Month: January 2019

Prince Albert II and his sister Princess Stephanie, along with her children, enjoyed the annual circus festival in Monaco.

This event, the 43rd, attracts circus performers from all over the world and it runs over ten days.

The royal family presented a string of awards to performers.

The winner of a Gold Clown Award was wild cat trainer Martin Lacey Junior who had earlier wowed the crowds with his performance with a lion in the big top.

Stéphanie, who is President of the spectacular, helps to oversee the Circus Festival and is involved in everything from choosing the acts to the choreography.

Her father, Prince Rainier, was the brains behind the first festival.

Pet owners moving between London and the south of France now have access to a new transport service as part of the global easyGroup brand. Travelling by road, easyPet.net ensures dogs, cats and other small animals are delivered to their new home in style and comfort.

With their trademark orange vans, easyPet.net hit the market in late 2018, providing experienced handlers and vehicles that ensure their ‘passengers’ are always visible and monitored while in transit.

The service runs between London and Monaco, with possible stop-offs at a number of major cities along the route.

“Our canine passengers are exercised at regular intervals, on the lead only,” said Trudie Porter, Customer Sales Consultant for easyPet.net. “We provide secure and spacious travel crates with fresh water and thermostatically controlled heating and air conditioning.”

Trudie comes to this new initiative with many years’ experience arranging pet transport from Spain. “I was thrilled to have been offered the opportunity to collaborate with the easyGroup in their new venture,” she told Monaco Life. “It is reassuring to have the support of such a professional and friendly team.”

easyPet.net currently offers a fortnightly service between London and the French Riviera.
The journey takes approximately 24 hours.

“easyPet.net is a long awaited commodity for pet lovers relocating to or from the French Riviera,” said Trudie. “Prices start at just £599 inclusive for one pet travelling from Monaco to London.”

easyPet is the latest in a number of sectors to join the easy brand. Others include easyHotel, easyBus, easyCar, easyProperty, easyOffice, easyFoodstore, easyCoffee and easyGym. The easyGroup aims to support a variety of services that offer consumers more value for less.

The 2019 Formula 1 World Championship, will be contested over a record number of 21 Grands Prix, equalling the races held in 2016 and 2018.

Eleven of the 21 races will take place in Europe, five in Asia, four in the Americas and one in Australia.

The 2019 season will begin on March 17 with the Australian Grand Prix and finish on December 1 with the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Chase Carey, Chairman and CEO at Formula 1 said: “It gives me great pleasure to announce that the draft of the 2019 FIA Formula 1 World Championship calendar is made up of 21 races, as it was this year.”

Here is the complete calendar, which may change:

• 17th March: Australia – Melbourne
• 31st March: Bahrain – Sakhir
• 14th April: China – Shanghai
• 28th April: Azerbaijan – Baku
• 12th May: Spain – Barcelona
• 26th May: Monaco
• 9th June: Canada – Montreal
• 23rd June: France – Le Castellet
• 30th June: Austria – Spielberg
• 14th July: Great Britain – Silverstone
• 28th July: Germany – Hockenheim
• 4th August: Hungary – Budapest
• 1st September: Belgium – Spa
• 8th September: Italy – Monza
• 22nd September: Singapore
• 29th September: Russia – Sochi
• 13th October: Japan – Suzuka
• 27th October: Mexico – Mexico City
• 3rd November: USA – Austin
• 17th November: Brazil – Sao Paulo
• 1st December: Abu Dhabi – Yas Marina

SICCFIN is currently strengthening the security of its computer system, which has the added impact of increasing its analysis capabilities, which will ultimately enable the professionals of the Place to send their suspicious transaction reports electronically.

As part of this project, the Monegasque Financial Intelligence Unit chose to retain and implement the strategic and operational analysis assistance software, goAML, designed and developed by Dr. Alain Nkoyock, project manager at United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

The strengthening of SICCFIN’s computer system and the installation of goAML constitute a structuring project for this Service on which its agents have been involved for many months already. To this end, in 2018, a Monegasque delegation went on a study tour to Liechtenstein and to Luxembourg, a country whose FIUs already use goAML (see SICCFIN press release of 3 August 2018).

More recently, from January 15 to 17, 2019, the Director of SICCFIN, Mr. Philippe Boisbouvier accompanied by one of his collaborators, Miss Jenny Perrot, visited the UNODC headquarters in Vienna (Austria) to meet the creator and developer of the software and his team to learn about the latest developments that he has been equipped and prepare the next arrival of the trainers of this organisation in Monaco.

Next step, at the beginning of February, all SICCFIN agents will be trained for a full week to use this tool and to understand its many features.

A joint information meeting between SICCFIN and UNODC for the Principality’s banking institutions will be held on 7 February.

Representatives of the orders and professional associations of other professions subject to the law n ° 1.362, modified will also be invited although the access to the tool will be opened to them only in a second time.

Richard Marangoni, Director of Public Security, presented his greetings in the presence of HSH the Sovereign Prince, the Minister of State Serge Telle, Patrice Cellario, Government Counselor-Minister of the Interior, as well as many personalities, to the occasion of the traditional ceremony held in the Conference Room of the Oceanographic Museum.

The Sovereign Prince began his address by dedicating this ceremony to the memory of Captain Mathieu Launois, recently missing and unanimously appreciated for his human and professional qualities.

He then said: “Mr. Director, you have just mentioned the mobilization of 554 women and men who, within the Public Security, work daily to preserve the security climate that is so important to us and contributes so widely to the reputation of the Principality.

May each of you here be thanked for your commitment. We all know that vigilance must not be relaxed in these tumultuous times, as the drama of Strasbourg’s Christmas market recently so cruelly recalled. I measure, believe it well, the increase of the charges which results for you “.

Richard Marangoni reminded that over the period 2017-2018 general crime had dropped by 10.43% and public delinquency by 22.44%.

A trend that continues in 2018 with a decrease of 11.36% for general delinquency and 35.29% for delinquency of public road.

The Director of Public Security then presented the figures revealing the strengthening of the Administrative Police in 2018, in line with the “Public Security 2020” plan, including:

• 521 Order Services (+1%)
• 6,785 Police engaged on the police services (+5%)
• 48,524 hours / civil servants (+10,5%)
• 9,060 interventions Police-Aid (+3%)

As part of the partnership between the Monegasque Government and Science Po, the Directorate of International Cooperation organises every year, on the Campus Middle East-Mediterranean Science Po in Menton, “The Winter School”. The event is intended to raise awareness, for first year students, the issues of development aid and international solidarity.

The Winter School 2019, whose theme is “Vulnerable childhood in Africa and in the ANMO zone” (north Africa and the Middle East) brought together, around a round table, international experts, such as Dr. Jean-Baptiste Richardier, co-founder of Handicap International, Geneviève Wills, representative of the World Food Program to France and Monaco and Dr. Luciano Tuseo, WHO Malaria Officer.

Children’s health and nutrition were at the heart of the exchanges that took place in front of 130 students from 50 different nationalities. As a reminder, food security is a new field of intervention for international cooperation.

Round tables, thematic workshops in small groups and conferences will follow one another throughout the week with the participation of the partners of the Monegasque Cooperation.

The Winter School is one of the annual highlights of this partnership between the Prince’s Government and Science Po.