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Monday, September 28, 2009
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~ Scot says action premature, can endanger patient care ~
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Sports Commissioner Frans Richardson (second left), Lt. Governor Franklyn Richards (third left) and First
Lady Angela Richards-Hugging (fourth left) with Special Olympics Athletes and SOSM Board members at
the cocktail reception at the Lt. Governor’s Mansion on Friday evening. (See story on page 15.)
THE HAGUE--The Dutch delegation will focus on two main
issues during Wednesday’s meeting of the Political Steering
Group in Curaçao: the date for
new constitutional relations and
the conditions that Curaçao and
St. Maarten will have to comply
with.
“We will see if we can reach an
agreement on a date, but we will
also take along the conditions
that the countries have to comply
with as well as the legislation tra-
jectory in the talks,” said leader
of the Dutch delegation State
Secretary of Kingdom Relations
Ank Bijleveld-Schouten on Sunday, shortly before boarding a
plane to travel to Curaçao.
Bijleveld-Schouten didn’t venture in mentioning a specific
date for the new relations to go
into effect. Neither did she try to
forecast how Wednesday’s meeting would go. She indicated, however, that she had great expectations. This also has to do with the
fact that the mixed committee
IN BRIEF
PHILIPSBURG--After
strong
negative reactions from TelEm’s
union in particular, it now appears
that the Executive Council will
withdraw Nelson Vinck’s name
as the council’s choice for interim
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
the TelEm Group of Companies.
No official decision has been taken on this withdrawal.
As reported last week, Nelson, a
former consultant with Smitcoms,
was the council’s first choice for
the post on a month to month
contractual basis. The Daily Herald understands that his appointment only required the necessary
signatures to be made official.
• Philipsburg
GEBE REPORT
NOT APPROVED
The Supervisory Board of GEBE wants
answers to some vital questions before deciding whether to approve
the company’s 2008 financial report.
Page 3.
Continued on page 4
CAY HILL--The Windward Islands Health Care Union (WIHCU) has called out its general
membership at St. Maarten Medical Center (SMMC) to a “mandatory” meeting during work hours
today, Monday, from 7:00am to
discuss several pressing issues, including the new salary structure.
However, SMMC General Director Dr. George Scot said last
night that the union’s action was
premature, as the two parties
were still negotiating amicably.
He said too that the action was
scheduled at one of the most important moments of the day: the
time when employees change
shifts and “tired staff” has to give
important patient information to
the new shift.
“This can in no way be hampered by any planned action,”
Scot said.
The union said in a press release
Sunday that all efforts would be
made to minimise the disruption of care to patients, but the
meeting of all its members was
necessary. The meeting will be
held in SMMC’s cafeteria, the
union said in a press release on
Sunday.
However, after the report came
out, TelEm’s union was reportedly furious with this possible appointment and was preparing to
voice those concerns to the public
and the Executive Council. The
union contended that Vinck’s appointment was not something it
was prepared to accept. The unContinued on page 8
• Philipsburg
DSL RATES
REDUCED
The TelEm Group is all set to start delivering a host of new products and
services to customers, starting with
reduced rates for its new high-speed
DSL service. Page 4.
• The Hague
CONGRATS
FOR AVP
Dutch State Secretary for Kingdom
Relations Ank Bijleveld-Schouten has
congratulated the Aruban people’s
party AVP on its victory at the polls
Friday. Page 5.
COURTEOUS AND
EFFICIENT CUSTOMER SERVICE
The union said SMMC’s recent
actions had forced it to call this
emergency meeting of its entire
membership. On the agenda
are the compensation grades of
workers, salaries, rates and what
Continued on page 10
P H I L I P S B U R G - - Re p o r t s
reaching The Daily Herald Sunday suggest that significant aspects of the information in the
article published on Saturday’s
front page about the shooting
death of twenty-year-old Rigobert (not Robert as published)
Bertin-Maurice was incorrect.
An e-mail purportedly from
the deceased’s aunt Rollina Bertin-Maurice said that contrary
to the report published by this
newspaper, which was based
on information from a reporter
with a French-side newspaper,
her nephew had never spent
time in prison, but had been in
the army for 18 months serving
his country.
A letter expressing similar
views was sent to this newspaper
by a regular contributor to the
Opinion pages, Ailine Choisy.
These complaints about inaccuracies are of great concern
to us and we have been seeking
clarification from the Gendarmerie and the Prosecutor on the
French side, but our attempts
proved futile on Sunday.
This newspaper did not set out
to besmirch anyone’s character
and it will continue its investigation. Should we find that our
report was indeed inaccurate, as
a responsible newspaper we will
do the appropriate thing.
Editorial
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THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
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Winds: East to East-Southeast, 8-18mph, with possible gusts
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Sea conditions: Tranquil to moderate.
Seas: 2-4 feet.
Forecast high: 31°C 88°F
Forecast low: 25°C 77°F
SYNOPSIS: Limited moisture in the lower layers of the regional atmosphere will allow a few passing showers over the
local islands during this forecast period. Mariners should
expect winds of 8-15mph and waves of 2-4 feet across the
regional waters.
SPECIAL FEATURES: The names for tropical cyclones in
the Atlantic Basin in 2009 will be Grace, Henri, Ida, Joaquin,
Kate, Larry, Mindy, Nicholas, Odette, Peter, Rose, Sam, Teresa, Victor and Wanda.
Tropical cyclone development is not expected during this
forecast period.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK: None.
VOLCANIC ACTIVITY: None.
Outlook until Tuesday evening: Partly cloudy, with an isolated passing shower possible.
Sunrise: 6:02am
Sunset: 6:03pm
Dutch Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin in Saturday’s paper defended his draft Kingdom law on the movement of people that both the
Netherlands Antilles and Aruba vehemently oppose. He says the intention of the law is not to send Antilleans back to the islands, but the fact
remains the proposed legislation opens up that possibility under certain
circumstances.
It would also be the first admittance regulation in the Netherlands for
citizens of the Dutch Caribbean, while restrictions for European Dutchmen have always existed on the islands based on their small size and
the need to protect their labour markets. Those restrictions have been
eased, but still exist to some extent, which became clear when Aruba
recently started informing European Dutchmen who were on the island
longer than they should be as tourists that it was time to leave.
This new line of action, based on existing rules, but prompted by an
improved data system that enables authorities to better keep track of
visitors, does not make finding sympathy in The Hague for resisting the
draft Kingdom Law on movement of people any easier.
Short of dropping all remaining restrictions for European Dutchmen
to reside and work on the islands so that the reciprocity argument can
be made, there is in reality little the Antilles and Aruba can do. Unlike
the Kingdom laws regarding the constitutional changes, the proposed
law on the movement of people is not a so-called consensus law that
requires agreement of all three partners.
Having access to the Netherlands, of course, also concerns the European Union (EU). In that regard it is interesting to note that the AVP,
which just won a majority with 12 of 21 seats in the Aruba Parliament,
favours becoming an Ultra-Peripheral Territory (UPT) of the EU rather
the current Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) arrangement.
That would almost certainly mean free access of Aruba’s citizens to the
EU and vice versa, prompting the question how this would rhyme with
a possible Kingdom law on the movement of people. With the French
side, as part of France, already a “de facto” UPT, it might well be worth
considering for Country St. Maarten to follow the AVP line regarding
Europe in the near future.
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ST. MAARTEN
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
tel. 543-1111 or 910
AMBULANCE
Philipsburg tel. 542-2111 or 912
MEDICAL EMERGENCIES
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
CRIME STOPPERS ANYMOUS TIP LINE:
543-TIPS(8477)
SUN.
8024 7186
5395 9618
8124 7210
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 Philipsburg Jubilee Library every last
Wednesday of the month at 7:30 p.m.
Business attire required.
PHILIPSBURG TOASTMASTERS CLUB
bi-monthly sessions every first and third
Thursday of every month at the Library
conference room at 8:00 p.m.
ST MARTIN MUSEUM
Frontstreet 7, Philipsburg, tel 542-4917
Opening hours from March 1st:
Monday - Friday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Saturday & 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 Suzette Moses
tel 5422078 Health Department, e-mail:
hivpmtsxm@yahoo.com.
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 •
Email: arf_sxm@yahoo.com, www.arfsxm.org
PHILIPSBURG JUBILEE LIBRARY
Ch.E.W.Vogestr. 12, Tel. 542-2970.
Open: Mo: closed, Tu/We: 9-12.30 / 2-8,
Th: 2-8, Fr: 9-12.30 / 2-5, 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 RED CROSS, ST. MAARTEN
CHAPTER (24hrs - Cell: 520-7189), #34
Airport Road Simpson Bay, Tel. 54-52333 /
2304, Fax. 54-55263.
Email: theredcross@caribserve.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
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, Monday, September 28, 2009
Commissioner Frans Richardson presents Rudy and Beatrice de Weever with a crystal
plaque for their daughter Nicole de Weever.
Commissioner Frans Richardson presents artist Max Phelipa and his wife Aggie with a contribution from the St.
Maarten Tourist Office.
P H I L I P S B U R G - -To u r - ardson told Phelipa that the
ism Commissioner Frans people in Holland will apRichardson
honoured preciate his talent as an arttwo “St. Maarten ambas- ist but at the same time will
sadors” whose efforts not be able to learn quite a bit of
only promote St. Maarten where he hails from.
internationally, but serve as “This is also promotion for
examples for others to fol- our island. There is a seglow. Artist Max Phelipa and ment of tourists in the world
dancer Nicole de Weever that appreciate art and we
were honoured on World can tap into this,” RichardTourism Day Sunday for son said. Phelipa, who was
their contributions to St. accompanied by his wife Aggie, thanked the CommisMaarten.
Phelipa, who will open an sioner and the St. Maarten
art exhibition in the Antil- Tourist for the honour.
lenhuis in the Netherlands Nicole de Weever, who will
in October, was praised by make her Broadway debut
the Commissioner for his in “FELA!” in November,
artwork that depicts various was called a shining examscenes of St. Maarten. Rich- ple and role model for St.
Maarten’s youth. Accepting her honours were her
parents Rudy and Beatrice
de Weever. Commissioner
Richardson told Nicole’s
parents that she is a true
role model in a time when
St. Maarten’s youth could
use many more.
“I watched Nicole when
she was performing here
on the island with Motiance
Dance School and I am so
proud to see how far she has
come. I’m even more proud
that she never gave up on
her dream. I have made it
a priority to attend ‘FELA!’
in New York. I will be there
and I encourage all St.
Maarteners who might be in
the New York area after the
show debuts on November
24, to make an effort to go
see and cheer Nicole. She is
doing all of us proud,” Richardson said.
Nicole’s father said he was
not convinced at first that
she should follow dance as a
career choice. It was not an
easy road, he said, but the
family is happy and proud
that they had supported her
on her journey.
PHILIPSBURG--A robber slashed a man in the
face with a machete early
Saturday after the latter
had chased the bandit from
Simpson Bay to retrieve his
stolen necklace.
The man, identified only as
R.Y., was hospitalized with
cuts to his face from the attack, police said Sunday.
Investigators have “very vital information” about the
suspects and are looking
into the case.
Y. and another man were
first attacked in Simpson
Bay when they were walking back to their car from
a nightclub, police spokesman Inspector Ricardo
Henson said. Two men ambushed them: one held Y.
from behind and the other
wrenched the Y.’s gold
necklace away. Police did
not say whether the other
man had been robbed.
“After the robbery, both men
jumped into an awaiting black
vehicle that was driven by another man,” Henson said.
Y. told police he had
chased the robbers in his
car and “managed to overtake and block their path.”
“One of the robbers then
jumped out of the vehicle
and attacked him with what
seemed to be a machete,”
Henson reported. “The victim was then struck in his
face with this weapon several times.”
Y. drove himself to the hospital for treatment. Police
have clues in the case. “The
Special Robbery Unit has
already gathered some very
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vital information in connection with this case and an investigation into this matter
is ongoing,” Henson
said.
PHILIPSBURG--Questions still need to be answered before the
Supervisory Board of GEBE can approve the 2008 financial report as presented by Managing Director William Brooks and the
Financial Manager of the utility company on Saturday.
The board indicated that it required answers on vital questions
to determine if company policy was followed in accordance with
corporate governance laws, GEBE’s articles of incorporation,
and if the Managing Director hadn’t gone beyond his authority.
If the board does not get its answers or clarification on several
undisclosed issues, it can refuse to approve to the 2008 financial
figures. Sources indicate that the board is wary about approving
anything that may not have been in accordance with company
policy.
The board has requested all relevant information so it can evaluate what has occurred in the company over the last year. It was
noted that the board will be held liable by the shareholder foundation for its supervision of the company over the last year. With
that in mind, the board will not approve anything until the Managing Director “comes clean” on questions asked.
As reported before, there exists a clause in the loan agreement
with Pacific Life which states that GEBE should adhere to all
laws to which it is subject in terms of operation and in particular
in terms of finances.
When submitting the financial report to Pacific Life, the board
is concerned that it will reflect the alleged unauthorised financial actions Brooks undertook and Pacific Life could designate
GEBE in default of its loan agreement.
To avoid the risk of defaulting on the loan, the board has to present a convincing case, proving that it has done everything possible to address the alleged unauthorised actions by its Managing
Director. The board members realise that if they approve the
financial statements, they in essence will be approving Brook’s
actions.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
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PHILIPSBURG--TelEm
Group of Companies is
ramping up its products and
services to make a new push
in the Telecommunications
Market on St. Maarten. According to Chief Commercial
Officer (CCO) Brian Mingo,
TelEm Group is all set to start
delivering a host of new products and services to customers starting with fantastic new
High-speed DSL internet
rates.
Starting today, the company’s Internet Service Provider
(ISP) TelNet will be slashing
its High-speed DSL rates to
a minimum fee of $39.95 for
basic internet packages.
And to get customers to
take up the new offer, TelEm
Group is providing a free modem to new customers along
with free installation of the
new service. Also, new residential customers will get one
month’s free subscription of
the 1MB package while Commercial customers will get
two month’s free subscription
of the 2MB package if they
decide to boost their surfing
speeds.
PHILIPSBURG--Members
of the Small Hotels Division
(SHD) of the St. Maarten
Hospitality and Trade Association (SHTA), along with
in-office coordinator for
SHD’s activities, Jr. Project
Manager Valya Pantophlet
will be leaving early next
week to attend the CHTA’s
(Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association) Small Hotels Retreat in St. Thomas.
The goal of this retreat is
to exchange ideas with other
small hoteliers and industry
professionals on marketing
strategies, customer retention and product improvement among other areas.
The retreat will be held at
the Marriott Frenchman’s
Reef from September 30 to
October 2, 2009.
Small hoteliers developed
this event for hoteliers. This
event will focus on marketing skills, technology, and
human resource development. Seminars and round
table discussions cover dif-
Valya Pantophlet
ferent aspects of those critical areas. In addition, allied
members who specialise in
serving smaller hospitality
operations will demonstrate
their products and services
at the trade show. The Retreat is an informal gathering
by design, intended to foster
the open exchange of ideas
and experiences.
While the event is developed by small hoteliers, the
event’s informality and exchange allow for every hotelier to increase their knowledge by attending the event.
In total, the event will feature 84 hotel delegates from
18 countries.
FOR SALE
Simpson Bay Yacht Club
2 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, and an Office
fully furnished
completely renovated,
brand new US$780,000
Please call 522 6824
To further entice customers,
TelEm Group is also including
a Flat screen TV as a winning
raffle prize as part of its new
rates promotion. Mingo said
the announced rates mark a
significant stage in the new
marketing drive that TelEm
Group will be promoting in the
coming weeks and months.
He said TelEm Group presently offers the fastest bandwidth internet service on the
island with business and residential clients now able to use
as much as eight megabits of
bandwidth if they wish.
“More and more business
and leisure activities are being conducted on the internet
and customers no longer want
to wait for hours to stream live
conferences, download movies and their favourite songs,
or to send pictures to their
loved ones. Now they can do
it in minutes with the higher
bandwidth that is available,”
Mingo said.
He said the new ISP rate reductions are across the board
for business and residential
clients with savings over previous rates of between $5.04
for the 512 KB speed packages to savings of up to $200
for the 8MB speed packages.
Mingo said TelEm Group
has been working on the
new DSL Rollout for several
months in a programme that
has been designed to make
the company’s internet service more reliable.
He said on the mobile front,
the company is also gearing
up to offer some new products and special deals for customers very soon. Within the
next two weeks, the company
will start to offer 238 new mobile accessories from the Cellularline Company for sale at
the TelEm Group Building.
“From batteries, to accessories for their iPods and
iphones, customers can come
and shop for their mobiles
and small cellular accessories
as gift items,” Mingo said.
He said customers have
commented on how quiet
the company has been in recent months when it comes
to promotion of its products
and services, but assured the
public that a lot of technical
work had to be done in the
background to prepare for
the new range of services and
promotions the company will
be introducing soon.
“For competitive reasons,
we cannot say much only
- watch out, because we are
coming back in a bigger and
better way,” Mingo said.
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was still busy with preparations for the meeting. “We
will await the outcome,”
she said.
The State Secretary said
she was also looking forward to the meetings on
Monday and Tuesday when
the arrangements of the
new police organisations
and the joint police service
would be discussed. The
latter is an important aspect, she said. “It is an important condition for solid
countries,” she said.
A number of political parties in the Second Chamber,
including the Socialist Party
(SP), don’t want the Dutch
Government to commit to
a specific date for the new
constitutional
relations.
Bijleveld-Schouten showed
understanding for this view,
but said that it was especially important for the Dutch
Parliament that the new
countries complied with all
conditions that were set in
the November 2006 Final
Accord.
The State Secretary doesn’t
expect trouble in the Second Chamber as long as
solid agreements are made
about the possible tasks that
the new countries won’t be
able to execute when the
new relations go into effect.
At the Final Round Table
Conference (RTC) it would
be agreed to transfer these
tasks to Kingdom level.
The next step after
Wednesday’s
Political
Steering Group meeting is
the finalisation of the legislation trajectory. “That is
very important. The islands
have to work very hard to
get their Constitution and
organic laws ready, and to
build their countries,” she
said.
The Constitutions of
country Curaçao and St.
Maarten don’t need to be
approved by the Second
and First Chamber. These
will be put to the test at the
Final RTC. The Consensus Kingdom Laws and the
legislation for the BES islands Bonaire, Saba and St.
Eustatius do have to pass
through the Dutch Parliament.
Bijleveld-Schouten said
she aimed to have the written answers to the list of
questions by the Second
Chamber about a number
of BES laws ready early
October. “I have asked the
Second Chamber to handle
the legislation proposals in
October so they can go to
the First Chamber before
Christmas,” she said.
Islands
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
Eman celebrates with his supporters.
The final numbers
ARUBA--The figures speak
for themselves: 26,485 votes in
Aruba’s Parliament elections -6,673 more than the incumbent
MEP-- resulting in a strong victory for AVP, which with just a
few voting district results still
to come in appeared to have
captured 11 of the 21 seats, but
in the end did even better and
got 12, ten outright and two residual seats.
It’s the first time since Aruba gained its separate status
and got its own Parliament
in 1986 that a party got so
many seats, breaking the record of 11 seats set by MEP
four years ago that allowed
the party of Prime Minister
Nelson Oduber to govern on
its own, based on a minimal
majority. This time MEP
managed only eight seats,
seven outright and one residual.
The green party led by future Prime Minister Mike
Eman went from eight seats
in 2005 to 12 and grew in all
59 districts by an average 40
per cent. “Those who said that
AVP would never manage an
absolute majority take a look
now,” said a jubilant Eman afterward.
The only other seat went to
PDA of Andin Bikker, while
both RED of Rudy Lampe
and MPA of Monica Kock-Arends lost their current seat and
won’t return to Parliament.
Eman congratulated Bikker,
but did not go into questions
if he would consider a coalition with PDA, despite AVP
having 12 of the 21 seats. He
called on MEP supporters to
join the “cambio” (change)
and said not they but their
leaders were to blame for the
last eight years.
Oduber blamed his defeat on
the Netherlands for meddling
in Aruba’s affairs by announcing a corruption investigation
into his government and Valero for closing the oil refinery
not long before the election.
“Materialism and lies have
won,” said the outgoing prime
minister, challenging AVP to
make good on all its unrealistic promises.
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A woman tourist fell from the balcony of Sonesta Maho Resort’s conference hall building late
Friday and broke her leg and wrist in the incident. The woman was rushed to the hospital near
midnight. Sources suggested the woman had been drinking. (John Halley photo)
THE HAGUE--Dutch State
Secretary of Kingdom Relations Ank Bijleveld-Schouten
over the weekend sent a congratulatory message to leader
of the Aruban people’s party
AVP Mike Eman.
“It is a great victory for the
AVP,” said Bijleveld-Schouten
on Sunday before departing
for Curaçao in connection with
constitutional talks. AVP won
twelve seats during Friday’s
elections in Aruba, four more
than in the previous elections.
The State Secretary said
she was glad the elections
took place in a relative tranquil atmosphere. She said
she hoped to work well with
the AVP on Kingdom level.
“That is also very important
for the constitutional process,” she said.
Bijleveld-Schouten is familiar with the AVP, a party she
knows from the period when
she was a member of the
Second Chamber. During
her visits to Aruba, she met
several times with the AVP
and other opposition parties, including the Party for
Real Democracy PDR which
managed to secure one seat
in Aruba’s Parliament in Friday’s elections. “There has
always been contact with the
opposition,” she said.
Asked about the pending
investigation by the Dutch
Scientific Study and Documentation Centre WODC
into the state of affairs on
Aruba, Bijleveld-Schouten
said that this analysis would
start shortly. “The assignment is ready,” she said,
explaining that parties had
agreed to look at ways how to
conduct this investigation in
cooperation with Aruba. The
investigation, which will take
about six months, should be
ready next year.
Aruba’s Prime Minister
Nel Oduber blamed the
Dutch Government for losing Friday’s elections. Citing
various reports in the Antillean and Aruba media, the
Dutch magazine Elsevier on
Sunday headlined: “Election
defeat is fault of the Dutch.”
According to Oduber, the
Netherlands interfered in
local politics by announcing
that there would be an investigation into the quality of
Aruba’s government and the
crime situation.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
Islands
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
The dance group known as H.O.T is one of the favourites to win in the dance category this year.
~ Group thanks Alliance/Heyliger government ~
P H I L I P S B U R G - -Te e n
Times will take the winners
of Talent Showdown 2009
to Tallahassee, Florida, for
an educational and cultural
exchange trip. The organisation has accepted the invitation of the TallahasseeSt. Maarten Foundation to
travel to Florida’s capitol
city next February during
the mid-term school break.
Additionally, Commissioner Frans Richardson
who recently supported the
group in organising Talent
Showdown will accompany
the group of youngsters in
February if his schedule
permits. The Commissioner
said he will do everything in
his power to accompany the
winners of Talent Showdown
on the educational trip.
Richardson has supported
Teen Times on numerous
occasions in the past.
The trip to Tallahassee will
mark the first time Teen
Times will take a group of
winners anywhere else besides New York City, a trip
the group has taken on six
previous occasions. However, the Tallahassee trip
will be for different reasons
than the New York trip.
“With the trips to New
York, we wanted to give our
young performers the opportunity to see what it takes
to make it in the performing
world. We brought a choreographer to the island;
Black Entertainment Television (BET) producers were
also here; we went to the
Apollo, Alvin Ailey, Julliard
and many other places associated with the performing
arts,” Coordinator of Teen
Times Mike Granger said.
“With Tallahassee, we will
focus on higher education
which should come before
any aspiration to perform.
We will visit the colleges in
Tallahassee and show these
youngsters that they can be
at college and still perform.
But education comes first,”
he added.
Granger went on to thank
the National Alliance/Heyliger government for assisting in various ways with
Talent Showdown 2009.
He said it has not been an
easy task to raise funds this
year. The organisation is
still conducting fundraising
events one week leading up
to the show. Government
has been very helpful and
generous. We would like
to especially thank Commissioners William Marlin
and Frans Richardson for
responding so quickly and
recognising that these kids
work so hard every year.
Their support is greatly appreciated,” Granger said.
Granger said preparations
for Tallahassee has already
begun and his group is extremely excited to give another group of young St.
Maarteners an opportunity
to recognise that they can
excel at anything once they
stay committed to gaining a
proper education.
Talent Showdown will be
held this Saturday, October
3, at the Festival Village.
Showtime is 7:00pm and
tickets are $10 per person.
WILLEMSTAD --Chairman of the Antillean civil
servant union ABVO Wendy Calmes is pleased that
the Central Committee of
Parliament has discussed
draft legislation to amend
the Ordinance Social Insurance Bank SVB. This
amendment will enable the
personnel of SVB to negotiate a Collective Labour
Agreement (CLA).
The amendment boils down
to the SVB director acquiring the authority to sign a
CLA for the personnel of
the social insurer instead of
incorporating the terms of
employment as mentioned
in an employment contract.
In an explanation, Calmes
said personnel currently have
employment contracts with
no negotiation possibilities.
“You can negotiate, but
an institute is not bound to
what was negotiated. The
case with SVB is that the
management of the company respects the concluded
agreements. We certainly
appreciate that.
“The difference with a
CLA is that the agreement
is signed by two parties and
that parties have to comply
with the agreements.”
During the discussion in
the Central Committee, various Parliament members
wondered why personnel of
Central Bank, the pension
fund APNA, the Bureau
Intellectual Property (BIP),
and the Bureau Telecom
and Post are not given the
opportunity to negotiate a
CLA. Calmes is in favour of
this.
“Employees in the education sector currently have the
right to CLA negotiations.
From an international point
of view, the employees have
the right to organise themselves and negotiate their
terms of employment.”
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According to the chairman,
ABVO will labour for a general law in which institutes
comparable to the SVB also
qualify for negotiation of a
CLA with their personnel.
“It should not be the case
that an amendment of the
law is required per institute.
There should be a general
law in which all government
institutes acquire this opportunity.”
PHILIPSBURG--St. Maarten/Saint Martin Christian Council
elected a new board, headed by Reverend Stephane Brooks
last week. Brooks takes over the mantle from the council’s first
president Reverend Lloyd Brissett.
At the helm of the Christian council for the next three years
are Brooks, Vice President Wally Havertong, Treasurer Father
Irad Hodge, Secretary Astrigt Schalkwijk and Public Relation
Officer Edgar Lynch.
