21 DEAD AND 40 RESCUED AFTER A WINDTOSSED BOAT OVERTURNS IN THE PHILIPPINES

Philippines

Associated Press

AT LEAST 21 people died and 40 others were rescued after a Philippine passenger boat overturned on Thursday when it was lashed by strong winds in Laguna Lake southeast of Manila, police said.

Police said rescue operations were continuing, but did not immediately provide figures for the total number of people on board the MBCA Princess Aya that capsized in Rizal province.

The incident happened as the passengers onboard suddenly moved to one side of the boat in panic when it came under fierce winds shortly after departing from a wharf for a nearby island. The boat overturned only about 46 meters (150 feet) from the shore, near the village of Kalinawan and the town of Binangonan, the coast guard said.

The Rizal provincial police said they immediately launched a search and rescue operation with the help of the coast guard and other local authorities, and that at least 40 people were saved but that 21 others drowned.

“The operation is still ongoing,” police said. They did not provide other details like how many passengers and crewmembers were on board.

A video released by the coast guard showed rescuers on a local government boat pulling a body out of the lake. Another video showed local fishermen aboard vessels approaching the overturned boat.

Typhoon Doksuri moved away Thursday after battering the northern Philippines and whipping up seasonal monsoon rains in a large swath of the archipelago.

The sinking on Thursday brought the death toll from a week of stormy weather across the main island of Luzon to at least 30. At least nine people were reported killed earlier, mostly due to landslides, flooding and toppled trees and thousands were displaced, disaster response officials said.

Sea travel was suspended in many ports during Doksuri’s onslaught from Tuesday to Wednesday, stranding thousands of passengers and cargo trucks.

Binangonan, call to the priesthood at the time, looked at it more with curiosity. Manson called O’Connor a visionary, especially given that neither the Irish or US Catholic hierarchy had yet publicly reckoned with the pervasiveness of clergy sex abuse. Not many people that we would call prophetic are willing to risk everything, and she was. … And she lost almost everything as a result,” Manson said. “It is very, very scary to challenge the church in a very public way. And it takes enormous bravery and a willingness to be able to let go of everything.”

The no-sail orders were gradually lifted on Thursday as weather improved in many areas. Coast guard spokesman Armand Balilo said the passenger boat had been cleared to sail from the town of Binangonan to the nearby Talim Island because the typhoon had blown out of the country.

At least four northern provinces remained under cyclone wind alert, banning fishing boats and smaller vessels from venturing out to sea. Rains, however, continued to swamp several towns and cities farther south, including in the densely populated capital region, metropolitan Manila, which lies to the west of Rizal province.

Sea accidents are common in the Philippine archipelago because of frequent storms, badly maintained boats, overcrowding and weak enforcement of safety regulations. In December 1987, the ferry Dona Paz sank after colliding with a fuel tanker, killing more than 4,300 people in the world’s worst peacetime maritime disaster.

IRISH singer Sinead O’Connor stands alone while the crowd boos her at Bob Dylan’s 30th anniversary celebration in New York on Oct. 16, 1992, 13 days after she ripped a photo of Pope John Paul II during an appearance on “Saturday Night Live,” left, and Pope John Paul II appears in his popemobil in Prague on April 21, 1990. More than 30 years later, her Saturday Night Live performance is remembered by some as an offensive act of desecration. But for others — including survivors of clergy sex abuse — O’Connor’s protest was prophetic, forecasting the global denomination’s public reckoning that was still to come.

Clohessy also depicted the 1992 protest as courageous: “I think young people can’t know — and older people to some extent have forgotten — just how extraordinarily powerful the Catholic hierarchy was in those days.”

Invoking the famous Martin Luther King Jr. quote, Clohessy said that “the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice. She’s proof of that. And it bends so slowly — and it bends backwards along the way.”

Attorney Jeff Anderson, who has represented victims of Catholic clergy sex abuse in numerous cases across the US, connected with O’Connor around the time of her SNL appearance. In a statement, Anderson called her wise and ahead of her time.

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“Sinéad saw predator priests not as a ‘couple bad apples’ but as signs and proof of a deeply corrupt and almost untouchable clerical system,” Anderson said. “It took tremendous courage for her to be one of those early, lonely voices for the voiceless.”

Michael McDonnell, interim executive director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said O’Connor “wore the anguish of victims of clergy abuse and it seems as though she knew in 1992 the horrors that hadn’t yet been revealed. “Ultimately,” he said, “she relieved the pain for tens of thousands of victims with rebellion.”

