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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Flag Luxury development, showing villas in the foreground, part of the
golf course and the Golf Club in the background.
ANGUILLA--On Thursday the
elected members of the House
of Assembly discussed at length
a motion put forward by Chief
Minister Osbourne Fleming
that the Government of Anguilla should take any and all
reasonable steps to facilitate the
completion of the Flag Luxury
Properties project. The motion
was passed although the two opposition members were opposed
to it.
The Chief Minister gave a history of the project that started in
2002 and praised Robert Siller-
IN BRIEF
• Airport
TRAVEL
FRAUD
Five Haitian nationals, including
a man once held for forgery, were
detained at Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIA) Tuesday for allegedly attempting enter St. Maarten
with false documents, police said Friday. Page 3.
• Philipsburg
ECONOMIC
GROWTH
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has welcomed the resurgence of economic
growth in the Netherlands Antilles.
Page 4.
• Marigot
JUDGMENT
PENDING
After numerous postponements,
judges will finally hand down a verdict on the 2006 Club Orient Resort
hostage case on October 23, after
testimonies of both plaintiff and defendant were heard in the Palais de
Justice on Thursday. Page 7.
man for his part in the project as
the major shareholder of Flag.
Fleming described the project
as one of the best golf course
projects in the Caribbean. The
golf course was opened in 2005
but the hotel and residences are
still under construction. Fleming
stressed that the project changed
the country as so many businesses and individuals have benefited
from it.
He detailed all the companies
that have benefited and the
amount of money the island has
received in duty, stamp duty,
business licences, fuel, living
expenses, rental of heavy equipment, concrete, labour and
many services, amounting to an
estimated US $130 million. He
said that over US $5 million was
spent in rent alone, and Anguillians who were renting their
Continued on page 15
BELVEDERE--St.
Maarten
Housing Development Foundation has won a small battle
against mushrooming subletting
problems in Belvedere and the
mobile homes clusters. Two longtime sub-letters were told by the
court to vacate the unit they are
occupying illegally in two days or
face eviction by the marshal.
Housing Foundation Director
Michael Fowler told The Daily
Herald that two removal orders
were received for a sub-letter in
U.S. 50 CENTS / NAf. 1.-- / EC$ 1.25
Belvedere and another in Foga,
Sucker Garden. The Foga subletter was actually allowed to stay
in the home for more than a year
after the subletting was discovered on the intervention of social affairs commissioner Louie
Laveist. However, the court eventually ruled in the case and found
sufficient evidence to order the
sub-letter to pack his bags.
Fowler said the foundation is
not happy about having to deliver
removal orders to people but sub-
letting does rob other people who
have a dire need for proper housing and have gone through the official process.
The removal orders were delivered to the sub-letters on Friday
and they now have 48 hours to
leave the premises or the case will
be handed to the marshal who will
clear the unit and bar the doors.
“I think even the court is a little
tired of these sub-letters and rent
defaulters because in the past
Continued on page 9
St. Maarten Telecommunications Holding N.V.’s new CEO Pieter Drenth informs employees Thursday of St. Maarten
Telephone Company TelEm, TelCell and Smitcoms of plans to merge the companies and downsize staff.
~ Jobs will be lost as TelEm is restructured ~
PHILIPSBURG--St. Maarten Telecommunications Holding N.V.’s
new CEO Pieter Drenth plans to
cut a number of jobs within the
telecommunications firm’s landline, cell phone, and international
calling operations as the three departments are fused into one.
Part cost-cutting measure and
part shearing excessive staff,
Drenth said, once St. Maarten
Telecommunications Operating
Company (SMTOC) was formed
from the St. Maarten Telephone
TelEm, TelCell and Smitcoms operations there would be a surplus
of workers.
“At the end, we are going to
have [more] employees than we
need,” Drenth told reporters
Friday at his first press session
since arriving in St. Maarten in
July.
The Supervisory Board of the
St. Maarten Telephone Group of
Companies gave Drenth 19 tasks
to fulfil in his one-year tenure in
St. Maarten, including driving
Continued on page 8
Editorial
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THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
Beware! Uncle Sam’s sneezing!
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WEATHER
Today: Partly to mostly cloudy, with scattered occasionally locally heavy showers and
possibility of thunder.
Winds: East-Southeast, 12-16mph, with occasional gusts to 25mph during showers.
Sea conditions: Generally moderate chop, occasionally choppy in and around showers.
Wind force: 4-5, occasionally 6.
Seas: 3-6 feet, with highest wave action in or near showers.
A small craft advisory is in effect because of occasional heavy showers, gusty winds
and above-normal waves.
Forecast high: 30°C 86°F
Forecast low: 25°C 77°F
SYNOPSIS: A tropical wave moving slowly Westward over the Eastern Caribbean
combined with atmospheric conditions favourable for cloud development is producing widespread showers and thunderstorms over the local area. Some of these
showers could be heavy at times, which may result in minor flooding across roadways
and low-lying areas. The moderate to fresh wind flow across our region is forecast
to weaken late today and become Southeast to Northeast for the remainder of the
weekend.
SPECIAL FEATURES: A tropical wave with a large area of showers and thunderstorms moving West over the Eastern Caribbean became better organised yesterday.
Conditions were not conducive for development, but were expected to become more
favourable over the next couple of days.
A tropical wave located yesterday evening along 48W, South of 19N, was moving West
10-15mph with scattered moderate showers near its axis.
A tropical wave located yesterday evening along 26-27W, South of 18N, was moving
West 10-15mph with no significant cloud development.
Elsewhere, no tropical cyclone development is expected through this forecast period.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK: None.
VOLCANIC ACTIVITY: None.
Outlook until Sunday midnight: Cloudy, with gentle Southeast to Northeast winds,
widely scattered showers and possible local thunderstorms.
Rainfall probability: 60 per cent.
Rainfall potential: 5-10mm, locally higher.
Sunrise: Saturday and Sunday, 6:01am.
Sunset: Saturday, 6:10pm; Sunday, 6:09pm.
The international financial community was buzzing yesterday as the
authorities in the United States of America who, hopefully, know and
understand what they are doing sought to take decisive action to deal
with what has been described as the worst financial crisis since the Great
Depression of the 1930s.
In the words of US President George W. Bush, “America’s economy is
facing unprecedented challenges” and his government is “responding
with unprecedented action.”
Well, put differently, Uncle Sam is sneezing very badly these days, so St.
Maarten and other countries in the US backyard need to sit up and take
heed. They are all likely to come down with a very bad flu.
That, in essence, was the message – even if only implied – from our own
Central Bank of the Netherlands Antilles Director Alberto Romero, who
told this newspaper yesterday that the current international financial crisis might affect the Netherlands Antilles’ economy.
In his words, “All indications are that the American economy will go
through a recession, causing its citizens to travel less.” That, of course,
would have serious negative effects and implications for St. Maarten’s
single-pillar economy which is fuelled significantly by tourist arrivals
from the United States.
One may rest assured that if the local tourism sector is badly impacted
by developments in the USA, the rest of the economy will buckle. The
economic bubble will be pricked.
We suspect that our brothers and sisters in neighbouring Anguilla have
already begun to develop an appreciation for the likely negative consequences for their own country and economy stemming from the bourgeoning financial crisis in the USA. Already, as a result of that crisis, the
developers of the Flag Luxury Properties project, a hotel, villas and golf
court complex, are encountering problems raising another US $200 million needed to complete the project.
This has far-reaching consequences for the Anguilla economy, as the
project which has been largely responsible for a four-year economic
boom in Anguilla is in danger of closure.
When the Anguilla House of Assembly met Thursday and spent more
than six hours debating a government motion on the project, Chief Minister Osbourne Fleming painted a grim picture and noted that it was a
“life and death situation for Anguilla.”
We don’t think he was exaggerating. We hope his colleagues in the US
backyard are listening, taking note and preparing to deal with the likely
fallout from the crisis in the USA.
There is not much of a choice. Uncle Sam is sneezing very badly!
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POLICE STATION
Philipsburg tel. 542-2222
Simpson Bay tel. 545-5500
HOT LINE 108
EMERGENCY 911
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Tel. 542-6001 or 919
HOSPITAL
Medical Center, Cay Hill
24-hour Emergency Service
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AMBULANCE
Philipsburg tel. 542-2111 or 912
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For medical emergencies after clinic
hours, from 6:00 pm - 8:00 am and during
weekends and holidays, all patients of
hereunder mentioned family doctors can go
to the emergency room of the St. Maarten
Medical Center, tel.: 543-1111 (ext. 1): Dr. A.
Arrindell, Dr. F. Bouman, Dr. F. Bus, Dr. H.
Deketh, Dr. A. Herles, Dr. G. ban Osch, Dr.
G. Spencer, Dr. P. Arrindell, Dr. G. Bryson,
Dr. J. Datema, Dr. G. Foeken, Dr. L. Knol, Dr.
A. Raghosing and Dr. U. Tjaden.
SXM Animal Welfare Foundation
Ambulance Team 520-8887
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TELEPHONE INFO
Tel-em: 542-2211
E. Caribbean Cellular: 542-4100
Weather Info: 123
ST. MAARTEN TOURIST OFFICE
W.G. Buncamper road, Vineyard
Building, tel. 542-2337, fax. 542-2734
ST MAARTEN ZOO
Madame Estate: tel. 543-2030
Open daily 10 am - 6 pm.
October-March 9 am - 5 pm.
Admission: Adults: $10, kids $5.
COLE BAY COMMUNITY COUNCIL:
meeting 1st. Thursday of month at Sun
Flower Kinder Garten School, Union Rd.
Cole Bay at 7:30pm
SERVICE CLUBS
ROTARY meeting at Divi Little Bay Beach
Resort, every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m.
Rotary Mid Isle meets every Tuesday 6-8pm,
Le Charolais Restaurant, Royal Islander
Club, Maho Plaza.
Rotary Sunrise meets every tuesday at 6:45
am. at Air Lekkerbek
LIONS meeting at the Upper Princess
Quarter Community Centre Lions Den in
Sucker Garden every 1st and 3rd Tuesday
of the month at 8 p.m.
ST.MAARTEN LEO CLUB meeting at
Jubilee Library 1st, 3rd Friday every month
at 6:30 p.m.
KIWANIS meets at Wifol Building on
Thursday each month at 7.30pm. Kiwanis
Agenda St. Maarten / St. Martin
Key Club of the St. Maarten Academy
meeting at the St. Maarten Academy every
Friday at 1.30 p.m.
KIWANIS SOUALIGA 1st & 3rd Monday
7:00pm Holland House
JCI St. Maarten (JAYCEES) meeting at
the UTS Training and Development Center
every last Thursday of the month.
PHILIPSBURG TOASTMASTERS CLUB
bi-monthly sessions every first and third
Thursday of every month at the Library
conference room at 8:00 p.m.
STMARTIN MUSEUM
Frontstreet 7, Philipsburg, tel 542-4917
Opening hours from March 1st:
Monday - Friday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. - 12 noon
Sundays: closed.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
Mon-Sat, 6-7pm, Red Cross Building, Airport
Road. Saturday and Sunday at Mullet Bay
beach next to restaurant 8.30-9:30am. Tel.
552-2120 / 544-3203
AIDS COORDINATOR Shanna van Eer
tel 5422079 Health Department, e-mail:
healthaf@sintmaarten.net.
NATURE FOUNDATION ST. MAARTEN
Wellsberg Street 1A, units 25-26, Cole Bay •
Tel. 544-4267, Fax. 544-4268.Email: info@
naturefoundationsxm.org
ANIMALS R. FRIENDS
Mailbox La Palapa Center, Simpson Bay •
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PHILIPSBURG JUBILEE LIBRARY
Ch.E.W.Vogestr. 12, Tel. 542-2970.
Open: Mo: 4-6.30, Tu: 9-12.30/4-9, We/
Fri: 9-12.30/4-6.30, Th: 4-9, Sa: 10-1.
WOMEN’S DESK, Frontstreet 141 (opposite
Tel-Cell). Monday - Friday 9am-5pm. Tel:
542-7940, Fax: 542-7941.
E-mail: womensdesk@sintmaarten.net
SAFE HAVEN, providing shelter and support
to victims of family violence. POB 636;
Hotline: 9333; Office 9277; Fax: 9368
CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT, E.C. Richardson
street 11-b; Tel. 542-1000/542-1008; Fax: 5421001
FRENCH HONORARY CONSUL, POBox
803, Philipsburg. Tel: (00590) 879989.
Fax: (00590) 879625. E-mail: Stanislas.
GRAIRE@wanadoo.fr
COAST GUARD NA&A, (24 HRS): 113
LEGAL AID CENTER, Law Clinic, open
every Saturday 9:00am - 12.00 noon.
Free advise on personal legal issues.
Administration Building, tel. 5422337
THE ST. MAARTEN RED CROSS, (24hrs),
#34 Airport Road Simpson Bay, Tel. 5455263/52304, Fax. 54-52333.
Email: redcross@sintmaarten.net.
For activities call: 556-4357
SALVATION ARMY Union Rd 59 Cole Bay
POBox5184 Tel/fax:5445424 cell:5477353
Sun 9:00am, Tue 7:00pm, Wed 6:30pm, Thu
7:00pm, Sat 4:00pm
ST.MAARTEN CHAPTER OF BUSINESS
AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN holds
their general monthly meetings every third
Monday at the Delta Hotel at 7:00 pm.
DIABETES FOUNDATION OF ST. MAARTEN,
Free blood-glucose testing every Thursday
from 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. at the Philipsburg
Pharmacy Voges street, Philipsburg
(opposite library). Tel.: 542-3001
USO St. Maarten/St. Martin (USA militairy),
contact Janet Lambert 5577616 or 00590
590 294406.
SKALCLUB ST. MAARTEN/ST. MARTIN
meets 1st Tuesday of the month. For
location call: 5424432 (Jennifer).
ST. MARTIN
POLICE MUNICIPALE
tel. (00590) 590 87.50.04
GENDARMERIE
tel. (00590) 590 87.50.10
FIRE DEPARTMENT
tel. (00590) 590 87.50.08
AMBULANCE
Tel. (00590) 590 52-00-52
Cell. (00590) 690 57-13-28
Fax. (00590) 590 29-08-11
HOSPITAL tel. (00590) 590 52 25 25
DISPENSAIRE Marigot
8 a.m. - 3p.m. tel. (00590) 590 87.50.93
DISPENSAIRE Orléans
8 a.m. - 3 p.m. tel. (00590) 590 87.37.21
C.R.O.S.S. (Center, Research, Organization,
Rescue, Security) is on stand by 24 hours at
0596 709292.
SERVICE CLUBS
ROTARY Club St. Martin-Nord meeting
at Flamboyant Hotel, Baie Nettle every
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.
Islands
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
Nieuwe Post Netherlands Antilles Director Sydney Paulina (left) signs the Collective Labor
Agreement (CLA) that is expected to benefit 245 postal employees alongside Nieuwe Post
N.V. Director Paul Riviere (second left) and Windward Islands Civil Servants Union/Private Sector Union (WICSU/PSU) President William Reed on Friday.
~ Will better post salaries, cost-of-living payouts ~
PHILIPSBURG--Heads
of the St. Maarten and
Curaçao Postal Services
inked an new labour contract for employees Friday granting them better
salary structures, costof-living increase payouts and other benefits.
Some 245 employees of
Nieuwe Post N.V. in St.
Maarten will profit from
the long-awaited extension
of the standing 2006-2007
Collective Labour Agreement that had been put
on the shelf pending discussion about the island’s
constitutional future, said
director Paul Riviere at the
signing on Friday.
POND
ISLAND--St.
Maarten Telephone TelEm
Group’s phone and Internet services customers in
Pointe Blanche can expect
intermittent disruptions for
a few hours today, Saturday,
due to cable maintenance
work, a TelEm representative said Friday.
Union leader William Reed
encouraged employees to
ready themselves to negotiate a new CLA expected
to come into play any time
between 2009 and 2011.
Riviere told reporters the
CLA had been put on hold
in anticipation of the former
December 15, 2008, date
for constitutional reform
within the Netherlands Antilles. When officials made
the announcement that the
date had again been pushed
back, it became imperative
that “we go back and sign
the CLA,” Riviere said.
“You have had three years
to really say the things
[that you thought] had to
TelEm Group technicians are set to work on the
upgrade from 6:30am to
3:00pm, leaving approximately 300 customers from
Sang’s Supermarket on Juancho Yrausquin Boulevard to
Ground Dove Road without
change,” Riviere told employees at the signing/social gathering at Holland
House. “You have to read it
to know your rights as well
as your duties.”
Windward Islands Civil
Servants
Union/Private
Sector Union (WICSU/
PSU) President William
Reed stressed that workers
should make use of their
copies of the documents
and ready themselves to
help devise a new CLA
when discussions resumed
in October. “All grievances,
we want them brought to
the union, so we can negotiate a [mutually beneficial]
CLA,” Reed said.
stable Internet or phone service for that period.
“TelEm Group management apologises for any
inconvenience caused to its
customers as a result of this
necessary work,” the company said.
MIAMI--The ten tropical
storms and hurricanes that
ripped through the Atlantic
and Caribbean during this
busy hurricane season savaged Haiti, Cuba and the
U.S. Gulf coast, and conditions are now ripe for more.
Residents of the Atlantic-Caribbean danger zone
should not let down their
guard, despite a brief lull in
the action following Tropical
Storm Josephine’s demise
two weeks ago and Hurricane Ike’s strike on the
Texas coast, experts said.
“Conditions are still favourable for hurricanes. People
really need to stay on their
toes,” said Gerry Bell, the
lead hurricane season forecaster for the U.S. National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
Forecasters had predicted the season, which runs
through November 30, could
produce up to 18 cyclones,
and the warm sea temperatures, low wind shear and
other factors that contribute
to the formation of hurricanes are still in place.
Water in the Caribbean and
Atlantic is warmer than usual
by 0.9 to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (0.5 to 1.5 degrees Celsius), Bell said. Hurricanes
feed on warm sea water.
Patches of cooler water,
drawn from the depths by
the passage of powerful hurricanes like Ike and Gustav,
have appeared around Cuba
and in the Gulf of Mexico,
but they are not likely to
have a big impact on future
storms.
Wind shear, which is the
difference in wind speeds
at different levels of the
atmosphere and which can
disrupt nascent hurricanes,
is relatively low.
El Niño, the eastern Pacific
warm water phenomenon
that can dampen Atlantic
storm formation, has not
developed. Neutral El Niño
conditions are expected for
the rest of the season, experts said.
“Through October 15th
I would not let my guard
down on the [U.S.] eastern seaboard at all,” AccuWeather forecaster Joe
Bastardi said, predicting another three to five storms.
“Between the 25th [of September] and 15th of October
AIRPORT--Five
Haitian
nationals, including a man
once held for forgery, were
detained at Princess Juliana
International Airport (PJIA)
Tuesday for allegedly attempting enter St. Maarten
with false documents, police
said Friday.
Airport Immigration arrested the Haitians when they
found them in possession
of “false documents such as
false landing permits.”
Suspect D.P. had been arrested at least once before
for falsifying travel documents for persons to enter
St. Maarten. P. was held most
recently for fraudulently preparing documents.
“The suspect has in the past,
October of last year to be exact and recently, made use of
information from the documents belonging to members
of his family to falsely acquire
travel documents back in his
home country of Haiti,” according to the police.
P.’s family resides here legally. P. is in criminal custody
pending investigation and
reports have been filed with
the Prosecutor’s Office. “A
complete report of this investigation will later be forwarded to the Lt. Governor,
for him to take any measures
that are necessary,” police
spokesman Inspector Ricardo Henson said.
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the Caribbean will light up,
but first, something may
form off the Carolinas,” he
said.
Six consecutive Atlantic
tropical storms and hurricanes hit the United States
from late July to mid-September, causing billions of
dollars in damage. Four in a
row swamped Haiti, killing
hundreds of people.
Gustav and Ike crushed
Cuba before heading off to
the U.S. Gulf Coast, where
they rampaged through oil
and gas fields.
At this point, just after the
statistical peak of the sixmonth season, there is no
comparison to 2005, the alltime record-breaker with 28
storms, when forecasters ran
out of storm names and had
to resort to the Greek alphabet. That year spawned
Hurricane Katrina, which
devastated New Orleans.
Rita formed on September 18, 2005. It was the 17th
storm of the season and
eventually became a 180
mph (290 kph) monster,
one of the strongest hurricanes in history.
But not even in 2005 did six
storms in a row hit the United States. In fact, the U.S.
National Hurricane Center
says that so far it has not
found another year since
records began in 1851 in
which the United States was
hit by six tropical cyclones in
a row. (Reuters)
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PHILIPSBURG--The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
has welcomed the resurgence
of economic growth in the
Netherlands Antilles. The
organisation commended the
authorities for their efforts
to implement key reforms
ahead of the legal and political dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles, now planned
for January 2010.
A big push is underway to
implement necessary policy
changes and reforms.
The broad range of reforms proposed in the
draft tripartite protocol
agreed between labour,
government and business
representatives to improve
productivity, and the social
economic initiative indicate
strong support for seizing
this
“once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity” to undertake
necessary reforms, the IMF
stated after concluding its
bilateral discussions with
the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Netherlands
Antilles on September 15.
The IMF also encouraged
the authorities to take the
opportunity provided by
the large debt relief from
the Netherlands Government under the dissolution
agreement to set the budget
and the economy on a more
sustainable footing.
“Progress will now need
to be made to resolve outstanding issues, particularly
regarding the timing and
modalities of debt relief,
and post-dissolution institutions. Balanced economic
growth can be expected to
continue over the medium
term, provided that investor confidence – instigated
by fiscal discipline and debt
relief – is maintained,” the
IMF board of directors said
in its assessment.
The directors considered
that the exchange rate pegging of the Netherlands
Islands
Antilles guilder to the U.S.
dollar had served the economy well and remained appropriate.
They welcomed the recent
indications of strengthening competitiveness. They
took note of the staff’s assessment that the exchange
rate of the currency was
broadly in line with fundamentals and that the size of
the current account deficit
expected over the medium
term appeared to be manageable.
The directors welcomed as
well the measures envisaged
to underpin the balanced
budget rule and the plans
to achieve balanced current
budgets from 2009 onwards.
They supported plans to sustain revenues by broadening
the tax base and rebalancing
the tax burden.
Recent steps to control
healthcare cost and reform
the pension system should
help alleviate strains on
public finances. The directors emphasised that fiscal
policy would need to take
into account the cost of
targeted income subsidies
to mitigate the impact of
increased prices and higher
levels of indirect taxes on
the poorest households.
Additional expenditure
savings will be needed,
including through entitlement reforms, civil service
rationalisation, wage restraint, and further pension
reform, to achieve budget
balance while meeting key
social spending needs.
The directors noted the
critical importance of managing the impact of debt
relief on financial sector
balance sheets. They welcomed the Central Bank’s
planned policy response:
to seek agreement with the
Netherlands government
on a gradual schedule of
debt relief to avoid excess
liquidity, to tighten mon-
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
etary policy, and to ease
gradually capital controls
on institutional investors.
They considered the financial sector to be broadly
healthy, but called for vigilance in the probably more
challenging and competitive environment that lies
ahead. “As the opportunity
to invest in risk-free government securities declines
and lending margins narrow, financial institutions
may be impelled toward
greater risk-taking in order
to preserve profitability.
Thus, the Central Bank will
need to monitor bank lending standards closely.”
The directors observed
that, given the limited macroeconomic policy tools
available, structural reforms
– including supportive tax
and labour market policies
– would be key to preserving investor confidence and
external competitiveness.
The broad spectrum of reforms envisaged in the draft
tripartite protocol between
the government, employers, and the labour unions
should help in this regard.
The directors recommended that the reforms be implemented as a package, to
facilitate their acceptance
by all concerned parties.
The IMF concluded that
a long period of stagnation
had ended in the Netherlands Antilles, as investor confidence had been
boosted by the prospect of
large-scale debt relief and
fiscal responsibility under
the December 2005 constitutional agreement.
Economic growth accelerated sharply in 2007 to 3.8
per cent, driven by investments in infrastructure, the
housing and tourism sectors, and increased private
consumption. Preliminary
indications are that the
growth momentum is continuing in 2008.
Chief Executive Officer of the planned “Be A Pilot Club West Indies” Shaigan Marten
(left) and Chief Instructor Michael Awai II (right) will be registering persons interested in
joining the club focused on aviation-related topics. According to Marten, “The club will
provide the youth of the Caribbean with an apprentice level to aviation and develop within
them skills in the areas of teamwork, communication and leadership.” Registration will
be held at the Met Office on Airport Boulevard (opposite the Texaco gas station) is set for
Saturday and Sunday, 9:00-11:00am.
PHILIPSBURG--Central
Government civil servants
in St. Maarten have received
a letter dated September
17 from Personnel Affairs
Minister Roland Duncan
reconfirming that the December 8, 2007, agreement
on transfer of personnel
will remain valid and fully
enforceable, although the
December 15, 2008, date
for constitutional change
will not be met.
In the December 8, 2007
agreement, the island territories and the Central
Government agreed to
work closely together to
implement the transfer of
personnel.
Consensus was reached on
the guarantee that persons
who work on a particular
island for the Central Government or Island Government would be transferred
to the new entity immediately after the new status
went into effect.
New personnel employed
by the Central Government
after December 8, 2007
(the date the document was
signed), will not fall under
this guarantee unless the island territory receiving the
personnel agrees to it.
Curaçao added to this point
of departure that in case of
superfluity of personnel, all
entities must carry the responsibilities. However, St.
Maarten did not agree with
this point of view and added
this disagreement in the
document.
Parties agreed as well on
establishing the inventory
of the Central Government
personnel. The target date
for finalising the inventory
was set for May 1. Together
with the unions representing
the civil servants, a social plan
and a migration plan will be
drafted to guide the transfer,
guaranteeing that the legal
positions of all workers will
be safeguarded.
MARIGOT--Three
men
between 21 and 23 years
were taken into custody on
Tuesday by Gendarmes after a large amount of drugs
was found in an apartment
in Marina Port La Royale,
Marigot.
About 12 Gendarmes and
nine other officers from Brigade de Recherches raided
the apartment at 5:30pm
and arrested the occupants.
Some 2.4kg of cannabis and
15 grams of cocaine, as well
as cash money, were found
in the apartment.
Two of the three suspects
will be summoned to court
in St. Martin on December 18, while the third was
transferred to Guadeloupe
yesterday.
The Gendarmerie stated
that tip-offs often received
from the public, neighbours,
or clients of the marina
have assisted or prompted
investigations into these illegal activities.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
In recognition of the International Coastal Cleanup effort, pupils of the Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. Primary School cleaned up the Guana Bay Beach on Friday morning.
GUANA BAY--Pupils of
the Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. Primary School dropped
their books and took up
the mantle of cleaning the
Guana Bay Beach on Friday morning.
The cleanup campaign is
in recognition of the International Coastal Cleanup
effort taking place throughout the world during the
month of September. Over
57 pupils of the cycle two
year one (formerly grade
three) and cycle two year
two (formerly grade four)
classes participated in this
volunteer event.
“The clean up was an overwhelming success especially
since they found over 445
pounds of trash within the
time we were there,” Teacher Stuart Johnson said. The
field trip was organised by
Teacher Johnson, Teacher
Bell and Teacher Joseph in
collaboration with the St.
Maarten Pride Foundation.
Jadira Veen of the St.
Maarten Pride Foundation
visited the school during the
past week to speak to the
pupils about the environment and the significance
of participating in such a
cleanup campaign. Teacher
Johnson expressed his appreciation to all those who
made this fieldtrip possible,
especially the Guana Bay
Board Room and Jazz Club
for providing beverages for
the pupils.
Jadira Veen (third right) President of St. Maarten Pride Foundation accepts clean up tools
from Lion’s Secretary Jessica C. Vrolijk, President Richard Gibson Jr., and Treasurer
Richard Boyd with Kooyman’s Inventory & Control Manager Roderick Brown.
~ International Coastal Cleanup to be observed today ~
PHILIPSBURG--The St.
Maarten Lions Club will
join hundreds of volunteers
from various walks of life in
the International Coastal
Cleanup exercise, as is customary every year.
The cleanup, which will
be held today, was organised by St. Maarten Pride
Foundation, one of the
key environmental groups
on the island. Lion board
members met at Kooyman
in Cay Hill earlier this week
to present the organisers of
the cleanup with a donation
of cleanup tools to assist
with the task at hand.
President of St. Maarten
Pride Foundation, Jadira
Veen said, “The St. Maarten
Lions Club has remained a
great contributor to this activity, not only in the form of
providing the necessary tools
to carry out the exercise but
also in the form of volunteers.
Our foundation extends a big
lion’s roar of gratitude to the
club membership and look
forward to their participation
every year.”
PHILIPSBURG--Three
existing managers with St.
Maarten Telecommunications Holding Company
N.V. have been appointed
to run the redesigned finance, commercial and
technical divisions temporarily as a precursor to
merging TelEm Group of
Companies and Smitcoms
N.V.
CEO Pieter Drenth announced the appointments
to TelEm and Smitcoms
staff Thursday, saying this
was the “first major step”
on the way to creating St.
Maarten Telecommunications Operation Company
(SMTOC).
TelCell Managing Director Brian Mingo is now the
company’s Chief Commercial Officer in charge of all
sales and service outlets
and activities related to the
company.
Eldert Louisa is the Chief
Technical Officer pegged
to run the technical infrastructure of the companies.
Helma Etnel is the Chief
Financial Officer, in charge
of managing all financial
resources for the company
and reporting to it.
Along with Drenth as
CEO, the three make up
the management team.
According to Drenth, the
team has been appointed
on a temporary basis to
fill vacant positions in SMTOC, the successor and
corporate steward of the
TelEm group’s assets, a
press statement from the
company said Friday.
Drenth told staff the management team would lead
the company’s change from
technical- to service-based.
“The positions will not become permanent until they
are officially posted within
the companies and other
employees are given the
opportunity to apply for
the top executive posts,”
the statement said.
TelEm Group President
Director Edward Benjamin has reached retirement age and will be leaving the company, but has
agreed to remain until the
greater part of the merger
process is completed. “We
are thankful to Mr. Benjamin for his assistance and
now with this new team we
are ready to press ahead at
all speed, because time is
very short,” said Drenth.
