Ernerst D. Jallah A child right advocate has said that there is a need for the Government of Liberia to put the well-being of children on the top of its priority lists.Ernest Duku Jallah, 21, who is an activist for quality education said that child labor and abuse, equal and quality education for every Liberian child are some challenges affecting Liberian children that citizens must demand from the Government of Liberia to address.
Some participants at the Day of African Child program“It is our right to demand the government to enact actions to defeat child labor and abuse. It is our right to demand that children of our country receive the quality education needed to make their lives successful,” said Jallah. “Our girls should not have reasons to trade their womanhood for survival. They must have an opportunity to choose between options for livelihood. We must present all of our children the same and equal opportunities to make their lives better.”Jallah served as a keynote speaker at a one-day commemoration program of the Day of African Child. The one-day event took place in Paynesville and it was organized by the Youth for Sustainable Development Initiative.Earlier, Ekies Divine who made a special statement on behalf of Liberian children recommended that the Government of Liberia engage its partners and local organizations to conduct combined actions to ensure the realization of child rights at all times.“I encourage African leaders to take the situation surrounding the violation of child rights seriously and take appropriate measures to ensure their well-being. It is important to know that creating awareness on children’s rights is essential,” Ekies stressed. “There is a need to draw attention to the situation of those who are particularly vulnerable to every form of violence.”The Day of the African Child has been celebrated on June 16 every year since 1991 when it was first initiated by the Organization of African Unity, now African Union. The day honors those who participated in the Soweto Uprising in 1976 on that day. It also raises awareness of the continuing need for improvement of the education provided to African children.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
There submerged ‘Rival’ is expected to be removed from Ramelton.As the 90 feet mussel dredger, ‘Rival’ became submerged again at Ramelton pier at the weekend, Donegal County Council is now expected to have it removed and sold for scrap as public concerns about public safety and pollution intensify.The Tirconail Tribune report that council staff have been working to refloat the boat this week and the task is proving difficult since it is believed the bulkheads of the vessel are not functioning and water is continuing to pour into the holds.‘Rival’ is registered in Westport under ‘Inch Island Shellfish Company’ and is owned by the Brown family. It had a former value in the region of €300,000. It is now believed it is worth around £4000 in scrappage value. Cllr. Ian McGarvey said that the Council was now actively engaged in a process to resolve the problem.He says that when the issues of ownership are worked out the Council will hire a tug to bring the vessel to Derry where it will be broken up and sold for scrap.The ninety feet mussel dredger has been anchored permanently at the Quay in Ramelton for the past three years amid denials from a leading bank that they were effectively in ownership of the vessel.It is understood the Council is also concerned about the status of another vessel that has remained grounded across the river for a number of years.It is believed the legal status of this boat’s ownership is now being investigated before any further action can be taken. The process to scrap the boat is well underway, says Cllr.McGarvey and he expects the formalities of the transfer of ownership to be resolved in the New Year.“Following concerns about spillage of oil based products and waste materials from the submerged boat the vessel has been refloated and made ready for removal at the earliest possible convenience,” he said.In mid April the boat became deeply submerged on the high tides giving rise to serious concerns about pollution from diesel and lubricants on board.The boat was then refloated but this was not seen as a permanent solution because it was reported that the damage beneath the water line was beyond repair.At the weekend the boat sank again and local community leaders in Ramelton expressed their anger and frustration that the picturesque landscape was being visually destroyed by ‘half sunken wrecks’. One source said that the landscape at the Quay in Ramelton was one of it’s most precious heritage inheritances and they could not allow the place to become a dumping ground for half submerged fishing boats and rusting wrecks.Last April a spokesman for the Brown family said the situation is out of their hands. They say the boat is deeply indebted: is prevented from fishing to earn its keep and unable to pay off very substantial debts because it has been forced out of action for a number of years.It has also emerged that there were outstanding bank loans the family is unable to meet.Vandals have caused serious damage on board the boat and it has come under attack on a number of occasions: windows and mooring ropes have been wrecked and in the past couple of weeks more serious damage has taken place. The Brown family told the Tribune that the boat had been boarded by vandals, pumps, engines and generators were either stolen or put out of action and the vessel is now effectively worthless.Adding to the complexity of the issue is the fact that the vessel is so deeply indebted to the bank that the owners are unable toget any further funding to make it seaworthy.In its current state ‘Rival’ cannot get a fishery licence and is nowhere close to being seaworthyAt one point the boat was worth €300,000… but not now. Cecil Brown told us that in its present condition the boat is ‘worthless’.He said that it could cost in excess of €100,000 to bring it back up to comply with the Dept of the Marine regulations.