Prince Albert II is alongside the journalist Christine Oberdorff at the end of the screening.
Ushuaia TV will be broadcasting “The Prince and the Sea”, a close-up look at the voyage of the exploration ship Yersin, which left Monaco at the end of July, that follows in the footsteps of Prince Albert I, the great-great-grandfather of HSH Prince Albert, to Macaronesia. The screening takes place on Friday, December 8, which is World Climate Day.
Led by journalist Christine Oberdorff, the Ushuaia TV team records the exploits of Monaco’s new oceanographic vessel on this “memorial” trip.
The documentary was previewed to invited guests on Tuesday, December 5, at the Oceanographic Museum in the presence of Prince Albert, where Christine Oberdorff introduced and presented the result of several months of work.
Following a previous programme about Venturi, the electric-powered automotive company broadcast in May, the new show highlights the unfailing interest of the Principality and Prince Albert in the oceans and their necessary preservation.
The 75-minute programme airs at 8:40 pm on Ushuaia TV, the TF1 channel devoted to nature and the environment.
Peace and Sport is celebrating the 10th anniversary edition of the Peace and Sport International Forum in Monaco, which started on Wednesday, December 6, with several workshops and a press conference.
On Friday, December 8, the “I Move for Peace” run, led by Tunisian 2012 Olympic 3,000 metres champion Habiba Ghribi, starts at 9am in front of the Monte-Carlo Bay – walkers welcome to join.
Replacing the “March for Peace” held at previous conferences, those attending the morning event are invited to donate one euro or more as an entry fee to take part in the 2.5 kilometres run in aid of Peace and Sport field programmes, including the African Great Lakes’ Friendship Games. 2018.
A round table of sports ministers from a number of countries will follow the run and the three-day event will close with a speech by Joel Bouzou at lunchtime.
The gala dinner with the Peace and Sport awards ceremony took place Thursday night.
Peace and Sport stresses the importance of sport in fostering friendship and peace worldwide. Its champions of peace include world marathon record holder and Monaco resident Paula Radcliffe, FIFA World Cup winner Lilian Thuram and chess grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk.
A survey by the National Observatory of Delinquency and Criminal Response (ONDRP), conducted in the first six months of 2017, has shown that more than one in five French people experience fear in their daily lives. In total, this amounted to 10.8 million French residents aged 14 and over.
In addition, 32 percent of respondents said they had witnessed at least one crime in the previous 12 months. The research is conducted annually into the topic of “victimisation”.
Anxiety about personal safety is higher among women than men, at 25 percent compared to 16 percent. The figures collated in the survey show that older people feel less insecure.
Twenty-six percent of girls aged between 14 and 17 felt insecure going out alone in their own neighbourhood.
The survey figures are being further analysed to shed more light on a growing problem.
Laurie and Sandie Giacobi, Co-Founders My Marketing Manager
ML: What’s it like to be born and raised in Monaco? LG: We went to school in Monaco up to the Baccalauréat and then we studied in Nice for five years. We never had the impression of living somewhere incredible or different when we were young. Looking back, I can say we had the chance to be raised in a secure and international environment. Monaco is a very comfortable place to live and we feel privileged to have the chance to have our life here. However, we also thought that instead of just taking advantage of this situation, we had to prove that we deserved this chance.
ML: What do you dream of becoming as children? SG: When we were younger, like all kids, we were interested in many things. However, we made our first steps into marketing when we were teenagers: in high school, we used to work for the F1 Grand Prix each year. I remember asking the pilots to sign cans of Coke to “launch a limited edition” of our cans. Later in college, we started to sell our stuff on eBay, to make some money. We enjoyed it very much and always tested new strategies to sell better by adapting the message and description, choosing the right picture and starting price, and even the time to put the bid online. It was really fun.
ML: So the eBay experience was a segue into launching your own business – My Marketing Manager? LG: After college, we worked separately for different companies for about seven years, always in Marketing departments. Sandie worked in business tourism, automotive and telecommunications while I was more into luxury industries like hotels, jewellery and cosmetics.
However, we were very often asked for marketing help outside our jobs. At a certain point, we realised that there was something to be done for companies who did not have the time or skills to take care of their marketing needs nor the money to hire someone. That is how we came up with My Marketing Manager – we offer outsourced marketing services to companies. We work on their strategy, we bring our expertise to help them build their campaign and we can take charge of their marketing “department” and implement all the actions all year long.
We are not an online service, we are just using digital tools to communicate and offer a better experience to our customers. We, of course, meet with our clients when geography permits. They chose My Marketing Manager to be able to focus on running their company. And as their time is very precious, we chose to communicate as much as we can by email, video calls, SMS and by phone.