He said much work had
already been carried out
behind the scenes to prepare the companies for the
eventual merger. He said
his job in the coming weeks
and months would be to
implement these plans in
the most efficient way possible.
Meanwhile, restructuring
plans for the TelEm Group
of Companies and Smitcoms NV were presented
to the joint meeting of personnel at the Belair Community Centre Thursday,
September 18, 2008.
Drenth profiled the
TelEm Group and Smitcoms NV as potentially
profitable companies that
had not woken up to the
growing competition that
continued to eat away at
their bottom line locally
and, in the case of Smitcoms N.V., internationally.
“We are going to stand
up to the competition,”
Drenth told the TelEm
Group audience.
Quizzed about the possibility of layoffs, Drenth
said the merging of companies would lead to redundancies, but it was still too
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early to say precisely how
many jobs would be lost.
Speaking after the meeting, Drenth said he was
pleased that personnel had
had the opportunity to ask
questions and, in some cases, vent their strong feelings about developments
in the companies over the
years. “I appreciated the
questions and I have promised to follow up where I
can,” he said.
“Based on assessments
so far, there will be no big
bang where it concerns layoffs. Instead I see things
going more in stages as we
crank up the engine and
get the company moving,”
he said, assuring that he
would not have accepted
the job of restructuring the
TelEm Group and Smitcoms NV if it only meant
sending people home.
“The fact is, we need
good, skilled and dedicated workers to run the
company efficiently and
profitably in a leaner and
meaner fashion,” Drenth
added after the meeting
had ended.
Learning Unlimited (LU) Preparatory School chose the
St. Maarten Aids Foundation as the charity to make a
contribution to for the 2007/2008 academic year. LU
Student Council President Robyn McDonough on behalf of the school presented a cheque to St. Maarten Aids
Foundation President Dr. Gerard van Osch and Head of
the Prevention Unit within the foundation Rajesh Chintaman. LU students raise funds and choose a different
charity to benefit from their efforts every school year.
(John Halley photo)
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THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
Islands
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
The Rotaract Club of St.Maarten Sunrise presented a US $1000 cheque to the Rotary Club
of Saint Martin Noord Thursday night as a contribution towards sponsoring a shelter box
in Haiti. In the photo from left: Immediate past president Ronald Wever, International
Director Dina Caprino, Treasurer Neydia Romou, President Solaika Serbony, Rotary Club
of St. Maarten Sunrise President Claret Conner, Vice President Gilles Corbinien and Assistant District Governor Louis Wever.
W I L L E M S TA D - Curoil’s Board of supervisory directors has
asked the management
of the governmentowned company to figure
out whether the drop in
price of crude oil on the
world market could have
consequences for the
fuel prices in Curaçao.
As is known, Curoil and
utility company Aqualectra want price increases
for their products so
as to covers the loss or
deficits due to years of
pre-financing higher fuel
prices, because the Executive Council then did
not want to pass them on
to local consumers.
The Curoil board now
wants to receive an analysis report which would
show whether the recent
drop in crude oil prices
on the international
market would make it
possible to lower the lo-
cal energy prices or at
least keep them on the
same level.
Opposition Island
Council member Gregory Damoen (FK) claims
the board’s request and
accompanying remarks
are a little too late.
“The price of oil has
plunged and is going up
again. I checked that information on the internet
Thursday and the price of
oil was already fluctuating around 99 dollars per
barrel. The price was 91
dollars on Tuesday. Commissioner of Energy must
also tackle these matters
with much more drive.
It seems he doesn’t have
the matter under control.
He must act much more
severely.”
Damoen said it is about
time that the Executive Council purchases
the preferential shares
in Aqualectra that went
from Mirant to Marubeni. “A responsible,
reasonable financing will
save about 8 million guilders per year.”
The Executive Council must also acquit
Aqualectra of the 40
million it owes the Island Government. “The
population will then
start noticing some relief
regarding energy costs.”
MARIGOT--After numerous postponements, judges
will finally hand down a
verdict on the 2006 Club
Orient Resort hostage case
on October 23, after testimonies of both plaintiff
and defendant were heard
in the Palais de Justice on
Thursday.
The last hearing in the
case had been scheduled
for April 17, but it was
postponed because the defendants were not present.
The case centres around
Myriam Haar, a former
secretary employed at the
resort, who is suing union
representatives of Union
Générale des Travailleurs
de Guadeloupe (UGTG)
for undisclosed civil damages.
Haar was held hostage
for some three hours by
unions during a three-day
strike at the resort on April
21, 2006, after the resort’s
assistant general manager
was fired. She was taken
hostage when the general
manager refused to discuss
details of the dismissal procedure with the union.
Union captors allegedly
refused her medical treat-
ment, and she was physically assaulted. Gendarmes
also allegedly refused to intervene in a social conflict.
As a consequence, Haar
said she has suffered trauma, heart problems, and
amnesia ever since and has
been unable to work.
Haar’s lawyer Maître Francois Paris recounted details
of the incidents that took
place that day while Malverine Etienne, the principle defendant, said to be
a secretary for the UGTG
union, gave her side of the
story. Etienne attempted
to ask for a postponement
as her lawyer was not available, but this was turned
down by the court.
The other defendant, Patrick Rulle, was not present
as he is in prison in Guadeloupe.
Testimony from doctors,
paramedics from the Fire
Brigade, and a cottage
owner who was also taken
hostage were also read
out.
“Of course she (Etienne)
told a completely different
story, denying everything,”
Haar told The Daily Herald.
“It was all fabricated lies.
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She tried to elicit sympathy
by describing what a terrible life she has, adding that
she was pregnant at the
time and had diabetes.”
Etienne has the right to
contest the amount of damages awarded by the court
if Haar wins the case.
“What I started in 2006
acted as a catalyst to
empower other people
to stand up against this
woman. Because there
had been complaints for
many years,” Haar added.
“I have spoken to other
people who have been kidnapped and held hostage.
One man was a director of
a hotel who was beaten up.
But somehow nobody has
ever taken these people
to court. But I did. And
since then, there have been
more complaints, or cases,
brought against her.”
Haar, who has also made
a complaint to the Human
Rights court, is seeking to
have the law changed, demanding that the consequences of holding someone hostage by a union
should include a prison
sentence.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
PHILIPSBURG--The international financial crisis
may affect the Netherlands
Antilles economy, including
St. Maarten and Curaçao.
“All indications are that
the American economy
will go through a recession,
causing its citizens to travel
less,” Central Bank director Alberto Romero told
The Daily Herald.
Although the tourist sector may feel the negative
effects of the financial crisis, the local financial sector, especially the housing
market will be spared the
negative
consequences,
Romero believes. This primarily relates to the fact
that the local market is still
characterised by “traditional” mortgage products.
Romero said the American
financial market was experiencing one of the most negative effects caused by the
so-called “subprime mortgages.” Banks no longer are
lending money to brokers
and investment bankers
such as Lehman Brothers
and Merrill Lynch.
“This can cause a serious
credit and trust crisis for
the solvency of several players on the market, which
can result in another blow
for the American economy,
although this time there
may be longer-lasting consequences,” Romero said.
Romero had lectured at
the UNA in January about
the subprime market and
the consequences for the
local and world economies.
Subprime mortgages are
loans intended for borrowers who are perceived to
have high credit risks.
Not surprisingly, given
their weaker credit histories and financial conditions, subprime borrowers
default on their loans more
frequently than prime borrowers.
Since the 1970s, several
financial institutions in the
USA have been taking risks
by accommodating mortgages to borrowers who did
not qualify or deserve these
loans.
Romero said the banks
had had to write off billions on their assets when
the problems started. The
problem was not recognised as long as subprime
PHILIPSBURG/LONDON--Following
the
impact of the recent
hurricanes and storms,
including
Hurricane
Ike, on certain parts
of the Caribbean, the
Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) UK
Chapter and its travel
industry
colleagues
have donated 15,000
pounds to the British
Red Cross’ appeal for
hurricane victims.
The Chapter is keen to
help support the region
by encouraging a strong
continuation in the flow
of tourism to the region
and promoting support
of the Red Cross in its
efforts to bring relief to
affected areas particularly in Haiti, Cuba and
the Turks and Caicos
Islands.
CTO marketing director for the UK and Europe Julia Hendry said:
“Although the majority
of the Caribbean has
remained
unaffected
by the recent adverse
weather conditions the
CTO has been deeply
moved by the images of
devastation from the affected areas. We understand over 650,000 people have been affected
in Haiti and the Cubans
have been plunged into
intense recovery efforts
after billions in damage from the hurricanes
and important sectors
from housing and communication through to
health and education
have received a great
boost by workers and
the general population,” she said.
“We are now looking
to help promote tourist traffic and its consequential benefits to
the areas concerned,
and seek support from
the trade for the entire
region in order that the
many unaffected Caribbean
destinations
may be better placed to
help their less fortunate
neighbours,” Hendry
stated.
Donations can be made
online at www.redcross.
org.uk/hurricaneappeal
or by telephone within
the UK on 0845-05353-53.
mortgages were financed
against decreasing and low
variable interest rates, and
the underlying values in the
USA kept rising. However,
the risks were known.
Changes came about in the
process in 2004, when the
short-term interest rates
started to increase. In addition, the price of immoveable goods had started to
decrease since 2005.
Banks stopped borrowing
each other’s money because
it was not clear which bank
was having problems with
subprime mortgages.
However, the chances that
the Antillean housing market will be affected by the
financial crisis in the USA
are minimal.
Romero said the market
prices of immovable goods
in the Netherlands Antilles
had shown an increasing
trend during the past years.
This has led to an increase
in the average of mortgage
loans.
Also, the interest rates on
the mortgage market have
been dropping, creating
the possibility for consumers to acquire bigger loans.
Of great interest is that
the local market has been
characterised by traditional
products and, therefore, we
should not be alarmed by
the subprime market crisis,
as is the case in the USA
and other related economies, Romero said.
US President George
Bush said on Friday that his
administration was taking
“unprecedented action” to
deal with the ailing financial markets. He said he
appreciated the willingness
to work with the administration to address the crisis
“head-on.”
Bush spoke publicly for
the third time about conclusive developments in the
business world.
Turnaround manager Pieter Drenth talks with reporters
Friday about his plans to cut cost and raise profitability at
the restructured TelEm Group of companies.
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down cost to increase revenue, and competitiveness
in the local market.
Every position within SMTOC will become available
for employees, but for anyone not placed after the
restructuring, “we will ask
the labour department for
their resignations,” Drenth
said. The company’s management plans to employ
and place for scrutiny by
workers’
representatives
transparent and discussable
“selection criteria.”
The redesigned and remodelled company is expected to start operations
in the first quarter of 2009,
but “the shop must stay
open” during the transition, Drenth said.
Drenth, whose appointment as “change manager”
was fiercely contended prior
to his arrival here, could not
project the amount of time
needed to make the company
financially viable again, but
said cutting cost, improving
and expanding services, and
altering staff mentality were
critical.
“We want to change from
a more technically-oriented
company to a service-oriented company,” Drenth said,
adding that staff would be
retrained to suit the “more
generic” functions that would
be available. “It has to drive
our cost down. We need a
profitable base.”
Drenth anticipates at least
three years before “the customer-oriented
behaviour
must be written into [the
staffers’] genes.”
Three existing managers
– Brian Mingo, Eldert Louisa
and Helma Etnel – have been
bumped up to chief overseers
in charge of the revamped
technical, commercial and
financial departments of SMTOC. According to Drenth,
TelEm Group Managing
Director Edward Benjamin
is staying on to oversee the
change before retiring.
Drenth was responsible for
turning around former Dutch
national phone company
KPN INS 20 years ago as
head of commercial operations, giving the company and
workers a new perspective in
customer services within two
years.
In a few ways, the TelEm
group is now KPN what was
then. TelEm is also a government-owned company in
need of economic resurrection. KPN is now privately
owned. But Drenth assures
that he is not attempting to
recreate exactly the business
model made two decades
ago. “I’m not trying to make
a clone of what I had in the
Netherlands,” Drenth said.
Drenth met with staff
Thursday ahead of his press
conference to inform them
of the planned changes at
the company. However, the
union, which has been told
of TelEm’s plans, is not yet
ready to comment. President
of the St. Maarten Communications Union (SMCU)
Ludson Evers turned down
requests from The Daily Herald Friday, saying, “When we
are ready, [the media] will
definitely be informed.”
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THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
Deputy Director of Tourism Charles Lindo showing the Tourism presentation to elementary school pupils.
ST. EUSTATIUS--In preparation for Tourism Week
2008, St. Eustatius Tourism
Development Foundation
(STDF) this week launched
a series of tourism education
PowerPoint presentations at
all elementary schools.
Monday thru Friday, Deputy Director of Tourism responsible for Training and
Quality Assurance Charles
Lindo, visited schools to introduce the presentations to
students and teachers.
Two separate PowerPoint
presentations were designed
for students of Cycles One
and Two. These presentations highlight important
questions such as What is
tourism? Who is a tourist?
and Why do people travel?
The main purpose of these
presentations is to educate
and create broader awareness of tourism in the minds
of the children of this generation.
Each school will receive a
copy of the presentations in
the event students and teachers see the need to study the
information in more detail
throughout the year. “It is
my firm belief, that if tourism education is to produce
positive and lasting results,
it should be introduced at an
early age whereby children
will gain an in-depth understanding of the Statia tour-
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they were given time to guest. We can’t stop anyone
rectify their situation. Now, from having a guest.”
the judge has just issued the
Once subletting is susorders for them to leave the pected, the foundation staff
premises,” he said.
pays keen attention to the
Over eight cases of sub- unit to gather the necessary
letting in Belvedere and the information and prepare
various mobile home clus- to move against the illegal
ters have been confirmed tenant.
and measures are being
The housing foundation
taken to curb this practice. is facing several battles inOften, a sub-letter comes cluding a significant numinto the picture when a ten- ber of tenants not paying
ant leaves the island and their rent thereby putting
decides to still earn some repair and maintenance
money here by subletting plans in jeopardy as well as
the unit for a high price. the foundation’s general fi“Sub-letting is hard to de- nancial status.
tect. Even on house visits
More than 350 people,
it is difficult to determine some in critical need for
whether the person in the proper housing, are on the
unit is subletting or just a foundation’s waiting list.
ism product and the tourism
industry in general,” said
STDF Public Relations Officer Roland Lopes.
This is the second year the
Tourism Office is launching
a week of activities to commemorate World Tourism
Day. Tourism Week 2008
will start with a brief opening
ceremony at Fort Oranje on
Monday, September 22, at
9.00am.
Approximately 450 students
and teachers of the four elementary schools and Gwendoline van Putten Secondary
School will be in attendance.
Tourism Week will be declared open by Commissioner of Tourism Julian Woodley. There will also be brief
remarks by Commissioner of
Education Roy Hooker and
Director of Tourism Alida
Francis.
The Golden Rock Song will
be sung by Ebony Rivers,
while students will sing the
Tourism Week theme song
“Beautiful Statia”.
PHILIPSBURG--Cut Creator DJ Outkast will be
a special guest DJ on the
Andrew Dick show on radio Soualiga 99.9 choice
FM this Sunday starting at
6:00pm.
The Andrew Dick radio
show aired last week Sunday and according to host
Andrew Dick it was an
instant hit among listeners. The comedic youth
programme is the only one
locally that showcases all
events that transpire on the
island.
“We try to keep our listeners up to date on what is
happening,” said Rolando
Brison co-host of the show.
The show is based on music, youth related topics,
love advice and all around
entertainment.
The producers of the
show thanked all persons
who tuned in on the World
Wide Web via www.sxmradio.com to listen in on the
programme. “We received
many emails and phone
calls from students in Holland and the US,” said
Dick.
This Sunday DJ Outkast
will be spinning live on the
air giving listeners a chance
also to hear new international and local music. “We
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Cut Creator DJ Outkast.
are going to try to have DJ
Outkast every month to
give our listeners a chance
to catch up on what is happening in the music scene,”
said Dick.
Song requests or greetings
can be sent to Andrewdick-
show@hotmail.com or call
in live in the studio on Sunday at 542-5789. The show
is hosted by Dick, Dwayne
Cameron, Brison and Shanice Powell. The show airs
Sundays 6:00pm to 8:00pm.
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M A R I G O T- - S e n a torial
candidate
and lawyer Patricia
Chance-Duzant
is
basing her mission
around working on
a number of themes
that include cultural
identity and language,
security, the economy,
employment, judicial
cooperation, the “50
pas geometriques,” as
well as infrastructure
and the environment.
She indicated that her
some 35 years of legal
experience and qualifications place her in a good position to defend St. Martin’s
interests in the Senate.
“I have tried to show in
my mission statement that I
am capable of carrying the
message through perhaps
better than others because
of my legal background and
work experience here and
in the USA that has largely
dealt with repression of
minority groups, and situations that extend to juvenile
delinquency, violence, education etc. I think my role in
the law has permitted me to
obtain a vision that is larger
than that of other people,”
she said.
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
Patricia Chance-Duzant
She said she was particularly concerned about security and assaults where it
concerned locals, and even
her own colleagues.
“I’m very up to date on
this. I believe security problems have to be resolved for
the St. Martin people first.
When we feel safe, only then
can we protect the tourists.
When we feel safe, creativity will come to the surface
and we will be nicer to each
other and get back to that
friendly island image.”
Securing land titles for St.
Martiners is another issue
she intends to address.
“People who have
been on the land
for hundred of
years find themselves expelled, yet
somehow people
in France can get
title but a St. Martiner can’t. It’s a
phenomenon that
is inexplicable. Apparently, they are
giving out some ten
titles per year and
in March they were
supposed to start
selling domain land
for the people in Sandy
Ground for 1,000euros. After that it was Grand Case
in July but I haven’t heard
anything.”
Chance Duzant said there
were short comings in the
justice system that need to
be addressed. In addition,
she believes she could make
France understand St. Martin’s problems with respect
to culture and identity, and
the importance of the bilingual aspect of St. Martin.
“I tried to bring out what
is the identity of St. Martin
and it has to do with the
bilingual language which
permeates every aspect of
our life.”
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MARIGOT--Former president of the Collectivité
Louis-Constant
Fleming
is the favourite to win
Sunday’s historic senatorial election and, if elected,
brings to the role a wealth
of experience amassed in
the political arena over
thirty years, not to mention
his thorough understanding
of the workings of the new
status.
Vice-president of the Collectivité Dr. Louis Jeffry is
Fleming’s running mate.
“The advantages working
in my favour are a perfect
knowledge of the most important dossiers and sec-
PHILIPSBURG--Leader
of Government Commissioner Sarah Wescot-Williams extends congratulations to the people and government of the Federation
of St. Kitts & Nevis on their
25th Independence Day
celebration.
The Federation of St. Kitts
& Nevis became an independent country from the
United Kingdom on September 19, 1983.
“The celebration of another anniversary of the independence of St. Kitts &
Nevis provides an ideal opportunity to reflect on the
achievements of a people.
The people and Government of St. Maarten are
proud of the achievements
of our brethren and of what
they have been able to secure. Securing the independence of a nation is a
defining moment signalling
the fall of colonial rule and
often times that of outright
exploitation.
“The attainment of independence for a nation
remains and always will be
an outstanding landmark in
the long history of struggles
of people for freedom. My
best wishes to the people
and government of St. Kitts
& Nevis on their 25th independence celebration,”
Commissioner Wescot-Williams told the Government
Information Service (GIS).
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ondly my affiliation with the
UMP majority party which
for the first time allows us
to benefit from a favourable
national political situation,”
Fleming said in a release.
“If I am elected on Sunday, as of October, I plan to
work on several questions
of importance. First I will
monitor the inter-ministerial “arête” that must fine
tune the procedures of the
Evaluation des Charges
regarding the transfer of
competencies, and in regard to the methods and
the compensation that go
with the transfers.”
“Having represented the
Collectivité at each of the
meetings of the consultative commission, I am most
qualified to dialogue with
the relevant ministers to defend our position. The decisions taken on this subject
are integrated in the 2009
finance law and in the senate. I will be able to ensure
that decisions made in the
legislative text are in favour
of St. Martin.”
“The law/programme for
economic development of
overseas territories is still
being examined in parliament and again I will be in
a good position to watch
over the specific issues that
affect St. Martin. I also
plan to work on securing
the means from the State
to assure the security of the
public and to control illegal
immigration.”
“If I am elected, St. Martin can rest assured I will
work efficiently to support,
facilitate, and complete the
work that has been started
or is currently in progress
by the Territorial Council.
I will represent St. Martin
with the energy, commitment, and determination to
defend our interests.”
Islands
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
Contestants in the Miss Silver Jubilee Pageant. Queen Venetta Zakers (seated) with First
runner-up Cindy Liburd (third right) and Second runner-up Sheona Mills (second left).
(Tamu Browne photo).
ST. KITTS--Under a night
sky lit with exploding fireworks in the early hours of
Independence morning on
Friday, September 19, Miss
Unity Venetta Zakers was
crowned Miss Silver Jubilee Queen by Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas.
Venetta dominated the
competition winning in four
categories - Miss Photogenic, Swimsuit, Onyx Fusion
and Motivational Speech –
as she amassed 406 points.
Cindy Liburd of Nevis won
the first runner-up position
with 384 points, while Miss
Sheona Mills won the second runner-up position
with 374 points. Mills also
won in the Belle of the Ball
(evening gown) and Jubilation (costume) categories.
The Silver Jubilee pageant
was keenly contested with all
six contestants exuding confidence and poise throughout the evening. Patrons of
the show were especially impressed with the innovative
segment dubbed “Onyx-Silver Fusion” which required
the contestants to fashion an
“elegantly casual” outfit from
two plain black t-shirts and
silver accessories. All contestants created surprisingly
creative and edgy outfits fit
for any fashion catwalk.
Contestants for the evening’s pageant also included Janetta Shoy of Sandy
Point, Felicia Silcott of
Keys Village and Kimani
Phillip of Half Way Tree.
The pageant was held as
one of the many activities
to commemorate the Federation’s 25th anniversary
of independence.
THE HAGUE--The Dutch
government’s 2009 spending plans were approved
by the Second Chamber
after two days of debate.
A motion of no confidence
in the government from
anti-immigration Member
of Parliament (MP) Geert
Wilders failed to win any
support outside his own
PVV party.
Analysts said the debate
was notable for the tougher tone adopted against
Wilders by other MPs.
Alexander Pechtold, leader of the liberal democrats
D66, described Wilders as
an extremist and accused
him of racism, reported
Trouw newspaper.
Mark Rutte, head of the
right-wing VVD party
which has sided with the
PVV on some occasions,
said he had no desire to
respond to Wilders’ “wornout record.”
The sight of this lone swan close to the Sucker Garden Roundabout caused quite a stir in
passersby. The swan has moved from its usual spot close to the Floodgates, where it has
lived since 2001. The other half of the pair flew away from Great Salt Pond and has been
spotted in Mullet Pond. (John Halley photo)
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Islands
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
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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.
Subscribe to
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From left: Nataschia Lijkwan (CBS Automation Department),
Carl Buncamper (Head Saba SVP), and Marnell Vosma, (Directorate of Youth Development Netherlands Antilles).
Saba--Experts from Central
Government spent Friday
morning acquainting staff
members of the Saba Office of the Social Workplace
Programme (SVP) with the
operation of the new Youth
Registry.
The aim of the workshop
was to acquaint the office
with how to read and manipulate the new Youth
Registry database that is
being developed by the
Central Bureau of Statistics
(CBS) on behalf of the Directorate of Youth Development.
The registry contains a
record of every participant
with all relevant background information and
progress in the programme.
There are numerous preset
templates for pulling up
formatted reports.
Marnell Vosma of the
Directorate of Youth Development said that the
database was a device that
would simplify tracking the
individuals enrolled in the
programme. Each database
is accessible over the Internet to a well-defined and
limited audience so that the
confidentiality of the information is guaranteed.
The time spent at the SVP
office allowed an exchange
of information as staff mem-
bers reviewed the information which has been entered
by Nataschia Lijkwan from
CBS, who is in charge of
setting up the database and
tailoring it to the needs of
island SVP offices.
Staff had the opportunity
to propose changes or embellishments, which would
increase the value of the
tool. Phase two of the project will bring the data entry
task to the individual SVP
offices.
Vosma said that Saba is
the fourth island to complete phase one, with only
Curaçao to go. The Youth
Registry is part of the mandated national SVP programme to ensure that all
youth from 16 to 24 years of
age are trained to join the
workforce.
Vosma said that statistics
on risky behaviours by youth
were of great concern and
had led to these measures
to reach out to the youthful
population with the SVP
programme.
It assists youth who are
inadequately prepared to
join the workforce and
gives them the necessary
theoretical, practical, and
behaviour training and motivation to become productive members of society and
lead healthy lives.
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ST. EUSTATIUS--Management and staff of Statia Terminal awarded the NuStar
scholarship to Nohely Pieters. Nohely is the daughter
of Statia Terminal’s Manager of Marine Operations,
Gregory Pieters. She will
receive an amount of US
$2,500 per year.
Human Resource Manager Lenora Sneek-Gibbs said
that Statia Terminal/NuStar
is very happy with the schol-
arship programme for their
employees’ children.
Nohely was born on Curaçao for medical reasons,
but came to live on Statia
since the early age of four
months, her father said.
She attended Golden Rock
School and Statia Terminal
School until she left the island to further her studies
in the United States.
She attended Valencia
Community College in Flor-
ST. EUSTATIUS--In response to the arrest on
drug charges of four persons sailing on a tugboat
of Statia Terminal/NuStar
last week Friday, Statia Terminal immediately opened
an investigation, said Statia
Terminal’s General Manager Clarence Brown.
The Port State Control
and officers of the Zero
Tolerance Team inspected
and searched three vessels
at Statia Terminal/NuStar
dock, on Friday, September
13.
Brown said that as a result of the search, all of the
personnel who were aboard
those vessels were immediately tested for drug use
and an investigation into
the matter was opened.
Brown stated that because
safety of their employees
and the community is their
top priority, they have a
zero tolerance policy concerning substance abuse at
the terminal.
“All employees, contractors and job candidates are
required to submit to drug
and/or alcohol tests. The
company conducts unannounced random drug tests
on a regular basis.”
Brown stated that as a result of this strict policy and
their employees’ “strong
commitment to safety,”
they have an “excellent”
record of safe operations in
St. Eustatius.
“Statia Terminal is committed to maintaining the highest standards of safety,” and
“we welcome the inspections from the government
at any time,” Brown said.
ida, where her high marks
placed her on the President’s
List in 2007. After graduating with an Associate of
Arts degree, she transferred
to Michigan State University where she is working on a
double major in Psychology
and Pre-Med.
While in Florida, Nohely
worked as an intern in the
Neonatal Intensive Care
Unit at Palms West Hospital. She said that this
experience solidified her
decision to continue in the
medical field and pursue
her dream of becoming a
paediatrician. “Because of
her achievements in school,
her great work as an intern
and her drive and ambition,
we are proud to award this
scholarship to her,” SneekGibbs said.
It is Nohely’s plan to return to the island where she
hopes to attend St. Eustatius School of Medicine, her
father said.
13B:
This Saba wild male dog was recently caught on Mt. Scenery and was found to be in such poor condition that local
authorities decided to put it down. Dogs that have been
in the wild for some time often cannot be rehabilitated to
family life as pets because of their altered temperament
or physical health. President Evette Peterson of the Saba
Foundation for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals said
that there had been several sightings of a black dog in the
area and a cage was installed, which caught the animal.
The dog is presumed to be the father of pups recently discovered with similar markings abandoned on the trail. At
that time, the mother, also feral, was euthanised. The pups
were checked for good health and put up for adoption.
N.V. G.E.B.E. regrets to inform the general public that the
Water supply to the following areas:
Backstreet, Cannegieter Street, E. Camille
Richardson Street and Walter Nisbeth
Road
will be interrupted on
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon.
NEON BENDER, NEON INSTALLER
AND A NEON GRAPHIC ARTIST
TO START IMMEDIATELY
This water outage will allow us to carry out Modifications to the main supply line at the Sundial
School.
Only serious inquiries with working papers:
send C.V. to info@eye-publishing.com or call: 544-2290
N.V. GEBE apologizes for any
inconvenience this may cause.
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Islands
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
Government of Anguilla (from left): Albert Hughes, Kenneth Harrigan, Neil Rogers, Victor Banks (standing) and Osbourne Fleming. In the back row is Attorney General, Wilhelm Bourne.
FLAG PROJECT...
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houses have lost out considerably with the closure
of the project.
Fleming stressed that the
situation had nothing to do
with politics or votes, but
was a “life and death situation for Anguilla.”
He said that the people
must be more appreciative of what the project
has done for the island and
emphasised the need to do
something to ensure the
project continues.
Opposition member,
Hubert Hughes criticised
the Government for selling prime land for the
Flag project asking, “Is it
sustainable development
to sell your prime land to
build villas for the rich?”
He suggested that what
Sillerman was doing was
detrimental to the future
of the island and they have
exploited prime beach
land. He said he found the
motion distressing and not
representative of the facts.
He said that the original
Memorandum of Agreement was never brought
before the House for approval and there were
many concessions given to
Flag.
Minister of Finance and
Tourism, Victor Banks said
that Anguilla has to compete globally and therefore must give incentives
to developers. Duty free
concessions - including on
construction materials, furniture, furnishings, equipment etc. – were given to
the hotel and golf course
for 20 years.
He said the full duty was
paid on all materials for
the residences. And, in ad-
dition to the direct taxes,
levies and fees, a new Residential Levy was created.
This will be an annual
fee, based on the square
footage of the property.
This will be a substantial
annual income for the
government. There are a
number of persons who
have bought villas, condominiums or residences
and Banks stated that the
Government must take
account of these people
when deciding what to do
as they have a responsibility to them.
“We should be proud of
what Flag Luxury Properties has achieved and we
must work with them,”
Banks stressed.
He said it was important
that the project be completed to avoid damaging Anguilla’s reputation,
and to protect the people
working there and providing services, the people
who have bought into the
project. It was also important to secure the project
that has helped Anguilla
considerably already.