“AIB is not the owner of the vessel in question and any question or queries relating to its upkeep and maintenance should be directed to the vessel’s owners,’’ was their response of the Bank to our queries.At the same time the Brown’s say they are powerless to do anything about the situation since they are effectively mortgaged to the hilt and are locked into a position that until the boat can go back fishing they cannot pay the costs of essential repairs.‘We might be the registered owners but in effect we do not have any control of the situation because the matter is out of our hands due to financial reasons,’ admitted Cecil Brown.The vessel was registered in Ireland in 2007. The boat which was originally Dutch built is over 29 metres in length with a weight of 122 tonnes. It has been based in Ramelton for a number of years where catches were landed.It is believed the vessel was purchased by the Brown family who then spent €200,000 to bring it up to the safety standards recognised by the Dept of the Marine and to comply with fishery regulations in Ireland.SUBMERGED BOATS TO BE REMOVED FROM RAMELTON was last modified: December 23rd, 2015 by StephenShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Tags:boatsRameltonRival
If you are reading this, it might simply be a sign that Armageddon did not happen this morning – or it did and the rapture left you behind. Or maybe this marks the birth of the Antichrist, and the end is still seven years away. But, most likely, today – June 6, 2006, or digitally 06/06/06 – was simply a clear day to release the remake of the 1970s horror film “The Omen,” in which a family is terrorized after giving birth to the Antichrist. So far, few seem to be suffering from hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – an intense aversion to the numerical sequence 666. The only biblical reference to 666 comes from the 13th chapter of the book of Revelation, an apocalyptic writing of the apostle John to Christians suffering heavily under Roman rule. Scholars have understood six as an imperfect number. Man was created on the sixth day, and six is one less than seven, which is ascribed to God throughout Scripture. If 777 represents God and the height of perfection, the triplicate six would be the mark of sheer wickedness and human sinfulness. The Antichrist. “It’s really a satanic trinity,” said Eddie Gibbs, a professor at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena. Nero and Hitler are two tyrants whose names can be transnumerated as 666. Stalin, too. Others have tried to avoid such condemnation. In 1996, a rumor spread through Colombia that unless children had been baptized by June 6, they would become the property of the devil. The Catholic Church tried to assuage such fears but couldn’t defeat the images of “Rosemary’s Baby” and the original “Omen” that were being broadcast. When President and Nancy Reagan retired to Bel Air in 1989, they forced the city to change their new address to 668 St. Cloud Road – from 666. On Monday, the Web site of Radio Free Satan carried a “countdown to your damnation” ticker that hit zero at midnight. Tonight, the priests and priestesses of darkness from across the globe will descend upon the Steve Allen Theater – coincidently, reachable at (323) 666-4268 – for a sold-old pagan party to mark the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Church of Satan. “Sorry to disappoint the legion of Satan fans, but they are barking up the wrong tree,” said Tod Tamberg, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. They have not received calls from terrified parishioners, he said. In the book of Mark, Jesus said men would claim to know when the apocalypse would occur. “But about the day or hour, no one knows,” he said. Still, there were the 11th Century Christians who believed Christ would return on the 1,000th anniversary of his crucifixion; the Millerites, a Christian sect that predicted the world would end Oct. 22, 1844; and those who thought Y2K spelled more than trouble for the world’s banks. “The next time I guess we are going to come upon it is June 6, 2066,” James, of raptureready.com, said. If so, 6-6-66 might be a day of supreme evil, for four is certainly greater than three. But, according to James’ Web site, we might not get there. The site’s Rapture Index, which James said is “more or less along the lines of the Dow Jones,” is based on 45 apocalyptic predictors, including the presence of floods, anti-Semitism and antichrists. The world scored a 157 Monday, matching 2003’s high but below the all-time high of 182 set in September 2001. When there is a score above 145, Rapture Ready recommends, “fasten your seat belt.” brad.greenberg@dailynews.com (818) 713-3634160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! AD Quality Auto 360p 720p 1080p Top articles1/5READ MORE11 theater productions to see in Southern California this week, Dec. 27-Jan. 2“The mark of the beast has never been interpreted as a calendrical sign,” said Stephen O’Leary, an associate professor at the University of Southern California who specializes in apocalyptic religious predictions. Even Christians who believe a seven-year period of tribulation will precede the Second Coming aren’t making much of the date with its three sixes strung together. “There is nothing in the Bible that indicates a date has anything to do with it. It’s just a marketing tool,” said Terry James, general editor of raptureready.com. “The Rapture,” the 15th installment of the bestselling “Left Behind” series of Christian films, also will be released today. “It’s a shameless marketing technique,” said co-writer Jerry B. Jenkins, who emphasized that he does not believe the date has any significance. “Scripture makes it clear that the Antichrist will be so convincing and deceptive and attractive that most people are not going to see him for who he is until the gloves come off. He is going to be smart enough to not show up with 666 on his airplane.” 
