Day: February 3, 2023

Talatona – The Ministry of Public Administration, Labour and Social Security (MAPTSS) has pledged this year to reviving, modernising and expanding 20 Integrated Employment and Vocational Training Centers, in order to facilitate intermediation between businesses and job seekers.

In the country’s 18 provinces, 1,439 training facilities are in operation, of which 158 are training centers and the remaining others are dedicated to arts and crafts pavilions, which are assisted by 1,300 trainers controlled by MAPTESS.

The information was made public on Friday by the Minister, Teresa Rodrigues Dias, when speaking to the press after the inauguration ceremony of the Talatona Integrated Employment and Vocational Training Center in Luanda.

The official explained that the revitalisation and modernisation programme of training centers allows to know the profile of job seekers, companies available to recruit, select and also guarantees the registration of interested parties, even from their homes or offices.

She said she hoped the process would define what national unemployment statistical language should be, so that the numbers are affirmed, with results drawn from a platform of sample-driven statistical data.

For Teresa Dias, the platform is used to better plan, distribute employment policies, according to the geographical need of each training, company and location.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Luanda – Angola’s Ministry of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas (MIREMPET) will exhibit on 6- 9 Jan. the Angolan mining potential and investment opportunities at the International Mining Fair, Mining Indaba 2023, in Cape Town, South Africa.

Two stands are being set up – institutional and mining companies – including diamond and non-diamond firms, where professionals will display their services and networking.

In a press note, reached ANGOP, MIREMPET states that it will promote a mining investment forum, scheduled for Jan. 7, “Angola’s Day”, which takes place under the motto “Critical Minerals for Energy Transition”.

The event will be coordinated by the Minister of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, Diamantino Azevedo.

Mining indaba is the largest mining investment event in Africa.

The event is expected to bring together 6,500 participants, including ministers, senior government representatives, mining companies, investors, professional services, as well as mining equipment and service providers.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Inspired by the lifesaving medical attention Damar Hamlin received on the field during a game last month, the NFL and American Heart Association will provide free CPR education in Arizona throughout Super Bowl week as part of the NFL Experience at the Phoenix Convention Center.

Hamlin, the 24-year-old Buffalo Bills defensive back, needed to be resuscitated after making a tackle in a game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Bills assistant athletic trainer Denny Kellington performed CPR on Hamlin on the field.

“Being able to deliver care in emergency situations is not just important at sporting events, but in all walks of life,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement.

People who visit the mobile training unit will receive hands-only CPR training from experts and receive CPR information that can be shared in their communities. Also, the American Heart Association is working with Hamlin and his #3forHeart CPR Challenge, a social media initiative that encourages people to learn CPR, donate money to support CPR research, education and training, and share the word with others.

“Coming out of the events from last month with Damar Hamlin on the field and the remarkable work that the emergency responders performed, we thought about what opportunities existed for us to share some of the learnings that came from that experience more broadly, which is part of our responsibility throughout the world of football and maybe the world of sports,” NFL executive Jeff Miller told The Associated Press.

“There’s a long history of the NFL trying to share learnings on the health and safety side from what we experienced at the NFL level, whether that be about concussions, concussion education or about emergency action plans. We take as an obligation to share what we’ve learned and highlight some of the best health and safety approaches that we can with other levels of sport,” Miller added.

Anna Isaacson, the NFL’s vice president of social responsibility, said the league approached the American Heart Association and the American Red Cross with a simple question: “What can we do here? We saw one life saved. How can we save many more?”

“The world was watching,” Isaacson told The AP. “I think that while we face challenges, we use these moments to try to make a positive impact.”

In addition to free CPR training in Arizona, the league throughout February is raising money to support CPR education and youth sports safety efforts across the country.

These include a Super Bowl 50/50 raffle open to Arizona residents and fans attending the game at State Farm Stadium. The winner of the raffle will receive half of the jackpot total from raffle ticket sales; the other half will benefit the NFL Foundation to support CPR-related initiatives, including through the American Heart Association, the Red Cross and their local affiliates.

“Only one out of three high schools has full-time access to an athletic trainer and only about another third even have part-time access to one,” Miller said. “That’s a huge gap in sports and in sports medicine that the league, over a period of time with partners like AHA and others, is going to hopefully try to rectify or address at least a little bit.”

Source: Voice Of America

Cabinda – The presiding judge of the Constitutional Court (TC) Laurinda Cardoso said Friday that the Constitution of the Republic of Angola strengthened the foundations of the Angolan State.

The judge was speaking in Cabinda, at the Technical-Academic Conference on the Constitutional protection of the Child’s Rights as part of the activities of the 13th anniversary of the Constitution celebrated on February 5.

The judge stressed that the Constitution is “anchored” on the principles of the Democratic State and the Rule of Law, respect for dignity of the human person and the will of the people.

Among the fundamental objectives of these principles, the judge said, there is the construction of a free, just, democratic society with solidarity, equality and social progress.

Laurinda Cardoso recalled that the Constitution of the Republic safeguards the rights and freedoms of the children.

The judge added that the protection of the rights of the child has as its core, the integral and harmonious education, protection of health, living conditions and education, being the responsibility of the family, the State and the society.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

The Biden administration took a first step Friday toward ending federal protections for grizzly bears in the northern Rocky Mountains, which would open the door to future hunting in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said state officials provided “substantial” information that grizzlies have recovered from the threat of extinction in the regions surrounding Yellowstone and Glacier national parks.

But federal officials rejected claims by Idaho that protections should be lifted beyond those areas, and they raised concerns about new laws from the Republican-led states that could potentially harm grizzly populations.

“We will fully evaluate these and other potential threats,” said Martha Williams, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Friday’s move kicks off at least a year of further study before final decisions about the Yellowstone and Glacier regions.

State officials have insisted any future hunts would be limited and not endanger the overall population.

However, Republican lawmakers in the region in recent years also adopted more aggressive policies against gray wolves, including loosened trapping rules that could lead to grizzlies being inadvertently killed.

As many as 50,000 grizzlies once roamed the western half of the U.S. They were exterminated in most of the country early last century by overhunting and trapping, and the last hunts in the northern Rockies occurred decades ago. There are now more than 2,000 bears in the Lower 48 states and much larger populations in Alaska, where hunting is allowed.

The species’ expansion in the Glacier and Yellowstone areas has led to conflicts between humans and bears, including periodic attacks on livestock and sometimes fatal maulings of humans.

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte welcomed the administration’s announcement and said it could lead to the state reclaiming management of a species that’s been under federal protections since 1975. He said the grizzly’s recovery “represents a conservation success.”

The federal government removed protections for the Yellowstone ecosystem’s grizzlies in 2017. Wyoming and Idaho were set to allow grizzlies to be hunted when a judge restored those protections in 2018, siding with environmental groups that said delisting wasn’t based on sound science. Those groups want protections kept in place so bears can continue moving into new areas.

“We should not be ready to trust those states,” said attorney Andrea Zaccardi, of the Center for Biological Diversity.

U.S. government scientists have said the region’s grizzlies are biologically recovered but in 2021 decided that protections were still needed because of human-caused bear deaths and other pressures. Bears considered problematic are regularly killed by wildlife officials.

A decision on the states’ petitions was long overdue. Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Thursday had filed notice he intended to sue over the delay. Idaho’s petition was broader than the ones filed by Montana and sought to lift protections nationwide.

That would have included small populations of bears in portions of Idaho, Montana and Washington state, where biologists say the animals have not yet recovered to sustainable levels. It also could have prevented the return of bears to other areas such as the North Cascades region.

Source: Voice Of America