Edison Baird, elected
member for Road North
and an opposition member pointed out that the
Government has leased
125 acres of land for 125
years, which he said was
an unheard of length of
time for a lease. He also
stressed that the Memorandum detailing the duty
free concessions had not
been presented in the
House of Assembly.
Baird said he did not
approve of concessions
lasting for 20 years or the
waiving of the fees for the
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alien landholding licences.
He also suggested that the
motion should have included a direct proposal.
Other members of Government all spoke on the
motion and the Chief
Minister summed up emphasising that Sillerman
took the risk of building
a golf course in a country
without water and should
be commended for all he
has done. He noted that
Flag has put the island
in the position it is today economically and the
Government must try to
protect the persons with
heavy equipment and
homes to rent and those
providing other services
as well as the workers on
the project.
“We recognise the significance of this project
and will put our heads together for a solution, even
if it is just a kind word,”
Fleming concluded.
The debate which continued for more than six
hours, ended with the motion being passed. The
motion resolved that the
Government of Anguilla
should use its best efforts
to facilitate the completion of the Flax Luxury
Properties Project.
The Flag Luxury Project
was halted at the beginning
of August due to financial
constraints that involved
the laying off of Anguillian
and Caribbean workers. It
is estimated that some US
$200 million is needed to
complete the project.
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A N G U I L L A- -A n g u i l l a
food will be featured on
the Food Network Channel
next week, starting on Sunday, September 21.
The programme was arranged by Anguilla Tourist
Board (ATB) in collaboration with its New Yorkbased public relations company marketing group that
seized the opportunity to
keep the spotlight on Anguilla as a holiday destination when it hosted the
Food Network’s “Feasting
on Waves” team to capture
and savour some of the island’s indigenous foods.
The Episode will feature renowned food critic
and Television Host Alton
Brown of the top rated series “Good Eats”, “Feasting on Asphalt”, and “Iron
Chef”, among others.
“Feasting on Waves” will
bring the spotlight on local food using ingredients
and methods to make it
uniquely Anguillian, while
highlighting and bringing
to life the local Anguillians’
passion behind the unique
taste.
A spokesperson for ATB
said, “We saw this as an opportune time to creatively
promote the island as a
destination with diversity
– one with more than just
beaches. Indigenous food
is a part of a people’s culture and by having the local
foods highlighted on such a
programme brings credence
to the fact that the island’s
culinary delights are among
the best in the region.”
Some of the highlights
of the show include Dale
Carty of Tasty’s Restaurant,
Chef Hughes of E’s Oven,
Andre Hall of Halls Unique
Bakery, Christobelle of
Christobelle’s Canteen, the
Dune Preserve, Lucy’s and
local fisherman Ed Carty.
The show will be aired
on Sunday, September 21,
at 10:00pm and 1:00am,
Wednesday,
September
24, at 8:00pm and 3:00am,
Saturday, September 27, at
6:00pm and Sunday, September 28, at 2:00pm.
WILLEMSTAD--The proposal for a bill which could
lead to a judicial declaration of paternity has been
accepted and passed on to
the Advisory Council for
advice by the Council of
Ministers of the Netherlands Antilles.
As soon as the advice is in,
the bill can be sent to Parliament for consideration.
Once the bill is passed, the
law can be promulgated
and children will have extra
protection of their rights.
“This law is necessary.
Without this law, you cannot really speak of safeguarding the rights of the
child,” Minister Omayra
Leeflang of Education &
Culture, Public Health and
Social Development (PAR)
said.
“The child had nothing to
do with his or her arrival in
this world. Therefore, we
must protect that child as
much as we can. With this
law, we will go further than
what was laid down in the
Civil Code of 2001 regard-
ing the rights of the child,”
said the Minister.
“With this law, a child can
legally demand that his or
her father acknowledges
him or her as a natural
child.”
Furthermore, the minister
said that this bill has progressed in such a way that
individuals and committees
have had a substantial input.
“There was concern about
possible problems regarding the law of inheritance
and such, but the knot has
been cut through and the
bill is now at the Advisory
Council for advice. As we
all know, this is a respected
advisory body that works
completely autonomously,
and it will give its advice in
due time. The process can
then be carried through.”
Everyone who supported us in one way or the other
during the illness of our daughter Mireina and to
the White & Yellow Cross and the SMMC for their
understanding and cooperation. A special thanks to
Dr. Offringa and the congregation of the
Praise Tabernacle Church. We truly believe that
prayers went up to heaven and blessings poured
down. We now have a healthy baby girl.
Mireya and Rein Torrenga
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WILLEMSTAD--The departure of Dito Mendes
de Gouveia as Chairman
of the board of Curaçaoowned company or the Isla
oil refinery “Refineria di
Kòrsou” would not have
any consequences for the
negotiations with operator
“Petroleos de Venezuela”
PdVSA. Mendes de Gouveia (59) is also retiring as
head of the Antillean Foreign Relations Directorate
DBB and will now concentrate on his function as
representative of the Antilles at the Dutch Kingdom
embassy in the Dominican
Republic.
Antillean Prime Minister
Emily de Jongh-Elhage
(PAR) and Lt. Governor
Liza Dindial signed the final
draft of the Memorandum
Of Understanding (MOU)
for the Isla oil refinery and
sent it to the headquarters
of the Venezuelan stateowned oil company, Energy
Commissioner Humphrey
Davelaar (PNP) said.
The input of Mendes de
Gouveia in the talks with
PdVSA was of great value,
but it is RdK-director Herbert Mensche who is pulling
the project, said Davelaar.
He confirmed that Mendes
de Gouveia will resign as
chairman of the board October 1.
“Mendes de Gouveia had
said in advance that he took
the position on a temporary
basis, because he wants
to cut down on his work
in connection with his approaching retirement,” the
commissioner said. There
is no decision yet on a new
chairman of the board of
RdK.
Referring to his time as
chairman of the board at
RdK, he pointed out that
WILLEMSTAD--“If
the
wish of the people of Curaçao for an autonomous
status is not at least equal
to that of Aruba, opposition
party Pueblo Soberano (PS)
then opts for an independent Curaçao,” is stated in
a resolution passed during
the first congress of the political party last weekend.
During the congress that
took place on Saturday and
Sunday, the future constitutional status for Curaçao
was extensively dealt with.
The party sticks to the referendum in 2005 and says that
the current coalition parties
and mainly PAR intend to
restructure the Antilles and
deviate from the wish of the
people.
The PS-members also criticised the Final Statement,
the Transition Accord and
other “neo-colonial elements” such as the instruction of the Dutch Minister
of Justice for the local Attorney General, something
that even in the Netherlands
is not possible. “The current
coalition parties PAR, FOL
and PNP are after exchanging the Curaçao autonomy
for a bag of money.”
At the end of the congress,
the party passed a resolution in which support for
political leader Helmin
Wiels was proclaimed again.
This after the parties MAN,
FK and DP withdrew their
support for the united opposition alliance “Aliansa
Patriotiko” with PS and
NPA some time ago. They
didn’t like the functioning
of the alliance.
The PS members elected
a new party board. Wiels
stays on as chairman and
Lionel Jansen as vice-chair-
THE HAGUE--The Dutch
cabinet has pushed its
budget plans through the
Second Chamber largely
unchanged. However, it
did accept a few relatively
small changes proposed by
the governing parties.
Extra money will now be
provided for caretakers
at schools in 40 problem
neighbourhoods, the socalled “Vogelaar neighbourhoods,” named after
Housing Minister Ella Vogelaar who developed the
list.
Money will also be provided to ease traffic bottlenecks and provide extra
funding for the arts, housing construction and transportation for students in
vocational education.
The extra measures will
cost 150 million euros (US
$215 million) and will be
paid for mainly by reducing outside consultants and
reduced subsidies and antifraud actions.
Almost all the opposition’s
attempts to change the pro-
Islands/Dutch Kingdom
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he leaves behind recently
implemented updates of all
the studies about Isla and
has given presentations on
these to the commissioners.
An approved MOU was
sent to Venezuela with the
viewpoints of the Antillean
and Curacao governments.
“I leave RdK with everything ready for the negotiations.”
He said that he does not
want to anticipate whether
he will be around for the
next step in the trajectory
but that “We will cross that Wax statues in Balongsari portray the atrocities of Dutch militaries on December 9, 1947.
bridge when we get there.” (NRC photo)
The MOU is simply a declaration of intent in which
the details and mutual demands must be worked out
further. In addition, there
are various factors that can
lead to debarring PdVSA THE HAGUE--Relatives
Hutagalung then began
The Dutch soldiers were
from taking part in the Isla- and survivors of a massa- looking for Lukas Kustar- working on the Rawagede
refinery.
cre in the Indonesian vil- io, an Indonesian freedom case. But until now, the
lage of Rawagede in 1947 fighter, but he had left the Dutch government has
been “obstinate,” he said.
are demanding an apology day before.
and compensation from Saih said that the men The fact that former forwho were actually shoot- eign affairs minister Ben
the Dutch government.
Indonesia was a Dutch ing did not look Dutch. Bot expressed his “regret”
colony and was finally They had dark skins. Two for the violence in 2005 is
granted sovereignty in white Dutchmen watched not enough, he said. “Reman. The other members 1949, after an armed the shooting.
gret is not an apology. I
are Winfred Margarita struggle.
Batara Hutagalung, don’t understand why it’s
(secretary), Ingrid Sanchez
According to villagers, chairman of the Comité so difficult to say sorry.”
(2nd secretary), Jean van the soldiers had shot and Nederlandse
Ereschul- Today, Rawagede is called
Hoop (treasurer), Harold killed all the men – 431 den, became interested in Balongsari. It has a large
Willems (2nd treasurer) people. It was summary the war crimes committed memorial to the victims of
and Sislyn Jonis-Daantji.
justice meted out as the in Indonesia at the end of the massacre.
In one of the houses,
men were running away the 1990s when he read
or hiding in the river. In his father’s unpublished lives the 86-year-old Tijeng. Mattresses are ev1969, an investigation by memoirs.
the Dutch government He read about the bomb- erywhere, 15 people from
into war crimes in Indone- ing of Surabaya in 1945 by five generations live here.
sia said 150 were killed in the English who were help- Tijeng was breastfeeding
posed policies have failed. Rawagede.
ing the Dutch in getting her daughter when her
However, the conservative
Saih, now in his late 80s, back their colony. An esti- husband Nimong tried to
VVD party’s proposal to is one of the 10 survivors mated 20,000 people died. flee from the Dutch. He
take individuals to court and relatives who, 61
“It was the first time I did not get far; he was
for threatening ambulance years later, are asking for was confronted with what captured and shot dead.
workers and bus drivers an apology and compensa- happened back then,” said
Saih and Tijeng do not
was accepted.
tion for the massacre car- Hutagalung on the NRC know the details of their
ried out by Dutch soldiers newspaper website. “In claim. They have merely
Germany the Nazis were given a fingerprint and had
on December 9, 1947
Last week, lawyer Ger- tried and tracked down as their photos taken. They
rit Jan Pulles and Comité far as South America. I are no longer angry with
Nederlandse
Ereschul- wondered why that didn’t the Dutch. But compensaden, a foundation which happen here (in the Neth- tion would be welcomed.
“It doesn’t have to be
THE HAGUE--For the represents civilian victims erlands).”
The foundation has suc- much. Just a small amount
first time since 2002, there of Dutch colonial rule in
are less than 300,000 un- Indonesia, said the Dutch cessfully requested an for a decent life until I die,
employed people in the government must accept apology and compensa- and to give my children
Netherlands, according to responsibility for the mas- tion from the British gov- and grandchildren a beternment for the Surabaya ter life,” said Saih.
the Bureau for Economic sacre at Rawagede
Just like many other men, bombing.
Policy Analysis.
Between July and August, Saih, who sold vegetables,
294,000 people or 3.8 per hid in the river when the
cent of the labour force Dutch arrived. His body
had been under the water
were unemployed.
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Regional
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
GEORGETOWN, Guyana-Guyana is by far the largest waster of energy in the
region, according to an Inter-American Development
Bank (IDB) report, compiled
from a survey of 24 countries
in Latin America and the Caribbean.
And if this country does not
implement changes in the
way it uses energy, it would
need to spend in excess of
US$39 million to meet the
demand in the next ten years,
the report released on Monday last said.
However, if Guyana were to
improve its energy efficiency
by a mere 10% over the next
10 years by investing in energy
efficient light bulbs, electric
motors and other measures,
it would save the equivalent
of 105 gigawatt hours of electricity per year. This means
meeting the growing demand
for energy would cost US$12
million, a savings of US$27
million.
While there was no data
available for Guyana’s overall dependency on fossil fuels, the report said that the
cost of electricity here at
US$0.220 per kilowatt-hour,
was the second highest in region.
Jamaica had the highest
rate at US$0.248. However,
it should be noted that these
figures were compiled in 2006
and Guyana has since had an
electricity rate increase.
The report said the prices
of gasoline and diesel were a
little higher than the regional
average.
However, at US$0.62 and
US$0.16 respectively as at
August 20 this year, they
are far lower than the prices
quoted for the majority of
territories. In fact, only Bolivia, Trinidad and Tobago,
Ecuador and Venezuela had
lower fuel prices.
The report, which looks at
energy efficiency and conservation as a source of energy,
said the region has rich energy efficiency “reserves,”
though it has barely begun to
exploit them, with the exception of a few countries most
notably Mexico and Brazil.
The IDB found that the region is still overwhelmingly
reliant on incandescent light
bulbs, even though these
consume 70 per cent more
power than newer “compact
fluorescent” alternatives and
its factories and water systems use millions of old, energy-wasting electric motors
and pumps. In many countries, it revealed, transportation infrastructure - which
consumes more than 30 per
cent of the region’s energy
- is grossly inefficient. Commercial and residential buildings are full of outdated air
conditioning systems, refrigerators, washing machines
and water heaters.
Whether the region will
exploit its energy efficient
reserves, the report said,
depends on whether governments provide the right incentives, such as tax rebates,
subsidies and regulations
requiring specific efficiency
standards for vehicles and
appliances among others.
The IDB said Latin American governments were spending billions of dollars to subsidize fuel prices. It noted that
the Financial Times recently
reported that Latin America
and the Caribbean will spend
at least US$50 billion in subsidies for transportation fuel
during 2008 and added that
this was more than five times
what the IDB will lend to
the region during 2009. (Stabroek News)
Regional
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
Mia Mottley
GEORGETOWN, Guyana-The Caribbean Community
(Caricom) is providing technical assistance, relief supplies and financial resources
to the countries affected by
the disastrous, ongoing Atlantic hurricane season.
The Caribbean Disaster
Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) has mobilized
its resources in helping to assess the damage and the provision of relief while determining further needs of the
affected countries, according
to a press release yesterday
from the Caricom Secretariat at Turkeyen, Greater
Georgetown.
It said further that the 2008
Barba- tistic, and indeed, you bet- hurricane season has been
BRIDGETOWN,
dos--Opposition
Leader
Mia Mottley has again criticised Government’s tardiness in releasing financial
and economic statistics,
and cost of living and unemployment numbers.
She also charged Thursday
that 3,000 more Barbadians
went on the breadline between January and June,
pushing the jobless figure
up to 8.6 per cent compared
with 6.7 per cent at the beginning of the year.
“We have grown accustomed in Barbados to being able to receive unemployment and cost of living
figures within six weeks of
a quarter having been completed,” she told a Press
briefing in the West Wing of
the Parliament Buildings.
“Earlier this year, I drew
attention to the fact that
the figures in relation to the
first quarter were in fact
late. Unfortunately, there
has been a repeat of that
experience, and the figures
in relation to the second
quarter, which would give
us the statistics of unemployment from January to
June, and cost of living figures from January to June,
released by the Government Statistical Services
Department, have not been
released – even though I
am reliably informed that
that department has completed its work.”
Mottley wondered what
would make a Government, which took office on
a platform of freedom of,
and access to, information,
refuse for the second time
to make such information
available.
“My own information suggests – and I speak deliberately – that 3,000 more
people are unemployed in
Barbados between January and June this year,” she
added.
“That is a staggering sta-
ter understand now, why
the Prime Minister [David
Thompson] spoke in the
way he did last weekend to
the small contractors in this
country.
“And rather than confront
the issue of unemployment,
he has sought now to address this issue by way of
threats and intimidation
in circumstances where we
all know that we do not in
Barbados subscribe to a
Government that practises
intimidation and threats
in the manner in which he
sought to do.”
Mottley felt Barbadians
ought to have been hearing instead about specific
incentives and fiscal stimuli
to increase jobs.
She said the “significant
deterioration” in unemployment came on the
heels of other issues such as
the rise in the levels of debt
collections and the fact that
the point-to-point average
on inflation from May 2007
to May this year moved to
8.5 percentage points.
“That is significant, particularly since we [the Barbados Labour Party] as a
Government were able to
keep it in a range of three
to five percentage points.”
She suggested the job losses trend would continue
through the next quarter
– traditionally the worst
– with Cable & Wireless
expected to shed about 300
and some construction companies about to send home
workers as roadworks,
in particular, decreased.
(Weekend Nation)
especially active and destructive. And between August
15 and September 8, 2008
five weather systems were
formed in the Atlantic, posing major threats to the Caribbean, with one dissipating
before landfall.
Meanwhile, SecretaryGeneral of Caricom Edwin
Carrington said last week
Wednesday that he was
heartened by the response
of member countries to their
neighbours in need of aid
and relief following the recent storms.
Speaking at the end of the
14th Special Meeting of the
Conference of Heads of
Government of Caricom in
Barbados on September 10,
when the leaders discussed
the situation and pledged
support to those affected, the
Secretary-General noted that
even countries affected by the
storms had willingly come to
the assistance of others more
seriously distressed.
Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, The
Bahamas, the Cayman Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands have all experienced the ferocity of the hurricanes. Lives have been lost,
while homes, infrastructure
and agricultural producing
areas have been destroyed by
wind and floods.
In the meantime, the human and economic costs are
still being assessed, but will
no doubt be tremendous, fur-
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ther burdening the region’s
efforts at development, the
release stated.
However, the human toll
has been highest and the
needs greatest in Haiti which
has been affected by all the
major storms to date - Fay,
Gustav, Hanna, and Ike. The
Director of the CARICOM
Representation Office in
Haiti has visited some of the
affected areas in that country.
The Secretary-General also
expressed deepest condolences to and solidarity with
the governments and people
of the affected states, particularly the families of the
victims who perished in the
devastating series of storms.
EILANDGEBIED ST. MAARTEN
NEDERLANDSE ANTILLEN
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad--Finance
Minister
Karen Nunez-Tesheira has
said it will be business as
usual in Trinidad and Tobago and the plan to develop
the International Financial
Centre in Port of Spain will
move full speed ahead.
Last month, she said both
the failed Lehman Bros
investment firm and the
embattled company Merrill Lynch in the US were
among those interested in
taking up occupancy at the
centre in Port of Spain.
In a statement Wednesday
she said the Finance ministry was already “looking beyond the present turmoil”.
Nunez-Tesheira said the
recent developments made
it clear that there would be
no participation by Lehman Bros in the IFC and the
ministry would “need to reenergise discussions with
other parties”.
She said it was still too early to say “exactly how” the
ongoing turbulence in the
US financial system would
affect Trinidad and Tobago.
Nunez-Tesheira said: “The
Central Bank is still examining how these developments could impact on the
economy of Trinidad and
Tobago.”
She said preliminary indications showed the possible
effects to local companies
with overseas investment
to be minimal. (Trinidad
Express)
Het Eilandgebied Sint Maarten, Nederlandse Antillen, verkeert momenteel in
stroomversnelling. Het staatkundige proces dat binnenkort ertoe moet leiden dat Sint
Maarten de status van Land binnen het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden verkrijgt, is volop
in gang. Een belangrijke conditie voor het waarmaken van de nieuwe staatkundige
status is het voorhanden hebben van voldoende, gekwalificeerd personeel, met
name bij het Eilandsecretariaat. Het Eilandsecretariaat is het bureau dat ten
dienste staat van de Eilandsecretaris, de hiërarchisch hoogstgeplaatste ambtenaar
bij het Eilandgebied, tevens algemeen Directeur van de ambtelijke organistatie.
De Eilandsecretaris heeft als voornaamste taak de voorbereiding en uitvoering
van alle beslissingen van de bestuursorganen, te weten het Bestuurscollege en de
Eilandsraad. Op het Eilandsecretariaat bestaan er momenteel vacatures.
Het Eilandsecretariaat Sint Maarten roept thans kandidaten op voor de functie van
SENIOR ADMINISTRATIEF
MEDEWERKER (m/v)
Hoofdtaken, werkzaamheden per taak:
Secretariaat bestuursorganen (Bestuurscollege, Eilandsraad):
• het opmaken van woordelijke verslagen t.b.v. de Eilandsraad/Centrale
Commissie;
• het assisteren bij het opstellen van de oproep met agenda, de bekendmaking,
de uitnodiging aan derden voor vergaderingen van de Eilandsraad/Centrale
Commissie en het Bestuurscollege;
• het inboeken van ingekomen stukken van de Eilandsraad Centrale Commissie
en het Bestuurscollege en het up to date houden van de lijst met ingekomen
stukken;
Coördinatie en voortgangsbewaking:
• het bijhouden en up to date houden van het register met overige af te handelen
zaken;
• het registreren van de getekende stukken die ter afdoening zijn overhandigd
aan afdeling Post en Archief;
• het assisteren bij de voortgangsbewaking op basis van de lijst met ingekomen
stukken, het register met bestuursbesluiten, het register met bestuursbesluiten
op paraaf, het register met overige af te handelen zaken;
• het aanmaken en bijhouden van rappellijsten;
Overige:
• het opmaken van paraaflijsten;
• het vervullen van het secretariaat van het werk- en stafoverleg van het
Eilandsecretariaat;
• het assisteren van de Chef de Bureau van het Eilandsecretariaat bij overige
werkzaamheden.
Functie-eisen Senior Administratiff Medewerker:
MBO-diploma of een gelijkwaardige combinatie van opleiding en ervaring;
Goede beheersing van zowel de Nederlandse als de Engelse taal, in woord en
geschrift
Type- en computervaardigheden;
In staat bent zelfstandig te werken en eigen werkzaamheden kan organiseren
Stressbestendig
Accuratesse
Flexibele en klantvriendelijke instelling
Discretie: vertrouwelijk kunnen omgaan met informatie
Plaats in de organisatie:
Ondergeschikt aan de Chef van het Eilandsecretariaat
Uren:
40 uren per week
Rechtspositie:
Bruto maandsalaris van ten minste ANG 2.850,= en ten hoogste ANG 4.740,=
(schaal 5).
Sollicitatie:
Sollicitatiebrieven dienen, binnen veertien dagen, gericht te worden aan mw drs
C.L.Janssen, Chef de Bureau Eilandsecretariaat, Clem Labega Square z/n, Sint
Maarten, Nederlandse Antillen (e-mail: Cassandra.Janssen@sintmaartengov.org).
Mw Janssen is eventueel telefonisch bereikbaar op nummer 00-599-542.2236.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
GEORGETOWN,
Guyana--The Guyana Sugar
Corporation (GuySuCo)
is likely to lose substantial
revenue as the commissioning problems with the new
Skeldon factory mean that
little grinding will be done
for this crop and the Agriculture Minister Tuesday
signalled his government’s
displeasure at the situation.
The problems at the much
vaunted US$181M Skeldon
sugar expansion project
means that the estate will
not meet its production target this year.
Minister of Agriculture
Robert Persaud told Stabroek News Tuesday that
the financial fallout from
the mechanical failure has
not yet been quantified and
he confirmed that the Skeldon estate will not meet its
production target this year.
Persaud said the government was not happy with
the commissioning failure
and was looking at the obligations of the contractors,
other options and remedies
with the main focus at this
time being getting the factory commissioned.
A senior GuySuCo staffer,
who provided some information to this newspaper
on the current problems
at the Skeldon estate Tuesday, said that because of
the mechanical problems,
cane, which should have already been harvested, had
overgrown (overrun fields).
Watery Chaos: That was what many Barbadians, whether
inside their homes or on the streets, experienced Thursday
from hours of very heavy rainfall. More than four inches
of rain drenched Barbados because of a trough system
combined with a tropical wave and rushing water showed
its awesome power in many parts of the island, tearing up
roads and moving objects in its path. Here in Charles Rowe
Bridge, St George, Barbados, people watch in awe as flood
waters carry a washing machine into a gully. (Picture by
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He said there were blocks
of overgrown fields with
canes, in some cases as old
as two years which could
not be milled into any useful product.
He said additional money
would now have to be spent
to clear those fields and recultivate them.
The senior employee, who
asked for anonymity, said
it was always expected that
the new factory would have
processed the current second crop. He said because
no major problems were
foreseen with the new factory, functioning parts were
removed from the old factory and taken to other
sugar factories even before
the tests on the new factory
had begun.
The parts removed included electric motors, which
have now been recalled so
that the old factory could
be reassembled. The old
factory is expected to start
operation by next week, he
said, but added that returning the motors and other
parts to Skeldon could now
also have an impact on the
production capacity of the
other factories.
Contrary to reports from
the management of GuySuCo that the problems first
occurred during the testing
period September 9 to 11,
the staff member recalled
that the first mechanical
problem was encountered
on August 1.
Before the factory is
handed over, the contractor - CNTIC of China, is
required to successfully
conduct a 24-hour test and
a 72-hour test. Following
this, there would be three
other 72-hour tests over the
next year and the contractor would still be liable for
defects arising from those
tests.
Work began on the factory
in 2005 and it was expected
that the project would have
been completed by October
last year. (Stabroek News)
KINGSTON,
Jamaica-Thirty-nine year-old Vincent Duffus and his wife
Juanita, 32, of Gore Terrace in St Andrew are now
community heroes after
their dramatic rescue of a
man who was being washed
away by raging flood waters
in the Grants Pen gully during heavy afternoon showers Thursday.
Police said the rescued
man was driving a motor
vehicle, owned by Carreras
Ltd, with two Guardsman
security guards onboard,
when they attempted to
cross a ford in Grants Pen,
but the water pulled the
vehicle down the gully,
and eventually lodged it at
the rear of a premises near
Wedcome Drive, off Shortwood Road.
“One of the guards managed to jump through a
window, while the other
was assisted by residents,”
said Deputy Superintendent Beau Rigabie who
told the Observer that the
guards were escorting the
vehicle.
However, the driver was
unable to get to safety and
was washed down the gully.
The police were unable
to provide the identity of
the men, but said they were
taken to hospital.
But even as the residents
basked in their act of goodwill, it was the heroics of the
Duffus couple that were related to the Observer with
enthusiasm.
Soaked and muddy from
their ordeal, the couple exchange hugs and kisses as
they recalled their efforts
to save the man who they
said drifted past their home
in the murky, debris-filled
waters.
“I don’t know where I got
the strength from. I just saw
him drifting down the gully
and I jumped on top of my
house and rushed towards
him,” said Vincent Duffus.
“He washed up and hung
on to the bank and my wife
rushed for a rope which I
threw into the water for
him to hold on to.”
Duffus said that the
man’s weight, “about 200
pounds”, was too much for
him alone to pull, so he had
to hold on to the rope while
comforting the traumatised
man until help arrived.
“The whole time he was
just holding on to the rope
and begging me not to let
him go. I had to keep telling
him that he was all right and
that he should not worry,”
Duffus said, adding that his
wife called firefighters and
the police in the meantime.
“There are a lot of stones
and debris in the water and
he had a lot of cuts and
bruises all over his body,”
Duffus said.
“I am just glad that they are
alive,” added Juanita, who
said that the man had a
huge cut on one of his feet.
Yesterday’s rains flooded
15 roads in Kingston and St
Andrew and St Catherine,
leaving seven impassable.
(Jamaica Observer)
PARAMARIBO,
Suriname--Justice and Police
Minister Chandrikapersad
Santhoki, won a lawsuit
which he had filed against
former dictator and political adversary Desi Bouterse, for accusations that
he had personal ties with
people involved in organised crime.
Bouterse made his statements three weeks ago,
after he made public that
Santhoki’s wife had bought
a house from a career crim-
inal who was killed in The
Netherlands in August.
The judge ruled Friday that
Bouterse’s statements were
not based on evidence and
ordered the former regime
leader to formally publish
a rectification through various media within 24 hours.
Bouterse will have to pay
100,000 Suriname dollars
(US $35,700) for every day
he fails to comply with the
ruling.
Bouterse’s lawyer Irwin
Kanhai called the ruling ab-
surd and said that he will be
filing an appeal against the
judge’s decision.
“How can the judge order
my client to have a rectification published and broadcast via various media within 24 hours? We are going
to appeal the ruling and we
will do everything we can
to have our appeal heard
within the next week,” Kanhai said.
According to the judge’s
ruling the rectification has
to be made immediately,
even before any appeal will
be heard by the high court.
Santhoki’s lawyer Freddy
Kruisland said the judge’s
ruling was a “correct one.”
Through Bouterse, several
newspapers had obtained
official documents related
to the purchase of the house
by Santhoki’s wife. Santhoki said in a public reaction
that he knew nothing about
the transaction and that he
was in no way responsible
for his wife’s actions.
Vincent Duffus hugs his wife Juanita after recounting how they rescued a man who was
being washed away in the Sandy Gully during heavy afternoon rains yesterday. (Jamaica
Observer photo by Naphtali Junior)
US/World
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
BLAINE,
Minnesota--As
the worst financial crisis
since the Great Depression
hit Wall Street and dominated the U.S. presidential
campaign this week, White
House hopeful John McCain
looked for a fall guy.
He found one in Christopher Cox, a friend and fellow Republican who chairs
the Securities and Exchange
Commission. “I would fire
him,” McCain declared on
Thursday.
Problem solved? Not exactly.
MIAMI--Florida authorities have decided not to
prosecute former Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Foley,
who resigned in disgrace
two years ago after reports
that he sent sexually explicit Internet messages to
underage congressional interns.
The sex scandal involving
a six-term Florida lawmaker who chaired the House
caucus on missing and exploited children, coming
just weeks before the 2006
congressional
elections,
helped Democrats win control of the House and Senate from the Republicans.