The executive board will meet soon with government to formally introduce the new president and board members. They
will speak about the spiritual health of St. Maarten/St. Martin.
Under the leadership of Brooks, the council is already participating in the planning for St. Maarten Day church service to
mark the 50th celebration of the day of friendship and unity of
the French and Dutch side.
After taking up the charge to lead, Brooks said, “The shoes of
the outgoing chairman might be hard to fill, but I’m ready for
the journey of fulfilling God’s work in St. Maarten/Saint Martin.
Reverend Brooks can be contacted at his office in the Methodist Manse, Betty’s Estate and by phone on 548-3326 or 5221946.
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Some seven Milton Peters College (MPC) teachers on
Friday completed their Emergency Medical Responder recertification training. Windward Islands Emergency Medical Services (WIEMS) conducted these classes. In photo:
Teachers who have completed the training.
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ion alleges that Vinck is a person who has close ties with
former Smitcoms director Curtis Haynes.
In the meantime, sources also indicated that a number of
names are being considered within the circles of the National Alliance faction. Names being mentioned included
former head of East Caribbean Cellular, Jerry Sardine,
and former General Manager of Antelecom and Interim
Managing Director at SATEL on Saba, Dennis Rombley.
Leader of Government and Telecommunications Commissioner William Marlin told reporters two weeks ago
that no final decision has been taken on TelEm’s restructuring. He said a veteran in the field is being “strongly
considered” to take over the helm of the company on
what he called a short-term and flexible contract.
“We won’t enter into a long term agreement with this
person at this point in time but we will enter into an agreement that will be very flexible in terms of the possibility
for both partners to terminate at one month’s notice,”
Marlin said at the time.
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
POINTE BLANCHE--St.
Maarten is the most stringent destination that Royal
Caribbean Cruise Line
(RCCL) ships visit when it
comes to health safety, especially since the H1N1 flu
virus pandemic, according
to a cruise line official.
RCCL Vice President of
Government Relations, Caribbean, Latin America and
Asia Michael Ronan led a
five-member team to the
island to discuss the health
protocols in place for the
upcoming high season to
guard against the spread
of H1N1 and the annual
flu season caused by the
weather change.
International maritime
regulations require vessels
coming in to port to get
a status report 48 hours
ahead of arrival about the
health situations and other
concerns. St. Maarten, to
safeguard its population
and visitors, has implemented a 24-hour prior to arrival
status report or at the latest, 3:00pm the day before
the ship arrives in port, explained Chief Operations
Officer of St. Maarten Harbour Group of Companies
Keith Franca.
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From left: Executive Assistant to Commissioner Frans Richardson, Harbour Group CEO
Mark Mingo, Commissioner Richardson, RCCL Vice President of Government Relations,
Caribbean, Latin America & Asia Michael Ronan and Harbour Affairs Commissioner
Theo Heyliger. (John Halley photo)
An additional check is
also made before the harbour pilot boards the vessel as it enters port. The
captain has to again inform
the port that all is still well
aboard the ship and then
the pilot boards and receives the original copies
of all paperwork.
RCCL respects the stringent protocol of the port.
The cruise line accounts
for the most passengers to
the island with a tally of
some 600,000 annually, according to Franca.
Ronan’s team, which
included two doctors, explained the pre and post
boarding health protocols and checks which
complement the shore
side procedures to Commissioners Theo Heyliger
and Frans Richardson,
harbour officials, government health care officials,
ships’ agents, and other
stakeholders.
St. Maarten was the first of 15
destinations Ronan and team
will visit in preparation for the
high season to ensure healthy
protocols and that responses
are in place.
Maria Henry of the Health
Department and another
team outlined the general island response and protocol
in place to combat the spread
of virus and other health hazards.
Franca described the meeting as a “fruitful exchange”
that was mutually beneficial to
the island and the cruise line.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
PHILIPSBURG--The Preventive Health Department
(PHD) is appealing to parents/guardians to keep children with flu-like symptoms
at home and contact their
family physician.
The department is also
urging parents to have their
children practise cough etiquettes and good hygiene
all the time, especially at
school.
“Teachers, parents and
guardians are role models
and should demonstrate
these behaviours, which are
a tool to prevent the spread
of the Pandemic Influenza
A (H1N1) virus,” the department said in a press
release.
“Children should know to
wash their hands frequently
with soap and water; cough
and sneeze into a tissue or
into the inside of your elbow/sleeve; dispose of used
tissue paper in the trash
properly and stay at least
six feet away from people
who are sick.
“Children who are sick
should be kept at home
and away from school or
day care centres until they
recover. Parents and guardians should make sure their
child remains healthy by
giving them a lot of fluids
and healthy food and make
sure they have plenty of
rest. They should monitor their temperature and
symptoms and ensure their
child’s health is in good
condition.
“Give your child medication prescribed by your
family physician or ensure that medicines are
child-age appropriate. Do
PHILIPSBURG--Organisers of the International
Calypso Monarch Competition are pushing the event
back by a year.
Citing the “economic pinch
that is currently affecting the
world and the Caribbean,”
The Sky is the Limit Foundation and Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisations (TUCO) said Sunday
that the event would start in
October 2010.
“An event of this magnitude will add great expo-
sure to calypso as well as
attract many visitors to the
island in the slow October period,” said Claudius
Buncamper of The Sky is
the Limit Foundation in a
press statement.
TUCO and the foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU) in May to host the
competition in the region
and around the world. The
event will occur first in St.
Maarten in 2010 and is
slated for Trinidad in 2011
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not give young children
medicines for adults or
teenagers. Keep
tissues
close to them and have a
trash bag within reach for
disposing used tissues.”
The symptoms of the H1N1
flu virus in children are
similar to that of adults and
include high fever, a runny
nose, cough, sore throat
and body aches. At times
these can be accompanied
by diarrhoea, breathlessness and dizziness.
Everybody has a role to
play to help contain the Rotary Club Assistant District Governor Louis Wever is all smiles as he submits to havspread of the flu and Pan- ing his blood drawn in the Chamber of Commerce last weekend. Rotary Club St. Martin
demic Influenza A (H1N1), President Nord Jasmine Sally looks on.
the department said.
Additional information can
be obtained from the PHD
at telephone numbers: 5423003 or 542-3553 or from
Websites:
www.cdc.gov/
MARIGOT--The Rotary Dr. Farah Hatira, the new TV, for publicising the colswineflu or www.who.int.
and Rotaract Clubs of St. director for Etablissement lection. Also thanked for
Martin Nord reported that Français du Sang (EFS) their support were Dauphin
figures for the Friday and whose staff drew blood Télécom,
Croustibread,
Saturday blood collection from donors, said he was which provided sandwiches
drive held at the Chamber very pleased with the turn- and drinks for donors, M.
of Commerce far exceeded out.
Steiner and M. Hodge, and
those of the previous record
The French side Rotary the Cultural Centre of Sandy
and the United Kingdom set in March, 2009.
Club said it was now con- Ground that offered a cinin 2012.
Some 248 persons do- sidering holding four col- ema ticket to each donor.
Organisers said plans nated blood enough to fill lections a year, one every
would be “put into high 199 pouches, easily sur- quarter. The club is mainly
gear in the latter part of passing the 195 donors interested in creating an In2009.” The organisers also and 165 pouches collected ternational Blood Donors
intend to secure regional in March. The increased Association of St. Martin.
sponsors early next year. turnout was due in large Donors who are interested
“Both The Sky is the Limit part to the participation of in creating this association
Foundation and TUCO Dutch side donors and Ro- can contact René-Jean Duapologise for any inconve- tarians.
ret by email at duretrj@
nience caused and promise
Blood is always needed gmail.com
an event of international for operations at the LouisOrganisers thanked all of
magnitude for October Constant Fleming Hospi- the donors who gave blood.
2010,” organisers said.
tal and is critical to saving Thanks were also extended
lives.
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Drivers thought their eyes were playing tricks this week as
they drove on A. J. C. Brouwer Road, because an animal
looking very much like a raccoon was lying dead on the
roadside. The dead animal was indeed a raccoon, The
Daily Herald photographer John Halley realized when he
slowed down to snap a photo. It is not known where the
raccoon, possibly a pet, came from, as these animals are
not native to St. Maarten.
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PHILIPSBURG--St.
Maarten Animal Welfare
Foundation has organised a
two-day sale to mark World
Animal Day this weekend.
Proceeds from the sale will
be used to the foundation’s
long running sterilization
campaign.
Volunteers have a booth at
the entrance of Le Grand
Marché on Saturday and
Sunday to sell T-shirts,
caps and environmentally
friendly reusable shopping
bags with the foundation
logo and funny slogan. Dog
collars and other items to
entertain or take care of
pets will also be on sale.
Free sterilization certificates will be available for
owners who want to play a
part in keeping the island’s
stray and abandoned animal
population under control.
Foundation members will
also be on hand to give information about the group’s
work, which includes the
running of an animal ambulance.
World Animal Day was
started in 1931 at a con-
Treating your pets the right way is the goal of World Animal Day.
vention of ecologists
in Florence as a way of
highlighting the plight
of endangered species.
Since then it has grown
to encompass all kinds of
animal life and is widely
celebrated in countries
throughout the world.
October 4 was chosen as
World Animal Day as it is
the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron
saint of animals.
It is intended as a day of
celebration for anyone in
the world who cares about
animals. It is not restricted
to any nationality, creed,
religion, political belief or
ideology.
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the union calls the “prohibitive and inappropriate”
distribution of compensation scales.
The union said it had
“taken great care” to ensure that it minimised any
inconvenience and disruption of care to patients at
the hospital. However, it
said, “It is imperative that
the medical centre board
honours and respects the
dedicated and highly professional staff working to
provide the best available
medical care to our citizens.”
In an e-mail to the union
shortly after noon on Sunday, Scot requested that
the union inform SMMC
whether it was planning
any “action” and how it
would secure the continuity of patient care during
the gathering. However, he
said later that no response
had been received from the
union up to the time he was
contacted by this newspaper for a comment.
Scot also referred to correspondence from the
union dated September 23
in which the union reportedly said: “As was decided
upon in our last meeting
that the new scales will be
implemented in the month
of September 2009, and
that the other monies will
be paid out in January
2010, I kindly ask that you
confirm such in writing to
the Union.” Scot said the
hospital had until tomorrow, Tuesday to respond.
“So if there is any planned
action at this moment we
are of the opinion that that
is premature and can endanger patient care, we will
inform the Government
mediator Mr. [Kenneth]
Lopez of this development.”
Scot explained that 92 per
cent of the SMMC workers
would receive an average
7.5 per cent salary increase.
Additionally, workers are
also in line to receive “more
secondary benefits” as well
as the introduction of a performance bonus.
He said too that the hospital used a structured system
used by all hospitals in Holland.
“In Holland all the hospitals use this structured system to describe and evaluate functions in the hospitals. We started in 2007
with the function evaluations per function in close
cooperation with the union.
When these were finalised
all employees signed off
for the function description
based on these functions. A
weighing factor was given
per function and that determined the ranking of
all functions in relation to
each other,” Scot said in an
invited comment.
“Then we discussed a new
salary structure to add to
the ranking system and
from that we placed the
new functions in the new
salary scale. The result is
that 92 per cent got a salary increase that varies per
function. For the board and
management, this action
of the union is premature
because we are still negotiating in an amicable manner.”
The union in its press release urged the hospital
board to “come to the table
in good faith to resolve
these urgent matters.” Scot
said SMMC was willing to
provide any clarity needed.
The union said it stood
“ready, willing and able to
provide the care necessary
for all our patients at the
medical centre.”
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
PHILIPSBURG--The pastoral team of the Seventh Day
Adventist Church as well as its
Education Department have
organised a service to comThe church is inviting all
memorate teachers on the oc- teachers at the various levcasion of World Teachers Day els of education to the celon Saturday, October 3.
ebratory service, which will
be held at the SDA church in
Cole Bay from 9:00am under
the theme “Called To Shape
The Future.”
International Teachers ApWILLEMSTAD--The search is still on for US vice-consul preciation Day is an annual
James Hogan, who went missing in Curaçao Thursday eve- event which is celebrated
ning. The focus is on the Caracasbaai peninsula, where jeans around the world on October
and shoes, believed to be his, were found.
5. The church said it is a priviThe 49-year-old diplomat left his home Thursday evening, re- lege to publicly thank teachportedly after a row with his wife, who has not heard from him ers and pledge its support to
since. He was last seen at Jan Thiel, not far from Caracasbaai. them as they take on the aweIn addition to on land, the search is being conducted at sea some task to shape the nation,
with boats and underwater by dive teams.
one classroom at a time.
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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
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ST. EUSTATIUS--Contractor Wim de Jong received a
lifetime achievement award
Saturday during the third
annual Tourism Dinner.
Dino Daal, Director of
Product Development and
Quality of the Curaçao
Tourist Board (CTB), was
the keynote speaker during the event held at Mike
Ernest van Putten Youth
Center under the auspices
of St. Eustatius Tourism
Development Foundation.
Master of Ceremonies
was Malvern DijkshoornLopes, while Koos Sneek
of St. Eustatius Business
Association STEBA welcomed everyone present.
The Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by
St. Eustatius Development
Foundation, is given to an
individual who performs
outstanding work in his or
her field of work. The candidate is selected on World
Tourism Day.
This year’s Lifetime
Achievement Award went
to constructor Wim de
Jong. In August 1977, he
had built Claes Ghut, and
in 1989 he went into restoration of historical sites and
buildings.
Deputy Director of Tourism Charles Lindo introduced the keynote speaker.
Daal has a Master’s of
science degree, and has
worked in Curaçao in the
tourism field for 16 years.
His main task is in the field
of sustainable development.
He kept admonishing that
the key to success is education. “The youth are our
future,” said Daal. He gave
an outline of the basis of
Curaçao’s success in tourism. He said the Curaçao
Hospitality and Tourism
Association (CHATA) had
set up Academy Hotel with
the full support of the island, Central and Kingdom
governments.
~ Annual Tourism Gala Dinner ~
From left: Malvern Dijkshoorn-Lopes, Commissioner Roy Hooker, Construction Wim de
Jong, his wife Rika de Jong-Courtar, Koos Sneek, Alida Francis, Olton Berkel, Bernadine
Woodley and Siem Dijkshoorn at the Annual Tourism Gala Dinner.
Located in the city centre of historical Punda in
Willemstad, this three-star
hotel is actually managed
by students under supervision of experienced hospitality professionals. Daal
said he was hoping to welcome students from Statia
there as well.
Daal said he had enjoyed
his tour of the island. He
suggested using the roaming cows and stray goats
walking the streets as an
attraction, “because it is
an uncommon sight for
some visitors.” This was
met with squeals and head
shaking from the audience.
Several awards were presented during the annual
dinner. The committee
which had decided on this
year’s winners consisted of
Olton Berkel, Fred Cuvalay, Siem Dijkshoorn, Bernadine Woodley and Alida
Francis.
The Waitress of the Year,
sponsored by Mazinga
gift shop, went to Marva
Groenhard. Other nominees in this category were
Soraida Arnaud and Hilma Roosberg.
The Tourism Development Foundation sponsored the Restaurant of
the Year Award which
went to Super Burger, a
restaurant which has been
in business for more than
30 years. Nominated for
this award also were Blue
Bead restaurant and Old
Gin House.
Priem Consultants sponsored the Car Rentals
Award, which was captured by Brown Car Rent-
als. Rivers and Rainbow
car rentals were also nominated for this award.
For the third year in
a row, the Taxi Service
Award went to Darligton
Berkel. Other nominees
for the award sponsored
by Norako BV were Erwin
and Wade Lijfrock.
St. Eustatius Development Foundation spon-
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sored the Dive Shop
Award that was won by
Golden Rock Dive, with
other nominees being
Scubaqua Dive and Dive
Statia.
Nadio Spanner was elected Tour Guide of the Year,
which was sponsored by
St. Eustatius Port Services. Other nominees were
Nana Madden and Darlington Berkel.
The Hotel of the Year
Award went to Statia
Lodges with other nominees being Old Gin House
and Golden Era hotel.
The Travel Agency Award
went to Four Peaks Travel
with the other nominee
being Rainbow Travel.
At the end of the evening, Tourism Director
Alida Francis thanked all
of the schools, teachers,
bus drivers, and the over
400 students that had participated in the week of
activities. She specifically
mentioned HAVO-5 student Henkley Gumbs who
had done a PowerPoint
presentation during the
evening. She concluded
by saying: “All businesses
remember: Our youth are
our future.”
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Islands
ani of Super Plaza, Norman
Wathey of Taloula Mango’s
Frans Mulder of the White
and Yellow Cross Foundation, a Gold Sponsor who
wished to remain anonymous
and former board members
Meredith Boekhoudt and
Malka Scheepens.
First Lady Angela RichardsHuggins said that as a nonprofit organization SOSM
relies on private donations,
goods, service providers and
fundraising events to fuel its
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work.
The First Lady said she was The police pass on the Special Olympics torch to Special Olympics athlete Marijke Linda
grateful, proud and happy to Richardson during a torch run to kick off the Special Olympics Foundation St. Maarten
celebrate the milestone with SOSM Sports Day at the Raoul Illidge Sports Complex on Saturday. The fun-filled day
SOSM’s sponsors, support- also featured a jubilant parade around the sports complex. Participating in the parade
were St. Joseph Scout Group drum band, Mohican Scout Group and a taekwondo group,
ers and athletes.
“Throughout the years we which performed a dragon dance. National Alliance (NA) Member of Parliament (MP)
have achieved a lot and I Rodolphe Samuel declared the games open. The Sports Day was part of the celebration of
can proudly say together we the Special Olympics Foundation’s fifth anniversary.
have made a difference. We continuous support we can
She said the Foundation’s train and compete and, in
are confident that with your do more. As an organization goals are to achieve em- doing so, to reach their full
we accepted this challenge, powerment and dignity for potential. Here on our little
not just as a project, but also the athletes by creating in- St. Maarten, we should be
as a commitment.
novative opportunities, to proud of what has been
She said the Foundation change negative attitudes achieved within a five-year
will remain committed to and misperceptions about
providing year-round sports people with intellectual distraining and athletic compe- abilities, often rejected or
tition in a variety of Olympic forgotten, through positive
type sports and to improv- public awareness.
ing the lives of people with Sports Commissioner Frans
intellectual disabilities with Richardson commended the
proper instructions and en- Foundation for its milestone
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couragement, so that they and lauded their work with
can learn, enjoy and benefit the intellectually challenged.
A dragon dance by this local tae kwondo group was part
from participation in Special Lt. Governor Franklyn Richof the parade to kick off the Special Olympics sports day
Olympics sports.
ards said the foundation had
at Raoul Illidge Sports Complex on Saturday. The event
She also outlined some of spent half a decade enrichalso featured a torch run by the police force. The jubilant
the accomplishments and ing the lives of individuals
parade around the sports complex also included the St.
activities of the foundation with intellectual disabilities.
Joseph Scout Group drum band and the Mohican Scout
since formed in 2004. “Over “During the past five years,
Group. National Alliance (NA) Member of Parliament
the years we have seen the the foundation and its volun(MP) Rodolphe Samuel was on hand to declare the games
numbers of our athletes ex- teers have been changing the
open. The Sports Day was part of the celebration of the
pand from 10 in 2004 to 60 lives of people on the island
Special Olympics Foundation fifth anniversary.
athletes today - 50 athletes with intellectual disabilities
from Prins Willem Alexan- through sports,” he said.
der School and 10 from Sr.
“Special Olympics around
Basilia Centre.” She said too the world has evolved to
that the number of coaches become a leader in the
has grown with 10 trained field of intellectual disabiland certified according to ity allowing those with chalSO rules now.
lenges the opportunity to
LITTLE BAY--Several individuals and businesses in the
community were honoured
for supporting St. Maarten’s
intellectually challenged athletes during a cocktail reception in commemoration of
the fifth anniversary of the
Special Olympics Foundation St. Maarten (SOSM) on
Friday evening.
The foundation also
launched its Website www.
so-stmaarten.org, which contains information about the
foundation, its athletes and
activities.
Those honoured were presented with a framed drawing by Special Olympics athlete Albert Arndell.
Honoured were Sudi and
Katsiaryna Özkan of Port de
Plaisance, Imran McSood of
NAGICO Insurances, T. Chulani of Chulani NV, C. Vay-
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period. While we have made
great strides over the years,
let us reflect and at the same
time recommit our efforts
to continue to help create a
world of acceptance for persons with a disability.”
He said the Special Olympics family in St. Maarten
was truly saddened to hear
of the loss of SO Founder
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
earlier this year.
“As we celebrate our fifth
anniversary, I would like to
leave you with these words
that were delivered by the
late Eunice Kennedy Shriver
when she declared the first
International Special Olympics games – now referred
to World Games – officially
open, “Let me win, but if I
cannot win, let me be brave
in the attempt.”
More about the foundation
and its volunteers can be
read in a special supplement
that appears in today’s issue
of The Daily Herald.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
W I L L E M S TA D - -T h e
Central Committee of the
Curaçao’s Island Council
discussed the latest developments concerning the
unsuccessful purchase of
two extinguisher vehicles
for the local fire brigade.
In a press release, the Executive Council announced
that the meeting took place
in a positive and constructive atmosphere with relevant questions and criticism
as well as the valuable suggestions to prevent a recurrence of this situation.
Insiders pointed out that
meetings of the Central
Committee are usually
peaceful and constructive,
as the attending Island
Council Members are collecting information and are
still consolidating their political position. It is during
the public meetings that the
discussions are fierce, not
in the last place because
they are directly broadcast
on Radio Direct, contrary
to the closed committee
meetings.
The expectation is that the
next public meeting on this
matter will be held soon.
The only new fact that
came up during the committee meeting was the additional payment arrangement agreed upon with the
supplier Al Group. This
company, which was also
duped by the company Tigris, will bear 45,000 euros
(approximately
117,000
guilders) of the outstanding
invoice for the completion
of the two fire extinguishers.
The Island Territory of Curaçao will bear 170,000 eu-
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On Thursday, local Branch Manager Sharon Hassell (left) of Windward Island Bank (WIB) presented a cheque in the amount of US
$1,500 to Bethel Methodist School
Principal Ellis Woodley (centre)
in the presence of School Board
President Reverend Florence Daley
(right). This donation was made
toward the purchasing of furniture
for the newly-completed classrooms. On September 6, Reverend
Daley dedicated these classrooms.
Daley thanked WIB and said the
Methodist Church had been struggling to construct additional classrooms to accommodate its growing
student body, especially those in
Cycle 2. She said that due to circumstances they had no control
over, the rooms were not ready to
be occupied at the beginning of the
new school year. “We have now
reached the stage where we can
transfer most of the students of
Cycle 2 into the new block.”
ros (approximately 442,000
guilders) of that invoice.
In this manner, the two
victims of Tigris will share
the losses and Curaçao
will still obtain the two fire
trucks which are necessary
for improved fire fighting,
rescue operations for (car)
accidents and disaster relief.
If the Island Council swiftly approves the agreement
with the Al Group, the extinguishers could become
operational on the island at
the end of this year, or the
beginning of next year at
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Organiser Sjoerd Aardema (standing on table) starts the Burendag workday by dividing
participants into work groups to be transported by school buses.
SABA--Dutch
Burendag
(Neighbour Day) was celebrated for the first time
on Saba on Saturday. This
day was also celebrated for
the third year in Holland. It
brought out about 100 citizens who helped to clean up
the islands at various locations and to enjoy this community activity.
Organiser Sjoerd Aardema
managed to put together a
terrific day within a very short
time. Working with various
businesses and youth groups
(Child Focus, the Leos, and
the Saba Conservation Foundation Rangers and Scouts),
he estimated that close to
80 workers showed up. They
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were later joined by more
youngsters.
The day began at the Eugenius Centre with a breakfast
of real Dutch Coffee, warm
stroopwafels (treacle waffles), and Dutch poffertjes
(small pancakes).
Volunteer Suzan van den
Elshout said she had started
on the pancakes at 5:30am,
and had managed to get three
special Dutch pans. She kept
all three pans in use, at the
same, in the Lions kitchen.
Sign-up sheets were circulated and about 7:30am,
groups went off to paint
and clean the Windwardside
playground on the Museum
Grounds. The swing chains
were also replaced, and one
neighbour donated another
child’s chair on the spot.
Government cooperated
with school buses which
transported other groups to
Well’s Bay. There was also a
beach clean up, and Ernest
Hassell used a heavy pick axe
to clear out a spot for a new
stone built-in barbecue area.
Aardema said a larger project would be completed the
next time.
The Saba Conservation
Foundation conducted a
coastal cleanup at Spring
Bay and Ladder Bay. Scout
leader Sue Hurrell said that
the Fort Bay cliff face was
still too unstable to allow
the children to work there.
However, some adult divers
removed trash from the harbour waters.
All workers returned to the
Eugenius Centre for lunch,
and then the afternoon continued with games for the
smaller children.
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~ Nature programme starts October 1~
SABA--The island’s yearly
Sea and Learn nature programme is featured on a fourpage spread of the October
issue of the scuba magazine
Sport Diver, the official publication of the Padi Diving
Society. Publication of the
article was timed to coincide
with the opening of the programme this Thursday.
Featured in the article are
Kathleen Dudzinsky, director
of the Dolphin Communication Project; Vince Capone,
who uses underwater sonar to
discover wrecks; and Saba’s
own Tom van’t Hof, who lectures about roller-coaster history of the island’s cloud forest at the top of Mt. Scenery.
The opening night of Sea
and Learn 2009 is Thursday,
October 1, at Scout’s Place
Restaurant at 5:30pm. Lt.
Governor Jonathan Johnson
will open the month-long
programme. This programme
is opened to all. Registration
is only required for certain
day field trips.
Thursday’s opening session will feature shark expert
Mark Marks, a research biologist from Oregon, USA.
Marks is a returning guest
speaker and is appreciated
for his dynamic presentations.
Marks will get impressive
competition from the Saba’s
youth Sparky Theatre Club,
who will perform in their delightful fish costumes.
The programme began
seven years as a way to at-
WILLEMSTAD--The current debt restructuring for the Netherlands Antilles would be dropped if it were up to the Dutch
opposition parties VVD and PVV.
This appears from the counter budget from both parties; a
reaction to the budget that the Balkenende Cabinet presented
on the day of the Queen’s speech.
“The responsibilities of government should be clearly outlined,
also at international level. The debt restructuring of the Antilles
should therefore be stopped as long as conditions are unilaterally violated,” according to the counter budget of the VVD.