Funeral Service for Jacqueline Alleyne, 82

of Scott Street, will be held on Friday, 28th July 2023, at 11.00 a.m. at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, West Street North. Officiating will be Fr. Glen Nixon, assisted by other members of the clergy. Interment will follow in the Catholic Cemetery, Tyler Street.

Jacqueline was predeceased by her parents, Wesley Alleyne and Edith Williams, and son, Timothy.

Jacqueline’s legacy will live on in the hearts of her children, friends and other families, sons: Trevor and Sheldon Alleyne, Joseph (Theodora) Major, Sean (Inza) Major; adopted: Adrian Laroda, Raj (Theresa) Major and Ricardo (Cynthia) Adderley; daughters Lisa Tucker, Patrice Thompson, Xavier Archer, Adopted: Shanique Adderley, Carolyn Johnson; grand children: Keith and Ladayne Tucker, LaKeisha (Torin) Ferguson, Sharhan Taylor(Francis) Marshall, Timothy Taylor, Dauntee’ Dugay, Breon and Ashtia Thompson, Deshawn Gibson, Xavion Neely, Trevor Jr., Trevard, Travis, Trevaughn and Tredon Alleyne, Jayden Major, Tia Moss, Kimberly Bethel, Joseph Jr., Chante, Jayshawn, Shaquon, Schaquonia and Rajhon Major, Morgan and Moriah Dorsett, Shenique Johnson, Lashawn, Lashawna, Sean Jr., Shawndice, Shakor, Scotia, Felicia, Tremaine and Tevin Major, Tanzania, Darius and Keyshawn Taylor; great grandchildren: Torin, Tayler and Faith Ferguson, Tyrone and Tahron Woods, Nahlarose Rolle, Sanai Marshall, Breon Thompson Jr., Aamir and Aamara Major, T’naj Major, Terrance and Thaj Maize, Sean and Serenity Major, D’ahjur McPhee, Re’al Major, Tarnell, Tranee and Turquoise Alleyne, Aliyah Cartwright, Shanario and Jayden Major; sisters: Judy Alleyne and Joanne Poitier; brother: Sidney Poitier; aunt: Maxine Brown; nieces and nephews: Ramona (Charles) Edgecombe, Tia, Wynette, Tawhala and Delvin Sherman, Marvin and Denise Poitier, Antoine McQuay, Selena Rutherford, Tayna Ingraham, Ormanique (Antione Sr.) Bowe, Anoush (Bradford) McKenzie, Hope Curry, Adra, Ava, Sythe, Aaliyah LaRoda, Racquel Adderley, Khalil Curry, Ishmael McKenzie, Antoine Bowe Jr., Asha McKenzie-Adderley, Omorose Bowe-Knowles, Bradia McKenzie, Branaja McKenzie and Helena Curry, Kaylene Tatyana, Raj Jr., Taj, Kayleia, Oyandy and Terraj Major; other family: Paulamae and Lavonne Strachan, Merlene Woodside and Family, Samita (Kevin) Ferguson & Family, Helena (Philip) Ferguson. Anastacia (Clifford) Forbes, Samuel Joseph (Collette)Alleyne Jr., Adrian, Antoinette, Anthony and Andrea Archer; special friends: Monsignor Simeon Roberts, Father David Cooper, Father Glenn Nixon, Cardinal Kendrick Forbes, Bishop Patrick Pinder, Hynah Major and Family, Dorothy Curry & Family, Stacy, Cecile and the Maura Family, Delores Stringfield, The Lightbourne Family, Fred “Papa” Smith, Shirley Adderley, Daniel Durant, The Armbrister Family, Ms. Myrtle and Goodridge Family, Heaster Clarke, Rose Burton, Vanaza Davis, Loraine and Jack Moncur, Rosie Fawkes, Deborah Sears, Sheila and Novalette Marshall, Nursing Staff of Baillou Hill and Fleming Street Clinic, Dr. Keisha Smith, Dr. Cindy Dorsett – Poinciana Medical Clinic, Vincent Wring Angels Elite, St. Francis Helping Hands, TEC & Koinonia Group, St. Cecilia’s Church, St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Lula Hamilton, Koinonia Team Freeport. The Scott Street Family; and numerous others whose lives would have been impacted by the life of Jacqueline Alleyne. May She Rest In Peace.

Friends may pay their last respect at Bethel Brothers Morticians & Crematorium, 44A Nassau Street, on Thursday, July 27th, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and at the Church on Friday July 28th, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to service time.