In an investigative report
released on Friday, the
Florida Department of Law
Enforcement said it did not
have enough evidence to
charge Foley and the statute
of limitations had expired.
“It is important to note that
even if the statute of limitations had not run, there
would be no prosecutable
case,” the report said.
The FDLE said it had not
been able to obtain original
records of the instant messages and noted that both
the House of Representatives and Foley had denied
investigators access to
government computers to
search for saved messages.
“FDLE conducted as thorough and comprehensive
investigation as possible
considering Congress and
Mr. Foley denied us access to critical data,” FDLE
Commissioner Gerald Bailey said in a statement.
A few days after Foley resigned in September 2006,
his attorney said the excongressman had been molested by a clergyman as a
teenager and had entered
rehab for treatment of alcoholism but denied Foley
had ever had sexual contact
with a minor.
After a week that started
with McCain blundering by
talking about the ailing economy’s strong fundamentals,
the Republican presidential
candidate sought a target to
blame for Wall Street’s woes
and outlined a plan he said
would fix the system that
caused the meltdown. That
does not mean his strategy
was well received.
“He chose the wrong scapegoat,” said James Cox, a
professor of corporate and
securities law at Duke University who is not related to
the SEC chairman. “It shows
a profound ignorance of
something (McCain) ought
to know about being in
Washington, and that is the
limited regulatory authority
of the SEC.”
McCain’s advisers acknowledged that many agencies
shared the blame for the
market turmoil but said the
Arizona senator had targeted the SEC because of its
failed regulatory role. “The
SEC did not do its job,” said
Steve Schmidt, the senior
adviser who runs the McCain campaign’s day-to-day
operations. “Chairman Cox,
who Sen. McCain counts as
a friend ... was at the helm
of the ship. There was not
effective oversight. They’re
the regulating agency and
there must be accountability
put back into our system of
politics.”
Market participants, already reeling from the week’s
events, were not impressed.
“I’m disappointed that both
sides, whether its Republicans or Democrats, aren’t
saying `let’s try to fix this’
first before we try to assess
blame,” said Andrew Busch,
global foreign exchange
strategist at BMO Capital
Markets in Chicago. “It’s
very frustrating for the financial market to hear this and
then be subject to the volatility that ensues afterwards. I
wish both candidates would
understand that.”
The Wall Street Journal,
known for its conservative
editorial board, said McCain
had shown he did not understand the financial crisis.
“This assault on Mr. Cox is
both false and deeply unfair.
Colombia President Alvaro Uribe holds up a chart and talks about the pillars of confidence of
living in Colombia while speaking at National Press Club luncheon in Washington, on Friday.
WASHINGTON--Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on
Friday urged the U.S. Congress to quickly approve a bilateral free-trade agreement
that was sidelined in April
by House of Representatives
Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“The sooner we get approval, the sooner we are going to
get much more investment in
Colombia,” Uribe said in a
speech at the National Press
Club in Washington on the
first of a two-day personal
lobbying visit to try to promote the deal.
“Growing investment is
the best alternative to illegal
drugs, and never forget: illegal drugs are the nutrition
of terrorists in our country,”
Uribe said, referring to Colombia’s decades-old guerrilla insurgency.
Uribe said he spoke by
telephone on Thursday with
Democratic
presidential
candidate Barack Obama,
who has been opposed to the
Colombia pact. “It was a constructive telephone conversation,” Uribe said, adding that
it would not be prudent for
him to say whether Obama
said he would be open to a
vote on the pact this year.
Like many Democrats, the
Illinois senator has insisted
Colombia must do more to
reduce murders and other
violence against trade unionists before Congress votes on
the accord. “Senator Obama
had a good conversation with
President Uribe that covered
a range of issues,” an Obama
campaign
spokeswoman
said.
Around 100 union and human rights activists were outside the press club to protest
Uribe’s speech. They carried
signs and chanted “Human
rights, yes. FTA, no.”
Republican presidential
candidate John McCain visited Colombia in July in a show
of support for the free-trade
agreement and for Uribe, a
staunch U.S. ally.
The deal was signed in
November 2006, over the
protests of many Democrats
who just a few weeks before
had won an election that
would give them control of
the House and the Senate.
President George W. Bush
submitted the agreement to
Congress in April, but Pelosi responded by pushing
through a vote to indefinitely
delay action on the pact.
However, Colombia still
hopes Congress will approve
the agreement in a possible
“lame duck” session after
the Nov. 4 congressional and
presidential elections.
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It’s also unpresidential,” it
said in an editorial. “In a crisis, voters want steady, calm
leadership, not misleading
answers that will do nothing
to help.”
President George W. Bush,
who appointed Cox, stood
with the SEC chairman during a televised speech at the
White House on Friday, a
clear sign of support. Cox,
a former Republican congressman, has said he plans
to step down when the Bush
administration ends in January 2009.
Whether he chose the right
target or not, some Republicans said McCain’s move
distanced him from the unpopular president. “He’s
using this as a way to distinguish himself from the Bush
administration,” said John
Feehery, a Republican strategist. “I don’t think anyone
knows who Chris Cox is really outside the beltway (in
Washington), but sometimes
it’s good to fire somebody.”
Or at least promise to fire
somebody. After discovering
a president cannot actually
dismiss the SEC chief--he
can be relieved of his chair-
manship, but not removed
from the commission--McCain changed his language.
In a speech in Wisconsin, he
called for Cox to step down
voluntarily.
McCain also lobbed criticism at the Federal Reserve, saying it should focus
on strengthening the dollar
and get out of the business
of bailouts. “The economic
crisis has been a real game
changer and I think it stalled
McCain’s momentum,” said
strategist Todd Harris. “Now
they’re taking positive steps
to get it back.”
Daniel Smith, a political science professor at the University of Florida, said McCain
enjoyed a political bounce
after he chose Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin as his running
mate, but now it was time to
go back to his strengths.
“He was granted a reprieve
when Obama’s campaign
took the bait, took the Palin
bait and was off message for
a week,” Smith said. “(Now)
Obama has focused his attention squarely on the economy,
his strong suit. McCain needs
to bring the attention back to
international affairs.”
ANCHORAGE, Alaska-The husband of Gov. Sarah
Palin will ignore a subpoena
from Alaska lawmakers investigating whether the Republican vice presidential
nominee’s firing of a state
commissioner constituted
an abuse of power, officials
from her campaign said on
Thursday.
Todd Palin was among 13
people, including several
Palin administration staffers, subpoenaed by a legislative committee to testify
in private or at a hearing
scheduled for Friday. The
governor’s husband, however, refuses to answer
questions to a panel that he
believes is politically motivated, according to campaign officials for Republican presidential candidate
John McCain and Palin.
“The objections boil down
to the fact that the legislative council investigation is
no longer a legitimate investigation because it has been
subjected to complete partisanship,” campaign spokesman Ed O’Callaghan said.
Todd Palin could be found
in contempt of the legislature for failing to comply,
but the whole body would
have to be in session to do
so, and it is not scheduled to
reconvene until January.
O’Callaghan, a former
federal prosecutor who has
traveled to Alaska to advise
the Palins and others implicated in the probe, argue
that supporters of Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama are controlling the investigation. The
abuse-of-power investigation is seeking to determine
whether Gov. Palin dismissed former Public Safety
Commissioner Walt Monegan because he declined to
fire a state trooper involved
in a contentious divorce
from the governor’s sister.
“Nobody is above the
law,” said State Sen. Bill
Wielechowski, an Anchorage Democrat. “Just because you’re the husband of
someone who is running for
vice president doesn’t mean
you can flout the law.”
The inquiry was authorized
by a unanimous vote of
Alaska’s bipartisan Legislative Council. At the time,
the governor pledged full
cooperation with the probe.
Some Republicans in the
legislature have called for
a delay of the investigation until after the Nov. 4
presidential election. Five
Republican lawmakers this
week filed a lawsuit in state
court seeking to stop the
probe.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
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2. 2 BED/ 2 ½ BATH
BETTY’S ESTATE
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OYSTERPOND
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3 BEDROOM/ 2 ½ BATH ON
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SIZE: 606 M2
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6 X 1 BED – 1 BATH APARTMENTS, 1 STUDIO
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2. 3 BED – 2 BATH HOUSE - 2
BED APARTMENT – STUDIO
SIMPSON BAY ON THE BEACH
SIZE: 775 M2
PRICE: USD 2,400,000.00
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1ST LEVEL 1X 3 BEDROOM
APARTMENT
AND 1 X 1 BEDROOM
3. 3 BEDROOMS/3BATH HOUSE
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2ND LEVEL 3 X 1 BEDROOM
ENTRANCE, LARGE YARD
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SPACE, OVERLOOKING
3RD LEVEL 3 X 1 BEDROOM
PHILIPSBURG, AND THE
APARTMENT
GREAT POND, MADAME
BETTY ESTATE
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SIZE: 1, 370 M2
PRICE: USD 350,000.00
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CONDO
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1. 2 BEDROOM/ 2 BATH
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NISHED, POOL, SPA, FITNESS
THE HOUSE IS OVERLOOKING
MECCA, AQUAMARINA
THE CRUISE SHIPS, SABA,
SIZE: 158 M2
STATIA AND ST.KITTS/NEVIS.
PRICE: USD 736,700.00
POINTE BLANCHE
SECURITY, BALCONY, T.V.
VILLAS
ROOM, FULLY FURNISHED
1. OCEAN FRONT VILLA
SIZE: 768 M2
3 BEDROOMS/ 3 ½ BATH
PRICE: USD 580,000.00
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PLAN TO SEA, BEAUTIFUL
CONDO FULLY
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FURNISHED TURN KEY
WITH A HIGH INCOME
OPERATION, WIRED FOR
POINTE BLANCHE
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SIZE: 1,120 M2
AND TELEPHONE PARKING
PRICE: USD 950,000.00
AND LAUNDRY AVAILABLE
AREA: COLE BAY
2. 3 STOREY BUILDING – LARGE
STARTING PRICE:
POOL – NICE GARDEN
USD 140,000.00
OYSTER POND, WATERFRONT EXCLUSIVE PRIVATE
6. 3 STOREY, 11 APARTMENT
PROPERTY, OVERLOOKING
COMPLEX
FRONT STREET - BEACHSIDE
SIZE: 577 M2
PRICE: USD 1,800,000.00
7. NEW SEMI - FURNISHED
APARTMENTS, SIMPSONBAY
4X2 BEDROOMS =
USD 375,000.00 EACH
2X1 BEDROOMS=
USD 225,000.00 EACH
EILANDGEBIED ST. MAARTEN
NEDERLANDSE ANTILLEN
De Sector Educatie is onderverdeeld in vier afdelingen waaronder de afdeling
Onderwijs, de afdeling Sociaal Culturele Ontwikkeling, en de afdeling Onderwijsbeleid,
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• Het maken van werkplannen, begrotingen en bestekken voor nieuwbouw of groot
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adviseren over de uitvoering en bespreken van eventuele knelpunten daarin.
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4. 3 STORE BUILDING
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THE SUPERMARKET N.V.
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International
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
Belgium’s mediators Raymond Langendries (L), Francois Xavier de Donnea (C) and KarlHeinz Lambertz (R) hold a news conference in Brussels, on Friday.
BRUSSELS--Belgium’s political leaders will resume
talks on sharing out powers
between the feuding Dutchand French-speaking communities in October in a
fresh bid to forge unity in
the divided nation.
The move was announced
by three mediators appointed by the King Albert to end
a deadlock in the country
of 10.4 million that led the
prime minister to tender
his resignation and sparked
talk of Belgium splitting.
Six negotiators from the
Dutch-speaking
Flemish
region and six from the
French-speaking
region
will discuss how to divide
up powers between the two
rival linguistic communities
from the second week of
next month. “The dialogue
will resume with a clean
slate, with no taboos or preconditions,” the mediators
told a news conference.
The negotiators could
reach partial agreements
before Belgian regional
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--Searchers are scouring the Rocky Mountains of
northern British Columbia
for a German hiker who vanished while making a 40-day
solo trek through the remote
Canadian wilderness, police
said on Friday.
Officials fear Michael Raster may have gotten lost or
injured on the trip, which the
experienced back-country
hiker reportedly undertook
without a satellite phone, or
a gun that might be needed
to fend off grizzly bears.
The 43-year-old was last
seen on Aug. 1, when a float
plane dropped him off to begin a hike of about 160 km
(100 miles) through the rugged Tuchodi Lakes area west
of Fort Nelson, British Columbia, the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police said.
Raster was reported missing on Sept. 12, when he
failed to meet the plane at
a rendezvous site. The plane
had been delayed two days in
reaching the pickup site because of high winds, according to police.
Searchers, who are combing
the region by air and on the
ground, said it was possible
Raster had underestimated
how long it would take him
to make the difficult journey, noting the weather in
the area is beginning to turn
colder.
and European parliament
elections to be held in June
2009, they said. Political
analysts believe that an allencompassing power devolution deal before that date
is unlikely however as the
main parties position themselves for voting.
Following an emphatic
clear election victory in
June 2007, Prime Minister
Yves Leterme promised to
transfer more powers to the
regions. However, he has
failed to win over Frenchspeaking parties from the
southern region of Wallonia
and the capital Brussels, fuelling speculation that the
country could split.
His failure to achieve a
breakthrough
prompted
Leterme to tender his resignation in July, but the king
refused to accept it and appointed the mediators.
MOSCOW--Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on
Friday accused NATO of
provoking the conflict with
Georgia but he said strains
with the West did not mean
Russia planned to isolate itself behind a new Iron Curtain.
Medvedev was speaking a
day after U.S. Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice said
Russia had taken a “dark
turn” and urged the West to
stand up to what she called
its bullying tactics.
“We are in effect being
pushed down a path that is
founded not on fully-fledged,
civilised partnership with
other countries, but on autonomous development, behind thick walls, behind an
Iron Curtain,” Medvedev
told a gathering of civil society groups in the Kremlin.
“That is not our path. For us
there is no sense going back
to the past. We have made
our choice.”
He said the NATO alliance’s
role in the Georgia conflict
showed it was unable to pro-
vide security in Europe, underlining the need for a new
security mechanism. “What
did NATO secure, what did
NATO ensure? NATO only
provoked the conflict, and
not more than that,” he said.
Responding to Medvedev’s
remarks, NATO spokesman
James Appathurai said there
was nothing provocative in
promoting democratic and
economic reform and supporting Georgia’s aspirations
to move closer to the West.
Russia launched a counterattack by land, sea and air last
month after Georgian forces
tried to retake the Moscowbacked breakaway region
of South Ossetia. Western
states condemned Russia’s
actions as disproportionate.
Russian officials say NATO’s
agreement to take in Georgia as a member emboldened
Georgia to attack South
Ossetia. The Kremlin says
Western states also played
a role by arming Georgia’s
military.
U.S. Defense Secretary
Robert Gates, speaking at
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an event in Britain on Friday, said Russia’s action in
Georgia would cost Moscow
far more in the long term
than any short-term gains it
achieved. Europe and Washington would take decisions
in coming months that could
affect Russian bids for membership of the World Trade
Organisation and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development,
Gates said.
“Russia’s recent behaviour
raises questions about how
successful we can be in trying
to pursue a constructive relationship,” he said.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry
on Friday accused Rice of
distorting the events which
lead to the war. “We in Russia are not going to indulge
too much in rhetoric or be
dragged into a confrontation-either rhetorical or anything
else. We look to the future
and we expect the American
side to do the same,” it said
in a statement.
EILANDGEBIED ST. MAARTEN
NEDERLANDSE ANTILLEN
Het Eilandgebied Sint Maarten, Nederlandse Antillen, verkeert momenteel in
stroomversnelling. Het staatkundige proces dat binnenkort ertoe moet leiden dat Sint
Maarten de status van Land binnen het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden verkrijgt, is volop
in gang. Een belangrijke conditie voor het waarmaken van de nieuwe staatkundige
status is het voorhanden hebben van voldoende, gekwalificeerd personeel, met
name bij het Eilandsecretariaat. Het Eilandsecretariaat is het bureau dat ten
dienste staat van de Eilandsecretaris, de hiërarchisch hoogstgeplaatste ambtenaar
bij het Eilandgebied, tevens algemeen Directeur van de ambtelijke organistatie.
De Eilandsecretaris heeft als voornaamste taak de voorbereiding en uitvoering
van alle beslissingen van de bestuursorganen, te weten het Bestuurscollege en de
Eilandsraad. Op het Eilandsecretariaat bestaan er momenteel vacatures.
Het Eilandsecretariaat Sint Maarten roept thans kandidaten op voor de functie van
HOOFDMEDEWERKER (m/v)
Hoofdtaken, werkzaamheden per taak:
MV EAST PACK NO1
Secretariaat bestuursorganen (Bestuurscollege, Eilandsraad)
• het opstellen van de agenda en oproeping van leden en eventuele derden voor
de vergaderingen
• het bijwonen van de vergaderingen
• het opstellen van besluitenlijsten en/of verslagen van de vergaderingen
The MV East Pack N0.1
will be accepting loose cargo
at the following ports on the dates listed.
Coördinatie en voortgangsbewaking
• zorgdragen voor kennisgeving van bestuursbesluiten aan het ambtelijk apparaat
• toezicht houden op de uitvoering van bestuursbeslissingen door het ambtelijk
apparaat
• het voeren van het secretariaat van het management team
FOR SHIPPING IN THE CARIBBEAN
ST. MAARTEN
Sat, Sept 20
Sun, Sept 21
Tues, Sept 23
Arrive 8:00am
Leave 4:00pm
8:00am - 4:00pm
TORTOLA
Mon, Sept 22
8:00am - 4:00pm
Assistentie Chef Eilandsecretariaat
• het assisteren van de Chef van het Eilandsecretariaat bij overige
werkzaamheden
Functie-eisen:
HBO-diploma, met aantoonbare relevante ervaring in een vergelijkbare functie
Type- en computervaardigheden
Goede beheersing van zowel de Nederlandse als de Engelse taal, in woord en in
geschrift
Accuratesse
Discretie: vertrouwelijk kunnen omgaan met informatie
ANTIGUA
Wed, Sept 24
8:00am - 4:00pm
DOMINICA
Thur, Sept 25
8:00am - 4:00pm
Plaats in de organisatie:
Ondergeschikt aan de Chef de Bureau van het Eilandsecretariaat
ST. LUCIA
Fri, Sept 26
Arrive 8:00am
Sat, Sept 27
Leave 4:00pm
Uren:
40 uren per week
BARBADOS
Sun, Sept 28
Mon, Sept 29
Arrive 8:00am
Leave 4:00pm
ST. VINCENT
Tues, Sept 30
8:00am - 4:00pm
For Information call: 522-9233 or 520-4040
Rechtspositie:
Bruto maandsalaris van ten minste ANG 4.480,= en ten hoogste ANG 6.710,=
(schaal 10). Afhankelijk van geschiktheid kan een incentive-toelage toegekend
worden.
Sollicitatie
Sollicitatiebrieven dienen, binnen veertien dagen, gericht te worden aan mw drs
C.L.Janssen, Chef Eilandsecretariaat, Clem Labega Square z/n, Sint Maarten,
Nederlandse Antillen (e-mail: Cassandra.Janssen@sintmaartengov.org).
Mw Janssen is eventueel telefonisch bereikbaar op nummer 00-599-542.2236.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
On Wednesday October 22nd, 2008, at 10 AM, at the Pasanggrahan Beach Hotel, Frontstreet, Sint
Maarten, J.P.G.H. Schaepman, civil law notary on Sint Maarten, or his deputy, shall proceed with the
public sale ex article 3:268 of the Civil Code of the Netherlands Antilles and as ordered by the Court of
the hereinafter mentioned residential immovable properties.
Information on the properties, in as far as available, and the conditions of the auction can be obtained
from the notary-office at its hereinafter mentioned office-address, as well as electronically at
www.notaryschaepman.com
The properties to be auctioned are the following:
A. ex article 3:268 of the Civil Code of the Netherlands Antilles:
1. a parcel of land, situated in the district of Cul de Sac, at Ebenezer Estate, known as lot 138, having an
area of 352 square meters, described further in Certificate of Admeasurement number 49/1990, with the
thereon standing dwelling house and all appurtenances belonging thereto, locally known as W.R. Plantz
Road #10.
Reserve price US$.161,000.-2. a parcel of land, situated at the district of Lower Princes Quarter, having an area of 384 square meters,
described further in Certificate of Admeasurement number 117/1976, with the thereon standing dwelling
house and all appurtenances belonging thereto, locally known as Saba Drive #10
Reserve price US$.53,000.-3. the right of long lease till February 16th, 2056 on a parcel of land, situated in the district of Cul de Sac,
known as lot 54 of the subdivision at South Reward, having an area of 410 square meters, described
further in Certificate of Admeasurement number 61/1995, with the thereon standing dwelling house and
all appurtenances belonging thereto, locally known as Plantain Road #10.
Reserve price US$.180,000.-4. two parcels of land, situated in the district of Cul de Sac, known as lots 5 and 5A at the “Ebenezer
Estate”, having an area of respectively 383 and 54 square meters, described respectively in Certificates
of Admeasurement numbers 313/1989 and 77/1993, with the thereon standing dwelling house and all
appurtenances belonging thereto, locally known as Lionel Conner Road #27.
5. the right of long lease till December 19th, 2038 on a parcel of land, situated in the district of Cul de
Sac, known as lot 213 of St. Peters, having an area of 500 square meters, described in Certificate of
Admeasurement number 300/1971, with the thereon standing apartment building and all appurtenances
belonging thereto.
6. a parcel of land, situated in the district of Cul de Sac, having an area of 1,230 square meters, described
in Certificate of Admeasurement number 126/1980, with the thereon standing dwelling house and all
appurtenances belonging thereto.
EILANDGEBIED ST. EUSTATIUS
NEDERLANDSE ANTILLEN
7. a parcel of land, situated at Madams at the Lower Princes Quarter, having an area of 510 square meters, described in Certificate of Admeasurement number 300/1987, with the thereon standing dwelling
house and all appurtenances belonging thereto, locally known as Madame Estate Road #26.
8. a parcel of land, situated in the district of Cul de Sac, at Betty’s Estate, having an area of 1,300 square
meters, described in Certificate of Admeasurement number 89/1989, with the thereon standing dwelling
house and all appurtenances belonging thereto, locally known as Passion Flower Road #6.
Offers in writing can be made for purchasing at a private sale in accordance with article 3:268 paragraph
2 of the Civil Code of the Netherlands Antilles.
Such offers can be made to the civil law notary, J.P.G.H. Schaepman, or his deputy, up to and including
Tuesday October 7th, 2008.
Afdeling Financiën & Economische zaken
It is inevitable that one understands the role of Government in executing policies
necessary to ensure the collection of taxes and retributions.
Without proper collection, the Island Government will be able to financially carry
its responsibility of providing the needed services to the community, guarantee
proper governance and assure responsible financial accountability.
The collection of taxes supports the competent functioning of government.
B. as ordered by the Court:
9. a parcel of land, situated in the district of Cul de Sac, in the area known as part of the Ebenezer Estate,
further known as lot L-46, section A of the Waymouth Ebenezer subdivision, having an area of 903 square
meters, described in Certificate of Admeasurement number 474/1990, with the thereon standing dwelling
house and all appurtenances belonging thereto, locally known as Mildrum Road #10.
Reserve price: US$. 315,000.00
10. a parcel of land, situated in the district of Upper Princes Quarter, at Oyster Pond, known as Estate
Lot 39 of the Dawn Beach Estate lots, having an area of 3,067 square meters, described in Certificate
of Admeasurement number 37/1989, with the thereon standing villa and all appurtenances belonging
thereto, locally known as Turkshell Road #4.
The auction will take place by raising bids (in Dutch: “bij opbod”) and by decreasing bids (in Dutch: “bij
afmijning”), in one session.
Prospective buyers please note that buyers will pay the following charges:
transcriptions of the auction deed, adjudication, receipt, possible “acte de command”, transfer tax (4%
of the highest bid) and the fees attached to the aforementioned deeds. Also costs of having the property
vacated shall be for the account of buyer. Possible outstanding ownership charges such as unpaid long
lease rent shall be for the account of the buyer. All other costs shall be satisfied out of the proceeds of
the auction.
Producing of a bank-guarantee from a reputable bank in the Netherlands Antilles or abroad to the amount
of the highest bid augmented by the charges for the account of the buyer will be demanded from the
highest bidder.
For further information and the conditions of the auction you may also contact the office of SCHAEPMAN
& SPEETJENS at Frontstreet 5, Philipsburg, Sint Maarten, tel. 599 5422339, Fax 599 5422439.
In light hereof, The Finance Department of Sint Eustatius is reminding all persons
and businesses that have outstanding amounts for the below listed to please
make an effort to rectify all overdue amounts:
• Land rent
• Rent for building
• Wage tax
• Liquor license
• Business License
• Building permit
• Room tax
• Advertisement
Persons and businesses are kindly requested to please settle their outstanding
debt(s) no later than October 31st, 2008 at the Finance Department.
Unfortunately, appropriate measures will be taken against those persons and
businesses who fail to settle their outstanding debt(s) or make a payment
arrangement with the Finance Department on or before October 31st, 1008. This
notice comes to you from;
The Finance Department
Island Government, Sint Eustatius
International
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
JOHANNESBURG--South
Africa’s ruling ANC discussed the future of President Thabo Mbeki on Friday
after he was accused of interference in a corruption case
involving the party leader,
ANC officials said on Friday.
“We are in the middle of
a debate,” ANC SecretaryGeneral Gwede Mantashe
told a news conference.
A judge who threw out a
graft case against ANC leader Jacob Zuma’s has accused
Mbeki of interfering in the
process. South Africa’s Times
newspaper said the ANC was
expected to tell Mbeki to resign or face a no-confidence
vote in parliament.
But a decision may not be
announced until the party’s
national executive committee wraps up its discussions
on Sunday. The policy-making body is dominated by
Zuma allies.
Mbeki is popular with investors because of his pro-business policies but he is mired
in accusations that he conspired to undermine Zuma.
Zuma supporters accuse
Mbeki of ignoring the poor
and using state institutions to
purge opponents, charges he
denies.
Fired as Mbeki’s deputy
president in 2005 after he
was linked to alleged wrongdoing in an arms deal, Zuma
defeated his former boss in
a leadership contest late last
year and is seen as frontrunner to succeed him as head of
state next year. Mbeki, who
has consistently denied he
hatched a political conspiracy against Zuma, said he was
not involved in prosecutors’
decision to appeal the Zuma
ruling.
“It impoverishes our society
that some resort to the tactic
of advancing allegations with
no fact to support these,”
Mbeki said in a statement.
Zuma has said he wants
Mbeki to serve out the remaining months of his term
but he faces a growing chorus within the ANC to force
Mbeki to resign or push him
out in a no confidence vote
in the ANC-dominated parliament. “Zuma will have to
listen to all viewpoints, but it
is unlikely that the NEC will
rescue Mbeki,” Business Day
newspaper quoted an unidentified committee member as saying.
The opposition Democratic
Alliance (DA) called on the
ANC to make a quick decision on Mbeki. “The ANC’s
extraordinary delay in announcing a decision on the
political fate of President
Mbeki is the result of a growing war in the ruling party.
There has never been a more
powerful illustration of the
leadership crisis within the
ANC,” DA Federal Chairperson James Selfe said in a
statement.
Mike Davies, Africa analyst
at Eurasia Group, speaking
before The Times report,
said worries about widening
internal divisions before next
April’s elections may lead
more moderate commitee
members to support Mbeki.
“However, the opportunity
for the supporters of ANC
president Jacob Zuma, who
dominate the NEC, to take
revenge on Mbeki could be
difficult to resist. Mbeki’s position hangs in the balance,”
Davies said in a research
note.
Forcing out Mbeki, credited
by the business community
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for policies that have spurred
nearly a decade of economic
growth, would create uncertainty among investors. It
could prompt the exodus of
loyal ministers, possibly including the popular finance
minister, Trevor Manuel.
And it would further divide
the party that has governed
South Africa since the end of
white minority rule in 1994.
“If there are significant
developments with Mbeki
resigning and his cabinet following suit, that could lead to
high political risk attached to
South Africa,” said George
Glynos, managing director of
South Africa’s ETM market
analysis firm.
EILANDGEBIED ST. MAARTEN,
NEDERLANDSE ANTILLEN
Het Eilandgebied Sint Maarten, Nederlandse Antillen, verkeert momenteel in stroomversnelling. Het staatkundige proces dat binnenkort ertoe moet leiden dat Sint Maarten de status van Land binnen het Koninkrijk
der Nederlanden verkrijgt, is volop in gang. Een belangrijke conditie voor het waarmaken van de nieuwe
staatkundige status is het voorhanden hebben van voldoende, gekwalificeerd personeel, met name bij het
Eilandsecretariaat. Het Eilandsecretariaat is het bureau dat ten dienste staat van de Eilandsecretaris, de
hiërarchisch hoogstgeplaatste ambtenaar bij het Eilandgebied, tevens algemeen Directeur van de ambtelijke
organisatie. De Eilandsecretaris heeft als voornaamste taak de voorbereiding en uitvoering van alle beslissingen van de bestuursorganen, te weten het Bestuurs-college en de Eilandsraad.
Op het Eilandsecretariaat bestaan er momenteel vacatures.
Het Eilandsecretariaat Sint Maarten roept thans kandidaten op voor de functie van
South Africa’s ruling ANC (African National Congress) Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe addresses the media in
Kempton Park, outside Johannesburg, on Friday.
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www.fly-winair.com
VACANCY
Windward Islands Airways International
(WINAIR)
At the Princess Juliana lnternational Airport, St. Maarten, has a vacancy in its:
OPERATION DEPARTMENT
FUNCTION:
Flight Operation Officer
DEPARTMENT:
Operation Department
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIP:
The Flight Operation Officer reports directly
to Operations Manager.
BASIC FUNCTION:
The Flight Operation Officers perform all
duties concerning aircraft handling, loadplanning, load-sheet preparation, load-sheet
checking and flight preparation such as interpretation of weather, Notam data, flight
planning, crew briefing, scheduling and ramp
supervision.
