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Thursday, May 8, 2008
TelEm Group of Companies employees in their ‘Talk [red] T-shirts gearing up to participate in an HIV/AIDS
Awareness drive. TelEm selected May as its month to participate in the Red Campaign organised by the HIV
Programme Management Team. Today and every Friday for the month of May employees will encourage
discussions about HIV/AIDS. See story on page 7.
TRINIDAD--The United States
economic downturn, skyrocketing
oil prices and worries over food
cost may not have the impact of
a “silent tsunami” on Caribbean
tourism. Emerging markets with
money to spend, the high euro
and US travellers expected to
seek relaxation closer to home
are expected to keep the region
afloat.
It’s a mixed outlook for the Caribbean for the coming year, but
IN BRIEF
• Philipsburg
SUSPECT
CAUGHT
Police caught one suspect Wednesday
as they continued their investigations
into a burglary at the Workers Institute for Organised Labour (WIFOL)
building during which 13 computers
were stolen Tuesday morning. Page
3.
• Philipsburg
LAND
DISPUTE
The Court of First Instance ruled in
favour of members of the Buncamper
family recently in a conflict concerning ownership of a piece of land next
to Juancho Yrausquin Boulevard.
Page 5.
• Philipsburg
PRICE
INCREASE
Consumers in St. Maarten are feeling
the pinch of increasing prices. Page
8.
not so fearful, as islands like Curaçao that are not heavily dependant on the US market continue
to see some growth with visitors
from Europe.
Speaking at the 12th annual Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Investment Conference (CHTIC)
in Trinidad on Wednesday, Smith
Travel Research Vice President
for Global Development Jan Freitag said that as the US economy
softened, travellers would seek
to vacation close to home rather
than in Europe where the dollar
doesn’t buy much due to the high
euro.
For European travellers, the Caribbean is a more viable option
for vacations with the high euro
as a plus. He explained that even
though room rates had increased
somewhat, European travellers
booking stays would still see lowContinued on page 9
MARIGOT--A notorious tramp
and beggar who allegedly raped
a five-year-old girl over the weekend will be sentenced in Guadeloupe this Friday, Gendarmerie
spokesman Capitaine Stéphane
Aurousseau said on Wednesday.
The shocking incident occurred
on Sunday afternoon when the
man who is physically handicapped in one leg reportedly
raped the girl near Crousti Bread
café and bakery in Concordia. The
30-year-old man was immediately
arrested and taken into custody
U.S. 50 CENTS / NAf. 1.-- / EC$ 1.25
MARIGOT--With only about
ten days to go until the May 16
deadline to pay the French side
road tax, cashiers at the Galisbay
payment centre revealed approximately 3,500 people have paid the
tax so far, leaving a vast number
of citizens still to pay their dues.
According to assistant manager
of the road tax collection service
Liliane Hodge-Romney, 22,000
road tax stickers had been ordered, plus another 200 for motorbikes, and only 20 of those
motorcycle owners have come in
to pay.
“Compared to how it was in the
beginning when people were just
trickling in, the last two weeks
Continued on page 8
PHILIPSBURG--The Council of
Ministers informed the Executive Council of St. Maarten on
Wednesday that it can increase
the compensation of Island Council members by 30 per cent.
The Executive Council of St.
Maarten had requested that this
matter be placed on the agenda of
the meeting it had with the Council of Ministers Wednesday.
Finance Minister Ersilia de
Lannooy told Wednesday’s press
briefing that the decision to increase the salaries of Commissioners and Lt. Governors had
been taken in March 2006.
The Council of Ministers confirmed during yesterday’s meeting
that based on the March 2006 decision St. Maarten can go ahead
and increase the compensation
for its Island Council members.
“It’s now up the Executive
Council when they will apply the
increase. They can start doing it
by the end of this month or decide
they can do it retroactively to July
1, 2007, when the members of the
new Island Council were sworn in.
It’s up to St. Maarten and if,
Continued on page 8
by Gendarmes and transferred to
Guadeloupe.
Aurousseau said the girl’s injuries had been treated at the hospital. The parents also were traumatised by the incident.
Aurousseau said the man was
well known by police and Gendarmes on both sides of the island
and had been convicted previously
for sexual offences and aggressive
behaviour.
Previously the man had been accustomed to loitering and making
a nuisance of himself in Philipsburg, notably around the Ken-
tucky Fried Chicken area, before
authorities moved him to the
French side because his mother
has French nationality.
Editorial
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Many may have been surprised that the first item on the agenda of yesterday’s meeting between the Central Government and St. Maarten’s
Executive Council was a hike in the compensation paid to members of
the Island Council. When the meeting was announced it appeared that
friction in the process of constitutional change would be the focus of the
meeting.
Granted, Curaçao has had full-time Island Council members for years,
with corresponding pay and pensions, enabling them to concentrate more
on their work as representatives of the people. At the same time, the compensation of NAf. 1,200 a month currently paid to the non-full-time St.
Maarten council members does not exactly do justice to the importance
of the function.
But the reality is that the vast majority of council members are either active
or retired civil servants and maintain their income as such while they are
placed at the disposal of the Island Territory, so they can receive the compensation on top of what they normally earn. Introducing full-time council
membership could lead some to consider giving up their other jobs.
In one way that would not be so bad, because the practice of keeping positions open for active politicians can cause problems in the functioning of
government. An acting department head, for example, who functions as
head for years because his or her chief is in the Island Council, could build
up certain rights at a certain point.
In the end it was decided to increase the compensation by 30 per cent
rather than introducing full-time membership. That was probably a good
idea, also considering the process for St. Maarten to become an autonomous country in the Kingdom with a 15-seat Parliament instead of the
current 11-seat Island Council, at which time the full-time status can be
introduced.
The question remains whether at this moment, with a downturn in the US
economy and prices going up, it is prudent to discuss a pay hike for elected
representatives. That’s all the more the case because the Island Territory
already faces extra financial burdens related to the upcoming constitutional changes.
In hard times aren’t leaders expected to set an example by tightening their
belts along with everyone else, rather than affording only themselves a cushion to soften the blow? When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
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Flower Kinder Garten School, Union Rd.
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Le Charolais Restaurant, Royal Islander
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conference room at 8:00 p.m.
STMARTIN MUSEUM
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Road. Saturday and Sunday at Mullet Bay
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552-2120 / 544-3203
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healthaf@sintmaarten.net.
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contact Janet Lambert 5577616 or 00590
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ROTARY Club St. Martin-Nord meeting
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Thursday at 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
LIONS First and third Tuesday at Nadaillac,
Marigot at 7.30 p.m.
KIWANIS: See St. Maarten.
MUSEUM ST. MARTIN
Facing the grand parking at Marina Royale
- Marigot. Open from 10am to 4pm, closed
Saturdays & Sundays. tel. (00590)590 29.22.84.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
3
~ Expert tells tourism officials~
By Alita Singh
While the newly built Simpson Bay Market is still not being used, it seems vendors are starting to use the old temporary market again to sell their products. The Simpson Bay Market
was inaugurated in 2007, weeks before the April 20 Island Council elections. However, it
has never been in use officially, and remains closed. The photo above shows selling taking place in the old market, while the photo below shows the newly built, but still closed,
Simpson Bay Market. (John Halley photos)
~ Computers recovered ~
through the hole in the wall
and take the computers.
WIFOL President Theophilus Thompson said Tuesday
that the thieves had managed to get away with a few
computers by the time he had
arrived at the Pondfill office
with police, and had returned
for the rest after the police
had cordoned off the area.
Thompson previously had
told The Daily Herald that
losing the computers was a
setback for the institution,
which offers after-school activities and adult enrichment
PHILIPSBURG--Insel Air had to transport passengers of
services to almost 100 chilDutch Antilles Express (DAE) to and from St. Maarten on
dren and adults on the island.
Tuesday and Wednesday.
He could not be reached for
One of DAE’s two Fokker 100 jets broke down on Tues- comment yesterday.
day and parts had to be flown in from abroad.
“These things happen,” DAE director Floris van Pallandt
told the Amigoe newspaper. He said that with only two jets
the airline company was fragile.
While Insel Air transported the DAE passengers to and
from St. Maarten, the airline company Conviasa was hired
for the flights to Caracas and Valencia.
The hydraulic part arrived in Curaçao on Wednesday
morning in anticipation of the plane resuming its scheduled flights by Wednesday afternoon.
Van Pallandt: “It was a part of the landing gear. A typical
no-go item. If you don’t have the part in stock you have
these consequences.”
P H I L I P S B U R G - - Po l i c e
caught one suspect Wednesday as they continued their
investigations into a burglary
at the Workers Institute for
Organised Labour (WIFOL)
building during which 13
computers were stolen Tuesday morning.
A man identified only as S.
(his last initial) was arrested
early Wednesday and police
recovered some of the stolen
machines, police spokesman
Chief Inspector Johan “Janchi” Leonard reported.
Detectives are continuing
their investigation and trying
to find the rest of the stolen
computers, as the suspect
and an accomplice apparently were caught on WIFOL’s
surveillance camera. After
ripping the iron grill off one
of the bathroom windows,
the burglars managed to slip
TRINIDAD--It’s not rocket
science to build or operate
an environmentally friendly
resort or hotel. It simply
takes commitment, International Tourism Partnership
(ITP) Executive Director
Lyndall De Marco told investors, developers and hoteliers attending the twelfth
annual Caribbean Hotel and
Tourism Investment Conference (CHTIC) in Trinidad.
The tourism industry, particularly that of the Caribbean, has more responsibility
to protect and preserve the
environment from which its
earnings come and “Being
Green” makes sense, but
requires management and
staff to understand the importance, De Marco said.
ITP, commissioned by the
Prince of Wales who is an
avid environmentalist, works
in partnership with 19 world
hotel brands to fuel responsible tourism through the
creation and development
of workable environmental
options.
Being Green is not “a project,” but a focused effort
that requires policy and a
framework. Make green options fun for the people involved by showing them the
benefits of conservation, De
Marco said. Training of staff
is paramount because if
they don’t know the reason
for being green, the concept
is lost and will not be followed.
She suggested environmental management through
competitions among resort
departments that emphasised conservation of power,
water and all elements that
encompass going green.
Put meters on everything to
monitor usage, because this
is the only way to properly
track whether implemented
options are reaching their
goals.
Taking a stab at Green Certifications, she said a blanket
standard system to regulate
all sectors of the tourism industry was the main reason
the Go Green Policy had
failed. Each establishment
and sector is unique and requires an approach to fit its
dynamics. “Getting a piece
of paper is not enough.”
Resorts can be more proactive by making simple
changes such asking for
sustainable products, less
packaging and recycled materials. “Remember, you are
the customer,” she said.
Going Green should not
cost more, De Marco said.
Retrofitting an existing
building may require substantial investments to go
green, but changes in operation can change by staff
becoming more aware of
their role in the going green
chain.
She told delegates that
some resorts were instilling
the need for destination and
ultimately job protection by
exposing their staff to Al
Gore’s Academy Awardwinning documentary “An
Inconvenient Truth,” which
chronicles the ravage of climate change.
However, investors and
developers consider going
green costly, particularly
when building. Without
government mandate and
guests demanding green options, the industry will continue to implement only op-
tions that don’t affect their
bottom line.
Discussing “Going Green”
when developing a hotel or
resort, developers pointed
out that while there was
willingness, some options
were not possible in the Caribbean. As the price of oil
continues to increase, the
need for alternative energy
such as solar power is great,
but with prohibitive legislation in many Caribbean
countries, incorporating this
into new or existing properties is nearly impossible.
Going Green is a main focus of CHTIC as the tourism industry grapples with
the effects environmental
destruction and climate
change will have on its survival. The three-day conference that brings together
investors looking to pool
resources in the Caribbean
with destinations comes to
an end today, Thursday.
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One of the graduates of the Toastmasters Youth Leadership Programme engaged in her
completion speech during the certification ceremony in Philipsburg Jubilee Library last
night.
PHILIPSBURG--Participants in the Toastmasters
Youth Leadership Programme, an initiative for advancing the communicative
competence of St. Maarten’s
youth, financed by Support
to the Netherlands Antilles
Youth Development Programme, wrapped up the
programme with an official
graduation ceremony last
night.
The initiative was the brainchild of The Ark Foundation with the goal to develop
a Youth Toastmasters Club.
The 16 participants presented speeches that displayed
the presentation skills obtained from the training last
night before receiving their
certificates.
Main coordinator of the
programme
Toastmaster
Sinatra Rouse noted the im-
pressive change witnessed
in the participants who
went from not knowing the
concepts of presenting to
becoming professional presenters.
She said the participants
had even mentioned that
their presentation grades in
school had improved drastically because of the programme. She said a change
in the participants’ self-confidence, respect for each
other and social skills also
had been observed.
In addition, she said the
participants had been able
to successfully grasp the key
concept of the Toastmasters:
listen, think, and then speak.
Rouse mentioned that this
in turn, as expressed by the
participants, had helped
them with their grammar
and now they had become
particular about speaking in
“ghetto English.”
As the Toastmasters certificates are internationally
recognised and follow certain criteria, participants
who missed more than one
of the training sessions did
not receive Toastmasters
certificates, but rather The
Ark Foundation certificates,
for completing the programme.
The 16 participants were
Claudius Page, Luduska
Dongo, Iantha Rogers,
Jeremiah Bell and Illuvia
Froston of Milton Peters
College; Arnaud Louissant
and Ramzie Lopes of St.
Maarten Vocational Training School; Aisha Hassell,
Shandrika Arrindell, Joseph
Toussaint, Trumane Trotman
and Ekta Thawani of St.
Dominic High; and Thomas
Juriel, Thomas Daneish,
Kelly Velop and Shantal
Victor of St. Maarten Academy.
The Ark Foundation President Edna Rijkaard said she
saw that the goal of the programme had been accomplished: to enrich the participants through personal
development, something no
one could take away from
them. She said it was the intention to continue the programme with a new group
once sufficient financial support and a volunteer Toastmaster had been secured.
PHILIPSBURG--If
December 15 is not feasible for
constitutional change then
the minimal time necessary
for the islands to achieve
their new status must be
decided on and a new date
must be set during the political consultation planned
for May 22, says Constitutional Affairs Commissioner Sarah Wescot-Williams.
She made her statement
after Wednesday’s meeting between St. Maarten’s
Executive Council and the
Council of Ministers. Prime
Minister Emily de JonghElhage did not state as concretely as the Commissioner that a new date should
be set, but said she believed
that new parliamentary
elections in January 2010
were out of the question.
“Some formula has to be
found for the Countries Curaçao and St. Maarten to
start functioning by then,”
the Prime Minister said.
Besides Wescot-Williams
the St. Maarten delegation
that attended the meeting comprised Lt. Governor Franklyn Richards,
Commissioner Roy Marlin
and Island Secretary Joan
Dovale-Meit.
From an agenda of nine
points a total of eight were
discussed. The overall impression was that the meeting had been very fruitful
and similar meetings should
take on a regular basis.
Richards spoke of an “historical day” and said several important topics had
crossed the table.
Wescot-Williams concluded after the meeting that
in general all noses were
pointing in the same direction. It was also agreed that
Curaçao, St. Maarten and
the Central Government
would get together before
the May 22 political consultation, to discuss outstanding political matters.
The initiative for the meeting was taken during Dutch
Prime Minister Jan Peter
Balkenende’s visit to St.
Maarten in February during
which the St. Maarten Executive Council complained
that several matters weren’t
going well due to a lack of
attention by the Central
Government.
On constitutional change
matters Wescot-Williams
once again explained St.
Maarten’s position regarding corporate governance
and refuted the perception
that the island somehow
had sought to go back on
the January 22 agreement.
In the agreement an understanding was reached as
to how parties would deal
with corporate governance.
“From the onset it was proposed for corporate governance to be taken up in the
resolution that governs the
Financial Supervisory Committee CFT. Curaçao and
the Antilles objected to that
and it was agreed on January 22 how to deal with the
matter.
“We have committed
ourselves to the minimum
issues of corporate governance that all entities must
P H I L I P S B U R G - - Po l i c e
caught two men on Tuesday
suspected of committing separate thefts on the island in
recent weeks.
Both of the suspects were
well-known to police for being involved in crimes in the
past, according to police
spokesman Chief Inspector
Johan “Janchi” Leonard.
One suspect, a 48-year-old
St. Maarten man identified as
E.R., is believed to have broken into Lady C’s Floating
Bar and restaurant on Welfare Road on Wednesday,
April 30, and to have stolen
several bottles of alcohol.
The other man, a 58-yearold Curaçaolenean identified
as A.R., has been reported in
the past for stealing belts and
other clothing accessories
from stores in Philipsburg.
The investigation into their
suspected involvement in
criminal activities is ongoing,
Leonard said.
have some kind of regulation in place and how it will
be vetted,” the Commissioner stated
The current discussion,
Wescot-Williams said, has
to do with how the agreement of January 22 is being formulated as part of
the resolution regulating
the CFT. “When working
out agreements, each party
is entitled to have its own
opinion on this.”
Regarding the December
15 target date, WescotWilliams said she regretted that State Secretary of
Kingdom Relations Ank Bijleveld-Schouten had used
the Dutch segment of the
technical workgroups as a
presentation to the Dutch
Second Chamber to show
that December 15 was no
longer feasible.
However, the discussion
on political level has yet to
take place with respect to
the date, she said.
The Commissioner stressed
that St. Maarten’s position
was that the island would
hold on to the date until
parties concluded together
what was possible instead.
She pointed out that it was
impossible to have every
detail in place before the
change of status could go
into effect for the islands.
“For example, it’s not realistic to expect that by December 15 the St. Maarten
Police Force will be up to
par as agreed in the November 2, 2006, Final Accord.”
She said there are several
other matters that would
not be ready until after that
date. She hoped that clarity
will be given during the May
22 political consultation on
the date when the change of
status can go into effect for
St. Maarten and Curaçao.
“We can talk about all accords, but the fact is that
without a change of the
Charter no new status can
go into effect for anyone.
That’s one of the matters
that need to be established.
How long will it take for
the islands to receive their
new statuses, and I hope
the minimal time that is
necessary, will be agreed on
and a concrete date will be
pinned,” she said.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
P H I L I P S B U R G - -T h e
Court of First Instance
ruled in favour of members
of the Buncamper family recently in a conflict concerning ownership of a piece of
land next to Juancho Yrausquin Boulevard.
In his ruling of April 25
in the injunction, Judge
Willem Jan Noordhuizen
ordered Bernard Priest to
vacate the contested piece
of land at the east side of
Yrausquin Boulevard near
the St. Peter battery across
from Chesterfields restaurant, which borders on the
south with land belonging
to Albert Buncamper.
Pending the outcome of
the formal court case on the
matter, Priest is no longer
allowed to enter the premises and destroy, damage or
remove trees, plants, rocks
and other material.
In his verdict, the Judge imposed a fine of US $25,000
for every violation of this
stipulation to a maximum of
$2,500,000. The Court further authorised members
of the Buncamper family to
have Priest removed from
their property by force of
law.
Priest was also ordered to
pay for the cost of the legal
proceedings, estimated at
NAf. 2,196.
The Buncamper family became owners of the contested property in 1983, after
the Joint Court had ruled
in a case against the Island
Government that the family was owner of this piece
of land.
Priest contended that the
certificate of admeasurement describing the boundaries of this property was
incorrect. He stated that his
property was not bordered
to the south by property of
Albert Buncamper but by
land knows as the Battery,
which according to him did
not belong to the Buncampers.
He founded his claim on
a deed of sale made up in
1973 when Aguila Paresilia
Priest bought the property
from the Fleming family,
during which the same reservations were made.
There is also a legal battle
concerning the property going on between the Fleming
and Buncamper families.
In the meantime, Priest
had carried out work on the
property. In March 2008, he
had written a letter to the
Kadaster (Land Registry)
indicating that the letter of
admeasurement was incorrect and that his property
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was not bordered to the
south by Buncamper land.
The Buncampers did not
gain a complete victory in
the injunction. The judge
indicated that they could
not prove that the property
was legally theirs, but neither could Priest.
Awaiting the outcome of
the formal court case in this
matter, Judge Noordhuizen
drew a provisional line between the Buncamper and
Priest properties, forbidding Priest to cross the line.
Judge Jan Willem Noordhuizen literally drew the line between properties of the Buncamper
and Priest families bordering Juancho Yrausquin Boulevard in Pointe Blanche.
P H I L I P S B U R G - -T h e
Windward Islands Civil Servants Union/Private Sector
Union (WICSU/PSU) “is
strongly objecting” to the
decision by the Island Government of St. Maarten to
recruit persons from the
Netherlands to fill certain
critical positions in Country St. Maarten.
In a press release earlier
this week, the union said
its requests for an update
on the vacant positions in
government had not been
responded to.
Personnel Affairs Commissioner Maria Buncamper-Molanus had announced
recently that recruitment
was being done in the Netherlands for persons to fill 61
critical positions within the
Island Government.
“There is definitely a lack
of transparency within the
Island Government when
it concerns positions that
have to be filled,” WICSU/
PSU President William
Reed said in the release.
“This situation (has been)
going on since Roy Marlin
was Commissioner of Personnel Affairs. The union
will not sit back and let this
administration deceive civil
servants who are looking
forward to moving up in the
new Country St. Maarten.
“The union is requesting
all civil servants to be alert
and contact the union if
any one of them is bypassed
(for these positions),” Reed
said.
The union says it wants
clarity on the future of the
many civil servants who
have graduated with their
Bachelor’s and Master’s
degrees – an initiative embarked on by the Island
Government to upgrade the
skills of its workers.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
P H I L I P S B U R G - -T h e
TelEm Group of Companies
and Smitcoms will educate
their clients about HIV/
AIDS today, Thursday as
the companies kick off their
Red HIV/AIDS awareness
campaign for the month of
May.
TelEm and Smitcoms are
the latest companies to join
the “Talk Red” campaign,
which has been backed by
several other companies
over the past few months.
Specially-labelled phone
cards will be used during
the month of May with an
HIV/AIDS message for
everyone. TelEm Group
and Smitcoms N.V. will be
centring their campaign
around a poster promotion,
so that their message can be
as visible as it is vocal. Ads
will also appear in the local
press.
“Our mobile company TelCell is getting in on the act
by selling special phone
cards during the month of
May and by using the mobile technology to send images and text messages to
mobile subscribers about
HIV/AIDS,” it was stated in
a release.
All the companies and services of the TelEm Group
and Smitcoms will be
pooled to ensure the widest
coverage possible, TelEm
Group campaign coordinator Cheryl Rismay said in
a press release. TelEm and
Smitcoms employees will
play an important role in
the awareness campaign
this month. Smitcoms will
also sponsor the campaign
in October.
“We are the first telecommunication company to take
up the awareness message
and what better way to bring
the message across than to
allow people to talk about
the threat of HIV/AIDS and
how to protect our loved
ones against all the risks
posed,” Rismay said.
She added that the programme would kick off today when TelEm Group and
Smitcoms personnel swap
their regular office garb for
specially-embroidered “Talk
Red” polo shirts that will be
worn each Friday for the entire month of May.
“Staff will be encouraged
to hand out various leaflets
aimed at educating the public about HIV/AIDS and
to learn something about
the subject themselves in
a sensitisation seminar the
company will be hosting at
the new TelEm Building on
Soualiga Boulevard.” The
seminar will be facilitated
by Cornelius de Weever.
“The seminar will have a
lot of interaction to encour-
age our workers to take part
and to make them more
aware of the need to protect
against HIV/AIDS,” cocoordinator Harlec Doran
said.
As a resource person,
Doran believes the seminar
will be an important vehicle
to provide personnel with
the correct information so
that they in turn can deliver
that information and experience to their family, friends
and/or customers.
Rismay, Janssen and
Doran are three members of the seven-member
team that has been working on the TelEm Group
and Smitcoms campaign for
the past several weeks. The
other members of the team
are Carmen Lake-Reyes,
Marelva Felix, Steve Allen
and Suraj Ramdas.
“The campaign is totally
embraced by TelEm Group
and Smitcoms. As one of
the largest employers on the
island and as the main telecommunication provider,
we have a responsibility to
do all we can to help bring
the message to the general
population that HIV/AIDS
will be an epidemic in our
midst unless we debunk
some of the myths associated with this deadly disease,”
TelEm President Director
Edward Benjamin said.
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In connection with the second annual St. Martin Believer’s Connection Convention titled
“It’s Our Time,” its second annual Talent Show and Queen Pageant will take place this
Saturday, May 10, at the Salle Omni Sports Auditorium, Galisbay, beginning at 6:00pm
sharp. This event is one of the highlights of the convention where the youth will have an
opportunity to show their talents. This year the winner in the singing category will have an
opportunity to represent St. Maarten at the Caribbean Gospel Festival which will be held
in Curaçao on May 31. This photo shows the young ladies who will be representing the different assemblies on the island in the pageant, along with their trainer Bhola Badejo (first
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PHILIPSBURG--Only if
the Dutch Second Chamber
agrees to the request for its
rules of order to be applicable for the Parliamentary
meetings on Kingdom Relations POK will the Netherlands Antilles and Aruban
delegations participate.
The POK is scheduled to
take place in The Hague in
June. Based on problems
that led to the cancellation
of the POK in Curaçao in
January, president of the
Antillean Parliament Pedro
Atacho proposed that rules
of order be put in place.
He proposed that the rules
of order of Parliament valid
in the country where the
POK is held be applied.
Presidents of the Permanent Committees for Netherlands Antilles and Aruban
Affairs NAAZ of the Dutch
First and Second Chambers,
together with the presidents
of the Aruban Parliament
and the Aruban Parliamentary Committee for Kingdom Relations have been
Road tax
have gone much better,
but apart from the population, there are still a lot of
car rental companies, some
Government officials, and
staff from the Collectivité
that still have to pay,” said
Hodge-Romney.
Staff could be in for a very
busy week if the flood gates
open. On the other hand,
payments will be further delayed by the public holidays,
starting tomorrow with Veterans Day and Pentecost on
Monday.
Persons who have not paid
the road tax by May 16 will
be subject to fines issued by
the Gendarmerie and Territorial Police. Fines could be
imposed as early as May 19.
Despite being approved
by the Territorial Council
on November 21, intro-
in Curaçao since Monday
to discuss the future of the
POK.
It was announced during a
press briefing on Wednesday that the NAAZ committee of the Dutch Second
Chamber would discuss the
proposal to make the Dutch
Second Chamber rules of
order applicable for the
POK. If the NAAZ agrees
to the proposal, it will be
forwarded to the Second
Chamber for voting. If a
majority of the Second
Chamber agrees to the proposal, the rules of order will
be made applicable for the
POK.
The rules of order of the
Dutch Chamber Second
Chamber are now only applicable to plenary and
committee meetings of the
Dutch Parliament.
Atacho said he was confident the rules would be adopted and that the meeting
scheduled for June would
take place.
However, the Dutch
Continued from page 1
duction of the road tax hit
a setback when a Citizens
Movement argued the principles behind implementing
the tax were unjust and subsequently has been trying
to persuade citizens not to
pay the tax. The movement
also submitted a petition to
Government calling for a
revision of the tax.
In a release issued yesterday, President LouisConstant Fleming accused
certain elements of the
population of confusing the
minds of St. Martiners over
the road tax issue. The tax,
he stressed, is legal.
Fleming urged the population to pay the tax as soon
as possible, adding that he
considered doing so a “civic
and patriotic duty.”
THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
PVV party has already announced it will not adhere
to imposed rules of decency
during the POK. The party
announced recently that it
would not accept attempts
to have the rules of order of
the Dutch Second Chamber
made also applicable for
the POK.
If applied, the rules of
order will make it possible
for the chair of the POK
meeting to silence a member who makes derogatory
or insulting remarks during
the meeting.
Member of the Second
Chamber for the PVV party
Hero Brinkman said he
again wanted to tackle the
corruption in the Netherlands Antilles during the
POK. He said he would
present a paper containing
a of 37 Antillean politicians
who, according to him, are
corrupt. He believes the
entire system in the Netherlands Antilles is corrupt and
wants to say this during the
meeting.
“If you really want to clean
house, at least 90 per cent
of the politicians there have
to be removed. It’s a hard
statement, but I’m not insulting anyone with those
statements,” Brinkman said
in an interview with the
Dutch media.
Pay
increase
Continued from page 1
within their budget, provisions can be made for the
payments,” a source within
the Finance Department
told The Daily Herald.
St. Maarten received the
green light to go ahead
with the increases pending
formalisation of the March
2006 decision. That decision, although taken two
years ago, still needs to be
forwarded to Parliament for
approval.
Monday, May 5, which is an official holiday in St. Kitts and Nevis, brought hundreds of
shoppers to St. Eustatius. Three ships moored at Charles A. Woodley Pier, bringing a total
of 256 passengers on the island. Deputy Chief Police Inspector Quinten Rogers, and Commissioner Julian Woodley (in photo left) and VKE officers were at the pier to see to it that
the passengers safely boarded the vessels for their return to St. Kitts and Nevis. Harbour
personnel were busy loading cargo on board the “Sea Hustler” in the background.