It is not explained in which manner the conditions are being
violated in the opinion of the VVD.
“Stop debt restructuring Antilles” is entered as a savings on
the alternative VVD budget for 2010 of 700 million euros; 20
million euros in 2011 and 40 million euros on the long run. The
PVV also mentions stopping the debt relief in its counter budget.
“The PVV stops the Netherlands Antilles’ debt restructuring.
This regards an amount of 0.7 billion euros next year. An incomplete implementation of the agreements offers the opportunity
to stop the debt restructuring until further notice, according to
the governmental agreements between the Netherlands and the
Antilles,” the memorandum states, and the same is applicable
to the VVD.
Other opposition parties D66, GroenLinks and SP do not
mention the debt restructuring in their counter budgets.
tract tourists to the island in
the slow month of October.
Nature experts and scientists are invited to the island, where, in exchange for
a free stay, they participate
in evening public lectures
at island restaurants, invite
interested parties to accompany them on Marine Park
and terrestrial fieldtrips,
and spend lots of time at
Saba’s elementary and high
school. These activities are
used to bring this generation
into contact with the natural
world.
In addition, the youth programmes of the Saba Conservation Foundation, Rangers, and Scouts have age-specific fieldtrips for the younger
crowd.
Many of the participating
experts are world-known and
Sea and Learn magazine spread in October’s “Sport Diver.”
have published extensively.
The main organiser is Lynn
Costenaro of Sea Saba who
has managed to get funding
from the Prince Bernhard
Fund, AMFO, and many local businesses.
Costenaro is expecting about
15 speakers, so that there
can be about three lectures a
week. Sign-up and scheduling
information will be available
at a tent in Lambee’s Place.
Information is also available
online at seaandlearn.org.
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ANGUILLA--Many persons
in the community attended
the Anguilla Soroptimist
Club Health Fair held on
the grounds of the Ruthwill
Auditorium on Saturday,
September 26. Doctors and
nurses from the public and
private sectors gave high level health advice.
Event Organiser, Soroptimist Pamela Connor, said
that the decision to hold the
Health Fair was because in
the current financial crisis, it
was felt that people needed
help and advice on preventative measures as they were
probably not visiting their
doctor as often as they had
done previously.
There was a wide range of
options and booths to visit.
The Red Cross had a booth
Islands
and gave demonstrations of
first aid and CPR methods.
The diabetes booth was very
popular. At that booth, people were given blood sugar
tests and blood pressure
tests.
Dr. Rona Hodge was there
to give advice on cancer prevention and recommended
tests necessary for women
such as pap smears and mammograms, as well as having
regular colonoscopies and
self breast examination.
Dr. Louis Bardfield gave
complete eye tests that included distance and near
vision checks, muscle imbalance, colour vision and horizontal field test.
Dental surgeon, Dr. Lindell
Brooks, advised patrons on
how to recognise dental dis-
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
eases and the treatment necessary. Vernice Battick, the
hospital’s nutritionist, gave
advice on nutrition. Her presentation included models
of healthy foods and foods
that should be avoided. The
Anguilla Community Action
Network that supports persons living with HIV/AIDS
and aims to reduce the incidence of the disease through
education and outreach had
a booth at the event with advice on testing and support.
Also represented at the fair
was the Mental Health Association that has as its vision
- integrity of mind, body and
spirit is the source of healthy,
happy, thriving people, families and communities. Anna
Richardson spoke to visitors
to her booth on the benefits
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Blood pressure and sugar level of patrons being checked by the Diabetes Association.
of osteopathy to treat muscles, ligaments, nerves and
joints.
One of the highlights was a
drum circle, held in the gazebo. Judy Guthrie led the popular event for young and old.
She said that drum circles are
fun and promote self-expression, reduce stress, create
social interaction, build community, provide exercise for
the mind body and spirit and
is suitable for persons of all
ages. It was evident that persons enjoyed the relaxation
and hopefully had relieved
their stress as well.
All of the advice and consultations were free. The Soroptimists are grateful to the
many persons who willingly
gave of their time to help the
community be more aware of
health problems and how to
treat them.
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The Drum Circle at the Soroptimist Health Fair held on
the grounds of the Ruthwill Auditorium on Saturday.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
ANGUILLA--Anguilla
Air and Sea Ports Authority Bill was read
for the first time at last
week’s meeting of the
Anguilla House of Assembly.
According to Finance
and Tourism Minister
Victor Banks, the development of a Port
Authority is critical to
Anguilla’s
development and to its receiving funds from the European Union that are
designated for port expansion.
The Bill will provide
for coordinated and
integrated systems of
airports, seaports and
port services and will
transfer to the Authority the relevant assets,
liabilities and functions
of the Government of
Anguilla and the Ministry that currently holds
that responsibility.
There are 13 sections
to the Bill which covers
the duties, powers, land,
dues and charges for
aircraft and ships, piloting, traffic at the ports,
finance, emergency provisions, warehouse provisions and more.
The aims of the Port
Authority will be to
manage and operate
the ports of Anguilla
and related facilities in
such a manner that the
public has access to services that are reliable,
efficient, safe and economic. They will also
maintain, repair, alter
or replace the facilities
as needed and upgrade
and extend the ports
when required.
The affairs of the Port
Authority will be managed by a Board consisting of not more than ten
members appointed by
the Governor in Council from among persons
experienced in business
management, industrial
relations, engineering,
shipping, airport management, finance and
other specialities. No
more than two members
will be public officers
and each member will
be appointed for a term
not exceeding three
years.
Speaking in the House
of Assembly, Infrastructure Minister, Kenneth
Harrigan, said the creation of a Port Authority has been in the planning stages since 1997
and is long overdue. He
expressed the hope that
at the next sitting, the
House of Assembly will
pass the Bill.
In order to explain the
new Bill and the establishment of a Port Authority, the Ministry of
Infrastructure in collaboration with the Airport
and Seaports Department and the Ports Advisory Board, will hold a
public consultation on
Thursday, October 1, to
discuss and receive feedback from all stakeholders on the formation of
the Air and Seaports
Authority.
28B:
Dutch diet guru Sonja Bakker has pulled out of plans to begin a new television series, will
not publish any more books in the near future and has closed her offices. Bakker is in the
process of divorcing her husband Koen Lenting, who is also her business manager. Bakker
sold over a million diet books at the height of her fame in 2006 and 2007. “I am taking
some time out, because it is all getting too much for me,” Bakker said on her Website
THE HAGUE--During a
speech at the General Assembly of the UN in New
York, Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen
has called for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban
Treaty (CTBT) to be signed
quickly.
This treaty bans nuclear
tests for military or civilian
purposes.
Verhagen appealed to the
nine countries that have not
yet ratified the treaty to accept their moral responsibility.
He also called Iran’s refusal
to call a halt to the enrichment of uranium “provocative and irresponsible” and
North Korea’s recent nuclear
test “a threat to international
peace and security.”
The CTBT was passed by
the UN General Assembly
in 1996. It will only come into
effect once it has been ratified
by the 44 countries that possessed nuclear reactors when
the treaty was drawn up.
The Netherlands gives financial support to the organisation that will monitor
the implementation of the
treaty.
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Protesters besiege Dutch Central Bank in Amsterdam. (ANP photo)
A M S T E R DA M - - H u n dreds of people marched
on Dutch Central Bank in
Amsterdam on Saturday
to protest against the government’s bailout of failing
banks amid the economic
crisis.
“We symbolically besieged
the bank to show our dissatisfaction with the government’s handling of the
crisis,” Max van Lingen, a
spokesman for the International Socialists lobby group
told news agency AFP.
He said some 700 people
took part in the protest,
with some carrying banners
reading: “Let the rich pay
for the crisis.”
“We don’t understand how
there is money for the banks,
while spending cuts are in the
offing for areas like education
and health care,” he said.
“We are not happy with
the government’s message
that everyone must now help
pay for the crisis, while bank
bosses appear to be getting
off scot-free.”
Police put the number of
protesters at 400 to 500.
In its 2010 budget presented earlier this month,
the Dutch government unveiled plans for unprecedented spending cuts of up
to 20 per cent in the face of
a ballooning budget deficit,
partly caused by it injecting
billions of euros into a faltering financial sector.
World leaders from the
G20 group of nations gathered in the US city of Pittsburgh this week to discuss
the fallout from the global
economic crisis. The Netherlands, which is not a G20
member, attended on invitation.
L E LY S TA D - -T h i e v e s ,
swindlers and cheats can go
about their business unhindered in Flevoland province
in Central Holland. The
police and Prosecutor’s Office are only still handling
crimes against “physical integrity,” such as assault and
rape.
The Telegraaf newspaper discovered “the new
policy” during an investigation of a million-euro
fraud by a company in the
region. An investigation report has been completed in
this case, including filmed
evidence and more than a
hundred statements from
victims. Nevertheless, the
prosecutor refuses to take
on the case, the newspaper
disclosed.
TV programme TROS Opgelicht also reported that
fraud, burglary and theft
are not being prosecuted
in Flevoland anymore.
“Property crimes, however
annoying and whatever the
financial losses involved, do
not affect the physical integrity - and that is what we
focus on,” the police were
quoted as saying.
Annemarie Jorritsma,
Mayor of Almere and in
this capacity also in charge
of the Police Force in Flevo-
land, confirmed the policy.
She advised fraud victims to
take their complaints to the
civil courts to recover their
losses, because no criminal
case would be forthcoming.
Jorritsma does not feel
responsibility. “As Police
Force manager, I do not
decide investigation priorities. This is the minister’s
job. It is a national policy,”
she told the newspaper.
Leadership of the Prosecutor’s Office, however,
said that this is a local issue.
“Each district decides for itself which choices are made,”
a spokesman for the national
Prosecutor’s Office stated.
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III. Medewerker Archief (1 fte)
NEDERLANDSE ANTILLEN
De Regering van de Nederlandse Antillen is op zoek naar kandidaten ter
ondersteuning van de implementatie van het project “Transformatie en
Transitie Vreemdelingenproces: huidige situatie naar nieuwe Toelatingsorganisatie op Sint Maarten”
Bent u de man of vrouw die ons team tijdelijk komt versterken?
In het pand aan de Illidge Road voor de Toelatingsorganisatie i.o. op Sint Maarten
start binnenkort het voormelde transformatie en transitie project. Een projectorganisatie dient hiertoe te worden opgericht teneinde een viertal geidentificeerde
trajecten te implementeren. Te weten:
1.
Het traject reguliere zaken;
2.
Het traject wegwerken achterstand;
3.
Het traject registratie ongedocumenteerden;
4.
Het oprichten van de nieuwe toelatingsorganisatie.
In dit kader zijn wij op zoek naar een aantal gekwalificeerde en gemotiveerde
krachten die bereid zijn om samen met de projectorganisatie (én het huidig
personeel van het Bureau Vreemdelingenzaken) een nieuwe uitdaging aan te
gaan
Het dienstverband betreft de periode van aanstelling tot eind oktober 2010.
Hierna zal het Land Sint Maarten beslissen of het dienstverband verlengd zal
worden.
I.
Medewerker Intake balie (3 fte’s)
Voornaamste taken en vereisten van de functie:
• Het ordenen, archiveren, lichten en beheren van de clienten dossiers volgens
het vastgestelde systeem;
• Het controleren van dossiers op volledigheid conform vereiste lijsten;
• Melding doen in geval van onvolledige dossiers;
• De door de leiding aangegeven acties ondernemen ter completeren van onvolledige dossiers;
• Zorg dragen dat dossiers gemakkelijk terug te vinden zijn;
• Het opzetten en bijhouden van een registratie voor het uitlenen en terugbezorgen van dossiers;
• Verricht overige ondersteunende werkzaamheden.
Het profiel:
• Een afgeronde administratieve opleiding of (combinatie van) andere afgeronde,
relevante opleiding(en) op MBO-niveau;
• Enige werkervaring in een functie van vergelijkbare inhoud en gewicht, liefst
bij een vergelijkbare organisatie strekt tot aanbeveling;
• Redelijke goede beheersing van de Engelse en Nederlandse taal;
• Stressbestendig en klantvriendelijk;
• Verkeert in goede fysieke conditie, kan trap opklimmen om uit zware storeboxen dossiers te lichten en/of weer op te bergen ;
• Is nauwkeurig, kwaliteitsbewust, integer, trouw en betrouwbaar;
• Is bereid praktijk en juridische kennis van de organisatie op te doen.
IV. De secretaresse/officemanager (1 fte)
Voornaamste taken en vereisten van de functie:
• Verleent secretariële en administratieve ondersteuning aan de projectorganisatie in de meest brede zin des woords;
• Draagt bij tot oplossing van problemen door inschakeling van de juiste personen of instantie;
• Verricht overige ondersteunende werkzaamheden.
Voornaamste taken en vereisten van de functie:
• Het controleren van de documenten van de aanvraag van de client op volledigheid en geldigheid conform vereisten; fungeert als “poortwachter” voor een
correcte aanvraagprocedure;
• Neemt de aanvraag in behandeling bij volledigheid en geldigheid van de documenten, zo niet retourneert de documenten met aanwijzingen aan de client
voor verbetering;
• Het snel en accuraat kunnen invoeren van cliëntgegevens in de geautomatiseerde Foreigner Management System (FMS) in bijzijn van de client;
• Het snel kunnen raadplegen van clientgegevens in de bestaande geautomatiseerde systemen in bijzijn van de client.
• Verricht overige ondersteunende werkzaamheden.
Het profiel:
• Een afgeronde opleiding (directie) secretaresse of combinatie van andere afgeronde, relevante opleiding(en) op MBO-niveau;
• Enige werkervaring in een functie van vergelijkbare inhoud en gewicht, liefst
bij een vergelijkbare organisatie strekt tot aanbeveling;
• Goede mondelinge en schriftelijke beheersing van de Engelse, Nederlandse
en Spaanse taal;
• Hands-on mentaliteit;
• Stressbestendig en klantvriendelijk;
• Is nauwkeurig, kwaliteitsbewust, integer, trouw en betrouwbaar;
• Is bereid praktijk kennis van de organisatie op te doen.
Het profiel:
• Een afgeronde administratieve opleiding of als datatypist of (combinatie van)
andere afgeronde, relevante opleiding(en) op MBO-niveau;
• Enige werkervaring in een functie van vergelijkbare inhoud en gewicht, liefst
bij een vergelijkbare organisatie strekt tot aanbeveling;
• Redelijke goede beheersing van de Engelse, Spaanse en Nederlandse taal;
• Stressbestendig en klantvriendelijk;
• Is nauwkeurig, kwaliteitsbewust, integer, trouw en betrouwbaar;
• Is bereid praktijk en juridische kennis van de organisatie op te doen;
• Is samenwerkingsgericht.
V. Netwerkbeheerder/Ondersteuner ICT (1 fte)
II. Medewerker Informatie- helpdesk (1 fte)
Voornaamste taken en vereisten van de functie:
• Fungeert als “poortwachter” voor een correcte aanvraag/afgifteprocedure;
• Beheert het afsprakensysteem tbv de client voor intake/afgifte;
• Controleert de documenten van clienten op geldigheid en vereisten;
• Geeft akkoord voor de intake/afgifte, zo niet aanwijzingen aan de client voor
verbetering;
• Fungeert als helpdesk voor vragen en problemen van clienten;
• Draagt bij tot oplossing van het probleem van de client door inschakeling van
de juiste persoon of instantie;
• In staat goede samenwerkingsrelaties op te bouwen zowel intern als extern;
• Verricht overige ondersteunende werkzaamheden.
Het profiel:
• Een afgeronde juridische opleiding of (combinatie van) andere afgeronde, relevante opleiding(en) op HBO-niveau;
• Enige werkervaring in een functie van vergelijkbare inhoud en gewicht, liefst
bij een vergelijkbare organisatie strekt tot aanbeveling;
• Goede mondelinge en schriftelijke beheersing van de Engelse, Spaanse en
Nederlandse taal;
• Stressbestendig, klantvriendelijk, efficient en effectief;
• Is nauwkeurig, kwaliteitsbewust, integer, trouw en betrouwbaar;
• Is bereid praktijk kennis van de organisatie op te doen;
Voornaamste taken en vereisten van de functie:
• Draagt zorg voor de ontwikkeling en uitvoeren van het informatievoorzieningsen automatiseringsbeleid;
• Begeleidt het gebruik van de informatievoorzieningssystemen (ACTSFMS);
• Beheert de informatiesystemen;
• Levert bijdragen aan de applicatieontwikkeling van het nieuw te ontwerpen
informatiesysteem ACTSFMS;
• Verricht ondersteunende en coordinerende werkzaamheden op het gebied
van PC-beheer en applicatiebeheer;
• Begeleidt het personeel bij het gebruik van de informatievoorzieningssystemen;
• Draagt bij tot oplossing van problemen door inschakeling van de juiste personen en of instantie;
• Verricht overige ondersteunende werkzaamheden.
Het profiel:
• Een afgeronde opleiding informatica of combinatie van andere afgeronde, relevante opleiding(en) op HBO niveau;
• Enige werkervaring in een functie van vergelijkbare inhoud en gewicht, liefst
bij een vergelijkbare organisatie strekt tot aanbeveling;
• Goede mondelinge en schriftelijke beheersing van de Engelse, Nederlandse
en Spaanse taal;
• Hands-on mentaliteit;
• Stressbestendig en klantvriendelijk;
• Verkeert in goede fysieke conditie;
• Is nauwkeurig, kwaliteitsbewust, integer, trouw en betrouwbaar;
• Is bereid praktijk kennis van de organisatie op te doen.
VI. Telefoniste (1 fte)
Voornaamste taken en vereisten van de functie:
• Bedient de telefooncentrale;
• Draagt zorg voor het tot standkomen van een prompte verbinding tussen
bellers en de vreemdelingendienst;
• Draagt zorg voor schriftelijk bericht aan personeel die de telefoon op dat moment niet opneemt;
• Draagt bij tot oplossing van problemen door inschakeling van de juiste personen binnen de organisatie;
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• Verricht overige ondersteunende werkzaamheden.
Het profiel:
• Een afgeronde opleiding telefoniste of combinatie van andere afgeronde, relevante opleiding(en) op MBO-niveau;
• Enige werkervaring in een functie van vergelijkbare inhoud en gewicht, liefst
bij een vergelijkbare organisatie strekt tot aanbeveling;
• Redelijke goede mondelinge en schriftelijke beheersing van de Engelse, Nederlandse en Spaanse taal;
• Hands-on mentaliteit;
• Stressbestendig en klantvriendelijk;
• Communicatief en samenwerkingsgericht;
• Verkeert in goede fysieke conditie;
• Is nauwkeurig, kwaliteitsbewust, integer, trouw en betrouwbaar;
• Is bereid praktijk kennis van de organisatie op te doen.
VII. Medewerker Adviescommissie (3 fte’s)
Voornaamste taken en vereisten van de functie:
• Het verlenen van juridische en/of sociaal- economisch advies met betrekking
tot:
a. De toepassing van relevante wet-en regelgeving
b. Motiveringen van beschikkingen
c. Evaluatie regelgeving en waar nodig adviseren omtrent wijzigingen c.q. aanpassingen
d. Coordinatie en afstemming met projectmanager en (deel)projectleiders
• Zorgdragen voor eenduidigheid in beleid;
• Assisteren bij rechtszaken;
• Verricht overige ondersteunende werkzaamheden.
Het profiel:
• Een afgeronde opleiding als Jurist of combinatie van andere afgeronde, relevante sociaal-economische opleiding(en) op WO niveau;
• Enige werkervaring in een functie van vergelijkbare inhoud en gewicht, liefst
bij een vergelijkbare organisatie strekt tot aanbeveling;
• Goede mondelinge en schriftelijke beheersing van de Papiamentse, Nederlandse, Engelse en Spaanse taal;
• Hands-on mentaliteit;
• Stressbestendig;
• Is nauwkeurig, kwaliteitsbewust, integer, trouw en betrouwbaar;
• Is bereid praktijk kennis van de organisatie op te doen en zich te bekwamen in
het vreemdelingenrecht en in sociaal –economische ontwikkelingen.
VIII. Medewerker Bedrijfsvoering (1 fte)
Voornaamste taken en vereisten van de functie:
• Draagt zorg voor het tijdig voor handen zijn en het goed functioneren van de
dagelijkse en noodzakelijke operationele zaken t.b.v. de organisatie en personeel o.m. alle materiele zaken (bewaking, airco’s, kantoorbenodigdheden,
inrichting, kopieerapparaten, computers etc.) conform geldende financiële
richtlijnen;
• Verantwoordelijk voor de ontwikkeling van de (ontwerp)dienstbegroting en
meerjarenramingen;
• Verantwoordelijk voor Planning & Control van de organisatie;
• Is verantwoordelijk voor de personeelsadministratie en de organisatie van
training en opleiding;
• Draagt zorg voor het goed functioneren van de beveiliging;voor een ordentelijke verloop van de klantenstroom in de aankomsthal; voor stipte openings- en
sluitingstijden;
• Verricht overige werkzaamheden ten behoeve van het dagelijks functioneren
van medewerkers en de organisatie;
• Is lid van het Management Team van de organisatie;
• Voert functioneel overleg met stakeholders.
Het profiel:
• Een afgeronde opleiding in financieel economische richting of combinatie van
andere afgeronde, relevante opleiding(en) op HBO-WO niveau;
• Enige werkervaring in een functie van vergelijkbare inhoud en gewicht, liefst
bij een vergelijkbare organisatie strekt tot aanbeveling;
• Goede mondelinge en schriftelijke beheersing van de Engelse, Nederlandse
en Spaanse taal;
• Hands-on mentaliteit;
• Stressbestendig en klantvriendelijk;
• Is nauwkeurig, kwaliteitsbewust, integer, trouw en betrouwbaar;
• Is bereid praktijk kennis van de organisatie op te doen;
• Verricht overige ondersteunende werkzaamheden.
tieplan t.b.v. de implementatie v.d. vier uit te voeren deeltrajecten;
• Levert bijdragen ter verbetering en optimaliseren v.d. klantenservice;
• Verleent ondersteuning en participeert aan het overleg v.d. projectorganisatie
i.v.m. de interne en externe voorlichting;
• Draagt mede zorg voor de voorbereiding en organisatie van power point presentaties voorlichtingsbijeenkomsten;
• Verricht overige ondersteunende werkzaamheden.
Het profiel:
• Een (afgeronde opleiding) in communicatietechnologie, bedrijfskunde of combinatie van andere afgeronde, relevante opleiding(en) op HBO niveau;
• Enige werkervaring in een functie van vergelijkbare inhoud en gewicht, liefst
bij een vergelijkbare organisatie strekt tot aanbeveling;
• Goede mondelinge en schriftelijke beheersing van de Engelse, Nedelandse
en Spaanse taal;
• Hands-on mentaliteit;
• Stressbestendig en klantvriendelijk;
• Is nauwkeurig, kwaliteitsbewust, integer, trouw en betrouwbaar;
• Is bereid praktijk kennis van de organisatie op te doen;
• Verricht overige ondersteunende werkzaamheden.
X. Ondersteuner Financiele en Personele zaken
(1 fte)
Voornaamste taken en vereisten van de functie:
Financiele zaken:
1. Draagt zorg voor het opstellen vd jaarlijkse (ontwerp) begroting en meerjarenramingen vd dienst die voldoet aan de begrotingsrichtlijnen en voorwaarden
van de Overheid door:
• Het voeren van overleg met het hoofd van dienst/het management over de
beleidsplannen, het beoordelen vd doelmatigheid daarvan en het onderhandelen om de gewenste noodzakelijke wijzigingen te bewerkstelligen;
• Het formuleren en/of aangeven van financiele kaders aan het managment
bij het opstellen van concept deel begrotingen;
• Het voeren van functioneel overleg met de noodzakelijke stakeholders zoals het Ministerie van Justitie, Afdeling Financien EG, PVNA, USONA.
2. Draagt zorg vd uitvoering vd begroting binnen de dienst door:
• Het ontwikkelen van instrumenten ter verkrijgen van controle op de financiele beheersinformatie;
• Het uitoefenen van toezicht op de rechtmatigheid vd besteding van gelden
conform de goedgekeurde begroting;
• Het opstellen van periodieke financiele rapportages mbt de begrotingsuitvoering.
3. Is belast met de financiele administratie vd dienst in de meest brede zin des
woord.
Personele zaken:
Ondersteunt het MT bij de implementatie vh personeelsbeleid van de Overheid
in het algemeen en van de dienst in het bijzonder door onder meer:
• Het opstellen en bewaken vd personeelsbegroting;
• Het verzorgen vd administratie van de personeelsaangelegenheden zoals
onder meer de personeelsbeoordelingcyclus, salariele –en rechtspositionele
vraagstukken, ziekteverzuim, verlofaanvragen etc.;
• Het verstrekken van informatie c.q. inlichtingen aan het management en individuele medewerkers en instanties zoals BZV, KPSSS, APNA.
• Het vanuit eigen vakmaterie informatie /ondersteuning geven aan hoofd van
dienst en/of management;
• Bijhouden van ontwikkelingen op het vakgebied;
• Verricht overige ondersteunende werkzaamheden.
Het Profiel:
• Een (afgeronde ) opleiding op MEA/HBO niveau financieel –economische
richting of combinatie van andere (afgeronde) relevante opleidingen, MBO
personeelswerk;
• Goede contactuele ervaring op relevante werkgebied;
• Goede mondelinge en schriftelijke beheersing van de Engelse, Nederlandse
en Spaanse taal;
• Computervaardig;
• Hands-on mentaliteit;
• Stressbestendig;
• Is nauwkeurig, kwaliteitsbewust, integer, trouw en betrouwbaar;
• Is bereid praktijk kennis van de organisatie op te doen en zich verder te bekwamen op financieel en personeel gebied; in het vreemdelingenrecht en in
sociaal –economische ontwikkelingen.