REQUIREMENTS:
o Minimum H.A.V.O. or equivalent
o Computer literacy: Microsoft Word, Excel
o Good command of English - and Dutch
language, oral as well as written
(Dutch language will be regarded as an
asset)
o Must be able to work in shifts
o Must be in possession of a valid driver’s
license
o Must be team orientated and possesses
a pleasant attitude towards Staff and
Management
o Must be accurate and hard working and
able to cope with stress
o The ability to work independently is a
must
Preference will be given to applicants with experience as dispatcher, meteorologist, navigator, radio operator, aircraft,
controller or aviation.
All applicants will be required to take written exams and an interview.
Employees interested in abovementioned position must submit written applications in
two-fold within ten (10) working days after this publication to the Human Resource
Department.
JURIST (m/v)
Hoofdtaken, werkzaamheden per taak:
Beslisrijpheidstoets
ambtelijke voorstellen toetsen op beslisrijpheid (ref. toepasselijke wet- en regelgeving, beleid)
in dit kader waar nodig instructies geven aan het ambtelijk apparaat
Secretariaat bestuursorganen (Bestuurscollege, Eilandsraad)
het (doen) opstellen van de agenda en oproeping van leden en eventuele derden voor de
vergaderingen
het bijwonen van de vergaderingen
het opstellen van besluitenlijsten en/of verslagen van de vergaderingen
Coördinatie en voortgangsbewaking
zorgdragen voor kennisgeving van bestuursbesluiten aan aan het ambtelijk apparaat
toezicht houden op de uitvoering van bestuursbeslissingen door het ambtelijk apparaat
het vervullern van het secretariaat van het management team
Assistentie Chef Eilandsecretariaat
het assisteren van de Chef van het Eilandsecretariaat bij overige werkzaamheden,
in het bijzonder door deel te nemen in overlegsituaties (werkgroepen, commissies e.d.)
namens de Chef
Functie-eisen:
Doctoraal / Master’s rechten, bij voorkeur met specialisatie in het administratief recht
Aantoonbare relevante ervaring in een vergelijkbare functie
Goed analytisch vermogen
Type- en computervaardigheden
Goede beheersing van zowel de Nederlandse als de Engelse taal, in woord en in geschrift
Accuratesse
Discretie: vertrouwelijk kunnen omgaan met informatie
Plaats in de organisatie:
Ondergeschikt aan de Chef van het Eilandsecretariaat
Uren:
40 uren per week
Rechtspositie:
Bruto maandsalaris van ten minste ANG 5.230,= en ten hoogste ANG 7.620,= (schaal 11).
Afhankelijk van geschiktheid kan een incentive-toelage toegekend worden.
Sollicitatie:
Sollicitatiebrieven dienen, binnen veertien dagen, na de datum van verschijning, onder vermelding van de
functie gericht te worden aan mw drs C.L.Janssen, Chef de Bureau Eilandsecretariaat, Clem Labega Square
z/n, Sint Maarten, Nederlandse Antillen (e-mail: Cassandra.Janssen@sintmaartengov.org).
Mw Janssen is eventueel telefonisch bereikbaar op nummer 00-599-542.2236.
International
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NEW DELHI--Indian police said they shot dead on
Friday the man behind last
week’s serial blasts that
killed 23 people in India’s
capital.
Bashir alias Atif, had
planned the Indian Mujahideen’s attack in Delhi as
well attacks on the western
cities of Ahmedabad and
Jaipur, where a total of
more than 100 people were
killed, police said. “Atif is
the kingpin in the Delhi
blasts,” police chief Y.S
Dadwal told Reuters.
A police team killed two
suspected militants, including Atif in south Delhi, during a raid for suspects in
connection with the bomb-
ings, in which a highly decorated police officer was seriously injured. He later died
in hospital, police said.
“Atif planned and executed
the bomb attacks in Delhi
with the help of 10 men,”
Karnail Singh, an officer
involved in the raid, told
reporters.
At least five militants were
EILANDGEBIED ST. MAARTEN,
NEDERLANDSE ANTILLEN
Het Eilandgebied Sint Maarten bevindt zich momenteel in een zeer dynamisch momentum. Het
Eilandgebied is zich aan het voorbereiden op een landstatus binnen het Koninkrijk der
Nederlanden. Deze dynamiek dringt al door in alle gelederen van de bestuurlijke en ambtelijke
organisatie. De overheidsorganisatie is zich continue aan het professionaliseren in de richting
van een meer klantgericht, transparant, efficiënt en effectief functionerende organisatie ten
behoeve van burgers en bedrijven van het Eilandgebied Sint Maarten. Om dit te kunnen bereiken
dient de organisatie uitgerust te zijn met professionele, enthousiaste, analytisch, dynamische,
goed opgeleide en ervaren mensen.
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
hiding in an apartment but
two fled from the spot and
one was caught, he said.
They seized a rifle and two
laptops, which experts were
now examining. Police said
the raid was carried out after a suspect arrested earlier gave them information
on militants hiding in New
Delhi.
Singh said Atif was a close
associate of Abdul Subhan
Qureshi, alias Tauqeer, a
computer expert and member of a banned Islamic students’ group, who has been
named as one of the main
suspects in the New Delhi
attacks. “The people who
planned the attack wanted someone to plant the
bombs, and they found one
in Atif, capable of manufacturing bombs and executing
the plan perfectly,” Singh
said.
Authorities claimed Friday’s raid marked signifi-
cant progress in investigations into the Delhi bombings. More than 100 people
were also wounded in the
blasts.
A group calling itself
the Indian Mujahideen
has claimed responsibility for a series of bomb attacks this year, saying they
were avenging “atrocities”
against Muslims in India.
Atif, who was heading one
of their modules, had travelled to Ahmedabad and
Jaipur to carry out the
blasts and returned to New
Delhi last month, police
chief Dadwal said.
Earlier, a Reuters photographer said policemen
armed with automatic rifles
and pistols had surrounded
the apartment where the
militants were hiding next
to a mosque in a crowded
south Delhi neighbourhood. Witnesses said they
heard shooting for about
half an hour, sending onlookers and neighbours
running for cover.
India has intensified security after a series of bomb
attacks in four cities in as
many months killed more
than 150 people. The government announced on
Thursday several measures
to tighten its policing and
intelligence to plug what
Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh said were “vast gaps”
in the intelligence apparatus. It plans to recruit thousands more policemen and
set up a new counter-terrorism centre.
But Muslim groups have
accused the police of
rounding up innocent people in the past. On Friday,
the All India Minorities’
Forum raised doubts about
Friday’s police raid and demanded a judicial inquiry
into the killings.
Om de ambtelijke organisatie te versterken en om innovaties op constitutioneel – en organisatiegebied effectief en efficiënt te helpen doorvoeren zijn wij op zoek naar kandidaten voor de
functie van:
DIRECTEUR ONDERSTEUNING (m/v)
De Directie Ondersteuning draagt zorg voor de ontwikkeling van beleid en de uitvoering daarvan
op het gebied van: constitutioneel en juridisch, op het facilitair management en communicatie
en van de brandweer en rampenbestrijding.
Als Directeur bent u verantwoordelijk voor de algehele leiding van de Directie Ondersteuning.
U geeft hierbij leiding aan vijf afdelingen w.o. Brandweer & Rampenbestrijding, Algemene
Interne Zaken, Juridische Zaken, Constitutionele Zaken en Communicatie & Voorlichting.
Profiel:
Wij zoeken een gedreven taakgerichte en mensgerichte manager en leider, die effectief in teamverband en resultaatgericht kan werken en beschikt over een strategisch denkvermogen. Verder
dient deze professional te beschikken over de volgende competenties:
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Helikopter view
Planning en organisatievermogen
Bedrijfsmatige instelling
Communicatieve vaardigheden
Teamspirit
Probleemoplossend vermogen
Integriteit
Leidinggevende capaciteiten
Besluitvaardigheid
Coachingvaardigheden
Stressbestendigheid
Conservative leader and Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper (top L) laughs with parents
Marie-Eve Rivard (top C) and Daniel Gagnon (top R) as 2-year-old Elizabeth Gagnon reaches
for the camera in her home in Farnham, Quebec, on Friday. Canadians will head to the polls
in a federal election October 14.
Tevens vragen wij van u: een academisch werk- en / of denkniveau, ervaring met vraagstukken
op het gebied van de afdelingen die onder de Directie Ondersteuning valt, ruime kennis en ervaring met en inzicht in politiek-bestuurlijke aspecten van overheidsorganisaties en uitstekende
mondelinge en schriftelijke uitdrukkingsvaardigheid, zowel in het Nederlands als in het Engels.
Wij bieden u:
Wij bieden u een uitdagende leidinggevende functie en een dynamische werkomgeving. U zult
werken in een team van mensen met verschillende disciplines. Bovendien speelt u als
managementteamlid van de ambtelijke organisatie een rol in de staatkundige ontwikkeling van
Sint Maarten. De functie heeft een marktconform bruto jaarsalaris, afhankelijk van uw werkervaring, met een maximum salaris van NAf 172.080,00. U komt tevens in aanmerking voor een
toelage van maximaal 25%.
Indien de functie u aanspreekt, dan kunt u uw schriftelijke sollicitatie en uw curriculum vitae
uiterlijk 2 weken na de datum van verschijning van deze advertentie richten aan het
Bestuurscollege van het Eilandgebied Sint Maarten, t.a.v. De Eilandsecretaris van het
Eilandgebied Sint Maarten, Bestuurskantoor, Clem Labega Square, Philipsburg, Sint Maarten.
Of per E-mail: joane.meit-dovale@sintmaartengov.org. Tel: 5422236, Fax: 5432296.
Op de enveloppe dient u “Sollicitatie Directeur Ondersteuning” te vermelden.
Voor nadere informatie kunt u contact opnemen met de heer Randolf Duggins, Directeur
Ondersteuning, telefoon (+599) 5431167 of fax (+599) 5437936,
E-mail: rcd@sintmaarten.net.
Antillianen worden nadrukkelijk verzocht te solliciteren.
OTTAWA--Canada is worried by Russian moves to
assert more control over
the Arctic in apparent defiance of international treaties, Prime Minister Stephen
Harper said on Friday.
Russia is flexing its muscles in the Arctic--where it
is competing with the West
for control of vast energy
resources--and has started
to send strategic bombers
on testing flights across the
North Pole toward Canada
and the United States.
This week Moscow ordered
officials to draft a law mark-
ing out Russia’s borders in
the Arctic. Any unilateral action would breach a deal between the five Arctic Ocean
countries to let the United
Nations rule on rival claims.
“We’re concerned about not
just Russia’s claims to the international process but Russia’s testing of Canadian airspace and other indications
which may indicate some
desire to work outside of the
international framework,”
Harper told reporters during
an election campaign stop in
Farnham, Quebec. Election
day in Canada is Oct. 14.
The U.N. wants Arctic
states to submit their territorial claims for consideration
by May 2009.
Ottawa has stepped up sovereignty patrols in the Arctic
and last month said it would
toughen reporting requirements for ships entering
its waters in the Far North.
Canada claims as its territory
the entire Northwest Passage--a link between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans--but
the United States says the
passage is an international
waterway.
International
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
TEHRAN--Iran’s top authority told politicians on Friday to stop squabbling that
was undermining the government, in a fresh sign of support for President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad and his cabinet
before the 2009 election.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei tends to stay
above the fray of day-to-day
politics. But this was the second time in less than a month
he had made a speech backing Ahmadinejad and his
government, under threat of
more U.N. sanctions as the
United States and its Western allies seek to isolate Iran
over its disputed nuclear
plans.
Addressing worshippers
in a Friday prayers sermon,
Khamenei did not mention the president by name
but warned against destructive and unfair criticism of
Ahmadinejad’s government.
Public divisions in Iran could
be used by those “who oppose the system of the Islamic Republic,” he said in the
sermon, which was broadcast
by state media.
“If anybody has plans for
the future they should say it.
If they have solutions to existing problems, such as the
problem of high prices and
inflation, they should say it.
Ruining officials and the government is not in (Iran’s) interest,” he said.
Khamenei, who has the
final say on all matters of
state, has previously praised
Ahmadinejad in particular
for his handling of the nuclear issue. The president on
Thursday repeated his vow
that Iran would press ahead
with its uranium enrichment
programme, brushing aside
the threat of more sanctions.
The West says Iran wants
atomic warheads. Tehran denies it, saying it wants nuclear energy solely to generate
electricity.
The president and some of
his allies in government have
come in for stern criticism,
particularly over surging
prices, as politicians warm up
for next year’s presidential
election when Ahmadinejad
is expected to run for another four-year term.
“My worry is not that something is being said and there
is criticism of somebody ...
my worry is spreading unfair
attitudes in society,” Khamenei said. “I am not saying this
to a specific person, group or
party, I am saying this to everybody.”
“It is not necessary for a
confrontation of those supporting a person or group
and those opposed to be
destructive,” he said. Such a
show of support by the leader
could influence loyalists, like
the Basij, a religious militia
estimated to be 12 million
strong in a country of 70 million, analysts say.
Khamenei said ideas to
tackle economic issues, like
inflation, were best discussed
initially by experts in private. Inflation has soared to
27 percent, from about 11
SEOUL--North Korea said
on Friday it was working on
restarting its nuclear plant
and dismissed the prospect
of being removed from a
U.S. terrorism blacklist in
return for a disarmament
deal.
The North said it had begun work to rebuild the Soviet-era Yongbyon nuclear
plant, which made bombgrade plutonium. The plant
previously was being taken
apart under a much-delayed
disarmament-for-aid deal it
reached with five countries,
including the United States.
“The DPRK (North Korea)
neither wishes to be delisted
as a `state sponsor of terrorism’ nor expects such a thing
to happen,” the North’s official KCNA news agency
quoted a Foreign Ministry
spokesman as saying.
Work has been under way
to restore Yongbyon’s nuclear facilities “to their original
state,” the spokesman said.
In Washington, the United
States reacted calmly to
the announcement, saying North Korea had not
yet made the plant operational. “They have not got
to that point yet. We would
urge them not to get to that
point,” State Department
spokesman Sean McCormack said when asked about
North Korea’s statement.
He urged Pyongyang to
agree to a mechanism to
verify the claims it has made
about the extent of its nuclear program.
North Korea, which exploded a nuclear device
about two years ago, began to disable Yongbyon in
early November as called
for in the deal it struck with
China, the United States,
Japan, Russia and South
Korea. Last month, North
Korea said it planned to restart Yongbyon because it
was angry at Washington for
not taking it off its terrorism blacklist. In early September, it made minor but
initial moves to restart the
plant, U.S. officials said.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (front C) listens to
a speech by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
during Friday prayers in Tehran on Friday.
percent, since Ahmadinejad
took office in 2005. It is the
number one gripe for most
ordinary Iranians. Economists mainly blame it on
profligate spending of Iran’s
windfall oil revenues.
The poor have been hit
hardest by inflation, analysts
say. But they add that government spending has often
been most obvious in poor
areas, particularly provinces,
so Ahmadinejad still has his
backers. Opinion polls, however, are unreliable.
Washington has said it will
remove Pyongyang from the
list once it allows inspectors to verify claims it made
about its nuclear arms production. Once removed, the
North can better tap into
international finance and
expand its meager trade.
Analysts have said the
North might be trying to
pressure the outgoing Bush
administration as it looks
for diplomatic successes to
bolster its legacy. The North
might also be thinking it can
seek a better deal under a
new U.S. president.
McCormack suggested
any such thinking could be
wrong. “Look, you know,
I don’t know who the next
president, who the next secretary of state is going to
be, but I would wager that
they’re not going to get a
much different deal from
the next administration as
they’re getting from this administration,” he said.
Khamenei in late August
told Ahmadinejad to “work
as if you will stay in charge
for five years,” not just the
year left to run on his current term. Khamenei also
mentioned inflation in that
speech, asking the government to work to curb price
rises.
C A R A C A S - -Ve n e z u e l a
brusquely expelled two activists from U.S.-based Human
Rights Watch on Friday who
criticized President Hugo
Chavez for political intolerance and for eroding democracy during nearly 10 years in
power.
State television played a
video of officials reading an
expulsion order to activists
Jose Miguel Vivanco and
Daniel Wilkinson, who were
filmed packing their bags and
being escorted on to a plane
that took off just after midnight.
The move highlighted the
leftist leader’s intolerance of
international criticism and
will further strain ties with
the United States, Venezuela’s main oil customer, a week
after Chavez also ejected the
U.S. ambassador. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice called Venezuela an autocracy on Thursday.
Human Rights Watch is
an independent group, but
Chavez says it collaborates
with the Bush administration
in a campaign to unseat him
and ignores his government’s
advances in reducing poverty. “These groups, dressed up
as human rights defenders,
are financed by the United
States,” said Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro. “They
are aligned with a policy of
29
attacking countries that are
building new economic models.”
Human Rights Watch is also
fiercely critical of the rights
record of Venezuela’s neighbor Colombia, whose rightwing government is a close
Washington ally. Politically
motivated murder is common in Colombia.
The activists said they were
forced to hurriedly check out
of their hotel by the police
around midnight. Government officials said they were
put on the first flight leaving
Caracas.
“Our phones were confiscated and we were denied
permission to call our ambassadors,” Wilkinson said,
speaking minutes before
their flight took off for Sao
Paolo and using a cellphone
they had managed to hide
from authorities.
Vivanco and Wilkinson were
in Venezuela to present a report on rights problems after
a decade of Chavez government. They said Chavez
encouraged discrimination
against political opponents,
stacked the courts and dampened freedom of expression.
Venezuelan governments
have traditionally handed
out jobs to political allies, but
Human Rights Watch says
the practice has worsened
under Chavez.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
GMC Envoy 4.2 SLT (2002). Fully
loaded, leather seats, Bose sound
system. Color: Champagne metallic. Excellent condition. $12,000.
Cell: 580-1348.
1994 Ford Aerostar Van, V6, automatic. Asking $1,800 negotiable. Leaving the island! 2004 Jeep
Tel:524-0014.
Cherokee, V6, 4WD, automatic. In
very good condition. Price $10,500.
Tel: 520-2086 or 001-954-6820429.
Mitsubishi Galant 1994 VR-4 Twin
Turbo intercooler. Very fast and
deceptive. $2,500 o.b.o. 2x 4 wheelers 150 cc, remote start and alarm
brand new, $2,500 each o.b.o. Call:
524-7232.
ton forklift
with side shift (propane),
used 1942 hours only.
Nissan engine, excellent
condition.
Contact:5226114 10 am-5 pm weekdays.
cc.
In good condition. Asking
$2,900
o.b.o.
Please
call:553-1234 or 553-2525.
HSE
2008 model, 14,000km,
gasoline. $52,000 or best
offer.
Tel:552-7689.
Email:altayshan@yahoo.co.uk.
SE7. Runs great, seats 7.
Needs a good home and
TLC, V8 engine, 4WD, automatic, sunroof, side steps. Toyota Corolla 1.6 XL 2001. In very
Priced low $5,000 o.b.o. For good condition. $2,800 negotiable.
Call: 580-5590/553-7748.
quick sale. Tel:544-2579.
Toyota Tacoma 2004 extra cab, 3.4
lts, V6, 5 speed manual, towing
package, bedliner. Original price
$30,000 including aluminum toolbox. Asking price $15,000. Call:
599-416 3295. Email: sabapark.
2001 GD Cherokee Ltd, leather, manager@gmail.com.
sunroof, etc. In very good condition.
50,000 miles. Asking price $9,500
negotiable. Call: 520-2227 / 5205230.
SUV Waverunners
with trailer for sale (year
2000). Fantastic condition
with very low riding hours.
Serious inquiries only. No
test rides. $7,500 (each)
o.b.o. Tel:544-2579.
N.V. We have properties for
sale/rent, for large/small
investments both Dutch and
French side commercial,
residential, beach front properties, houses and apartments complex. If you have
properties for rent, lease or
for sale, please feel free to
contact us. Call:599-5425551/542-5509/522-6513.
Fax: 599-542-2375. Email:
eclnv@car ibser ve.net.
Website www.eclsxm.com.
for sale completely renovated, large yard space
located in St.Peters
size:429m2 $225,000.
House lot for sale infrastructure including water, electricity, cable wires, etc.
Underground located in
Middle Region, size: 427m2,
$69,000. For information
contact:
Euro Caribbean Linkup N.V.
Office tel: 599-542-5551/
542- 5509.
Office fax:599-542-2375
E-mail:eclnv@caribserve.net
website:www.eclsxm.com
2001 Toyota Corolla, automatic,
cold A/C. Double headlights model. In very good condition. Price
$4,500. Tel: 588-1014.
2001 Toyota Corolla. In great shape.
Price $4,200. Tel: 522-8285.
2003 Nissan Frontier Pickup, blue,
V6, automatic, 4WD, 4 doors. In
good condition. Price $12,500. Call:
523-4997.
2004 Toyota Corolla, automatic,
power windows, power locks. Drives
and looks new! Price $7,500. Tel:
588-1014.
2006 white Nissan Murano, fully
loaded, like brand new, sunroof, all
options, leather interior, 40,000 km.
Great conditions. Must go! Price
$23,000. Call: 00590-690-74-4773.
2008 Daihatsu Sirion, automatic,
maroon, A/C, power windows,
9,000 km. Excellent condition, warranty, plates, $9,000. Please call:
544-4682 or 520-4463.
&
Brochures, display boards,
all forms & how to get
started CD included. Original
price $8,900 asking $5,300
o.b.o. Only serious inquiries
may call for more information@555-4984.
” fridge(vcsb483) stainless steel/ice maker. Retails
in Miami $7,715. New jacuzzi
J-345 premium hot tub/all
options.Retails in Miami for
$10,000. Both items new/
available.
Make
offer!
Call:553-7326.
Everything must go. Leaving Island.
2001 Suzuki Jimny, low mileage:
$2,200 obo, large couch, tables, office desk, chairs, etc... E-mail: jsparis23@gmail.com. Tel.: 557-3220.
,
computers, office equipment,
overstocked items - new and
used. All prices. over 300
items. Buy from sellers
direct. Visit www.howstuffsells.com.
For sale 1998 Mitsubishi Nativa.
Good condition. Minor work needFor sale container 40ft. Call: 524ed. $6,000. Call: 522-5133.
7622.
For sale XLT Corolla. Good condition. Price: $5,800. Call: 520-4103. For sale: Brand new digital camera
Pentax E40. Please call: 552-3581
For sale, leaving the island! Nis- or 547-0189.
san Frontier Pickup 2007, red,
diesel engine. New $26,500, mow For sale: One living room set (suite).
$18,990. In very good condition. As good as new! Call: 580-5653.
Call: 522-9941.
Gen-Set Generator 18 KVA, brand
Ford, brown, new, silent with change over switch
15 passenger Club Wagon, diesel 4 cylender. $7,500. Call: 524automatic,
XLT,
$3,500. 1350.
Jet ski
with trailer for sale (year
1998). Very good condition
and ready to race. Serious
inquiries only. No test rides.
$5,500 o.b.o. Tel:544-2579.
Limited
Edition. Racing Jet ski with
trailer for sale (year 2000).
155 HP, very fast! Low riding
hours. Serious inquiries only.
No test rides. $7,500 o.b.o.
Tel:544-2579.
Front.
One bedroom furnished.
Washer/Dryer,
Internet.
$1,500 per month. Call
Chevor: 559-2945 or Kevin:
526-8280.
Reduced, $220,000. Serious buyers only/no brokers! Ocean view
apartment in Castle Cove, Pointe
Blanche, 2 bedrooms/1 bathroom,
semi furnished, A/C, hurricane
shutters & common pool. Call: 5431654/520-1070/522-0889.
Brand new dwelling, spacious 3
bedroom/2.5 bath, jacuzzi, kitchen,
dining, living, washroom, office,
back/front porch. Including refrigerator, stove, microwave/dishwasher.
View Retreat Estate & Saunders.
$2,800. Parking space, Ebenezer.
Call:580-2114/581-2718/542-4835.
Simpson Bay Yacht Club: 2 bedrooms/2 bathrooms, on the water,
beautiful view, 2 boat slips, parking.
Stainless steel appliances. Granite
countertops. Corner unit/near Pool.
Gated security. $695,000. Call:
555-3823. E-mail: SBYC8@aol.
com for pictures.
space for rent. Extremely
high traffic area. Suitable for
any type of business. Very
low rent. Don’t miss this oppportunity! Call Sheetal: 5430342 or 543-0343.
on Front
Street.
Good
location.
Please call:553-6019.
Cupecoy, sea view, fully furnished
1 bedroom condo with pool, security, free laundry & gym in a safe &
gated complex. Available now @
$1,200 Call: 580-2588.
Dawn Beach Estate: 2 bedroom/1
bathroom, semi furnished apartment with washing machine, private yard. Available immediately.
Call: 580-1377.
CRT Monitors,
16x17” CRT, 3x19” CRT,
1x20”CRT, allin good working condition, 3 years old,
sold as one Lot for
$1,500.00. Free delivery in
SXM. Call Marc:522-9421.
1999 Mitsubishi Lancer. Looks
great. Excellent engine and body.
New stereo, mp3 compatible, cold
A/C, new brakes. Price $3,500. Tel:
524-6093/548-4076.
jet ski.
Stage 1 racing parts. Trailer,
water skies, cover & life vests
included, coastguard registered. Complete package
$6,000
non
negotiable.
Call:553-8182/522-3366.
Rainbow Beach Club at Cupecoy,
direct from owner. Great ocean
views, brand new, fully furnished. 2
bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. $495,000.
E-mail:budgetjoseph@yahoo.com.
Call: (599)580-9755. States: 001781-715-0162.
for a beautiful house, plus income?
Then I have that house for
you! Price $1.5 million. Come
let us discuss a win, win
situation. Call:520-1641.
Cole Bay (Kool Bay Villas) 2 2x (2
bedroom/1 bath villa house, garden, furnished, security, common
pool. Lagoon view, brand new!
Asking price $435,000. Tel: 5536700/581-6418.
,
utilities included, Sucker
Garden, furnished $950.
1bedroom/1bath apartment,
fully furnished, washer/dryer,
private parking with utilities
& cable, Defiance $1,100.
For information contact:
Euro Caribbean Linkup N.V
Office tel:599-542-5551/5425509
Office fax:599-542-2375
E-mail:eclnv@caribserve.net
website:www.eclsxm.com
Cupecoy: Brand new 1 bedroom
condo near the beach, restaurants
& bars. Property with pool, amazing ocean views, security & fitness. 3 bedroom/2 bathroom house for
rent with A/C, Fort William Hill over$120,000. Call: 580-2588.
looking Philipsburg & Great Bay
Duplex house for sale by owner harbor. Semi furnished, washer/
only, high up Mary’s Fancy Hill. dryer, fridge, stove, microwave.
3 bedroom/2,5 bath, spacious Contact: 520-6677.
large deck, rooftop parking. Great
investment! $397,000. Call: 520- 3-bedroom house in Marianne
Estate. Two level, three bedroom
1401/580-7002.
house fully furnished for rent in
Free hold land in Aruba. Prime lo- Cole Bay. $1,400 p/m plus utilities.
cation in Orangestad. 12,355m2 of Airco, burglar bars/satellite tv, parkflat land, $125 m2 negotiable. No ing, internet. Call: 522-3474. Availrestrictions. Land in Middle Region, able immediately.
523 m2 behind the school, $60,000
o.b.o. Call: 00599-522-5547/524- Accommodations in Barbados &
Airport pick up. 5 minutes drive to
7232.
U.S. Embassy Reasonable rates.
Call Janice Ward, Rossomar
Guest House for more informa. Fisherman’s Wharf, tion: 001-(246) 424-0098 E-mail:
Cole Bay Lagoon, 1 bed- rossomarrentals@hotmail.com
room condo, fully furnished, Website: http://barbados.org/apt/
A/C $72,500, seller will
repaint complete interior rossomar.
when tenant moves out.
Secured
parking.
Call
in
Simran:545-2478 ext 7012.
Barbados.
Khus
Khus
Apartments, St. Philip. US
Land for sale - Claude Estates, Embassy and airport transocean view, moderate slope, ap- port. Cable TV, A/C, kitchproved 3 bed. home with 2 apts enette, $45/$55. Tel:246khuskhu& possible studio, pool and 2 cars 243-1396.
garage. All utilities, permit, architec- s a p t s 8 2 @ y a h o o . c o m .
tural plans reduced. $169,000. Call: www.khuskhusapartments.c
om.
554-1107.
3 bedroom villa for sale with panoramic sea views. Safe, secure
community, pool, appliances, fully
furnished. Priced to sell. A very
good investment return or lovely
Tel:580-9474 or 548-3020.
Point Pirouette, 1 bedroom, 90m2,
Used Pavers for sale. 43 m2 earth home. Tel: 551-1535.
fully furnished. View of golf/lagoon,
For sale: Chrysler Town & Country tone colors, $500 o.b.o. Tel: 58624 hrs. security, pool, $230,000. On
Limited Edition, $6,500. Tel: 526- 3456.You load, you truck.
Simpson Bay Lagoon, 1 bedroom/2
8992.
bath, elevator. Brand new! Boat lift
optional, $350,000. Call:555-4608.
Available very large beautiful fully
furnished 1 bdr. apt., wifi, cable,
hurricane shutters, safe area, close
to beach. $1,700 per month. Security deposit. Excluding utilities. Call:
520-4949.
Dawn Beach Estate: 2 bedroom,
2 bath apartment, semi furnished,
A/C, hot/cold water, 24 hours security. $1,200, 1 month rent, one
month deposit. Call: 554-3181 or
554-3182.
For rent to companies in Pointe
Blanche. One 2 bedroom apt. including water.
Two 1 bedroom apt. excluding utilities. $2,000 for the 3 apartments.
Call: 524-2102.
For rent. Must see! House, one
bedroom with ample yard in a secure quiet neighborhood, Cole Bay.
$1,400 p/m. Call: 554-9363. For serious inquiries.
Front Street: 2 bedroom, 1 bath
apartment available in a central
area for short term lease weekly
or monthly. Call Rita: 543-7355 for
more details.
House for rent: 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom home in South Reward. Lots
of space in all the rooms. New building. Rent $1,500. Call: 522-7032.
