testing

from the article:

Boundaries only scratched the surface of the complaints many St. Johnians have expressed regarding the parks. Congresswoman Plaskett listened to accounts from several residents, including Lorelei Monsanto, who insinuated that the National Park Service has wrongfully claimed land belonging to their families. “They still owe us 300 acres of land,” stated Ms. Monsanto, who explained that her mother had successfully sued the NPS to recover some of the family's property. “The park has stolen and still needs to give us back the land they stole."

Raymond Roberts, who said that his family on St. John could be traced back five generations, revealed that his family is currently in court with the National Park Service over land that had been in his family for centuries. “How could they own all property that four generations before me have been living on?” Mr. Roberts asked. According to him, upon the death of his grandmother in 2004, the matter was thought to have been settled, but as another resident revealed, the NPS requested that the case be reopened, and “insists on fighting them for their property.”

Abigail Hendricks, the resident in question, also raised concerns over increasing property taxes on “landlocked” land within the National Park’s boundaries. “So then all of a sudden, now my land tax has gone way up because I'm a part of the National Park,” she complained. She detailed land access issues, saying that several roads to access owned properties within the park have been blocked off. “How do you block me from getting to my property, but the government expects us to still pay for it?” asked Ms. Hendricks. That question was met with rousing applause.

#virginIslands #caribbean #mismanagement #corruption

from the article:

The undated letter outlines several concerns, including “the increasing state of public corruption; the high level of violent crime; the [Government’s] failure to provide promised service delivery; unfulfilled promises to the diaspora regarding its involvement in the political process; and the legal defence that diaspora members do not have standing to sue the Government”.

It came above the signature of Dr Rupert Francis, who was identified as chairman of the Jamaica Diaspora Crime Intervention & Prevention task force.

According to the retired Jamaica Defence Force captain, the letter was written on behalf of concerned Jamaicans living in Jamaica and the diaspora and is a call to action.

“I wish to inform you, and by extension, the Jamaican Government, that the diaspora will engage Jamaica’s international partners to seek redress of our grievances. These international partners will include donor countries and organisations and Congressional/Parliamentary committees,” Francis wrote in the letter.

“We recognise that there are issues of corruption. Of course we recognise that there are issues of crime and violence. Of course, we recognise that there are issues with education. But this is where we have to build the country with our capacity as Jamaicans living overseas. To help with best practices and to invest in those start-up entrepreneurs,” said Peat.

#jamaica #caribbean #caricom #corruption

from the article:

In 1946, the Marshall Islands seemed very close for many Australians. They feared the imminent launch of the US’s atomic testing program on Bikini Atoll might split the earth in two, catastrophically change the earth’s climate, or produce earthquakes and deadly tidal waves.

A map accompanying one report noted Sydney was only 3,100 miles from ground zero. Residents as far away as Perth were warned if their houses shook on July 1, “it may be the atom bomb test”.

Radiation poisoning, birth defects, leukaemia, thyroid and other cancers became prevalent in exposed Marshallese, at least four islands were “partially or completely vapourised”, the exposed Marshallese “became subjects of a medical research program” and atomic refugees. (Bikinians were allowed to return to their atoll for a decade before the US government removed them again when it was realised a careless error falsely claimed radiation levels were safe in 1968.)

In late 1947, the US moved its operations to Eniwetok Atoll, a decision, it was argued, to ensure additional safety. Eniwetok was more isolated and winds were less likely to carry radioactive particles to populated areas.

Australia’s economic stake in the atomic age from 1954 collided with the galvanisation of global public opinion against US testing in Eniwetok. The massive “Castle Bravo” hydrogen bomb test in March exposed Marshall Islanders and a Japanese fishing crew on The Lucky Dragon to catastrophic radiation levels “equal to that received by Japanese people less than two miles from ground zero” in the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic blasts. Graphic details of the fishermen’s suffering and deaths and a Marshallese petition to the United Nations followed.