Informatie
Voor informatie kunt u bellen naar het PVNA-Team op telefoonnummer 097380521
IX. Medewerker Communicatie (1 fte)
Voornaamste taken en vereisten van de functie:
• Draagt in samenspraak met het MT zorg voor een optimaal functionerende
interne overlegstructuur en communicatie;
• Verzorgt de interne voorlichting;
• Is medeverantwoordelijk voor de externe communicatie t.b.v. de transitie v.d.
huidige organisatie naar een nieuwe toelatingsorganisatie in het algemeen; in
het bijzonder t.b.v. de projectorganisatie, het personeel en overige stakeholders;
• Is medeverantwoordelijk voor het opstellen en uitvoeren van een communica-
Reageren
U kunt op deze vacatures reageren door uw sollicitatiebrief en curriculum vitae
op te sturen naar:
De Minister van Justitie, door tussenkomst van de Interim Hoofd VD-SXM,
de heer Robert Barby, Korps Politie SSS en/of de HRM-deskundige Corrinne
Brazao, Schottegatweg Oost 18 (IBM-gebouw), Curacao.
U kunt op per e-mail reageren op e-mailadres: corrinnebrazao@yahoo.com
Sluitingdatum sollicitatie: 15 oktober 2009
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
VACANCIES
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The Network Operations department of United Telecommunications Services (UTS) in charge of
installations, maintenance and operations of the Telecommunication network has vacancies for a:
Switching Technician
The Switching Technician is responsible for the execution of activities to
the switching equipment and the maintenance and development activities
thereof.
Key activity:
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Keep the switching system operational by:
The preparation of small scaled expansions and change project system;
The carrying out of reduction tests and the execution of commisioning
activities;
The execution of acceptance tests in accordance to the norms and
installation drawings;
The restoring of outages;
The execution of (re)configurations in the system;
The maintenance of the database of the system;
Knowledge and skills:
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Associates degree (MBO) , MTS (Telecommunication/ICT specialist)
Knowledge of AXE systems, as well as hard and software (Intelligent
Network)
Knowledge of DMS 200/300 and GSP systems
Competencies:
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Excellence
Business Focus
Ownership
Innovation
Technical Expertise Switching
Reliability
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Problem-solving Ability
Analytical thinking
Technical Expertise Network Provisioning
Technical Expertise Mobile & Wireless Communication
Customer Service Orientation
Senior Switching and
Transmission Engineer
The Sr.Switching & Transmission Engineer is responsible for the execution
of activities relating to the switching equipment and executing the maintenance and expansion projects of the transmission network.
Some key activities:
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Maintains service management of the existing network;
Maintains the technical interconnection with Carriers;
Maintains operations of the GSM & UMTS system;
Responsible for preventive and correction maintenance on lease lines,
undersea cables systems, V-sat connection and microwave networks.
Knowledge and skills:
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Bachelors degree (HBO) , HTS (Telecommunication/ICT specialist)
Knowledge of AXE systems, as well as hard and software, network
constructions and radio transmission (Intelligent Network)
Specialized knowledge of DMS 200 and GSP systems
Coordinating and coaching skills
Good communication skills
Project management skills
Competencies:
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Excellence
Business Focus
Ownership
Innovation
Technical Expertise Switching
Reporting skills
Problem-solving Ability
Analytical thinking
Technical Expertise Network Provisioning
Results driven
Quality of Service Orientation
Transmission Technician
Project Manager
The Transmission Technician is responsible for the execution of the mainte-
The Project Manager is responsible for the set up, the heading and the
nance and development activities to the tranmissionnet.
execution of projects within the department.
Some key activities:
Some key activities:
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The installation of equipment
The execution of routine test activities
The restoring of outages and the maintenance of technical equipment
of the installations
The execution of maintenance and installation activities to the
transmission systems (equipment and software) in accordance to the
maintenance programs and installation plans.
The recognition of technical details (wear and tear, quality deviation
and respons time frame) and the registering of the findings for further
analysing
The restoring/repairs to mistakes and the maintenance of the
transmission and leased lines equipment.
Repair activities in the benefit of provisioning of transmission and
leased lines services for the clients.
Knowledge and skills:
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Associates degree (MBO) , MTS.
Knowledge of Telecom networks.
Knowledge of modern transmission techniques in general and
in particular the systems used by UTS.
Good knowledge of the guidelines of ITU and cable systems
administration.
Good knowledge of the materials, tools and the repairs methods and
skills to manage them.
Competencies:
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Excellence
Business Focus
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THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
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Dutch Kingdom/Regional
THE HAGUE--The Second
Chamber has made it impossible for Dutch military personnel who exercise the use of
force within their rules of engagement to be prosecuted.
A majority voted in favour
of a proposal put forward by
Defence Minister Eimert van
Middelkoop and Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin.
Dutch military personnel are
increasingly frequently deployed in crisis management
operations. But the law does
not regard these operations
as a war. This could result in
insufficient legal protection
for soldiers who have used
force.
The present stipulation of
the law dates from 1903. In
the law, the concept of “war”
will be broadened to “armed
conflict.” Situations in which
international humanitarian
law applies will fall under this
description.
As long as the military comply with the specific rules of
engagement that apply for an
operation, the law proposal
will give them automatic indemnity from punishment for
use of force.
The call for a better legal position arose after marine Eric
O. was prosecuted for a fatal
shooting incident in Iraq in
2003. The Prosecutor’s Office
enraged the Defence Ministry
with this case.
The courts concluded that
the soldier acted in line with
the rules of engagement. He
was eventually acquitted and
received substantial damages.
~ Say decision taken in Jamaica’s interest ~
KINGSTON, Jamaica--The
General Council of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA)
Saturday voted to accept the
Government’s proposal that
the J$1.5-billion in retroactive
monies for the 2007-2008 period be paid in 2012.
The vote, which was carried
by 70 to one, brings an end
to months of negotiations between the two parties which
had got to the point where
teachers threatened industrial action at the start of the
school year.
“We have accepted on a
principled position,” JTA
president Michael Stewart
told the Sunday Observer after the council meeting at the
association’s
headquarters
Saturday.
“Having looked at it rationally and objectively, we believed that we could accept it.
It has really put a lot of pressure and strain on us and the
teachers are weary in terms
of taking it further, and so
we decided that we would do
the honourable thing at this
time to concede and accept,
(even with) knowing that we
would be losing tremendously
in terms of the value of the
money,” he said.
According to Stewart, an independent study undertaken
for the association showed
that the money, which was
originally due this past June,
would have devalued by as
much as 30 per cent by December 2011, the deadline
for which the teachers were
pushing.
But considering the fact that
the Government was not in a
position to pay sooner based
on economic indicators, and
the fact that public sector salaries needed to be settled before the International Monetary Fund would agree to
lend the country the money it
was seeking to borrow, Stewart said the group decided to
take the high road.
“We also understand the
bind that there is at this
time,” the JTA president
said. “And so, having accepted it, we want to let the
nation know that we have
done so with its interest at
heart. We have always made
significant sacrifice and have
compromised our positions
continuously, and so we want
the nation to recognise that
we are patriotic persons and
that we want the country to
move forward.”
“The teachers are committed to raising the bar higher...
Teachers are performing,”
he said, pointing to what he
described as significant improvements in the results of
the Grade Six Achievement
Test, Grade Four Literacy
Test, Caribbean Secondary
Education Certificate and the
Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Exam.
“Currently we have a number of students who can’t get
into sixth form because there
is no space at the tertiary level, students are qualified and
can’t get in,” he said in support of his point.
Despite accepting the offer,
however, the JTA warned that
it should not prejudice the
association’s position as far as
future salary claim issues are
concerned.
“We will be relentless in our
quest to push for benefits and
better conditions of service for
our teachers,” said Stewart.
In a release it issued yesterday, the JTA said the general
council expects the Government to “strictly comply”
with the schedule as the association “will not countenance
any variation” from it. (Jamaica Sunday Observer)
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer of Antigua and Barbuda and former student of the Coady International Institute of St. Francis Xavier University in Halifax, Canada, was the
special guest of honour at the fiftieth anniversary of the institution and the opening of the
new Coady Institute over the weekend. He delivered the feature address at the luncheon
opening of the institution and spoke of the institute being responsible for preparing him
for leadership and being instrumental in the development of cooperatives in Antigua and
Barbuda. The Prime Minister (fourth left) was among the dignitaries at the Cutting of the
ribbon ceremony to officially open the new institute.
KINGSTON, Jamaica-One in roughly every 200
Jamaicans either lives in
a poor house or is a dependent on rations doled
out by the poor relief
department of each parish council, according to
Government data that
also show more people
are living below the poverty line.
The latest report from
the Board of Supervision, dated April 1, 2009,
shows that 1,539 people
reside in the 13 poor
houses set up in each parish (except for Kingston
& St Andrew which share
a facility) while 11,697
live elsewhere but depend on poor relief. Last
year’s figures were 1,525
and 11,502 respectively.
This year’s total does
not include the 360,000
subscribers targeted by
the Programme of Advancement
Through
Health and Education
(PATH) each year. According to the Ministry
of Labour and Social Security, which administers
PATH, its subscribers are
those in the most vulnerable groups among the
poor, including children
from birth to 17, the elderly poor, persons with
disabilities, pregnant and
lactating women and the
indigent poor.
The major difference
between this group,
however, and the one in
roughly 200, is that those
in the latter group usually
have no one to take care
of them.
The Poor Relief Act
(1886) defines them as
being “wholly destitute of
the means of subsistence,
and are at the same time
- from mental or physical
causes - unable to work
(to) earn the means of
subsistence”.
Sitting on the corridor
and sleeping with their
chins on their chests is
a virtual pastime for the
residents of the St Mary
infirmary.
Secretary of the Board
of Supervision, Carol Anthony, sought to explain
the difference further.
“PATH and other social
assistance programmes
cater to those in poverty
while the poor relief department caters to those
who are destitute. Those
on the poverty line just
need a little push up, but
the destitute are way below that and need more
than a little push,” she
told the Sunday Observer.
According to the 2007
Jamaica Survey of Living
Conditions, the proportion of the 2.7 million
population classified as
“poor” was 9.9 per cent;
the poverty line for a family of five was $302,697,
while the adult equivalent was $80,089.
Of the indoor poor those who reside in the
poor houses or infirmaries - Kingston & St Andrew (KSA), St Catherine
and Clarendon account
for the largest shares.
KSA has 447, of which
244 are males and 203
are females. St Catherine
and Clarendon have 147
each, the former having
80 males and 67 females
and the latter having a
90/57 split. Other high
figures are recorded by St
Ann (116) and Manchester (100).
The same three parishes
account for the majority of the outdoor poor those who live elsewhere
but depend on poor relief. KSA has 902 males
and 1,255 females, a total of 2,157. St Catherine
has 635 men and 686
women, a total of 1,321,
while Clarendon has a
total of 1,197, of which
601 are males and 596
are females. The other
parishes range between
409 and 996, except for St
James, which has a total
of 1,108.
“You’ll notice that with
the indoor poor there are
more males than females,
but it’s the reverse with
the outdoor poor,” said
Anthony.
“It could be that a lot of
males don’t look after the
children when they are
young, so when they grow
up they usually don’t take
care of the fathers... With
the outdoor poor it’s the
women who we see out
there more than the men
trying to find something for
their children,” she said.
Another thing the numbers show is that the indoor poor are living in
cramped environments.
Capacity depends on the
size of each facility. (Jamaica Observer)
Regional
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
GEORGETOWN, Guyana--A stunning report prepared by a Panel of Inquiry
at the University of Guyana
(UG) has found evidence
that a lecturer victimised
and threatened students.
This lecturer even held an
exam off-campus.
The report, which may
have far reaching consequences now forcing management of the campus to
rethink oversight strategies
as far as its staffers are concerned, also spoke of inappropriate language and
an erratic teaching style in
classrooms by Evan Persaud, a Faculty of Technology lecturer.
Persaud was fired Wednesday but it is unclear if he was
told officially. The lecturer
also heads the Advisory
Committee on Broadcasting (ACB) and is a prominent member of the Indian
Arrival Committee.
Nearly two dozen students,
the lecturer and Dean of
the Faculty of Technology,
Sherwood Lowe, were interviewed before the report
was prepared and handed
~ Wrote foreign sponsor about students’ scholarships ~
to the UG Council which
took the decision to terminate his services.
The report was done at the
request of UG’s Registrar,
Vincent Alexander, who
appointed Deputy Registrar, Dr Theodosius Velloza, and Department of
Law lecturer, Alicia EliasRoberts, to the Panel of
Inquiry.
According to the report,
the panel listened to a CD
recording of the lecturer
during one of his classes in
which he was heard cursing
and planning to victimise a
student who had reported
his behaviour to the UG
management.
The panel found Persaud
guilty of grave misconduct
for using profanity in the
classroom and in addition,
of violating the rights of
students by writing directly
to Prometheus Resources,
a company which sponsors
a few students, to terminate
their scholarships.
These students were said
to be the same ones who
reported his misconduct
to UG administration, the
report says. UG administrators are saying that Persaud bypassed procedures
by writing directly to the
company.
It was also found that the
lecturer acted “in a manner
which can be considered
inimical to the university”
by holding final exams off
campus, “which would affect the quality of the degree offered by the university.”
In its recommendations,
the panel called for the
termination of Persaud’s
contract of employment
because he had violated
the University Statutes and
Code of Conduct for Staff
which urges staffers to be
aware of their responsibilities and discharge them
efficiently and conscientiously.
According to the report, of
the 21 students questioned,
17 said they never received
any course outline and were
referred to a website for it.
PNM chairman Energy Minister Conrad Enill, left, and party treasurer Trade Minister Mariano Browne during a news conference following the party’s general council meeting at Balisier House, Port of Spain, Saturday. (Trinidad Express photo by Jermaine Cruickshank)
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad--Criticisms against the
pending adjustments to the
Property Tax regime have
not been made based on
sound calculations of the
new cost to be incurred, but
instead upon ignorance,
says Minister in the Ministry of Finance Mariano
Browne.
“The responses so far
have been ignorant,” said
Browne, who is also Minister of Trade.
Speaking after the People’s
National Movement’s gen-
eral council meeting at Balisier House in Port of Spain
Saturday, Browne admitted
there was not enough information in the public arena
as to how these adjustments
would affect people, but
said there was opportunity
for review. “Very few people have seemed to do any
calculations or arithmetic,”
he said.
He also said he was sensing that the public had a
lack of information and saw
the announcement in the
budget to mean that there
would be an immediate increase.
However, he said this
was erroneous and what
Minister of Finance Karen
Nunez-Tesheira had moved
to do during the budget was,
in fact, to alert the public
about the Government’s
intentions to streamline the
taxation system.
“There will be opportunity for review,” he
said, “when the legislation is brought to Parliament.” (Trinidad Express)
“Five students mentioned
that Mr. Persaud occasionally gave notes in class.”
The panel found that no
course outline was found
on the website for the three
courses lectured by Persaud. Although final grades
were calculated based on
course work submitted and
final exams marks, many
students in their statements
to the panel said they were
unclear what their actual
grades were prior to the final exam.
They were only told they
passed or failed.
Eighteen students disclosed that they had done
at least one exam at the
Russian Embassy, Kitty.
However, three students of
the 21 said they took part in
that and exams were held
on campus.
The eighteen students said
that they had done “fake”
final exams on campus but
were told by the same three
students who had denied
writing the exams off-campus that they would meet at
another location to “make
modifications to their examination papers.”
According to the report,
students said that for this
off-campus test, they were
given examination questions in advance.
“They said that these examinations were usually
open-book type exams with
wide sharing of answers
and students would spend
several hours or even a few
days making their corrections.
The examinations were
described as mini-novels,
the more booklets they
filled with information, the
higher their grade will be.”
All of the 21 students said
that Persaud used expletives in the classroom but
never to abuse any particular person.
Two students claimed that
they heard the lecturer using racist remarks in the
classroom.
Seventeen students said
that he talked about sex
all the time in the classroom. While several of
these agreed that sex was
sometimes used to illustrate points, they felt it was
highly inappropriate for the
classroom and the majority
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados--Reduction or even
removal of a British tax
that spells trouble for Barbados’ tourism will be high
on Prime Minister David
Thompson’s agenda when
he meets with high-level
government and travel officials in Britain this week.
Thompson started a tour
of England Sunday, and,
according to Minister of
Tourism Richard Sealy, the
Prime Minister will be making a huge effort to encourage British authorities to
possibly reduce the tariff
for passengers to the Caribbean.
“We very much want it reduced or even removed,”
Sealy said in an exclusive
interview with the Sunday
Sun.
“The Prime Minister is
scheduled to meet with
Prime Minister Gordon
Brown, Trade Secretary
Lord Mandelson, and Opposition Leader David
Cameron. So that shows
how serious we are about
this matter.
“We are lobbying at the
highest level because we
are very concerned about
the situation. There are
things we are trying to do to
minimise the impact of it,
but we would really like to
see the end of it for sure,”
Sealy said.
He noted that a number of
influential British tourism
operators were also against
the tax. They include the
Airports Authority, the
Travel Agency Association,
and the Virgin Airlines
group headed by CEO
Sir Richard Branson, who
Thompson is also scheduled to meet.
Britain has been Barbados’
largest passenger provider
for more than five decades,
but visitors are staying
home more, and the tariff
isn’t making them change
their minds any time soon.
Two weeks ago, outgoing British High Commissioner Duncan Taylor said
Government should lobby
Britain to have the tax removed.
The new tax will see Britons having to pay an extra
BDS$160 for economy
class travel, and BDS$156
for premium class.
Sealy revealed that Government was also very concerned about the recent
decision by many airlines
to introduce a baggage fee,
where travellers have to pay
29
of times never in relation to
the exercise.
Students reported that
the lecturer’s nick name on
campus was “Sex Man”….
Eighteen students told the
panel that Persaud bragged
about his affiliations with
top government officials
“which was to give the students the impression that
he was ‘untouchable’. They
also said that Mr. Persaud
criticised the [opposition]
PNC and praised the [governing] PPP party.
One student said that Mr.
Persaud handed out membership applications for the
PPP during one class.
According to the report
of the Panel of Inquiry,
students were asked to rate
the lecturer’s level of professionalism on a scale of
1-5 with 1 being poor and 5
excellent.
Some 18 students rated
him poorly with 2.5 being
the highest.
“They felt that even though
Mr. Persaud had a wealth
of knowledge to impart to
them, they were deprived
of it as a result of his poor
professional conduct. (Kaieteur News)
in the region of US$25 for
individual pieces of luggage
outside carry-on items.
“We understand where the
airlines are coming from.
Obviously they are looking
to cut costs and increase
revenue. We have some
very good partnerships with
the airlines, and we have to
continue to work with them
and see if there is any way
to minimise the impact on
some of these things,” the
minister said.
He noted that because of
a worldwide airline crisis,
Government would continue to meet with them consistently in an attempt to
find some “middle ground”
where it related to passengers being impacted less by
high prices for travel.
A United States Government research project has
shown that in the second
quarter of 2009 airlines had
earned more than US$600
million from the baggage
fees, with American Airlines earning $118 million, Delta Airlines $118,
US Airways $104 million,
United Airlines $67 million
and Northwest Airlines $60
million. (Barbados Sunday
Sun)
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PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad-The rising crime that is currently affecting Trinidad and
Tobago and the Caribbean
region has been caused by the
loss of preferential markets
for the export of bananas and
sugar, Prime Minister Patrick
Manning said Saturday.
Manning was addressing the
64th Session of the United
Nations General Assembly
in New York City, New York,
USA.
The lead Caricom Head of
Government responsible for
security matters, the T&T
Prime Minister linked the
deteriorating crime situation
within the region to the impact of the global economic
downturn and the loss of
key avenues of international
trade.
He told the General Assembly the Caribbean was particularly plagued by the illegal
drug trade, with the region
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-A newborn baby who was
found inside a tied plastic
bag, with the umbilical cord
still attached, on Fitts Village
Beach, St James, Saturday
evening is alive and doing
fine.
The baby girl was rushed to
the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) by ambulance
where she was admitted to
the Paediatric Intensive Care
Unit for observation.
When contacted Saturday, Dr Chaynie Williams,
consultant in charge of the
Accident & Emergency Department at the QEH, said
the baby was healthy and doing fine. She said it was carried to term and would have
been born within the last 24
hours.
Police described the baby
as Caucasian with blue eyes.
The newborn was being
called a “miracle baby” by
Jerome Jarreau, the man
who found her hidden under a cluster of grape trees
on the beach.
Jarreau said he was walking along the beach around
4:30pm when he heard a
faint cry from under the
bushes.
“I tell myself somebody
must be in there with a baby
or it must be a monkey or
something. I heard the crying
again, so I went and look under the bush and I see something wriggling in a plastic
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
being used as a transhipment
point for North America- and
Europe-bound cargo.
Earlier this year, on June
22, as he pressed the case for
regional unity. Manning had
told the People’s National
Movement membership that
the worsening economic situations in other Caricom countries pose serious threats to
T&T, that includes increased
illegal immigration and narcotics trafficking, as well as
Jerome Jarreau pointing to the area under these grape trees
where he found a newborn baby in a tied plastic bag. (Daily
Nation photo)
bag. I burst open the bag and
the baby look at me and let
out a gasp and started to cry
louder. I felt so relieved but
scared,” he said.
So shocking was the discovery that Jarreau ran up the
beach where three people
were standing and frantically
told them about his find, but
nobody moved.
“I told them to come that a
baby in the bushes but I know
I am Rastaman and they
would think that I coming to
rob them or something, so I
told them that I telling the
truth, to call the ambulance
and the police. They were
staring at me as if I was mad
or making sport,” he said.
Eventually the people did
go over and see the baby. Jarreau said the umbilical cord
was still attached as well as
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the afterbirth, and the blood
in the bag was fresh.
But when somebody suggested cutting the cord, his
protective parental instincts
kicked in and he told them
not to touch the baby.
The 28-year-old man said
he instinctively ran over to
the Jordan’s Supermarket
complex at the doctor’s office there but it was closed.
So he ran back to the baby
and stood over her until the
police and ambulance personnel arrived.
“This thing hurt me because
I have two children and one
is three months old. I know
God was watching over this
child,” he said.
Anthony Roopchand, who
was on the scene when Jarreau found the baby, said he
thought Jarreau was crazy
when he saw him running up
the beach shouting that he
had found a baby.
Jarreau’s sister Joyann Walcott said she was hurt when
she saw the baby lying in the
plastic bag.
“She is such a sweet baby.
I have christened her Shekinah’s Glory. She is in God’s
hands.”
The residents said they
hoped they would be able to
visit the child at the hospital.
Police from the Holetown
station cordoned the area
where the baby was found
and are investigating the
matter. (Maria Bradshaw,
Daily Nation)
a decline in local exports
throughout the region.
Yesterday, he told the General Assembly: “Mr President, the security situation
has been aggravated by the
deteriorating economic situation in many of our countries,
weakened by the loss of preferential markets for bananas
and sugar.
“The new paradigm of reciprocity in trade, and the fact
that both the tourism industry and the financial services
sector to which many have
turned to supplement their
economic development have
not produced the anticipated
returns.
“The economic situation of
these countries has, therefore, become even more critical, with severe consequences
for the security and prosperity
of our region, given the inextricable link between security
and socio-economic development.”
Although Trinidad and Tobago earns most of its revenue from oil and natural gas
exports, it did also produce
sugar for export until the closure of Caroni (1975) Ltd.
And despite its high energy
sector earnings, T&T has
seen record levels of crime,
especially where homicides
are concerned, with the murder toll currently at 398.
Manning told the UN General Assembly, as he has done
in the Parliament, that the
Caribbean was particularly
plagued by the illegal drug
trade and that “this activity
has a most corrosive effect
on our small societies, fuelling, for example, trafficking
in small arms and light weapons, with troubling consequences”.
He urged UN member
states “to negotiate a legally
binding Arms Trade Treaty to
join the fold of states working
to ensure that it becomes a
reality.”
In a wide-ranging address,
Manning also talked about
the global economic crisis and
its effect on the Caribbean.
“We clearly cannot take our
eye off the ball. We must not
return to business as usual...
We must be very wary of the
level of adventurousness in
leading financial institutions,
which contributed very significantly to driving the world
to the edge of an economic
precipice, from which we are
just starting to pull back,”
Manning said.
He called on the UN to “ensure that the reform of the
international financial institutions”, such as the World
Bank and the Inter-American
Development Bank, “does indeed take place”.
“The trust of the world in the
totally unregulated market
has been entirely misplaced.
We must now capitalise on
the opportunity of this (global
economic) crisis and, without
delay, reform our international economic system,” he
said.
He also drew the UN General Assembly’s attention to
the issue of non-communicable diseases and said “it
forecast that by 2020, NCDs
will account for about 73 per
cent of global deaths and 60
per cent of the global burden
of diseases”.
“We have taken on board
this matter at the level of
Caricom. Indeed, we held
a special Regional Summit
in Port of Spain on Chronic
Non-Communicable Diseases in 2007. I now propose to
this august Assembly, that a
Special Summit of the United
Nations General Assembly
on Non-Communicable Diseases be convened at the earliest opportunity,” Manning
said.
He also expressed the Government’s position on a key
aspect of the international
debate on climate change, as
he commended UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s
efforts to address the issue.
“Trinidad and Tobago
makes it absolutely clear
that we do not accept the
per capita basis for the determination of levels of
carbon emission. This is
manifestly unfair to a small,
energy-producing, developing country like ours with a
small population,” Manning
said. (Trinidad Express)
PARAMARIBO, Suriname-Law enforcement officials
in Suriname have disclosed
that over the past several
days a large number of illegal Guyanese nationals were
deported to Guyana. Also
at least four were detained
for various offences ranging
from drug trafficking to violation of the Foreign Currency Act.
“Operation Koetai”, a
wide-scale security operation, netted 65 Guyanese
nationals who entered the
country illegally, police
spokesman, under-inspector
Humphrey Naarden, said.
The police officer noted
that while most of the illegal
immigrants could show valid
identification and travel
documents they didn’t enter the country at an official
point of entry.
The joint operation by
army and police was aimed
at curbing criminal activities and illegal immigration
in the western districts of
Suriname. Most deportees
were held at a checkpoint
in Burnside in the Coronie
district while travelling from
the border town NieuwNickerie en route to the
capital Paramaribo.
In one incident, two Guyanese were arrested in a boat
on the Corentyne River with
a large quantity of goods
that they appeared to be attempting to smuggle to Suriname.
During another raid one
Guyanese man, a Brazilian
woman and two Chinese
men were arrested on the
same river. According to the
police spokesman, the Brazilian woman and the Chinese were trying to cross the
border illegally.
A peculiarity is that the Chinese men were in possession
of two brand new Surinamese passports, which during
the investigation proved to
be false.
“These cases have been
handed over to the Fraud
Squad,” said Naarden.