Live on Simpson Bay Beach:
Ocean front 2 bedroom/2.5 bath.
Condo on ground level. $2,800/
month. Available October 2nd. Fully
furnished. Enjoy long walks, swimming and sunsets. Call: 553-7434.
Maho, brand new two bedroom,
fully furnished, equipped, A/C, satellite TV, internet, two balconies,
ocean views, private parking, security, $1,600 p/m. One bedroom
$1,200 p/m. Call: 523-3241.
Maho, brand new one large studio,
fully furnished, equipped, A/C, satellite TV, internet, balcony, separate
kitchen, washer/dryer, private parking & security. $950 p/m. Call: 5233241.
for
rent:Newly build house,
$2,000 p/m excluding utilities. Beautiful view. Two story
house, unfurnished with 3
bedrooms, 2½ bathrooms.
Call for information/appointment:542-5103 during office
hours.
Monte Vista Hill: Nice fully furnished,
2 bedroom/2.5 bathroom condo
with spectacular view. A/C, hot &
cold water and common swimming
pool, excluding utilities. No pets.
$1,750. Call:555-4510 after 2 pm.
Business
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
New building completed with one
large apartment still available. Payment of security deposit is your
guarantee for occupancy. Please
call:526-8121.
next to The
Windward Island Bank. 800
square meters in 3 sections.
Tel:544-3164 or 520-1593.
Pelican Key in the complex of Rancho Cielo, new large 2bedroom,
2bathroom condo, fully furnished
with ocean view. Common pool.
$2,500 pm including maid service.
For more info, please call:5555591/544-4338.
Pelican: 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, A/
C, fully equipped, renovated. Very
nice, washer/dryer, linen, garden &
pool. Tel: 555-3590 or 520-6789.
available. Central location.
Plaza Building on WG
Buncamper Road. Good
security $950 p/m. Please
call:553-7477.
Pointe Blanche, Monte Vista. Incredible views! 1 bedroom apartment for rent from November 1st,
2008. $1,250/month. For more details please call: 524-1350.
Pointe Blanche: One bedroom
furnished apt. Great view, laundry,
satelite dish, airco, secure area.
$1,150 per month. Phone: 5260159 or e-mail: jane.c.richardson@
gmail.com
Pointe Blanche: One bedroom
mostly furnished apartment. Terrace, A/C, laundry. No pets allowed.
Available October 1st. $850 per
month, 2 months deposit, excluding utilities. Call: 553-5710.
Pointe Blanche: 3 Ocean site,
panoramic view, fully renovated
2 bedroom/2 baths house/apartment, fully furnished with spacious
porch. $1,800, $1,600 and $900.
Call: 520-2244.
Pointe Pirouette: (2) apartments
available, furnished/unfurnished, 1
bedroom/2 full bath, security, terrace, private parking, private pool.
Panoramic view of the lagoon/golf.
Starting $1,650/monthly. Call: 5816418/553-6700.
Simpson Bay, house with 3 bedrooms on the beach, parking space,
water and electricity not included.
Please call for the price:523-6738.
Simpson Bay: 2 bedroom/1 bath
apartment. Unfurnished with
just appliances, private parking.
Great view, on the lagoon, big terrace. $2,000 monthly. Call: 5816418/553-6700.
Simpson Bay: 3 bedroom, private
house with incredible views. Long
term renters, $3,800, amenities included, pool and sauna. Call: 5205445/544-4498.
Very nice, spacious 2 bedroom/2
bathroom apartment. Enclosed
yard with parking available. Air conditioned bedrooms. Nice quiet area
of Union Farm #76 Montevideo
Road. $950 per month. Please call:
553-7477.
Looking for land for agriculture purpose. Tel:581-8993.
marine
industry in SXM. Ideal for
school leaver. Must be able
to swim, well presented &
punctual. Send resume to:
Operations Manager, Po
Box#820, St. Maarten, DWI.
for skilled fabricator, 5 years experience,
T.I.G. M.I.G. ARC, Gas welding, stainless, aluminium,
steel. Work from diagrams
use workshop fabricating
machines without supervision. European passport.
Contact:0590-690-537489.
.
Accountant - For yacht charter company. Responsible for
all apects of accounting from
data entry to financial statements. Must have: 5 years
related experience, degree
in accounting, be able to
travel
throughout
the
Caribbean,
management
experience, be organized
and able to work independently. Fax resume and salary
requirements to (599) 5443037.
/
female workers. Ages 21 to
40. Paper of good conducts
is a must. Antilleans or persons with work/residence
paper only need to apply.
Call:544-3538,
MondayFriday, 9 am-4 pm.
representatives,
marketing managers, timeshare sales representatives,
timeshare sales managers,
timeshare sales directors,
timeshare
Marketing
Director, Timeshare Sampler
agents, Tour receptionist,
Marketing
Administrative
Assistant, Sales Support
Manager, Contracts
Administrator,
Quality
Assurance Officer, Marketing
OPC, Marketing Concierge.
Experience
in
the
Timeshare/Points system is
required. Bilingual is preferred especially knowledge
of the French Language an
asset. Submit resume to
Diamond Resorts Flamingo
Beach,
Personnel
Department Mon-Fri 9:00
a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
, 21
and older. Send your resume
package and photo to
P.O.Box 929, Philipsburg,
St.Maarten N.A.
. in need of two
sales persons. Prior sales
experience a must. Able to
communicate
in English,
Dutch and French is an
asset. Send resume to
windomnv@yahoo.fr.
Bravo II outdrive unit with Gimbel
housing assembly. Call: 523-6418
- 544-2448. 8:00 am - 12:00 noon.
Lady seeking two days work per
week.You can contact this number:
526-7451.
All computer problems (Microsoft)
Expert Service at your home or
office 24hr/7 days. Maintenance,
repairs, computer speed up, hardware, software update, wireless
networking, etc. We put your Windows original. Call: 580-0127.
:Backhoe,
truck
with crain & grabber to clean
up all surroundings. All kinds
of materials deliveries. Call
now! Tel:544-3164 or 5201593.
Music Teacher is given after school
music lessons for children, piano,
guitar, bass, violin, flute, vocal training and more. Special sessions for
schools and groups. Call: 00590590-29-22-75, Monday-Friday between 4pm-6pm.
Responsible, professional American couple to be caretaker of your
villa or estate. We have owned,
maintained our own million dollar
properties. Mechanical , electrical,
pool, remodeling and security/surveillance experience. beverly@
creativematchbook.com.
Satellite TV Sales, Installation &
excellent customer support. 400
Channels (never down) digital/HD
quality programming. Very affordable systems and very low programming fee. Info: 542-1078/5815555 or thespecialistsxm@gmail.
com.
Tired of your Viewsat, Pansat,
Dreambox, Coolsat, dropping
weekly like flies. Switch today. The
one and only system that never
goes down. No subscription required. Call: 542-1078/581-5555.
E-mail: thespecialistsxm@gmail.
com.
Garage sale. Saturday Sept. 20th.
9:00am - 1:00 pm. Beds, cabinet,
horseback riding stuff, books and
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NEW YORK/LONDON-Oil prices rose almost 7 percent on Friday to cap their
biggest three-day rally in a
decade on expectations a
sweeping U.S. government
bailout plan would boost liquidity across the battered
financial markets.
U.S. crude jumped $6.67
to settle at $104.55 a barrel,
bringing gains since Wednesday to 14.7 percent--biggest
three-day surge since December 1998, when the United States ramped up pressure on Iraq to allow arms
inspections. London Brent
rose $4.42 to $99.61.
“This is tracking the recovery we’ve seen in the capital
markets across the board on
the government bailout plan.
The liquidity has come back
in and it is pushing us higher,” said John Kilduff, senior
vice president at MF Global.
The U.S. government
launched several multibilliondollar programs to guarantee
holdings in money-market
mutual funds and curb shortselling of stocks while developing a broader plan to mop
up toxic mortgage debt. The
moves came at the end of
an agonizing week for Wall
Street, in which investment
bank Lehman Brothers filed
for bankruptcy, insurer AIG
was bailed out by the government and Merrill Lynch was
forced to sell itself to Bank of
America. Investors had worried the confluence of crises
severely threatened the stability of the U.S. economy--a
factor that helped push oil to
a seven-month low of $90.51
a barrel earlier in the week.
Products of China Mengniu Dairy, one of China’s leading
dairy products company, are displayed at a news conference
announcing the company’s interim results in Hong Kong on
Friday.
BEIJING--Singapore banned
all dairy imports from China
on Friday and the European
Union demanded answers
from Beijing as the baby formula scandal that has left
thousands of infants ill across
China spread to liquid milk.
A government food quality
watchdog in China said nearly
10 percent of milk and drinking yoghurt samples from
three major dairy companies
were contaminated with potentially deadly melamine.
Panicked parents have
crowded hospitals and demanded redress since officials and the Sanlu Group,
China’s biggest maker of
infant milk powder, said last
week that babies were sick
with kidney stones and complications after drinking toxic
milk powder. At the latest
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Following are the middle exchange rates
for leading currencies against the dollar:
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count, 6,244 children have
become ill. Four have died
and 158 are suffering “acute
kidney failure”.
The tide of sick children is
overwhelming some doctors,
the official Xinhua agency
said, quoting a man who was
turned away by hospitals in
his hometown. Li Zhanshan,
whose nine-month-old son
has a kidney stone 0.9 centimetre in diameter, rushed
to the capital instead but was
also rejected at one packed
Beijing hospital, the report
added.
Singapore said on Friday it
had banned the import and
sale of all milk and dairy
products from China after
tests found melamine contamination in two brands of
China-made milk products.
Beijing has already recalled
some milk powder exported
by two firms whose products
were found to be contaminated, and although it said
“there has been no bad reaction” to those goods, many
countries are fretting about
their citizens’ health. On
Thursday, Hong Kong recalled dairy products of one
Chinese company.
Robert Madelin, director-general for health and
consumer protection at the
European Commission, said
the European Union did
not import Chinese infant
milk powder and there had
been no EU reports of illness
from other imported Chinese dairy products. But with
foreign consumers watching
China again struggle with
toxic food and claims of delays and cover-ups, Madelin
told reporters in Beijing he
expected an account of what
went wrong.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
Business
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
WA S H I N G T O N / N E W
YORK--Regulators around
the world curbed short-selling of financial shares on
Friday, igniting a huge rally
in a sector that had been targeted by sellers as the credit
crisis deepened.
Having been slammed for
perceived inaction, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox announced a
list of 799 financial stocks
on which short-selling was
banned until Oct. 2. The
ban on short sellers--investors who sell borrowed
stock in the expectation its
price will fall, and then buy
it back more cheaply--was
part of a worldwide crackdown kicked off by the UK
regulator late Thursday.
“It’s absolutely the right
thing to do. These are extraordinary times, extraordinary markets, and they
require exceptional measures,” said Keith Skeoch,
chief executive of Standard
Life Investments.
The measures caused financial shares around the
world to jump as much as 40
percent, but also triggered
a flood of criticism from financial market pros. The
main complaint was that
the crackdown was a kneejerk reaction that will not
fix the banking sector’s underlying weaknesses--a pile
of bad debts, hard-to-value
mortgage securities and a
breakdown of investor confidence.
“Going after the short sellers is little more than a witch
hunt,” said John Standerfer,
vice president of financial
services at S3 Matching
WA S H I N G T O N - -T h e
United States surged into
action on Friday to launch
an all-out attack against the
worst financial crisis since
the Great Depression,
readying a plan to tap hundreds of billions of dollars
in taxpayer funds to buy
up toxic mortgage-related
debt.
Capping a week that has
reshaped Wall Street, U.S.
Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson urged Congress to
quickly agree on a program
for huge purchases of bad
debts held by banks and
other financial institutions.
Lawmakers promised fast
action.
Losses on these debts
have choked the financial system, forced lenders
into bankruptcy and led
the economy to what U.S.
President George W. Bush
called a “pivotal” moment.
“America’s economy is facing unprecedented challenges, and we are responding with unprecedented action,” Bush told reporters
in the White House Rose
Garden.
After having taken a se-
ries of other emergency
steps that failed to erect a
firewall against the spreading credit turmoil, U.S.
authorities turned their attention to the underlying
problem--the rising tide of
bad mortgage debt. Paulson offered few details on
Treasury’s evolving plan but
said he would work through
the weekend and next week
with Congress to get a program put in place. Congressional aides said they expected to see more details
within 24 hours.
Rep. Steny Hoyever, the
Democratic leader in the
House of Representatives,
said the chamber would
likely take up a bill to
implement the plan early
next week. House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi said lawmakers would stay in town past
their hoped-for adjournment next Friday if needed
to pass it.
“We must now take further, decisive action to
fundamentally and comprehensively address the
root cause of our financial
system’s stresses,” Paulson
said at a news conference.
The practice of short selling – where traders bet on share prices falling –
has been temporarily banned for shares in certain companies by the U.S.
and Britain in an attempt to stem the worst financial crisis in decades
Shareholder, typically
an investment fund manager,
lends shares to share trader
who wants to
short sell
For example,
100 shares
are loaned
Hoping price of shares will
fall, trader sells borrowed shares
on stock market at their current
market value
100 shares
sold at £10
per share =
seller makes
£1,000
Share trader returns shares
to original shareholder, along
with small borrowing fee
Trader makes
profit of £200
without ever
owning any
shares
As hoped, share price falls
and trader buys back shares
at new lower market value
100 shares
bought at
£8 each =
total spend
of £800
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Technologies. “The real issue is that some financial
institutions have negative
balance sheets.”
Former Fed Chairman Alan
Greenspan simply called it a
“terrible idea.”
The ban hits the most common trading strategies used
by the $1.9 trillion hedge
fund industry: outright short
sales and trying to profit
from small price differentials between stocks and
convertible bonds or stocks
in the same sector. The SEC
also required fund managers
with accounts of more than
$100 million to report their
new short sales--a measure
directed against hedge fund
managers, who are notori-
ously secretive.
“It is like being asked
to give away your magic
recipe,” said Philippe Bonnefoy, who invests in hedge
funds at Geneva-based Cedar Partners. “The industry
is alive, but badly burned.”
Industry lobbyists in London and Washington protested the rule, saying they
were troubled by government meddling in free markets. “Banning short-selling
of financial stocks, while it
may indeed bring temporary relief, creates an artificial market,” said Florence
Lombard, chief executive
of hedge fund lobby group
the Alternative Investment
Management Association.
Chicago traders, who sell
stock short to balance their
option positions, warned
that the measure could paralyze derivatives markets and
ripple through mainstream
stock markets. The SEC
later exempted short sales
by market makers--traders
who provide bids and offers
for stocks, options or other
securities.
Wall Street chiefs and U.S.
lawmakers had pressured
Cox to limit short-selling
after plunging share prices
and a loss of investor confidence pushed Lehman
Brothers into bankruptcy
Global central banks are pumping up to $180 billion into markets in
a co-ordinated move to increase funds available to commercial banks.
The funds will boost their short-term and overnight lending requirements
Total made available to date
by U.S. Federal Reserve:
Overnight
loans available*
Bank of
Canada
Bank of
England
European Central Bank
Swiss National Bank
*Figures do not total $180bn due to previous funding lines
“We’re talking hundreds of
billions. This needs to be
big enough to make a real
difference and get at the
heart of the problem.”
U.S. stocks, which chalked
up their best day in six years
on Thursday as talk of the
more aggressive approach
spread, soared again on
Friday. The blue chip Dow
Jones industrial average
closed up 368 points, or
about 3.4 percent.
The news also caused
waves in the U.S. presidential campaign. Republican hopeful Sen. John
McCain knocked the Treasury for taking a haphazard approach to the crisis,
while rival Democrat, Sen.
Bank of Japan
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Barack Obama, supported
the latest moves.
Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have already put
close to $1 trillion of taxpayer money on the line to
try to keep credit flowing,
and the new effort could
double that amount.
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court and Merrill Lynch
& Co Inc into the arms of
Bank of America Corp. last
weekend.
The clamor for action
increased after the two
remaining big U.S. investment banks, Goldman
Sachs Group Inc and Morgan Stanley, saw their share
prices plummet this week.
Morgan Stanley Chief Executive John Mack blamed
“the shorts” after Lehman’s
chief Dick Fuld had been
railing against them for
months.
C A RAC AS - -Ve n e z u e l a
struck deals on Friday for
natural gas projects in the
Caribbean with foreign
companies, including U.S.based Chevron, in a sign it
is open to some outside investment despite sweeping
nationalizations.
In transportation, production and exploration projects that the government
said could draw billions of
dollars of investment over
the next few years, Venezuela agreed to work with minority partners from Japan
to Italy.
As well as Chevron, Russia’s Gazprom, Italy’s Eni,
Qatar Petroleum, Japan’s
Mitubishi Corp., Mitsui,
Itochu and Malaysia’s
Petronas signed the accords
to work on the offshore natural gas projects, the Venezuelan government said.
The deals help make President Hugo Chavez’s case
that his OPEC nation can
work with foreign investors
from around the world despite his deteriorating relations with the Bush administration which labels him
an autocrat. Chavez, who
ejected U.S. major oil Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips from multibillion-dollar oil production projects
last year, presided over the
signing ceremony and told
the Chevron delegation,
“We want to be friends with
gringos.”
Exxon and ConocoPhillips filed lawsuits against
Venezuela for last year’s
nationalizations but Chevron quickly struck a deal
and remained in another of
the crude projects targeted
for takeover by the socialist leader. Venezuela is a
major oil supplier to the
United States, its top energy customer.
Opinion
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THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
~Message for International Day for Peace~
The Brahma Kumaris World
Spiritual University joins
with the rest of the world to
observe International Day
for Peace on Sunday, September 21. At 12:00 noon,
we would like to invite everyone in the world to observe one minute of silence
as a personal and collective
contribution to this very
auspicious event. With our
contribution of silence, we
can help generate positive
thoughts of peace. These
thoughts can serve to help
us maintain peace and can
help spread peaceful vibrations in the world.
There is something that
we all can do to help create
peace in the world, and that
is to make ourselves peaceful. The first step in this
process is an interest in doing some real soul-searching to find out what has
made us “peaceless” in the
first place. By turning the
mind within, you discover,
underneath the many surfaced emotions of everyday
life, a deep, undisturbed
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pool of spiritual well-being.
You need to explore that
part of the self, not just to
understand it, but to experience it, again and again.
This is such a satisfying
experience, one that refreshes the soul and fills it
with peace. From this vantage point, it becomes easy
to recognise the kinds of
thoughts and feelings which
are self-destructive. The
power of self-realisation
will work wonders in transforming these destructive
mental habits. You will stop
blaming others for your
“peacelessness,” and get on
with the work of cultivating
your truth.
The call of this time is a
call for peace. Peace is not
just an end to conflict, but
a deep inner stillness and
calm, which all souls remember as our original
state.
It is not necessary to
search for peace. It is within. Our original state is one
of peace. If we are to find
peace, first we must teach
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ourselves to become quiet
and then we can become
peaceful.
Becoming peaceful means
that you must seize the reins
of the out-of-control mind
and bringing the runaway
thoughts to a halt. Once we
have the mind’s attention,
we can begin to coax it to
take us into silence, a true
silence; not the place without sound, but the place in
which we experience a deep
sense of peace and a pervasive awareness of our wellbeing.
It is not an empty mind that
elicits this state of peace. To
move into this state of profound silence, we must train
the intellect to create pure,
good thoughts. We must
train it to concentrate. Our
wasteful thoughts burden
us. Our habits of creating
too many thoughts and too
many words exhaust the intellect. We must ask, “How
can I cultivate the habit of
pure thought?”
To be at peace is like a
perfectly calm lake when
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all whispers of wind have
stopped, the inner being
shimmers, quietly reflecting the intrinsic qualities of
the soul.
Feelings of peace and wellbeing steal across my mind
and, with them, thoughts of
benevolence.
I let go of all thoughts of
discontentment and am reminded of my oldest, most
intrinsic state of being. I
remember this inner calm.
Though I have not been
here recently, I remember
it as my most fundamental
awareness, and a feeling
of happiness and contentment wells up inside of me.
In this state, I know every
soul to be my friend. I am
my own friend. I am deeply
quiet. I am silent and utterly at peace.
This deep well of peace
is the original state of the
soul. When I am in this
state, I feel the flow of love
for humanity and I feel a
state more elevated than
what I would normally call
happiness, a state of bliss.
Brahma Kumaris World
Spiritual University is an
international organisation
working at all levels of society for positive change.
The University is a nongovernmental, non-profitable organisation, with
general consultative status
with the United Nations. It
has about 8,500 branches in
over 130 countries. It is also
the recipient of seven UN
Peace Messenger Awards.
By Charles Krauthammer
he became. And that is how
history will both remember
and judge him.
Getting a jump on history,
many books have already
judged him. The latest by
Bob Woodward describes
the commander in chief
as unusually aloof and detached. A more favorably
inclined biographer might
have called it equanimity.
In the hour I spent with the
president (devoted mostly
to foreign policy), that
equanimity was everywhere
in evidence – not the resignation of a man in the twilight of his presidency but
a sense of calm and confidence in eventual historical
vindication.
It is precisely that quality
that allowed him to order
the surge in Iraq in the face
of intense opposition from
the political establishment
(of both parties), the foreign policy establishment
(led by the feckless Iraq
Study Group), the military
establishment (as chronicled by Woodward) and
public opinion itself. The
surge then effected the most
dramatic change in the fortunes of an American war
since the summer of 1864.
That kind of resolve re-
quires internal fortitude.
Some have argued that too
much reliance on this internal compass is what got us
into Iraq in the first place.
But Bush was hardly alone
in that decision. He had a
majority of public opinion,
the commentariat and Congress with him. In addition,
history has not yet rendered
its verdict on the Iraq War.
We can say that it turned
out to be longer and more
costly than expected, surely.
But the question remains as
to whether the now-likely
outcome – transforming a
virulently aggressive enemy
state in the heart of the
Middle East into a strategic ally in the war on terror
– was worth it. I suspect the
ultimate answer will be far
more favorable than it is
today.
When I asked the president
about his one unambiguous
achievement, keeping us
safe for seven years – about
6½ years longer than anybody thought possible at
the time of 9/11 – he was
quick to credit both the soldiers keeping the enemy at
bay abroad and the posse of
law enforcement and intelligence officials hardening
our defenses at home.
But he alluded also to
some of the measures he
had undertaken, including
“listening in on the enemy”
and “asking hardened killers about their plans.” The
CIA has already told us that
interrogation of high-value
terrorists like Khalid Sheik
Mohammed yielded more
valuable intelligence than
any other source. In talking about these measures,
the president mentioned
neither this testimony as to
their efficacy nor the campaign of vilification against
him that these measures occasioned. More equanimity
WASHINGTON -- For the
last 150 years, most American war presidents – most
notably Lincoln, Wilson
and Roosevelt – have entered (or re-entered) office
knowing war was looming.
Not so George Bush. Not so
the war on terror. The 9/11
attacks literally came out of
the blue.
Indeed, the three presidential campaigns between the
fall of the Berlin Wall and
9/11 were the most devoid
of foreign policy debate of
any in the 20th century. The
commander-in-chief question that dominates our
campaigns today was almost
nowhere in evidence during
our ’90s holiday from history.
When I asked President
Bush during an interview
Monday to reflect on this
oddity, he cast himself back
to early 2001, recalling what
he expected his presidency
would be about: education
reform, tax cuts and military transformation from
a Cold War structure to a
more mobile force adapted
to smaller-scale 21st-century
conflict.
But a wartime president
Brahma Kumaris World Spi
ritual University
Continued on page 35
Opinion
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
By Jim Hoagland
WASHINGTON -- A war
that can be won is a valuable asset for a presidential
candidate. It spreads hope
and wards off vote-numbing despair on the campaign
trail. For Barack Obama, the
winnable war is Afghanistan.
John McCain makes the
same claim for Iraq.
Each candidate arrives at his
differing assessment through
political calculation as much
as battlefield analysis. That is
inevitable in modern politics.
Each must engage in a certain amount of image projection – that is, make-believe
– on conflicts they do not yet
control as they fight toward
Election Day.
The indisputable point is
this: The political and military campaigns being waged
simultaneously in and by the
U.S. intersect in the ungoverned badlands of the greater Middle East. The candidate who most convincingly
argues that he knows how to
adapt and focus the uneven
military effort to eliminate
the threat from jihadist terrorists will have an important
advantage.
That contest is still to be
won as well. McCain has recently made progress in selling his vision as security has
improved in Iraq and worsened in Afghanistan. But
events in the Afghan theater
are moving in Obama’s direction – thanks largely and
unwittingly to the Bush administration.
In its final months, the Bush
White House – along with the
Pentagon – is laboring hard
To be the parents of two
teenage daughters can be a
blessing but also an agony.
We live in a world where a
child can easily go astray:
drugs, alcohol, bad friends,
crime etc. Even God is a
danger. We see how He has
been punishing innocent
poor black people in Cuba
and Haiti. Why would the
same God not want to punish young girls because they
are young and good-looking? But until now, we have
been very lucky: no drugs,
no alcohol and wonderful
friends.
Two years ago, our elder
daughter became a member
of the Leo’s club, the young
Lions. That turned out to
be one of the best decisions
she made. She entered into
a beautiful group of positively-minded young peo-
ple. For two years, she had
a wonderful time there. She
acquired a lot of skills. She
and her friends produced
a weekly T.V. programme
“Youth News and Views.”
They were also socially very
active.
Christmas, they collected
food packages for poor
people and helped schools
organise sport events. She
learned how to debate and,
of course, they had wonderful parties. My daughter
just went to Holland and
I am very happy that our
second daughter decided
to also join the ranks of the
Leo’s club.
We hereby thank Lions
and Leos from the bottom
of our hearts for what they
have done for our children.
My unpaid advice is: “Go
on with what you are doing because you are doing
great.” Special thanks go
out to Lisandra Havertong,
the second mother of our
children.
History’s verdict
Continued from page 34.
still.
What the president did
note with some pride, however, is that beyond preventing a second attack, he
is bequeathing to his successor the kinds of powers
and institutions the next
president will need to prevent further attack and successfully prosecute the long
war. And indeed, he does
leave behind a Department
of Homeland Security, reorganized intelligence services with newly developed
capacities to share information, and a revised FISA
regime that grants broader
and modernized wiretapping authority.
In this respect, Bush is
much like Truman, who developed the sinews of war
for a new era (the Department of Defense, the CIA,
the NSA), expanded the
powers of the presidency, established a new doctrine for
active intervention abroad,
and ultimately engaged in
a war (Korea) – also absent
an attack on the U.S. – that
proved highly unpopular.
So unpopular that Truman
left office disparaged and
highly out of favor. History
has revised that verdict. I
have little doubt that Bush
will be the subject of a similar reconsideration.
Gerard Bijnsdorp,
grateful advisor
to SXM parents.
to avoid crippling disruptions
during the coming transition
by locking in policies for the
year to come. The idea is to
move down in Iraq, up in Afghanistan and sideways on
Pakistan.
This triple-play strategy was
essentially put in place during a July 23 meeting involving Bush, Defense Secretary
Robert Gates and the Joint
Chiefs of Staff in the “tank,”
the Chiefs’ secure conference facility at the Pentagon.
Little has filtered out from
this meeting, “which was limited in attendance and tightly
held even by the standards of
the tank,” says one Pentagon
official.
But the shape of that day’s
decisions has since been
made apparent by plans to
send to Afghanistan about
5,000 U.S. combat troops
who would have normally
deployed to Iraq over the
next five months. An additional 3,000 troops will leave
Iraq for home in that same
period.
By design or otherwise, these
decisions support McCain’s
assertions that the “surge”
– skillfully managed in Iraq
and masterfully presented
to the American public by
General David Petraeus as a
success in its own terms – has
moved Iraq from “hopeless”
to the “hopeful,” or winnable, column. Without that
change, McCain’s suddenly
improved chances of victory
in November would have
continued to languish.
McCain and Petraeus understand that the American
people will tolerate difficult
conflicts abroad – as long as
they are convinced that their
leaders know what they are
doing. It was not only rising casualties that decisively
broke domestic support for
the Vietnam War in the late
1960s. It was also the spreading and largely justified feeling that the U.S. commanders of that conflict were incompetent.
A new Bush strategy for
Pakistan has also emerged
since the July 23 meeting and
the August 18 resignation of
President Pervez Musharraf,
whom Bush protected as
America’s best bet even as
Musharraf failed to gain control over border areas used
as sanctuary by al-Qaeda and
the Taliban to destabilize Afghanistan.
It is not clear if this change
is “better late than never”
or “too little too late.” But
it does validate Obama’s
bold assertion earlier in the
campaign that he would act
unilaterally inside Pakistan’s
border areas if it improved
U.S. security. This is what
Bush is now doing.
The replacement of Musharraf by an unsteady civilian government, which has
scant control over Pakistan’s
35
army and unreliable intelligence services, has led to
an increase both in U.S.
raids on the tribal areas and,
more importantly, in publicity about U.S. willingness to
conduct such raids, which
have occurred episodically, if
secretly, since 2002.
The idea is to pressure the
civilian authorities – through
public visits by U.S. commanders,
well-publicized
Predator missions and U.S.
boots on the ground – to
crack down on the sanctuaries themselves or risk even
greater turmoil there. Such
pressure on Musharraf earlier might have made him
deliver much more.
The attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen last week is a
sign that al-Qaeda & Co. will
try to vote in this election as
well. The jihadists remind
Americans that Bush’s successor, whoever he is, will
inherit a war to fight, and to
win, in reality as well as in
speeches.
Bill Bove died September 15th in Newport R.I. All four of Bill’s children, as
well as Karla Bove, were at his side
when he passed away.
Bill, with his business partner Phil
Thomas, opened the first restaurant at
Mullet Bay Resort in the mid-1970’s
called “The Frigate”. For 14 years,
The Frigate was one of the most successful and popular restaurants on
St. Maarten.
Bill successfully raced his 47’ Swan
sailboat “AJ Skye” in the first Heineken
Regattas, St. Barth’s Regattas and
St. Thomas Rolex Cups.
Bill went to St. Barth’s and established
the legendary Autour Du Rocher restaurant/hotel made famous when Jimmy
Buffett bought the hotel and eulogized it
in one of his songs.