~ Food prices show strongest increase ~
PHILIPSBURG--Consumers in St. Maarten are feeling the pinch of increasing
prices.
Figures from the Central
Bureau of Statistics (CBS)
state that the price index
went up by 0.4 per cent between December 2007 and
February 2008. The average
consumer prices over the
past 12 months increased
by 3.0 per cent compared
to the corresponding period
last year, it was stated in a
CBS press release.
Food products showed the
“strongest” increase: 3.6
per cent. All food groups
contributed to this price increase, CBS said, but especially dairy products (12.4
per cent), fats and cooking
oils (4.7 per cent) and potatoes, vegetables and fruits
(4.0 per cent) were a lot
more expensive.
Egg prices went up by
more than 35 per cent, milk
powder prices by nearly 27
per cent and margarines by
more than 11 per cent. Meat
and fish, outdoor consumption, prepared food and
the category “other food”
showed price increases of
2.1 to 2.6 per cent, CBS
said.
The prices of cereal products went up by 1.3 per cent,
with a noteworthy price rise
of white rice (4.2 per cent).
Sugar and chocolate prices
increased less strongly (0.4
per cent).
Prices of beverages and
tobacco were 2.9 per cent
higher in February than in
December. Both tobacco
(6.6 per cent) and beverages (2.8 per cent) contributed to this increase. Clothing and footwear prices
rose by 0.4 per cent. Modest
price increases occurred for
household furnishing and
appliances, for transport
and communication and for
the category miscellaneous
(0.2 per cent), the release
stated. Medical care prices
rose by only 0.1 per cent.
Housing showed a 0.3 per
cent price decrease, caused
by the decrease of the fuel
surcharge for electricity (3.2
per cent). Recreation and
education also showed a 0.3
per cent price decrease, due
to the price decrease of recreation (2.2 per cent).
The 12-month average of
prices for St. Maarten last
February was 3.0 per cent
higher than in February
2007. According to CBS,
this is a good indicator for
long term inflation. Thus,
the rising inflationary trend
continues even stronger
than before.
WILLEMSTAD--A fire in
a home on Totolikaweg in
Jongbloed took the life of
a father and son in Curaçao
early Wednesday.
The wife managed to get
out with her baby. The blaze
was so intense that one of the
fire fighters suffered respiratory problems while trying
to extinguish the flames.
The victims are Indian merchant Ashok Chelani (42)
and his son Armand (13).
Chelani had a store in Breedestraat, Otrobanda.
A lit candle in one of the
rooms is believed to be the
cause of the fire. When the
Fire Department got the
alarm at 3:30am and rushed
to the site, they found the
woman and baby outside
and the house engulfed in
flames.
The father had actually
made it out, but went back
in to get the son and did not
return. After battling the
blaze, fire fighters found the
lifeless bodies of the father
on a bed and of his son next
to him on the floor. Both
probably died of smoke-related suffocation.
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Continued from page 1
Fabian Badejo (centre) receives a princely welcome from Dominican drummers at the
Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo. (Photo courtesy Saltwater Collection)
~ Eva’s homecoming, a princely welcome ~
PHILIPSBURG--St.
Maarten was represented
at the 11th Annual International Book Fair of Santo
Domingo (XI FIL) with a
lecture and a book launch,
said Jacqueline Sample,
president of House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP).
HNP’s projects director Lasana M. Sekou was
invited by the FIL to the
May 1 homecoming launch
for Eva/Sion/s by leading
Dominican author Chiqui
Vicioso. Dr. Bruno Rosario
Candeiler, president of the
country’s Academy of Letters, presented Eva/Sion/s
at the Museum of Modern
Art. About 100 guests attended the book party.
Fabian Badejo also travelled from St. Maarten
and spoke at the poetry
book launch. The speaker’s
panel included Dr. Yolanda
Wood, director of the Centre of Caribbean Studies at
Casa de las Americas in Havana. Sekou recited parts of
the long poem in both English and Spanish.
Eva/Sion/s was published
here by HNP in Spanish,
English and French and
was first launched at the St.
Maarten Book Fair in 2007.
Before seeing the “light
of day” in the Dominican
Republic, as the Hoy newspaper stated in its April
30 edition, Eva/Sion/s was
launched and lectured on in
New York and London respectively between last November and February this
year. The book is available
at St. Maarten bookstores
and at amazon.com.
Badejo, who was invited
by FIL as an independent
scholar, delivered his paper,
“The Dominican Republic
in St. Maarten,” on April
29. The paper discussed
“historical and cultural links
between the two peoples,”
said Badejo.
A unique feature at the
May 1 book launch was
the welcome drumming
received by Badejo as he
entered the Auditorium of
the Museum of Modern
Art, said Sample. Ambas-
sador Vicioso arranged the
surprise feature because of
Badejo’s hereditary Nigerian prince status.
The FIL (April 21-May 4),
was held at the Juan Pablo
Duarte Plaza of Culture.
The Association of Caribbean States was the 2008 invited region of honour. Nobel laureate Derek Walcott
from St. Lucia and the 2008
Pulitzer prize-winning US
novelist Junot Diaz participated in the FIL as special
guests. Diaz has Dominican
parentage and during the
book fair the government
declared him a goodwill ambassador for the Dominican
Republic.
prices than if they had travelled last year.
The view that US travellers are looking more to
the Caribbean in this time
of economic slowdown and
there is a potential influx
from Europe was shared by
KPMG Corporate Finance
Partner Simon Townsend.
However, the region has
to be mindful of increased
competition from rapidly
growing new tourism hot
spots like Dubai, by continuing visibility and upgrades.
Investments are coming in,
with places like Jamaica,
St. Lucia and the Dominican Republic attracting investors from Europe and
Asia, he added. Investors
are looking for destinations
that can attract European
visitors and have the capability for sustained airlift.
As the United States becomes less attractive for
investment, the Caribbean
close by has seen and will
continue to see investment
from elsewhere coming in,
said PKF Consulting Director David Larone.
The development trend
being seen in the region is
the move from large resorts
to boutique hotels with flagship brands, Larone said.
The condo hotel has definitely fallen out of favour,
because people likely to
seek vacation homes are
now minding their finances
more.
Scotiabank Group Senior
Vice President and Chief
Economist Warren Jestin
said it would be a challenging market for the region’s
tourism industry in the
coming year because the
length of the US economic
meltdown could not be predicted.
The Caribbean as fertile
ground for new hotel and
tourism investments is the
focus of CHTIC, a collaborative effort of the Caribbean
Hotel Association (CHA)
and Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO).
The three-day conference
with the highest number of
delegates ever to register
in its 12-year history was
opened by Trinidad and
Tobago Prime Minister Pat-
rick Manning at the new
Hyatt Regency on Tuesday
evening.
The resort is one of the
newest multi-million-dollar
properties attracted by the
twin-island republic that
has plunged head-first into
tourism after years of heavy
industrial focus. Manning
told the gathering his country was more engaged than
ever before in development
of an internationally competitive tourism industry
and significant progress had
been made towards this end
in the past six years.
BONAIRE--Rincon Day
was celebrated grandly in
the Bonairean village.
The event attracted many
visitors from the other islands of the Netherlands
Antilles, Aruba, and also
from foreign countries.
Rincon Day became a
very popular cultural event
through the years; reason
for many people to have
spent the long weekend in
Bonaire.
The celebration started at
8:00am with a Holy Mass
in the Church of Rincon,
followed by the hoisting
of the flag, a parade of the
uniformed groups to Plasa
Commerce, where several
speeches were held and
honours were given.
There were many performances of folkloric dance
and music groups, and food
throughout the day.
The group Kanta Orkidia
honoured Rincon’s last
century inhabitants with
an exhibition of pictures
of several persons who are
no longer among the living,
but did important things for
Rincon and for the island.
The highlight of the celebration of Dia di Rincon
was again the “Simadan”
in the streets of Rincon,
where everybody could
participate dancing. The
celebration was concluded
with a display of fireworks
around 11:00pm.
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L.B. SCOTT ROAD--Armed robbers got away with a
mere $60 in a daring daylight robbery of a Shell station
on Sunday, after temporarily blinding the attendant and
emptying the register, police reported Tuesday.
Two thieves stormed the L.B. Scott Road Shell Shop
about 12:30pm and blasted pepper spray in the cashier’s
face before running away. According to eyewitness reports reaching this newspaper on the same afternoon, one
young boy was hurt when the thieves swung the glass door
on their escape and hit him in his face.
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Liberation Day was celebrated all over the Netherlands on May 5 to commemorate the
end of the World War II Nazi occupation. Antillean plenipotentiary Minister in The Hague
Paul Comenencia was given the honour to light the “freedom flame” in Den Bosch, where
the celebration was held for the fist time in cooperation with the foundation for Antilleans
and Arubans in the multi-ethnic municipality “Nos Baranka.”
PHILIPSBURG--The
St.
Maarten Insurance Brokers
Association (SIBA) has been
invited to the official launching of the Insurance Association of the Eastern Caribbean (IAECS), which will take
place in Castries, St. Lucia,
on Friday, May 9.
SIBA accepted the invitation and agreed to have its
secretary, Neil Henderson,
represent it at the event.
“SIBA will make use of this
opportunity to establish links
with stakeholders in the region and particularly look at
involving St. Maarten actively
in the development and functioning of the Caribbean ReInsurance plan,” the association said in a press release.
The plan is aimed at reducing the overall cost of re-in-
surance, as there will be a
buffer to offset current risk
exposures.
“It goes without saying that
consumers will end up paying less for insurance on the
whole. The initiative took on
a more urgent nature when
the Caribbean was hit back
to back with major disasters in the mid-90s, resulting
in drastic premium hikes,”
SIBA said.
It goes without saying that
governments must contribute
towards the Caribbean Re-Insurance plan, the SIBA board
stated. “With Government’s
participation, less emergency funds will be needed in
the event of a disaster, since
most citizens will be in a position to afford insurance. With
St. Maarten’s dependant sta-
tus, it would be advisable to
seek part of said contribution
from the Netherlands, which
will indicate that we prefer to
be proactive, rather than seek
emergency assistance after
the fact.”
SIBA: “The Caribbean to a
great extent was spared from
devastating hurricanes and it
is the perfect time to implement proper game rules to
ensure stability in the industry to avoid any oversights or
mishaps that may put us back
in a Hurricane Luis predicament resulting from insolvent insurers or fly-by-night
agents.
“The condemnable situation which unfolded in St.
Maarten after Hurricane
Luis was one of the main reasons for Parliament to pass
regulatory laws in 2003 for
the Netherlands Antilles.”
Like SIBA, IAECS aims to
promote high ethical and professional standards, develop
self-regulatory peer-review
systems, and actively contribute to the development of
a regulatory and legislative
framework for the industry.
PHILIPSBURG--Parents
of children attending Reach
Out and Touch (ROAT)
Foundation’s special reading programme at Philipsburg Jubilee Library are advised that the programme is
closed until the start of the
next school term in September.
The programme normally
ends with a short ceremony
for the children taking part,
but due to the interruption
of the Carnival celebrations
this has been postponed until the start of the new programme. At that time treats
and games will be organised
for the youngsters who have
taken steps to improve their
reading skills.
According to ROAT president Joe Dominique, the
programme generally experiences a decrease in the
number of children taking
part after the Carnival celebrations because of other
activities taking place on
Saturday mornings.
“We decided that rather
than continue with fewer
children in the programme,
the Carnival break would be
a good place to cut the year
before the summer school
break,” explained Dominique. “There will also be
a new coordinator at Philipsburg Jubilee Library who
will have to familiarise himself with the programme,
and the bank of volunteers
we have been working with
from St. Dominic School
are also approaching the
end of term and have to
concentrate on their schoolwork.”
He said the organisers
would be busy during the
next few months with arrangements for the next
reading programme. Assessments of the term just
passed will be made, along
with the training programmes for the new team
of volunteers for the new
school term.
“We will spend the next
few weeks looking at ways
to enhance the programme
with visual aids if possible
and to broaden the range
of volunteers in the programme,” said Dominique.
“We ended this term with
evaluations of the students
of St. Dominic who volunteered their services as part
of their own community service programme and I must
personally and on behalf of
the group thank them for
their input this term.”
This piece of land at Cas Coraweg in Curaçao adjacent to the residential area Zuid-Zapateer was cleared for building quite some time ago. The construction of the new Mangusa
supermarket on that site has started. There is no doubt that it’s going to be huge – the
biggest on the island – with room for other businesses, like a bank branch and a fast food
restaurant. Mangusa doesn’t want to give any information at this stage. “It’s too early; the
supermarket won’t be ready till June of next year.” Sources said there will be 750 parking
spaces around and even on top of the building that takes up 8,000 square metres in total.
P H I L I P S B U R G - -T h e
meeting of the directing
group planned for this week
to present its report on a
realistic date for attaining
country status has been
postponed. As to when the
meeting will reconvene to
take note of the group’s final report, all islands of the
Netherlands Antilles are
awaiting notice.
The directing group has
to make a realistic plan
for when the islands of the
Netherlands Antilles can
attain their new status.
The Dutch technocrats
already announced earlier
this year that they believe
the islands can’t attain their
new status before December 2010, as the Consensus
Kingdom Laws have to be
approved by the Dutch Second Chamber first.
Curaçao and St. Maarten
have indicated that the status change for the islands
has to take place before the
next Parliamentary elections.
The last Parliamentary
elections were held in January 2006 and the next ones
will be held early 2010, if
the Netherlands Antilles
still exists.
A final decision on a realistic plan for constitutional
change will be taken during the political consultation scheduled for May 22.
Dutch State Secretary of
Kingdom Relations Ank Bijleveld-Schouten informed
the Dutch Second Chamber
in April that the target date
of December 15 was not realistic.
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AGENDA
ST. EUSTATIUS
Police Station 182333
Emergency 111
Hot Line 108
Fire Department 120
Hospital 182211/182371
Landsradio 182210
Post Office 182207
St. Eustatius Historical
Foundation Museum 182288
Winair Office 182362
Lions Club meets every 1st and
3rd Wednesday at the “Den”
next to the Airport
Drug Prevention Foundation
meets every Tuesday 5:30pm at
the Golden Era Hotel.
Coastguard NA&A 113
St. Eustatius National parks:
Gallows Bay: 318 2884
SABA
Police Station
The Bottom, tel. 4163237
Emergency 111/112
Hospital
The Bottom, tel. 4163288/4163289
Fire Department Airport
Flat Point tel. 4162210
SATEL
The Bottom, tel. 4163211
WINAIR, Airport
Flat Point, tel. 4162255/2713
Taxi Service Airport
Flat Point, tel. 160
Administration Building
The Bottom, tel.
4163311/4163312/4163313
Tourist Office
Windwardside, tel. 4162231
Harbour Office
Fort Bay, tel. 4163294
Saba Marine Park
Fort Bay, tel. 4163295
Nature & Hike Guide
James Johnson
The Bottom, tel. 4163307
Service Club
Saba Lions Club general
meeting every 1st and 3rd
Tuesday 8:00 p.m. at Eugenius
A. Johnson Center.
Coastguard NA&A 113
Red Cross
General meeting every last
Monday, 6 p.m, Eugenius A.
Johnson Center.
ANGUILLA
EMERGENCY
Police 911
Fire 911
Ambulance 911
Police Station 497 2333
Hospital 497 2551
Dental clinic 497 2343
Radio Anguilla 497 2218
Tourism Department 497 2759
Crimestoppers 0800 7777777
AIRLINES
American Eagle 497 3501
Winair 497 2748
Liat 497 5000
Tyden Air 497 2719
Air Anguilla 497 2643
Trans Anguilla 497 8690
COURIER SERVICE
DHL 497 3400
Federal Express 497 2719
UPS 497 2239
SERVICE CLUBS
Rotary Club of Anguilla
Roy’s Restaurant 6:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Every Thursday.
Soroptimist International
Day Care Centre
4.30 p.m. 2nd Tuesday
in each month Tel: 497 3509
Lions Club
The Valley Primary School
1st and 3rd Tuesday at 8.00 p.m.
Tel: 497 6259
National Council of Women
Arts and Craft Centre
4.30 p.m. 1st Monday in month.
Interact Club of Anguilla
Meets every Friday at 3.15 p.m.
at theAlbena Lake Hodge
Comprehensive School
Alcoholic Anonymous meetings
every Sunday at 8:30 am and
Monday at 5:00 pm on Shoal
Bay picnic area.
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~ General membership meeting soon~
Facilitator Bonita Morgan (far right) adjusts her slide presentation for the Tourism Education Workshop.
ST. EUSTATIUS--Primary and secondary school
teachers and principals in
St. Eustatius are attending
a workshop this week on
tourism education.
Facilitator for the workshop is Bonita Morgan, Director of Human Resources
for the Caribbean Tourism
Organisation (CTO).
The three-day workshop,
organized by CTO in collaboration with the St. Eu-
statius Tourism Development Foundation (STDF),
is being held Monday
through Wednesday at the
Innovations Bureau of the
Department of Education.
Learning objectives for
the first day included tourism terms and concepts, the
tourism product, distribution channels, and sub-sectors of tourism.
Today, Tuesday, sustainable
tourism development, tour-
Aruba situated in Curaçao,
will be hosting its 2008 conference starting Wednesday, May
21, to Friday, May 23, with the
target to connect the involved
housing institutions in mutual
cooperation and contact in
the territory of housing.
The conference will kick off
on Wednesday with a welcoming ceremony facilitated
by Michael Fowler Director
of St. Maarten Housing Development Foundation and
Lieutenant Governor Franklyn Richards from 7:00 to
9:00pm.
Day two will continue with
sessions on “Financing public
housing; what are the problems and opportunities?”
from 8:30am until 4:00pm.
At that time, Commissioner
Theo Heyliger and Michael
Fowler will officially close off
the sessions.
Visiting officials will be given
a tour of the housing projects
on both the Dutch and French
sides of the island from 9:00am
to 12:00 noon.
The first official meeting for
housing institutions in the
Dutch Antilles and Aruba
took place in Curaçao on May
5, 1998. Caneye tries to realize
its target through the participation of all institutions concerned in public housing in the
Dutch Antilles and Aruba.
It also attempts to record
data on the housing situation on the involved islands
in order to share information
thorities. In addition, it aims
to exchange knowledge and
experience towards working
at formalising international
contacts and networking in
the region.
ism impacts, and tourism
linkages will to be discussed.
Tourism impacts include
economic,
socio-cultural,
and environmental impacts.
On Wednesday, focus will
be on customer service excellence, human resource
development, and careers
in tourism. Exercises and a
field trip are planned.
Charles Lindo of STDF
pointed out that free sessions on customer service
care in the tourism industry
will be held for the general
public on Thursday, May 8
and Friday, May 9. Hours
PHILIPSBURG--Caneye, the and study and analyze public will be 9:00am to 1:00pm
head of public housing institu- housing problems in order and 2:00pm to 6:00pm, also
tions in the Dutch Antilles and to report to and advise au- at the Innovations Bureau.
ANGUILLA--The Eastern
Caribbean Central Bank
(ECCB) is once again teaming up with financial and
academic partners to host
another Savings and Investment Course, scheduled to
commence on May 22.
It will be held at the Anguilla Community College
Development Unit. To date
some 71 individuals have
successfully completed the
course, which was launched
in April last year.
The course will focus on areas such as personal financial
planning, debt management,
risk management strategies
and trading on the securities
market.
The knowledge and skills
that will be acquired are expected to benefit not only the
students, but the country and
the region.
The course is being made
possible through partnerships involving the ECCB,
the University of the West
Indies, the Community College Unit and local banks.
PHILIPSBURG--The Youth Link Foundation recently
received two thousand guilders in private sponsorship.
“I am, along with my board members, elated with this
sponsorship,” Stuart Johnson President of the Youth Link
Foundation disclosed. “It goes to show the heart and soul
of the community of St. Maarten is extremely generous.
This initial donation will surely help to launch the foundation’s efforts but it is no way near enough to fully execute
our projects,” Johnson said.
Johnson called on the business community as well as
the general public to continue supporting the upcoming
efforts of the foundation. If any business or individual
wants to make a contribution towards the foundation, he
or she can visit any Windward Islands Bank Ltd branch
and make a financial donation of any amount. The Foundation’s US dollar account number is 22208006 and the
guilder account number is 22208104.
The Youth Link Foundation will be calling a general
membership meeting shortly to enable interested individuals to get firsthand information on the direction it
intends to take.
“We intend to be extremely transparent and open-minded with our membership along with the community of St.
Maarten,” Johnson said. “If any individual is willing to
provide constructive criticism I personally welcome it in
any form or fashion,” Johnson concluded.
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ANGUILLA--The 5th Annual Anguilla Animal Rescue
Foundation AARF Yard Sale
was a great success with funds
raised for the organisations
spay/neuter programme and
other operating expenses.
Items for the sale had been
collected throughout the year,
so the actual sale is always
huge and attended by lots of
people. This year, a team from
Viceroy assisted and also supplied two trucks to transport
the items. On sale were small
appliances, clothes, furniture,
toys, sports equipment, videos,
books and much more.
The spay/neuter programme
which AARF has been sponsoring for the past five years
has provided surgery for more
than 900 island dogs and cats
and, as a result, it has helped
immensely in controlling the
births of unwanted puppies
and kittens on the island. The
2008 programme will focus on
the puppies and kittens that
are adopted. The adoption fee
15
is US $20 and that includes a
spay or neuter for the animal
when it reaches four or five
months of age, along with the
first set of vaccinations, flea
and tick bath and worming.
AARF depends entirely on
contributions to support this
programme.
AARF has a new shelter located at Morlens Veterinary
Hospital at Sandy Hill where
unwanted puppies or kittens are taken and homes are
found for them.
Students who took the DARE course
Suzie Donahue (left) and Marie Forman at the Conference
ANGUILLA--The Anguilla
Animal Rescue Foundation
(AARF) was one of some 70
organisations from 29 islands
and countries representing
at the Caribbean Animal
Welfare Conference held
recently in Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic.
Representing Anguilla were
Adoption Chairman Marie
Forman and vice president and
spay/neuter project manager
Suzie Donahue. They participated in workshops covering
subjects such as organizational
development, spay/neuter clinics, disaster preparedness, alternatives to surgical spay/neuter and many other topics.
The conference was sponsored by the Pegasus Foundation, which supports animal
welfare programmes in the
Caribbean through training,
resources and funding.
The Foundation’s Caribbean initiative launched in
2002 has three primary goals:
to provide resources, training and support to animal
welfare organizations; to
provide a communications
network, and to develop support for animal welfare from
the tourism industry through
the Caribbean Animal Tourism Support project.
ANGUILLA--About
200
students of the Albena Lake
Hodge
Comprehensive
School Campus B who took
the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) course
conducted by members of the
Royal Anguilla Police Force
(RAPF) Community Policing
group graduated last week.
The graduation was held
at the school, certificates
were presented and some of
the students staged a mock
police trial to demonstrate
one of the activities of the
course.
Constables James Joyce and
Shawn Lake conducted the
course that started in January
and ran for 13 weeks for the
grade two students. Subjects
included anger management,
decision making, dangers
and symptoms of drug abuse,
and the dangers of cigarettes,
marijuana and alcohol.
Education official Jackie
Connor congratulated RAPF
members for their commitment to education and she
urged the students to make
healthy choices and to apply
the information they have
been provided in their daily
lives.
Deputy Commissioner of
Police Illidge Richardson
stressed that police will do
all that they can to combat
the use of drugs and stop
gang violence. He urged the
students to live positive lives.
He also stressed that school
should be a peaceful place
with all barriers removed
and he suggested that the
students who took the course
should go out and teach others about DARE.
Deputy Principal Melsadis
Fleming commended the
RAPF for its commitment
to the school and to the
students. She urged the students to uphold all they have
learned.
ANGUILLA--Staff of the Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources DFMR completed a three-day training workshop in Fisheries Management and Data Collection and a
one and a half day Strategic Planning exercise.
The aim of the training workshop and strategic planning
exercise was two-fold: to provide staff at the DFMR with the
knowledge and skills necessary for the implementation of an
ongoing comprehensive data collection programme for the
fisheries sector of Anguilla; and to re-emphasise to staff the
important role of the DFMR in the management of Anguilla’s fisheries resources and marine environment.
Some of the topics covered in the training workshop included: Principles of Fisheries Management; Elements of
Fisheries Biology; The Biology of Management; and Building a Fisheries Management Team.
The workshops were funded by the Government of Anguilla
and facilitated by Peter Murray, Programme Officer at the
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States OES Environment and Sustainable Development Unit.
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ANGUILLA--The Anguilla police have expressed concern about persons in the community making explosive
devices and on Wednesday referred to two recent incidents that involved the discharge of these devices at
North Side and in the Quarter.
According to Superintendent Proctor, inquiries have
revealed that the persons involved are mixing some
concoction to cause explosions.
He warned that the explosions can cause death, damage to property or serious bodily injury and he urged
the public to be on alert and report any cases they
might encounter.
He also warned that persons found in possession of, or
found making the explosive devices will be prosecuted.
Meanwhile, Sergeant Yearwood reported that on
April 30, Sunshine Shop at South Hill was robbed by a
masked man who held the employees at gun point and
stole US $4,000.
There were 22 other crimes reported. The list included
five burglaries in the areas of Sea Feathers, East End,
Cauls Bottom and The Valley. Jewellery, money, a barbecue grill, cell phones and a water pump were among
the items reported stolen.
There were also 13 cases of larceny with 40 sheets
of plywood, a drill, a water pump, a scooter, two cell
phones, a boat engine and car keys being among the
items stolen. Four of the thefts, which were considered
minor, were resolved between the claimants and the offenders.
There was also one case of causing grievous bodily
harm, a case of indecent assault, and two cases of criminal damage to cars. Seven minor traffic accidents also
occurred during the past week.
ANGUILLA--Officials from the Ministry of Health and
Social Development and the Health Authority of Anguilla (HAA) returned from a two-week training attachment
at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida, from
April 21 to May 2.
The purpose of the visit was to provide education on
the development of health care services. It was designed
mainly to improve the participants’ knowledge with respect to operations and management of health care facilities at the international level.
Chief Executive of the HAA Darlene Baptiste said the
attachment confirms the re-organizing and re-structuring currently being undertaken by the Health Authority.
“While many challenges still lay ahead, major accomplishments have been realized,” she said.
Executives from the HAA who participated in the training attachment included Baptiste, who participated in
the sessions on strategic planning, quality management,
mental health, health planning and evaluation of programmes, Chief Finance Officer Ralph Hodge and Chief
Operations Officer Clavis Carter-Gumbs. Health Planner
Lynrod Brooks of the Ministry also attended the entire
two-week programme.
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D. Hooijer. (Freddy Rikken photo)
is characterised by short,
disjointed sentences, and a
disregard for literary convention.
The jury commented that,
“In her stories she has managed to strike a delicate
balance between story and
narrative style, between
content and form. Hooijer
succeeds in making her stories surprising, moving and
humorous.”
Although she won the
prize as an outsider and this
is only her third publication
as a prose writer, she has
written poetry all her life.
Her poetry is published
under the name Milly Wiers. “I was always rather a
rejected poet,” she commented in a television interview. “It’s very hard to
get poetry published, but I
didn’t want to stop. I think
poetry is wonderful. But after about 30 years, I eventually gave up. One rainy
Sunday in summer, I started
writing short stories. And it
was tough. Stories are difficult too.”
The 2008 Libris Literature
Prize has been awarded to
the writer D. Hooijer for
her short story collection
Sleur is een Roofdier (The
Daily Grind is a Predator).
This is the first time the
prize, worth 50,000 euros,
has been awarded for a
short story collection, and
only the second time it was
won by a woman.
In 1994, the prize was won
by Frida Vogels.
D. Hooijer has been a
relatively unknown writer.
She debuted in 2001 with
another collection of short
stories Kruik en Kling (Jar
and Blade).
Her new collection was
chosen from a shortlist of
six taken from a long list
of 171 works of “original
Dutch prose” published in
2007.
On hearing she had won,
she was taken aback. “I
thought it was wonderful
just to be nominated,” she
said on receiving the award.
“To be among the final six
was unbelievable.”
D. Hooijer is a pseudonym for writer Kitty Ruys.
Her distinctive writing style
AMSTERDAM--Almost
half the Dutch workforce
would like to take a more
flexible approach to their
working hours, according
to a survey carried out by
information society platform EPN.
More flexible hours, such
as working in the evening
and during the weekend,
would allow workers to
better combine their career with their private lives,
the survey of 1,800 people
found.
Of those polled, some
40 per cent said they already have flexible hours,
meaning that they often do
overtime in the evening or
during holidays. But 70 per
cent said they never work
at home during traditional
working hours.