On Tuesday, police arrested
a 25-year old Guyanese man
who entered the country
legally at the South Drain
ferry crossing, but failed to
report a large sum of foreign
currency with the immigration authorities.
The suspect was accompanied by a 21-year old
Surinamese woman. In
their possession they had
US$35,000 and $326,000 in
local currency.
Both have been detained
and charged with violation
of the Foreign Currency
Act.
In two separate cases,
two Guyanese men, one
of whom claimed to be a
preacher, were arrested
for drug trafficking. They
had one kilogram and one
pound of marijuana in
their possession. While being searched by police officers, the alleged preacher
dashed into the mangrove
woods alongside the road,
but with assistance of public
spirited citizens this suspect
was arrested and detained
by police several hours later.
(Kaieteur News)
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
WASHINGTON--After
his
efforts at diplomacy on the
international stage last week,
President Barack Obama faces
some particularly daunting foreign policy decisions about the
Afghan war, a nuclear Iran and
an elusive Middle East peace.
The world’s problems only add
to the issues plaguing Obama
at home: nearly 10 percent
unemployment and a fractious
Congress squabbling over his
plans to overhaul healthcare
and curb the gas emissions that
are warming the planet.
of State Hillary Clinton report News Sunday”.
Having made his debut at the back in October.
“I hope there is, because I do
United Nations and hosted
On Afghanistan, Obama will not believe the American peothe Group of 20 financial sum- weigh options with aides in the ple want to be in Afghanistan
mit in Pittsburgh, Obama has face of disagreement over a for the next 10 years, effectively
returned to Washington to a request from General Stanley nation-building,”
Feinstein
three-month make-or-break McChrystal, the top U.S. and said.
period before lawmakers start NATO commander in AfghanIran test fired several miscampaigning for 2010 elec- istan, for tens of thousands siles on Sunday, adding to
tions. “He’s been setting the more U.S. troops. A leak to the the tension between Tehran
stage for progress on a lot of media of McChrystal’s bleak and the West over the Islamic
issues where the progress is assessment of the Afghan republic’s nuclear program.
going to be very difficult,” said war effort drew charges from Iran meets the United States
George Perkovich, a nuclear Republicans last week that and five other world powers
policy expert at the Carnegie Obama was indecisive, while for talks on Thursday as part of
Endowment for International his fellow Democrats fear be- Obama’s drive to resolve conPeace.
coming mired in a Vietnam- flicts through negotiation.
None of these problems was like war now eight years old.
At the G20 summit on Friday,
solved last week. Having bro- “The question comes, is there Obama joined the leaders of
kered a handshake rather than an alternative to this long-term, France and Britain in issuing
a breakthrough between Israeli comprehensive,
full-blown a stern warning to Iran as they
and Palestinian leaders, Obama counterinsurgency
strategy accused it of working in secret
will have his Middle East en- which (McChrystal) has laid to build a uranium enrichWA S H I N GT O N - - U . S . voy, George Mitchell, carry on out?” Democratic Senator Di- ment plant near the holy city
Defense Secretary Robert on negotiating and Secretary anne Feinstein asked on “Fox of Qom.
Gates said diplomacy and
sanctions rather than military action are the way to
persuade Iran to change
its nuclear program as divisions emerge in the Iranian
leadership.
Iran’s nuclear dispute with
the West intensified last
week after Tehran disclosed
that it is building a second
uranium enrichment plant.
“While you don’t take options off the table, I think
there’s still room left for
diplomacy,” Gates said on
CNN’s Sunday program
“State of the Union”. The
Pentagon chief said military
force would only gain time
but not convince Iranians
to abandon their quest for
nuclear weapons.
Gates said the secrecy with
which Iran had been building the underground nuclear facility behind the back of William Safire receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President George W.
the international communi- Bush (R) in the East Room of the White House in Washington, December 15, 2006.
ty put Tehran in a weak position. “The Iranians are in
a very bad spot now because
of this deception, in terms
of all of the great powers,”
Gates said. “There obviously is the opportunity for
severe additional sanctions.
the board that awards the House speechwriting team in
I think we have the time to NEW YORK--William Safire,
the former speechwriter for Pulitzer, and retired from his 1968. He was credited with
make that work.”
Richard Nixon who won a Pu- twice-weekly political column coining the phrases “natterIran, which says its nuclear
litzer Prize writing columns on in 2005. Safire’s last column for ing nabobs of negativism” and
program is for electricity
hypochondriacs
politics and language for The the newspaper appeared just “hysterical
generation and not weapons
of history,” used by then-Vice
New York Times, died on Sun- two weeks ago.
production, will meet the day, the newspaper said. He
Times publisher Arthur Sul- President Spiro Agnew to deUnited States and five other was 79.
zberger Jr. said in a statement scribe the U.S. media.
powers in Geneva for talks
Safire was married and had
Safire died at a hospice in that Safire would be greatly
on Thursday. U.S. Secretary Rockville, Maryland, after suf- missed. “For decades, Bill’s col- two children. He wrote several
of State Hillary Clinton said fering from pancreatic cancer, umns on The Times’s Op-Ed novels including the bestseller
Iran must present “convinc- spokeswoman Diane McNulty Page and in our Sunday Maga- “Full Disclosure”, as well as
ing evidence” at that meet- said.
zine delighted our readers with several nonfiction books on
ing.
Safire, known for his conserva- his insightful political commen- politics and language.
“We are going to put them tive voice on The Times’ mostly tary, his thoughtful analysis of
A New York City native, he
to the test on Oct. 1,” Clin- liberal opinion pages, received our national discourse and, of was popular even with readers
ton told CBS’ “Face the a Pulitzer for commentary in course, his wonderful sermons who took issue with his conNation” in an interview 1978. In 1979 he began writing on the use and abuse of lan- servative political views in part
broadcast Sunday. “They the newspaper’s On Language guage,” he said.
because he enthusiastically
Before joining The Times in engaged them and solicited
can open their entire system column, in which he examined
to the kind of extensive in- the origins of words and phras- 1973, Safire worked in politi- contributions and input on the
cally oriented public relations origins and foibles of modern
vestigation that the facts call es and their proper usage.
He served for a decade on and joined the Nixon White language.
for.”
US/World
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The disclosure of the plant
and new signs from Russia that
it might support sanctions bolstered Obama’s foreign-policy
credentials. He also held an
extensive discussion on Iran
with Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev on the sidelines of
last week’s U.N. General Assembly meeting.
“It’s clearly not good for the
Iranians,” Perkovich said. “It
puts them under more pressure.”
Just before the U.N. meeting, Obama announced he
would scrap Bush administration plans for a missile defense
shield in eastern Europe and
replace them with another plan
less irritating to Moscow. The
administration insisted there
was no quid pro quo between
the missile shield decision and
Russia’s new tougher stance on
Iran but analysts said Obama’s
move increased the chances of
Moscow’s cooperation.
The sanctions which might
be imposed on Iran could be
sharply influenced by the disclosure of the Qom facility,
said Anthony Cordesman, a
military analyst at the Center
for Strategic and International
Studies. Crediting Obama for
his handling of the Iran issue,
Cordesman added: “It is striking that he does not close off
his options and he certainly has
not over-reacted.”
Cordesman, who served on a
panel that advised McChrystal’s Afghanistan assessment,
criticized Obama on that issue,
saying that he was “running out
of time” to deliberate a crisis
that had festered under his
predecessor Bush.
“The president came to office
(in January) in a crisis and this
is now September and it will
soon be October,” Cordesman
said. “There are times you can’t
keep studying the problem.”
White House National Security Adviser James Jones told the
Washington Post that Obama
planned at least five intensive meetings on Afghanistan
over the coming weeks, with
the first starting on Tuesday.
The meetings will begin with
an assumption McChrystal’s
strategy is correct and there
will be a “freewheeling” discussion with nothing off the table,
Jones said.
Republican Senator John
McCain, who lost to Obama
in the November 2008 presidential election, agreed with
Cordesman that time was of
the essence and said he spoke
to Obama on Saturday about
his view that more troops were
needed. “I sympathize with
the president. The base of his
(Democratic) party, the left
base of his party, is opposed,”
McCain said. “People are
weary of this conflict ... It’s the
toughest decision a president
has to make.”
WASHINGTON--U.S.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates
acknowledged in an interview
broadcast on Sunday that it
would be difficult to meet the
Obama administration’s Jan.
22 deadline for closing the
Guantanamo detention camp.
Asked directly whether that
deadline would be met, Gates
told ABC’s “This Week” program, “It’s going to be tough.”
Recent reports have suggested the administration may not
meet the deadline because of
legal, political and diplomatic
issues involving the detainees
at the controversial prison at a
U.S. naval base in Cuba. There
are still some 223 detainees at
the facility set up by the Bush
administration in 2002 to hold
foreign terrorism suspects captured after U.S.-led forces invaded Afghanistan.
Some detainees are expected
to be transferred abroad while
others could face charges in
U.S. military tribunals or in
American courtrooms. The
Justice Department said on
Saturday three detainees had
been sent to Ireland and Yemen.
Gates said, “I actually was one
of those who said we should
(set a deadline) because I know
enough from being around this
town that if you don’t put a
deadline on something, you’ll
never move the bureaucracy.”
“But I also said and then if we
find we can’t get it done by that
time but we have a good plan,
then you’re in a position to say
it’s going to take us a little longer but we are moving in the
direction of implementing the
policy that the president set,”
he said.
An administration official
said on Saturday the White
House was close to selecting a
location on U.S. soil to house
some detainees. “We are doing everything we can to close
it by the (January) date,” the
official said, adding, “We are
in the final stages of locating a
secure facility in the U.S. where
detainees can be held.”
Republicans have criticized
Obama for wanting to close
Guantanamo since it is already
set up for detention and trials.
Most Democrats have backed
the overall plan to close Guantanamo, pointing to international criticism of the detention
camp and concerns the prison
has provided a rallying cry to
militant groups like al Qaeda.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
On Wednesday October 14th, 2009, at 10 AM, at the Pasanggrahan Beach Hotel, Frontstreet, Sint
Maarten, H. Parisius civil law notary on Sint Maarten, shall proceed with the public sale ex article
3:268 of the Civil Code of the Netherlands Antilles of the hereinafter mentioned 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-addresses, as well as
electronically at
www.notarysps.com
The properties to be auctioned are the following:
1. a parcel of land, having an area of five hundred and fifty-two square meters (552m2), situated
in the district of Lower Prince’s Quarter, on the island of Sint Maarten, described in certificate of
admeasurement number 333/1996, with the thereon standing apartment building and all appurtenances belonging thereto.
Reserve price US$ 220,000.--.
2. a parcel of land with an area by computation of EIGHT HUNDRED AND THREE SQUARE
METERS (803M2), situated on the Island of Sint Maarten in the district of Cul de Sac, known as
part of lot 25E of the plotplan Webster/Neuss with an original area of One Thousand Six Hundred
and Four Square Meters (1604M2), and described further in certificate of admeasurement 55 of
nineteenhundred and eighty-four (55/1984), less the adjacent parcel of land with an area of Eight
Hundred and One Square Meters (801M2), further described in Certificate of Admeasurement
number 307 of two thousand and five (307/2005).
Reserve price US$ 85,000.--.
3. A parcel of land, having an area of Two Thousand Square Meters (2000M2), situated at Madame Estate, in the district of Lower Princes Quarter, further described in Certificate of Admeasurement 33 of nineteen hundred and ninety-six (33/1996).
Reserve price US$ 225,000.--.
4. two parcels of land, situated in the district of Cole Bay, known as lots A-6 and A-7 of the
subdivision of A.R. Fleming, respectively having an area of 998 square meters and 997 square
meters, described in certificate of admeasurement numbers 420/1990 and 421/1990, with the
thereon standing apartment building and all appurtenances belonging thereto, locally known as
Celsius Drive #37.
Reserve price US$ 1,227,500,--.
5. a. a parcel of land, having an area of one thousand one hundred and ninety-four square meters
(1,194m2), situated near the Welfare Road at Billy Folly in the district of Cole Bay, on the island of
Sint Maarten, described in certificate of admeasurement number 193/1995;
b. a parcel of land, having an area of nine hundred and sixty-six square meters (966m2), situated
adjacent to the parcel of land described under A., described in certificate of admeasurement
number 133/1996.
Reserve price US$.182,500,-6. a parcel of land, having an area of five hundred square meters (500m2), situated in the district
of Upper Princes Quarter, on the island of Sint Maarten, described in certificate of admeasurement number 260/1993, with the thereon standing dwelling house and all appurtenances belonging thereto.
Reserve price US$ 445,000.--.
7. a parcel of land, having an area of one hundred and ninety-two square meters (192m2),
situated in the district of Cole Bay, on the island of Sint Maarten, described in certificate of
admeasurement number 3/1999, with the thereon standing dwelling house and all appurtenances
belonging thereto.
Reserve price US$ 55,000.--.
8. the right of longlease till June tenth, two thousand and thirty (June 10th, 2030) on a parcel
of land having an area of ONETHOUSAND TWOHUNDRED AND TWENTY SQUARE METERS
(1.220M2), situated in the district of Cul de Sac, known as lot D-10 of Saunders on Sint Maarten,
further described in certificate of admeasurement number 47/1970, with the thereonstanding
dwellinghouse and all appurtenances thereto,
Reserve price US$ 240,000.--.
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 aforementioned civil law notary up to and including Wednesday
September 30th, 2009.
The auction will take place by raising bids (in Dutch: “bij opbod”) and by decreasing bids (in
Dutch: “bij afmijning”), in one session. Seller has the right to not accept any bid, also without
stating reasons.
All costs for the auction will be paid by the Buyer, which costs include:
Transfer Tax (4% of the purchase price), the registration fees (Kadaster), the outstanding long
lease rent (erfpachtscanon), if any, the outstanding dues to the Association of Apartment Owners,
if any, fees for execution of the necessary notarial deeds, other auction costs (rent of auction
room, marshal fees, cancellation of liens and mortgages, advertisements), and the costs to have
the property vacated, if necessary.
Producing of a bank-guarantee from a reputable bank in the Netherlands Antilles 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 offices of
NOTARY OFFICE SPS at Front Street 5, Philipsburg, Sint Maarten, tel. 599 5422339, Fax 599
5422439 or at Welfare Drive 6, Cole Bay, Sint Maarten, tel. 599 5442339, Fax 599 5442334
International
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
BERLIN--German voters
gave Chancellor Angela
Merkel a second term on
Sunday and a mandate
to partner with the probusiness Free Democrats
(FDP) in a government
that will rein in the role of
the state in Europe’s largest economy.
Merkel, 55, has ruled for
the past four years in a
“grand coalition” with the
centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), an awkward
partnership of traditional
rivals. The election result
frees her from the shackles
of that marriage of convenience, allowing her to
form the centre-right government she has argued is
best placed to nurture Germany back to health after
its worst recession in the
post-war era.
Merkel, who narrowly
squeezed into power in
2005, appeared relieved
at her clear-cut victory in
an election which pollsters
had predicted could again
be a cliffhanger. “What
counts for me is that we got
a change in the shape of the
government,” she told supporters who chanted “Angie, Angie” as she strode
up to the stage at her party
headquarters, wearing a
bright red suit.
“We can really celebrate
tonight, but afterwards
we have a hard job ahead
of us,” she added, vowing
to be a chancellor for “all
Germans”.
The next government faces
major economic challenges.
It will have to get a surging
budget deficit under control, cope with rising unemployment and ward off
a credit crunch as fragile
banks rein in lending.
Together with the FDP,
Merkel is expected to look
for opportunities to reduce
taxes, sell off state holdings in companies like rail
operator Deutsche Bahn,
and reverse an SPD-or-
Angela Merkel, German Chancellor and leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) waves after
first exit polls in the German general election (Bundestagswahl) at party headquarters in Berlin on Sunday.
chestrated phase-out of
Germany’s nuclear power
plants. But the partners,
which last ruled Germany
between 1982 and 1998
when Helmut Kohl was
chancellor, will also have
to overcome differences on
the size and timing of tax
cuts in tough coalition talks
over the coming weeks.
Given the budget constraints facing the new government, it may have to put
off some of its more ambitious fiscal plans until next
year or beyond. “The new
government will face some
of the most difficult challenges we’ve seen over the
last 50 years,” said Andreas
Rees, an economist at Unicredit.
The vote took place against
a backdrop of heightened
security after al Qaeda issued several videos last
week threatening to punish
Germany if voters backed a
government that kept German troops in Afghanistan.
Projections from ARD
and ZDF public television
showed Merkel’s conservative bloc--the Christian
Democratic Union (CDU)
and the Bavarian Christian
Social Union (CSU)--on
33.8 percent, down from
a score of 35.2 percent in
2005, and their secondworst result in the post-war
era.
But the FDP, a party which
saw its support rise in the
wake of the financial crisis, compensated for those
losses, surging to 14.5 percent, its best score ever,
and putting the centre-right
over the top.
The SPD, which has been
in government for over a
decade, was the big loser
in the election and will
join the environmentalist
Greens and Left party in
opposition after plummet-
ing over 11 points to 23.1
percent, its worst result
since the war. Merkel’s
SPD challenger Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who served
as her foreign minister for
the past four years, called it
a “bitter defeat”.
Projections showed the
Greens on 10.1 percent and
the Left on 12.5 percent.
Germany’s first woman
chancellor and the first
to have grown up in the
former communist east,
Merkel ran a cautious campaign that steered clear of
the bold economic reform
plans she advocated before
the 2005 vote and sought to
leverage her high personal
popularity ratings. Despite
criticism for her slow reaction to the financial crisis,
consensus-hungry Germans
have welcomed her steady,
low-key style. Unlike voters in Japan and the United States, they showed no
signs they wanted a change
of leadership.
She now faces a long list of
challenges that will test her
Lawyers for beauty queen
Svetlana Karamova, 17,
say she was gang-raped by
police who snatched her
in broad daylight before
dumping her body with a
burst liver and broken ribs
near her home in Bashkortostan some 1,160 km (720
miles) east of Moscow.
“They (the authorities)
should be ashamed that we
live in this so-called society. I don’t even feel like a
citizen,” her mother Olga
told Reuters, choking back
tears.
She added that the Euro-
pean court offered a minute
chance at any recognition
of their ordeal, though the
mothers also fear eye-witnesses will be too scared to
speak out.
Suspects were briefly detained for the murders
committed seven years ago
but no one has been convicted, leaving their killers
still at large despite letters
to then-president and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin from activists and
the families.
Investigators in the oilproducing and processing
region, where both girls
were killed, could not be
reached for comment. Police will not comment on
how the girls died.
A spokeswoman for the
European court said Karamova’s case had been registered but a decision on
whether or not it will be investigated is pending. Seen
as a last shot at justice, the
influential European court
is becoming increasingly
more popular in Russia,
which had the largest number of accepted cases last
year at 8,161.
MOSCOW--The mothers
of two Russian teenage girls
who they say were raped and
murdered by men connected to authorities said late
last week they had lodged
appeals with Europe’s human rights court.
Legal advisers say the attention of the France-based
court underscores Russia’s
inability to solve such
crimes at home and they
are hoping it will encourage
others to come forward in a
country where rights groups
say many such crimes go
unpunished.
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Guido Westerwelle (R) leader of the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) and his partner Michael Mronz celebrate at the FDP venue after the German general election (Bundestagswahl) in Berlin on Sunday.
new coalition. The future
of 25,000 German workers
at carmaker Opel is riding
on Berlin’s ability to push
through a sale of the General Motors unit to Canadian car parts group Magna.
Within months of taking
power, the new government will have to renew a
parliamentary mandate for
German participation in
the unpopular NATO-led
mission in Afghanistan in
the face of a more powerful leftist opposition. “The
result means that we will
see more confrontation at
the federal level because
the SPD will move to the
left,” said Uwe Andersen,
a political scientist at the
University of Bochum.
MADRID--Basque
separatist rebels ETA would be
prepared to call a ceasefire
if the Spanish government
allowed a referendum on
independence in the Basque
Country, the group said in a
communique on Sunday.
But the rebels said they
did not expect a positive response to the offer published,
in extract form, by Basque
nationalist newspaper Gara
(http://www.gara.net/).
“We will keep on bearing
arms so long as the enemies
of Euskal Herria continue
their repression and denials,”
said ETA, using the Basque
language term for the lands
traditionally inhabited by
Basque speakers spanning
the Pyrenees of northern
Spain and southern France.
Spain’s Socialist Prime
Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who tried but
failed to negotiate with the
rebels during a ceasefire that
lasted nine months in 2006,
now says the only option for
ETA is unilateral surrender
and has vowed to jail all its
members.
In its communique, ETA
asked the Spanish government whether it would allow a vote on independence,
something which polls show
a majority of Basques would
favour in some form. “If
ETA’s arms were silenced,
would they be prepared to
respect the decision of the
majority of the Basque people, if they opted for independence?”
The government made no
immediate response, but
Spain’s big political parties
have made it very clear they
would oppose any vote on
Basque independence. The
banned rebel group, which
has the support of a minority of people in the Spanish Basque Country, last
attacked in late July, with
bombs in the northern city of
Burgos and on the island of
Majorca, where it killed two
police officers.
ETA, whose complete
name Euskadi ta Askatasuna
means Basque Homeland
and Freedom, was founded
50 years ago during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco and has killed more than
800 people. Security forces
believe it has been substantially weakened by hundreds
of arrests in recent years in
France and Spain but that it
is still capable of fighting.
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International
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
LONDON--British Prime
Minister Gordon Brown
said on Sunday he would
not “roll over” before the
next election, which polls
suggest he will lose badly,
and dismissed gossip that
his health was too poor to
fight a strong campaign.
Speaking at the start of
his Labour Party’s annual conference, Brown
rejected finance minister
Alistair Darling’s comment that the party appeared to have “lost the
will to live”, and said the
government was working
hard to revive Britain’s
economy.
“This party has had to
fight for everything it has
got, I have had to fight in
my life,” he told the BBC.
“A setback can either be
a challenge that means
it’s an opportunity to do
something better or you
roll over. I do not roll
over.”
Trailing in opinion polls
before an election due
by June 2010, Brown appealed to voters to remember his global leadership during the economic
crisis and said a victory for
the opposition Conservatives would lead to blanket spending cuts. “We are
now coming out of recession as a result of the actions that we have taken,”
Brown said.
The centre-left party
which has ruled Britain
since Tony Blair swept to
office in 1997 has been
shaken by the worst reces-
sion in decades, a scandal
over politicians’ expenses
and internal doubts over
the choice of Brown as
leader. Asked about political gossip that he was taking prescription painkillers or other pills to help
him cope with the strains
of the job, Brown replied:
“No.”
“I feel that I have done
everything to show people
that I can do the job even
with the handicap that
I have had as a result of
a rugby injury,” he said.
Brown lost the sight of
one eye after an accident
playing rugby as a teenager and had a series of operations to save his other
eye.
With Labour activists
meeting in the southern
coastal town of Brighton
for one of the most important conferences in years,
two polls suggested Brown
would have a tough time
persuading voters to give
his party an historic fourth
successive term.
An ICM poll in the News
of the World newspaper
gave the Conservatives a
14-point lead over Labour,
broadly in line with other
recent surveys. Asked
who would make a better
prime minister, 43 percent
of those questioned chose
Conservative leader David
Cameron, with only onefifth picking Brown.
The Conservatives were
on 40 percent, Labour on
26 percent and the Liberal
Democrats on 23 percent.
A second poll in the Mail
on Sunday gave the Conservatives a 15-point lead.
Brown, a former finance
minister who replaced
Blair as prime minister in
2007, acknowledged the
scale of his task in the
foreword to a policy document issued by his office
on Saturday. “We know
this will be the fight of our
lives,” he wrote.
The Conservatives’ finance spokesman, George
Osborne, attacked Brown
for “reinventing himself
as the guardian of the nation’s finances after doubling the national debt”.
“It is the latest attempt to
treat the public like fools,”
Osborne said.
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Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown gestures on stage during the annual Labour Party
Conference in Brighton, south England on Sunday.
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International
An Iranian Tondar missile is launched during a test at an unknown location in central Iran on
Sunday.
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
TEHRAN--Iran test-fired
missiles on Sunday to show
it was prepared to head off
any military threat, four
days before the Islamic Republic is due to hold rare
talks with world powers
worried about its nuclear
ambitions.
The missile manoeuvres
coincide with escalating
tension in Iran’s nuclear
row with the West, after last
week’s disclosure by Tehran
that it is building a second
uranium enrichment plant.
News of the nuclear facility south of Tehran added
a sense of urgency to a cru-
cial meeting in Geneva on
Thursday between Iranian
officials and representatives
of six major powers, including the United States.
Iran will be put “to the
test” in Geneva and a move
to sanctions would follow if
the talks failed, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told CBS. An Iranian
official warned “fabricated
Western clamour” over the
new plant would negatively
affect the talks at which
the six powers want Iran
to agree to open its facilities to inspection to prove
its programme is for power
and not nuclear weapons.
Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s
envoy to the U.N.’s nuclear
watchdog, said, referring to
Western condemnation of
the plant: “This approach
will have a negative impact
on Iran’s negotiations with
the 5+1 countries.”
He has said Iran is arranging International Atomic
Energy Agency inspections
of the plant “in the very
near future”.
U.S. President Barack
Obama said on Saturday
the discovery of the secret nuclear plant in Iran
showed a “disturbing pattern” of evasion by Tehran.
He warned Iran on Friday
it would face “sanctions
that bite” if it did not come
clean.
Earlier this month, Obama
dropped a Bush-era plan to
deploy missiles in Poland
that had been proposed as
a shield amid concerns Iran
was trying to develop nuclear warheads it could mount
on long-range missiles.
Iranian media said Revolutionary Guards launched
at least two types of shortrange missiles on the exercise’s first day on Sunday
in central Iran and tested a
multiple missile launcher.
“For all those who might
harbour dreams about
undertaking military invasion against our nation
and country, a message of
this manoeuvre is firmness,
destructiveness, real and
endless resistance,” Iranian
General Hossein Salami,
head of the Guards’ air
force, told state television.
Iranian media said medium-range Shahab 1 and 2
missiles, which officials say
have a range of 300 and 500
km respectively, would be
test-fired on Sunday evening. State radio said the
Guards on Monday would
test-fire the Shahab 3 missile, which Iranian officials
say has a range of around
2,000 km, potentially putting Israel and U.S. bases
in the Gulf within reach. It
was last tested in mid-2008.
