Some years ago Port Strategy asked me to take up opinions from the European maritime industry about Brexit. The article was published in the special interest magazine. https://www.jannykok.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Port-Strategy-June-2021_PAGE-48-5.pdf Here is the article prior to subbing by the Editor: David Cornwell, alias John le Carré, changed citizenship from British to Irish out of deep discontent about
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Guess what! According to the Dutch look-alike NHS, I was old enough to receive the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine. That is exactly what happened on 21st April 2021. The second jab was given on 27th May. And that was not all. We were told that a booster jab on top of the other two would give additional
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It is no surprise that banks take care of their own profitability. The Dutch TV programme Radar focused on the way they do it: “make it hard to withdraw money of a dear deceased bank account. Even when you can do rightfully as a close relative.” Please go to the URL mentioned below to learn
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Rotterdam had its international song festival live. It has been a relatively small scale event, because of the Corona/Covid pandemic. Anyhow, here still is a dynamic promotion video https://youtu.be/K253_MHt_9c . It has attracted television watchers all over the world to my hometown Rotterdam. This live stream pictures the venue where it all happens https://youtu.be/mPEbfp4fwEQ And
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In my practice, online speech coaching in English appears to be successful. Please go to these presentations https://soundcloud.com/janny1-1/win-20201109-13-42-32-pro translation poem Havenhart by Derek Otte https://www.fempeak.ai/profile/jannykok to learn more. My maritime knowledge has proven to be an added value in teaching. Having said that, being multifunctional as a journalist has also added value to my work
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