SAIL ON, BILL!
On behalf of her husband and sons,
we hereby announce the passing in Curaçao of
Mrs. Josefa Doran-Gerardus
(March 19th, 1937 - September 16th, 2008)
Left to mourn:
Her husband: Cerilio Doran
Her sons:
Shurman Doran (Jump Up Casino),
Ademar Doran (Commissioner of Police)
Orlando Doran (Isla Refinery) and
Raichel Doran (Police Brigadier at Simpson
Bay Station)
Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later time.
Philipsburg, September 16th, 2008
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Comics
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
By Linda C. Black
Today’s Birthday (September 20) - You can advance
your career this year. It isn’t going to be easy, but
you’re tough and well-disciplined. You can do it if
anyone can. That ought to get you hopping.
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 - OK, you
can relax now. Put the job on hold and kick back.
Play as hard as you’ve worked the past week. You’ve
really earned this holiday.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) - Today is an 8 - It’s a good
day to go shopping for something important for
somebody else. Use his or her money to buy it with,
if at all possible. Get yourself something, too.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) - Today is a 7 - You have
special powers now. You can read people’s thoughts.
They don’t all agree with you, by the way. That makes
it more interesting.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) - Today is a 7 - Be a mouse
in the corner and let the others do the talking. Ask
a leading question every once in a while. You’ll find
out all the secrets.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) - Today is a 7 - In a competitive
situation, they need you to show them the way. Your
team can win, but it’s not a sure thing. Your input
matters.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - Today is a 7 - A bossy person threatens to make your life a living heck. What
can you do about it? Having a good sense of humour
surely helps.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) - Today is a 7 - You have a
few chores to get out of the way, but then get in some
travel time. Check out the view on the other side of
the hill.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) - Today is a 7 - How do
you want to spend your windfall? Get something
nice for the family, or partying with friends? There’s
a right and a wrong answer to this question, by the
way. This is a test.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) - Today is a 7 - The
competition is fierce, but you are up to the challenge. Have the facts at your fingertips and you’ll win
the argument. If you don’t know what you’re talking
about, postpone the meeting.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Today is a 7 - Cut
down on your travel expenses. You can’t afford to
run all over town, doing your errands in the SUV.
Get a pushcart and new Adidas.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) - Today is a 7 - A loved
one wants you to forget about everything else and
run and play. You have so many things on your mind,
could you actually do this? Sure you could.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) - Today is a 7 - Take some
time off to relax and think about what’s coming next.
Make up a few lists and diagrams, leaving lots of
room for changes. Better do them in pencil.
Community
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
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After School Programme
Oasis Foundation is now registering for its Language Arts
& Educational Foundation dynamic after school classes, including computer, Dutch and Spanish classes. Registration is
from 9:30am to 11:30am and runs from Mon–Fri for the
rest of September at the Victorious Living Foundation on
Sunday, September 21
Backstreet 158 B (Close to Astan Mailbox) Deadline for
COASTAL HIKE
registration is September 26. Payment deadline is SeptemOrganised by Heritage Foundation. Easy approximately 2½- ber 30. For more information call 580-5639.
hour coastal hike from Galisbay, Marigot, to Grand Case with
some more difficult rocky scrambles. The last part is over the Dance School
rocks and you must be prepared for wet feet. An alternative Soaring With The Spirit Prophetic Dance And Worship
route can be taken from Happy Bay to avoid this. Please wear Institute is now registering children and adults of all ages.
good shoes, bring water and protect yourself from the sun.
For more information call 526-3193 or 543-2004 or
Meeting point: Car Park on the left as you enter Grand Case e-mail mirandapatterson_332@hotmail.com. The foundafrom Marigot. There is a church opposite.
tion is also seeking a secretary.
Start Time: 7:15am when a bus will take us to Marigot
Price: US $5 for non-members
Exercise Classes
Bus charge: $1 per person
Class 30 of the Philipsburg Methodist Congregation inFor further information call the Museum, tel. 542-4917, or vites persons to register for exercise classes planned for
e-mail
October and November. Classes will take place in the
hfhikingsxm@yahoo.com
Louisianne Augusta Hall (Brick Building) every Wednesday, 6:00-7:00pm. A monthly donation of US $20 per perSunday, September 21
son is requested and must be paid in advance. For more
SPLASH AND SPRINT
information call Yvonne Dick, Bureau Educa RRR, tel.
Swimming and running competition. Children and adults can 542-2622, or Patricia Pantophlet, tel. 542-3547/61.
participate as individuals or as a team.
Place: Mullet Bay parking lot
Practice Session
Registration: 3:00-4:00pm.
In connection with the upcoming tournament in the
For more information or if you need a team, call TriSport at Northern Part of the Dominican Republic organized by
545-4384 or Rose at 556-7815, or e-mail rufdog@domaccess. Pony Dominican Republic, the St. Martin Pony Baseball
com
League would like to remind all players 14 and under and
washed while you browse the Internet or purchase clothing,
household items, food, books, etc.
Place: Sparkle Car Wash and Victorious Living Healing Restoration and Training Center, 158B Back Street, Philipsburg
Time: 9:00am to 4:30pm
Dear Queenie,
When my grandfather moved into a nursing home before he
died he gave his house and land to me and my brothers. When
we went to look at the house is was run down and the land was
overgrown because he had been too sick to keep the place up.
We all had our own homes and my brothers didn’t want anything to do with grandfather’s place, so I had it appraised by a
real estate expert and bought out my brothers at fair market
value. Then my husband and I spent thousands of dollars and
days and weeks of our own time cleaning the place up and repairing the house.
Now the place is very nice, nicer than what my brothers and I
owned already, and my husband and I are planning sell our old
house and move our family into grandfather’s house very soon.
The problem is one of my brothers claims he wants to move
into it too. He says grandfather gave it to all of us and he has just
as much right to it as I do. I don’t want to make trouble in the
family, but after we paid him for his share and did all the work
and paid all the expenses to fix it up I don’t see why we should
let him have the place.
Queenie, what should we do?—Angry sister
NOTICES
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Only notices of fund-raising events for non-profit or educational organisations will be placed in the Events/Notices
column. Notices/Events should be sent to
notices@thedailyherald.com in the format used on this
page. Do not send fliers or press releases to this address.
Saturday, September 20
INTERNATIONAL
COASTAL CLEANUP
All volunteers welcome. Cleanup tools will be provided. Experienced snorkellers also welcome; please bring along gear.
Place: Mullet Bay Beach
Time: 7:00-10:00am
Scouts For Coastal Cleanup
Scouting Antiano district St. Maarten calls all its members,
Beavers, Cub Scouts, Scouts and those who would like to join
the organisation to be present at the Coastal Cleanup Day
at Mullet Bay, Saturday, September 20, 7:00am. For more
information, call Merlyn Schaminee-Miguel, tel. 522-7151.
Public Lecture
PPA Women’s League (PPAWL) invites the general public
to a constitutional development lecture on Thursday, September 25 at Philipsburg Community Centre from 7:30 to
9:00pm. Guest speaker: Dr. Caryl Monte
Adult Swimming
Carib Swim Team announces the start of Masters (adults)
swim training with coach Ian Lee at the Carib Swim Pool
Saturday, September 20
in Cole Bay. Training available for swimmers of all levels on
BOOK SALE
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays from 12:00 noon to 1:45pm,
A spectacular sale of used books organised by Philipsburg and Tuesdays and Thursdays 7:00-8:15pm. For information,
Jubilee Library. Buy 20 books for only NAf. 9/US $5. Single come to the pool, or call 556-8003.
copies go for NAf./$1.80 for hard-covers, NAf. 0.90/$ 0.50 for
paperbacks, NAf. 0.45/$0.25
Holy Mother of God # 1 Psychic Tino
for magazines.
Healing Powers
TOP RATED
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Place: Philipsburg Jubilee Li20 years experience.
brary
Severe case worker.
HIGH POWERED PSYCHIC
Helps all life’s problems.
Time: 10:00am to 1:00pm
Reunites lovers
Returns lovers to stay.
Overpowers witchcraft.
Removes negativity
No false promises!
Casts love spells!
Calls enemies names
Saturday, September 20
Removes bad energy.
Call enemies names.
Restores happiness &
SIDEWALK SALE/CAR WASH
Guaranteed permanent
Good luck!
Instant results!
Organised by Victorious Liv- Call today for a better tomorrow!
results - 10 hours!
ing Foundation & Youth to
001-305-879-0355
001-214-922-8035
Xtreme. Get your vehicle
001-972-272-3869
18 and under to attend the practice session on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays at the John Cooper/Jose Lake
Sr. Ball Park from 3:00pm to 6:00pm. Players are also reminded to submit their travelling documents to the Pony
League office.
Afterschool Activities
No Kidding With Our Kids Foundation is registering students 4 and older for the ASA program in Saunders or
Sucker Garden. Registration is possible Monday to Friday
between 8:00am and 12:00pm at main office Sucker Garden. Registration fee is NAf.50 and monthly fee NAf150.
For more info call 542-4910 or 542-4925.
After School Programme
Sophia’s Camp Foundation is now registering students for
their after school program. Monday through Friday at Sea
Island Cotton Drive#2 Diamond Cole Bay. Parents are invited to register their children ages 6 to 15. For more information, contact us at 586-1351/522-5006.
BUSHROAD PHARMACY,
Mon-Fri 8:00am - 5:00pm, Sat 9:00am - 5:00pm
CAY HILL PHARMACY,
Mon-Fri 8:30am - 6:00pm
CENTRAL DRUGSTORE,
Mon-Fri 08:00am - 6:00pm, Sat 9:00am - 2:00pm
THE DRUGGIST,
Mon-Fri 8:30am - 7:30pm, Sat 10:00am - 7:00pm
DUTCH QUARTER PHARMACY:
Mon-Fri 8:30am - 1:00pm and 2:00pm – 4:30pm
FRIENDLY ISLAND PHARMACY:
Mon-Fri 8:15am - 6:30pm, Sat 9:00am - 5:00pm
MAHO PHARMACY,
Mon-Sat 8:00am - 9:00pm,
ORANGE GROVE PHARMACY,
Mon-Fri 7:45am - 6:30pm, Sat 9:00am -1:00pm
ST. PETERS PHARMACY,
Mon-Sat 8:00am - 7:00pm
PHILIPSBURG PHARMACY,
Mon-Fri 7:30am - 7:00pm Sat 9:00am -1:00pm
SIMPSON BAY PHARMACY,
Mon-Fri 8:15am -7:30pm, Sat 9:00am -1:00pm
SINT ROSE PHARMACY,
Mon- Fri 8:30am - 5:30pm - Sat 9:30am - 5:30pm
SUN/HOLIDAYS
9:00am -1:00pm
10:00am - 12:00pm
10:30am - 2:30pm
11:00am - 1:00pm
1:00pm - 3:00pm
5:00pm - 7:00pm
6:00pm - 9:00pm
DUTCH SIDE PHARMACIES
WEEK OPENING HOURS
Sunday, September 21
CHURCH SERVICE
Organised by Moravian Church (Evangelische Broedergemeente St. Maarten)
Place: Methodist Church in Betty’s Estate.
Time: 10:00am
Dear Angry sister,
I am assuming that when you and your husband bought out Reverend Dr. Cortroy Jarvis will be conducting the service
your brothers you kept careful records, registered the sale and in English.
had the property put in your own names. I am also assuming
that you kept track of all your time and expenses in fixing up the
place and kept all your receipts.
Pilot Club
That said, there is no reason you should let your brother bully Be A Pilot Club West Indies will be registering persons 13
you into giving him the results of your hard work and invest- to adult interested in joining the club focused on aviation
ment. Remind him that you paid him a fair price for his share related topic. Registration is set for Saturday, September 20
of the property and, if necessary, show him a copy of the legal and 21 at the Met Office Airport Road between 9:00 and
documents involved.
11:00am. For more information call 555-5404
Then give him an accounting of all the money you spent fixing
it up (don’t forget to include the fair market value of your and SIFMA Training
your husband’s time and labour) and tell him that even if you Training and resource Center for Early Childhood Educawere willing to sell the property, which you are not, you would tion and Care (SIFMA) is registering children (ages 4 to 6)
expect to be reimbursed for your trouble and expense, including and their parents for the Head Start Program, which is a free,
the price you originally paid him for his share.
home based program. To register interested persons should
If that doesn’t shut him up, put the whole matter in the hands of visit the SIFMA office, in the Lions building next to the Shell
a good attorney. And if anyone else in the family says anything, Gas Station in Sucker Garden or call 543-7299 for more inshow them the same documentation and tell them your brother formation.
sold his rights long ago and now is looking for a free ride.
MAHO PHARMACY
PHILIPSBURG PHARMACY
SINT ROSE PHARMACY
CENTRAL DRUGSTORE,
THE DRUGGIST
SIMPSON BAY PHARMACY
MAHO PHARMACY
In the event of a medical emergency after normal business hours
please go to the Emergency room of the St. Maarten Medical Center.
People
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PARIS--Financial markets
may be in turmoil, but the
publishers of a comic strip on
Jerome Kerviel hope their
take on the world’s biggest
rogue trading scandal will
add a laugh or two to the mix
and earn them some cash.
“We are hoping this will sell
well,” said Lorentz, the penname for one of the authors
of the book.
“The Diary of Jerome Kerviel” is the latest work from
French publishing house
Thomas Editions. It hits the
shops as trading floors come
to grips with an unprecedented chain of calamities, including this week’s bankruptcy
filing of Lehman Brothers.
The tale follows the fall
from grace of Kerviel, a 31year old junior trader who
nearly brought down venerable French bank Societe
Generale and caused mayhem in world markets. The
TV 15 (local)
St. Maarten Cable TV
Local time
Programme
Saturday, September 20
5:00pm
Prime Time Caribbean
5:30pm
Beautiful U
6:00pm
Aruba Week in Review
7:00pm
AVS News Forum
8:00pm
AVS Week in Review
9:00pm
Robbie’s Lottery
9:05pm
Musical Show with Perry Reed
10:00pm
St. Maarten Lottery
10:05pm
Caribbean Vibrations
10:30pm
Transparence Kompa
Sunday, September 21
2:00pm
Bringing Christ to the Nation
2:30pm
Living by Faith
3:00pm
The Assemblies of Yahweh
3:30pm
Good News Hour
4:00pm
Caribbean News Review
4:30pm
Voice of Deliverance
5:00pm
Living in the Kingdom
5:30pm
Jesus the Healer of Nations
6:00pm
Turning Point
6:30pm
Robbie’s Lottery
6:35pm
In Depth
7:00pm
Speaking of Everything
7:30pm
Prime Time with Beverly Hyman
8:00pm
The Lloyd Richardson Show
9:00pm
Happy Family Hour
10:00pm
St. Maarten Lottery
10:05pm
Christian Fellowship
10:30pm
Bahai Faith
Programmes Radio Netherlands
Sint-Maarten:
* Pearl FM (98.1 FM),
Monday-Friday:
6.30am-7.25am Linea Recta (live), nieuws & actualiteiten ‘special’
voor de Nederlandse Antillen & Aruba in DUTCH (7.15 in Papiamentu)
1.00pm-1.30pm Newsline, news & current affairs in English
* Radio Soualiga (99.9 FM)
Dutch and English items from RNW (no fixed time)
Sint-Eustatius:
*Sint-Eustatius Broadcasting Corporation (91.5 FM)
Monday-Friday:
7.45am-8.40am Linea Recta, nieuws & actualiteiten ‘special’ voor de
Nederlandse Antillen & Aruba in DUTCH (from 8.30am in Papiamentu)
6.00pm-7.00pm Newsline, news & current affairs in English + Daily
special
7.00pm-8.00pm Linea Recta (repeat)
* Statia-Cable (Channel 2)
Monday-Sunday (24 hours):
- Dutch programme, including 6.30am-7.25am Linea Recta (MondaySaturday)
Saba:
* Voice of Saba/QFM 93.9
Monday-Friday:
6.30am-10.15am Dutch programme, including 6.30am-07.25am Linea
Recta (live), nieuws & actualiteiten ‘special’ voor de Nederlandse Antillen & Aruba in DUTCH (7.15am in Papiamentu)
Monday-Friday:
2.00pm-2.30pm Newsline, news & current affairs in English
* Saba-Cable (Channel 2)
Monday-Friday:
6.30am-10.15am Dutch programme, including Linea Recta (see Voice
of Saba)
Monday-Friday:
2.00pm-2:30pm Newsline (see Voice of Saba)
See also: www.caribiana.nl
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
graphic novel combines fact
with fiction and sees Kerviel
set up a range of business services from his prison cell. It
ends with his fellow inmates
protesting against their work
conditions in the prison and
threatening to beat him up.
“I am sick of capitalism,”
the Kerviel character concludes.
Lorentz and Nicolas Million
said their book was more a
critique of the banking industry in general rather than
of Kerviel in particular. “It’s
against the banking system.
For us, Kerviel was just a
pawn,” said Lorentz.
Thomas Editions had reasons of its own for feeling
less than fond of the banks
since the fledgling publisher
was repeatedly refused a
loan as it tried to get its business up and running. “They
all refused us money, including Societe Generale,” said
Francois-Xavier Thomas.
“They weren’t prepared to
take a risk. But the irony of
the Kerviel affair showed
that the same banks were
happy to take risks in betting
on complex trading operations,” he added.
Thomas and his wife MarieClotilde, a couple of trendy
40-year olds, set up their
publishing business in southern Paris in March 2007. The
company has a capital base
of 50,000 euros and is not yet
profitable.
However, the couple said a
buzz of publicity surrounding
the Kerviel cartoon augured
well--so much so that they
hoped to bring new investors
into the company. “We want
to open our capital,” said
Francois-Xavier
Thomas.
Marie Clotilde added she
had been contacted by overseas publishers looking to
buy rights to their work.
In January, SocGen unveiled 4.9 billion euros of
losses which it said were
caused by unauthorised deals
conducted by Kerviel. The
losses eclipsed those caused
by similar rogue trading
scandals, such as those Nick
Leeson built up in 1995 that
sank British merchant bank
Barings.
Kerviel was freed from
prison in March after an appeal against his detention,
but he remains under formal
investigation for breach of
BVN (Dutch/Flemish) TV
Channel 46 St. Maarten Cable TV
Saturday, September 20
12:00pm
VRT Journaal
12:30pm
De rode loper
12:55pm
Sesamstraat
1:20pm
Tik tak
1:25pm
Samson & Gert
1:45pm
Elly en de wiebelwagen
2:00pm
Love Match
2:25pm
SchoolTV-weekjournaal
3:00pm
NOS Journaal
3:05pm
Dropzone
3:30pm
Spangas
4:20pm
Holland sport
5:15pm
FC de kampioenen
5:45pm
Kop dicht voetballen
6:10pm
VRT Journaal
6:45pm
Vlaanderen vakantieland
7:30pm
NOS Journaal
7:45pm
Weerbericht
7:55pm
Mooi! Weer De Leeuw
8:45pm
Flikken Maastricht
9:35pm
Studio Sport
10:25pm
Raymann is laat
11:05pm
Koefnoen
11:40pm
Studio Sport
Sunday, September 21
12:00pm
VRT Journaal
12:30pm
De zevende dag
2:30pm
Buitenhof
3:25pm
Tik tak
3:30pm
Sesamstraat
4:00pm
Wizzy & Woppy
4:05pm
Spring
4:15pm
NOS jeugdjournaal weekoverzicht
4:45pm
Metropolis
5:15pm
Nederland zingt
5:40pm
Kinderen geen bezwaar
6:05pm
VRT Journaal
6:55pm
3 op reis
7:35pm
NOS Journaal
7:50pm
Weerbericht
7:55pm
Studio Sport
8:50pm
Flikken
9:40pm
Het leven zoals het is: Luchthaven
10:10pm
Vermist
11:00pm
Studio Sport
11:25pm
Denkend aan Nederland
11:30pm
Man bijt hond
“The Diary of Jerome Kerviel” is seen in this undated handout photo released to Reuters in Paris, France on Friday.
trust, computer abuse and
falsification. SocGen internal
reports say Kerviel bypassed
risk control systems to build
up a trading position worth
50 billion euros, more than
SocGen’s own market capitalisation.
The French bank then had
to unwind that position between Jan. 21 and Jan. 23
into an already falling stock
market, exacerbating a global market slump. At the time
there was market speculation
that Kerviel had effectively
caused the U.S. Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.
The banker from Britanny
became a sort of cult antihero when the scandal broke.
Left-wing observers saw him
as a working class victim of
his upper class bosses. The
cartoon diary alludes to this
class tension.
It shows how Kerviel wanted to prove that despite his
degrees from the relatively
modest universities of Nantes
and Lyon, he could play with
the blue-blood SocGen traders educated at France’s
prestigious seats of learning.
“Kerviel acted practically
like a kid,” said Million.
The authors said they had
already been contacted by
Kerviel’s lawyer and spokeswoman. “We’ll send him
a copy of the book,” said
Lorentz.
TeleCuraçao
Channel 30 St. Maarten Cable TV
Local time
Programme
Saturday, September 20
8:30am
Cartoons
9:30am
Enid pa Mucha
10:00am
TeleCuraçao Speshal
10:30am
Arte Pa Tur (r)
11:30am
Music Videos
11:45pm
Telsell
12:00pm
Siensia di Tera
1:00pm
Beisbol Major League
4:00pm
Programa Internashonal
4:30pm
Aghusa
5:30pm
Lebubisa
6:00pm
Farenheit
7:00pm
Manda Gana Live
8:00pm
Telenotisia
8:30pm
Resumen MLB
9:00pm
Wega di Number Korsou/Triple A
9:15pm
Na kaminda Pa Miss Korsou
10:15pm
SMS & Win
11:15pm
Programa Inetrnashonal
11:45pm
Music Videos
12:00am
Estreno
Sunday, September 21
8:30am
Mainta Hubenil
9:30am
Lebubisa (r)
10:00am
Tania
11:00am
Telsell
11:15am
Ban Papia Turismo
11:30am
Vaye di Alabansa
12:00pm
Santu Sakrifisio di Misa
1:00pm
Beisbol Major League
4:00pm
Programa Internashonal
4:30pm
BVN
5:00pm
TBA
5:30pm
Sorteo Wega di Number
5:45pm
Sorteo Extra
6:00pm
Before & After Magazine
7:00pm
Gana Cash
8:00pm
Telenotisia
8:30pm
Partisipashon di Morto
8:35pm
Music Videos
8:45pm
Ministerio di Finansa
9:00pm
Tania
10:00pm
Un Dia Den Bida
11:00pm
David Maasbach
12:00am
Estreno
People
THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
Deborah Kampmeier (L), writer and director of the film
“Hounddog”, poses with stars of the film, actresses Dakota
Fanning (C) and Robin Wright Penn during the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah in this January 23,
2007 file photo.
LOS ANGELES--Grammy Award-winning singer
Natalie Cole has been hospitalized in New York after
suffering a setback in her
battle against Hepatitis C,
her spokeswoman said on
Friday.
Cole, the 58-year-old
daughter of legendary
singer Nat King Cole, has
canceled her tour dates for
October but is expected to
make a full recovery, the
spokeswoman told Reuters.
Cole’s unexpected hospitalization was first reported by
Entertainment Tonight.
“She has had a setback
and is in the hospital in
New York. We expect her
to make a full recovery. She
will be in the hospital a few
more days and then will be
sent home for bed rest,”
the spokeswoman, who
declined to be named, told
Reuters.
She said Cole had postponed all her concert dates
and other appearances
scheduled for October.
Cole’s manager declined to
discuss her condition.
Cole announced in July
she had been diagnosed
with Hepatitis C and that
she probably contracted
the liver disease from drug
use more than 30 years
ago. Her doctors said at the
time she was responding
well to treatment, including chemotherapy, but was
suffering “significant side
effects,” including fatigue,
muscle aches and dehydration.
The singer, whose father
died of lung cancer when
she was 15, documented
her addiction to cocaine,
heroin and alcohol in her
2000 autobiography “Angel On My Shoulder”. She
LOS ANGELES--In 2007,
“Hounddog” went to the
Sundance Film Festival
carrying a controversy that
made it the hottest ticket
in town, but it left that
January after getting a cold
shoulder from film distributors and critics.
But now, “Hounddog”,
starring young Dakota Fanning, is howling again with
Friday’s debut in U.S. theatres roughly 18 months
after its difficult Sundance
premiere, and few people
are as happy as its writer
and director Deborah
Kampmeier.
The girlhood drama
kicked up a fuss even before it premiered at Sundance, the top festival for
U.S. independent cinema,
because religious and conservative groups objected
to Kampmeier’s use of then
12-year-old Fanning to depict a child rape. There was
overcame her addictions
after a lengthy stay in rehab
in the early 1980s.
Hepatitis C is a bloodborne infectious disease
that is often without symptoms and can cause inflammation of the liver, and in
extreme cases, liver cancer. It is usually contracted
through transfusions of
unscreened blood, or by injecting or inhaling drugs.
no body double.
The outcry, coupled with
some negative reviews, sent
distributors scurrying for
the doors instead of ponying up the cash for the right
to release a coming-of-age
drama starring a top child
actor who captured hearts
in films such as Steven
Spielberg’s “War of the
Worlds”.
“It was painful, some of
the responses,” Kampmeier told Reuters in a recent
interview. “A lot of people
were projecting their own
agendas on this film that
had nothing to do with it.”
“No one wanted to see the
film again” after the festival, she added.
Kampmeier said the version shown at Sundance
2007 was rushed through
editing to get a version finished in time to be screened.
She knew there were ways
to make it better, and refused to let the experience
put her or “Hounddog”
down. So, she went back
to the editing room and
spent nine months cutting
each scene in ways that enhanced the performances
and making one key change
to the story’s structure.
“Hounddog” tells the
story of a spirited 12 yearold girl named Lewellen
(Fanning) growing up in
the rural south with just her
father. She has an interest
in music and like many girls
in the 1950s, Lewellen idolizes Elvis Presley. She even
does a mean impersonation
of the rock ‘n’ roll singer.
But on a dark and stormy
night, she runs into trouble
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with a teenage boy and is
raped. The pivotal scene is
shot mostly in the dark with
only flashes of lightning illuminating Lewellen’s face
as she yells “stop it.”
The event serves as a
turning point for young
Lewellen. She must learn
to cope with what happened, eventually overcome it and try to return
to a normal life. The movie
“is about taking that which
can poison you and turning it into something that
is good. That’s really what
Lewellen does in the film,”
Kampmeier said.
But ahead of the 2007 Sundance, conservative and religious groups criticized the
film’s makers, Fanning, her
parents and her handlers
for placing a 12 year-old in a
rape scene. One group even
called for a federal probe
to see if child pornography
laws were broken, which
made for good newspaper
headlines but a huge shame
for the movie’s makers.
“One of the things that
was so upsetting was, `what
message does that send to
victims of abuse?,” Kampmeier said. “If Dakota is
being so shamed, what message does that send to our
daughters, our sisters?”
Eighteen months on, there
is no longer a controversy.
Fanning is 14 years-old and
out promoting her upcoming movie, “The Secret Life
of Bees”, and Kampmeier,
at last, is seeing “Hounddog” in theatres. She calls
this new version “more nuanced and layered (with)
space for the performances
and actors to live.”
“I’ve had women come
up to me in tears, mothers
standing up in the audience who said they wanted
to bring their 13 year-old
daughters to see it because
it was important,” she related.
NAPLES, Italy--Thousands of Neapolitans
crowded into the city’s
cathedral on Friday to
witness the miracle of
Saint Gennaro--whose
dried blood is said to liquefy twice a year, 17 centuries after his death.
Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, archbishop
of Naples, announced
the blood turned to liquid at 9:45 a.m. and the
glass phial was paraded
to crowds outside, who
set off fireworks in celebration. “It (the saint’s
blood) is the seed of
hope for all of us,” Sepe
said.
Legend has it that when
Gennaro was beheaded
by pagan Romans in 305
A.D., a Neapolitan woman soaked up his blood
with a sponge and preserved it in a glass phial.
The substance usually
turns to liquid twice a
year--on September 19,
the saint’s feast day, and
on the first Saturday in
May.
The miracle was only
first recorded in 1389,
more than 1,000 years
after Gennaro’s martyrdom. More scientifically minded sceptics
say the “miracle” is due
to chemicals present in
the phial whose viscosity
changes when it is stirred
or moved.
Some Neapolitans fear
disaster may strike the
city if the blood of the
fourth-century martyr
does not turn to liquid.
Disaster has struck at
least five times after the
blood failed to liquefy,
including in November
1980 when some 3,000
people died in a massive
earthquake that struck
southern Italy.
Naples has endured a
difficult year, with the
historic port city’s image
stained by a trash crisis
that saw rotting rubbish
pile up in city streets.
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The referee raise the hand of Michael Cornet as he was declared the winner by technical
knock out in J .T.W. Promotions night of boxing L.B. Scott Sports Auditorium last night.
PHILIPSBURG--Michael
Cornet defeated Ivan Johnson by technical knock out
in a night of boxing brought
to L.B. Scott Sports Auditorium by J .T.W. Promotions
in conjunction with the St.
Maarten Boxing Association last night.
The fight was stopped in
the second round, as Johnson, flown in Friday to replace an overweight boxer,
could no longer take the
punishing blows Cornet
landed at will.
In the opening exhibition
round, Akeem Williams
was scheduled to go four
rounds against Hatchi Louis. The fight was stopped
after Louis could not continue.
Five bouts were on the
card billed as “Night of
Champions.” Expected to
fight was Erland Betare,
a former European and
Akeem Williams throws a jab at Hatchi Louis in a scheduled
French Champion living on
four round exhibition match.
St. Martin, against Diego
Castilio. In the main event,
Francisco Contreras was in a 10 round WBC Super
Results of the late bouts
set to face Jose Montano Lightweight title bout.
will be published Monday.
NEW DELHI-- West Indies
opening batsman Xavier
Marshall has tested positive
for a banned substance, a
senior cricket board official
told website www.cricinfo.
com. Jamaican Marshall and
Tonito Willett from Leeward
Islands tested positive last
month at a camp to pick the
side to face England in the
Stanford Twenty20 winnertake-all $20 million match on
Nov. 1, the report said.