GAZA--Leaders of the Islamist Hamas group will
resume talks with Egyptian
officials this week on proposals for reconciliation
with the rival Palestinian
Fatah group of President
Mahmoud Abbas, officials
said.
Egypt has been mediating
for over a year to heal the
split in the Palestinian national movement, ahead of
presidential and parliamentary elections slated for next
year. Unity would boost
Abbas in peacemaking with
Israel--which Hamas refuses to recognise.
Hamas spokesman Sami
Abu Zuhri said a delegation from the Gaza Strip,
which Hamas seized from
Fatah in 2007, would be led
by the group’s chief Khaled
Meshaal, who is based in
Damascus. He said talks
would begin on Monday.
“We are interested in ending divisions and reaching
a reconciliation,” said Abu
Zuhri, declining to outline
his group’s final position.
Abbas has visited Cairo
recently and discussed the
reconciliation proposal with
Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak. Egypt last week
proposed delaying Palestinian elections to allow more
time to work out a powersharing deal between the
two rival groups. Election
are legally due on Jan. 25,
2010 but no firm date has
ever been published for the
next ballot.
One senior Fatah official
said his movement would
accept a delay, though
others said that would be
conditional on a deal with
Hamas by the end of October. Fatah’s acceptance of
the delay puts the onus on
Hamas, which won the 2006
parliamentary election.
A dispute over the mutual detention of hundreds
of supporters by the two
groups has blocked progress in the talks.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
BALLINA, Ireland--Ireland’s cities are festooned
with posters for and against
a treaty to reform the EU,
but in the countryside the
battle is waged at farm
shows and churches.
“No” vote and “yes” vote
campaigners dash from
parish to parish and muck
about in fields crammed
with farm machinery hoping to have a word with a parishioner here and a farmer
there, to whittle down the
remaining
undecideds.
In the western county of
Mayo, a religiously conservative and heavily agricultural constituency which
voted two thirds against the
treaty last year, activists are
out in force for a vote next
Friday which will have repercussions across Europe.
“The difference last time
was that we ran a much
stronger campaign,” said
Sean McKenna of Coir,
or Justice, a non-profit organisation which claims
the treaty would attack Ireland’s low tax regime, decimate the minimum wage
and open the door to abortion in this deeply Catholic
country.
“They (the `yes’ side) are
out and about a lot more
now,” he added, outflanked
by pro-treaty supporters
at the gates of early morning mass in the small north
Mayo town of Crossmolina.
Last year, Ireland’s main
political parties waged a
lacklustre and complacent
campaign, and the electorate responded by ditching
the treaty, thereby shelving the European Union’s
foreign policy ambitions.
“We’re much more concentrated and much more
focused this time. We have
to be. We learned our lesson,” said Dara Calleary, a
local member of parliament
and junior minister for the
deeply unpopular governing Fianna Fail party.
He has redoubled his efforts, hurrying through narrow country lanes to chase
votes at three more churches. He would have made
it to five had the priest’s
homily in the tiny village of
Keenagh not been so thorough.
In Good Conscience
The treaty’s downfall last
year was heavily influenced
by a lack of clear information about what the charter
entailed, as well as misconceptions that it would mean
Ireland losing control over
taxation, military neutrality
and strict abortion laws.
“People’s lack of confidence in their understanding was more likely to occur
in, broadly speaking, midlands and western seaboard
areas with the exception
of Galway,” Richard Sinnott, politics professor at
University College Dublin,
said.
The government is hoping
concessions wrested from
Brussels to clear up confusions--combined with fear
of economic isolation in
the event of a second “no”-will swing opinion on Oct.
2. “We’re bad enough now
and I wouldn’t like to take
any risks so I’ll be giving a
pragmatic `yes’,” said retired Ballina-based teacher
Sean Burke, 71, whose
hesitant initial support has
been hardened owing to the
greatly changed economic
climate.
“I don’t know much about
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right-wing pro-life group
Youth Defense, is arguing
that the treaty will give the
European Court of Justice
the right to rule on abortion
and is running a provocative campaign with posters
featuring foetuses.
Another group, Eire go
Brach, ran ads in a Catholic
newspaper warning that the
EU could seize elderly peoples’ savings and homes and
take children from people
who suffer from mild forms
of alcoholism or depression
if Lisbon is passed.
The Catholic Church has
issued a statement saying the treaty would not
sanction abortion but it
has declined to endorse a
“yes” vote, leaving followers to vote their conscience.
“Abortion is very big on my
agenda,” said Sean Moran,
40, an unemployed car-industry worker from Keenagh. “I strongly believe
that if we do vote `yes’ that
sooner or later abortion
will come into this country.
If me voting `no’ can stop
that, then I will.”
Joe O’Malley and his sheep dog Floss check on his sheep
grazing on the common land on Clare Island, County Mayo,
Ireland September 23, 2009.
the Lisbon Treaty but we’re
a long time in Europe and
there’s no going back,”
agreed Roisin Mullen,
an elderly parishioner in
Crossmolina.
Surveys suggest Ireland
will comfortably ratify the
charter, triggering its introduction across the 27member bloc. But some
Catholics remain deeply
suspicious.
Coir, which has links to
Frustrated Farmers
In the cities, Coir’s campaign is notable for targeting working class voters
with eye-catching posters
controversially
warning
that the treaty will slash the
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Irish minimum wage to 1.84
euros an hour from 8.65 euros.
Economists have dismissed the claim and the
government has slammed
the posters as untruthful
scaremongering but in the
countryside Coir is trying to
capitalise on farming woes,
saying rural workers have
been “milked dry” by the
EU. “Farmers are in a very,
very difficult place and I
think they’re going to take
some of that frustration
out in the vote,” Calleary
warned, referring to plummeting dairy prices and
other problems afflicting
Irish agriculture.
However, the 85,000strong Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has thrown its
support behind the treaty
with greater force and a recent Farmers Journal/Red
C poll showed 69 percent of
its members will vote “yes”
with only 15 percent voting
“no”.
“Most farmers are for it.
My impression from my
parish would be that a lot
of people understand it better,” Tom O’Byrne, a priest
from Laois with a farming
background, said at the National Ploughing Championship. “I’d expect it to get
through.”
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JERUSALEM--Palestinian leaders warned Israel
on Sunday not to stoke
tension in Jerusalem in
the hope of thwarting
peace talks, after clashes
at a sacred site in which
Palestinians and Israeli
police were injured.
“At a time when (U.S.)
President
(Barack)
Obama is trying to bridge
the divide between Palestinians and Israelis, and
to get negotiations back
on track, Israel is deliberately escalating tensions
in Jerusalem,” chief peace
negotiator Saeb Erakat
said.
“We’ve seen this before, and we know what
the consequences are,”
the Palestinian minister
added, in a statement that
recalled the visit of then
Israeli opposition leader
Ariel Sharon to the site
in Jerusalem’s Old City in
2000. Sharon’s presence at
al-Aqsa mosque, the third
holiest site in Islam, triggered the second Palestinian uprising and dealt the
biggest setback to peace
efforts in years.
The reasons behind Sunday’s clash were disputed.
According to legislator
Hathem Abdel Kader and
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
other Palestinian sources,
the clash erupted in the
early morning when Palestinians inside the complex--sacred to both Islam
and Judaism--saw a group
of 15 religious Jews trying
to enter.
The Jews never managed
to get into the complex,
because several hundred
Palestinians, who were on
alert for such a possibility, began a loud protest.
Israeli police responded
with tear gas then stun
grenades.
The clash occurred hours
before the start of Yom
Kippur, the solemn “Day
Israeli border police officers prevent a Palestinian man from entering a compound known to
Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday.
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the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Police were
on alert for violent pro-
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where Jews and Arabs live
side by side.
Protesters threw stones,
chairs and whatever they
could lay hands on as riot
police rushed to the scene.
Video showed them trying
to drive police away from
the doorway of the al-Aqsa
mosque, but there was no
sign that police entered it.
Police said 17 officers
were hurt and 11 rioters arrested, and medics
said 13 Palestinians were
treated for injuries. There
were no reports of serious
injury or death.
Israeli police said it began when religious Palestinians angered by immodestly dressed tourists
grew violent. Palestinians
dismissed that account,
saying no tourists were
involved. There was no
further comment from
Israeli authorities, who
were observing the Yom
Kippur silence.
“Providing a police escort for settlers who are
against peace at all costs,
and whose presence is
deliberately designed to
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peace, but of someone
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hopes of peace,” Erakat
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Palestinians and the resulting uprising rapidly
escalated, with numerous
suicide bomb attacks on
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THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
ISTANBUL--Old Istanbul’s
bath houses hosted scheming
Pashas and shapely concubines before modern bathrooms sent them into decline,
but their appeal to tourists
and the growth of the spa industry promise a revival.
Developers are spending
millions of dollars buying
and restoring Istanbul’s finest
hammams, or steam baths,
after decades of neglect.
They are banking on rising
tourist numbers and a surge
of interest among Turks in
Ottoman customs.
“There is a good future
for hammams. People have
realised they are a strong
business and there is a lot of
interest in buying or managing them,” said Aydin Bulut,
manager of the Suleymaniye
hammam. His bath was built
in 1557 by Mimar Sinan,
the prolific architect behind
Istanbul’s most celebrated
structures.
Price tags are high. Istanbul’s Cagaloglu Hammam-built in 1741 and boasting
Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm
II and Florence Nightingale
among visitors--is on sale
for $16 million according to
estate agents Remax Turkey.
The smaller Ayakapi hammam, also built by Sinan but
not currently used as a bath,
is for sale for $3 million, they
said.
The success of the handful
of tourist-focused historic
baths including the Cagaloglu, where a scrub and
massage can cost up to $55,
has persuaded developers
of the business potential of
Istanbul’s dozens of other
hammams. Tourists are keen
to experience them, their
imaginations fuelled by tales
of the sensuous Orient. Turkey had 26.3 million visitors
in 2008 and aims to attract
an annual 63 million by 2023
with a programme to boost
infrastructure and market
TEGUCIGALPA--The
de
facto government of Honduras denied entry on Sunday to an Organization of
American States delegation
and threatened to close Brazil’s embassy, where ousted
President Manuel Zelaya has
taken refuge.
The group of OAS officials
had hoped to help broker a
solution to Honduras’ political crisis but was turned back
at Tegucigalpa’s international
airport, a move likely to further isolate the government
headed by Roberto Micheletti.
Hours earlier, Brazilian
new destinations and vacation themes, including health
and wellness.
Ottoman Revival
Foreigners’ eagerness to visit
centuries-old hammams has
helped reignite Turks’ interest, which declined decades
ago with the availability
of hot water at home, said
Nurhan Atasoy, resident
scholar of the Turkish Cultural Foundation.
“When I hear my foreign
friends wanting to go to hammams and talking about their
experiences I envy them. I
think I ought to look into it
again,” said the 75-year-old,
who went to hammams as a
child with her mother before
switching to showers.
The baths’ revival reflects a
wider pattern of resurgent interest in Ottoman life in Turkey, a state founded in 1923
after the chaotic collapse of
the Ottoman Empire. In its
early decades it emphasised
modernity and break with
tradition.
“Since the 1980s everything
Ottoman has been in vogue,”
said Nina Ergin, an Ottoman
expert at Istanbul’s Koc University. “At first the revival
was orientated to tourists,
but then people started to
realise the value of Ottoman artefacts and traditions
and wanted to find out more
about their own past.”
For example, scores of tourists and Turks alike now puff
on waterpipes, or nargiles,
which were once deemed
obsolete due to the development of the cigarette. Interest in hammams also dovetails with a rising “spa and
wellness” trend in Turkey,
Ergin added.
“A lot of people are realising that with hammams they
have these really old, beautiful wellness centres already
in their country, and are
thinking `why don’t we go to
President Luiz Inacio Lula
da Silva said he would ignore
a 10-day deadline set by Micheletti to decide what to do
with Zelaya, who is holed up
with his family and some supporters in Brazil’s embassy in
the capital. “Brazil will not
comply with an ultimatum
from a government of coup
mongers,” Lula told reporters at a summit of African
and South American leaders
in Venezuela.
Lula also demanded an
apology from Micheletti, who
issued a harsh statement late
on Saturday warning that his
government would be forced
A Dutch tourist rests before a Turkish bath at the historical Galatasaray hamam in Istanbul
on Sunday.
them?’,” she said.
No official figures are available for the value of the spa
and hammam industry but
Zeki Karagulle the director
of Turkey’s Spa Association
said visitor numbers were increasing.
bliss on their faces speaks for
itself.
“I think hammams could
be fashionable again within
a very short period if they
are nicely run,” said 33-yearold entrepreneur Ergin Iren.
“Tourists would come first,
but then Turks would come
too.”
He had never been to a
traditional hammam until a
friend showed him a disused
bath for sale in Istanbul’s old
city. “He thought of turning it
into a disco. I felt so sad about
this it started me thinking
about old hammams. I read
up on the history, how they
worked, and then dreamed
of buying one.”
In 2005 Iren got his chance,
buying a bath house built
in the 1580s by Sinan. Scaffolding now surrounds the
Kilic Ali Pasa hammam in
Tophane by the Bosphorus.
Iren hopes it will open in
2010 as an exclusive, likely
reservation-only hammam.
Stone Domes
Hammams are recognisable
by their thick stone walls,
domed roofs and series of
cupolas. Once inside, visitors
relax in a hot, humid marble
chamber lit by shafts of light
from above, and allow the
moisture to soften and penetrate their skin.
An attendant swathed in a
traditional chequered sheet,
called a pestemal, then
scrubs the body vigorously
with an abrasive cloth--removing dead skin and leaving
the layer beneath so smooth
it gleams. An invigorating
dousing with water follows,
and visitors are left to stretch
out on the hot marble stone
at the centre of the chamber, heated from beneath by Social Importance
air circulating from a wood- The hammam tradition deburning furnace. The look of veloped in Muslim countries
to take action if Brazil does
not define Zelaya’s status
soon.
Zelaya was overthrown in
a military coup on June 28,
but on Monday he returned
from exile, sparking a tense
standoff with the de facto
civilian government that has
promised to arrest him on
charges of treason. Brazil
has said Zelaya can stay as
long as necessary, but Micheletti told the South American
heavyweight to either grant
the deposed leftist political
asylum or hand him over to
Honduran authorities to be
prosecuted.
“We urge the Brazilian government to define the status
of Mr. Zelaya in a period of
no more than 10 days,” the
government said in a statement. “If not, we will be
obliged to take additional
measures.”
Carlos Lopez, the de facto
government’s foreign minister, said Brazil would lose
its right to have an embassy
in Honduras if it ignores the
deadline. But he stressed
that the government would
respect the sovereignty of the
compound and has no plans
to storm the building to arrest Zelaya.
where Islam emphasised
cleanliness and washing, but
independently they fulfilled
an important social function,
with men and women spending hours inside gossiping
and relaxing.
Sometimes, as in the case of
the Kilic Ali Pasa hammam,
they were part of a mosque
LA PAZ--Indigenous groups
and coca leaf farmers clashed
over control of land in a national park in northern Bolivia, killing one person, local
media reported on Sunday.
Indian groups that have land
rights in the remote Isiboro
National Park in Beni have
long complained that hundreds
of coca leaf growers have been
clearing forests inside their
territory to grow coca, the raw
material for cocaine.
“As a result of the clashes between Yuracare Indians and
the illegal settlers that are illegally growing coca in their territory, a person was killed, presumably an Indian, and three
more were injured,” deputy
interior minister Marcos Farfan was reported as saying by
state news agency ABI.
Farfan said that the person
killed, as well as some of the
injured, have bullet wounds
and that the government has
sent police to the area to prevent further violence.
The coca leaf is legal in Bolivia, where Indians in the Andean highlands chew it to ward
of the effects of altitude and as
a mild stimulant. Cocaine is illegal in the country, but Bolivia is the third largest producer
of cocaine in the world, after
Colombia and Peru. Both the
United States and the United
Nations have reported that in
2008 coca leaf cultivation increased slightly in Bolivia.
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complex, hence their magnificent architecture: they were
intended to provide an income source to the religious
institutions through entrance
fees.
“For women especially,
they were a place to get away
from their families and if a
husband couldn’t pay for a
trip to the hammam at least
once every two weeks it was
a grounds for divorce,” said
Ergin. “They were a very important space like a beauty
salon or a spa today.”
Brides would meet female
friends in hammams ahead
of their weddings, and the
Sultan’s concubines and favourites would take to the
hammam to make themselves
most fragrant and alluring.
For men it was a place to
socialise and repose--also
reputedly to indulge in more
decadent pleasures. Sultan
Selim II is said to have died
in 1574 after slipping and
banging his head in a hammam while drunk.
Turkey’s restored hammams
are set to be much more refined.
The U.S. State Department
said this month that the Bolivian government of Evo Morales, a former coca grower,
has failed to do enough to
curb the drug trade in the past
12 months.
Morales, the country’s first
president of indigenous descent, says his government is
striving to fight the cocaine
trade, but gives farmers the
right to grow small plot of coca
in certain regions. His policies
toward coca farmers have
been called permissive by the
United States.
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PORLAMAR, Venezuela-Anti-imperialist rhetoric
and ambitious ideas flowed
on Sunday at a summit dominated by South America’s
leftist leaders and some of
Africa’s best-known former
anti-colonial fighters.
Flanked by the likes of
Robert Mugabe from Zimbabwe and Luiz Inacio Lula
Silva of Brazil, Venezuela’s socialist leader Hugo
Chavez, the summit’s host,
looked in his element as
he heard a plethora of proposals to promote poor nations’ global clout.
The two-day summit on
Venezuela’s
sweltering
Margarita island, in the Caribbean, came right after
the U.N. General Assembly
and the G20 summit and
was intended as a counterpoint to Western dominance of global institutions.
“We have to construct a
new alliance, discover opportunities and help ourselves mutually,” Lula said,
summing up the central
theme of speeches by the
28 leaders present.
On specifics, Mugabe and
Chavez proposed greater
cooperation on exploitation of resources like minerals and oil. The Venezuelan, who sees himself at the
forefront of a global “antiimperialist”
movement,
urged his fellow leaders to
form a “multi-state” corporation for mining.
“Africa and South America are rich lands, yet their
peoples are poor, because
B O G O TA- - C o l o m b i a n
rebels said on Sunday they
will free two hostages in
a unilateral gesture that
could set the stage for a
comprehensive exchange of
prisoners held by both sides
in the country’s 45-year-old
guerrilla war.
Soldiers Pablo Moncayo
and Josue Calvo are locked
up in secret jungle camps
by Colombia’s biggest guerrilla army, known as the
FARC. They and 22 other
kidnapped members of the
state security forces are being used as leverage by the
Marxist rebels, who want to
negotiate the freedom of
hundreds of their fighters
held in government jails.
“With this gesture of a unilateral release we reaffirm
our willingness to advance
in an exchange of all pris-
oners of war, whether they
be held by the guerrillas or
the state,” said a statement
issued by the outlawed
FARC.
The swap could be a step
toward talks aimed at ending the war, the group
said. But President Alvaro
Uribe’s conservative government says the cocainefinanced guerrillas must lay
down their arms and give
up crime before peace talks
can start.
Moncayo, snatched by the
FARC in 1997, has become
a symbol of the suffering
of kidnap victims since his
father Gustavo Moncayo
began a campaign for his
freedom, wrapping himself in chains and walking
throughout Colombia. Calvo was kidnapped earlier
this year.
they have been exploited.
Let’s not allow them to keep
exploiting and ransacking
our lands. Those riches
belong to our people,” the
garrulous Chavez said, giving a mini-speech himself
between every speech by
another leader. “Let’s not
waste a day. If we start with
just two or three countries,
well we’ll start with those
that can.”
Mugabe, a former guerrilla commander in power
since independence from
Britain in 1980, echoed the
sentiment, saying Zimbabwe could offer minerals
and agricultural products
for oil and technology. “In
Africa, greater industrial
development has been difficult because of a reliance
on the very powers that colonized us,” he said. “They
do not want really to see us
industrialized.”
Some of the summit participants are severely criticized by opponents for
abusing rights and democracy at home.
On the sports front,
Mugabe suggested the
ASA (South America-Africa) nations meeting should
hold their own World Cupstyle soccer tournament,
while Lula urged support
for Brazil’s bid to host the
2016 Olympics. “The biggest sporting event after
the World Cup cannot be
a privilege of rich nations,”
said Lula.
The United States is also
bidding for the 2016 Games.
“The International Olympic Committee’s leadership
is like the world’s riches-all concentrated in Europe
which has more delegates
than all of Africa and Latin
America,” Lula said.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
BEIJING--Upgraded missiles will feature prominently in China’s Oct 1 military
parade which celebrates 60
years of Communist Party
rule, the Xinhua news agency said, citing a commander
of the service that controls
nuclear weapons.
The parade of goose-stepping soldiers, well-rehearsed
school children and flowery
floats will illustrate the nation’s priorities of modernisation and military strength.
Foreign observers will be
watching to see what weapons the People’s Liberation
Army shows off.
The 108 missiles on display
will include two types of
surface-to-surface conventional missiles, a land-based
cruise missile, surface-tosurface intermediate and
long-range missiles that can
be equipped with either nuclear or conventional warheads, and nuclear-capable
intercontinental
missiles,
said Yu Jixun, deputy Commander of the PLA’s Second
Artillery Force.
“All five types of missiles are solid-fuelled, with
smaller bodies. In the past,
missiles were mostly liquidfuelled and their bodies
were huge,” Yu said. Solidfuel missiles are easier to
transport, providing more
strategic flexibility in deployment.
The Second Artillery
Force, which controls the
nuclear arsenal, is expanding its mandate to include
conventional missiles under
the nation’s military blueprint.
This year, as part of the
emphasis on modernisation,
fewer tanks will roll down
Beijing’s main boulevard in
order to give pride of place
to the military’s advanced
equipment, General Gao
Jianguo, spokesman for the
National Day Military Parade Joint Command, told
Reuters.
Squadrons of fighter and
bomber planes in formation
will fly down Beijing’s central axis, accompanied by
helicopters, while tanks roll
along down the street.
Xinhua earlier this month
hinted that the parade could
display the Julang-2, or JL2, a submarine-mounted
missile with a range of 8,000
BEIJING--China and its
Asian neighbours have
agreed to tighten border
controls and increase protection over Chinese operations that could be targets
of “East Turkistan” militants, China’s Ministry of
Public Security said.
China blames militants in
the East Turkistan Islamic
Movement (ETIM) for attacks in the far western
frontier region of Xinjiang,
where the local Uighurs, a
Muslim people with cultural ties to central Asia, often
chafe under Chinese rule.
Deadly riots by Uighurs in
Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi
on July 5 killed 197 people, most of them majority
Han Chinese. Han crowds
launched revenge attacks
two days later.
“Law enforcement departments in Central Asia,
Western Asia and Southern
Asia have achieved a common consensus over jointly
attacking East Turkistan
terrorist forces,” the ministry said on its website on
Sunday, without specifying
which countries.
They would exchange intelligence, “prevent overseas terrorist forces from
penetrating into China,”
tighten border controls and
boost protection around
Chinese targets abroad, it
said. The announcement
comes as Beijing prepares
to host Russian premier
Vladimir Putin and other
Asian leaders at an Oct. 14
meeting of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation,
a regional security grouping.
The ETIM is listed as a
terrorist organisation by
the U.S. after the attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001, but scholars’
views vary on how large, or
organised, the group actually is. Some human rights
organisations say the crackdown on the group allows
China to quash legitimate
demands by Uighurs, who
now make up only about
half the population of oilrich Xinjiang after decades
of Han Chinese immigration.
Many minorities, including Uighurs and Tibetans,
complain that they are shut
out from economic opportunities while government
policies discourage their
languages and religious
practices. China’s white paper on minorities, released
on Sunday, reiterates that
all citizens should be treated equally.
km that was first tested in
2001, and the CSS-X-10, a
solid fuel intercontinental
ballistic missile. American
naval strategists are concerned that China may have
developed an anti-ship ballistic missile, a Dongfeng
21-D, that could force U.S.
aircraft carriers to keep
their distance in the event of
an attack on self-ruled Taiwan, which China considers
a breakaway province.
It will still be a few years before China has the satellites
and other systems needed to
successfully track and attack
a ship at sea, military analysts said.
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A light aircraft is seen after it crashed into an empty bus parked at a site of a festival in
Incheon, west of Seoul, South Korea on Sunday. The accident killed a passenger of the plane
and injured a pilot and 11 people attending the festival police said, according to local media.
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MANILA--The Philippines appealed for international aid to help tens
of thousands marooned
by flashfloods, and apologised for the delays in
rescue efforts to avoid
potential political fallout
from the crisis.
Disaster officials said
the death toll from Typhoon Ketsana that hit
the main island of Luzon
stood at 52 on Sunday
and more than 20 others were missing feared
dead.
“We’re doing our best
to get to all those people
still trapped by the flashflood,” Anthony Golez,
spokesman for the National Disaster Coordinating Council, told reporters, adding soldiers
in rubber boats would
evacuate them to safety.
“We’re sorry for the
delays. We’re encounting difficulty in reaching
flooded areas.
Hundreds remained
on rooftops, waving and
shouting for food, water and warm clothes
as floodwaters began to
subside in and around
Manila on Sunday. Tele-
vision images showed
several houses and cars
being swept by swollen
rivers and clusters of
people on the roofs of
their homes. Army and
civilian heliopters were
seen dropping food and
relief goods.
The weather bureau
said Ketsana brought
the heaviest rainfall in
the country in 40 years.
About 410 mm of rain
fell in 24 hours on Saturday, twice the amount
that drenched the United States during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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A resident looks at a body lying by the floodwaters brought on by Typhoon Ondoy in Payatas,
Quezon city, Manila on Sunday.
The government has
been criticised for its
handling of the crisis and
dozens of angry people
called radio stations
to appeal for help and
blame state agencies for
lack of preparation.
“This will have a big political impact on the government,” Ramon Casiple, executive director of
the Instiute for Political
and Electoral Reform,
told Reuters, adding it
could further sink the
popularity of the administration. “People are
wondering how the government spent its budget
for flood control projects. The government
was caught unprepared
by the heavy rain brought
by the typhoon.”
Teodoro said massive
rescue and relief efforts
continued for the second day as thousands
were still marooned in
eastern Manila, which
has been submerged in 3
metre-deep floodwaters.
“We’re appealing for
more donations of food,
water and warm clothes,”
Teodoro said, adding the
United States and U.N.
agencies had responded
with boats, food, water
and relief goods.