ML: What was your business plan? SG: Our goals were very simple: to run a profitable business while having fun. We are both very curious by nature and My Marketing Manager enables us to meet different people, work on various types of missions in all types of industries, which is very rewarding. Without saying that we are free to work whenever we want (which we sometimes hear, but is completely wrong), it gives us some freedom in the way we want to organise our working days.
We both quit comfortable jobs to create My Marketing Manager without knowing if it was going to work. Failure scared us but we were very confident.
ML: How important is social media to your business? LG: Social media has always been important for our business, as it’s the channel we chose to promote My Marketing Manager when we launched our business in 2010. It was a successful strategy because many companies contacted us to implement the same course of action that we used for them. Today, every business wants to be present on social media but a lot spend an incredible amount of time being everywhere, without knowing exactly how to use social networks or what to say. Social media can be a powerful tool in a marketing strategy but it really has to be part of a global thinking to achieve the goals of a business.
ML: What’s the hardest part of running your own business? SG: The hardest part may be the fact that you never completely disconnect: a company is like your baby, you think about it almost all the time. We have the chance to work together so we can really rely on each other when one of us is away.
ML: What is the one app or tool you cannot live without? LG: Hum, so many … actually, I can live without technology. It’s just that some tools and apps make my life and my work easier. We have implemented an organisation and tools that allow us to work from absolutely anywhere, from any device.
ML: What is something you’ve always wanted to try or do? SG: Probably write a book. Or create another company ☺
ML: Best place to hang out after-work? LG: After work, we hang out … at home with our families! We both have young children. But the best place for a business lunch is Maya Bay, Valentin or Le Quai des Artistes.
ML: Best piece of advice a woman gave you? SG: Our mother always told us “Il n’y a que ceux qui ne font rien qui ne se trompent jamais” – The only ones who are never wrong are those who don’t do anything – which is absolutely right!
Johnny Hallyday with Lenny Kravitz. Photo: Twitter Lenny Kravitz
The death of Johnny Hallyday – announced on Wednesday, December 6 – has caused a huge wave of grief across the French-speaking world. The singer-songwriter had a career that spanned six decades.
Hallyday, 74, had a long history of lung problems, and after a recent bout of lung cancer succumbed to the illness at his home just outside Paris late on Tuesday, with his family by his side.
“France’s Elvis” performed on many occasions in Monaco, always attracting a large following of admirers. In an interview with French-language Monaco-Matin on Wednesday, Prince Albert, who had met the singer several times in Paris and Monaco and over the years had forged ties of friendship, spoke of his own sadness.
“Johnny liked to come to the Principality, he had a lot of loyal admirers in Monaco and in the region. Johnny is a part of our daily lives, pleasant and festive moments in our lives,” the Prince told the daily.
French President Emmanuel Macron added his own voice to the tsunami of tributes. “He was a French hero,” the President said while on an official visit to Algeria.
Award-winning French singer Véronique Sanson echoed the thoughts of many when she said: ”I am deeply touched and moved by Johnny’s death. I thought he was indestructible. It is a part of all the French that goes with him.”
Bishops and priests also paid tribute on Wednesday. “Pray for Johnny! A thousand teen memories …” tweeted Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Archbishop of Lyon, Le Figaro reported.
American rocker Lenny Kravitz, tweeted about the legend, who loved US pop rock: “Farewell Dear @JohnnySjh. Your friendship, sweetness and support are imprinted in my heart. It is an honour to have known you and to have spent time with you and your beautiful family. Your soul is pure Rock and Roll. Repose en paix.
The Government has issued guidance to future candidates for the elected National Council on the subject of financial agents. Monegasques go to the polls to elect a new National Council in February.
Pursuant to the provisions of Chapter III of the Law of July 2, 2012, as amended, each candidate must appoint a financial agent, which he must declare when filing his nomination paper, the Government said.
If the law envisages (Article 11) that this designation may take place after the beginning of the campaign, it is normal and highly preferable that the candidate appoint his financial representative from the start.
The amended Law of July 2 gives the candidates a great deal of freedom in choosing their financial representative.
Each candidate standing for a list will have to group together and justify all the expenses incurred by all the candidates on the list, as well as all the electoral income on the list.
This complex process will be all the easier to manage as the number of financial representatives will be smaller. In fact, it would be beneficial, in any case where they deem it possible, that candidates choose the same names, normally those of the representatives who will present the account of each list to the Campaign Audit Committee.
The Government adds that these are guidelines only, and not binding.