And 45 per cent said internet and other digital
technology means they can
work everywhere and this
has boost enjoyment of
their job. Only 10 per cent
said their private lives have
suffered because of technological changes. And
25 per cent felt uneasy if
they could be contacted by
phone or email after hours.
“Employees have become
modern, now it is up to
companies,” EPN director
Tom van der Maas said in
Wednesday’s edition of De
Telegraaf newspaper. “Employer organisations are in
favour, but managers are
against flexible hours because too often they want
to see and control their
staff on the work floor.”
Van der Maas called on
middle management to
make the most of modern
technology. “All the technical obstacles to tele-working
– one of the solutions for
rush hour traffic jams – have
been removed,” he said.
Rianne van Veldhuizen, an
account manager for IBM
who works flexible hours,
told Trouw newspaper that
she feels as if she is an independent contractor.
“I don’t have a nine-to-five
job at the office,” she said.
“One afternoon I am in
Eindhoven, and then I am
on the phone late at night
with a customer in America. Other times I work very
early in the morning. Work
and my private life mesh in
a very natural way. It is very
comfortable.”
ARNHEM--A court in Arnhem has officially declared
Corrie van der Valk dead.
Van der Valk, a member of
a well-known Dutch hotel
and restaurant family, disappeared in 2001 at the age
of 58, leaving everything in
her house untouched except
for her passport, which has
never been located.
A search of the area around
her house with tracker dogs
also revealed nothing. For a
while, her husband, Nico van
der Valk was suspected of
murdering her, while family
members suggested that she
had disappeared so that she
could start a new life elsewhere.
In an interview with the De
Telegraaf newspaper, daughter Sandra van der Valk said
that the despite the Arnhem
court’s ruling, the family
did not consider the matter
closed.
“It’s still theoretically possible,” she said, “that Corrie could turn up tomorrow.
If you can’t see somebody’s
dead body, you can never
be sure that they really are
dead.”
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Passengers picking up their luggage at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.
AMSTERDAM--Baggage
personnel working for
Menzies Aviation at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport are going on strike on
Friday to back up their demands for a wage increase.
The strike will affect travellers arriving and leaving from
the Netherlands’ busiest airport. The strike will delay
flights, as well as check-in
and baggage collection.
The union representing the baggage handlers
staged a public-friendly
action last Friday but decided to strike on the last
Friday of the May vacation, as many people will
be returning from their
holidays on that day.
The union is demanding a
3.5 per cent wage increase
but Menzies Aviation has
only offered a 1.5 per cent
raise.
Around 500 people work
for Menzies, one of several
baggage handling companies operating at Schiphol
Airport.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
May 19th, 2008 - July 25th, 2008
The University of St. Martin offers English
courses in different levels.
Windward Islands Airways International
(WINAIR)
At the Princess Juliana lnternational Airport, St. Maarten, has vacancy for a:
Director of Maintenance
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIP:
•
Reports to: The Managing Director of WINAIR.
•
Supervises: All activities of the Maintenance Department, including the
Shift Supervisors, Mechanics, Apprentice mechanics in the carrying out
of Maintenance Activities; The Training Department in the development
and all aspects of the training of company personnel; The Stores Depart
ment including purchasing, and inventory control; The Technical Records
Department in the production portion of the records section services.
JOB SCOPE:
The Director of Maintenance is responsible for the overall operation of the production unit in the Maintenance Department, and all its activities. In this capacity he
is responsible for maintaining aircraft and facilities, as needed, to meet airworthiness standards, operating schedules, appearance, standards and cost objectives
in accordance with established company policies and procedures, and national
regulations.
DAYS
HOURS
PRICE
Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri
Levels to be determined.
EVENING LESSONS
*US $290.00 Tuition
+ $25.00 Application Fee
LATE Application Fee $40.00)
+ Textbook & Workbook:
Depends on level
He is responsible for development, implementation and control of overall policies, concepts, procedures, standards, methods, general and best practices which
pertains to and govern the safe and economical maintenance of company aircraft.
He should also have received training in aviation maintenance management.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
His/her specific responsibilities shall include the following:
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Ensures the safety of the aircraft is paramount with regards to the
maintenance performed.
Formulates maintenance policies and standards and coordinates with
the Operations Management and the Chief Pilot on his areas of
responsibilities.
Organizes, directs and controls the activities of the maintenance depart
ment in the safest, most economical manner compatible with operational
needs. This requires close coordination of programs within the
department and the requirements of operations, marketing and finance.
Ensures company aircraft are maintained to the airworthiness standards
prescribed by applicable, regulations, company policies and sound
maintenance practices, and are available in sufficient quantity to fulfill
flight/dispatch commitments, and are released with proper control of
defects and type design conformance.
Delegates’ authority as necessary to facilitate effective management
within the department, and Delegates those responsibilities as necessary,
however, this does not relieve him of the overall responsibilities.
Plans, recommends and participates in expansion, education, changing
and/or reviewing of maintenance performance against established
procedures and standards and procurement of new or additional aircraft
equipment.
Maintains close liaison with the DCA-NA and other government depart
ments in all applicable matters of policy pertaining to maintenance,
engineering and inspection.
Is responsible for, develops and directs the required training program for
Maintenance Department Personnel and assures personnel meet required
training standards and submits annual training schedule to the DCA-NA.
Negotiates contracts and ensures appropriate approval and oversight
is maintained for the overhaul and repair of equipment and services by
outside agencies.
Prepares and maintains a current company General Maintenance Manual,
Maintenance Schedules for the aircraft types operated and coordinates
the maintenance section of the Basic Operations Manual with applicable
department heads. Ensures that this data is current and approved by the
DCA-NA.
Performs other duties as required by the Managing Director or his
representative (Accountable Manager).
QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:
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Hold a current DCA-NA or ICAO License with airframe and power plant
ratings.
•
Have a minimum one year of experience in a similar position of a com
pany responsible for returning aircraft to service.
•
Have at least three years maintenance experience within the previous six
calendar years with a minimum of one year in a supervisory capacity in
one of the following:
1.
Maintaining aircraft with 9 or more passenger seats of the same
class and category of aircraft as operated by WINAIR.
2.
Repairing aircraft in a certificated airframe repair station rated
to maintain the same class and category aircraft as operated by
WINAIR.
•
Understand provisions and requirements of the WINAIR aircraft main
tenance activities including Specific Operating Provisions, safety stan
dards, WINAIR’s operating practices, and applicable provisions of the
DCA-NA Air Regulations, of the latest revision.
•
Good command of English language, oral as well as written
(Dutch language will be regarded an asset).
•
Good communication skills are required.
•
Ability to prepare various types documentation (reports) is a must.
•
Computer literacy is a must
Interested candidates can submit their application in writing accompanied with
Curriculum Vitae, certificates/ diplomas, training certificates and other pertinent
documents by May 30, 2008:
Winair Human Resource Department,
Airport Road 69, P.O. Box 2088. St. Maarten.
Attn.: Ms. M. Larmonie
Tel: 599 545-2568 ext. 2237
Fax: 599 545-4229
E-mail: mlarmonie@fly-winair.com
80 hours in total
EXAM: May 9, 2008 - 6:00 – 9:00 p.m
ALL CLASSES WILL BE HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. MARTIN
For more information, contact the Admissions Office in the University
located in Philipsburg or call (599)542-5171 ext. 1008 or fax 542-5226.
* No refunds after the first day of class.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
GEORGETOWN, Guyana-The prosecution in the Shaheed Roger Khan drug trial
Tuesday released a memorandum of law submitted in
support of its motion for a
pre-trial ruling to admit evidence regarding uncharged
criminal activity by Khan.
According to the memorandum, Khan, indicted for trafficking of cocaine in the US,
not only ordered the murder
of Devendra Persaud, but
also that of boxing coach
Donald Allison.
The document, which was
filed in the New York Eastern
District Court on Monday,
seeks to have the court admit
at trial, evidence of Khan’s
retaliation against Persaud,
who was once part of his organisation, which included
threats to Persaud and his
family, seizing Persaud’s car,
and ultimately, ordering Persaud’s murder; as well as the
murder of Allison.
According to the document,
though this conduct was not
charged in the indictment,
it constituted direct proof
of the accused’s continuing
criminal enterprise and nar-
KINGSTON,
Jamaica-Mayor of Kingston Desmond
McKenzie got a shock on
Monday morning.
He found out that a number
of business establishments in
the downtown Kingston area
were operating without trade
licences, which he said was
costing the city government
billions of dollars in lost revenue.
The Kingston and St Andrew Corporation had advised last week that starting
on Monday, May 5, it would
be inspecting close to 20,000
places of business to ensure
compliance with the Licences on Trade and Business Act
1989, starting with the business district in downtown
Kingston.
Speaking with the media
about three hours into the
tour, which caught many
business operators off guard,
McKenzie, who was accompanied by officials from the
Inland Revenue Department, National Solid Waste
Management Authority, the
Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Kingston Central Police, and the Island
Special Constabulary Force,
said the violations uncovered
were ‘frightening’.
“The little we have done so
far is telling us and telling
the country that there are
billions of dollars in revenues
that is being withheld from
the Government. Of all the
cotics conspiracy and the evidence was admissible under
Rule 404(b).
Further, the prosecution
gave notice that it would seek
to offer evidence of Khan’s
criminal conduct in Vermont
and subsequent bail jumping
if necessary to rebut defences
advanced by Khan, including
lack of knowledge of drug
trafficking, pursuant to Rule
404(b).
The prosecution said it
would establish at trial that
Khan was the leader of a violent drug trafficking organi-
sation (the “Khan Organisation”) that was based in
Georgetown, Guyana, from
at least 2001 until his arrest
in June 2006.
“Khan and his co-conspirators obtained large quantities
of cocaine, and then imported the cocaine into the Eastern District of New York,
among other places, where it
was further distributed,” the
memorandum said.
“Khan was ultimately able
to control the cocaine industry in Guyana, in large part
because he was backed by
10 to 12 places we have done
so far, only one had both the
trade licence and the general
consumption tax (GCT) certificate.
Others have not been able
to show anything,” the mayor
said, noting that compliance
was a meagre 10 per cent.
In addition, he said it was
also found that several migrants were in violation of
their work permits as they
were working outside of
the addresses stated on the
permits, while garbage was
being disposed of in a “very
haphazard manner” by business operators.
“What this is saying to us is
that the system needs to be
overhauled very seriously.
We cannot continue to pressure the normal vendors on
the street; it is a disgrace
that many of these establishments, well-known establishments, are in violation of the
law,” said McKenzie, who is
in his second term as mayor.
(Jamaica Observer)
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad--A young woman who went to
the city to live and work was killed by a man who raped her
and then stabbed her to death.
When police found 23-year-old Geraldine Smith at noon
Tuesday, the killer’s knife was still stuck in her throat.
He had also punctured her head, chest and eye.
The killing occurred in an apartment at Inverness Street,
Cocoyea, near the childhood home of Prime Minister Patrick Manning.
The apartment was being cleaned out by Smith so she
could move in soon.
The owner of the building took policemen to the apartment at midday because he said he had seen people in it
Monday night but was too afraid to investigate.
Smith, who was not married and had no children, was
originally from Mendez Village, Siparia.
Her cousin, June Smith, said: “She was supposed to clean
up the place to move in. The last time I spoke to her was
last week Thursday when she told me about the Borough
Day celebrations (in Point Fortin).”
Police suspect Smith was killed some time Monday night.
(Trinidad Express)
a para-military squad that
would murder, threaten, and
intimidate others at Khan’s
direction. While Khan’s enforcers killed many people
as part of a battle among
political factions in Guyana,
they also committed violent
acts and murders on Khan’s
orders that were directly in
furtherance of Khan’s drug
trafficking conspiracy.”
With regard to Allison’s
murder, the prosecution
said it expected to prove at
trial, primarily through the
testimony of cooperating
witnesses and related corroborating information, that
Allison, who lived in Guyana,
and others, imported cocaine
into the United States that
was obtained from the Khan
Organisation.
Some of this cocaine was
seized in the US, the document said and Khan suspected that Allison and his
co-conspirators had stolen
it. Khan then tried to recruit
Allison, but Allison refused
and on at least one occasion
insulted Khan in a public
place, the memorandum said
and Khan threatened that
he would kill Allison. Subsequently, Allison was shot and
killed.
Khan later made statements
during which he took credit
for the murder of Allison,
the document contended.
As regard Persaud, the US
attorney’s document said he
had lived in Queens, New
York and was a cocaine distributor for the Khan Organisation. It said Persaud
received cocaine from the
Khan Organisation, distributed it to others, and then
sent money back to the organisation in Guyana.
Persaud was arrested in
June 2003 at John F. Kennedy airport, and was charged
with bulk cash smuggling
and conspiring to import
cocaine into the United
States. Thereafter, Persaud
was released on bond. He
ultimately cooperated with
US law enforcement, including participating in numerous proffers and agreeing to
have his cellular telephone
calls recorded, among other
things.
According to the document, in December 2003,
Persaud’s relative who was
in Guyana, called Persaud
in Queens and informed him
that “Shortie,” “Shortie’s”
bodyguards, and “Ledge,”
had gone into her store and
threatened and pointed a gun
at her while she held a child.
She informed Persaud that
they demanded to know his
case number. Shortly thereafter, Persaud jumped bond
and fled back to Guyana, the
document said.
The prosecution said it
would establish at trial that
one nickname for Khan was
“Shortman.”
Individuals in the cocaine
industry in Guyana, including Khan, the document
said, suspected that Persaud
was cooperating with US
law enforcement. Additionally, Persaud owed Khan a
drug debt. In order to collect
on the debt, Khan’s co-conspirators arrived at Persaud’s
store in Guyana, and took his
car from him and Khan put a
“hit” out on Persaud.
In October 2004, the memorandum said, Khan was informed by a member of his
organisation that Persaud
was at the Palm Court Restaurant and Bar and Khan
stated that Persaud should
be killed that night. Persaud
was shot to death at the Palm
Court restaurant.
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The prosecution argued
that the threats to Persaud
and his family, the taking of
Persaud’s car, the murder
of Persaud, and the murder
of Allison, while uncharged,
were admissible as direct
evidence of the charged continuing criminal enterprise
and narcotics conspiracy. It
quoted sections of US law
under which this was admissible and cited previous cases
where such evidence had
been admitted.
It said that Khan’s alleged
ordering of the murders
was proof of his leadership
role in the conspiracy. The
government has alleged in
Count One of the superseding indictment that Khan was
the principal administrator
of a continuing criminal enterprise. (Stabroek News)
KINGSTON, Jamaica--Prime Minister Bruce Golding anticipates that there will be a greater need for Jamaica and
Cuba to collaborate rather than compete with each other on
matters relating to the tourist industry.
Golding was speaking in Havana Monday afternoon following extensive talks earlier with Cuba’s President Raul Castro,
during his official three-day visit to Cuba.
According to a Jamaica House press release, Golding said
that during the talks with the Cuban leader the question of
tourism was raised because it was felt that Cuba has so much
to offer in terms of expansion of tourism.
He said Jamaica has been a dominant player in the tourism
market and has some expertise which it believes it can also
offer Cuba in terms of promoting and managing the tourism
product.
“One of the areas to be explored is the possibility of multiple-destination marketing where visitors can purchase a
package through which they could spend some time in Jamaica and some time in Cuba,” the Jamaican prime minister
said. However, details of this and other arrangements relating
to the tourism industry are to be worked out when Minister
of Tourism, Ed Bartlett, one of five ministers accompanying
Prime Minister Golding on the Cuban visit, meets with his
counterpart for one-on-one discussions. (Jamaica Observer)
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THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
De Stichting Beveilgings Justitie roept, ter uitbouw en versterking van de beveiliging van de Strafgevangenis en het Huis van Bewaring op St. Maarten, sollicitanten
op voor de functie vn:
Beveiligingsbeambte
De Strafgevangenis en het Huis van Bewaring St. Maarten stelt zich ten doel:
de samenleving te beschermen tegen mensen die een bedreiging vormen voor de
rechtsorde of de veiligheid van anderen, en de gedetineerden - door middel van een
gestructureerd detentieprogrammaperspectieven te bieden op een kansrijke terugkeer in de maatschappij
Functie-inhoud:
Bewaking en beveiliging van het detentiecomplex; rapportage en overdracht van bijzonderheden.
Functie-eisen:
•u hoeft niet in het in het bezit te zijn van de Nederlandse nationaliteit, maar u moet
wel aan alle vereisten voldoen die onze wetten voorschrijven betreffende toelating en
uitwijzing en werken in de Nederlandse Antillen;
•onbesproken levensgedrag;
•leeftijd van tenminste 21 jaar en ten hoogste 45 jaar;
•voldoen aan de geldende geneeskundige en psychologishe eisen;
•voldoen aan overige geschiktheidseisen (blijkende uit onder meer een antecedentenen milieu- onderzoek)
Opleidingseisen:
Redelijke algemene ontwikkeling op niveau van MAVO-4, LST T-stroom, BVO-D of
vergelijkbaar werk- en denkniveau op relevante aandachtsgebieden.
Vaardigheden:
•vaktechnische kennis van beveiliging- en bewakingsprocedures;
•kennis van benader- en verdedigingstechnieken;
•probleemoplossend kunnen optreden;
•om kunnen gaan met conflicten;
•goede communicatieve vaardigheden;
•goede rapportagevaardigheden;
•goede mondelinge en schriftelijke uitdrukkingsvaardigheden, bij voorkeur in het
•papiaments, Nederlands, Engels en Spaans.
Salaris en vooruitzichten:
Het salaris is NAfl 1587, - met verscheidene extra toelagen die een bruto maandelijks
salaris van Nafl bedragen 1932, - met doorgroei mogelijk tot een maximaal van NAfls.
4665,- Bij het goed functioneren volgt, na een jaar, een contract mits de opleiding
voor benoembaarheid tot beveiligingsbeambte met goed gevolg is afgerond en over
betrokkene een gunstig beoordelingsrapport is uitgebracht.
Schriftelijk sollicitaties met CV dienen binnen 14 dagen na het verschijnen van deze
advertentie in de lokale dagbladen, te worden gericht aan Stichting Beveiligingszorg
Justitie, P.O. Bos 491, ter attentie van mevrouw Amparo SABINA.
Voor nadere informatie kunt u zich wenden tot mevrouw Amparo SABINA, via
telefoonnummer (0)543-0282 of (0)542-3249 (at the prison on St.Maarten).
Regional
THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados--There is no shortage of rice and no need
for supermarkets to ration it.
So said a very concerned Richard Ashby,
general manager of Hill
Milling Company, one of
the major distributors of
rice in Barbados.
Ashby said Tuesday he
was shocked to read that
at least two supermarkets were limiting rice to
customers and he denied
that this was because
suppliers were limiting
the staple.
“There is no shortage.
They are creating panic
and there is no need for
it. We have a lot of rice
in our bond,” he said as
he pointed to thousands
of bags of rice waiting to
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be distributed.
Ashby said last Friday
and Monday this week,
retailers flocked to Hill
Milling and bought
tonnes of rice.
“So I don’t understand
why they are rationing
it.”
He said that Hill Milling was getting its supplies from the United
States. (Daily Nation)
A fire-fighter does the final cooling down on a tenement which was gutted by fire Tuesday.
The fire destroyed nine homes in the yard at the intersection of Barry and Higholborn
streets in downtown Kingston, Jamaica shortly after 1:00pm. Most of the occupants have
lost all their belongings. The community, known as Southside, has been under siege in recent weeks as rival gangs target each other’s relatives. (Jamaica Observer photo by Michael
Gordon)
KINGSTON, Jamaica--Daryl Vaz picked up his Loss
of United States Citizenship
Certificate Tuesday and immediately blasted members
of parliament from both
political parties who have
not yet declared their dual
citizenship.
Saying he was now “100 per
cent ready” for a by-election in the disputed West
Portland constituency, Vaz
suggested it was time the
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)
Leader of the House and
the People’s National Party
(PNP) Leader of Opposition Business got together
to resolve the constitutional
impasse created by the dual
citizenship issue.
“We have a constitutional
crisis on our hands and nothing is being done to resolve
it,” an obviously impatient
Vaz told the Observer, after
his trip to the US embassy
to get the certificate which
completes his renouncement of US citizenship.
At the same time, Vaz commended Danville Walker on
his decision to resign as director of elections, describing it as “the principled and
statesmanlike thing to do”
and “nothing less than what
I would have expected of
Mr Danville Walker”.
Walker handed in his resignation letter a day earlier,
citing the April 18, 2008 ruling by Chief Justice Zaila
McCalla that Vaz was not
constitutionally
qualified
to sit in the Jamaican Parliament, because he had
renewed his US passport,
signalling that he had sworn
allegiance to the US of
which he became a citizen
as a child.
Daryl Vaz
Section 3 of the Electoral
Commission (Interim) Act
similarly applies to Walker,
who served as director of
elections for three weeks
short of 11 years but who
has opted not to renounce
his US citizenship which he
has held since 1994.
McCalla also ruled that a
by-election be held to decide the winner of the West
Portland seat. But saying he
should have been given the
seat, Abe Dabdoub, whose
court action to oust Vaz
triggered the crisis, is appealing.
Vaz insisted that he had
done what he had to do to
become eligible and complained that since the ruling,
little or nothing had been
done to ensure the constitutional integrity of the parliament.
“I had expected that all
MPs who were affected by
the ruling, on both sides of
the House, would have by
now declared their hand. It
seems that a ‘hide and seek’
game is being played,” he
declared.
He said that if the PNP and
Dabdoub went through with
the planned appeal against
the by-election ruling, it
would be against the traditional method of selecting
the representative of the
people - through elections.
He charged that while PNP
President Portia Simpson
Miller had indicated she
would co-operate to solve
the crisis, the PNP chairman Robert Pickersgill had
declared support for Dabdoub.
Vaz, a junior minister in
the Office of the Prime
Minister, also urged MPs
with US Resident Alien or
Green Cards to declare that
too, telling them that they
had “a moral obligation so
to do”.
“How can you sit in the
Jamaican parliament and
every two months you have
to travel to the States to ensure you comply with their
law that you are a resident
of the United States?” Vaz
asked. “That too should be
put on the table.” (Jamaica
Observer)
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THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
WASHINGTON--Now that
Democrat Hillary Clinton’s
presidential hopes appear to
be fading, some Democrats are
talking about the possibility of
Barack Obama taking Clinton
on as his vice presidential running mate.
“It’s something that this party
is going to have to think very
seriously about in the next few
weeks,” Harold Ford, a former
U.S. congressman who is chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, told MSNBC
after Obama on Tuesday won
easily in North Carolina and
ran surprisingly strong in Indiana.
There had been talk of a re-
DALLAS--A group of U.S.
evangelical leaders called on
Wednesday for a pullback from
party politics so that followers would not become “useful
idiots” exploited for partisan
gain.
One in four U.S. adults count
themselves as evangelical
Protestants, giving them serious clout in a country where
religion and politics often mix.
Conservative evangelicals have
become a key support base for
the Republican Party.
But the movement has had
growing pains and the statement issued on Wednesday,
called an “Evangelical Manifesto,” is the latest sign of
emerging fractures as some
activists seek to broaden its
agenda beyond hot-button social issues such as opposition to
abortion and gay rights.
“Christians from both sides
of the political spectrum, left
as well as right, have made the
mistake of politicizing faith,”
the manifesto declares. “That
way faith loses its independence, the church becomes
`the regime at prayer,’ Christians become `useful idiots’ for
one political party or another,
and the Christian faith becomes an ideology in its purest
form.”
The manifesto was signed
by leading and mostly centrist
evangelicals. Many of the more
than 70 signatories have been
critical in the past of evangelical partisan involvement which
was seen as the crucial element
behind U.S. President George
W. Bush’s re-election victory in
2004. Leading figures on the
conservative “Religious Right”
such as Tony Perkins, president
of the Family Research Council, did not sign the document
and his office said he had not
been asked to sign it.
verse ticket a couple of months
ago. Clinton had generated
speculation about Obama being her vice presidential running mate after she won Texas
and Ohio, saying, “Well, that
may, you know, be where this
is headed.”
But Clinton’s disappointing
showing in Tuesday’s contests
has given Obama added momentum. The Illinois senator
increased his almost insurmountable lead in pledged delegates who will help pick the
nominee at the August convention.
For some Democrats, the idea
of an Obama-Clinton ticket
is intriguing. They say Obama
could go a long way toward
patching up differences in the
party by picking his battlehardened opponent to serve
as his running mate for the
campaign against Republican
John McCain in the November
election.
According to a CBS News/
New York Times poll released
last week, a majority of both
Obama and Clinton voters say
they would favor a so-called
“Dream Ticket” involving both
candidates. “People are stopping to ask themselves, why just
nominate someone who has 51
percent of the vote, when we
can nominate a ticket that has
100 percent of the vote?” said
Sam Arora, spokesman for
Vote Both, a group trying to
foster a joint ticket between the
two top Democrats.
But Obama gave no sense on
Wednesday that he was thinking about such a move. Obama
campaign manager David
Plouffe told reporters the Illinois senator now was focusing
on the remaining contests and
undecided superdelegates.
“Obviously, when we secure
the nomination, that’s a decision Senator Obama will need
to make about who he wants
to choose as his running mate
but I think it’s premature to be
talking about who that might
be,” he said.
The Clinton campaign was
similarly vague. “We have not
had any conversations with the
Obama campaign about such a
ticket,” said Clinton campaign
spokesman Howard Wolfson.
“Senator Clinton has said it
is premature to discuss such
a ticket. I have not heard her
(express) any interest in such a
ticket.”
Some Democratic insiders are
skeptical. A Democratic strategist who supports Clinton, and
who believes her candidacy is
now doomed, doubted it would
make sense for either side for
her to be Obama’s running
A woman participates in a demonstration near New York Police headquarters in lower Manhattan on Wednesday.
NEW YORK--Civil rights
activist the Rev. Al Sharpton and dozens of others
were arrested on Wednesday for stopping traffic to
protest the acquittal of
policemen who killed an
unarmed black man with 50
shots on his wedding day.
Hundreds of protesters
snarled rush-hour traffic at
bridges and tunnels around
New York City in a civil disobedience campaign called
by Sharpton, who has been
close to the slain man’s
family since the November
2006 shooting.
A police spokesman said
“a couple dozen” people
were arrested. A spokeswoman for Sharpton put
the number at 190.
Last month, a state judge
cleared two detectives of
manslaughter and a third of
reckless endangerment in
the death of Sean Bell, 23,
in a case that outraged New
York’s black community.
Bell’s fiancee and two of
his friends who survived
the shooting were arrested
along with Sharpton, who
called on federal prosecutors to bring civil rights
charges. In the main protest, about 30 people knelt
and prayed outside City
Hall, blocking one of the
streets that leads to the
Brooklyn Bridge.
“We are holding you all
under arrest for disorderly
conduct,” police announced
before handcuffing Sharpton and at least 30 other
people. They put up little or
no resistance as they were
led to police vans, cuffed by
plastic strips.
“We are all Sean Bell” the
demonstrators
shouted.
Some people signed up to
be arrested, including Lexine Odom, 47, a mother of
three sons, one of whom recently returned from military service in Iraq.
“I have three sons and
Sean Bell could have been
one of them,” Odom said.
“To say not guilty is unfair,
it was unfair to everyone
unfair to the family.”
The Justice Department,
federal prosecutors and the
FBI are reviewing the case
and could take legal action if investigators suspect
a violation of federal civil
rights laws. A decade ago,
Sharpton organized similar
demonstrations after four
police officers who fired 41
shots were acquitted in the
death of an unarmed West
African man, Amadou Diallo. Dozens were arrested
then, including Sharpton.
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mate.
“I think if Clinton were the
nominee she’d have no one else
to pick but Obama,” the strategist said. “But from Obama’s
perspective, his argument is
about change, I think he’d be
better off picking someone
else.”
From Clinton’s perspective,
the Democrat added, “I don’t
know for her political future
if it’s all that useful to be vice
president. I think she can have
an enormous influence in the
Senate over a long period of
time.”
A former Clinton White House
aide wondered if Obama would
want to bring the former first
lady and her husband, former
President Bill Clinton, back
into the White House. The
official said since New York
Sen. Clinton had conducted a
far-reaching attempt to change
the U.S. health care system as
first lady, she would be expecting similarly big tasks as vice
president.
“She’s been a formidable
opponent thus far. Can you
imagine, with the proximity
in the West Wing of the vice
president’s office to the Oval
Office? I think she would be in
there quite a bit,” the official
said.
CHICAGO--Many Democrats are frustrated and fatigued by the longest U.S.
presidential
nomination
battle most have witnessed,
and the divisions in its wake
have left some wondering if
they can back the ultimate
winner.
“I backed Hillary in the
(Wisconsin) primary, but no
matter which one gets in, I’m
unimpressed by both of them
at this point,” said Linda
Mrochinski, who works for
a nonprofit organization in
Milwaukee.
“Instead of a policy-based
and a `what we can do’ campaign, it’s become a campaign of the women versus
the blacks. It’s just not a very
comfortable campaign at this
point,” she added.
