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Barnama
3 days ago
- Barnama
Kelantan Cites Faith, Community In Curbing Lgbt-linked Activities
KOTA BHARU, July 20 (Bernama) -- Activities linked to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community in Kelantan remain under control due to consistent enforcement, strong religious values and close community vigilance. State Local Government, Housing, Health and Environment Committee chairman Hilmi Abdullah said the community's alertness and willingness to report suspicious behaviour have played a key role. 'In Kelantan, if something seems unusual, people report it quickly to the authorities,' he told Bernama today.
Miami Herald
5 days ago
- Miami Herald
16-year-old arrested months after stepdad found shot dead, Georgia deputies say
A 16-year-old accused of fatally shooting his stepfather inside their Atlanta-area home was arrested after two months on the run, Georgia deputies said. Jayden Daniel was arrested Thursday, July 17, and faces charges of murder, aggravated assault and theft by taking in the May 13 incident, according to the Newton County Sheriff's Office. He will be charged as an adult, a sheriff's spokesperson said. He was found in DeKalb County, though authorities didn't say what led them there. Daniel also faces charges of possession of a handgun by a person under 18, and possession of a knife or firearm during the commission of a crime, deputies said. His arrest comes months after his stepdad, David Gay, 41, was found shot to death. Deputies responded to a shooting at the family's home in Covington and discovered Gay's body, according to the sheriff's office. 'A preliminary investigation indicated Gay was fatally shot by Daniel,' authorities said, though they did not give a motive. The teen's mother had pleaded with Daniel to come forward after losing another son to gun violence last year, WAGA reported. 'This is the ultimate breaking point for me,' Kennethia Gay told the station. 'I said I couldn't lose another child. I lost my husband, and now I really can't lose another child.' Daniel was taken to the Newton County Detention Center, deputies said. Covington is about a 30-mile drive southeast from downtown Atlanta.
Irish Independent
14-07-2025
- General
- Irish Independent
‘If you find this please call us' – Canadian couple plan to visit Kerry beach where their message in a bottle washed up after 13 years
The story of the bottle's Atlantic crossing has attracted global attention, with CBS News and the Washington Post picking it up. The note, written by Brad Squires and Anita Moran (now Squires) during a romantic picnic on Bell Island in Newfoundland, was discovered by Kate and John Gay while walking along a beach on Scraggane Bay near Castlegregory. Thinking it was litter, the couple picked up the wine bottle tangled in seaweed, only to find the note tucked inside. It read: 'Anita and Brad's day trip to Bell Island. Today, we enjoyed dinner, this bottle of wine and each other at the edge of the island. If you find this note call us.' Kate Gay, who found the bottle, said she is amazed the story has generated such attention across the Atlantic. 'I think it's this idea of the bottle being so resilient,' she said. It barely leaked – there was no damage to it, no chips, cracks, nothing 'First, it had to survive the cliff it was thrown over. Then since 2012, there have been a series of really violent storms, there were big vessels on its route, but it survived it all. 'It barely leaked – there was no damage to it, no chips, cracks, nothing.' Over the past week, Ms Gay had the chance to speak to the Canadian couple during appearances on Canadian TV and radio. When they wrote the message, they had been dating for a year and were in a long-distance relationship, as Mr Squires was a police officer in British Columbia and Ms Moran was training to be a nurse in Newfoundland. They had taken a ferry to Bell Island from St John's, and had decided to get a piece of paper from their car and push a note inside the bottle at the end of a picnic. ADVERTISEMENT Ms Gay said the couple now plan to visit the Maharees in Kerry next year for their 10th wedding anniversary. 'I'm sure they will be going and seeing where it washed up,' she said. The day she found the bottle, Ms Gay was hosting a meeting of the Maharees Heritage and Conservation, an environmental group that had organised the beach clean-up that led to the discovery. 'I thought it would be a really fun thing to open the bottle when other members of the team were there,' she said. After a few failed attempts to tease out the note with tweezers, they had to break the bottle. 'A little tap of a hammer and it came out,' she said. When they called the number, there was no reply, but once the group posted the story on Facebook, it went viral within hours. Friends alerted the Canadian couple that their note had been found. 'I've spoken to them via a radio show and a TV show,' Ms Gay said. 'It was really nice to hear their voices, fill some gaps, and they sound absolutely lovely, and just can't believe the reaction themselves. 'But also can't believe that the bottle even made it beyond Bell Island, because there are steep cliffs there, so the bottle first had to negotiate getting over the cliffs and away from the rocks, which it did, and spent 13 years finding its way through storms and currents to the shores of the Maharees.' Ms Gay said the couple married in 2016 and now have three children. 'When it was all coming to light, their phones were just pinging. They were just putting the kids to bed, and just wondering why their phones were so active,' she said. While the bottle took more than a decade to drift to Ireland, the internet tracked down the couple within hours. The Maharees, where the bottle was found, is a 5km sand tombolo separating Brandon Bay and Tralee Bay, one of Ireland's most vulnerable coastal communities in the face of storms. We just thought it was a gorgeous story Parts of Newfoundland face similar challenges. 'We just thought it was a gorgeous story,' said Martha Farrell, chair of the Maharees Conservation Association, who was at the meeting when the bottle was opened. 'Kate is on our Coastal Resilience Project, and she finds it and opens it during one of our coastal resilience meetings. And guess what, Anita, who sent the bottle, is from Prince Edward Island, which is basically the equivalent of the Maharees in Canada.' At the meeting where the message was read, Ms Farrell said they mooted getting in touch with other coastal communities around the world, unaware that the story of the message in the bottle would go viral. She said the series of events have been full of serendipity. 'The bottle got here in one piece, the couple are still together and got married,' she said.
