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JULY 12, 2024
Childcare law suit l EDMONTON THE mother of a three-year-old boy who died after being left on a bus at a Cairns childcare centre is suing the centre for negligence in relation to the permanent psychiatric injuries she now suffers. Muriel Namok’s son Maliq ‘Meeky’ Nicholas Floyd Namok-Malamoo died after he was left on a minibus by staff at the Goodstart Early Learning Centre at Edmonton on February 18, 2020. Meeky was collected at home that day by centre director Michael Glenn Lewis and educator Dionee Beatrice Grills. Although he made it to the childcare centre, he was forgotten by the staff and never got off the bus. He was found dead still buckled in his seatbelt at the back of the minibus six hours later. A statement of claim filed in the Queensland Supreme Court by Slater and Gordon Lawyers alleges that the centre breached its duty of care it owed Meeky and his mother and is vicariously liable for the post-traumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder Ms Namok now suffers due to the death of her youngest child. CONTINUED PAGE 2
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Holloways Beach fair aims to unite residents
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John ‘Gus’ Kelly (left) and Steve Habel of the Holloways Beach Men’s Club are inviting the community to ‘Hello Holloways’ on Sunday from 8am. Picture: Nick Dalton
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A FUN fair to celebrate the renewal of flood-ravaged Holloways Beach aims to unite the suburb and tell the rest of the world the community is well and truly alive. ‘Hello Holloways’ will involve more than 60 stalls, food trucks, live music, kid’s entertainment, basketball and pickle ball demonstrations, plus more, on Sunday from 8am to 2pm. Seven months after the suburb was ravaged by a 1-in-100-year flooding event, members of Holloways Beach Men’s Shed and Holloways Beach Community Hall have organised the fair with the clear message: “Welcome back.” Men’s shed spokesman John “Gus” Kelly said the event had been developed to help attract business and the general public back to the beach. “Our small community has taken quite the battering, and we
have lost so much, but we are still standing,” he said. “There is still a long road to recovery, but there is still much to celebrate about Holloways Beach. “So, when it came to organising a community fair to bring everyone together, we thought there was no better name than ‘Hello Holloways’.” Mr Kelly said profits raised from the event would go back into local community-based programs, via the men’s shed. “We have 32 members at Holloways Beach Men’s Shed, including many who have been flood affected, and some whose homes have still been deemed uninhabitable,” he said. “There is a public perception that little old Holloways Beach was completely wiped out, and that it’s a ghost town. “This is clearly not correct. We’re still here. There are still people who need help, and we need to do everything we can to help get us back on our feet.”
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