Random interviews conducted after Tuesday night’s
split voting, in which New
York Sen. Hillary Clinton
eked out a victory in Indiana and Illinois Sen. Barack
Obama won handily in North
Carolina, showed many voters would like the Democrats
to get it over with.
“Pick somebody, because
I think it’s probably hurting
them in November,” said 23year-old Chicago software
developer Matt Sawin, an
Obama supporter who said
he would back Clinton if she
won the nomination to run
against Republican presidential candidate John McCain
in the November election.
“It’s going to be messy, no
matter what.”
In exit polls of Democratic primary voters in Indiana and North Carolina by
ABC, more than six in 10
said they would be satisfied
with either Obama or Clinton as the nominee, leaving
substantial numbers unsatisfied. In Clinton and Obama
matchups against McCain,
anywhere from a quarter to
three in 10 Democrats said
they wouldn’t vote, or would
support McCain.
Merlyn Ware, 37, of Robbinsdale, Minnesota, a town
northwest of Minneapolis,
is an Obama supporter who
said he would not back Clinton if Obama loses the nomination. “I wouldn’t vote for
a Republican. I’m going to
vote, but maybe for a third
party” in that case, he said.
After Tuesday’s contests,
Clinton vowed to fight on
though Obama widened his
lead in pledged delegates to
the party nominating convention in August. Many
Democrats say the battle has
dragged on too long. “I think
it needs to end, like, within
the next week,” said Lisa
Gibson, 33, a homemaker in
Louisville, Kentucky.
“I care for both candidates
actually. I would rather have
them come together on the
same ticket because I think
if any more really bad campaigning goes on I think it’s
going to alienate one or the
other,” she said.
“For me it’s a win-win,” said
Allyn Travis, the director of
the Montessori Institute of
Milwaukee. “Obama is my
preference because I love his
optimism, the Clintons have
baggage. But, if it comes
down to a choice between
Hillary and McCain, I’m with
Hillary all the way.”
But Clinton supporter
Herb Buecher of Charleston, South Carolina, said he
would no longer back Obama
after hearing controversial
remarks by Obama’s former
pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah
Wright. “I can’t support a
man who sits for 20 years
and listens to that rhetoric
and then says he didn’t hear
it,” he said of Wright’s comments, which have included
the assertion the U.S. government purposefully spread
the AIDS virus to blacks and
the Sept. 11 attacks were payback for U.S. foreign policy.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
WASHINGTON--Long critical
of the International Criminal
Court, the Bush administration
has now adopted a more pragmatic view of the court, a move
experts say opens the door to
a policy shift by the next president.
In a speech last month marking the 10th anniversary of
the ICC, State Department
legal adviser John Bellinger
said while Washington still
had strong concerns about the
court, it would work with the
ICC on issues such as holding
people accountable for atrocities committed in Sudan’s Darfur region.
Legal experts say this signals
a change and while Bellinger
says his speech should not be
interpreted as warming up to
the ICC, he concedes the administration shares some of
the same goals as the court, especially when it comes to Darfur. “There is some common
ground,” he told Reuters.
Since the prison abuse scandal
at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and criticism over the U.S. detention
facility at Guantanamo Bay,
the United States has been accused of seeing itself as above
the law and refusal to sign onto
the ICC fueled that view. “We
should not allow our differences over the ICC to obscure the
strong U.S. commitment to international criminal justice and
to let people somehow think
that the United States does not
support international law and
international criminal justice,”
Bellinger said.
The ICC came into existence
in 1998 under the Rome Statute, which gave it jurisdiction
over systematic war crimes,
genocide and crimes against
humanity. So far more than
100 governments have ratified
the statute, excluding the United States.
The Clinton administration
signed the Rome Statute at the
end of 2000 but recommended
that serious concerns be addressed before ratification.
That signature was nullified
by the Bush administration in
2002.
Among the many U.S. objections to the court, which is
based in the Hague, are fears
that it could take on politically
motivated cases against U.S.
citizens or soldiers. Bellinger
declined to say what help the
United States had provided the
ICC on Darfur so far but experts say it indicates a softening
of U.S. views toward the court.
“What you have is a policy going one way and practice going
in another,” said John Washburn of the American Nongovernmental Organizations
Coalition for the ICC.
“What this will permit though
is an emerging course of action
which will make it possible for
the incoming administration
to make it the basis of their
policy,” said Washburn, whose
group lobbies support for the
ICC.
Signs that U.S. antagonism
toward the court was waning
emerged in March 2005, when
the United States abstained-rather than veto--in a vote on
a U.N. Security Council resolution to refer Darfur to the
ICC. A key opponent inside
the Bush administration was
the former ambassador to the
United Nations, John Bolton,
who strongly rejects any U.S.
help on any cases, including
Darfur.
“They are absolutely wrong.
That is a weak-kneed position, an unwillingness to defend American interests,” said
Bolton, now with the American
Enterprise Institute think tank.
Bolton said the State Department yearned for acceptance
from European governments,
which was why it was offering
cooperation on Darfur. But
supporters of the court counter
it was the attitude of Bolton
and others that dented America’s legal image and a more
pragmatic approach is needed
now.
“This administration from
2002-2005 was engaged in a
jihad (holy war) against the
court. The leader of that effort
was John Bolton,” said Richard Dicker of Human Rights
Watch.
The administration sought
to punish nations that signed
onto the court, cutting military
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and African countries, some of
whom were helping in the fight
against terrorism. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
admitted in 2006 that the cut in
aid was “shooting ourselves in
the foot” and after complaints
by the Pentagon, President
George W. Bush issued waivers
allowing aid to those countries.
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International
THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
JERUSALEM--Israelis are
celebrating 60 years of statehood in a country of fleeting
joy and looming conflict.
Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Mahler are on offer
among dozens of concerts
and comedy shows during
the week of festivities to
mark the state’s foundation
in 1948. The Israeli Opera,
Kibbutz Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and
Ra’anana Symphonette are in
the listings.
Outside some of the venues, security guards will wave
hand-held metal detectors
and peer into handbags--precautionary measures against
Palestinian suicide bombers.
Although such attacks have
tailed off dramatically in recent years, many Israelis cannot find inner peace.
“You know that everything is
temporary and life can change
in a heartbeat,” said Liat Diamant, 25, a student at Tel Aviv
University.
“If I focused all the time on
the real situation of our country, I probably wouldn’t stay
here. But I love the people
here--my friends, my family,”
she said.
Nowadays cafes and shopping malls--favourite targets
of suicide bombings that
peaked at 59 in 2002, two
years into a Palestinian uprising--are packed. There was
one suicide bombing in Israel
in 2007 and one this year, a
sharp drop which Israel says
results from travel curbs on
Palestinians in the occupied
West Bank.
The walls and fences Israel
has built around the entire
territory have drawn international condemnation. Yet
now for the first time in seven
years, Israel and the Palestinians are talking peace,
spurred by the United States
to reach at least a framework
deal this year on Palestinian
statehood, despite deep public scepticism on both sides.
And even Israelis critical of
government policy--especially
of the treatment of the Palestinians over six decades--see
cause to celebrate. Jessica
Montell, executive director
of B’Tselem, an Israeli rights
group that documents what
she termed “all the abuses of
Israel’s control of the Palestinians” in occupied land, said
“the celebration of Israel at
60 is somewhat bittersweet.
“But when I help my kids
hang up the flags for Independence Day, I focus on
those things I love about Israel: the wealth and diversity
of cultural production--music, literature, performing
arts, cinema,” she said. “And
of course I am proud that in
spite of the difficult security
situation, so many Israelis
are involved in advancing social justice causes, refusing to
Born out of a 2,000 year-old spiritual desire to return to the biblical “Promised Land” – revitalised by
the 19th century Jewish nationalist movement known as Zionism – the origins of the modern state of
Israel are a mire of half-promises made by the Great Powers to enlist support in two World Wars
1915 MCMAHON-HUSEYN PLAN
To win support against Ottoman
Empire – ruler of entire Middle
East – Britain proposes
independent Arab nation –
excluding “western Syria”
1916 SYKES-PICOT
Britain and France plan
future Arab nation – Palestine
to remain under Allied control
1917 BALFOUR DECLARATION
Britain recognises Zionist aspirations
for “establishment in Palestine of a national home for
the Jewish people” – without committing to independence
INDEPENDENCE 1948-49
British withdraw:
Israel declares
independence.
Armies of
Egypt, Jordan,
Syria, Iraq and
Lebanon invade
but are repelled
Haifa
LEBANON
SYRIA
Sea of
Galilee
ISRAEL
Mediterranean
Sea
1922 BRITISH MANDATE
PALESTINE:
FRENCH
MANDATE
AREA
Falls to
British
Army in
1918
JORDAN
West Bank
annexed
by Jordan
in 1949
IRAQ
Tel AvivJaffa
TRANSJORDAN
Britain granted
mandate over
Palestine and
Transjordan by
League of Nations
to prepare for
Jewish homeland
Closed
to Jewish
settlement in
1922
Gaza Strip
held by
Egypt
Dead
Sea
Gaza
City
Beersheva
(later Saudi Arabia)
1937 PEEL
REPORT
First
partition
plan
Area open to
Jewish settlement
1939 WHITE
PAPER
Arab
Revolt
1936-39
River
Jordan
Jerusalem
EGYPT
HEJAZ
Amman
Jews: Long-standing
communities flee
Jerusalem, villages
in West Bank and
Gaza Strip destroyed
1947 UN
PARTITION
PLAN
Zionist
Revolt
1939-48
Britain
proposes
unified
Limits
Arab
imposed
state
on Jewish
immigration
Arab state
amid flood
Jewish state
of refugees
British /
fleeing Nazi
International
tyranny
Palestinian
refugees
700,000 flee
as Arab areas
captured or
destroyed by
Israeli forces
Britain
surrenders
mandate.
UN General
Assembly
votes for
partition.
Civil war
erupts
Eilat
Aqaba
Sources: Origins and Evolution of the Arab-Zionist Conflict, Israel: A History, The Question of Palestine
50km
30 miles
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accept that Israel must be a threatened its existence, the
military fortress where might country is a study in contrasts.
makes right.”
The economy, spurred by
free-market reforms and a reContrasts
surgent high-tech sector, has
Sixty years after an attack by expanded at least 5 percent a
five Arab armies on the newly year since 2003 and at about
proclaimed State of Israel $142 billion in 2006 according
to the IMF, was on a par with
Singapore’s.
Not all have prospered. Official figures show more than
half the children in Jerusalem live below the poverty
line. Unemployment is high
among the city’s many ultra-
Orthodox Jews who favour a
lifetime of religious study.
Holocaust survivors, who
built new lives in Israel after
World War Two, accuse the
government of failing to provide financial support in their
old age. And clouding the an-
secretary of state for the
Western Hemisphere, told
Reuters. Left-wing governments in Venezuela, Cuba,
Nicaragua and Bolivia have
all become allies of Iran
in recent years, and other
countries in Latin America
have diplomatic ties with
the Islamic republic. Shannon said Iran wants to ease
its international isolation
by showing it is able to win
friends in Latin America,
which has been histori-
cally in the United States’
“sphere of influence”.
Washington accuses Iran
of supporting terrorist
groups and secretly trying
to produce nuclear bombs,
and is concerned by its
courting of allies in Latin
America. Shannon urged
the region’s governments
to respect U.N.-backed
sanctions against Iran over
its nuclear program and recalled accusations that Iran
was involved in attacks on
the Israeli embassy and a
Jewish community center
in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires during the 1990s.
“We urge our friends and
partners in the region to
be vigilant,” he said, adding that those attacks show
Iran is able “to conduct terrorist operations within the
Americas.”
Iran has denied any involvement in the Buenos
Aires attacks, which killed
well over 100 people.
WASHINGTON--Iran is
making allies in Latin America to counter Washington’s
traditional influence in the
region and could use them
to threaten U.S. security, a
top U.S. diplomat said on
Wednesday.
“We are worried that in
the event of a conflict with
Iran, that it would attempt
to use its presence in the
region to conduct such activities against us,” Thomas
Shannon, the U.S. assistant
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niversary celebrations, which
will include a visit next week
from chief ally U.S. President
George W. Bush, will be the
latest police investigation into
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Yet even Israelis jaded by
complaints of official corruption view a turbulent political system that has churned
out 31 governments over the
60 years as a source of pride
in a region not known for its
embrace of democracy. “I
appreciate the vitality of the
public debate, the spectrum
of views, the level of public
engagement in Israeli society,” Montell said.
Billionaire Warren Buffett
has made Israel his first nonU.S. investment, paying $4
billion in 2006 for an 80 percent stake in metalworking
company Iscar. Israeli government websites list an array of
local high-tech development
and innovation including
products such as the disk-onkey portable memory storage
device, electronic voicemail
and the instant messaging
program ICQ.
Clouds
But Israel’s future is clouded
by technological advances
elsewhere in the region. Israel
has described Iran’s nuclear
programme as a threat to its
existence. Last September,
Israeli warplanes destroyed
a facility in Syria which the
United States said was a
secret nuclear reactor being built with North Korean
help.
In northern Israel, holidaymakers may be flocking to
spas and guest houses this
week, but two years ago more
than a million residents took
to bomb shelters as Hezbollah guerrillas lobbed in 4,000
rockets from Lebanon in a 34day war. Israeli generals say
Hezbollah, which hit targets
only 50 km (30 miles) north
of Tel Aviv, has rearmed with
longer-range missiles.
Rockets launched from the
Gaza Strip now hit Ashkelon,
a resort city in an area known
as Israel’s Riviera, in a creeping threat to the country’s
densely populated centre.
Many of the young people
sipping espresso in Israeli
cafes on weekends don army
uniforms, shoulder rifles and
trudge to military service-compulsory at the age of
18. Men serve three years,
women two. Some are the
grandchildren of Israelis who
fought in the first Israeli-Arab
war in 1948.
“I’m sure many people in
the world are surprised that
we’ve made it to Israel’s 60th
anniversary,” student Diamant said. “But anyone who
lives here--old or young, man
or woman, left-wing or rightwing--knows we are here to
stay.”
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THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
BRUSSELS--The head of
the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday he
hoped to be able to shed
light in the next few weeks
on whether a Syrian facility
bombed by Israel last year
was an undeclared atomic
reactor.
The United States released
intelligence last month that
it said showed Syria built
a reactor with North Korean help before Israeli
warplanes destroyed it last
September. Damascus has
denied the accusations.
Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the International
Atomic Energy Agency,
said the IAEA was in contact with Syria to verify the
U.S. intelligence and recalled Damascus’s obligation to report any nuclear
activities to the agency. “I
hope that in the next few
weeks we will be able to
shed some light on the nature of the facility that was
destroyed,” he told reporters after talks with EU officials in Brussels.
BRUSSELS--A
Belgian
woman who kept her former boyfriend barricaded
in her home for nearly 5
months was arrested and
charged with false imprisonment, prosecutors said
on Wednesday.
The woman locked the
man in her home in the
town of Lessines, about 50
km (30 miles) west of Brussels, after breaking off their
relationship in December.
Officials said her brother
and new boyfriend, who had
moved into the house, were
also charged. All three face
potential jail terms of one
to five years.
“The former partner was
mistreated and he was not
well fed,” a court official in
the town of Tournai said,
adding he had been allowed
to move around within the
house.
The woman’s father informed police after a family argument. The police
moved in on Monday.
The 29-year-old man was
being sought by police at
the time of his imprisonment as he had been convicted of drug dealing and
appeared to have absconded. He is now in jail.
“Syria has an obligation
to notify the agency if they
are, if they were, building
any nuclear reactors,” he
said.
Damascus has not granted
IAEA inspectors access to
the area despite several requests since the air strike,
diplomats say. But Syria’s
U.N. envoy said two weeks
ago it would cooperate with
the IAEA investigation and
had “nothing to hide”.
The U.S. material included
photos and other information the CIA said showed
the facility’s potential for
yielding plutonium for nuclear weapons. But there
were no indications of any
fuel source or reprocessing
plant crucial to producing
plutonium.
Syria has said the information was forged, comparing it with U.S. reports of
mass destruction weapons
hidden in Iraq which were
never found after U.S.-led
forces toppled Saddam
Hussein. Damascus has instead accused Washington
of involvement in the air
attack by Israel, a staunch
U.S. ally widely believed to
have the Middle East’s only
nuclear arsenal.
Syria has repeatedly
sparred over the reactor reports with Western nations
at a nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review meeting
under way in Geneva, fending off accusations that it
might have violated its NPT
commitments. “We refuse
to be given sermons on international obligations by a
country that has violated all
international standards,”
Syrian NPT envoy Maha
Abdulrahim said, alluding
to the U.S. invasion of Iraq
and support of non-NPT
member Israel.
Syria has one declared
nuclear facility, a research
reactor, subject to regular
U.N. inspections.
Italy’s incoming Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi speaks to reporters after consultations with
Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano at Quirinale palace in Rome on Wednesday.
ROME--Silvio
Berlusconi
unveiled his new conservative government on Wednesday and gave top posts to
close allies in one of Italy’s
most right-wing cabinets
since World War Two.
The 71-year-old media tycoon, whose party did unexpectedly well in last month’s
election, read out his 21member cabinet list to reporters after meeting the
head of state at the presidential palace. Berlusconi, the
only prime minister to have
served a full five year term,
said he and his ministers
would be sworn in at 5 p.m.
on Thursday.
Giulio Tremonti will return
as economy minister and
Franco Frattini will leave
his post as European commissioner to become foreign
minister. Both held the same
jobs in previous Berlusconi
governments.
The government--Italy’s
62nd since 1945--includes
nine ministers without portfolio and four women. Berlusconi held last-minute
negotiations with his main
allies from the National Alliance (AN), a party with fascist roots, and the vehemently anti-immigrant Northern
League to distribute the
cabinet posts.
Berlusconi’s People of
Freedom--his own conservative Forza Italia merged with
the National Alliance--won
a powerful mandate in parliament in last month’s election. Like AN, the Northern
League won four cabinet
posts, including the interior
ministry, while Forza Italia
took 12.
“This government will once
again highlight the overarching power of Mr Berlusconi,”
said Franco Pavoncello, politics professor at Rome’s John
Cabot University.
Absent from the new cabinet
are Berlusconi’s estranged
Christian Democrat allies,
who gave his last government
a centrist counterweight to
the right. Their defection and
the League’s surprise gains,
appeared to have produced
one of the most right-wing
governments since fascist
dictator Benito Mussolini.
Most past governments in
Italy have been made up of
coalitions with a more influential centrist component,
regardless of whether they
were centre right or centre
left.
Berlusconi, assuming the
top job for the third time,
has warned Italy faces tough
years ahead and that he will
have to push through some
unpopular reforms. The
economy is threatened with
recession, workers complain
about rising prices and low
wages, crime and immigration have jumped to the top
of the political agenda and
there is a widespread sense
of malaise.
While Berlusconi should be
able to avoid the degree of
infighting that brought down
Romano Prodi’s centre-left
coalition in January, he could
be vulnerable to sniping from
Northern League leader Umberto Bossi, who felled his
first government after seven
months. But Pavoncello said
Berlusconi still looked set to
stamp his authority on what
would be “a government of
the premiership”.
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VIENNA--Austrian Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter
for 24 years and fathered her
seven children, said he was no
“monster” and he could have
killed her and her children had
he wanted to, according to his
lawyer.
“I am not a monster,” Austrian daily Oesterreich quoted
Fritzl as saying in comments
relayed by his lawyer Rudolf
Mayer. Fritzl also criticised
media coverage of his case as
“totally one-sided”.
In 1984, the now 73-year-old
lured daughter Elisabeth into
a basement in his home in the
eastern Austrian town of Amstetten, drugged her and locked
her up. He claimed she had disappeared to join a sect.
Three of Elisabeth’s children
were raised by Fritzl and his
wife Rosemarie after he pretended his daughter had left
them on his doorstep with a
letter saying she could not care
for them. The other three children remained locked up in
the windowless basement with
their mother. A seventh child
died shortly after birth.
The pretence unravelled when
the eldest child of the incestuous relationship, a 19-year-old
daughter, became seriously ill
and was taken to hospital more
than two weeks ago. The young
woman remains in an artificial
coma and needs artificial respiration, according to her doctor.
“Without me (she) would not
be alive anymore. I was the one
who made sure that she was
taken to a hospital,” said Fritzl,
who also has seven children
with his wife Rosemarie. “I
could have killed all of them-then nothing would have happened. No one would have
ever known about it.”
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TEHRAN--Iranian hardliners have criticised moderate former President
Mohammad Khatami for a
speech they deemed insulting to Iran’s late revolutionary leader, newspapers
reported on Wednesday.
Etemad-e Melli newspaper
said 77 lawmakers would
ask Intelligence Minister
Gholamhossein MohseniEjei “to confront” Khatami
over the remarks they say
insulted the founder of the
Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. A
hardline daily said Khatami
was being unpatriotic.
The row reflects a political divide between those in
Iran, like President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seeking a return to hardline
policies of the early revolutionary days, and pro-reform figures, like Khatami,
who seek political and social change.
In a speech on Friday,
Khatami questioned the
meaning of “exporting
the revolution”, a phrase
coined when Khomeini led
the country as supreme
leader. Khomeini, who died
in 1989, remains a figure
much revered by all political factions. Nearby Arab
states in the Gulf and oth-
ers took fright at the phrase
at the time, seeing it as a bid
by Iran to stir up revolt in
their countries. Khatami’s
presidency was characterised by attempts to improve
Iran’s relations with Arabs
and the West.
“What did Imam Khomeini
mean by exporting the revolution?” Khatami asked
in his speech, newspapers
reported. “Did Imam Khomeini mean that we take
up arms, that we blow up
places in other nations and
we create groups to carry
out sabotage in other countries? He was vehemently
against such measures and
was confronting it.”
Those remarks were taken
by hardliners to suggest
Khatami was giving credence to charges often levelled by the United States
and other Western countries that Iran is fuelling unrest in Iraq and elsewhere.
Tehran denies such accusations.
Khatami denied this in a
statement e-mailed to Reuters, saying: “I believe the
Islamic Republic does not
need physical interference
in other countries’ state
matters and it has never
been part of our policy and
will not be in the future.”
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THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
Dmitry Medvedev enters the hall for the inauguration ceremony in Kremlin throne room in
Moscow on Wednesday.
MOSCOW--Dmitry Medvedev was sworn in as Russian president on Wednesday and nominated his
predecessor Vladimir Putin
as prime minister, ushering
in an unprecedented period
of dual rule.
Medvedev, a 42-year-old
former corporate lawyer
and longtime Putin ally,
stressed freedom and the
rule of law in his first remarks after taking the
oath of office in a solemn,
emotional ceremony in the
Kremlin’s glittering St Andrew’s Hall.
“I believe my most important aims will be to protect
civil and economic freedoms,” he told guests at
the inauguration, broadcast
live on state television. “We
must fight for a true respect
of the law and overcome
legal nihilism, which seriously hampers modern development.”
Shortly afterwards, the
government led by Prime
Minister Viktor Zubkov
followed protocol by resigning. This cleared the way for
Medvedev to nominate Putin as prime minister as the
carefully
choreographed
transition unfolded.
The new leader, who arrived at the Kremlin alone
in an armoured black
stretch Mercedes limousine
flanked by 11 motorcycle
outriders, inherits a booming $1.3 trillion economy
fuelled by high oil prices-and a sobering set of
challenges. They include
rampant corruption, rising
inflation, a falling population, sickly industry and agriculture and increasingly
tense relations with former
Soviet neighbours and the
West.
A White House spokes-
woman said U.S. President
George W. Bush wished
Medvedev well in his new
role and was looking forward to working with him.
The two leaders will probably meet at the Group of
Eight summit in Japan this
summer, she said.
Putin has been accused by
domestic critics and Western governments of trampling on human rights and
reining in freedoms won
after the collapse of Soviet
communism in the 1990s.
He has reasserted the
state’s grip on the Russian
economy and business.
Before Medvedev was
sworn in, a sombre-looking
Putin entered the Kremlin alone, bid farewell to
the presidential guard and
thanked the Russian people for their trust over his
two four-year terms. Putin
encouraged his audience
to support Medvedev, saying his policies had proved
right.
During the inauguration
ceremony in the Grand
Kremlin Palace, stirring
passages from Russian
composers Tchaikovsky and
Glinka were meshed with
pomp and circumstance
for the event, which was
designed in the 1990s to
evoke the imperial power
of Russia’s past and bury
memories of its drab Soviet
period. Patriarch Alexiy II,
head of the Russian Orthodox Church, then led a
service in the Kremlin’s Cathedral of the Annunciation
to bless the new president.
Medvedev was later handed the codes that control
Russia’s nuclear weapons.
YANGON--Myanmar’s military government came under
pressure on Wednesday to
open its borders to more international help after a devastating cyclone that a U.S. diplomat said may have killed more
than 100,000 people.
Washington, a vocal critic of
the junta that has ruled the former Burma for more than four
decades, said humanitarian access should not be a political
matter. “What remains is for
the Burmese government to allow the international community to help its people. It should
be a simple matter. It is not a
matter of politics,” U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
told reporters in Washington.
John Holmes, the top U.N.
humanitarian official, urged
Myanmar to waive visa restric-
tions he said were slowing efforts to bring in relief experts
and supplies to help an estimated one million people affected by Cyclone Nargis.
The cyclone, with 190 kph
(120 mph) winds, slammed
into coastal towns and villages
in the rice-growing Irrawaddy
delta southwest of Yangon on
Saturday. Witnesses reported
villages destroyed and people
fighting for survival by clutching trees.
Limited international aid has
trickled in and the military
junta’s own aid operation has
moved up a gear with some
helicopter drops, but land convoys were nowhere to be seen,
a Reuters witness in the delta
said. State Myanmar radio and
television reported a death toll
of 22,980 with 42,119 missing
BEIRUT--Supporters of Lebanon’s U.S.-backed government fought battles in Beirut
on Wednesday with gunmen
loyal to the Hezbollah-led opposition, escalating the worst
internal crisis since the 1975-90
civil war.
Supporters of Iranian-backed
Hezbollah paralysed the capital and cut routes to its sea and
air ports by blocking roads with
blazing tyres, old cars, heaps of
earth and concrete blocks. An
opposition source said the protest campaign would continue
until the government rescinded
decisions affecting Hezbollah, including a move to take
steps against a telecommunications network operated by the
group.
Hezbollah, which is backed
by Syria and Iran, has led a 17month-long political campaign
against Prime Minister Fouad
Siniora’s anti-Syrian cabinet.
Friction has already led to
bouts of lethal violence.
Security sources said pro-government supporters exchanged
assault rifle and grenade fire
with Hezbollah sympathisers
in the Beirut neighbourhoods
of Noueiri, Ras al Nabae and
Wata al-Musaitbeh. Some 10
people were wounded in the
violence. Opposition gunmen
took over an office of the Future political group led by Saad
al-Hariri, leader of the governing coalition, Lebanon’s most
influential Sunni politician and
a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
The army, mostly regarded
as neutral during the crisis,
deployed in force but did not
attempt to remove the barricades.
and 1,383 injured in the world’s
most devastating cyclone since
1991. Holmes said the death
toll could rise “very significantly.”
Shari Villarosa, charge
d’affaires of the U.S. embassy
in Myanmar, said, “The information that we’re receiving
indicates that there may well
be over 100,000 deaths in the
delta area.”
That figure was not confirmed,
but was based on estimates by
an international non-governmental organization that she
declined to identify, Villarosa
told reporters on a conference
call from Yangon. She said
recent Myanmar government
estimates put the death toll
at 70,000, mainly in the delta
area.
International
THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
BERLIN--The microphone
crackled and squeaked before going dead when Germany’s top spy lay the foundation stone for his agency’s
headquarters in Berlin.
But communication problems, though ironic, were
the least of Ernst Uhrlau’s
problems as he stood next
to a giant sand pile in the
centre of the German
capital on Wednesday. His
Bundesnachrichtendienst
(BND) foreign intelligence
agency has come under fire
in the last few months and
some politicians have called
on Uhrlau to resign.
“I’m saying it clearly: I will
work for the trust that has
been lost in the service-partly on account of me--to
be restored by solid work
and tangible results,” Uhrlau told dignitaries in his
speech. “Mistakes can be
made. But they must not be
repeated.”
A few weeks ago, the BND
stole the headlines for paying
millions of euros to an informant for data on Germans
suspected of evading taxes
using banks in Liechtenstein. Many Germans said
the BND should not have
paid an apparent crook.
Last month, Der Spiegel
weekly said Uhrlau had
apologised to one of its
journalists after the agency
monitored her emails to an
Afghan politician. Chancellor Angela Merkel said that
incident had hurt her confidence in the BND’s leadership, one politician called for
random raids on the BND to
check its work and another
said the service risked becoming a “state within the
state”.