#marshallIslands #pasifika #radiation #coldWar #atomicTests #atomicBomb #australia #colonialism

@itsaj26744
misskey and its cutlery set of forks all have rss support > among them, rss support of firefish and iceshrimp could easily be labeled "rss eye candy of the fediverse"

rss feeds on the *keys follow the model:

https://instance.name/@user.rss

atom feeds are also available:
https://instance.name/@user.atom

from the article:

These policemen do all the planning and then engage the 'wanted boys' to carry out the main criminal holdups … even the firearms belong to them," the leaders claim in a petition sent to the government.
Mike Piau is one of the "wanted boys".
He said he was bashed up and arrested by police in 2020 when he refused to take part in a robbery.

"They almost shot me with a pistol. When I didn't do what they asked, they turned on me and arrested me and beat me up," he told the ABC.

Mr Piau told the ABC he had been approached by police because he was an influential resistance fighter during the Bougainville crisis from 1988 until 1998.

At the time, local dissatisfaction with a major mining project sparked an armed uprising against the PNG government in which 20,000 people died.

Other "wanted boys" the ABC has spoken with say they are now hiding out in villages to escape arrest.

Mr Piau said the alleged police misconduct could hurt Bougainville's independence bid.
"These sort of men will create bigger problems which will impact our road to independence," he told the ABC.

Despite the 2019 referendum, which was non-binding, Bougainville's fate lies in the hands of the PNG parliament, which is yet to make a decision on the issue.

The Bougainville Police Service still operates under the auspices of the Royal Papua New Guinea constabulary and is largely dependent on funding sort of coming through the PNG government system," he said.

Dr Dinnen said there was some community mistrust in the police following the Bougainville crisis.

When tensions began to break out in the late 80s, the PNG police deployed mobile squads to the region.
They were later accused of serious human rights abuses.

"There's a kind of memory of that other kind of policing, that Bougainvilleans did not want to duplicate or replicate," Dr Dinnen said.

Dr Peake said Australia had a role to play in training the PNG police, which it has done for decades.

#bougainville #png #PapuaNewGuinea #pasifika #violence #corruption

@mateomaui
chinese demand for wood has never cared for any regulations, especially not in the pacific region - it's a catastrophe ...

@mateomaui it's grotesque, isn't it?

from the article:

He said that they believed that more than 10,000 round or unmilled logs are currently stocked at a former slipway at Palekula.

The land owner said forestry department failed to measure the logs after they have cut down by the Chinese company for transportation to Palekula where they are stocked.

He said to know the price of a log the department has to measure it to evaluate the price but so far nothing has been done.

“Heaps of logs are currently stocked at Palekula and to remove them to take their measurement, it will take more than a month. This is the problem of the company and the department to short it out. For us the land owner we just want the payment of our trees,” said the land owner.

He said under the agreement signed between them, the Chinese company and the department, it was agreed to pay 2500 vatu per cubic metre.

#vanuatu #pasifika #exploitation #corruption #colonialism

@Chozo
this is the english machine translation of naskya's post:

Even if you ask me when the next version will be out, I don't know.

one week ago, naskya stated in another post:

Firefish v1.0.5 を出すために必要にゃ雑用は 2 日くらい前に睡眠時間を捧げてほとんど片付けたのであとは Kainoa さん次第です

english machine translation:

I devoted my sleep time to do most of the chores needed to release Firefish v1.0.5 about 2 days ago, so the rest is up to Kainoa.

source: https://post.naskya.net/notes/9n8d2h0qq12bdzm1 #firefish

@spaduf mondragon is by far the biggest coop worldwide, and the company is not a classical coop, but rather resembles other big capitalist ventures

@ThatOneKirbyMain2568
i hope so, too!

if mod tools worked better, the microblogging sections could become even more interesting in terms of content, and less of a hassle for moderators 🙏

@ThatOneKirbyMain2568

1. microblog posts: rarely, but once in a while
2. microblog replies: don't work atm, but i like it!
3. microblog tab: depending on whether i have to micro-manage or not:

• kbin's mod tools are buggy, e.g. an account banned from a magazine can still spam the microblogging section > mods better look inside the microblog tab ...
• otherwise depending on my mood

1. viewing microblog posts in my home feed: all the time - i like it even more on kbin than on specific microblogging fedi platforms tbh
2. aggregated view is great! i keep boosting loads of microblog posts via kbin ✨