Schools will be closed
on Monday because
most of them are being
used as temporary shelters for more than 5,000
displaced families. Airport operations returned
to normal and power
supply was slowly being
restored.
Typhoon Ketsana,
packing winds of up to
105 kph (65 mph), hit
the Philippines on Saturday and was now moving
towards the South China
Sea.
NEW
YORK--Pakistan
signaled its desire to mend
fences with a hesitant India on Sunday as the foreign ministers of the nuclear-armed rivals met but
stopped short of announcing a resumption of fullfledged peace negotiations.
India’s S.M. Krishna and
Pakistan’s Shah Mehmood
Qureshi held a 100-minute
meeting on the sidelines of
the annual U.N. General
Assembly gathering in a
fresh attempt to improve
ties soured by last November’s militant attacks in
Mumbai, India.
Pakistan has acknowledged that the coordinated
attacks in which 166 people
died were plotted and partly launched from its soil. It
is prosecuting seven suspects in a closed-door hearing that was adjourned last
week but is due to resume
on Oct. 3.
Comments by the ministers
at separate news conferences made clear Pakistan
wanted to resume broad
talks on everything from
Kashmir to trade. India remained cautious, however,
demanding tougher action
by Islamabad to punish
those behind the attacks.
Qureshi said he had made
a proposal to India on how
the two long-time antagonists might improve relations, including a timetable,
but he gave no details.
Another Pakistani official
said the proposals were
geared toward resuming
their “composite dialogue”
frozen after Mumbai. The
next logical opportunity
for their prime ministers to
meet would be at a November Commonwealth summit in Trinidad.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
OSLO--Dismayed by ice and
storms, British explorer Captain James Cook had no regrets when he abandoned a
voyage searching for a fabled
southern continent in 1773.
Finding only icebergs after
he was the first to cross the
Antarctic Circle, he wrote
ruefully that if anyone ventured further and found a
land doomed by nature to lie
for ever buried under everlasting ice and snow. “I shall
not envy him the honour of
discovery, but I will be bold
to say that the world will not
be benefited by it.”
Things may be worse than
he thought. Climate change
is turning Antarctica’s ice
into one of the biggest risks
for coming centuries. Even a
tiny melt could drive up sea
levels, affecting cities from
New York to Beijing, or nations from Bangladesh to the
Cook Islands--named after
the mariner--in the Pacific.
Scientists are now trying to
design ever more high tech
experiments--with satellite
radars, lasers, robot submarines, or even deep drilling
through perhaps 3 kilometers of ice--to plug huge gaps
in understanding the risks.
“If you’re going to have even
a few metres it will change
the geography of the planet,”
Rajendra Pachauri, head of
the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), said of the more extreme scenarios of fast ocean
rise.
“Greenland and Antarctica
are two huge bodies of ice
sitting on land that could really have very serious implications for the levels of the
seas,” Pachauri told Reuters.
Eventually discovered in
1820, Antarctica locks up
enough water to raise sea
levels by 57 metres (187
ft). Greenland stores the
equivalent of 7 metres. Worries about sea level rise are
among the drivers of 190-nation talks on a new U.N. deal
to combat climate change,
mainly by a shift away from
fossil fuels, due to be agreed
in Copenhagen in December.
Collapse
Scientists are concentrating
on the fringes, where the ice
meets a warming Southern
Ocean. “It’s the underside
of the ice sheets that’s crucial,” said David Carlson, a
scientist who headed the International Polar Year from
2007-08.
Warmer seas may be thawing ice sheets around the
edges, he said, and allow ice
to slide off the land into the
sea more quickly, adding water to sea levels. But it is hard
to be sure because of a lack
of long-term observations.
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found lakes under ice sheets
in recent decades--but no
one understands whether
they might lubricate the
slide. Lakes, such as Vostok
where Russian scientists are
close to drilling through to
the water entombed deep
under the ice, might even be
a place where life has evolved
in isolation.
Unknown types of life in
Lake Vostok might hint at
chances of life in space, for
instance on Jupiter’s moon
Europa--an icy ball which
might have liquid water near
its warmer core.
“The same things that defeated Cook--ice and bad
weather--are still problems,”
Carlson said.
About 10 ice shelves, extensions of ice sheets that float
on the ocean and can be hundreds of metres thick, have
collapsed on the Antarctic Peninsula in the past 50
years. Part of the Wilkins Ice
Shelf snapped in April.
And recent studies indicate
a slight warming trend in
Antarctica, teased out from
computer studies of temperature records. Still, most
of Antarctica is not going
to thaw--the average yearround temperature is -50
Celsius (-58.00F).
One possibility is to look
far back into history. Studies
indicate that in the Eemian
about 125,000 years ago, for
instance, temperatures were
slightly higher than now, hippopotamuses bathed in the
Rhine--and seas were 4 metres higher.
“We need to know where
the extra four metres came
from,” said David Vaughan,
a glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS),
adding that one possibility
was that West Antarctica’s
ice had collapsed.
He said that an operation to
drill through ice--about 3 km
thick--to bedrock could help
LONDON--Global
temperatures may be 4 degrees Celsius hotter by the
mid-2050s if current greenhouse gas emissions trends
continue, said a study published on Monday.
The study, by Britain’s
Met Office Hadley Centre, echoed a U.N. report
last week which found that
climate changes were outpacing worst-case scenarios forecast in 2007 by the
U.N.’s Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC).
“Our results are showing similar patterns (to the
IPCC) but also show the
possibility that more extreme changes can happen,”
said Debbie Hemming,
co-author of the research
published at the start of a
climate change conference
at Oxford University.
Leaders of the main greenhouse gas-emitting countries recognised in July a
scientific view that temperatures should not exceed 2
degrees above pre-industrial levels, to avoid more
dangerous changes to the
world’s climate.
The IPCC shared the 2007
Nobel Peace Prize for its
fourth assessment report,
or AR4. One finding was
that global temperatures
could rise by 4 degrees
by the end of the 2050s.
Monday’s study confirmed
that warming could happen
even earlier, by the mid2050s, and suggested more
extreme local effects.
“It’s affirming the AR4
results and also confirming
that it is likely,” Hemming
told Reuters, referring to
4 degrees warming, assuming no extra global action
to cut emissions in the next
decade.
One advance since 2007
was to model the effect of
“carbon cycles”. For example, if parts of the Amazon
rainforest died as a result of
drought, that would expose
soil which would then release carbon from formerly
shaded organic matter.
“That amplifies the amount
of carbon dioxide that goes
into the atmosphere and
therefore the global warming. It’s really leading to
more certainty,” said Hemming.
David Vaughan, a leading glaciologist with the British Antarctic Survey, looks out through rain
at the Sheldon glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula in this January 14, 2009 file photo.
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find out. West Antarctica is
vulnerable because its ice
rests on rocks below sea level
and holds enough ice to raise
sea levels by 3-6 metres.
A sample of rocks beneath
the ice would reveal if and
when they had last been exposed to cosmic rays--which
cause chemical changes that
can be read like a clock.
There could also be fossils or
ancient sediments under the
ice to fix dates.
If the ice had collapsed in
the Eemian or during other
warm periods between Ice
Ages, it would set off global alarm bells about risks
of a fast rise in sea levels,
Vaughan said. A finding that
the ice had been stable would
be a huge relief.
In early September, U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Kimoon said world sea levels
could rise by between 0.5
and 2 metres this century,
far higher than most experts
have forecast. Pachauri’s
IPCC spoke of a rise of 18-59
cms by 2100, excluding a possible acceleration of a thaw
of Antarctica or Greenland.
Seas rose 17 cms in the past
century.
And another complicating issue is that experts have
Right Or Wrong?
“Was Cook right? Of course
not. The Antarctic has been
a treasure trove of scientific
information,” Jane Lubchenco, head of the U.S. National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
(NOAA),
told Reuters.
She said the Antarctic Treaty, signed in 1959, had been a
model for world cooperation
even during the Cold War
between Moscow and Washington. Nations put territorial claims on hold and set
the continent aside for peace
and science.
And the hole in the ozone
layer--which shields the planet from damaging ultra-violet rays--was discovered over
Antarctica in the 1980s, adding to urgency of the 1987
Montreal Protocol to limit
emissions of ozone-damaging gases. On a smaller
scale, some whalers and seal
hunters made their fortunes
in Antarctica after the first
sighting of the continent in
1820 by Fabian von Bellingshausen, an Estonian captain
in the Russian navy.
In a reversal of Cook’s assessment, glaciologist Vaughan
said Antarctica itself is getting no benefit from people.
“Until the beginning of the
20th century there were no
human footprints in Antarctica. Now the footprint of all
humankind is firmly on the
entire continent because of
climate change,” he said.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
PITTSBURGH--The International Monetary Fund
will have to call on all its
powers of persuasion to
steer the world’s heavyweight economies toward
their goal of more balanced
global growth.
The IMF is keenly aware
of its failure in 2006 to get
exporters like China to increase demand at home
and slower-growing economies like the United States
to save more. The following
year, the start of the financial meltdown underscored
how interwoven the global
system is and the increased
role of emerging economies
powers like China.
Last week, leaders from
the Group of 20 rich and
developing nations agreed
at a summit in Pittsburgh
that the group would take
over from the rich country
G7 as the premier forum
for coordinating economic
policies. Officials stressed
that the G20 could not tell
countries how to run their
economies.
Instead, it will assess national economic policies
and rely on a new process
of peer review. Under the
plan, the IMF will forecast
the impact of policies and
report back to the G20 with
suggested changes.
However, big countries
have not always listened
to the IMF’s advice and
there’s no guarantee they
will this time. The United
States ignored the Fund’s
warnings about its housing sector in 2007, shortly
before a property collapse
that triggered the global
credit crisis.
World Bank President
Robert Zoellick said on
Sunday the G20 leaders
made a “good start” toward
increased global cooperation but added: “Peer review will need to be peer
pressure.”
IMF officials acknowledge
their big challenge will be
to provide analysis strong
enough to convince countries to adjust policies, even
if the changes are political-
PORLAMAR, Venezuela-Venezuela has yet to develop
a plan to explore or exploit
its uranium deposits despite
comments by a government
official saying it was working with Iran to locate them,
Venezuela’s energy minister
told Reuters.
On Friday, Mining Minister
Rodolfo Sanz said Iran and
Venezuela were working together to find uranium, and
preliminary tests showed
the South American country holds large deposits. The
announcement came as U.S.
President Barack Obama
and the leaders of Britain
and France accused Iran
of building a secret nuclear
plant.
But Rafael Ramirez,
Venezuela’s top energy official, denied President
Hugo Chavez is looking to
exploit the radioactive material. “No plan has been
determined,” he said in an
interview on the sidelines
of a presidential summit of
African and South American leaders being hosted
by Chavez on Venezuela’s
Margarita Island.
He did not offer an explanation for the contradicting
information or explicitly
deny that Iran had participated in flights to detect
mineral reserves, including
uranium.
When asked about any pos-
sible Iranian involvement,
Ramirez responded that
Venezuela was only working with Russia to develop
nuclear energy which he
said would be for peaceful
uses. “The only agreement
we have is with a Russian
company,” he said.
Earlier on Saturday, industry minister Jesse Chacon
also sought to downplay
the issue, telling reporters
Venezuela was investigating
its mineral deposits with a
number of nations.
Chavez, whose popularity is partly drawn from his
brash challenges to the U.S.
“empire,” last year dusted
off plans to build a nuclear
power station after Russia
said it was willing to help
Venezuela acquire the technology.
Venezuela largely relies on
hydroelectric and oil-fired
power stations to generate electricity. It is building
more oil generators to meet
rapidly growing demand,
but would prefer to export
the oil it produces.
Venezuela has signed the
Nuclear Nonproliferation
Treaty limiting use of nuclear material and would
have to follow safeguards
from the United Nations
watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA), before any transfers of technology.
47
ly unpalatable. IMF Managing Director Dominique
Strauss-Kahn was dismissive when a reporter at the
summit last week suggested
that the IMF might not be
able to push for the G20 rebalancing goals.
“We can’t? Why? As far
as economic questions are
concerned, my belief is that
you have to convince people,” he said, recalling how
the Fund was quick to call
on governments to fight the
growing credit crisis with
huge spending plans.
The injection of nearly $5
trillion helped prevent the
recession from turning into
a global depression. “We
had no regulatory or legal
tool to oblige countries to
implement the stimulus but
it was the right policy to
follow and everyone understood it, so that is the real
role of the IMF,” StraussKahn said.
Urging governments to
spend more is likely to
prove easier than taking
other measures such as raising taxes. To date, the IMF
has urged the United States
not to cut taxes, given the
massive U.S. budget deficits racked up as a result of
the crisis-fighting spending
splurge. Many economists
think it is only a matter of
time before the Obama administration has to consider
raising taxes.
The IMF will also find itself treading on eggshells
when it comes to assessing foreign exchange rates.
China has rebuffed suggestions from the United
States, notably under former President George W.
Bush, that its currency was
artificially weak to help fuel
its export boom.
With the U.S. economy
likely to recover only slowly,
making it hard for a quick
rebound in employment,
Washington may face political pressure to turn up the
heat on China to take measures to rein in its exports.
For its part, Chinese officials have urged the United
States, as the guardian of
the world’s main reserve
currency, to manage carefully the impact of its huge
fiscal and monetary policy
stimulus.
Chinese officials in Pittsburgh said they expected
currency issues to be considered under the new peer
review system. “I’m sure
the currency policies of the
major currency countries
would also belong under
this mutual assessment,”
Vice Foreign Minister He
Yafei told reporters, before
adding: “This mutual assessment would be voluntary, not legally binding.”
IMF officials hope this
time, the Fund will be heeded not only because the cri-
sis revealed how the interplay of national economic
policies helped cause the
crisis, but also because developing countries will have
more say at the IMF.
The IMF was encouraged
by the G20 leaders’ backing
for a shift in voting power
at the Fund towards emerging economies. Changes
in IMF voting power are
expected to be decided by
early 2011 by the Fund’s
186 member countries.
Such changes would improve its legitimacy for
countries like China, which
has seen the IMF as a pawn
of Washington. Raghuram
Rajan, a former chief IMF
economist and now a professor at the University of
Chicago Booth School of
Business, said IMF had to
be seen as impartial. “Countries have to feel comfortable that the analysis and
the finger-pointing is evenhanded,” said Rajan.
He was the IMF’s chief
economist in 2006 when
the IMF led a process of
consultations over global
imbalances with the United
States, China, Russia, the
European Union and Saudi
Arabia. Pledges by countries to rebalance growth
went unfulfilled as governments failed to see any urgent need to act and in part
because countries blamed
each other for the problems, with China dismissing
the IMF as a U.S. tool.
“If they see the fingerpointing over time turns
out to be only in one direction, then countries will
back off quickly from this,”
Rajan said.
“But if over the next months
or years the IMF turns out
to be even-handed in its
analysis, then countries can
use the analysis to have a
legitimate discussion,” he
said. “What we need to do
is to push toward making
the IMF structure more
workable as well as more
representative.”
THE HAGUE, Netherlands--Making the G20 the
main forum for economic
cooperation is a step in the
right direction, but low-income nations still do not
have enough say, the head
of Africa’s main development bank said on Saturday.
African Development
Bank president Donald
Kaberuka, speaking on
the periphery of a conference, said despite the decision at the G20 summit
in Pittsburgh, low-income
countries may still be sidelined. “One of the most im-
portant successes of Pittsburgh is that that the G20
is the most qualified forum
to deal with global issues,”
Kaberuka said.
“The way it is now structured the low-income countries’ priorities are still an
appendix, a footnote,” he
added.
The AfDB president had
made a plea to the G20
leaders earlier this week
not to remove the stimulus
packages too soon as the
green shoots of recovery
were very short.
Many African economies
have boomed in the past
decade as economic reforms combined with rising demand for natural
resources created ideal
conditions for growth. The
global financial crisis hit the
continent hard, however,
once demand for commodities and energy started to
dry up. Annual economic
growth is expected to be in
the 2.8-percent range, less
than half the rate forecast
before the crisis began.
This week Kaberuka said
the AfDB was seeking a
capital increase to $96 billion from its current $32
billion. It has raised its bor-
rowing programme in international capital markets to
nearly $10 billion for 2009,
and had already completed
$6 billion, compared with
less than $2 billion in 2008,
in order to provide more
funds for disbursement.
The AfDB priced a $1 billion global bond on Thursday and Kaberuka said
more bond issues would follow. “There is still a lot of
appetite for AfDB paper,”
Kaberuka said. Without
giving more detail, he said
he would use this window
to issue more bonds.
This IMF photo shows International Monetary Fund’s Managing Director Dominique StraussKahn prior to the start of the G20 leaders holding the opening working Plenary session at the
Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania last week.
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2 bedroom apartment,quiet area off
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November 2009.
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1100XX
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545-2980.
,
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,
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2002 Ford Explorer, immaculate
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new
GPS,
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Needs
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2007 HyundaiTucson, 4WD, silver
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Call:524-6481/523-2868.
Tel:557-5700.
Partly furnished 2 bedroom
Brand new! YZ 450 Yamaha motor
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tor bike with lights, $4,200. Please together and buy in bulk, food, de- and price negotiable, don’t miss
odorant,
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shampoo,
baby
this opportunity serious candidates.
call: 522-4142.
items, pool water treatment etc. Call:520-5677.
Call:526-1412.
Simpson
Moving sale, everything goes! Bay on the lagoon there are
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frigerator, comfy futon, bedroom restaurant.
#2-restaurant
furniture. Great prices, in excellent with option to
purchase
condition! Call Jay:523-4843.
property. #3 property only,
financing availble by owner.
Restaurant,
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auto parts and department
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Rosetta Stone (27 languages) views, brand new, fully furnished. 2
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Club
for sale by owner:Large one
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fully furnished, washer/dryer
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very close to the new pier
matic, silver, A/C with CD player. In
next to the Sea Palace hotel
good condition. Call:523-7733.
with furniture, fixtures and
merchandise. Contact:5549229.
fixtures
and inventory for quick sale
near Philipsburg Boardwalk.
Low rent! Excellent location!
Ideal startup business for
local entrepreneurs. $25,000
or
nearest
offer.
C a l l : 5 2 7 - 0 7 6 5 .
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(54 m²=581
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Piazza in the new Peurta Del
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$285,000. Call John:5205194.
Union Farm state:3 bedroom/2.5
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sometime at
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Guana Bay:2 bedroom/1 bathroom
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rent (213
Embassy Reasonable rates.Call Jan- utilities. $975/month, two months m²), 3rd floor, center of town,
ice Ward, Rossomar Guest House deposit required. Call:520-0102.
nice view. Rent is negotiable.
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/bath
Apartment for rent, Pointe
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Blanche, ocean view, quiet area. apartment, fully furnished in of ocean and Lagoon. Semi furSemi furnished 1.5 bedroom, utili- a secured residence in nished, renovated including utiliCupecoy
next
to
the
univerties included, own garden space.
ties, kitchen, large porch, hurricane
sity
(swimming
pool,
gym)
$750 per month. Call:580-8838.
shutters. Rent $1,100 p/m, one
$1,200/month. Tel:544-4137.
month security. Call:580-5921.
Apartments for rent. Private property, great view, furnished, cable ready, For rent, luxury condo 2 bed- Pointe Blanche for rent, fully furwireless internet access. Electricity rooms, 140 square meters, pool, nished 2 bedroom/2 bath with ocean
parking,
24
hours
security,
private
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1 month security deposit required. Located Cupecoy. Rent $2,590/ view. No pets. Call:520-2244.
month.
Tel:00590-690-58-49Telephone:524-3803.
29/522-7424.
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ment, fully furnished with utilities inHarry:553-2354.
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deposit. Call:520-5156/526-9335.
nice sea view. Please call for
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Great view, alarm system, common
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the center of Maho, fully furnished, burglar bars, hot/cold water. $650
swimming
pool,
Jacuzzi,
ocean
per month/one month security.
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fully air conditioned & furnished view, 24 hours security. Price Call:554-8239.
apartment with driveway. Com- $1,400 monthly or $500 weekly. Room for rent in the center of
Tel:00590-690-77-44-70.
munal pool, walking distance from
Philipsburg. For more information
white sands beach. Electricity & For rent:1 bedroom, 1 bathroom please call:581-5986 or 554-4332
water included. $750 p/m, 1 month unfurnished apartment in Phil- between 10 am to 1 pm.
deposit. Call:520-2614.
ipsburg on Front Street. Available
Room for rent, as of direct, ideal
Beacon Hill:2 bedroom/1 baths, immediately. Deposit is required. for students or interns, $300 per
furnished apartment, A/C, parking, Please call:522-1039.
month excluding utilities. Centrally
nice porch, $1,300. Call:522-5139 For Rent:2 bedrooms condo , located, close to Daily Extra sufor an appointment.
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ly furnished, air conditioned apart- bow Beach Club. Price $3,200 per South Reward hillside. Two bedment. Communal pool, walking month including utilities. Require- room furnished apartment for rent
distance from white sands beach. ments, one month deposit/first in on Pumpkin Road #63 for $ 700.
Electricity & water included. $1,250 month rent. Contact: 520-0623 .
Quiet neighborhood. Light and water
per month & 1 month deposit.
included. One month’s deposit.TransCall:520-2209.
portation needed. Call:580-5363.
Business
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Lovely 2 bedroom/2.5 baths
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bay. Ground level. Long
walks,
sunsets/swimming
awaits for you!
Fully furnished,
security/parking,
shutters. Available now!
$2,500 p/m. Call:553-7434.
Club:One large bedroom, 2
bath apartment. Washer
dryer,
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American
kitchen, 24 hours security,
safe, pool view, fully furnished. Call:522-5140/5571135.
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Phone:(599)542-3585.
Email:patricia_maxwell@hot
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looking for a
Zoo Keeper and Assistant
Zoo Keeper. Minimum 1 year
experience. Antilleans only
need apply. Please fax a
copy of your resume to
Labour Office:542-3569.
Looking for all does Logo Heights
and Booboo Jam fans! If you do not
have transportation to get there,
just call me and I will carry you. Only
serious callers,call:524-6670.
teacher (from Canada, US or
UK) to give personal English
lessons to a 10 years old
child, twice a week in the
afternoon.
Please
call:00590-690-32-81-75.
Looking for large studio or 1 bedroom apartment, November - March,
for my mom, Pelican or Simpson
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teacher (from South America
or Spain) to give personal
Spanish lessons to a 10
years old child, twice a week
in the afternoon. Please
call:00590-690-32-81-75.
Studio apartments for rent in
Nazareth. $400 utilities included. 1
bedroom apartment for rent $450
excluding utilities. For more information call:586-8757.
Experienced Tradesman. Excellent work in carpentry, mason,
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deposit required. Utilities included, iron gates, bars, household repairs.
furnished with king size bed, clothes Prefab polished concrete kitchen,
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ture. Available now! Call:588-2810 for Call:553-3208.
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Villa for rent. Executive villa, Beacon Hill, fully furnished waterfront
5 bedroom, over 6000 sq.ft., swimming pool, lots of parking. Large
yard, private, close to shopping &
entertainment area. Call:526-1717.
Maintenance
Manager
(PRM), responsible for planning, control of all aircraft
maintenance. Experience in
aircraft maintenance as aircraft mechanic. Fax resume
to Labour Depart with copy
to:543-6712.
,
St.Eustatius:Instructor and
Dive Master needed, two
years or more experience in
dive destination base operations, boat handling, compressor maintenance, interests, email resume with
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is looking for soil
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man until age of 30 and
team work. Fluent in English.
Only legal residents need to
apply. Contact:542-2421.
young website builder, (I am on a
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PARIS--France
will
chalk up a record deficit
in 2009 and will not be
able to improve state accounts next year despite
a recovering economy,
the government will say
when it unveils its 2010
budget next week.
The scale of the challenges faced by Europe’s
second-biggest economy
was set out by Prime
Minister Francois Fillon
in an interview published
on Sunday, in which he
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CHICAGO--The U.S. government is stepping up
prosecutions of wealthy
individuals dodging taxes
through offshore accounts,
with new cases expected
to be made public “every
couple of weeks,” a top
government attorney said
on Saturday.
U.S. officials have been
sifting through about 250
client names obtained
through a February settlement of a criminal probe
against Swiss banking giant
UBS AG. The government
had alleged the bank illegally helped U.S. taxpayers
hide funds offshore.
That effort, along with an
amnesty program encouraging tax evaders to turn
themselves in, is speeding
prosecutions, one of the
top lawyers working on the
cases at the U.S. Justice
Department said. “You can
expect a few every couple
of weeks,” Kevin Downing,
a senior attorney in the tax
division of the Department
of Justice told an American
Bar Association tax conference.
On the sidelines of the
conference, Downing told
Reuters that U.S. banks
that helped U.S. clients
hide money offshore were
a target. “The folks in the
United States that we get
information on are obviously the easiest ones for
us to pursue,” he said. “So
anybody in the U.S. ... the
U.S. banks helping U.S. clients set these offshore accounts up, we are doing the
same thing” in going after
them.
fix for ballooning state
spending.
Fillon told le Journal
du Dimanche newspaper
that the deficit would
come in at 8.2 percent
of gross domestic product this year, higher than
previously forecast and
easily beating the previous record of 6.4 percent
set in 1993. The French
deficit came in at 3.4
percent of GDP in 2008,
since when the global
recession has plunged
accounts even further
into the red thanks to a
slump in tax returns and
a government stimulus
package primarily aimed
at investment.
Fillon said he expected
the economy to contract
2.25 percent this year
before growing 0.75 percent in 2010. Despite this
slight pick up, the overall
deficit would not show
any major improvement
because of huge welfare
costs, he said. “With an
insufficient
economic
recovery, the welfare
budget deficit is going
to continue to grow.
Therefore next year we
will not be able to do any
better than to stabilise
the global deficit,” Fillon
was quoted as saying.
Analysts said this
showed France was making no headway in tackling its structural economic problems, with
state spending representing around 54 percent of
GDP, against a eurozone
average of some 46 percent, but not generating
much growth.
“If the public deficit
was increasing, but at
the same time there was
a strong economic recovery, then it might be
worth it. But that is not
happening here,” said
Marc Touati, director
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general at Global Equities, a financial services
brokerage. “The French
business model is not
working. We have high
taxes and high public
spending, but we also
have growing levels of
social inequality and
weak growth.”
