Happy Mother’s – and Father’s – Day to new Monegasque families

Photo: Mairie Monaco
Photo: Mairie Monaco

The Monaco City Council welcomed Monegasque families and their first child on Mother and Father’s Day on Wednesday, June 7, at a special event at the Town Hall.

Mayor Georges Marsan received the Monegasque families who welcomed their first child during the past year, for a warm reception in the Court of Honour of the Town Hall in Monaco Ville.

The mayor said how important it is for the City Council of Monaco to acknowledge the young parents. Early Childhood is one of the priorities of the commune’s activities and many services are provided by the Social Action Service under the guidance of its Communal Councillor delegated to Early Childhood, Chloé Boscagli-Leclercq.

The first concrete example of this commitment is Espace Parents, which was created in 2012 in order to facilitate meetings and exchanges between families and professionals working in Early Childhood.

Another recurring concern of the Communal Council is to respond to the ever-increasing demand for places in the community and, as a result, a third micro-crèche will welcome ten children as of September 2017.

Mayor Marsan warmly congratulated the happy parents by stressing that their mission in bringing up their children is an arduous task but of capital importance because “our children are our future, they will form the community in future years”.

It was in a relaxed atmosphere that the reception continued, with friendly exchanges between the families and members of the Communal Council.

Each child received as a gift a pretty bib embroidered with a teddy bear and the moto: “Min, sun de Mùnegu” (I am from Monaco).

Mayor Marson was accompanied by several elected officials: Marjorie Crovetto-Harroch, Françoise Gamerdinger, André J. Campana, Henri Doria, Chloé Boscagli-Leclercq, Axelle Amalberti-Verdino, Karyn Ardisson-Salopek and Claude Bollati.

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Minister’s first official visit to Princess Grace Hospital

Minister Didier Gamerdinger, accompanied by CHPG Directpr Patrick Bini, speaking with with Professor Saoudi and his team.
Minister Didier Gamerdinger, accompanied by CHPG Directpr Patrick Bini, speaking with with Professor Saoudi and his team.

Having just taken over as Minister of Health and Social Affairs, Didier Gamerdinger, made an official visit to the Princess Grace Hospital to familiarise himself with its workings and to meet the staff.

Thanks to a range of state of the art equipment and the exceptional expertise of the staff, the hospital enjoys an excellent reputation over a wide area.

Not only is CHPG a major player in the health sector in Monaco, but an important health-care provider for the surrounding French communes. Accompanied by the hospital’s director, Mr Patrick Bini, Minister Gamerdinger was welcomed by all the department heads and their teams.

Mr Gamerdinger also met informally with staff representatives at the hospital, in the presence of Andre Garino, head of its executive board.

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Malaysian swimmer breaks record in Monaco

A top Malaysian swimmer won the men’s 400m freestyle at the Mare Nostrum Tour event in Monaco on Saturday.

Twenty-year-old Welson Sim broke his own national record of 3:50:33 that he set in March 2016 at the National Age Group swimming championships in Singapore, clocking 3:49.48 in Monaco, to push reigning Olympic champion Mack Horton of Australia into second place on 3:50.13. Qiu Ziao of China took third place with a time of 3:51.18.

Sim’s swim was watched closely in Malaysia and his win prompted the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, to Tweet: “Congratulations to our swimmer Welson Sim, for winning the gold medal at the Monaco championships, breaking the national record and beating the Olympic champion! The victory is sweet.”

Sim swam for Malaysia at the Rio Olympics last year and is only the second Malaysian to win on the Mare Nostrum Tour.

Phee Jinq En was Malaysia’s first ever winner in the Tour when she won the women’s 50m breaststroke in Monaco last year.

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Champion swimmers miss Monaco meet

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James Guy. Photo: Facebook SwimSwam/Peter Sukenik/www.petersukenik.com
James Guy. Photo: Facebook SwimSwam/Peter Sukenik/www.petersukenik.com

Three champion British swimmers failed to make it to Mare Nostrum swimming tour in Monaco at the weekend because they were bumped from their easyJet flight from the UK on Friday.

Two of the three eventually made it to Nice-Côte d’Azur airport in time to compete on Sunday, the second day, but missed their Saturday heats.

James Guy, holder of the 200m freestyle world record and a double Olympic silver medallist, didn’t make it for the 400m freestyle on Saturday, however, on Sunday he claimed top seed in the men’s 100m butterfly with a time of 52:30.

Chris Walker-Hebborn missed all of his events because they took place on Saturday.

The three swimmers were booked on an A320 aircraft from Bristol, but this was replaced by a smaller A319. It is believed that the problem with the Bristol-Nice flight was a knock on from a technical problem suffered by easyJet on a flight from Malaga on Thursday, which was delayed for 40 hours.

Eventually the easyJet pilot asked the 120 passengers onboard to vote with a show of hands whether to take off with only one engine working. When a majority elected to get off the plane, they had to wait two hours before they could do so. They spent two nights in mainly poor hotels and were given only enough money to buy a bottle of water.

EasyJet is the number one carrier at Nice airport and has flights to and from five UK destinations, including nine flights every week between Nice and Bristol and several flights each day to London Gatwick.

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Couple pay heavy price for dangerous wiring

Photo: US Air Force Staff Sgt. Maria Bowman
Photo: US Air Force Staff Sgt. Maria Bowman

A Monegasque couple have been deemed responsible for faulty electrical wiring that seriously injured a fireman trying to put out a blaze in the cellar of their apartment at Les Eucalyptus on avenue des Guelfes in Fontvieille.

Monaco’s Criminal Court was told that the incident happened on April 29, 2016. As the 45-year-old fireman advanced into the unlit cellar feeling the wall on his left for balance, he touched a loose wire that gave him a strong electric shock.

His injuries were serious enough for him to have to give up his 23-year career as a firefighter in Monaco. His life is now “punctuated by unimaginable pain, nocturnal spasms”, he told the court.

Video surveillance seen by the police during an investigation into the cause of the midday blaze showed a man lighting a cigarette and entering the cellar, coming out of it five minutes later without it.

The two defendants had provided contradictory statements and much of their evidence had been inconsistent, the court heard.

The court imposed a suspended sentence of six months on the two defendants, and called for the appointment of a specialist doctor for the injured fireman with a budget of €15,000. The court also ruled that the guilty parties pay €50,000 to the state.

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