading westbound along Broward Boulevard in unincorporated Broward County when she was struck by a bullet at around 2:45 a.m, Friday.Officials said her vehicle veered off the road and struck a parked car near Northwest 31st Avenue.Lauderhill Fire Rescue transported Karns to Broward Health Medical Center, where she succumbed to her injuries Saturday afternoon.The passenger in the victim’s vehicle, a male friend, was not hurt.The motive behind the shooting remains under investigation, but officials believe it was random.If you have any information on this shooting, call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible for a $3,000 reward. 
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to media at Parliament on March 17, 2019 in Wellington, New Zealand. 50 people are confirmed dead and 36 are injured still in hospital following shooting attacks on two mosques in Christchurch on Friday, 15 March. The attack is the worst mass shooting in New Zealand’s history.Hagen Hopkins/Getty ImagesNew Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Sunday said she received the Christchurch gunman’s ‘manifesto’ barely nine minutes before the attack. The attacker was brought down within 36 minutes, she told the press while announcing a crucial cabinet meeting on Monday.Ardern said by the time a police plan was in place, the 911 number was already buzzing, shots had been fired. The pocket to react was slim, very very slim, she said, and promised all-out help to the kin of every member killed.Hours after the attack on Friday, PM Ardern had addressed the press, calling the shooting as an act of terrorism. She said that people have been taken into custody. She went on to say that New Zealand is a place with over 200 ethnicities and those with extremist views have no place in the country.The attack, which took the lives of 49 people, has shocked New Zealand to its very core. The gunman, a white supremacist, has been identified as a 28-year-old Australian. Brenton Tarrant had written a 78-page manifesto in which he said that he was going to New Zealand just to train and carry out the attack. YouTubeTarrant also wrote down names on the guns he used to kill the innocent worshippers in the mosques. Some of the names were Anton Lundin Petterson, Alexandre Bissonnette, Skanderbeg, Antonio Bragadin, and Charles Martel. Anton shot a teacher and student in a school in Sweden while Alexandre is known for going on a shooting spree in a mosque in Quebec city. All the people whose names were on the guns have a relationship with violence. 
Few women in history have led such a full and varied life as Laura Eliza Jane Seymour Bell. Living in a period when women’s freedoms were severely curtailed by Victorian patriarchal expectations, Laura Bell managed to cultivate a career as both a prostitute and a Christian preacher. In the mid-19th century, Bell established an infamous lifestyle as a courtesan, regularly indulged her extravagant tastes and habits by riding around Hyde Park in a gilt carriage, and most famously, seduced a Nepalese Prime Minister.However, having defied the social prescriptions of the age as a notorious courtesan and spendthrift, Bell went on to have a profound religious conversion.Jung Bahadur Kunwar RanaIn her later years she became an evangelist, and was known for her impassioned sermons. She gave lavish tea parties to distinguished elites, and lent support to prostitutes in the street in the hope of converting them as part of her Christian mission.How did this former shop assistant and prostitute come to have such an eventful life in the socially repressive 19th century? Bell was born in Northern Ireland, in county Antrim.Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, Antrim, Ireland.According to the magazine History Ireland, she claimed that her mother was the illegitimate daughter of Lord Hertford, and her father was known to be Captain Robert Bell, a bailiff for the Hertford estate.Little is known of Bell’s early life, other than the fact that she worked as an assistant in a draper’s shop in Belfast, and is rumored to have engaged in prostitution. In her early days she attempted to find work as an actress, but was ultimately unsuccessful.Nevertheless, she soon developed a reputation as a result of her vivacious character and stunning beauty. She moved to Dublin, where she may have had a brief affair with William Wilde, father of the writer Oscar Wilde.Oscar WildeIn 1849 Bell moved to London, where she established an illustrious career as a courtesan, attracting a range of high profile lovers. Her prominence on the London scene soon attracted attention and before long she had earned the title of “the Queen of London Whoredom.”Her most notable affair was with the Nepalese Prime Minister, Jung Bahadur Rana, who one day caught a glimpse of her riding through Hyde Park in her gilded carriage, drawn by two white horses. He was said to been so taken by her beauty and elegance that he took her into his service and installed her in a luxury residence in Belgravia. Jung became so besotted with Bell that he showered her with gifts, clothes and jewelry, allegedly to the tune of £250,000.Laura Bell by Wallace Ernest-Joseph-Angelon Girard (1813 – 1898) c. 1850. Courtesy of The Wallace Collection.According to History Ireland, when the heartbroken Prime Minister finally left London and Bell behind, he left her with a priceless ring and a promise to grant her every desire. Years later, this promise was fulfilled during the Indian Mutiny of 1857.Bell, hearing of the plight of besieged British officers and their families at Lucknow, wrote to Jung, urging him to convince the Nepalese court to help the British. The court was not convinced, but Jung was unable to refuse anything to Bell, and he personally led his own troops to help the British break the siege.Maharaj Jung Bahadur Rana at London in 1850.In 1852, Bell made an unconventional marriage to an eccentric army captain named Augustus Frederick Thistlethwayte. Although the marriage was not a happy one, it would change Bell’s life forever.Soon after their wedding, Laura and Augustus went to hear an evangelical preacher, Richard Wagner, speak in London. They were so moved by his words that they both had a religious experience.William Ewart Gladstone.They converted to Evangelicalism and Laura reinvented herself yet again, this time as an inspiring preacher. Her passionate speeches and religious zeal inflamed audiences, and she began to refer to herself as “God’s Ambassadoress.”Her newfound faith, however, failed to control her lavish spending habits, and Bell was constantly in trouble throughout her life for her inability to pay her debts.As a more respectable member of London society, Laura continued to move in high circles. She befriended the politician and later Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. Although their friendship was the subject of a considerable amount of gossip, the two appear to have shared a deep faith and a strong will for social reform.Read another story from us: China’s First and Only Woman Emperor Started out as a Lowly ConcubineFrom the “Queen of London Whoredom” to “God’s Ambassadoress,” friend to Prime Ministers and prostitutes alike, Laura Bell was certainly one of the most unusual women of the Victorian age.