Privacy is a particularly
emotive subject in a country
where memories of the Nazi
Gestapo and East Germany’s Stasi secret police have
made many Germans wary
of any form of surveillance.
DUBLIN--Irish deputies
elected Brian Cowen prime
minister on Wednesday
and allies and opponents
warned the former finance
minister he faced a tough
task steering the country
through a worsening economic slowdown.
Bertie Ahern, who
stepped down on Tuesday
after a corruption investigation began to overshadow his government’s work,
leaves as his legacy one of
Europe’s richest countries
and a peaceful neighbouring Northern Ireland. After
a decade of constructionfuelled expansion, Ireland
now faces much slower
growth or even economic
contraction, but analysts
believe Cowen’s record as
a prudent finance minister
and toughness mean he is
well placed to tackle the
risks ahead.
In his speech nominating
Cowen as his successor,
Ahern recalled Cowen’s
experience in European affairs, which he will need in
the campaign ahead of the
June 12 referendum on the
European Union’s reform
treaty. “His deep involvement with Northern Ireland
and the peace process, his
skilled engagement in Europe on behalf of the European Union during our
presidency all equip him to
undertake the obligation
of the office of Taoiseach
(prime minister) with flair
and capacity,” Ahern told
parliament.
John Gormley, leader of
the Green Party, the junior
partner in the ruling coalition, said Cowen faced an
onerous task in his new
role. Richard Bruton, deputy leader of the main Fine
Gael opposition party, said
he could not blame international circumstances for the
problems facing the Irish
economy.
Ireland’s economic health
remains enviable by most
standards, but falling consumer spending and house
prices are worrying signs for
many in a small, open economy that is more exposed
than many to a global economic slowdown. “We have
made great gains, but we
face great challenges too,”
Cowen told deputies after
his appointment.
Recent data show the
economy has deteriorated
sharply even since early
April when Ahern announced his departure, said
Alan McQuaid, chief economist at Bloxham stockbrokers. “It’s a hard landing
whichever way you look at
it,” McQuaid said.
“The Strife of Brian,” was
how the Irish Examiner
newspaper characterised
what lay ahead in a frontpage headline playing on a
film title, adding that Cowen’s in-tray was “stacked
with problems that would
shorten any honeymoon”.
A model shows the new headquarters of Germany’s intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) in Berlin on Wednesday.
“(The critical attitude) can
be explained by our past,”
said security analyst Berndt
Georg Thamm. “Citizens
and lawmakers are still careful not to let this happen
again and they watch certain
institutions with a very criti-
cal eye.”
The agency was set up under
U.S. supervision in 1946 by
Reinhard Gehlen, a former
Nazi general who recruited
many of his erstwhile colleagues and their agent networks in eastern Europe. It
was renamed BND in 1956.
Its intelligence often ended
up with the Stasi because
many BND spies turned out
to be double agents.
Security experts say Germany must nowadays walk a
fine line between respecting
privacy concerns and ensuring authorities can gather
meaningful data after the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on
the United States. Germany
has not suffered a major domestic attack in recent years
but the government has said
the threat is high.
Government officials say
the BND’s move to Berlin
from behind high walls in
Pullach, a village outside the
Bavarian capital of Munich,
is a symbolic move towards
more transparency. When
completed in about 2012,
the building will be visible
through fences and there
will even be a visitors’ centre.
Officials have also promised
to reform the BND’s internal structures to make them
Ireland’s outgoing Taoiseach Bertie Ahern stands with Tanaiste Brian Cowen (R) after an annual government ceremony commemorating the 1916 uprising in Dublin, Ireland on
Wednesday.
Cowen will need to persuade Irish voters to support the EU’s reform treaty
next month, in the only referendum planned on the
issue among 27 member
states. A recent poll showed
a majority of voters do not
understand the treaty. Opponents fear it will damage
Ireland’s military neutrality
and its power to regulate its
own tax affairs.
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more efficient and less hierarchical.
Interior Minister Wolfgang
Schaeuble told Focus weekly
he wanted the BND to be
able to function efficiently.
“It must not target journalists. But I also say: As interior minister, I cannot
responsibly send police to
Afghanistan if I don’t have
a performing secret service
that gives me information
about the situation on the
ground. I’m warning against
a general suspicion against
the state and its organs. That
would be very dangerous.”
Germany’s independent
privacy commissioner Peter
Schaar, who can conduct
checks on BND activities
on data protection issues,
is seeking stricter controls
on the BND. “We’re calling
for investigation methods to
be handled in a much more
sensitive way than has apparently been the case in
some incidents,” Schaar told
Reuters.
The BND has also been
facing a two-year long parliamentary inquiry into
whether its agents provided
intelligence to help the U.S.
invasion of Iraq--which the
German government strongly opposed--and whether it
had the right to interview
terrorism suspects in Guantanamo Bay and in a Syrian
jail.
“The (BND’s) usefulness
stands in questionable relation to its costs and ongoing scandals,” said Christian Stroebele, a committee
member from the opposition Greens party. “Glass
facades or a public cafe in a
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THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
BOGOTA--Colombia extradited Carlos “Macaco” Jimenez to the United States
on Wednesday, the first time
the government has sent a
former right-wing paramilitary boss to face U.S. justice
for drug trafficking.
The move threatens to increase tension with other
former paramilitary chiefs
who are jailed in Colombia
but are suspected of continuing to command cocaine-
smuggling and extortion
organizations from behind
bars. The militias, formed in
the 1980s to fight left-wing
guerrillas, have demobilized
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HARARE--Zimbabwe’s ruling
party and the main opposition
have challenged half the results
of the March 29 parliamentary
election, state media said on
Wednesday, extending a political stalemate that has triggered
deadly violence.
Official results showed
ZANU-PF lost its parliamentary majority for the first time
since independence in 1980,
while the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and a
breakaway faction together secured enough seats to control
the assembly.
The state-run Herald newspaper said ZANU-PF and the
MDC had lodged 53 and 52
petitions respectively with the
electoral court, citing irregularities they believed affected the
results. The challenges come
after a recount of original results in 23 constituencies confirmed ZANU-PF’s defeat.
The parliamentary vote challenge will have no impact on
a parallel presidential ballot,
in which MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai won 47.9 per-
cent against President Robert
Mugabe’s 43.2 percent, triggering a run-off since neither
candidate won an absolute
majority.
The MDC has not said whether it will participate in the
run-off. It believes Tsvangirai
won the election outright and
has ended Mugabe’s 28-year
rule over the once prosperous
country whose economy is in
ruins. If Tsvangirai does not
contest the run-off, Mugabe
is automatically declared the
winner.
Western countries have called
on African states to do more to
end the turmoil, which has taken its toll on the region. South
Africa’s chamber of commerce
said on Wednesday the crisis
was contributing to a decline in
business confidence.
The African Union and regional grouping SADC sent
teams to Zimbabwe this week
to meet Mugabe and others.
They called on all sides to participate in a free and transparent run-off.
OSLO--Donor nations pledged
a preliminary $4.8 billion in assistance to Sudan on Wednesday to bolster a fragile 2005
north-south peace in Africa’s
biggest country that is still torn
by violence in its western Darfur province.
Sudan had said it needed
$6.1 billion up to 2011, on top
of $2 billion in humanitarian
aid. A deadly aerial bombing
in Darfur three days ago cast a
shadow over the Oslo conference and some delegates said
it made countries reluctant to
pledge openly before a satisfactory explanation.
“This conference is a big success,” Luka Biong Deng, minister for presidential affairs for
semi-autonomous south Sudan
told Reuters. “The international community confirmed
it is firm on bringing peace to
Sudan, sustaining the peace
and giving a peace dividend to
its people.”
The funds will be split between humanitarian efforts
and longer-term development
aid favoured by Sudan as it
seeks to keep its people behind the 2005 comprehensive
peace agreement (CPA), which
ended the longest civil war in
Africa. “The implementation
of the CPA is more critical than
ever. The CPA will benefit not
only the Sudanese, it will have
ripple effects throughout the
region,” said senior World
Bank official Hartwig Schafer
after announcing the pledged
total.
Diplomats at the conference
condemned Sunday’s government bombing attack on
a school and marketplace in
Darfur, which killed 12 including six children. International
experts estimate 200,000 have
peace accord by ordering
crimes from his jail cell. His
extradition came as Democrats in the U.S. Congress
demand that conservative
President Alvaro Uribe do
more to control paramilitary influence over criminal
gangs before the lawmakers
can back a U.S.-Colombia
free trade deal.
“This was a smart move by
Uribe,” Bogota-based security analyst Pablo Casas said
of Jimenez’s extradition. “It
sends a message to emerging
criminal groups, commanded by former paramilitaries,
that the government will be
tough on them. It also shows
U.S. Democrats that Uribe
is serious about confronting
the paramilitaries.”
They were first organized
as private militias by drugsmugglers, cattle ranchers
and other rich Colombians
trying to protect themselves
from land grabs and kidnappings by rebels who are still
fighting the state. Funded
by the country’s multibillion-dollar cocaine trade,
the “paras” soon grew more
powerful than their original
benefactors. They terrorized this Andean country in
the name of fighting Marxist
insurgents, using massacres
and torture to intimidate
rural populations long neglected by the state.
Human rights groups have
criticized the peace deal for
being too lenient with former militia leaders, but not
all rights activists welcomed
Wednesday’s
extradition.
“What are we going to learn
about severe human rights
violations that occurred in
Colombia now that `Ma-
died and 2.5 million have been
driven from their homes in five
years of revolt in Darfur. Sudan puts the death toll at about
10,000.
“The international community
cannot make peace in Sudan,”
said Aid Minister Erik Solheim
of host nation Norway which
pledged $500 million. “Peace
must be home-grown, and then
we can give support in many
ways.”
“The extent to which these
funds can be used for development will depend crucially
on resolution of the Darfur
crisis,” said Dave Fish, head
of the British delegation which
pledged $650 million, second
only to the United States’ $1.6
billion.
Washington also aims to spend
nearly $2 billion on peacekeeping in Sudan this year and next,
a U.S. diplomat said.
35
caco’ has been extradited?”
said Lisa Haugaard, head of
the Latin America Working
Group, a Washington-based
human rights organization.
“Extradition can be a useful tool, but we need to
know about the full scope
of the horror that occurred
in Colombia,” she said. “We
need to know who the `paras’ worked with and where
the bodies are buried.”
Uribe’s international
standing has been hurt by
a scandal in which dozens
of members of his congressional coalition are being
investigated for suspected illegal dealings with paramilitary groups. But he remains
popular at home for cutting
crime and sparking investment with his U.S.-backed
security policies.
Colombian Carlos Mario Jimenez, known as “Macaco”, is escorted by two policemen in Bogota, before being extradited
on Wednesday.
TOKYO--Japan and China
announced progress towards
settling a feud over gas in the
East China Sea in a sign of
warming ties between the big
Asian rivals, and agreed at a
summit on Wednesday that
cooperation was their “only
option”.
Japanese Prime Minister
Yasuo Fukuda also nudged
visiting Chinese President Hu
Jintao to continue talks with
representatives of the Dalai
Lama, Tibet’s exiled Buddhist leader, after unrest in
Tibet stirred protests around
the world.
Hu said China’s recent talks
with the Dalai Lama’s aides
had been serious and were set
to continue. But he also accused the Dalai Lama’s supporters of seeking to wreck
the Beijing Olympics in August. The Dalai Lama has rejected China’s accusations.
Tibet was just one of the
sticky problems aired at the
summit aimed at easing antagonism between the two
Asian powers, whose ties have
long been marred by their bitter wartime past and disputes
over energy, influence and
military ambitions. Standing stiffly beside each other,
the two leaders hailed their
friendship while tip-toing
around contentious topics.
“We both believe relations
between China and Japan are
at a new starting point,” Hu
Jintao told the news conference. A day earlier he had
offered a pair of pandas to Japan as a show of goodwill.
Fukuda said his country was
praying for the success of the
Beijing Olympics but that he
had not decided whether to
attend the opening ceremony. “If the situation permits,
I will consider it positively,”
he said.
Both leaders have their own
reasons for wanting a success
from Hu’s five-day stay, the
first state visit by a top Chinese leader since 1998, when
then-President Jiang Zemin
delivered a series of sharp
rebukes to Japan over its
wartime actions, leaving both
sides bitter. Fukuda faces
lowly public approval ratings
that could force him from
office, while Hu is eager to
show Western critics that his
country does not lack friends,
political analysts have said.
In a meeting dominated by
broad-brush vows to cooperate in diplomacy, economics
and the environment and to
exchange annual high-level
visits, the two leaders said
there was real progress in resolving the dispute over gas
under the East China Sea.
“Prospects for settling the
dispute are already in view
and I’m happy about this,”
Hu said. “We have decided
to continue consultations and
reach an agreement as soon
as possible.”
Fukuda echoed Hu’s upbeat comments, and Jiji news
agency, quoting a senior Japanese official, said an agreement could be announced
before the summer, when Hu
is due to return to Japan for a
G8 meeting.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
Business
THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
WASHINGTON--The U.S.
Securities and Exchange
Commission is scrutinizing
the liquidity of investment
banks it supervises and is
planning to require the top
Wall Street firms to publicly
disclose their current liquidity and capital positions, SEC
officials said on Wednesday.
Attention has been on
funding at the biggest U.S.
investment banks since
March, when Bear Stearns
Cos Inc nearly collapsed
after a sharp decline in its
liquidity.
“We are discussing with
(investment banks’) senior
management their longerterm funding plans, including
plans for raising new capital
by accessing the equity and
long-term debt markets,”
Erik Sirri, the SEC’s director of trading and markets,
said in prepared testimony
to the Senate banking subcommittee on securities and
investment.
The SEC monitors investment banks Morgan Stanley,
Lehman Brothers Holdings
Inc, Merrill Lynch & Co
Inc, Goldman Sachs Group
Inc and Bear Stearns for
liquidity and capital levels
as part of its consolidated
supervised entities (CSE)
program to enable the SEC
to respond quickly to any financial or operational weakness in the companies.
SEC Chairman Christopher Cox said at a securities
conference on Wednesday
that the SEC is not waiting for new internationally accepted standards for
capital and liquidity and has
strengthened the liquidity
requirements for the CSE
firms. There will be “more
disclosure of actual capital
and liquidity positions of the
CSE firms in terms that the
market can readily understand and digest,” Cox said.
Cox told reporters after the
conference he is not sure
how often the CSE firms
would have to publicly report such information.
Senior lawmakers have
called for stricter regulation of investment banks
since they were given emergency access to the Federal
Reserve’s discount borrowing window in March, as
the credit crisis deepened.
The Federal Reserve took
the unprecedented step of
opening its discount borrowing window to investment
banks after the Bear Stearns
crisis. Bear Stearns, once the
fifth-largest U.S. investment
bank, is being acquired by
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Sirri said the SEC was increasing the companies’ liquidity level requirements
and pushing for diversified
funding sources. He also
said the SEC and Federal
Reserve Board were developing a formal memorandum of understanding that
would lay out the scope and
mechanism for information
sharing between those two
agencies.
The SEC has been criticized for failing to prevent
the Bear Stearns crisis.
There has also been suggestions that the Fed should
take over supervising investment banks.
Cox urged Congress to pass
legislation to give the SEC
or “another regulator” the
explicit mandate to supervise investment banks. “The
statutory no-man’s land that
continues should not be tolerated indefinitely,” he said.
When asked if the other
potential regulator for the
investment banks would be
the Fed, Cox said: “I want
to be deferential to the judgment only Congress can
make.”
But he said there is little
doubt the lack of an official
investment bank regulator
has created problems. “It’s
difficult for anyone to say
the system worked or that
the regulatory gap that exists in statute lacks any consequence,” Cox said.
Former SEC Chairman
David Ruder balked at the
idea of the Fed having sole
supervision over investment
37
banks and said Congress
should give the SEC more
authority and resources to
oversee them. “The SEC
has the ability to understand
the risks of the investment
banks. I would be cautious
in letting the Fed have power over the entire securities
and banking system,” Ruder
told the hearing.
38
THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
Nissan Maxima 1998, 2009 inspection, automatic, ice cold airco.
Runs great and looks good. $3,850.
Call:557-5700.
(1) five string bass guitar active
$275. Professional drum set with
cymbals $650. (1) small jack hammer $175. For more information
call:581-6191.
3.5L automatic,
4x4. Great condition. Call
Fadi for more prices at
Super Bikes:544-2704 or
544-2779 and you can
visit
our
website:
www.sxmcar.com.
Antique French Comtoise clock
$600, Antique big chair $200, rowing fitness training machine $70.
Tel:522-9710 or 522-5196.
Big fridge, 2 doors RCA. In good
working condition, $449. Round
dining table Redwood with middle
(1) two door green Suzuki Vitara leg & 4 chairs $480. Tel:522-9710
1997. In working condition. Price or 522-5196.
$1,800. Call:522-7485/520-6091.
Boat trailer” Magictilt” 2003 ,
1997 green GMC Jimmy Jeep. In aluminum double axle, 9000 lbs.
very good condition. Price $3,500 $2,500 or 1600 euros. Tel:553or best offer. Contact:522-6465 or 6350.
581-9585.
Chassis for container for sale.
Big & small. New motor bike 1,500
euro. Tel:555-7914.
-300.
Engine needs to be repairing.
$4,500. Call:523-3393.
2000 Hyundai Accent, silver, automatic & A/C. In good condition. Asking $2,900. Please call:580-3290.
2000 Kia Retona, hard top, green,
cold A/C, new brakes, well maintained. $4,400. Call:581-4826.
2004 Hyundai Sonata American
Spec. $6,000 or 4000 euros. In
good condition. Tel:553-6350.
2004 Jeep Ranger, soft top, 4x4, V6,
automatic, white. Price $11,800. 2004
Ford Explorer XLT, automatic, beige.
Price $11,800. Both in excellence
condition. Call:523-2868/520-5591.
2005 Honda CRV, like new, 19000
miles. Owner leaving the island,
$15,000. Tel:527-1358.
For sale:2005 Nissan Sentra
Special Edition. $8,500 o.b.o. Car
is in perfect condition with black interior and booming sound system.
Call:580-7671.
Pathfinder, year 2004, automatic, V6, 31000 miles only.
Excellent condition, $17,000.
Call:00590-690-32-81-75.
For sale:Quad 2005 Honda TRX
450R. Price $3,999. Call:5220024/554-2878.
Ford Ranger Supercab 2000, 4x2,
black. In good condition. $9,000.
Please call:520-1693/544-4338.
Great Deal! 1998 Toyota Rav 4, 4
door, SUV for sale. Vehicle in good
condition. Asking $4,000. Call:5544801.
., full
scope, maintenance, landscaping and also includes
2000
Toyota
Tacoma,
$11,000. Can be sold separately at good prices.
Tel:526-6992 or email marcusgarvy007@msn.com.
properties for sale Dutch
and French side commercial/residential beach front
properties, houses and
apartment complex for sale
& for rent. For sale in the
Caribbean islands, the
Dominican Republic, the
B.V.I., properties in St.Kitts,
Bonaire and Hotels/resorts
in Aruba and also properties
for sale in Anguilla. Euro
Caribbean Linkup N.V.
Call:599-522-6513/599-5425551/542-5509. Fax:599542-2375.
Email:eclnv@caribserve.net
or our website
www.eclsxm.com.
Apartment building for sale in
Cole Bay Villas (4) 1 bedroom/1
bath apartments, common pool,
private gated community, lagoon
view. $2,200 monthly income. Asking $335,000. Call:554-4801.
located in
Front street. Price $135,000.
Monthly rent $1,600 includes
restaurant N.V. license. For
more information call Euro
Caribbean Linkup N.V.:5425551/542-5509/522-6513
eclnv@car ibser ve.net.
Website:www.eclsxm.com.
Cole Bay Hill:3 bedroom, 2 bathroom villa, lagoon/ocean views,
private pool, carport, garden, office,
air conditioning, hurricane shutters,
furnished, convenient/safe location.
For sale Ariston washing ma- $570,000 o.n.o. Phone:554-7987.
chine, 5 months old. Still under see photos & details:www.sellguarantee, 220V. European model. home411.com ID#2416.
7.5 kilo load. New $1,200, going for
$699. Call:522-2627.
Cupecoy:Cote D’Azur Marina, 2
bedroom lagoon front apartment.
For sale:31ft Stamas Liberty Sport Fully furnished includes single car
Cruiser, 2x250 Mercury EFI, many garage. Great view in a gated comextra’s. Leaving the island. Must munity. $325k. Call:520-6011.
sell, reduced to $40,000. Please
incl. all
call:544-4338 or 520-1693.
licences.
Monthly
rent
For sale:Brand new deep freezer $1,500. Front Street, great
110V, 20 cubic feet still in box $300 location. Price $165,000. For
contact:Euro
and a 2 door glass cooler $700, information
Caribbean Linkup N.V. Office
220V. Call:553-2706.
tel:599-542-5551.Office
fax:599-542-2375
e-mail:eclnv@caribserve.net
website: www.eclsxm.com
Boat, LOA
30.8 feet, 2x200 HP Johnson
2 stroke depthfinder, GPS,
sleeps 4 pax. Great for sportfishing or pleasure. Asking
price
$55,000
o.b.o.
Contact:520-4722.
Gateway Tablet PC Windows
XP, Intel Duo Processor 15’ inch
screen, memory 1GB, hard drive
160MG. Takes notes, draw, paint
in your own handwriting, convert to
text voice recognition. Price $1,400.
Tel:581-9552.
Email:
martinmasters20@yahoo.com.
R1 Yamaha 2006, $7,000 o.b.o.
BMX S 2002, black V6, 30,000km,
12,000 euros o.b.o. 50cc Scooter
2006, $900 per pc o.b.o. Contact:556-2676 or 543-2286.
and
elegant units in Eleganzia,
Pelican Key. Direct access to
beaches, common pool,
assigned parking. Starting
price:1bedroom $345,000 &
2 bedroom at $398,000. Call
for appointment:553-0121 or
email:janine.verhoeven@gm
ail.com.
house
in Belair with view $695,000.
Three bedrooms and three
bathrooms. Downstairs an
one bedroom apartment for
great rental income. Call for
an appointment:553-0121 or
email:janine.verhoeven@gm
ail.com.
Hyundai Sonata V6 1998, stereo
system. $3,200 or reasonable offer. In good condition. Phone:5863741.
Must See! BMW 318i 1993, 4
cylinder, 5 speed, fuel injection, A/
C. Black with leather interior, MP3
CD player. In very good condition.
Asking price $10,000 negotiable.
Please call:559-8891.
Subaru Impreza 1999, automatic,
blue with nice rims. Asking price
$4,300 negotiable. Tel:586-5139.
company including the N.V.
license, employees, new
materials, inventory and
hardware.Turnkey operation!
For more information call
Euro Caribbean Linkup N.V:
542-5551/542-5509/5226513.
eclnv@caribserve.net.
Website:www.eclsxm.com.
Sale.
15-30 feet from the sea.
Beautiful, safe,Coral Shore,
Pelican Key. Two bedrooms/
two baths, living room/
kitchen,private Atrium, & well
furnished. Forty-foot oceanfront
covered
porch.
$899,000. Don:544-2121.
Rainbow Beach Club at Cupecoy,
direct from owner. Great ocean
views, brand new, fully furnished. 2
bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. $475,000.
E-mail:budgetjoseph@yahoo.com.
Call:(599)580-9755. States:001781-715-0162.
Apartments for rent, 1 studio &
1 bedroom. Sea view, pool, private
parking, security guard located in
Maho. $1,500 including all utilities
per apartment. Please call:00590690-40-82-90.
St.John’s Estate for sale 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, large garden quiet
area, nice neighborhood. Possibility
to build a 2nd floor, $495,000. Interested persons only. Tel:554-4977.
Beacon Hill:Beautiful 1 bedroom
apartment, ocean front, fully furnished, washer/dryer, internet, cable, satellite ready. Secure, private,
must see! $1,500/month. Available
June 1st. Call:553-0946 or 5226865.
Luxury studio in Belair (main
road) with Auping bed, bath, dishwasher, satellite TV, DVD etc. $850
excluding Gebe. Tel:522-9710 or
522-5196.
Beacon
Hill:One
bedroom
$1,280, two bedrooms $1,850.
Long term including minimum utilities + weekly maid. No children, no
pets, no smoking. Call:545-4496
appointments.
Maho: Brand new 2 bedroom,
amazing views of the lagoon/sea,
fully furnished & equipped, AC,
satellite, TV, internet, washer/dryer,
private parking, security, $1,600
p/m. 1 bedroom $1,200 p/m. Call:
523-3241.
Beacon Hill:Two bedroom/two
bathroom, furnished, garden, yard,
internet/cable, two terraces, AC,
laundry/store room, 60 meters from
the beach. $1,800. Tel:526-7684.
New building completed with two
large apartments will be available.
One apartment is ready. Payment
of security deposit is your guarantee for occupancy. Please call:5268121.
Billy Folly, large fully furnished 1
bedroom luxury apartment for rent
short/long term. A/C, balconies,
kitchen, living/dining room, laundry, bathroom, wifi, cable, utilities
excluding. $1,700. Only serious inquiries. Tel:557-1844.
Ocean front apartment for rent in
Pointe Blanche, 3 bedroom, 2 bath,
storage room, walk-in closet, private terrace, completely renovated,
AC, semi furnished. $1,500/ month.
Call:520-2244.
Two lots for sale at Great Bay
Terraces. Nice view of Philipsburg, 1118m². 2 houses allowed,
$140,000 and 1379 m² $200,000.
Call:00590-690-61-03-58.
new
apartment, beautiful view,
fully furnished, Cay Hill
$2,500. 5 bedroom/3 bath
large house semi furnished,
2 large porches, Ebenezer
$2,500. For information contact:Euro Caribbean Linkup
N.V. Office tel:599-542-5551
office fax:599-542-2375
website: www.eclsxm.com.
rent in
Cole Bay 100 m² and a
whole floor 400 m² (to be
used for commercial/storage). Commercial land for
lease 5,339 m², Cay Hill/
Belair, $6,500 per month.
Euro Caribbean Linkup N.V
Office
tel:599-542-5551/
fax:599-542-2375
website: www.eclsxm.com.
Brand new one bedroom apartment located in Betty’s Estate.
Alarm system, hot/cold water,
common pool and a beautiful view.
$650 per month, 2 month deposit,
1 month rent required. Call:5548239/520-3724.
Cole Bay, fully furnished 2 bedroom apartment, cable TV, wireless, internet, secure, A/C in the
bedrooms. No children, no pets!
1 bedroom apartment, Koolbaai $950 per month, deposit $950.
villas, Cole Bay, fully furnished, Available May thru October. Concommon pool, gated community. tact:522-9894.
$850 monthly plus utilities. Call:526Cole Bay:2 bedroom/bathroom,
8802.
semi furnished in Diamond Estate.
2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, storage Pet and children friendly. Quiet enroom, & porch. Apricot Road #17A, vironment. Airo’s fans, minutes from
St.Peters. $700 monthly + 1 month the border. $1,600 p/m. Cal:5531404/522-6448.
deposit. Call:586-6008.
2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment, A/C,
hot & cold water, ceiling fans, built in
closets. Rent $625 per month. No
pets, non smoker, available June
1st. Tel:523-9384.
2 bedroom, free standing house,
unfurnished, fully air conditioned,
large yard. One minute from the
beach. $1,600 p/m. Located in
Simpson Bay. Call:553-2706.
down stairs
house, Cay Hill, $1,400 p/m.
5 bedroom/2 bath apartment
unfurnished
with
yard,
Mary’s Fancy, $1,400 p/m
For information contact:Euro
Caribbean Linkup N.V. Office
tel:599-542-5551. Fax:599542-2375.Website:
www.eclsxm.com.
Accommodations in Barbados
& Airport pick up. 5 minutes drive
to U.S. Embassy Reasonable
rates. Call Janice Ward, Rossomar
Guest House for more information:
001-(246) 424-0098 E-mail: rossomarrentals@hotmail.com Website:
http://barbados.org/apt/rossomar.
Cupecoy:Small but attractive
waterfront studio apartment. Furnished and equipped, A/C, own
parking and night security guard.
5 minutes from AUC. Long term
only. Monthly $775. Call:545-2674
or 522-7850.
Dawn Beach Estate:(1) 3 bedrooms/2 bath & (1) 2 bedroom/2
bath apartments in secured neighborhood. Upstairs unfurnished with
ac, $1,600. Downstairs apartment,
unfurnished, ac, laundry room, own
parking, $1,500. Call:581-5344.
Available now.
Fisherman’s Wharf, 1 bedroom
condo completely renovated, marble counter tops, 3rd floor, deck
overlooking the lagoon. No pets!
$895/monthly + utilities. Gated security. Available June 1st. Call:599524-4173 or email:canammoses1@
gmail.com.
Large two story house, South
Reward Hillside 5 bedroom/3
bathroom. All rooms single air
conditioned, large living room,
large kitchen. $2,300 monthly. Serious callers only. Available June
1st,2008. Call:526-4433/522-4545.
