GenevaLunch » youth http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:10:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Unemployment creeping up, but still well below 2011 level http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/08/unemployment-creeping-up-but-still-well-below-2011-level/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/08/unemployment-creeping-up-but-still-well-below-2011-level/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:05:24 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66405 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss unemployment rose from 3.3 to 3.4 percent in January 2012, but there were still 9.7 percent fewer people out of work than in January 2011, figures published Wednesday 8 February show. Young people accounted for a large part of the increase, with a one-month increase of 3 percent for the 15- [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/08/unemployment-creeping-up-but-still-well-below-2011-level/feed/ 0 Missing persons, Vaud mother with daughter, Valais youth http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/missing-persons-vaud-mother-with-daughter-valais-youth/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/missing-persons-vaud-mother-with-daughter-valais-youth/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:33:41 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66188 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Police in two cantons have issued missing persons reports Wednesday 1 February, and they are asking the public for help finding them. Canton Vaud police say 35-year-old Mizué Bachelard and her 7-year-old daughter Hanaé Noémi disappeared Tuesday evening 31 January from their home in Chexbres. The mother is “psychologically fragile” say police. [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/missing-persons-vaud-mother-with-daughter-valais-youth/feed/ 0 17-yr-old hits 180kph in centre of Geneva during wild police chase http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/28/17-yr-old-hits-180kph-in-centre-of-geneva-during-wild-police-chase/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/28/17-yr-old-hits-180kph-in-centre-of-geneva-during-wild-police-chase/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:17:05 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64859 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 17-year-old youth led police on a wild car chase through the streets of Geneva and the autoroute around the city early Monday morning 26 December, reports Le Matin. He reportedly stole a VW Golf in Eysins Sunday night. The car was spotted by border guards near La Croix-de-Rozon at 05:40, then [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/28/17-yr-old-hits-180kph-in-centre-of-geneva-during-wild-police-chase/feed/ 0 Youth burns church interior, damages cars in Valais village http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/22/youth-burns-church-interior-damages-cars-in-valais-village/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/22/youth-burns-church-interior-damages-cars-in-valais-village/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:20:03 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63803 GenevaLunch.com 17-year-old on two-night binge had no reason for doing it,  he says SION, SWITZERLAND – A 17-year-old who got drunk and damaged 23 cars one night, then burned the inside of a church in Châble the next told police he didn’t do it for any particular reason. He turned himself in Monday and admitted to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/22/youth-burns-church-interior-damages-cars-in-valais-village/feed/ 0 Teenager critically injured by knife wounds in Carouge http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/01/teenager-critically-injured-by-knife-wounds-in-carouge/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/01/teenager-critically-injured-by-knife-wounds-in-carouge/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:05:09 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63076 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva police have confirmed to several Swiss media that an adolescent received knife wounds Monday night in the Geneva neighbourhood of Carouge, reportedly after being accosted by a group of youths as he went to get his moped, but police will provide no further information because those involved are minors. The youth [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/01/teenager-critically-injured-by-knife-wounds-in-carouge/feed/ 0 Young Swiss francophones rack up more debt on phone and Internet than other Swiss http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/13/young-swiss-francophones-rack-up-more-debt-on-phone-and-internet-than-other-swiss/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/13/young-swiss-francophones-rack-up-more-debt-on-phone-and-internet-than-other-swiss/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:38:18 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=61535 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss aged 18-25 are more prone to get into debt in e-commerce, telecommunications and health than people aged 32 and up, says the European-based credit management and services company Intrum Justitia in its 2011 Radar study. On average, young people in Switzerland owe CHF468 for subscriptions to mobile phones and Internet. People [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/13/young-swiss-francophones-rack-up-more-debt-on-phone-and-internet-than-other-swiss/feed/ 0 15-yr-old tourist falls to death near Martigny http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/19/15-yr-old-tourist-falls-to-death-near-martigny/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/19/15-yr-old-tourist-falls-to-death-near-martigny/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:44:52 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60761 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 15-year-old boy on a walk in the Alps with a family member and friend fell 50 metres to his death Thursday afternoon 18 August at 16:30. The trio paused for a rest and the youth walked off to a nearby waterfall to cool off. When he didn’t return after a few [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/19/15-yr-old-tourist-falls-to-death-near-martigny/feed/ 0 Rough day for western Swiss police Monday: Geneva safety, escapees http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/17/rough-day-for-western-swiss-police-monday-geneva-safety-escapees/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/17/rough-day-for-western-swiss-police-monday-geneva-safety-escapees/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:21:01 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60707 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Monday 17 August was a rough day for the police, starting with the media focus on safety in Geneva and ending with unusual escapes in Vaud and Valais, in one case of a detained man who threw away his crutches, in the other of a speeding driver who ran across the autoroute [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/17/rough-day-for-western-swiss-police-monday-geneva-safety-escapees/feed/ 1 Vaud police were justified in autoroute shooting, court says http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/15/vaud-police-were-justified-in-autoroute-shooting-court-says/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/15/vaud-police-were-justified-in-autoroute-shooting-court-says/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:14:49 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58843 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A policeman who shot and killed a passenger in a car on the A1 autoroute in 2010 was justified in using his gun, and correct procedures were filed, a Swiss court has ruled. The case was closed 15 June. The 18-year-old from France who died from a gunshot wound was in a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/15/vaud-police-were-justified-in-autoroute-shooting-court-says/feed/ 0 Swiss population inches up 1%, twice as many women as men by 85 http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/28/swiss-population-inches-up-1-twice-as-many-women-as-men-by-85/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/28/swiss-population-inches-up-1-twice-as-many-women-as-men-by-85/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:26:26 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57038 GenevaLunch.com Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The Swiss resident population in 2010 reached 7,866,500, an increase of 80,700, according to preliminary figures published by the Swiss Statistical Office in Neuchatel 28 April. The 1 percent annual growth was comparable to the previous year’s. It includes the Swiss population as well as all resident foreigners except those with [...]

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