Day: 23 January 2018

Various security measures will be put in place for public access to the Saint Devote celebrations at Place Sainte Devote on Friday, January 26.

For those wishing to join the procession that will leave from Quai Louis-II, three checkpoints will be set up with visual checks of bags and their contents: at the “tabac” turn, end of route de la Piscine; on Quai Louis-II, between the Nautical Society and the Yacht Club; and on boulevard Louis II, at 1 Quai Kennedy.

For those wishing to go to Place Sainte Devote, three checkpoints will be set up: at the bottom of avenue Ostend; rue Grimaldi, at the entrance to the Sainte Devote Gallery; rue Grimaldi at the bus stop for VIPs.

SNCF travellers should note the closure of the Sainte Devote valley to pedestrian traffic from 5:30 pm. To reach or leave the station, take the Sainte Devote gallery.

From 5 pm to 7:15 pm, the Route de la Piscine will be closed to traffic except for the portion between La Rascasse and the central wharf; from 5:30 pm to 7:15 pm, the area between avenue JF Kennedy and 1 boulevard Louis II will be closed to traffic during the passage of the procession at the bottom of the avenue of Ostend, and traffic will be momentarily stopped on the avenue to allow the passage of the participants in complete safety.

There may be slight delays to bus services as the procession crosses between 6 pm and 7 pm. The Monaco bus line No 1, from Monaco Ville, will be diverted towards avenue d’Ostende and subsequent stops will not be served, from 5:30 pm until 7:15 pm.

The administration asks road users to avoid the area between the Saint Devote church and avenue President JF Kennedy from 6 pm until 7 pm and apologises in advance for any inconvenience caused by the festivities.

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Further work on the hot water system in the Jardins d’Apolline complex will require a shutdown of the hot water supply between 10 pm on Thursday, January 26, and 5 am on the following morning, Friday, January 27.

Residents of the building are asked not to turn on hot water taps during this period, and to turn mixer taps to cold water. The cold water supply will continue as normal. Children should be made aware of the need not to use hot water during these seven hours.

When hot water is used in the morning, residents are asked to let the tap run for one minute. Also, great care should be taken since the water will be very hot initially, at 55 degrees. If any discolouration can be seen, the hot water should be run until it disappears.

The administration has apologised for any inconvenience.

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A deal agreed in principle in September 2017, between the Monaco-based Mimran Group and Seaboard Corp, has been finalised.

Seaboard has acquired Mimran Group’s flour milling and associated businesses in Senegal and Ivory Coast, and its grain trading business based in Monaco, bakingbusiness.com and other grain trade media report. No price has been made publicly available.

Seaboard Corp was already a major player in the African milling industry and its acquisition will increase its flour and feed milling capacity by approximately 15 percent, to more than 22,000 tonnes per day, and its grain trading volume by approximately nine percent, to about 10.5 million tonnes per year.

Steven Bresky, Seaboard’s President and Chief Executive Officer said: “Seaboard has had commercial ties with the Mimran Group for almost 40 years and we look forward to integrating the business into our existing trade strategy and expand our cargo and trade opportunities as a result of this transaction. We expect to continue to work closely together with the Mimran Group by leveraging our existing strengths into a better industrial and trade-based business.”

The Mimran Group has been one of the leading agri-food groups in West Africa, operating sugar refining, flour milling and animal feed businesses. It was founded more than 60 years ago by the Mimran family, and its main companies in flour milling and sugar refining include Grands Moulins de Dakar, Grands Moulins d’Abidjan, and Compagnie Sucriere Senegalaise.

Jean Claude Mimran, the Group’s president, was born in 1945 and has been described as the Sugar King of Africa. The Monaco-based Mimran Group was reported to be the second-largest employer in Senegal after the government. A Swiss resident, Mimran is worth two billion Swiss francs (€1.7 billion), according to Swiss business magazine Bilanz.

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On Wednesday, January 24, music from films and tracks by Ennio Morricone, Maurice Jarre, Danny Elfman and Hans Zimmer will be in the spotlight a free concert by The Aerophonics, the wind ensemble of the Rainier III Academy.

The show starts at 8 pm at the Théâtre des Variétés at 1 blvd Albert 1er.

The Théâtre des Variétés is a 350-seat auditorium made available primarily to Monegasque cultural associations to hosts numerous events in the fields of theatre, dance, music and cinema, as well as conferences and meetings. (Photo: Slgckgc)

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Monaco’s many fans of British racing legend Sir Stirling Moss will be saddened to hear that the motorsport racing icon is retiring from public life.

A statement posted by his son on Sir Stirling’s website said that he had made the decision to retire from public life at the age of 88, due to a slow recovery from a prolonged illness. In 2017, Moss spent 134 days in hospital due suffering from a chest infection.

“To all of his many friends and fans around the world, who use this website for regular updates, my father would like to announce that he will be closing it down,” the statement said.

“Following his severe infections at the end of 2016 and his subsequent slow and arduous recovery, the decision has been made that, at the age of 88, the indefatigable man will finally retire, so that he and my mother can have some much deserved rest and spend more time with each other and the rest of the family.

“The entire and extended Moss clan thank everyone for all their love and support over the years, and we wish you all a happy and prosperous 2018.”

Moss won 16 out of 66 Grand Prix events he entered during his Formula 1 days. He was the runner-up for the F1 championship on four occasions and is often considered to be the best racer to have never won the title.

He was in Monaco for the Historic Grand Prix in May 2016, attending the 7th Credit Suisse Historic Racing Forum, 60 years ago to the day he won the 1956 Monaco Grand Prix for the Officine Alfieri Maserati team.

“I would not swap my era for now. I had the pleasure of 600 races because I loved doing it. There’s no pleasure, exhilaration or fun nowadays,” the legend told the press.

“Driver input those days was more by the driver. In 1961, there were 100 laps at the Monaco Grand Prix. I’d see the driver behind me, and every lap, I’d say to myself, ‘I’m going to try to do a perfect lap’. At the same time I have to make it look like I wasn’t working too hard, so I’d give a thumbs up to the driver behind while I was actually clenched on the ground.”

He added, “Monaco is such an intimate course. Every lap I’d blow a kiss to the woman with the pale pink lipstick … it never went anywhere though …”

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