Pelican Key for rent, very nice
house, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms,
loft for office, large covered terrace
overlooking the ocean. $1,950.
Available June 1st. Call:544-2251.
Pelican Key:1 bedroom, furnished, A/C, phone, cable TV
washer, balcony. Suitable for one
person only, non-smoker, no pets.
$975/month plus electricity & internet. Now available. What a view!
Tel:544-2570.
Pelican villa:3 bedroom, 3 bath,
airco, fully furnished Mexican decor. Spectacular ocean & lagoon
views, walled garden, secluded
Cul De Sac, 2 cars parking, $2,200.
Call:(00590-590)87-77-69. Leave
name and number.
Pointe Blanche: One bedroom,
furnished apartment. Great views,
satellite dish, laundry, internet,
swimming pool, $1,200 p/m. Tel:
526-0159.
jane.c.richardson@
gmail.com. Pictures available online.
Short term fully furnished beautiful home, 3 bedroom/2 bathroom,
large fully equipped kitchen, Wifi,
large balcony with breathtaking
view, spacious dining room, large
living/family room, utilities excluding. $3,800 p/m, security deposit.
Tel:557-1844.
2
bedroom apartment/1 bathroom, equipped kitchen,dining room, living room, patio
on the lagoon waterfront.
Cable TV, wireless internet.
Tie up your vessel at your
backdoor. $2,500. Tel:5264662.
Spacious studio apartment,
Tamarind Hill (Dawn Beach) nice
terrace, nice view, fully furnished
including washer/dryer, airco, 24
hrs security, own parking. Available
immediately. $825 including utilities.
For rent:4 bedroom, 2 bathroom Call:580-6653 or 554-0709.
house, furnished, private parking
in Cole Bay. $1,600 per month. Spacious studios, fully furnished,
A/C, cable TV, shutters. Daily and
Tel:554-2984.
weekly rental. 5 min. from town.
For rent:Beautiful one bedroom Longer stays upon request. Very
apartment in Pelican. Furnished attractive rates. Also 2 bedroom/1
$1,100 plus utilities and private bath apartment, semi furnished.
Tel:581-8148/557-7263.
parking. Please call:527-2120.
For rent, weekly, Oyster Pond,
sea side studios, fully equipped.
Tel:00590-590-87-36-61 or 00590690-50-01-23.
Airport Road.-one bedroom
apartment, elegantly furnished,
2 min from Juliana, cable ready,
air condition, large porch overlooking lagoon, all utensils, appliances, linens, $1,000 per month.
Tel:(599)548-4050/557-1778/586Simpson Bay Hill. 2 bedroom, 1
8575. sxmapt@yahoo.com.
bath apartment. Big terrace, magCupecoy:1 bedroom, fully fur- nificent view. Very private $2,000
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LONDON--Standard Chartered said it has made a
strong start to 2008 as Asian
markets held up well and expects to add at least 10,000
staff this year, in contrast
to contraction among rivals
caused by the credit crunch.
The bank said on Wednesday it took a $97 million profit hit in the first quarter from
assets tarnished by the credit
crunch, but said in an upbeat
trading update it “has had a
very good start to the year”
despite turmoil in financial
markets.
Finance Director Richard
Meddings told Reuters in
an interview the bank will
continue investing in China,
India and other fast growing
markets and is likely to add
10,000 to 12,000 more staff
this year to drive its growth.
It had 70,000 staff at the end
of 2007 after adding 26,000
people in the last two years,
and its plans are in stark contrast to the thousands of job
cuts expected at UBS, Citigroup and other banks.
Standard Chartered said
at its annual shareholder
meeting that its key wholesale banking arm had seen a
“particularly strong” start to
2008, with no material deterioration in the quality of its
loan book.
The bank, which has benefited from its relatively light
exposure to slowing U.S. and
European economies, took
$253 million in writedowns
to account for the impact
of impairment and widening credit spreads, lower
than most of its rivals but in
line with analysts’ forecasts.
Some $156 million of that
was due to a drop in the fair
value of available-for-sale
reserves and does not hit
profits. The bank took a $300
million writedown on its assets in 2007.
By 1430 GMT Standard
Chartered shares were down
0.9 percent at 18.68 pounds,
underperforming the bank
Dr Pepper bottles are seen inside a store in Port Washington,
New York on Wednesday. U.S. soft drink maker Dr Pepper
Snapple Group Inc, which just separated from Cadbury Plc,
will focus for now on growing U.S. sales of its new and existing brands, its chief executive officer said on Wednesday.
C A RAC AS - -Ve n e z u e l a n
workers have halted operations at the Isidora gold
mine, run by a subsidiary of
U.S. miner Hecla Mining Co,
to demand President Hugo
Chavez take over the unit,
company officials said on
Wednesday.
The stoppage follows a renewed wave of nationalizations this year affecting the
cement and steel sectors, and
comes just days after other
Stock Market Report
Key Stock Movements May 7 2008
NEW YORK
DAY’S
CLOSE
12,814.35
LONDON
6,261.0
TOKYO
14,102.48
FRANKFURT 7,076.25
CHANGE
HIGH
LOW
IN POINTS
-206.48
13,058.20 11,740.15
(May 02) (Mar 10)
+45.8
6,479.4
5,414.4
(Jan 03)
(Mar 17)
+53.22
14,691.41 11,787.51
(Jan 04)
(Mar 17)
+59.15
7,949.11
6,182.30
(Jan 02)
(Mar 17)
London Currency Fixing Rates May 7 2008
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Following are the middle exchange rates
for leading currencies against the dollar:
Euro
Japanese Yen
British Pound
Swiss Franc
Australian Dollar
Brazilian Real
Canadian Dollar
Hong Kong Dollar
Mexican Peso
South African Rand
CURRENT
1.5392
104.73
1.9535
1.0548
0.9417
1.6837
1.0092
7.7935
10.556
7.55
Gold (ounce) $866.40 (877.65)
sector and broader market.
The stock trades at a big
premium to UK rivals and
is up 1 percent this year,
compared with a 12 percent
drop in the DJ Stoxx Europe
banks index, after being less
effected by writedowns and
HIGH
1.5538
105.58
1.9735
1.0592
0.9505
1.6923
1.0097
7.7954
10.563
7.59
LOW
1.5367
104.61
1.9504
1.0513
0.9409
1.657
1.0008
7.7929
10.4995
7.4924
companies said Venezuela
denied exploration permits to
two gold miners operating in
the same region. Hecla, Venezuela’s largest gold miner,
said such incidents are common in the South American
nation and that the mine represents a small portion of the
company’s portfolio.
“In Venezuela, (work stoppages) are not unusual, in
fact it is probably the normal course of business,” said
Vicki Veltkamp, Hecla vice
president for investor and
public relations. “We don’t
see it materially affecting operations.”
Hecla’s La Camorra mill,
which processes the raw
material from its Venezuela mines, contributed 3 percent to the company’s 2007
sales, she said, adding that
the company factors in work
stoppages when estimating
future production.
The company has received
no official communication
39
slowing profit growth and
maintaining strong capital
and liquidity.
Standard Chartered said
its consumer banking arm’s
income had risen by over 10
percent and asset quality had
been strong despite “continued challenges” in Pakistan
and Thailand. “The economies of Asia, Africa and the
Middle East are in pretty
good shape. They are not unscathed by what is happening
in western financial markets,
but the forecasts for economic growth in these countries
is still pretty robust,” Peter
Sands, chief executive, told
reporters after the AGM.
He said the bank, which has
made a string of acquisitions
in recent years, would continue to look at opportunities for deals and more assets
could become available due
to the industry turmoil. But
the bank would stay disciplined and organic growth
would lead strategy, he said.
from the government about
nationalization,
Veltkamp
said.
Hecla shares were down 11
cents at $10.37 in afternoon
trading on the New York
Stock Exchange.
Isidora has been halted
for eight working days by a
group of workers blocking
the mine’s entrance. Reuters
was not immediately able to
contact striking workers. A
representative of the mining
ministry had no immediate
comment on the stoppage.
Last month, Chavez ordered
the nationalization of steelmaker Ternium Sidor, controlled by Argentina’s Ternium, following a protracted
collective bargaining dispute
that led to repeated strikes.
Last week, miners Crystallex and Gold Reserve said
Venezuela plans to halt work
on at least two gold projects.
Both companies’ stock value
dropped.
Opinion
40
More and more through
science people are becoming more aware of the
Universe and its surroundings. As the saying goes:
“What goes around comes
around.” Another example
of this is “Karma’s Law.”
Quantum physics now
clearly teaches us that these
beliefs are true and that we
are the creators and only
we decide the fate of our
future. Through the simple
action of thought we can
make or break our destiny.
You do not even have to do
something physically; you
IT IS WITH DEEP REGRET
THAT WE ANNOUNCE THE
PASSING OF OUR
BELOVED MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER, SISTER, AUNT,
COUSIN AND
FRIEND:
Mrs. Jeanne
Elfrida BrillLaurence
THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
need to only think it and it
will come back to you.
This theory applies to both
bad and good thoughts.
Example: Anyone who is
always thinking about bad
things, bad things will happen to them. Anyone who
is always thinking about
good things, good things
will happen to them. These
thoughts will come back to
you and you alone, closely
matching a boomerang ef-
We hereby acknowledge the homegoing of
our dearly beloved mother, grandmother, great
grandmother, sister, aunt, cousin
and friend
ALSO LEFT TO MOURN: THE LOCAL CONGREGATION
OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES AND MANY NIECES AND
NEPHEWS TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION.
SHE WAS RELATED TO THE: BRILL, SMITH, ARNELL,
WEBSTER, BRYANT, CHRISTIAN, LAURENCE, VLAUN,
RICHARDSON, BALY, DURUO, NISBETH, HUNT
BEAUPERTHUY, GUMBS, NICHOLSON, CARTY, WESCOT,
GRANGER, HYMAN & CANNEGIETER FAMILIES.
TIME AND DATE OF BURIAL WILL BE
ANNOUNCED AT A LATER DATE.
more newspapers when a
huge drama is the headline.
The news ratings skyrocket
when there is a national
or international disaster.
So the newspapers give us
more bad news because, as
a society, that is what we
are saying we want. The
newspapers are in no way
to blame for this phenomenon. As a society we are
responsible for it. It’s just
the law of attraction in action.
Praising and blessing dissolves all negativity, so
instead of cursing your
enemies, praise and bless
them. By doing this you
will dissolve all negativity
and the love of praising and
blessing will return to you.
The Universe emerges
from thought. We are the
creators not only of our
own destiny but also of the
Universe. Let go of all difficulties from your past,
cultural codes, and social
beliefs. Be good, do well,
and think well. Only then
can you create the life that
you deserve.
Roli Perret Gentil
Curaçao
Mrs. Dorothy Ophelia
Iles w/v Richardson
AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN
ALSO AS GRANNY OR MISS
JEANNE, WHO PASSED AWAY
ON APRIL 30TH, 2008 AT THE
AGE OF 77 IN CARACAS
VENEZUELA.
She leaves to mourn her:
DAUGHTERS:
GLENDA BRILL IN NEW YORK,
LEANA HOOD-BRILL IN ATLANTA
GEORGIA
NORMA BRILL
LOUISE BRILL
AND SWEENDA SPENCE-BRILL
HER SON:
CHARLES (CHARLIE) BRILL
STEPDAUGHTERS: MRS. NORMA TEEUWEN-HASSELL (CURAÇAO); MRS ULA MOLINA-HASSELL (CURAÇAO) AND
MRS. PATRICIA VLAUN-WILSON
SONS IN LAW:
MR. GREGORY HOOD (ATLANTA)
MR. FABIAN SPENCE
HER GRANDCHILDREN: ANGELIQUE BRILL, JAMAL
BRILL, ANGELO BRILL, ELIJAH
AND AMY BRILL (IN HOLLAND),
CHARLISCA BRILL, JOMARLY
BRILL, ANNEKE HOOD & AMIER
HOOD (IN ATLANTA), LOUDAHLIA BRILL, SHADIRA SMITH,
ERICA CANNEGIETER, KRIZIA
CANNEGIETER, IYANA SPENCE &
XIOMARA RICHARDSON.
SISTERS:
IRENE GRANGER-HYMAN AND
FAMILY
ARMANTINE(MONTY) LAURENCE
AND FAMILY
GLADYS GERMAIN-HYMAN AND
FAMILY
LUCIA HYMAN AND FAMILY
MARJORIE LISIER-WESCOT AND
FAMILY (SAN JUAN)
MELANIE WESCOT AND FAMILY
ARMELLE LAO-ARNELL AND
FAMILY (USA)
CASSIE ARNELL AND FAMILY
(USA)
BROTHERS:
FABIEN ARNELL AND FAMILY
(USA)
NICHOLAS ARNELL AND FAMILY
(USA)
GRATIEN (RICO) ARNELL AND
FAMILY (USA)
SISTER IN LAW:
MRS. SARAH WESCOTWILLIAMS AND FAMILY
AUNT:
MRS. CARMEN CARRINGTON
UNCLE:
NEIL KRUYTHOFF (PHILADELPHIA)
CLOSE COUSINS: MS. GERMAIN NICHOLSON (IN
SABA) & JOHN NISBETH (IN
ARUBA)
CLOSE FRIENDS:
MARJORIE TJIN-A-KWOEI,THE
VLAUN AND DE WEEVER FAMILIES ON FRONT STREET, JOE
GUMBS, CLARENCE CONNOR,
DINZEY BRUNEY & SWINDA
FLEMING IN CURAÇAO
CARE TAKERS:
BARBRA, SONIA AND SHAREEN
fect.
A person who sets his mind
on the dark side of life, who
lives over and over the misfortunes and disappointments of the past, prays for
similar misfortunes and disappointments in the future.
If you will see nothing but
bad luck in the future, you
are praying for such bad
luck and will surely get it.
A classic example is people
have the tendency to buy
Affectionately known as “Dotdots”
Sunrise: July 29, 1924
Sunset : May 5, 2008
Mr. James William
Fleming
Leaves to mourn:
Daughter:
Son in-law:
Grandchildren:
Rose Jones-Delaney
Alan Jones
Abena Duncan
Chananda Rombley – Delaney
& Family
Crystial Jones
Vincent Jones & Family
Great grandchildren:
Nichele, Sabine, Jason, Collin,
Rashad
Susan Gumbs – Iles
(a.k.a. Ms.Teetee)
Yvonne Iles
Sisters:
Special nephew
Nieces & nephews:
Special Cousin:
Charles Delaney & Family
Barbara Charville & Family (USA)
Edouard Arrindell & Family (USA)
Sophie Iles & Family
Ghyslaine Iles & Family
Elderine Iles & Family
Moyenva Bromet-Iles & family
Vionnie Rey & Family
(St. Thomas, USVI)
Lizelle Artsen & Family
Felix Artsen & Family
Angeline Van Heyningen-Artsen &
Family
Annie Hunt-Artsen & Family
Emile Artsen & Family
Albert Artsen
Gabriel Artsen
Claudie Artsen & Family
I have fought a good fight I have finished my course, I have kept the
faith. (1 Tim 4:7) Home going celebration of the life of Mr. James William
Fleming a.k.a Jimbo or Jibber, who passed away peacefully on May 6th,
2008 at the age of 94.
He left to mourn his:
Wife:
Sons:
Mrs. Elfrida Fleming a.k.a. Ello or Mama
Felix Fleming (AXA)
Douglas Fleming, driver of Taxi 29
Edmond Cocks a.k.a. Brother Cocks
Louis Cocks a.k.a. Ballaguel, driver of Taxi 447
William Fleming of Fleming’s Carpet
Adopted Sons:
Percy Duggins
Angel Rey
Jimmy Gumbs
Colebra of Tanny and the Boys
Daughters:
Diana Fleming (USA)
Joycelyn Fleming a.k.a The Big J, driver of Taxi 665
Mercedes Lloyd Fleming
Ginette Fleming
Adopted Daughter:
Brothers:
Sister:
Son-in-law:
Daughtersin-law:
Dolores Gumbs
George Fleming, Lemuel Rey, Wilmouth Rey (USA)
Naomi Rogers (AXA)
Kenneth Lloyd
Mona Fleming
Alma Rogers Fleming
Wendy Bradshaw Fleming (B’DOS)
Aglita Cocks
Glancy Webster Fleming
Mc Clean Webster (Anguilla)
Many great nieces, nephews, cousins and friends too numerous to
mention
Special friends:
Hilda Brooks, Sister Browne,
Pat Davis, Casilda Lake,
Ms. Adelia Brazao, David Brazao,
Sister Joe & Family, Pastor Bell &
Famiy
Care takers:
Ms. Alice Richardson,
Ms. Althea Philips
She was related to the:
Iles, Richardson, Jones, Rombley,
Delaney, Artsen, Smith, Arrindell, Charville, Bromet, Rey, Van
Heyningen, Hunt, Hodge, Webster,
Harrigan, Boirard, Kalla, Blijden,
Brown,Coffie, Violenus, Gumbs,
Sorton, Maccow and Rogers family
Special thanks to Dr. Arrindell, Dr. Perez and the staff of the
SMMC / BZV / S.V.B. & the nurses of The White & Yellow
Cross.
Funeral service will be held on Friday May 9, 2008 at the New
Testament Baptist Church in Philipsburg. Viewing will be from
9:30am to 10:30am followed by the service and interment will be
at the Cul -de -Sac cemetery.
May her soul rest in peace.
The family requests no visitors at home after the interment.
Former daughterin-law:
God Children:
Kathleen Rogers (AXA)
Alvin Roper, Vitalien Glascow, Margaret Cocks, Marcus
Cocks, Octave Simmons, Rose Fleming, Suzette Jermin,
and many more too numerous to mention
Too many nieces and nephews too numerous to mention
34 Grandchildren
41 Great-grandchildren
He was related to the: Fleming, Rey, Hodge, Hughes, Gumbs, Bell,
Vanterpool, Rogers, Richardson, Flanders, Paines,
Vlaun, Webster, Sassos, Duzong, Brooks, Cocks,
Hyman and Lloyd families.
In lieu of flowers the family requests a donation to the building fund for the
Tabernacle Church Hall.
Please note that the wake will take place on the night before the funeral. The
family kindly asks to honor their request to grieve in private after the funeral.
Funeral service will be held on Tuesday May 13th, 2008 at the Praise
Tabernacle Church in French Quarter.
Viewing: 1:00 pm - 2:45 pm
Service: 3:00 pm
Followed by Interment at the Methodist Cemetery.
Opinion
THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
Dear Editor,
I was thrilled after receiving an email from the Head
Coach of the Bahamian water polo team. He invited
me to play for the Caribbean All Star Water Polo
Team, which is put together
from players of about seven
different nationalities. All
players know each other
because of playing water
polo in the Caribbean and
South America. The Caribbean All Stars will compete
at the Dutch Caribbean
Open water polo tournament, which will be held in
Curaçao from May 8 to 11.
I wasn’t sure about which
airline to choose for my
flight to Curaçao. Soon
enough I realized I should
choose between either Insel
Air or DAE. Fares weren’t
different that much so I decided to choose DAE, be-
cause the timetable suited
me slightly better.
On arrival at the Princess Juliana International
Airport the large number
of people queuing for the
check-in for the 11:15am
flight to Curaçao, reminded me of the cynical and
critical comments on DAE
made by friends, colleagues
and others. For instance
I remembered Fernando
Clark joking about DAE
and saying that its delays
and cancellations were just
a measure taken by that airline to misguide terrorists.
But when inquiring why so
many people where waiting to check-in, I found out
these were not just passengers of the May 7 flight, but
from the flight of the day
before as well. That flight
was cancelled presumably
due to technical problems.
After having waited for
more than three hours
and being moved from one
counter to another and
back, we eventually heard
that today’s (Wednesday’s)
flight was cancelled as well
- yet another cancellation.
When I asked the DAE
staff what I was supposed
to do with my hotel reservation on Curaçao (which I
have to pay), the two ladies
behind the counter snapped
at me: “We are not responsible for any reservations
other than (those) made
with DAE.”
I kindly answered them
saying that I understand
that they were not personally responsible for those
matters. I am just saddled
with extra expenses I can’t
take advantage of. Then
both of the ladies turned
their backs to me and I felt
Dear Editor,
On the occasion of the
Queen’s Birthday 2008, I
had the honour to receive
from the hands of his Excellency the Governor of
the Netherlands Antil-
les Mr. F. Goedgedrag,
the membership of the
order of Oranje Nassau.
I wish to thank all those
persons in St. Maarten
who have been instrumental in having this
honour bestowed on my
person.
Hein A.M. van
Maarschalkerwaart
Willemstad, Curacao
like I had asked the wrong
question or had insulted
them.
I left the counter, disappointed and with an uncomfortable feeling and headed
to the ticket sale counter
to apply for a refund. After several phone calls with
four DAE employees working on this simple action
and after waiting for over
an hour, I was asked to sign
a receipt for receiving the
money. Because I didn’t
see any money I asked the
lady behind the counter if
the money had finally arrived. She answered me in
an irritated manner saying:
“Of course. Otherwise I
wouldn’t ask you to sign the
receipt!”
I had to wait another 15
minutes because the lady
couldn’t refund me with exact money. What I am just
wondering is this: Shouldn’t
DAE feel a bit more responsible for the product
they have sold their passengers who are their clients?
ACROSS
1 Summoned,
old-style
5 Rough
10 Sleeve cards
14 WWII powers
15 Recipient
16 "Jaws" co-star
17 Lean to one
side
18 Moonshine
maker
19 Singer Amos
20 Grinding tooth
22 NL Braves
23 Works hard
24 Suffocates
26 Trudeau and
Shandling
27 Godhood
28 Ride to the
runway
29 Diplomat
Hammarskjold
31 Flower drink
33 Cobra's kin
37 Mined mineral
38 Magic home?
40 Battleship
letters
41 Sailboat's need
43 Denver pro
44 Mom-and-pop
grp.
45 Part of U.A.E.
47 Input, as data
49 Pound a beat
52 Impertinent
55 Die down
56 Blaster's letters
57 Apia's country
58 "Mona Lisa"
singer
59 Theme
61 Dawber and
Tillis
62 12/24 & 12/31
63 Actor Ryan
64 Jazz singing
65 Remainder
66 Word with club
or goat
67 Australian lake
DOWN
1 Ointments
2 Self-evident
truth
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
21
23
25
26
28
29
30
32
34
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Don’t get me wrong, I am
conscious of the importance of flight safety. If a
plane isn’t safe enough to
fly, then simply don’t. But
a bit more consciousness
of the passengers’ situation
would be the least DAE
could offer. Wouldn’t that
make it more pleasant not
only for the passengers (cli-
Unseats
What we will?
LPs, updated
Community
service group
Military groups
Computer giant
Moray
Waldorf-__
Church singers
"__ to bed,..."
Holiest of
cheeses?
Tanklike animal
IRS concern
Going on and
on
Vegetable plots
Divergent
DiMaggio
brother
Coach
Parseghian
Car license
plate
Quality of kings
Hrs. in Seattle
987-65-4321
grp.
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ents), but for the DAE staff
as well?
Any way, I decided to try
my luck at Insel Air where,
by the way, a nice lady
helped me. She was friendly and fast and she wore a
smile. What a difference
that makes.
39 Preminger and
Kruger
42 Most tangy
46 "Sheila" singer
Tommy
48 Pass, as time
49 Mechanical
rabbit, e.g.
50 Over
Water Polo player
51 Fireside yarns
52 Chip makers
53 Baseball's
Garciaparra
54 One sense
56 Nobel-winner
Morrison
59 Rabble
60 Wing it?
42
THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
Opinion
THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
By Charles Krauthammer
“I can no more disown him
(Jeremiah Wright) than I
can disown my white grandmother.” – Barack Obama,
What were Obama’s three
Philadelphia, March 18
citations? Wright’s claim that
AIDS was invented by the
WAS H I N GT O N - - G u e s s U.S. government to commit
it’s time to disown Granny, genocide. His praise of Louis
if Obama’s famous Phila- Farrakhan as a great man.
delphia “race” speech is to And his blaming 9/11 on
be believed. Of course, the American “terrorism.”
speech was not just believed. But these comments are not
It was hailed, celebrated, new. These were precisely
canonized as the greatest the outrages that prompted
pronouncement on race the initial furor when the
in America since Lincoln Wright tapes emerged seven
at Cooper Union. A New weeks ago. Obama decided
York Times columnist said to cut off Wright not because
it “should be required read- Wright’s words or characing in classrooms across the ter or views had suddenly
country.” College seniors and changed. The only thing that
first-graders, suggested the changed was the venue in
excitable Chris Matthews.
which Wright chose to display
Apparently there’s been a them – live on national TV
curriculum change. On Tues- at the National Press Club.
day, the good senator begged That unfortunate choice deto extend and revise his pre- stroyed Obama’s Philadelvious remarks on race. Moral phia pretense that this “endequivalence between Grand- less loop” of sermon excerpts
ma and Wright is now, as the being shown on “television
Nixon administration used to sets and YouTube” had been
say, inoperative. Poor Geral- taken out of context.
dine Ferraro, thrice lashed by
Obama’s Philadelphia
Obama in Philadelphia as the oration was an exercise in
white equivalent of Wright’s contextualization. In one
raving racism, is now off the particularly egregious play
hook.
on white guilt, Obama had
These equivalences having the audacity to suggest that
been revealed as the cheap whites should be ashamed
rhetorical tricks they always they were ever surprised by
were, Obama has now de- Wright’s remarks: “The fact
cided that the man he simply that so many people are surcould not banish because he prised to hear that anger in
had become part of Obama some of Reverend Wright’s
himself is, mirabile dictu, sur- sermons simply reminds us of
gically excised.
the old truism that the most
At a news conference in segregated hour of American
North Carolina, Obama ex- life occurs on Sunday mornplained why he finally decid- ing.”
ed to do the deed. Apparent- That was then. On Tuesday,
ly, Wright’s latest comments Obama declared that he him– Obama cited three in par- self was surprised at Wright’s
ticular – were so shockingly outrages. But hadn’t Obama
“divisive and destructive” told us that surprise about
that he had to renounce the Wright is a result of white
man, not just the words.
ignorance of black churches
brought on by America’s
history of segregated services? How then to explain
Obama’s own presumed
ignorance? Surely he too
was not sitting in those segregated white churches on
those fateful Sundays when
he conveniently missed all of
Wright’s racist rants.
Obama’s turning surprise
about Wright into something
to be counted against whites
– one of the more clever devices in that shameful, brilliantly executed, 5,000-word
intellectual fraud in Philadelphia – now stands discredited
by Obama’s own admission
of surprise. But Obama’s liberal acolytes are not daunt-
ed. They were taken in by the
first great statement on race:
the Annunciation, the Chosen One comes to heal us in
Philly. They now are taken in
by the second: the Renunciation.
Obama’s newest attempt to
save himself after Wright’s
latest poisonous performance
is now declared the new final
word on the subject. Therefore, any future ads linking
Obama and Wright are preemptively declared out of
bounds, illegitimate, indeed
“race-baiting” (New York
Times editorial, April 30).
On what grounds? This 20year association with Wright
calls into question everything
about Obama: his truthfulness in his serially adjusted
stories of what he knew and
when he knew it; his judgment in choosing as his mentor, pastor and great friend
a man he just now realizes is
a purveyor of racial hatred;
and the central premise of
his campaign, that he is the
bringer of a “new politics,”
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rising above the old Washington ways of expediency. It’s
hard to think of an act more
blatantly expedient than renouncing Wright when his
show, once done from the
press club instead of the pulpit, could no longer be “contextualized” as something
whites could not understand
and only Obama could explain in all its complexity.
Turns out it was not that
complex after all. Everyone
understands it now. Even
Obama.
He who dwells in the secret place
of the Most High shall abide under
the Shadow of the Almighty
With sadness we regret to announce the
peaceful passing of father, grandfather, brother,
uncle, cousin,
Hugo Nathaniel Davis
better known as Tanny, founder of Tanny and the
Boys String Band
Left to mourn are his:
Daughters:
Cynthia Gibbes & family
Joycelyn Fleming & family
Ardeth Davis & family
Carmen Lloyd(of taxi 151) &
family
Sons:
Louis Richardson better known
as pork chop & family
George Davis & family
Dennis Davis better known as
sate & family
Franklin Davis & family
Sisters:
Lou Richardson & family in
England and Ena Brown &
family in Anguilla
Brother:
Amos Davis & family in
St.Kitts
Sisters-in-law:
Elaine Thomas (SXM)
Euphemia Nichols (USA)
Ruth Fleming (Anguilla)
Mabel Richardson (St.Croix
Brothers-in-law:
Calvin Millard (St.Croix)
Will Brown (England)
Daughter-in-law:
Joycelyn Davis
Son-in-law:
Edward Lloyd
28 grandchildren
34 great grandchildren
4 great, great grandchildren
Nieces and nephews too numerous to mention.