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Donald Peters, chief executive of the West Indies board
(WICB), told Cricinfo any
action would be taken after
receiving legal advice. He
did not say what substance
was involved.
“They (attorneys) are looking into the matter and will
advise us the course of action,” Peters said. “WICB
has a zero-tolerance policy
on drugs and the matter
could come up to the disciplinary committee. We are
looking at a time frame of
two weeks.”
The 22-year-old Marshall
has played four tests and 18
one-day internationals.
PHILIPSBURG--St.
Maarten track star and
2007 LAB Sports Academy
Female Athlete of the Year
Emmy Fraenk is leaving St.
Maarten.
The 100 and 200 meter
sprinter is headed to the
United States for school
and to run. Fraenk who
currently attends the Caribbean International Academy will be transferring to
Virginia.
“It’s a big move, but I’m
excited,” said Fraenk, who
has dominated the Raoul
Illidge Sports Complex
track for years. Fraenk has
also competed internationally.
In 2003, she tried the 1,000
meter race at the Speedy
Plus Invitational Track and
Field Meet in Guadeloupe.
She won the born in 1993
to ‘94 division with a time
of 3:36.6.
At the time her coach Les
Brown said, “
“I’ve been trying to tell her
that the way she rolls her
feet off the track she would
be a great middle distance
runner,” said Les Brown
her coach, after the race.
“She likes the shorter distances because she is done
quickly.”
Fraenk stayed with the
sprint distance and in 2006
at the Inter-Scholastic
Secondary Schools Sports
Exchange she won the 100
meter event with a time of
12.24.
St. Maarten sprinter Emmy Fraenk is going to attend school
in Virginia. She ran with her friends at LAB Sport Academy
for the last time in practice at Raoul Illidge Sports Complex
this week.
Fraenk has represented
St. Maarten at the Carifta
games where she turned in
a time of
26.7 in the 200 and in the
long jump leapt five meters
17.
Fraenk was named Female Athlete of the Year in
2007. Not only does she run
track, but also plays tennis
and competes in triathlons.
“Emmy will surely be
missed,” said Brown. “I’m
sure she will be back and
run for St. Maarten.”
Fraenk
The St. Maarten portion of the Netherlands Antilles Bodybuilding Association returned home
from Bonaire. Leon Bussue placed third in the Light Middle Weight class and Marci Cooke
placed second in the female master group. Other winners included first place Junior Class
Christopher Valerianus from Curacao; Bantam Weight Jason Hazel, Curacao; Light Weight
Sherwin Faneite, Curacao; Welter Weight Cherry Pekeri, Bonaire; Light Middle Weight,
Angelo Engelhart, Bonaire; Middle Weight Jerson de Wind, Curacao; Light Heavy Weight
Edwin Blair, St. Eustatius; Heavy Weight Regis Loo, Curacao with the overall winner going to
Engelhart. In the female division Jeannique Silie of Curacao won the Light Weight title. Heavy
Weight honors went to Angeline Bakhuis of Curacao.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
MADRID-- Spain took a
2-0 lead in their Davis Cup
semi-final against the United States yesterday after
world number one Rafael
Nadal survived a spirited
attack from rookie Sam
Querrey and David Ferrer
beat Andy Roddick.
With Spain needing just a
point to reach November’s
final, the Americans have
a mountain to climb to retain their title starting with
Saturday’s doubles match
which pits Mike Bryan and
Mardy Fish against Feliciano Lopez and Fernando
Verdasco.
Only once in 32 ties have
they come back from a 20 deficit and U.S. captain
Patrick will be rueing their
missed chances.
Nadal struggled in the first
set against world number
39 Querrey as the American’s booming serves drove
the tired-looking Spaniard
deep behind the baseline
before the French Open
and Wimbledon champion
finally won 6-7 6-4 6-3 6-4.
World number five Ferrer won the first set on a
tiebreak, collapsed under a
barrage of blistering serves
from eight-ranked Roddick
in the second and third,
only to roar back and steal
the match 7-6 2-6 1-6 6-4 86 in a nail-biting finale.
Argentina lead Russia 2-0
after Friday’s singles in the
other semi in Buenos Aires.
The final starts on Nov. 21.
Querrey had said he needed to be aggressive and the
gangly 20-year-old’s big
serves unnerved Nadal and
the ducking VIP spectators
behind him in the 77-yearold Las Ventas bullring.
“Never in my life have so
many service points been
scored against me on clay,”
Nadal said. “I started the
Fans cheer during foursome play in the 37th Ryder Cup Championship at the Valhalla Golf
Club in Louisville, Kentucky yesterday.
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky- A fired-up United States
team erased some of their
recent Ryder Cup pain by
storming into a 5-2 lead over
holders Europe at Valhalla
Golf Club yesterday.
Two points clear after the
morning’s foursomes, the
hosts pressed home their advantage late in the afternoon
fourballs to tighten their grip
in the biennial competition.
Although Europe clinched
their first full point of the day
when British duo Ian Poulter
and Justin Rose crushed Ben
Curtis and Steve Stricker
4&2, Justin Leonard and
Hunter Mahan eased past
Spaniards Sergio Garcia and
Miguel Angel Jimenez 4&3
soon afterwards.
In the top match, Phil Mickelson and Anthony Kim
came from one down after 12
holes to beat Irishman Padraig Harrington and Britain’s
Graeme McDowell two up
after a fluctuating battle.
The upbeat Americans were
also up in the bottom encoun-
ter where Kentucky native
JB Holmes and Boo Weekley
led Britain’s Lee Westwood
and Dane Soren Hansen by
one after 14 holes.
The Americans, bidding
to end a run of five defeats
in the last six matches, had
mounted a gritty fightback in
the morning to win the opening Cup session for the first
time in 17 years.
Leonard and Mahan drew
first blood with a 3&2 victory
over Britain’s Paul Casey and
Swede Henrik Stenson after
recovering from a bogey-bogey start.
Stewart Cink and Chad
Campbell came from one
down after 12 holes to scrape
past Poulter and rookie Rose
one up before Mickelson and
Kim halved a tight tussle with
three-times major winner
Harrington and Swede Robert Karlsson.
In the final match of the
morning, European heavyweights Garcia and Westwood fought back from two
down with two to play to
finish all square with local
favorite Kenny Perry and Jim
Furyk.
Garcia, an inspirational
figure for Europe since his
Cup debut in 1999, extended
his unbeaten record in foursomes matches to 8-0-1 (winloss-half).
“I was real proud of them
for the way they hung in
there, scratched and clawed
and were able to finish,” U.S
captain Paul Azinger said
after the Americans won an
opening session for the first
time since the 1991 matches
at Kiawah Island. “It’s early,
but I feel like we’re in a pretty good place mentally right
now and I just want to keep
everybody on point. It’s a
nice start. I guess we haven’t
been ahead a long time in
the morning, and can only be
happy about it.”
The United States are seeking their first triumph since
their come-from-behind success at Brookline in 1999.
match three metres behind
the court and I ended it five
metres behind.”
Querrey, who stands 1.98
metres tall, started to find
his range as the first set
wore on and in the tiebreak
he seized the initiative to
take a 4-1 lead before holding his nerve, while Nadal
lost his and double-faulted,
to win the set in 59 minutes.
The enthusiastic crowd
in the 21,000-seater arena
looked as stunned as Nadal when the now-rampant
Querrey, who hit 17 aces
during the match, broke at
the start of the second set.
However, that was to be
the peak for the inexperienced American and in a
pivotal third game a passing
shot from the 22-year-old
Nadal hit the line to halt
the American’s momentum
as he pressed for a second
break.
Nadal broke back at the
first chance and Spain’s
claycourt master then began to dominate the longer
rallies. His forehands started to fizz and errors crept
into Querrey’s game.
Finally, the San Franciscan, who lost to Nadal in
four sets at the U.S. Open,
cracked in the 10th game
and lost the set.
It was a similar story in the
third set as Nadal soaked
up Querrey’s powerful
strokes and chased down
everything before hitting a
series of sensational counter punches.
Despite battling in the
fourth, Querrey buckled in
the ninth game and chants
of “torero” (bullfighter)
reverberated around the
packed stone stands as
Nadal won after 3 hours 18
minutes.
The tie between Ferrer
and Roddick took exactly
the same amount of time
but was a very different
match.
After a close first set, the
American shifted into top
gear as he blew Ferrer away
with his powerful serves.
Roddick only played one
bad game at the start of the
fourth set but it gave Ferrer some momentum in the
early evening sunshine.
Roddick was no longer
slamming down easy service
winners, and after levelling Ferrer’s early break in
the fifth set found himself
again at break point down
at 6-6 in the decider.
The American hit the
line at 30-40 down but the
frenzied crowd called it out
and, though the confused
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Russia’s Igor Andreev hits a return to Argentina’s David Nalbandian during their World Group Davis Cup semi-final tennis
match in Buenos Aires, yesterday.
players carried on, Roddick
netted a backhand volley
moments later.
He was furious and exchanged words with Spanish captain Emilio SanchezVicario at the change of
ends, though at a news conference later he refused to
say what had been said.
The clearly ruffled-Ameri-
can had no response to a
Ferrer ace in the next game
that set up match point and
hit a final backhand long to
surrender the match.
“The crowd played a crucial role,” said Ferrer. “In
the fifth set there was a lot
of tension and the game was
excitting. It was important
to have them on my side.”
NEW YORK-- The New Orleans Saints have signed experienced quarterback Joey Harrington, head coach Sean
Payton said yesterday.
Harrington, 29, played the first four seasons of his career
with the Detroit Lions before moving to the Miami Dolphins in 2006 and the Atlanta Falcons last season.
He will be the Saints’ third-string quarterback behind
Drew Brees and Mark Brunell.
“He’s a guy that we thought played pretty well for Atlanta last year on tape,” Payton said. “He has ability. It’s
a good opportunity for him to come in here under guys
like (Drew) Brees and (Mark) Brunell, learn our system
and for us to get a chance to develop and work with him.
I think it’s a good fit.”
Harrington, who practiced with the team yesterday,
played in 12 games for the Falcons last year, completing
nearly 62 percent of his 348 passes for 2,215 yards and
seven touchdowns.
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said after beating Jankovic
for the fourth time in six
meetings. “She made a
few double-faults on important points. I guess she
was scared because I was
attacking. In Russia we say
if you don’t take risks you
don’t drink champagne.”
Jankovic, who had fumed
at the chair umpire and
yelled at herself as her
game began to unravel,
was still in a black mood an
hour after the match.
“I’m frustrated,” she said.
“I was unlucky on a couple
of big points. It just wasn’t
my day. I have to learn
from this.”
Kuznetsova will face Srebotnik in today’s semi-finals.
Meanwhile, Nadia Petrova
sprung her second surprise
in 24 hours by beating sixth
seed Agnieszka Radwanska
of Poland 6-3 6-0 in the bottom half of the draw.
The Russian stunned Serb
Ana Ivanovic, the second
seed in Tokyo, in Thursday’s second round.
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LOS ANGELES-- While former world number one Tracy
Austin has few regrets over a
glittering career that was cut
short in its prime, she is bitterly disappointed she never
had the chance to compete at
the Olympics.
Tennis returned to the Summer Games as a full medal
sport in 1988 after a 64-year
hiatus, nearly half a decade
after Austin’s best seasons
were behind her.
“I would have loved to have
played for the United States
at the Olympics,” Austin
said.. “I played many times
for FedCup and for Wightman Cup and I was always
stoked up and felt very special playing for my country.”
She added: “When they
played the national anthem
before the matches, you
got the chills and the goose
bumps. But I never had that
opportunity and the Olympics never even entered my
thought process because I
was retired when tennis came
into play.”
A child prodigy, Austin became the youngest U.S. Open
champion in 1979 aged 16.
She clinched a second U.S.
crown in 1981 and racked up
30 WTA tournament wins
before her dazzling but short
career was truncated by a series of injuries.
She survived a near-fatal
car accident when she was 25
and made several unsuccessful comeback attempts, the
most recent of them in 1994.
However, Austin retains
positive memories of what
she achieved during her alltoo-brief heyday on the tennis court.
“There is no way you can
play, compete and train that
many years doing something
you love and think you are
going to be doing it for a
good 10-15 years and have
it be cut short without being
disappointed,” she said. “But
then I look at the other side
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and I have to knock myself
on the head and say: ‘Hello,
there are so many people
who trained as hard as you
did who didn’t make it to
number one in the world’.
She continued: “I look at
the car accident I had when I
was 25 and when you look at
the car that I really shouldn’t
have gotten out of, I shouldn’t
be here. That’s when I say:
‘Wow, I’m so lucky. I tend
to be the type of person who
looks at the glass half full instead of half empty,” added
Austin, who was inducted
into the International Tennis
Hall of Fame in 1992.
Still living in her native
California, Austin keeps in
close contact with the game
through her role as a television analyst. Overall, she believes the sport is thriving.
“I love it and there is very
little I’d change. I like how
physical the game has become, although I would like
to see a few more serve-and-
volleyers,” the 45-year-old
said.”I always enjoyed the rivalries between Pete Sampras
and Andre Agassi and Bjorn
Borg and John McEnroe, the
diversity in the way that they
played with one player being aggressive and the other
more in the back court.
“However I don’t think that’s
going to happen because the
rackets are so much more
powerful now and the strings
allow you to hit with so much
more power and spin. It is a
different game than I played
15 years ago.”
A topic close to her heart is
the need for players to protect themselves from the rav-
ages of the sun.
“When I came up, I didn’t
have the benefit of sun cream
because it really wasn’t that
mainstream,” said Austin,
who is spearheading a skin
health awareness campaign
with compatriot Lindsay
Davenport, also a former
world number one.
“Growing up in California,
we didn’t play tennis indoors
at all. The only time we did
was when it was raining outside and those days were few
and far between. I was probably around 20 when I first
started to use sun screen,”
added
the
fair-skinned
American. “Now I never go
out without sun screen, even
on an overcast day. I’ve got a
collection of 40 different hats
because I wear a hat every
single day. Because I didn’t
have the benefits of sun
screen, I have gained signs of
ageing a little earlier than I
would like.”
She added: “I asked my
dermatologist if there was
something I could do about
the lines between my nose
and my mouth. He recommended to me Juvederm, a
dermal filler injected into the
skin, and I have been using it
ever since.”
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Outfielder Ryan Ludwick of the St. Louis Cardinals is congratulated at home plate by teammates after hitting a home run against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field yesterday in Chicago, Illinois.
CHICAGO --Carlos Zambrano went from a no-hitter
to an early exit, so the Chicago Cubs will have to wait
another day to clinch the National League Central.
Adam Kennedy capped a
five-run first with a grand
slam, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Cubs 12-6 yesterday, slowing their march
Professor
toward a second straight division title.
Chicago’s magic number for
clinching was at two over Milwaukee when the day began,
but any chance at wrapping it
up quickly disappeared.
After pitching the Cubs’ first
no-hitter in 36 years Sunday
against Houston in Milwaukee, Zambrano allowed eight
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runs and six hits in just 1 2-3
innings. His shortest outing
in two years ended with an
odd exchange with manager
Lou Piniella.
Zambrano (14-6) tried to
come off the mound early
when Piniella yanked him.
The manager wouldn’t allow
it, and Zambrano gestured
toward him before handing
over the ball on the way to
the dugout.
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character said in the film
“Field of Dreams.”
Through baseball history, no venue came closer
to capturing that mystical
quality than Yankee Stadium.
Built in 1923 to accommodate fans of slugger Babe
Ruth, the first three-tiered
baseball stadium quickly
became known as “The
House That Ruth Built.”
Over the next 85 years, the
Yankees, who had won only
one World Series before
moving in, would accrue 25
more World Series crowns
and 37 American League
pennants at the stadium.
A succession of Yankee
superstars achieved almost
national mythic status - Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe
DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle
and others. Heroes came
and went, but through it all,
the stadium remained.
Yankee Stadium also provided a venue for historical
events, both political and
religious, that had nothing
do with baseball.
The first papal mass ever
on U.S. soil was celebrated
there by Pope Paul VI on
October 4, 1965. Pope John
Paul II and Pope Benedict
XVI would also bless the
faithful there.
A rally at the stadium on
June 21, 1990, honored
Nelson Mandela after his
release from prison following the end of apartheid in
South Africa.
There were also memorable moments in other
sports. At halftime of a
scoreless college football
game between the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame
and Army on Nov. 12, 1928,
coach Knute Rockne delivered his famous “Win one
for the Gipper!” speech.
Notre Dame responded
with a 12-6 victory.
On June 22, 1938, boxer
Joe Louis avenged his defeat of two years earlier
with a first-round knockout of Max Schmeling in a
politically-freighted showdown between the “Brown
Bomber” and the German
brawler hailed by Adolf
Hitler.
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Generations of ballplayers
have spoken of their emotions on walking into the
stadium for the first time.
They invariably bring up
the sense of history and
tradition and the place the
structure holds in the hearts
of fans.
Arguably the most poignant moment the stadium
ever witnessed happened
on July 4, 1939.
Yankee captain and first
baseman Lou Gehrig had
been recently diagnosed
with a neurodegenerative
disease that now bears his
name and would take his
life in less than two years.
Gehrig was overwhelmed
by the outpouring of support he received on a day
of appreciation staged for
him.
“Fans, for the past two
weeks you have been reading about the bad break I
got. Yet today I consider
myself the luckiest man
on the face of the earth,”
he said. “I may have had a
tough break, but I have an
awful lot to live for.”
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THE DAILY HERALD, Saturday, September 20, 2008
BANGKOK-- Dreams of
success in England’s Premier League have turned
sour for many of Asia’s top
soccer players.
Lured by the riches and
glamour of the Premier
League, players from China, South Korea, Thailand
and Iran have found their
hopes buried by the rigours
and red tape of the English
top flight.
China’s Sun Jihai is now
with Championship (second division) side Sheffield
United after a miserable
year warming Manchester
City’s bench.
His compatriot Dong Fangzhuo has been offloaded by
Manchester United after
spending two years on loan
MANCHESTER, England- Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson said
yesterday that the prospect
of ending Chelsea’s record
unbeaten home run would
spur his side on when the
two powerhouses of English
football meet on Sunday.
“They have got a good
home record and everyone
knows that has been the
foundation of their success
for the last four years,” Ferguson said. “I think it’s 84
games they haven’t lost at
home so it’s a great challenge for us. A lot of people
don’t expect us to win which
is unusual for our club so
there’s the challenge.”
United go to Stamford
Bridge, where Chelsea are
unbeaten in a league game
since February 2004, on
the back of a rare Premier
League defeat by Liverpool
last Saturday, which put the
champions six points behind early season leaders
Chelsea.
Ferguson said his side,
which will be boosted by
the return to fitness of recent signing Dimitar Berbatov in attack, can ill afford
another below-par performance against one of their
title rivals.
“When you play the big
ones you want to get a
good haul (of points) out
of them. Last season we did
very well against the top
four. This season we have
lost the first one already so
we can’t afford to lose another one,” he said.
Ferguson said he believed
Luiz Felipe Scolari’s purchase of Portugal midfielder
Deco had changed the way
Chelsea have played since
to Belgian second division
side Royal Antwerp and
much of the following two
years either in the United
reserves or injured.
Dong, 23, was philosophical about the experience.
“I’m not frustrated,” he
said. “Over the years many
skilful players have left the
club. It was a rare opportunity for any player to play
for United, so I am very
proud.”
South Koreans have had
the most success so far in
England, although Seol Kyhyeon is out of favour at
Fulham and defender Lee
Young-pyo was transferred
to Germany’s Borussia
Dortmund after failing to
impress Tottenham man-
Ferguson
Scolari replaced Avram
Grant as manager following United’s Champions
League final win over the
London club.
He may be tempted to
bring fit-again Portuguese
ager Juande Ramos.
Kim Do-heon, however,
is a fixture with promoted
West Bromwich Albion but
injury has dashed midfielder Park Ji-sung’s hopes of
a regular starting place at
Manchester United.
Park’s dream of becoming
the first Asian to play in a
Champions League final
was shattered when manager Alex Ferguson failed
to include him in the squad
for the match against Chelsea in Moscow in May.
The future is bleak for Suree Sukha, Teerasil Dangda
and Kiatprawut Saiwaeo,
the barely-known trio of
Thais signed by Manchester City following the club’s
takeover by ousted former
Cristiano Ronaldo into his
starting lineup following
an impressive Champions
League performance in
mid-week, in an effort to
stop Chelsea opening up a
big advantage at the top of
the table.
“He’s a natural athlete. He
has trained very well and I
would have no qualms about
playing him on Sunday. I
have to decide whether it’s
the right time but I have no
fears at all. He is pestering
to play,” said Ferguson.
United will be without the
suspended Nemanja Vidic,
while Michael Carrick is injured and goalkeeper Ben
Foster has been ruled out
for up to eight weeks with
ankle ligament damage
sustained in a reserve team
game on Thursday night.
LIVERPOOL, England - Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez
has described Steven Gerrard as “the best midfielder in the
world” ahead of a weekend which could see the Reds skipper
lead his side to the top of the Premier League.
With current leaders Chelsea not in action until Sunday’s
showdown with champions Manchester United, Liverpool
will pull clear at the top for at least 24 hours if they beat top
flight newcomers Stoke City at Anfield on Saturday.
After scoring both goals in Liverpool’s 2-1 Champions
League win in Marseille in midweek, Gerrard needs one
more to complete a century of goals for his hometown club.
“Ninety-nine goals is amazing for a midfielder,” said
Benitez. “But he can score more, maybe get close to doubling his current tally if he takes the penalties as well! He
scores great goals that few other players can manage. We are
lucky to have the best midfielder in the world.”
Liverpool are on a high after beating United last weekend
before being inspired by Gerrard to a winning start to their
European campaign.
But Benitez acknowledged that Stoke pose a serious threat,
particularly from set-pieces, including the long throws that
Rory Delap fires into opposing penalty areas with remarkable velocity.
Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
The signings, made a week
before Thailand’s first postcoup election, were widely
dismissed as a political ploy
by the exiled Thaksin to exploit Thais’ love of English
soccer and win votes for a
party run by his supporters.
The controversial billionaire even got the players’
names wrong when he announced the signings.
All three were denied
work permits and packed
off on loan to clubs elsewhere in Europe but after
poor performances they are
back home with their parttime clubs, still on the City
payroll.
Gavin Hamilton, editor
of World Soccer magazine,
believes Asian players are
capable of making it in Europe but are hampered by
the poor reputation of their
national teams and players’
difficulties adjusting to life
on and off the field.
However, he said Japan’s
Shunsuke Nakamura at
Celtic and Manchester
United’s Park were helping
to break the stereotype of
the failing Asian player.
“They are making a breakthrough but it doesn’t help
when Asian teams get hammered at World Cups,”
Hamilton said. “It’s the
only time the rest of the
world sees Asian football.
Commercially, clubs are not
making much money from
Asian players and there
are work permit problems.
That’s how they’re being
judged.”
One such case is Iraqi
playmaker Nashat Akram,
who had caught the eye of
several Premier League
and Spanish clubs but was
denied a work permit to
join Manchester City.
The rejection of his appeal, based on Iraq’s low
world ranking, sparked criticism of the British government at home and abroad
for “sending out the wrong
messages”.
“The deal was done but
they sent me back,” said
Akram, whose face was on
prematurely-printed posters across war-torn Iraq
carrying the message: “The
dream came true because
of our determination and
zeal”.
“I know I’m good enough.
I just want to show people
that Iraqi footballers can
make it. The rules are so
difficult in England,” he
said.
Oman goalkeeper Al alHabsi has broken through
to the Bolton Wanderers
first team and believes the
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Manchester United’s Dong Fangzhou controls the ball during
a celebration soccer match against an Europe XI to mark the
50th anniversary of Manchester United appearing in European competition, at Old Trafford in Manchester, northern England in this file photo. Lured by the riches and the glamour
of the big leagues, Asian imports are falling on hard times,
with their hopes of success buried by the rigours and red
tape of the English top flight. Whether signed to strengthen
squads, sell shirts or win votes, at home, the buzz and fanfare
surrounding England’s Chinese, South Korean and Thai contingent is fast fizzling out.
success of Asians is being
stifled by Britain’s stringent
laws.
“I don’t know why there
are so few Asians compared
with Africans,” he said.
“But the work permit is so
hard to get. I think they
should make it a bit easier
because there are a lot of
good Asian players.”
PARIS-Leaders
Olympique Lyon will be
without fullbacks Fabio
Grosso and Francois Clerc
when they visit promoted
Le Havre today. Clerc is
recovering from knee surgery and Italy’s Grosso is
nursing fractured ribs.
The seven-times champions have a defence problem, having conceded two
goals in each of their last
two outings.
Olympique Marseille
captain Lorik Cana, who
scored in a 2-1 Champions League defeat by Liverpool on Tuesday, said
he was full of confidence
before his second-placed
team host Monaco on Sunday.
“We’re playing excellent
football and getting better
and better,” the Albania
midfielder told his club’s
website (www.om.net). “I
am not at all worried. I
fully trust our strikers and
the rest of the team.”
Bottom club Nantes will
have to make do without
Ivan Klasnic when they
host Valenciennes today
(1700). The Croatia striker
is nursing a damaged left
ankle ligament.
Promoted Grenoble will
miss midfielder Laurent
Battles through suspension when they welcome
last season’s runners-up
Girondins Bordeaux on
Saturday.
Grenoble, who have the
smallest budget in Ligue
1 and had not played in
the top flight for 45 years,
lie a surprise fourth, three
points off the pace.
Bordeaux, desperate to
bounce back after a 4-0
thrashing by Chelsea at
Stamford in the Champions League on Tuesday,
will be at full strength.
Third-placed Paris St
Germain, visiting St Etiene
on Sunday (1500), defused
a row with their supporters by saying yesterday the
price of the season tickets
would go down next season.
Nice will be without suspended midfielder Cyril
Rool when they host Le
Mans on Saturday (1900).
Rool was sent off for protesting after Lyon were
awarded a controversial
late penalty that gave them
a 3-2 home win over Nice
last weekend.
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Riders cycle through the town of Segovia during stage 19 of
the Tour of Spain “La Vuelta” cycling race between Las Rozas
and Segovia, yesterday.
SEGOVIA, Spain-- Spain’s
David Arroyo won the 19th
stage of the Tour of Spain
yesterday, the third stage
win for Caisse d’Epargne,
though Alberto Contador
looks set for overall victory.
The 28-year-old Arroyo
crossed the line first in
this 145.5km stretch from
Las Rozas to Segovia,
also consolidating Caisse
d’Epargne’s lead in the
team standings.
Arroyo finished ahead of
Vasili Kiryenka of Belarus
with whom he had made a
breakaway about 50 kilometres from the line. Julien
Loubet of France was also
part of the breakaway group
but was left behind.
The Caisse d’Epargne
team’s success was something of a consolation after
team leader and a pre-race
favourite Alejandro Valverde put himself out of the
reckoning overall after a
poor performance in stage
12.
It was Arroyo’s fourth victory since he turned professional in 2002. He has had
a tough time in the year’s
other two major tours, injuring his elbow just before
the start of the Tour of Italy
which he was forced to miss,
and then not getting what
he deserved for attacks in
the Tour de France.
“I had little luck concerning the Giro and the Tour de
France, but this third tour
has been a good one,” Arroyo said.
Arroyo had refused to take
turns riding in front, letting
Kiryenka do all the work,
in case his team leader Valverde in the peloton had
other plans, to beat out an
exhausted Belarussian to
the line.
The scene is set, however,
for the 2007 Tour de France
winner and this year’s Giro
champion Alberto Contador of Spain to ride to victory.
Saturday’s 17.1km timetrial, from La Granja de San
Ildefonso to the summit finish at Navacerrada, will effectively decide the overall
title race.
The stage looks tailor made
for Contador. “I’m riding on
home soil and I have known
the course like the back of
my hand since I started riding a bike,” Contador said.
Should Contador win in
Madrid on Sunday, he would
become the first Spaniard
and fifth rider in history to
have won all three of the
sport’s major tours.
Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova reacts after defeating Serbia’s
Jelena Jankovic during their match at the Pan Pacific Open
tennis tournament in Tokyo yesterday.
TOKYO-- Top seed Jelena
Jankovic was bundled out
of the Pan Pacific Open in
a 2-6 7-5 7-5 defeat by Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova in
yesterday’s quarter-finals.
The loss ended the Serb’s
hopes of recapturing the
world number one ranking
from Serena Williams this
week following her recent
loss to the American in
U.S. Open final.
Olympic champion Elena
Dementieva became the
sixth of the tournament’s
top eight seeds to bow out
of the Tokyo event as the
Russian was upset 6-3 6-4
by Slovenia’s Katarina Sre-
botnik.
Jankovic tore through the
first set but, after being
pegged back by Kuznetsova, both players struggled
for consistency in the decider, which contained
eight breaks of serve.
A double fault gave
Kuznetsova a 6-5 lead and
the Russian’s nerve held as
she closed out proceedings
with a kicking serve and a
sharp backhand drop volley
after almost two-and-a-half
hours.
“I knew I had to take risks
in the third set,” the former
U.S. Open champion
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NEW YORK-- Say it ain’t
so.
An era ends on Sunday
when the curtain comes
down on baseball in storied
Yankee Stadium, scene of
more moments that will live
in sporting history than any
other place in America.
Strangely, in Sunday night’s
final contest between the
New York Yankees and the
Baltimore Orioles, nothing more than pride is at
stake. The Yankees have
had a rare down season and
will not be adding to their
championship record this
year.
Wrecking balls and sledgehammers, not baseballs
and bats, will soon be the
equipment of choice as the
stadium is demolished in
coming months, although
there may yet be a “closing
ceremony” featuring big
name rock stars before the
wrecking crews move in.
Next season, the Yankees
will take their bats, balls and
fabled pinstriped uniforms
to a brand new Yankee Stadium nearing completion
across the street from the
current one.
Americans have always
been wistful about their
National Pastime. Many
cherish memories of playing catch with their fathers
and of their first childhood
visits to ballparks.
“This field, this game. It’s
a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once
was good, and it could be
again,” James Earl Jones’s
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