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Letterkenny IT company, Gartan Technologies, has announced a major expansion into markets in the USA and Canada after forming a new partnership with US firm, Adashi Systems, based in Baltimore.The announcement was made in Boston on Tuesday by Gartan CEO Malachi Eastwood, who is in the USA this week as part of the Ireland Northwest Trade Mission.Mr Eastwood is also taking part in a multi-city promotional tour that includes New York and Philadelphia. He first visited the Boston area in March 2015 as part of the Donegal County Council’s trade links initiative. Gartan Technologies specialise in rostering solutions for the Emergency Services sector and they already work with some of the largest Fire Departments in Ireland, the UK, Australia and Northern Europe.Baltimore-based Adashi Systems, will act as resellers for Gartan solutions in the USA and Canada. The partnership between the firms is the culmination of two years hard work to find what Malachi Eastwood describes as, ‘the perfect partner.’“A business relationship is like any other relationship. The very best partnerships work when the participants share a similar view of the world, so to speak. Adashi are like us in that they’re a very customer focused organisation. The client is at the epicentre of everything they do. Our companies share the same values and we share a determination to innovate and to bring genuine value to the sector.”Donegal firm Gartan, know all about the challenges of breaking into new overseas markets. They have worked in the UK since 2007 and in 2014 they moved into Australia. Most recently, they were awarded a contract by Copenhagen Fire Department which was their first breakthough into mainland Europe.There were challenges involved in breaking into all of those markets and the company took their experience of the last 10 years and applied it to their US project.“The US market is massive. It’s so vast and it just wouldn’t have been practical for us to manage the sales, system deployment and support processes in the US in the same way we do in, say, the UK or Australia. Ironically, distance is not actually the main issue. When it comes to North America there are tens of thousands of Fire Departments and that’s what makes it truly unique. In the UK, for example, there are 70 departments.”Gartan’s partnership with Adashi, is now set to help the Letterkenny firm gain a foothold in the North American market.“We first met Adashi through a shared client in Sydney. They’re in the software development business and they’re in the Fire Department sector, too. They already have a big presence in North America. Our respective solutions complement each other very well and they will now leverage their position in the US and Canada to sell and support our solutions.” The expansion into the USA and Canada is a timely one for Gartan who have been working with Fire Departments for over 20 years.The company moved into the UK in 2007 and in 2013 began a programme of expansion to leverage their growing positive reputation within the sector.They started with Australia and then spent two years focusing on mainland Europe and the US. The timing of their latest expansions has coincided with Brexit and the importance of that has not gone unnoticed.“We do a lot of business in the UK and there’s no doubt that Brexit will be a challenge. That said, our job is to build a robust, sustainable business and our partnership with Adashi means we’re now operating on three continents and in four separate currency areas. That, of course, reduces the risk of being overexposed to one marketplace but it also helps manage the impact of currency fluctuations. In 2013 we appointed a Chief Operations Officer and that helped give us the space to start a strategic market expansion. We sat down with the staff that year, too, and explained our thinking behind the strategy. They immediately bought into it and that was even more crucial because you need a supportive team behind you to make any plan work and our guys have been fantastic,” Malachi Eastwood added.Gartan has an office in Sydney which focuses on business development and client support in Australia and they plan to open a similar facility in the US.The company’s product development teams and the bulk of their support operation will continue to operate out of Letterkenny.DD Business: Letterkenny firm announces major expansion into US was last modified: November 16th, 2016 by StephenShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)