The Citizen
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Citizen
LGBTQ+ residents march in Mamelodi
NGO, Walk With Heart (WWH), recently held its fifth annual No Fear Pride March at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom Square. The annual celebration is dedicated to honouring the lives, visibility, and rights of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer (LGBTIQ) community in Mamelodi. Each year has a different theme during their panel discussion. This year's theme was 'Resisting the Resistance: Repositioning Ourselves as the LGBTQ+ community in Response to New Challenges from Global Superpowers'. The marchers gathered on June 28 at 08:00 at Solomon Mahlangu Square in Mamelodi West for the march, which started at 09:00. After arriving at the Denlyn shopping centre, the festivities included a panel discussion, DJs, and artist performances. The event was founded in 2019 by Andrew Lethole, Kgothatso Sethole, and Sifiso Sithole, also known as 'The Tholes'. They are based in and operate in Mamelodi, and say their mission includes raising awareness about HIV and Aids, facilitating testing and treatment, and addressing the broader challenges faced by the LGBTIQ community. 'The LGBTQ+ community continues to face discrimination and violence, as well as a lack of access to health services. The demise of agencies – like the Usaid – has resulted in many NGOs that used to provide health services to the LGBTQ+ community closing their doors due to lack of funding, which has resulted in the queer community going back to public health facilities, where they often face persecution,' Sethole said. WWH has collaborated with several other NGOs in the past, including the Aurum Institute, Access Chapter 2, and Not In My Name International. This year, they partnered with designers Agrippa Dumisani of House of Agrie Couture and Sello Gene of Gene Hunter Original, who provided the dresses for the drag performances. Thibo Café 2.0 is another collaborator that hosts WWH for their annual fundraising event. 'During our panel discussion on Saturday, there was an overwhelming message for all LGBTQ+ people in Mamelodi and beyond to truly unite and organise ourselves. Our community globally is under attack, and if we are to make it, it has to be together. Not all of us can storm the streets in protest; however, if we can make a difference where we are, wherever we are, it'll go a very, very long way,' Sethole said. The NGO looks forward to working on a smaller event during the South African Pride Month, in October, as well as the Mams Winter Pride event on July 26. 'Our message is clear, we are here, we are queer, we are part of the greater community, and we deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. We want other parents who have children who are queer to know that there is nothing wrong with their children, and they ought to love and protect them and encourage them to be themselves, and hopefully seeing us marching and making a raucous in the street will help them in that,' Sethole said. ALSO READ: Spike in vehicle theft at north shopping centres Do you have more information about the story? Please send us an email to [email protected] or phone us on 083 625 4114. For free breaking and community news, visit Rekord's websites: Rekord East For more news and interesting articles, like Rekord on Facebook, follow us on Twitter or Instagram or TikTok. At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
Straits Times
06-07-2025
- Straits Times
Woman on SMRT bus 190 injured after bottle thrown at vehicle leaves hole in window
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox Someone, believed to be a person in the street, threw a bottle at the bus that left a hole in its window. SINGAPORE - A commuter travelling on SMRT service 190 was taken to hospital with injuries after someone, believed to be a person in the street, threw a bottle at the bus that left a hole in its window. The police were alerted to the incident in Orchard Road at about 6.50pm on July 5, and investigations are ongoing. The injured commuter, a 57-year-old woman, was conscious when she was taken to Raffles Hospital , said the police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force . Mr Vincent Gay, deputy managing director at SMRT Buses , said the person threw the bottle at the double-decker bus when it was plying Orchard Road at about 6.45pm . The bus driver stopped the bus and checked on the passengers, he added. All affected passengers were transferred to another bus to continue their commute. The police were alerted to the incident in Orchard Road at about 6.50pm on July 5, and investigations are ongoing. PHOTO: SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS 'We are cooperating with the police in their investigations,' Mr Gay added. In photos circulating online, the bus can be seen parked near The Heeren. Top stories Swipe. Select. Stay informed. Singapore First BTO project in Sembawang North to be offered in July HDB launch Business High Court orders Instagram seller to pay Louis Vuitton $200,000 in damages over counterfeit goods Singapore MOH studying 18 proposals to integrate TCM into public healthcare Singapore TTSH to demolish century-old pavilion wards, keeping one as heritage marker Asia 'Don't be seen in India again': Indian nationals pushed into Bangladesh at gunpoint Asia Malaysian commando dies during military diving exercise off Kuantan coast Singapore Overlooked 'glass child', the sibling of a special-needs kid Singapore His world crashed when he got F9 in O-level Tamil but PropNex co-founder Ismail Gafoor beat the odds Images on social media platform Xiaohongshu show a gaping hole in a window on the upper deck of the bus, with the rest of the window panel riddled with cracks. Blood stains were seen near the bus door, reported Shin Min Daily News .