Close friends: Frederico Flanders better known as Colebra, Sylvain Gumbs, Eunice Mathew, Carlson Velasquez, Everton Seabrooks, Ruby Bute, Gloria Brooks,
Mary Brison, Serie Gumbs, Lucardia Lake, Joel Santiago, Eulalie Meyers, Band members of Tanny and the
boys. Members of the Home Away From Home Senior
Citizen Foundation. The Philipsburg Methodist Men
Fellowship and senior choir, the Philipsburg Methodist
church congregation and many more too numerous to
mention.
Close cousins:
Muriel Lake
Miss Eddy Holman
Miss Edith Cannegieter
Josianne Bell
His many godchildren in St.Maarten and abroad, including Jacqueline Brooks.
He was related to the Davis, Connor, Rombley, Gumbs,
Romney, Richardson, David, Carty, Fleming, Lloyd,
Brooks, Verwoord, Parrot, Ruan, Sannders families.
Thanksgiving service on:
Friday, May 9th, 2008
Philipsburg Methodist Church
Viewing of the Body: 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Service at 3:00 p.m.
Interment
Mount Pleasant Methodist Cemetery
Philipsburg
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Comics
THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
By Linda C. Black
Today’s Birthday (May 8). You’ll have the finances
this year to further your education. You’ll also have
resources and aptitude for household renovations.
Don’t worry if you don’t know how to do whatever
you have in mind. You’ll acquire new skills easily. It’ll
be fun.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is
the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) - Today is a 7 - Make a
careful review of your needs before you go shopping.
You can get everything you want for your home, but
probably not all at once. First things first.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) - Today is an 8 - Even if
you’re good at multi-tasking, you could get swamped
today. You may have to scratch a few items off your
list. Get the big stuff done and rearrange the rest.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) - Today is a 7 - You have
a natural sense of caution, and that is very good. It’ll
keep you out of trouble, with lots of money in the
bank. And, as you’re about to prove, you’ll still have
lots of fun.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) - Today is a 7 - You need to
get your facts straight so you can defend your position. Controversy could erupt at any moment, concerning your choices. Be prepared.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) - Today is a 7 - Go through your
lists again. Make sure you haven’t forgotten anything
important. You don’t want it to come back and bite
you.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - Today is an 8 - Once you
figure out what they want, you’ll be able to produce
it. Keep asking questions and don’t give up until you
understand. Run a test, to make sure.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) - Today is a 6 - Are you in a
creative line of work that you feel good about? If not,
what can you do to get yourself into that position?
Have you checked the want ads recently?
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) - Today is a 7 - You’re eager
to get something you need, but you could make a mistake. Check vendors much closer to home. Don’t pay
more for shipping or travel. Every little bit counts.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) - Today is a 6 - The
more money you stash away, the more you’ll want to
buy. Narrow it down to one special item, so you don’t
feel so bad if you can’t get everything else. It’s a good
trick.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Today is an 8 - Sometimes, like now, people want to do things their own
way. Counsel against impetuous behaviour. In time,
the other guy will have to admit you’re right.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) - Today is a 7 - Graciously
accept compliments from a person who thinks you’re
great. You’re an inspiration to many. You might as
well get used to it.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) - Today is an 8 - You’re
outgrowing several old phobias that used to slow you
down. It’s a natural process, so don’t worry about it.
Relax and let them go.
Community
THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
Dear Queenie,
My big problem is my mother. She wants to be my best
friend but she hasn’t got a clue about young people. But she
won’t let go of me.
I go to college and she calls me a dozen times a day, even
when I’m in class. Of course I can’t answer her call, but later
when I call her back, she gets on my case for ignoring her.
I’ve tried and tried to explain that I can’t talk to her when I’m
in class and I even gave her a copy of my class schedule but
still she calls at the wrong time.
And when I’m home I can’t study because she keeps interrupting me for every little thing, or just to chat, and if I
tell her I have to study she tries to make me feel guilty for
neglecting her.
Queenie, I don’t know what to do!—Grownup daughter
Dear Grownup daughter,
Your mother seems to be suffering from “empty nest syndrome” even though you haven’t actually moved out (yet).
In fact, that is what I suggest you do, as soon as you can get
a place of your own. And when you do, do not give her a key
to the place, of course.
Meanwhile, if she won’t let you study in peace, find someplace else to study; at a friend’s house, perhaps, or at the
library.
You might also reassure her that you love her, but point out
to her that far from holding on to you, she is rapidly driving
you away. It might give her something to think about.
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EVENTS
Sunday, May 18
INTERNATIONAL AIDS
CANDLELIGHT MEMORIAL
A worldwide event to remember those who have died of
AIDS and support those who are living with HIV or AIDS.
The theme of this year’s International AIDS Candlelight
Memorial, “Never Give Up, Never Forget,” symbolises the
crossroads in the epidemic this memorial represents.
Place: Philipsburg Cultural and Community Centre, Back
Street.
Time: 6:30pm
For more information, call Suzette Moses-Burton at 5422078 or 551-0075.
NOTICES
Pains.” For more information, call Lorna, tel. 553-6549, or
Cassilda, 554-6255.
SMITH Programme
Persons interested in enrolling in Workforce Development Programmes offered by The St. Maarten Institute of
Technology and Hospitality (S.M.I.T.H) are encouraged to
visit S.M.I.T.H.’S office located upstairs next to the Central
Drugstore on the E. Camille Richardson Street 23, Philipsburg, to pick up an application form and or request information regarding the programs to be offered in the fields
of: - Business Administration Assistant, - Cook, - Hotel,
Restaurant and Café (HORECA) operations with partial
training in Tourism Activities - Information Technology
Service Assistant & - General Security Office hours are
from 8:30am to 4:00pm or call 542-1620 for more information.
Clinic Openings
White Yellow Cross Baby Clinics announces the new opening hours for the clinics.
St. John’s Clinic, St. John’s Road # 6: Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday
8:00am – 12:30pm + 1:15 – 4:30pm; Telephone: 548-4431
Madame Estate Clinic, Rembrandtplein # 26, Amsterdam
Shopping Center Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
8:00am – 12:30pm + 1:15 – 4:30pm; Telephone: 554-4438
Cole Bay Clinic, Leopold Bell School Tuesday 8.00am
– 12:30pm + 1:15 – 4:30pm, Thursday 8:00am – 12:30pm;
Telephone: 554-6079
Volunteers Needed
The Youth Link Foundation is looking for individuals interested in assisting with future projects and community work.
I Can Donation
Interested persons can e-mail their interest to Stuart Johnson
I Can Foundation is requesting assistance for their “Buy (President) at sajohnson16@hotmail.com or call 522-0509 or
a Block” campaign to help with rebuilding their home. To call Eusebio Richardson (Treasurer) on 522-8565.
contribute visit any Windward Islands Bank and make a
minimum donation of US$ 2. US dollar account number is After School
20485508 and guilder account is 100955300.
No Kidding with Our Kids Foundation is now registering
children for their after school programme. Registration fee
Car Wash
NAf. 50 and a monthly fee NAf. 150. For more information
New Testament Baptist Church Youth is organising a car- contact No Kidding With Our Kids Foundation, main office
wash on Saturday, May 10, at Caribbean Fasteners NV Sucker Garden Road 13 tel. 5424925-5424910
parking lot in Cole Bay. It will start at 10:00am and continue until 3:00pm. Tickets are US $10.
School Registration
Victory Christian Academy in Weymouth Hills invites new
Mother’s Day Event
applicants to register for the 2008/2009 school year. Spaces
Youth Making Christ Available and Champions of the King are available from the kindergarten to high school programs.
present a special Mother’s Day Program “A Tribute to our Call 524-6521 or email academy@trulycaribbean.net for
Mothers” at the New Testament Baptist Church on Sunday, more information. Visit on Fridays for a tour and to take the
May 11 starting 10:00am. All mothers present will receive diagnostic test.
a special token and a prayer of blessing.
ECOFEST 2008
Free Dance Workshop
Island Vision Foundation is seeking local exhibitors and volContemporary and African dance style. The dance work- unteers for the upcoming ECOFEST and the 3rd Windward
shop will take place at Imbali Dance School in John Lar- Islands Annual Environmental Awards in June 5 & 6. Nomimonie Centre, Long Wall Road, Phillipsburg, Thursday, nations for the awards are also being accepted. For more de5:00-9:00pm, and Friday, 6:30-8:30pm. For more informa- tails, contact us at: sxm.ecofest@gmail.com or fax 547-0366
tion call Clara Reyes at 554-9364.
Aqua-Jogging Classes
St. Maarten Representatives
Carib Swim Team announces the start of Aqua-jogging classSt. Maarten Gospel Foundation is in the process of select- es at the Carib Pool in Cole Bay. Classes on Monday and
ing representatives to participate in the Caribbean Gospel Wednesday 8:30am to 9:30am, Tuesday 7:30pm-8:30pm and
Song Festival to be held in Curacao. Interested persons can Friday 7:00pm-8:00pm. For more info call 556-8003 or visit
call 559-2266 or 586-2761
the pool.
Volunteers Needed
St. Maarten Nature Foundation is seeking volunteers to help
School Registration
build a digital library. If interested call 544-4267 or email at
Ebenezer Learning Center is registration students for the info@naturefoundationsxm.org
current and upcoming school year. Space is currently available for the playschool, afternoon school and baby care
programs. Registration will be closing on May 1. For more
information call 548-4588 or visit us Monday to Friday,
9:00am – 1:00pm at Ebenezer Road 92, Ebenezer Estate.
Global World Outreach Revival
Mt. Zion Pentecostal Church, Middle Region #122, invites
the public to its Global World Outreach Revival featuring
Apostle S.D. James, at the church, April 18-20, 7:30pm
sharp nightly. Theme: Synergising the Lean Years.
Basketball Meeting
Soualiga Youth Basketball Association invites coaches and
team officials to a meeting on Thursday, May 8 starting
6:00pm at LB Scott Sports Auditorium. For more information call 553-4676.
Aglow Retreat
This is a time for refreshing
and renewal. St. Maarten/Anguilla Aglow Eastern Caribbean Area Board invites to all
former members and friends
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THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
Rod Stewart performs at the 4th annual Plymouth Jazz Festival in Plymouth Tobago in this
April 27, 2008 file photo.
CHICAGO--Hall of Fame
rocker Rod Stewart is 63
years-old, but nowhere near
retirement as he considers
a wish list of future projects that include a movie,
an R&B album, and maybe
even a fling with country and
western music.
“I’d love to make a movie,
just for posterity,” Stewart told Reuters ahead of
an upcoming 18-city North
American tour. But so far a
film project, such as Martin
Scorcese’s recent Rolling
Stones’ documentary “Shine
a Light”, is not in the works
LOS
ANGELES--Actor
Gary Dourdan, best known
as a forensics investigator
on the hit TV show “CSI:
Crime Scene Investigation”,
was charged on Wednesday
with possession of heroin,
cocaine and ecstasy.
The charges stem from the
41-year-actor’s April 28 arrest in the desert resort city
of Palm Springs, after police found him asleep in the
driver’s seat of a car shortly
before dawn. The car was
parked on the wrong side
of the road with the interior
light left on.
Police said Dourdan appeared disoriented and
“possibly under the influence of alcohol and/or
drugs” when approached
by an officer. A search of
simply because, Stewart said,
he hasn’t been asked.
Stewart’s career stretches
back to 1964 and includes
a Grammy award, the U.S.
music industry’s highest honor, as well as his 1994 induction into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame. He has sold
millions of records with hits
such as “Maggie May”, “Tonight’s the Night” and “Do
Ya Think I’m Sexy?”
Like the Rolling Stones,
Aerosmith and some other
rockers of the 1960s and
1970s, Stewart has successfully moved his career into
the new century. His North
American tour, which begins in California in July, is
his first through the United
States in two years and will
take him around the United
States and into Canada.
If he had his way, Stewart
said he would continue performing until he is 70. “I
do love it,” he said. “I actually enjoy this job that I do. I
probably would miss it.”
But age and family--he has
six children ages 2-1/2 to 27
and a wife, Penny--do take
time from his schedule, and
Stewart said that unlike oth-
one count each of possessing heroin, cocaine and ecstasy. A Riverside County
District Attorney’s spokeswoman said that if convicted he would likely face
probation and be sent to a
drug diversion program.
He is due in court for an
arraignment on May 28.
er performers who go on the
road for months at a time, he
is more inclined to perform
for a few weeks, return home
for a month, then hit the road
again. “I don’t do it like Genesis or the Police, they go out
six months solid. I just don’t
want to do that. It takes me
away from my children too
long,” he said.
Much of Stewart’s success of
late has been with his “Great
American Songbook”, a
four-part series of standards
mostly from the 1930s and
1940s released from 2002 to
2005 that has sold 15 million copies. More recently,
his “Still the Same ... Great
Rock Classics of Our Time”
album has him singing works
by Bob Dylan, John Fogerty,
Bob Seger, Van Morrison
and others.
While that album is selling
well, Stewart says he is not
done writing his own songs
and venturing in new directions. “There is still this R&B
album I want to do. There’s
a Country (and) Western album I’d love to do, although
the record company doesn’t
want it,” he said. “We are still
in the throes of talking about
it. I very much doubt whether
we will get it done this year.”
He also would like do a
“fifth and final American
Songbook.”
Ron Wood, guitarist for the
Rolling Stones and a former
member of the 1970s rock
group Faces, which Stewart
fronted, has said he would
like to reunite that band.
Stewart said he is unsure that
will happen, but he didn’t
rule it out.
“I don’t want to do a tour
that goes on forever, and I
Dourdan
the car turned up cocaine,
heroin, ecstasy and various
prescription drugs, as well
as drug paraphernalia.
He was booked for possession of narcotics and
dangerous drugs and jailed
for about five hours, then
released on $5,000 bail, police said.
Dourdan was charged with
PHOENIX--Rapperturned-actor DMX was
arrested at his Arizona
home after being caught
on camera racing down a
Phoenix-area freeway at
upwards of 114 miles per
hour (183 kph) in January,
Arizona state police said on
Wednesday.
Police said that DMX,
whose real name is Earl
Simmons, was taken into
custody without incident
Tuesday afternoon at his
Cave Creek, Arizona,
residence. He was booked
into jail and released on
Wednesday on bond.
Simmons, 37, is accused in
the Jan. 21 incident of racing on a highway, reckless
driving, two counts of endangerment, three counts
of speeding and driving on
a suspended license. “Criminal speeding endangers
the lives of everyone on the
road,” said Roger Vanderpool, state Department of
Public Safety director, in a
prepared statement. “Mr.
Simmons wasn’t signaled
out because of his notoriety.”
Police said speed cameras
caught the performer in
his 1966 Chevrolet Nova II
traveling at various speeds
over 100 mph (161 kph).
The speed limit in the area
is 65 mph (105 kph).
A department spokesman
said authorities investigated the photos, confirmed it
was Simmons driving and
waited for him to return to
his Arizona home before
making the arrest.
don’t think there are enough
people out there who love
the Faces,” said Stewart. “It
was a great band, but was not
as famous as the Police. But,
I’ll consider it.”
In looking over the current
crop of young artists, Stewart
said he sees a few who could
enjoy the kind of long-term
success he has had, including Canadian rockers Arcade
Fire.
“My daughter took me to
see them at the Hollywood
Bowl. They are probably
one of the best bands I have
seen,” he said. “Then there
is a really good British band
called Kasabian.”
“Whether they are going to
keep it going as long as we
have I don’t know. But they
are making good music,” he
said.
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Thursday, May 8
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Thursday, May 8
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9:30am
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12:30pm
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3:30pm
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6:30pm
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6:45pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
LOS ANGELES--He’ll be
back--Hollywood strike or no
strike!
Cameras began rolling this
week on the latest “Terminator” movie--estimated to cost
about $150 million--for what
many Hollywood watchers say
is a late start given concerns
that labor tensions could lead
to an actors strike by July. “Terminator Salvation: The Future
Begins,” began shooting on
Monday in New Mexico, bucking a trend in which studios
have mostly avoided launching
new productions they cannot
be sure of completing before
the Screen Actors Guild contract expires on June 30, a date
being treated as a facto strike
deadline.
SAG and Hollywood’s major studios hit a stalemate on
Tuesday after three weeks of
talks, stoking fears of renewed
Hollywood labor unrest after
a 100-day screenwriters strike
that ended in February. Union
leaders say they still hope to
reach a deal without resort-
Christian Bale
ing to a walkout, and SAG has
yet to even seek authorization
from its 120,000 members to
call a strike.
But with tens of millions of
dollars at stake in making a
movie, few studios and filmmakers are taking any chances.
One exception is the team behind “Terminator”.
Warner Bros, a unit of Time
Warner Inc, is the U.S. distributor for the fourth “Terminator”
starring Christian Bale and set
A robot from the film “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines”
is shown during the film’s premiere in this June 30, 2003 file
photo.
LONDON--British singer
Amy Winehouse was arrested on suspicion of drug
offences on Wednesday,
police sources said.
The Grammy-winning
soul singer, who was released with a caution for
assault less than two weeks
ago, was being held after
she handed herself in at a
London police station.
“At 1 p.m. on Wednesday, a
24-year-old woman attended a London police station
by arrangement,” police
said in a statement. “She
was arrested in connection
with alleged possession of a
controlled drug.”
Police declined to give
more details. Winehouse
was held overnight in a cell
last month but was released
without charge after admitting assault by slapping a
man with her hand.
Winehouse, whose battle
against drug addiction has
often overshadowed her
to reach theaters in May 2009.
Sony Corp’s Sony Pictures is
handling international distribution.
The two studios had a similar
deal for 2003’s “Terminator 3:
Rise of the Machines”, which
grossed $433 million worldwide
and was the last film in the franchise to star Arnold Schwarzenegger as the unstoppable
cyborg from the future who
made the line, “I’ll be back,” a
worldwide catchphrase.
A source familiar with the
latest sequel said filmmakers
have no intention of wrapping
production by June 30 and
have taken legal precautions in
case of a work stoppage. A second person close to the film’s
production will go on hiatus if
there is a strike, but others said
that is a risky endeavor.
“I think many productions are
planning on wrapping up by
the strike deadline. It is often
very difficult to stop production midway. Putting a production on hold is a pretty gigantic
responsibility,” said one executive from a talent agency who
spoke on condition of anonymity.
Due to its late production
start, “Terminator 4” was ineligible for special “strike expense” insurance coverage
recently offered by Fireman’s
Fund Insurance Co. Wendy
Diaz, underwriting director at
Fireman’s, said many studios
rushed ahead with production
to get the coverage, which was
contingent on shooting being
scheduled to end by June 15.
The policies reimburse producers for strike losses if filming is delayed past June 30 by
unforseen circumstance, such
as an actor’s illness or equipment damage.
Few, if any, studio movies were
put into production after late
March or early April, because
a typical 60-day movie shooting
cycle would cut it too close to
the presumed strike deadline.
Steven Spielberg called off an
April start to a film about the
trial of the 1968 anti-war activists, and Michael Bay is keeping his fingers crossed for an
early June start for a sequel to
his “Transformers”.
recording success, is said
to be worth an estimated
10 million pounds ($20 million) in the latest Sunday
Times Rich List.
Winehouse did not attend
the Grammy Awards in Los
Angeles in February, but
still managed five big wins,
including record and song
of the year for “Rehab” and
best pop vocal album for
her breakthrough release,
“Back to Black”.
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Pope Benedict XVI greets soprano singer Lan Rao at the end of a concert by the Chinese
Philharmonic Orchestra in Paul VI hall at the Vatican on Wednesday.
VATICAN CITY--Pope Benedict reached out to communist
China on Wednesday at an unprecedented concert by its national orchestra in the Vatican
that the Church hopes can help
end decades of icy relations
with Beijing.
The China Philharmonic Orchestra played Mozart’s “Requiem” and Chinese folk songs
along with the Shanghai Opera
House Chorus in the Vatican’s
packed audience hall. The
German pope appeared happy
at the concert of European religious music by the orchestra
of an officially atheist state that
has ridiculed the papacy in the
past.
In his address at the end of
the first part of the concert,
the pope was full of praise for
the Chinese people and held
out the hope that music could
succeed where diplomacy has
failed. “Music, and art in general, can serve as a privileged
instrument for encounter and
reciprocal knowledge and esteem between different populations and cultures,” said the
pope, who also managed a few
words of thanks in Chinese.
Some diplomats say the longterm result of the unique concert could be similar to the
so-called “ping-pong” diplo-
LONDON--Detectives said on
Wednesday they were hunting
a man who has been grabbing
the bottoms of women and girls
during a year-long campaign in
Manchester city centre.
The man, aged in his late 20s
or 30s and described as “Turkish or Greek-looking”, mainly
strikes at between 7 and 8 a.m,
sneaking up on his victims from
behind and grabbing their
backsides, police said. So far he
has indecently touched 19 victims, aged from 13 to 43.
“This man has struck a number of times over the last 12
months,” said Detective Sergeant Kay Dennison. “They
have not increased in severity,
however the man has put his
victims in extremely uncomfortable situations. I am determined to identify and catch this
man.”
CCTV footage has captured
one of the incidents, showing
the man loitering before carrying out an assault.
macy of the 1970, when the
exchange of sports teams led
to relations between Washington and Beijing. Benedict
has made improving relations
with Beijing a major goal of his
pontificate. He issued an open
letter in June saying he sought
to restore full diplomatic ties
with China that were severed
two years after the 1949 Communist takeover.
Catholics in China are split
between those who belong to
a state-backed Church and an
underground Church whose
members are loyal to the Vatican and it was to these steadfast faithful that the Pope sent
a particular message. “In greeting you this evening, dear Chinese artists, the pope intends
to reach out to your entire
people, with a special thought
for those of your fellow citizens
who share faith in Jesus and
are united through a particular
spiritual bond with the Successor of Peter,” he said.
In what appeared to be a message to China’s leaders that
they had nothing to fear by
better relations, the pope said
the Vatican was a place “where
people from all over the world
often meet, with their own
personal stories and their own
culture, all of them welcomed
with esteem and affection”.
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Sports
PHILIPSBURG-The
Executive Council has approved changes to the articles of incorporation of the
“Foundation for Human
Development, Recreation
and Sport”, the entity that
manages the Raoul Illidge
Sports Complex (RISC).
Commissioner of Sports
Maria Buncamper-Molanus announced the changes
to the articles yesterday.
The changes now have to
be ratified in the Island
Council.
Commissioner Buncamper-Molanus stressed that
the changes are significant
for the future of RISC and
proper, substantive government control of the complex. She explained that
there was a perception that
Government had neglected
its responsibly for the upkeep of the complex, when
in actuality there is very
little Government could do
since the foundation is a
private entity.
The articles of incorporation required a total overhaul as they were extremely
outdated (established in
1974), and out of synch
with the changes made in
the civil code. In addition,
the Executive Council of
St. Maarten as stated in the
PHILIPSBURG-- The St.
Maarten Cricket Association (SMCA) has called a
meeting, tonight, with at
least two representatives
of each team, to discuss
the start of the new tournament. After the ELECTEC
Twenty20 tournament ended, local cricketers are anx-
ious to start the 50 overs
format.
Royal Bank of Trinidad
and Tobago (RBTT) has
been the exclusive sponsors
of the 50 overs tournaments
on St. Maarten.
There are eight A-Division teams. They include
defending
champions
NAGICO,
sub-champions ELECTEC Lucians
United, Hassell’s Mufflers
Kaieteur, WIB Pioneers,
Friar’s bay Events, Rams
Crusaders, Future Champs
and WINAIR Conquerors.
In the B-Division are
Mary’s Boon Strikers, Future Champs B, Rams Killer Beez, Bellevue Stars, La
Savanne, KFC Twisters and
Saba Rocks.
There are three other
teams that are expected
to join the association and
play in the tournament.
They will automatically begin playing in the B-Division with the hope of climbing into the A-Division.
The meeting starts at
7:30pm at the Philipsburg
Mutual Improvement Association (PMIA).
CUL DE SAC—The series
is tied at two all, as the three
time defending female division champions, Coca
Cola Steelers face the Lady
Hawks. The two teams are
battling in the best of seven
game series to win the St.
Maarten Softball Association championship at John
Cooper Jose Cooper Lake
Sr. Ballpark.
The Steelers rallied in extra innings Tuesday night
to squeeze past the Hawks
11-10. game five is scheduled for Friday and game
six Tuesday, May 13.
PHILIPSBURG-The
St.
Maarten Sports Federation, in conjunction with
the Committee to Expedite
Sports Projects (CUS) will
host a Project Writer Course
May 12 to 14. The course
will be held at Sports Conference Room Cannegieter
Street 32 starting at 8:00am
to 5:00pm each day, with a
one hour lunch break.
Participants will learn how
to detail a project for sub-
mission for funding. All
sports organizations are invited to send two people to
the course. Participants are
asked to bring information
on a sports project their
organization would like
funded.
For more information or to
register contact the Sports
Federation at 524-5137 or
e-mail smsports-fed@hotmail.com.
THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
Governing Program 20072011, expressed the seriousness with which it intends
to further develop sports in
the benefit of the citizens of
St. Maarten.
The changes to the articles include: there is now a
managing director governing the organization; there
will be a maximum of 7
board members appointed
instead of 9; EXCO appoints the board members;
the Commissioner of Sports
will act as a liaison officer
between the foundation
and the Executive Council
and can call for a meeting
of the board at any time
to discuss topics regarding
general sports and recreation policies; the board
is obliged to seek approval
from the Executive Council
before making any changes
to the articles of incorporation; the board can only be
dissolved with a board decision after the approval of
the Executive Council and
the Island Council.
“With government having more influence in the
direction the foundation is
taking, we can ensure that
everything possible is being
done to maintain this vital
athlete developmental asset for St. Maarten,” the
Commissioner said.
PHILIPSBURG--Defending champions, Sagicor
squeezed past Fatum in
the age 12 and under Little
League division at the Stadium on the Pondfill yesterday. Sagicor won 6-4.
The win moved Sagicor
up the standings ladder
into sole possession of first
place. Prior to the game
Sagicor and Elle si Belle
were tied at 3-0. Sagicor is
now undefeated at 4-0.
There are six teams in the
12 and under Little League
division. Elle si Belle drops
to second place, followed
by Abu Ghazi Shwarma in
third place at 3-1 and Photo Gumbs at 1-2 in fourth
place. Fatum now has a record of 1-3 and Scotiabank
is last at 6-0.
Action continues in the junior division 14 and under
this afternoon. International Airport takes on Super
Kleen Friday at 4:30pm and
Elle si Belle hosts Photo
Gumbs. Fast Shoe Repair
visits NAGICO at 6:00pm.
Jeanneau 20 keel boats will be one of the classes to set sail in the Governor Stuyvesant
Series on Simpson Bay Lagoon starting May 24. (Photo by Michel Ferron.)
SIMPSON BAY--The Governor Stuyvesant Series sets
sail from the St. Maarten
Yacht Club, May 24. The
four week long event, raced
every Saturday afternoon,
starts at 1:30pm. The boats
will be divided into three
classes. Sailors will compete in Optimists, Lasers
(Radial and Full) and Jeanneau 20 keel boats.
In the Optimist class,
it is expected that Rhone
Findlay will retain his
dominance although Saskia
Looser has shown that she
can usurp the young master on occasion. Rhone will
also be preparing for the
Scotia Bank Optimist Regatta in St Thomas.
Stephen Looser was the
top dog in Optimists, but
in Lasers he has to work
harder. Harry Antrobus
has great moments, but has
been known to fall apart.
Kevin van de Burg is the
oldest and usually the fastest, but the gap may be narrowing. Jolyon Ferron has
big plans for success that
are only executed on occasion.
In the senior group, Rogier Brans has committed
to sail the series and Tom
Lekie is an interested party
too.
The Jeanneau class will be
the last chance for sailors
to qualify for the up coming North Sails Regatta.
Bernard Sillem and Robbie
Ferron will be two of the
sailors looking to raising
their game.
The ballpark expects to
be buzzing with activity
Saturday. The Peewees,
age eight and under, continue their regular Saturday
morning training at 9:00am.
In the minor division, age
10 and under Windward
island bank hosts Fatum at
10:00am and at 11:00am
Lions take on Vida Nova
at 11:00am. Scotiabank will
host Abu Ghazi Shwarma
at noon.
St. Maarten Little League
also features a junior division, age 13 to 14 which includes RMG, Super Kleen,
Tropicana and Juliana Airport.
Super Kleen hosts RMG
on Saturday at 2:00pm and
in the senior division NAGICO takes on GEBE at
4:00pm. Fast Shoe Repair,
NAGICO and GEBE are
in the senior division.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The
West Indies selectors on
Tuesday named 17 players
to participate in a training
camp in preparation for the
Digicel Home Series 2008
against Australia.
The camp will run from
May 12 to 17 in Antigua.
