À Tautira, berceau du va’a, s’est tenu ce samedi 18 avril une journée portes ouvertes dédiée à la navigation ancestrale. Au programme : plusieurs ateliers autour de l’océan dédié au public. L’occasion aussi de célébrer un an de navigation pour Rapa-Atea, un projet familial qui renoue avec la pirogue à voile traditionnelle.

La gendarmerie nationale recrute. Mais avant de s'engager, les candidats connaissent-ils véritablement les missions qui les attendent ? Pour la deuxième année consécutive, la brigade de Faa'a ouvrait ses portes au public pour la matinée du samedi 18 avril. L'occasion de découvrir les quelque 300 métiers de la gendarmerie. Entre l'État-Major, les unités opérationnelles ou les réservistes, le choix est vaste. Parmi les temps forts de la matinée, une opération musclée de la compagnie des îles du vent.

Nearly 200 people gathered at the legislature in Regina Saturday to protest the lack of consultation around Bell Canada's planned AI data centre, set to be built in Sherwood. The rural municipality's council is set to vote on the AI centre's development agreement on Monday.

Two First Nations in Manitoba's Interlake region have declared a state of emergency ahead of a potentially devastating flood.

NEW YORK (AP): Before Megan Pilatzke was diagnosed with autism, she wondered why she always felt drained when she got home from work. All day long, she’d laboured to understand when to speak up or stay silent in meetings. She replayed conversations in her head, worrying she’d misunderstood or said the wrong thing. Noisy environments distressed her. She watched her peers receive promotions when she didn’t.

Just minutes from St Mary’s seaside capital of Port Maria, the Frontier (Phase 2) Housing Scheme appears at first glance to be an idyllic residential enclave with its elevated lots gazing out towards Pagee Beach. But a closer look tells a different story – uneven roads riddled with potholes break its polished image, street lighting is scarce, and residents have for years been without piped water, and proper garbage collection.

After nearly three decades protecting the public, retired Jamaican police officer Marlon Campbell* sits at home, sometimes unable to pay his light bill. He gave his working life to the State, but more than four years after leaving the force, he has not received his final pension letter and the full pension he is entitled to remains unpaid. “It’s one of the things where you leave now and you have regrets. It is that bad,” said the retiree, who served over two decades in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) before retiring almost a decade ago.

The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) did not turn over hundreds of documents that were critical to an operation and turnaround plan it commissioned for millions of dollars, the Canadian consulting firm that was contracted to draft it has alleged. This claim by Williams Pragmatic Services (WPS) comes amid scrutiny of its contract with the UHWI by Jamaican lawmakers. Hodine Williams, chief executive officer (CEO) of WPS, dismissed questions raised publicly about the qualification and competence of the consultants.

Scientific and Medical Supplies has rejected findings by the auditor general that the company benefited from a “misuse” of the University Hospital of the West Indies’ (UHWI) tax-exemption status for imports, and has signalled it has no intention of repaying a cent. Managing Director Howard Lau dismissed the audit conclusions outright, maintaining that the shipment of 40 specialised waste bins linked to his company belonged to the hospital and not his company.

When Prince Harry spoke last week of the need for parents to 'upgrade' from the behaviour of the previous generation, it sounded as though he was pointing a finger at King Charles.

Juha Miettinen, 66, died after the incident during the Nurburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS) race on Saturday.

C'est une nouvelle étape pour le transport aérien inter-îles. La compagnie Air Moana accueille ce samedi 18 avril son quatrième avion, baptisé Poerava. Un renfort attendu pour améliorer les dessertes locales et répondre à une demande en hausse.

Saeed Khatibzadeh stated that this issue is not discussed

Earlier, leader of the Liberal Democrats opposition party Ed Davey put forward a similar idea

The leader of Brazil also urged the global community to pay attention to the continuing humanitarian catastrophe in Haiti

The Russian military also destroyed four mortars, 19 ground robotic systems, 47 drone control stations, a Starlink terminal and two field ammunition depots

One Born Every Minute is making a return to Channel 4, seven years after it was axed.

Tom Cruise is expected to make about £100 million for his return as Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell - and he'll repeat his producer role in the blockbuster franchise.

An ex-master in his 80s, who taught for several decades at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, has been arrested on suspicion of rape and indecent assault at the £53,000-a-year school.

The Sussexes suffer a fresh blow today as it is revealed an overwhelming four-to-one majority of Britons are opposed to them using their titles for commercial gain.

The US military will board Iran-linked vessels and oil tankers in a bid to economically pressure the regime. It's a step beyond the current blockade of all traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports.

Au Moyen-Orient, l'éclaircie aura été de courte durée. Ce samedi 18 avril au matin, l'Iran annonce la fermeture du stratégique détroit d'Ormuz alors que la veille, il avait été complètement rouvert pour les navires commerciaux. Un revirement de Téhéran, en réaction au maintien du blocus américain des ports iraniens.

[State Department] The following statement was released by the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as Alliance Fleuve Congo/March 23 Movement, as well as the State of Qatar, the United States of America, the Republic of Togo (as the African Union mediator), the African Union Commission, and Switzerland, on the meetings held April 13 to April 17 in Montreux, Switzerland, on the implementation of the Doha Framework for a Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

[State Department] The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.

[Maka] Angola's minister of agriculture, Isaac dos Anjos, deserves a peculiar kind of congratulations. By speaking so bluntly, he has done the country a public service: he has stripped away the pretence and exposed the national self-sabotage in which parts of Angola's ruling elite still indulge.

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