The Digicel Home Series
2008 between West Indies
and Australia will have
three Test matches (Sabina
Park, Jamaica May 22-26),
(Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua (May 30 to
June 3), and (Kensington
Oval, Barbados (June 1216).
There will be five One-Day
Internationals (Arnos Vale,
St. Vincent June 24), (Grenada National Stadium,
June 27 and 29), (Warner,
Park, St. Kitts July 4 and
6)and a Twenty20 International at Kensington Oval,
Barbados (June 20).
Named to the suqad are:
Sulieman Benn, Patrick
Browne, Sewnarine Chattergoon, Fidel Edwards,
Ryan Hinds, Amit Jaggernauth, Runako Morton,
Darren Sammy, Marlon
Samuels, Devon Smith,
Brenton Parchment, William Perkins, Keiron Pollard, Daren Powell, Denesh
Ramdin, Kemar Roach, Jerome Taylor.
Sports
THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
49
GIRO
Continued from page 52.
SALVO, North Carolina- World 200 metres silver
medallist Usain Bolt always
thought he could be a fast
100 metres runner. Convincing his coach took some
time.
His bargaining chip turned
out to be a 200 metres run,
the coach, Glen Mills, told
Reuters this week as he
reviewed the 21-year-old’s
stunning 100 metres of 9.76
seconds last Saturday.
“I told him last year that if
he broke the Jamaican record in the 200, 19.8 something, I would allow him to
run one 100,” Mills said by
telephone from Kingston,
Jamaica.
“He broke the record
ISTANBUL-- Formula
One world champion
Kimi Raikkonen can
chalk up his third win
of the season on Sunday and shatter Ferrari
team mate Felipe Massa’s dream of a Turkish
Grand Prix hat-trick.
Brazilian Massa has
won from pole position
in Istanbul for the past
two years but Raikkonen,
winner with McLaren in
the inaugural Turkish
Grand Prix of 2005, has
the momentum.
The Finn is nine points
clear of McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton after four
races including the most
recent in Spain that saw
him dominate from pole
position.
“Barcelona was a perfect weekend for me and
the team,” Raikkonen
said on the Ferrari Web
site (www.ferrari.com).
“Now we want to keep
that rhythm and we will
push very hard. The pole
position helped a lot
and it seems that starting ahead of everybody
else is a necessary condition for winning the race
in Istanbul, too. I won’t
change my approach. It’s
too early to think about
anything else than a victory.”
Massa, the winner in
Bahrain, is 11 points
adrift of Raikkonen and
one behind third-placed
Pole Robert Kubica for
BMW Sauber.
Ferrari remain the
clear favourites however, something acknowledged by their McLaren
rivals: “We didn’t really
shine here in the past,
and also this time we are
not the current benchmark,” said Mercedes
motorsport vice-president Norbert Haug in
a team preview. “The
team wants to score as
many points as possible,
but after three consecu-
tive wins Ferrari obviously arrive here as the
favourites.”
Hamilton wants to do
better than last year,
when he finished fifth
in a race held in August
when conditions were
hotter.
Team mate Heikki Kovalainen faces a fitness
test on Thursday before
he can be sure of racing
after the accident that
knocked him unconscious in Spain.
“I want to get back
racing as soon as possible, since the accident
at Barcelona it has been
my only focus,” the Finn
said last week.
McLaren have experienced Spanish test driver
Pedro de la Rosa waiting
for the call should Kovalainen fail the test.
Even if McLaren and
Ferrari again dominate
at Istanbul Park, the grid
will look different after
the struggling Hondabacked Super Aguri
team withdrew from the
world championship on
Tuesday because of financial difficulties.
For the first time since
2005 there will be just
10 teams, with Japanese
driver Takuma Sato and
Britain’s Anthony Davidson the absent drivers.
Honda’s Brazilian Rubens Barrichello will celebrate a Formula One
record with his 257th
race start, one more than
Italian Riccardo Patrese
managed between 1977
and 1993.
“I will feel some sadness of course,” Patrese
told the autosport.com
Web site. “I was pleased
to keep the record but
records are there to be
beaten. And the only
thing I can say is that I
congratulate Rubens for
doing it.”
(running 19.75 seconds)
and he said: ‘You’ve got to
keep your promise’.”
So Bolt, the world junior
200 metres record holder,
ran his first professional 100
metres last year in Greece,
clocking 10.03 seconds.
“After that there was no
stopping him,” Mills said.
The coach agreed Bolt
would run the shorter race
early this season for experience and speed work, with
the 200 remaining his emphasis for August’s Beijing
Olympics. A 100-200 sprint
double might be considered
for 2009.
Saturday’s run -- the second fastest 100 metres of
all time, behind compatriot
Asafa Powell’s world record of 9.74 seconds -- may
have changed that, especially since Bolt lowered
his personal best by almost
three-tenths of a second in
his third professional race
at the distance.
Bolt will contest several
more 100s before the late
June Jamaican Olympic
trials. The first will be on
May 18 in Trinidad. Another could be a May 31 New
York race featuring world
champion Tyson Gay.
His only scheduled 200 before the Jamaican trials will
be in Ostrava on June 12,
Bolt’s agent, Ricky Simms,
said.
Afterwards, Bolt and his
coach will map out their
trials strategy. Bolt’s earlyseason performance and an
analysis of how other 100
metres runners are doing
will be determining factors.
Bolt would not express a
preference.
His lanky body may work
against him at the start of
the 100 but once he starts
rolling he is difficult to defeat, as he proved on Saturday.
“It was an incredible run,”
Paul Doyle, Powell’s agent,
told Reuters in an e-mail.
“It reminded me a lot of
Asafa’s (world-record) run
in Rieti. Bolt really moved
on the pack at 30 metres
and just kept going and go-
ing.”
Powell, who was in Florida receiving treatment for
a pulled muscle, did not
see the race. His first race
against Bolt would be the
Jamaican trials, if Bolt decides to run the 100.
“In terms of ability, Usain
has the most of any athlete
I have ever coached and
probably have ever seen,”
said Mills, a veteran trainer
whose athletes have included Jamaican sprinter Raymond Stewart and former
100 metres world champion
Kim Collins of St. Kitts.
“His abilities’ range from
the 100 to 400 is fantastic,”
Mills said.
Whether that can translate
into a world record in the
100, Mills and Bolt were
reluctant to speculate. Both
said wait until Bolt runs a
few more 100s.
“A lot of people don’t believe what they saw Saturday night was for real, so we
will see,” Mills said.
Photographs of Saturday’s
race indicate Bolt might
have already missed an
opportunity to bring down
Powell’s record, Mills said.
“The photos show he
PHILIPSBURG--The St.
Maarten Futsal Association
is preparing for the start of
the new season on June 1.
The organization will host
a team officials’ meeting
at L.B. Scott Sport Auditorium Sunday at 7:30pm.
To date, some 18 teams
have expressed interested
in participating in the tournament. “To keep the tournament from dragging on
to long, we want to limit it
to 16 teams,” said organizer
Johnny Singh.
For more information
contact 586-7219.
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, ( foreground ) leads the men’s 100-meters, ahead of Kim Collins, right, of St. Kitts, Daniel Bailey,(
2nd r ), of Antigua and the USA’s Darvis Patton, obscured,
during the 5th Jamaica International Invitational Meet at the
National Stadium in Kingston, last Saturday. Bolt equaled
the second fastest 100-meters time ever when he clocked a
blistering 9.76 seconds, just 0.02 seconds off world-record
holder Asafa Powell’s top time of 9.74.
glanced to his right -- I
guess he was looking for
(world 200 metres bronze
medallist Wallace) Spearmon,” Mills said. “At that
point, somewhere around
80 metres, he realised he
was way out in front, and
he kind of eases his foot off
the gas.”
Mills continued; “He
missed an opportunity because he had a following
wind of 1.8 (metres per second, just inside the maximum limit of 2.0 for record
purposes) and that helps.
But I cannot really blame
him because he was not
really running for a world
record.”
Mills has also wanted Bolt
to try the 400.
“Because of his height
(1.96 metres) and what he
did in high school in the 400
(45.35 seconds), the overall
opinion, including myself,
was he would make a great
400 metres runner,” Mills
said.
Bolt always had other
ideas.
“He thought he would do
a better job running the 100
and he kept resisting being
committed to the quarter
(400),” Mills said.
The coach countered by
declining to schedule any
100 metres workouts or
races for Bolt.
“The idea was to force him
to go in the direction of the
400,” Mills said.
Not any longer: the emphasis now will be on improving Bolt’s 100 metres,
especially his start, and going for more honours in the
200 metres.
accepted the biological passport system and have been
tested several times.”
Because the Giro d’Italia
is no longer part of cycling’s
ProTour series, Zomegnan
had total discretion on which
22 teams to invite to his
race.
On Sunday he gave the Astana team a late call up after
team manager Johan Bruyneel agreed to include 2007
Tour de France winner Alberto Contador in Astana’s
Giro lineup.
Other contenders include
2007 Giro winner Danilo
Di Luca of Italy, 2007 Tour
of Spain winner Denis Menchov of Russia and Contador’s Astana team mate Andreas Kloden of Germany.
“We’re very proud to be
the only major stage race to
have the winner of last year’s
Giro, Tour de France and
Vuelta Espana,” Zomegnan
said.
“The Tour de France made
the decision not to invite Astana to their race this year but
we make our own decisions.
We didn’t initially invite
them because they wouldn’t
tell us who their team leader
would be. Fortunately they
decided they wanted to be in
the Giro and agreed to bring
their best riders.
He added;”We’ve worked
hard to get the highest quality field in this year’s Giro.
There is also the current
world and Olympic champion Paolo Bettini, 10 different national champions
and a host of young riders
who are determined to make
a name.” This year’s Giro
d’Italia kicks off a with a 23.6
km team time trial around
Palermo in Sicily.
The 3,473 km route then
heads north via Rome, Tuscany and the central Apennines before the decisive
stages in the Dolomites and
Alps.
There are mountain-top
finishes at Alpe di Pampeago
on stage 14, Passo Fedaia on
stage 15 and Monte Pora on
stage 19.
The 13.8 km mountain time
trial to Plan de Corones on
stage 16 and the climbs of
the Passo Gavia and Passo
del Mortirolo on stage 20
will also be key stages in the
battle for the overall leader’s
pink jersey.
The Giro ends in Milan on
Sunday June 1 with a flat 28.5
km individual time trial.
“I don’t want to make any
predictions about who will
win but the route is finely
balanced with time trials and
mountain stages and so I
hope it will be a close race,”
Zomegnan said. “A perfect
scenario is if it’s decided in
the final kilometre of the final stage.”
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PARIS-- Two senior motorsports officials have expressed
concerns over four-times
world rally champion Sebastien Loeb’s “scruffy” looks,
French daily Le Figaro reported on Wednesday.
Surinder Thatthi, chairman of the Confederation
of African Countries in Motorsports (CACMS), and
Morrie Chandler, president
of the World Rally Championship (WRC) commission,
both criticised Loeb for his
appearance, the newspaper
wrote.
The pair, both members of
the International Automobile Federation (FIA), made
their points in an e-mail exchange in March.
In a reply to Thatthi, who
first raised the issue, Chandler suggested the official
WRC television feed (WRCTV) should refrain from filming the Frenchman close-up.
“I watched the WRC Mexico highlights last night and I
have to voice my opinion on
the poor appearance of Sebastien Loeb on WRC-TV”,
Thatthi wrote in his mail to
Chandler, a copy of which
was made available to Reuters.
“He was unshaven, scruffy
looking and with unkempt
hair!!,” Thatthi added. “It is
wrong.....when the FIA gives
him global TV coverage to
millions of viewers and to
many children worldwide he
is a hero and role model (...)
I know there is a level of personal freedom one is allowed
but I feel he is taking this
too far and someone should
talk to him or his team about
this.”
Chandler, in his reply, also
seen by Reuters, agreed with
Thatthi that the issue should
be addressed.
“Yes I watched the same as
you did (...) Unfortunately
it is not a problem that is
unique to our sport as the
same happens in football and
other “male” sports,” Chandler wrote. “Of course these
persons are an insult to real
males. My only solution is
that we suggest to (rallying
rights holders) ISC that the
camera does not cover them
close up.”
Chandler copied his reply
to ISC managing director
Simon Long, who offered a
different view.
“I do feel that it is precisely
Sebastien’s “ruggedly goodlooking” appearance which
has helped endear him to so
many new and young fans
both in France and around
the world”, Long wrote back
to Chandler.
A spokesman for the FIA
was not immediately available for comment.
Sports
THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
New York Mets starter John Maine pitches to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first inning of a baseball game in Los
Angeles yesterday.
LOS ANGELES-—John
Maine became the first
New York Mets starter
this year to reach the
eighth inning, taking a
shutout into the ninth
Wednesday during a 12-1
rout of the Los Angeles
Dodgers and Brad Penny.
Maine (4-2) hit a two-run
single and was two outs
from his third shutout
and complete game in the
majors when Matt Kemp
hit an RBI single, extending his hitting streak to
12 games. A day before
his 27th birthday, Maine
allowed four hits in 8 1-3
innings and won his third
straight start—all following Mets’ losses.
Penny (5-3) allowed 10
runs in 4 2-3 innings, the
most off him in 236 career
big league starts. He gave
up 10 hits for the third
time in eight starts this
season.
Luis Castillo, David
Wright and Raul Casanova also drove in two runs
apiece, helping the Mets
avoid getting swept in the
three-game series.
Penny fell behind 4-0 in
the second when formerDodger Marlon Anderson hit an RBI single,
Casanova followed with
a two-run single and Castillo added a two-out RBI
single.
Carlos Beltran led off
the third with a single and
scored New York’s fifth
run on Angel Pagan’s
groundout. The Mets
blew it open with a sixrun fifth that equaled a
season high for runs in an
inning.
Maine singled with the
bases loaded to make it
7-0, and Penny departed
after walking Jose Reyes.
Former New York Yankee Scott Proctor walked
Castillo, forcing in a run,
and David Wright—in
a 1-for-20 funk—hit a
two-run double. Castillo
scored on Proctor’s wild
pitch.
Church led off the sixth
against Proctor with his
sixth homer and second
in two days.Pagan, starting in left field while 41year-old Moises Alou
got the day off, turned in
the defensive play of the
game in the first when he
somersaulted into the first
row of the box seats and
held onto Andre Ethier’s
foul fly.
Pagan remained on the
hard cement for a few
anxious moments but
returned to his position,
rubbing his left shoulder
and flashing a huge grin
as the partisan Dodger
crowd of 40,696 applauded his effort. He left in
the third with tightness in
the shoulder after sliding
headfirst into second.
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Reds
ROME- - World number
two Rafael Nadal’s bid to
win the Rome Masters for
the fourth successive year
was buried yesterday when
he lost 7-5 6-1 to Juan Carlos Ferrero.
Ferrero, the 2001 champion, got the match-turning
break at the end of tough
first set.
The unseeded player then
broke Nadal again in fourth
game of the second and
quickly finished off his Spanish compatriot, who had
treatment on a foot injury at
4-1 down.
Nadal paid tribute to Ferrero but said the injury had
hampered his performance.
“I have this pain in a point
at the back of my foot, so it
was tough for me,” the 21year-old told a news conference. “I just congratulate
Juan Carlos. I think this is
an important win for him
because he’s trying to go to
the Olympics. I’m happy for
him because he’s a nice guy
and a very good player.”
Ferrero, a former world
number one, was delighted
at handing Nadal only his
second defeat on clay in
more than 100 matches.
“I had never won a set
against him on clay so I’m
pretty happy of course,” he
said. “It’s a very important
win for me and I feel special right now. I haven’t had
this special feeling for a long
time. I was so strong mentally today. I had things very
clear in my mind.”
Ferrero will meet Stanislas
Wawrinka in the third round
after the Swiss beat Britain’s
Andy Murray 6-2 7-6.
Russian fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko cruised in the
third round with an 6-2 6-2
win over Croatian wildcard
Mario Ancic, while Australian Open champion Novak
Djokovic quelled some early
resistance from Belgium’s
Steve Darcis to prevail 6-4
6-0.
Serbia’s Djokovic had to
recover an early break in the
first set and save two break
points in the ninth game before Darcis threw away his
final service game of the set
to love with a series of unforced errors.
The Belgian looked dismayed at having contributed
to his downfall and the world
number three was able to
run away with second set to
go through the third round.
Nadal was not the only top
10 seed to tumble. Argentine David Nalbandian, the
seventh seed, lost an exciting
match against Spain’s Nicolas Almagro 6-4 7-5.
Spain’s Juan Carlos Ferrero returns a ball to his compatriot
Rafael Nadal during their men’s second round match, at the
Rome Masters tennis tournament, in Rome, yesterday.
Nalbandian came off worse
in a five-break first set and
saved seven match points in
two separate games before
surrendering his serve at the
end of the second.
Spanish fifth seed David
Ferrer also suffered an upset, collapsing after taking
the first set against Radek
Stepanek of the Czech Re-
public to go down 4-6 6-2
6-1.
However, American James
Blake, the eighth seed, laboured to a 7-6 3-6 6-1 win
over Italy’s Andreas Seppi.
Roger Federer, the world
number one, will face Croatia’s Ivo Karlovic, who beat
Italy’s Potito Starace 6-3 6-7
7-6.
Richard Hamilton (l) of the Detroit Pistons drives on Dwight
Howard ( r ) of the Orlando Magic during Game Three of the
Eastern Conference Semi-finals during the 2008 NBA Playoffs at Amway Arena yesterday in Orlando, Florida. Magic
defeated the Pistons, 111-86. The series is tied at 2 all.
Sports
THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
ZURICH-- FIFA president
Sepp Blatter said yesterday he
would propose stricter rules
on the switching of nationalities and would press ahead
with controversial plans for
national quotas in club football.
The head of world soccer’s
ruling body told Reuters the
quota proposals being put
before FIFA’s Congress in
Sydney from May 29-30 were
decisive for the future of the
sport.
“We are on the edge of
where football is going, so
the Sydney Congress is very
important,” Blatter said.”If
the Congress says it does not
want these measures then we
would have to rewrite our statutes, because football would
no longer be able to fulfil the
aims of FIFA which include a
role to develop the game everywhere.”
REAL
standings, their best finish
in the league.
Villarreal’s Turkish striker Nihat Kahveci took his
tally this season to 18 with
a curling free kick early in
the second half and Mexico
striker Guillermo Franco
made sure of the win late in
the game.
With two matches left to
play, champions Real lead
the table on 81 points, 10
ahead of Villarreal and 17
clear of Barca who have
won just one of their last
seven games.
“We wanted to celebrate
the title with our fans and
play a great game and we
did that,” Schuster told a
news conference. “The attitude of the players was
superb.”
Atletico Madrid, who play
Espanyol on Thursday,
are in fourth a further six
points back, level with Sevilla who won 3-0 at Racing
Santander.
Osasuna stay in the drop
zone after a last-gasp 2-1
defeat at Real Mallorca,
although Recreativo are in
front of them only because
of a better head-to-head record.
Real Zaragoza also remain
in danger after losing 1-0 at
Valencia but Getafe eased
their relegation worries after coming from two goals
down to claim a 4-2 win at
home to Almeria to move
up to 14th place.
Barca had to clap Real on
to the pitch at the start of
their game in the traditional
tribute to the league champions and they appeared
strangely intimidated when
the game began.
FIFA wants to impose a
“6+5” ruling on club teams allowing no more than five foreign players to start a match.
The European Union has
warned that the rule would
conflict with its own laws on
the free movement of workers, risking court action.
“I am not convinced that the
proposal is against EU law,”
Blatter insisted, “because we
are not placing any restrictions
on the number of foreign players who sign contracts with the
clubs -- just the number who
start each game. Of course, it
will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of foreign
players signed because of the
need to always have six players
(in the starting line-up) who
are eligible for the national
team in that country, but this
will come in step-by-step.
“Congress will receive a
concrete proposal to start
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Real seemed to suffer no
hangover from their late
night title celebrations on
Sunday and took immediate control, bossing the
midfield and causing Barca’s shaky defence several
early scares.
It came as little surprise
when Real took the lead
after 13 minutes, Raul
curling a shot around goalkeeper Victor Valdes after
Guti’s pass had ricocheted
off Barca defender Rafael
Marquez.
Barca, without the suspended Samuel Eto’o and
Deco and the injured Gabriel Milito and Andres Iniesta, appeared powerless to
respond and Real took advantage of more uncertain
defending eight minutes
later.
Guti whipped a free kick
into the area and Dutch
winger Robben nodded the
ball past Valdes to score his
second headed goal in two
games.
The third came 17 minutes into the second half,
Higuain, who hit the winner in Real’s dramatic 2-1
comeback win at Osasuna
on Sunday, scoring within a
minute of stepping into the
action.
The Argentine ran on to a
neat ball from Mahamadou
Diarra, darted between two
defenders and coolly lifted
the ball past the helpless
Valdes.
Van Nistelrooy, making
his return after six weeks
out with an ankle injury,
wrapped up the win from
the penalty spot 11 minutes
from time after Carles Puyol handled in the area.
(the quotas) from 2010 with
at least four national players
on the pitch, going up to five
players in 2011 and the full
six by 2012,” he added. “I will
also ask the Congress for a
mandate to take the issue up
with the other main political
and sporting authorities.”
Blatter said there would be
no restriction on the nationalities of the three substitutes
used by teams, meaning that
up to eight foreign players
could end up on the pitch
even if “6+5” was fully implemented.
UEFA president Michel
Platini has described Blatter’s
proposals as a “wonderful
philosophy” but argued that
they are unworkable under
EU law.
Blatter’s plan is set to be
dealt another blow on Thursday when the European Parliament is expected to vote
against his proposal.
“Our view is that the FIFA
rule is not workable and we
favour UEFA’s homegrown
player rule,” Greek MEP
Manolis Mavromatis, who
penned the text of Thursday’s
vote, told Reuters. “I just
hope Sepp Blatter listens to us
tomorrow.”
UEFA wants a deal with
Brussels on its home-grown
player rule which sets a quota
of locally-trained players at
clubs, but without any discrimination on nationality.
In a separate move also
aimed at reducing the number
of players plying their trade
abroad, Blatter said FIFA
wanted to make it harder for
players to switch allegiances
from one national team to another.
Blatter said many countries,
notably in Africa and Europe,
had abused the current rules
whereby a player can play for
a country other than the one
of their birth if he has lived in
a country for at least two years,
or has a parent or grandparent
who was born there.
“After we introduced the twoyear rule we immediately saw
three Brazilian players changing their nationality to play for
Qatar so we have prepared
an amendment that will extend the time period from two
years to five,” Blatter said.
“When you look at Brazil
there are about six million
registered footballers there.
So even if one percent were
interested in changing their
nationality that, still leaves
some 60,000 players, many of
whom will be good enough to
get into other national teams,”
he added. “I’m not a prophet
but it raises the possibility
that unless we do something
the 2014 World Cup in Brazil
could see half the players who
take part coming originally
from Brazil.”
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Lazio’s Valon Behrami (l) and Ousmane Dabo (r) fight for the ball with Inter Milan’s Pele
during their Italian Cup second leg semi-final soccer match at the Olympic stadium in Rome
yesterday.
ROME- - Inter Milan reached
their fourth consecutive Italian Cup final after second-half
goals from Pele and Julio Cruz
sealed a 2-0 win at Lazio yesterday. The Serie A leaders
will go in search of a second
league and cup double in three
years and a third cup triumph
in four attempts after prevailing 2-0 on aggregate following
last month’s goalless first leg.
Portuguese midfielder Pele,
one of several reserve players on show for Inter, netted
against the run of play on 52
minutes when he slotted into
the top corner from David
Suazo’s cutback.
Substitute Cruz, lucky not to
receive a red card for punching
Aleksandar Kolarov, sealed
victory five minutes from time
when he took advantage of an
error by Lazio’s 44-year-old
keeper Marco Ballotta following Pele’s cross.
Moments earlier, Inter defender Marco Materazzi had
been dismissed for a wild tackle while coach Roberto Mancini was sent to the stands for
protesting in a bad-tempered
game.
Inter, who met Pope Benedict
during the day, won despite
being second best for much
of the game and being more
concerned with retaining their
Italian title by beating Siena on
Sunday.
Lazio, mid-table in Serie A,
put out their strongest side in
contrast and almost took the
lead after two minutes when
Cristian Ledesma’s free kick
struck the post.
Strikers Tommaso Rocchi
and Goran Pandev also had
decent chances for the hosts,
whose only hope of reaching
the UEFA Cup next season has
been extinguished.
Lazio fans expressed their
disapproval towards club president Claudio Lotito at the end
and coach Delio Rossi did not
want to discuss his position.
“Lazio have not had a great
season...but it is not all negative. I have to speak with the
president, I have a contract,”
he told Rai television.
Holders Roma, 1-0 up from
the first leg, visit Catania on
Thursday in their semi-final
second leg.
If Inter fail to beat Siena,
second-placed Roma could
still snatch the title so Luciano
Spalletti is also expected to rest
several players with an eye on
Sunday’s game with Atalanta.
Roma and Inter have contested the last three finals. This
year’s showpiece is in Rome on
May 24.
PARIS-- Paris St Germain will
appeal against the decision to
ban them from defending the
League Cup next season after some of their fans held up
an abusive banner during this
season’s final, the club said on
Wednesday.
The banner was briefly unfurled after the interval of the
League Cup final on March
29, which PSG won 2-1 against
northern club Racing Lens. It
referred to a film about the life
of the Ch’tis, a nickname for
the people of northern France,
which is breaking box office records in France.
It read: “Paedophiles, unemployed, inbred: welcome
among the Ch’tis.”
The French League (LFP)
ruled last week the club would
not be allowed to enter next
season’s League Cup.
PSG, third from bottom in
Ligue 1 with two matches left,
qualified for the French Cup final on Tuesday with a 1-0 win at
second division Amiens.
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which had been dogged by
anti-Chinese protests on its
world tour.
Three months to the day
before the Games open,
members of a 31-strong
Real Madrid’s goalkeeper Iker Casillas makes a save against
Barcelona during their Spanish first division soccer match at
Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid yesterday.
MADRID-- Real Madrid
celebrated their league title
triumph in style by crushing
arch-rivals Barcelona 4-1 at
the Bernabeu yesterday and
helping deprive the Catalans of an automatic place
in the Champions League.
First-half goals from
Raul and Arjen Robben, a
classy strike from Gonzalo
Higuain and a Ruud van
Nistelrooy penalty earned
Bernd Schuster’s side an
emphatic win that delighted
the home fans packed into
the rain-soaked stadium.
Defeat for Barcelona,
combined with Villarreal’s
2-0 victory at relegationthreatened
Recreativo
Huelva left the Catalans
seven points behind Manuel Pellegrini’s side who will
now finish second in the
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team reached the top of
the 8,848-metre (29,030-ft)
peak carrying the Olympic
flame in a lantern before
lighting the torch.
Weather had delayed the
ascent for days.
Security around the
world’s highest mountain,
which sits astride the border of the Chinese region of
Tibet and Nepal, was tight
as China sought to prevent
any demonstrations marring the spectacle.
Anti-Chinese protesters
caused serious disruption
to some legs of the main
torch relay on its journey
around the world after the
deadly March 14 riots in
Lhasa and subsequent unrest in other Tibetan areas
of China.
The climbing team, which
included 22 Tibetans, eight
Han Chinese and one man
from the Tujia minority,
had been on the mountain
for more than a week preparing the route along the
north-east ridge.
Two days of snow at the
weekend destroyed some of
the roped paths and camps
but by Wednesday the penultimate camp at 7,790
metres was renovated and
the climbers, also including
three women, braced for
the final push.
Beijing organisers paused
the main torch relay, which
was scheduled to passes
through the southern city
of Shenzhen, while the final
push for the summit was
taking place.
The Everest flame will
be reunited with the main
flame later in the relay, possibly when it passes through
Lhasa in mid-June.
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PALERMO, Sicily-- Giro
d’Italia organiser Angelo
Zomegnan boasted this
week that the race had a
better field than the Tour de
France and was again keeping his fingers crossed that it
would not be overshadowed
by doping scandals.
Top riders
GBR Bradley McGee
USA Jens Voigt
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AUS Erik Zabel
GER Markus Eichler
Zomegnan took over in 2005
as director of the three-week
competition, which starts on
Saturday in Palermo, and
every year since it has been
marred by high-profile riders
failing dope tests or by police
raids and investigations.
“Nobody knows if there will
Top riders
GER Evgeni Petrov
GER Mikhail Ignatiev
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EVEREST BASE CAMP,
China-- The Olympic torch
was at the top of Mount
Everest on Thursday, the
crowning moment of the
Beijing Games torch relay
THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, May 8, 2008
RUS
RUS
be any doping scandals at
this year’s Giro d’Italia but
I’m hopeful and I think it’ll
be a great race,” Zomegnan
told Reuters. “There will always be someone who tries
to cheat in sport, just like in
life but all the riders have
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