Under European Union
rules, governments are
meant to keep their deficit to under 3 percent of
GDP. Many countries
have failed to respect
this in 2009 because of
the economic crisis, but
France’s problems are
likely to cause concern.
As well as deficit woes,
France also faces a debt
headache, with its debtto-GDP ratio projected
to jump to 77 percent in
2009, 83 percent in 2010
and 88 percent 2012,
against 68.1 percent in
2008. The EU ceiling is
set at 60 percent.
People walk in front of the Time Warner Inc. headquarters building at Columbus Circle in New
York.
CHICAGO--Time Warner
Inc will eventually sell the
Time Inc magazine unit
and could buy holdings in
its core entertainment category, Gordon Crawford,
managing director of its
largest shareholder, said
during a presentation this
week.
“Time Warner just spun
off their cable division, they
are going to sell their print
division, they are going to
spin off AOL and they’re
just going to be Warner
Brothers, HBO and the
Turner Networks,” said
Crawford, managing director of The Capital Group.
“Now, they will make acquisitions but they’re prob-
ably going to buy just stuff
in their wheel house of
those businesses. They’re
not going to, I don’t think,
go very far afield from their
core competency.”
Crawford made the comments during a Sept. 24
discussion at University of
Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication entitled “The
Art of the Long View: The
Media Company of 2020”.
Time Warner declined to
comment on Saturday.
Time Inc’s magazines include popular titles such
as People and Sports Illustrated. In the second quarter, revenue at Time Inc
publishing, the largest U.S.
magazine publisher, fell 22
percent to $915 million due
to a 26 percent decline in
advertising revenue.
While Crawford did not
name specific acquisition
targets, he did say there
would be a “winnowing process” during which weaker
companies in the sector
would be gobbled up. Capital Research Global Investors held 98.6 million shares
of Time Warner, or 8.32
percent of the company’s
total shares outstanding, as
of June 30.
The presentation, which
was available online, was
discussed in a BusinessWeek blog posted on Friday.
Opinion
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There appears to be a
growing consensus in the
international community
that the worst of the crisis is
over and recovery, in some
economies, is underway.
According to global economist, the common crisis
was long overdue and was a
necessary correction to the
global economy. At the end
of 2008, when the crisis was
still unfolding, there was
concern that governments
were not investing enough.
Today, the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) and
other international financial institutions have started calling for governments
to consider an exit strategy.
Some governments from
the very beginning when
they introduced unprecedented amounts of stimulus
in special relief packages
and programmes 18-months
ago to assist businesses and
consumers to deal with an
unprecedented crisis, they
clearly stated at the onset
that the relief would only
be for a specific period of
time, such as a year. Businesses and consumers knew
that it was only for a certain
period of time.
As governments make adjustments, the tourism and
travel trade is also adjusting
to the demands of consumers in order to get the busi-
Psalm 121 verses 1&2
I lift up my eyes to the hills from where will my help come?
My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
It is with deep sadness that we announce the
passing of our beloved mother, grandmother,
sister and cousin
Eulalie
Vernice Joe
Sunrise: October 3rd, 1919 in St. Maarten
Sunset: September 12th, 2009 in Staten Island New York
She leaves to mourn:
Daughter:
Mona Joe & family
Grandchildren:
Minerva Maccow, Mireille Maccow,
Elvis Maccow
Step grandchild:
Randy Wilson
Great grandchildren: Nakomi Houtman, Davidson Charles
Darigio Maccow, Elscio Van Putten
Sister:
Albertina Joe bka “Teacher”
Close Cousins:
Julienne Goldson & family in US
Nadine Rolland & family in US
Mercedes Bryson bka “Sada” &
family in US, Jean Laveist in US
William Laveist in US
Carmelita Thomas & family in SXM
Bernard Davis & family in SXM
Many more too numerous to mention
God children:
Ann Meyers in SXM
Hyacinth Reed-Illidge in US
Victor Bell in SXM
Many more too numerous to mention
Close friends:
Christine James bka as “Christ” &
family Fr. St.Martin
Vernice David & family in SXM
Mr. Joseph & family in US
Many more too numerous to mention
She was related to Joe, Peters, Laveist, Brown, Bell, Maccow,
James, Reed, Holaman, Clarke-Luise, Kruythoff, Solomon,
Arrindell, Nadall, Bryson and the Sydalza family in Cayenne.
The funeral service for the late Eulalie Vernice Joe will be
held on Monday, September 28, 2009 at the Cole Bay
Methodist Church. Viewing will be from 2:00pm to 3:00pm.
Service will commence at 3:00pm with interment at the
Cay Bay Cemetery.
May Her Soul Rest in Peace
The family of the late Eulalie Vernice Joe would like to thank
all those who supported us in one way or the other through
prayer and sending their condolences and sympathy in the
passing of our loved one.
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
ness. Thomson and First
Choice opinion poll in the
United Kingdom (U.K.)
carried out an independent
online survey that was completed by about 1000 people
regarding their travel plans
for 2010. Some 80 per cent
expected to take a 2010
break despite the current
economic climate. Similar
numbers also revealed that
the recession in the U.K.
will not lead them to change
their holiday plans. About
half of the respondents plan
to spend the same amount
of time on vacation as this
year and almost a quarter
aims to spend more. Many
hotels have changed their
products to satisfy consumer demand for 2010. U.K.
travellers have indicated
that they are interested in
packaged holidays and allinclusive holidays.
A leading U.K. operator,
Hoseasons, reported that
bookings through agents
were up by 25 per cent this
year, with 30 per cent increase in bookings overall.
For 2010, overall bookings
were up by 70 per cent.
U.K. Sunvil Holidays director admitted to be petrified at the start of 2009
as bookings slumped by a
quarter over the same period in 2008. However, the
director said business had
since recovered to be almost level. TUI distribution
director reportedly stated
that sales for summer 2010
had started off strongly,
leading him to be optimistic
for next year, adding that
people who stayed at home
in 2009 will travel abroad in
2010.
Another interesting observation to note is that
U.K. travellers are not too
concerned about pandemic
Influenza A (H1N1) flu
also referred to at times as
swine flu, Some six out of 10
traveller expect their holi-
day plans to be unchanged
next year in the event of a
change in the pandemic.
Overall, signs of optimism are returning to the
U.K. travel industry which
saw the number of visits
to the island fall by 9 per
cent in the last 12 months
compared with a year earlier. Visits from residents
of Europe dropped six per
cent while visits from North
America fell by 21 per cent.
The number of overseas
visits by U.K. residents fell
by 12 per cent in the 12months to July compared to
the previous year. As noted
before, there are positive
signs in travel to the U.K.,
where a slight improvement
of two per cent was recorded from May to July 2009
when compared with the
previous three months.
A poll of almost 300 leisure
and business agents plus
business partners shows
that more than half (55 per
cent) are quite optimistic
for the future, with eight
per cent indicating they are
very optimistic. Travellers
are shopping around for
the best packages and consumers are booking later
and are demanding more
price matching.
Holidays outside the Eurozone have increased in popularity and more people are
booking online.
Travel trends in North/Latin American and European
markets are very important
for Caribbean destinations
as it reveals what we can
expect for 2010 as well.
This type of information is
very important for destination-marketing
planning
and with the worst of the
crisis over; we would do
well to research and spend
our scarce resources wisely
while getting the biggest
bang out of it.
Roddy Heyliger
~ Guyana’s Stabroek News editorial, September 26 ~
News that trials of an HIV
vaccine have produced encouraging results offer a
small glimmer of hope that
the AIDS epidemic may
eventually be brought under control. But any optimism should be tempered
immediately with some sobering statistics. Every day,
according to UN estimates,
7,500 become infected by
HIV worldwide, four out of
five of them under the age
of 25; 33 million people are
currently living with the disease and a child dies from
AIDS every ninety seconds.
In 2007 at least 2 million
people died from the disease, including a staggering 330,000 children. These
dreadful numbers will not
improve any time soon.
The Thailand vaccine was
created from the mixture of
two earlier vaccines which
had failed to make any
headway against the disease. Using synthetic versions of the HIV gene and
the bird virus ‘canarypox’
to prime the human immune system, the new vaccine was not expected to
fare any better. But, after
six years of testing in which
more than 8,000 people
were inoculated, while a
control group of equal size
received a placebo, 51 of
the first group contracted
HIV, as compared to 74 of
the second – a reduction of
31 per cent. (Both groups
were given condoms and
safe sex advice throughout
the experiment.)
Researchers for an AIDS
vaccine are understandably
encouraged by this outcome, but even the most
optimistic concede that
there are no prospects of a
smallpox-style vaccine being developed for at least
several years.
Even if there were, the
truth is that AIDS would
still continue to spread
and claim lives needlessly,
because the transmission
of the virus is not simply a medical problem,
it spreads along the fault
lines of global poverty just
as if it were a social problem instead of a virus. The
most startling evidence
of this is the statistic that
three out of every four
deaths from AIDS deaths,
currently occur in sub-Saharan Africa.
The new vaccine will do
nothing to change this.
Furthermore, the two subtypes of the AIDS virus
(B, E) used to develop
the Thailand vaccine were
based on strains of the
virus that are commonly
found in Asia and Europe.
Subtype C – the strain
which is ravaging Africa
– may not be conducive
to the production of vaccines. Even if it were, by
the time a similar trial
could be completed, several million more Africans
will have died. This unconscionable neglect reflects
the depressingly low priority which the problems
of Africa are accorded in
the rest of the world, not
just in political, economic
and military terms, but
also the search for new
medicines.
Closer to home, every
West Indian should be
alarmed by the fact that
AIDS has become the
leading cause of death
among Caribbean adults.
Our region now has a rate
of new infections that is
the highest in the world
after sub-Saharan Africa.
This, too, is not simply a
medical crisis.
An article in the current
Atlantic Monthly argues
that a “major factor in
the region’s susceptibility
to the epidemic is its pervasive atmosphere of homophobia, which makes
education and outreach
efforts nearly impossible.
Jamaica [with a] 32 per
cent HIV infection rate
among gay men, offers a
case study in how antigay attitudes have helped
spread and intensify the
epidemic’s impact.” These
attitudes reportedly include a reluctance among
Continued on page 53
Opinion
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
A coalition of 11 Hispanic
and pro-immigrant groups
has launched a petition
drive to force CNN and
its advertisers to drop Lou
Dobbs, following a similar
effort that reportedly led
dozens of companies to pull
their ads from Fox’s Glenn
Beck show.
Should we support these
petitions as a way to get
reckless anchormen off the
air? Or are we risking moving television networks and
advertisers to drop all news
programs that tackle controversial issues, thereby
reducing the marketplace
of ideas and narrowing
the scope of political discourse?
The campaign to get
CNN’s Dobbs off the air
was launched Tuesday by
a coalition that includes
the National Council of La
Raza, the League of United
Latin American Citizens,
and the New Democrat
Network. The group posted
their petition at www.dropdobbs.com , where they
hope to get 100,000 signatures in the next six weeks.
Then, the document will be
sent to CNN and Dobbs’
advertisers, organizers say.
The campaign follows a
similar drive against Fox’s
conservative
comedianjournalist Beck, which gathered 200,000 signatures and
moved 62 advertisers to
pull their advertising from
The Oppenheimer Report
By Andres Oppenheimer
Beck’s show, according to
its organizers.
“CNN gives Dobbs an
unparalleled and powerful
perch from which to spread
right-wing misinformation
and promote hate and fear.
And his advertisers help
make that possible – and
profitable – for CNN,” says
the Dropdobbs.com Website.
“These advertisers depend on the loyalty of a
broad consumer base that
includes millions of Latinos
who are tired of being demonized by Dobbs. … Let’s
send a message to these
advertisers that they will be
held accountable for financially supporting the spread
of hate.”
According to Simon
Rosenberg, head of the
New Democrat Network
and a former television
journalist himself, cable TV
shows such as Dobbs’ are
fueling a dangerous social
polarization in the United
States.
“Dobbs spreads things that
are clearly untrue and uses
wild and extreme rhetoric,
particularly about Hispanic
Americans, that should
have no space on a mainstream network like CNN,”
Rosenberg said. “He is free
to say whatever he wants on
his own Website, his books
and on his radio show, but
CNN and Time Warner,
which are globally respected companies, should take
a stand regarding this kind
of speech.”
Should we support this petition?
Edward Schumacher-Matos, a lecturer at Harvard
and Miami Herald ombudsman, says that “the boycott
is perfectly legitimate. As
much as Dobbs may not
mean to demonize immigrants and Latinos, he
does. He hammers at this
issue night after night, and
he takes so many facts out
of context, that even if I
don’t think he is a racist, he
feeds into racism.”
In addition, Dobbs often
misleads the public by presenting opinion disguised
as news, Schumacher-Matos added. Edward Wasserman, a journalism-ethics
professor at Washington
and Lee University and a
Miami Herald columnist,
added that just as Dobbs
has a right to free speech,
THE AIDS VACCINE...
young Jamaicans even to
say something as trivial as
‘Come back here,’ because
they might be “implying
that you’re ‘coming in the
back,’ which is how gay
men have sex.”
While Jamaica’s youth
busy themselves with such
absurd niceties, AIDS has
cut a swathe through the
country’s heavily closeted
gay community. The absence of open discussion
has also led to enormous
social pressure to conform.
Consequently a significant
number of Jamaican homosexuals have masked
their sexual inclinations by
pretending to be ‘straight’
Continued from page 52.
– some even going to the
extent of getting married.
This has increased infection rates and created a
dangerous, largely unexamined link between the
gay and straight communities. Jamaica’s fanatical
homophobia can therefore no longer be seen
simply as a cultural quirk,
it is an anachronism which
is costing lives. Elsewhere
in the Caribbean, with,
perhaps, the partial exception of Trinidad, old
fashioned ideas about
human sexuality need to
change quickly if public
awareness campaigns are
to be effective.
The AIDS crisis cannot be
solved by medicine alone.
It requires social, political and cultural maturity
– especially a willingness
to deal with the reality of
sexual life, prostitution,
and drug use – and information campaigns that deal
frankly with the most likely
forms of transmission. At
current rates of infection,
a successful vaccine, whenever developed, will come
too late to stop millions of
avoidable deaths. Only our
own concerted action can
prevent those. In Guyana,
and throughout the Caribbean, it is time that we
faced this reality.
news consumers have a
right to boycott companies
that sponsor irresponsible
journalism.
“If you find the general
drift of Dobbs’ commentary to be incendiary, reckless, deceitful, then you
shouldn’t be buying these
advertisers’
products,”
Wasserman said.
He added that both Dobbs
and the coalition asking for
his firing will get greater attention from this fight, and
that “the greater danger is
of deepening fragmentation, if we see more and
more of these boycotts.”
My opinion: If Dobbs’
show was presented as an
opinion show – “The angrywhite-male nightly diatribe”
would be a proper name
for it – I would be against
a boycott drive because it
would curtail his right to
free speech. But if Dobbs,
Beck, and other cable TV
entertainers continue to
deceive the public by using
news formats to disguise
opinion as news, and cross
the line from dispassionate
discourse to fire-brand crusading, they must live with
the consequences, including boycotts.
(If you wonder why The
Herald runs my column under the banner “In my opinion,” and why I always end
my columns with the words
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“my opinion,” it’s precisely
to let you know exactly what
you are reading.)
The key issue should not
be where Dobbs or other
Hispanic-phobic TV show
hosts stand, but whether
they present themselves as
what they are – opinionators. And Dobbs clearly
doesn’t pass the test.
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People
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
LONDON--Madonna secured her 11th British number one album on Sunday
when her greatest hits collection “Celebration” took
the top spot in its debut
week.
The U.S. singer’s latest
release, which includes hits
such as “Vogue”, “Like a
Virgin” and “Ray of Light”,
pushed “The Resistance”
by British rock band Muse
off the top of the chart.
Madonna is now the third
most successful album artist in British chart history,
behind only the Beatles
(15 number ones) and Elvis
Presley (11), according to
The Official Charts Company, which compiles the
weekly rundown.
London rapper Dizzee
Rascal entered the chart at
number three with his new
album “Tongue ‘n Cheek”,
while Lebanon-born singer Mika was new at four
with “The Boy Who Knew
Too Much”. There was no
change at the top of the
singles chart, with singersongwriter Taio Cruz holding on to pole position with
“Break Your Heart”.
French DJ David Guetta’s
dance hit “Sexy Chick” was
steady at number two and
U.S. rapper Jay-Z “Empire
State of Mind, recorded
with R&B singer Alicia
Keys, climbed 12 places to
third.
Hannelly Quintero of Venezuela (2nd R) reacts after being crowned Miss Intercontinental
2009 in Minsk, Belarus on Sunday.
PARIS--She hit the silver
screen as a sultry temptress
in “Et Dieu crea la femme”
(And God created woman)
in 1956, instantly making
Brigitte Bardot the face
that symbolised France-and French women.
Until her retirement from
the cinema in 1973, “BB”,
who turns 75 on Monday,
was never out of the headlines. She made 48 films,
frequently nude, recorded
dozens of songs and picked
up and dropped lovers as
only male stars had done
publicly before.
A retrospective exhibit,
“Brigitte Bardot, les annees insouciance” (years of
nonchalance) at the Espace
Landowski in BoulogneBillancourt near Paris, is
an attempt to recapture
the impact she had, and
to celebrate the era-defining career of a woman who
seemed to be a force of nature.
The exhibit opens with
a film clip of the star clad
only in long black boots and
a floating French tricolour
flag--an image that says
much about her twin status
as sex symbol and national
treasure. For France, she
was as much an embodiment of the glamorous
post-World War Two world
as James Bond, Marilyn
Monroe or the Beatles.
“It was a very tranquil,
sleepy, conformist France
that was getting over the
war and the Occupation,”
said Henry-Jean Servat, a
writer and friend of Bardot’s, who curated the exhibition. “She blew all of that
up completely.”
“Compared with the stars
of the time--made-up,
smoothed over--she was
fresh, natural and modern.
On the screen, she was just
what she was in life,” Servat
said.
“Brigitte Bardot couldn’t
care less about what other
people think,” wrote Simone de Beauvoir, one of
France’s earliest and most
famous feminist writers.
“She eats when she’s hungry, she falls in love with
the same simplicity, without
ceremony. She does what
she wants and that’s what’s
disturbing.”
At the same time, the
changed moral climate
which Bardot helped to
create meant she was not a
scandalous figure and she
was chosen as the face of
Marianne, the symbol of
France whose bust hangs in
town halls up and down the
country.
The exhibition is based on
photographs and film clips
of Bardot’s career with a
number of objects, costumes and personal memorabilia, lent by friends
including Alain Delon, although assembling personal
items for the exhibition was
difficult. “She couldn’t give
very much herself because
she doesn’t have anything
left. She sold it all,” Servat
said.
After retirement, Bardot
devoted herself in singleminded fashion to animal
welfare, cutting off her ties
with show business and declaring that having given
her youth to men, she would
devote her mature years to
animals.
Franz Muellner of Austria turns over a car in a successful world record attempt to turn over a
car by hand eight times within five minutes in Vienna, Austria on Sunday.
BAGHDAD--Iraq has seen
a surge in lavish weddings
during what has been the
country’s most festive and
peaceful Muslim holiday
in years, with party goers
shrugging off security worries and dancing late into
the night.
Some 630 couples married
at Baghdad’s six fanciest
hotels during Eid al-Fitr,
the week-long holiday after the holy month of Ramadan, the Tourism and
Antiquities Ministry said,
about the same as the total
number wed at such hotels
in July and August. The Eid
celebration marked an end
to the quietest Ramadan
in Iraq since the U.S.-led
invasion in 2003 plunged
the country into more than
six years of insurgency and
bloodshed.
Weddings were a much
more sombre affair during
the dark days of sectarian
strife, when people lived
in fear of suicide bombers
or Islamist extremists who
considered the music that
typically accompanies wed-
ding processions forbidden,
or ‘haram’. The ministry was
unable to give precise figures for weddings in previous years, but a spokesman
said that there had been a
dramatic jump in weddings
starting this spring.
“Iraqis are taking advantage of the holiday and the
good security situation,”
spokesman Abdul-Zahra alTalagani said.
The surge in weddings
was just one element of
the unusually festive Eid
celebrations this year, with
huge traffic jams caused by
people visiting friends and
relatives and local parks and
restaurants crowded with
hundreds of thousands of
people eating and dancing.
Such celebrations would
have been impossible at the
height of sectarian violence
in 2006-07, when militias
and insurgent groups controlled most of Baghdad and
terrified Iraqis scarcely ventured out of their homes.
The worst of the bloodshed
has receded, but violence
continues in areas of mixed
ethnicity and religion. Almost 100 people died in twin
truck bombings last month
in Baghdad.
Even as they embrace a
newfound sense of security,
Iraqis are also wary about
the future. Iraq is heading
into hotly contested national elections in January, and
American troops are set to
halt combat operations next
summer.
In one wedding last week,
Ali Mohammed, a 31-yearold groom, awaited his
bride-to-be next to a smart
new car decked with flowers, to the beat of a band
playing traditional Iraqi music. “Thank God I was able
to hold the wedding during
Eid. Everything looks so
normal,” Mohammed said.
Mohammed lifted the
train of his fiancee’s white
dress and helped her into
the car before a procession
of cars and buses cruised
the Baghdad streets for an
hour, honking their horns
and stopping occasionally
so passengers could dance
in the street.
People
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
ZURICH/LOS ANGELES-Fugitive director Roman
Polanski, whose tumultuous
life has overshadowed his
film career, was arrested this
weekend in Zurich after U.S.
authorities sought to have
him extradited to face sentencing for having sex with a
13-year-old girl in 1977.
Polanski, 76, was taken into
custody on Saturday after
arriving in Switzerland to receive a lifetime achievement
award at the Zurich Film
Festival the next day. Amid
protests from his native
France and from his former
homeland of Poland, he now
faces a court battle over extradition, and perhaps even a
new trial in Los Angeles.
“Some form of justice will
finally be done,” said Los
Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley. “He
received a very, very, very
lenient sentence back then,
which would never be achievable under today’s laws, and
we’ll see what the court
wants to do in terms of the
sentence and the parameters
within the case settlement
they had back then.”
He did not say what sentence prosecutors would recommend.
Polanski fled the United
States on the eve of his 1978
sentencing because he believed a judge might overrule
his plea and put him in jail
for 50 years. But a 2008 film
documentary has prompted
new questions of judicial
misconduct, and his lawyers
have tried unsuccessfully to
get his case dismissed.
Polanski has avoided coun-
File photo of Polish film director Roman Polanski (R) posing with an actor during a news
conference to present his musical “Tanz der Vampire” (“Dance of the Vampires”) in Berlin,
Germany October 11, 2006.
tries such as Britain that have very clear,” Polanski’s law- Temime, was quoted as tellextradition treaties with the yer, Georges Kiejman, told ing French newspaper Le Figaro that Polanski has reguUnited States. He has never France Info radio.
returned to Los Angeles,
Another lawyer, Herve larly visited Switzerland and
where his pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate, was murdered by followers of Charles
Manson in 1969.
French Culture Minister
Frederic Mitterrand was
Tele 2
“stunned” to hear about the
St. Martin Cable
arrest, his office said, adding
Monday, September 28
President Nicolas Sarkozy
6:00am
Caribbean Workout
was following the case and
6:30am
Speak the Ministry-Word TV
hoped the matter could be
7:00am
AVS News (r)
resolved, allowing Polanski
9:00am
Turning Point
to return to his family. “We
10:00am
Music Videos
12:00pm
AVS News
are going to try to lift the
3:00pm
Music Videos
arrest warrant in Zurich ...
5:00pm
Warren Cassel Show
the (extradition) conven6:30pm
In Depth with Andrew Bishop
tion between Switzerland
7:00pm
Prime Time with Beverly
and the United States is not
8:00pm
Local Events
8:30pm
9:00pm
10:00pm
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
AVS News
Regional Programming
AVS News (r)
even owns a chalet in a ski
village.
Los Angeles County District Attorney spokeswoman
Sandi Gibbons said her office
learned last week Polanski
would be in Zurich and sent
a provisional arrest warrant
to the Swiss. The Swiss Federal Justice Department said
the extradition warrant and
any final decision could be
challenged in court.
Polanski was initially arrested in the United States
in 1977 and charged with
giving drugs and alcohol to
the minor and having unlawful sex with her at actor
Jack Nicholson’s Hollywood
home. Nicholson was not in
the house at the time.
The director maintained
the girl was sexually experienced and consented. Polanski spent 42 days in prison
undergoing psychiatric tests
and eventually agreed to
plead guilty and receive a
sentence of time served.
The case was the subject
of a 2008 film documentary
“Roman Polanski: Wanted
and Desired” that included
interviews with the victim,
Samantha Geimer of Hawaii,
and lawyers for both sides. It
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argues, in part, that Polanski
was the victim of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct.
In a 2008 interview, Geimer
told Reuters Polanski should
not face any jail time.
Based on what they said was
new evidence in the film, Polanski’s lawyers tried to have
the case dismissed, but were
denied their attempt earlier
this year by a Los Angeles
judge. Los Angeles criminal defense specialist Steve
Cron, who is unaffiliated
with the case, said Polanski’s
attorneys might now agree
to extradition believing the
charges could be dropped.
Polanski scored a huge hit in
the United States with 1968
horror thriller “Rosemary’s
Baby”, and another with
1974’s “Chinatown”, a stylish thriller starring Nicholson that was nominated for
11 Academy Awards. “Tess”
(1979) also earned him an
Oscar nomination, and Polanski finally won his only
best director Oscar for 2002
film “The Pianist”, the story
of a Jewish-Polish musician
who sees his world collapse
with the outbreak of World
War Two.
TV 15 (local)
St. Maarten Cable TV
Monday, September 28
8:00am Music Videos
9:30am Caribbean Workout
5:00pm Music Videos
6:00pm All Access
6:30pm Strictly Business
7:00pm GIS Bulletin
7:30pm AVS News
7:58pm Medical Edge
8:00pm Oral Gibbes Live
9:00pm Special
9:30pm Robbie’s Lottery
9:35pm Special
10:00pm St. Maarten Lottery
10:05pm Special
11:00pm AVS News
11:30pm Caribbean Newsline
BVN (Dutch/Flemish) TV
Channel 46 St. Maarten Cable TV
Monday, September 28
12:00pm
VRT Journaal
12:25pm
De rode loper
12:45pm
Lingo
1:20pm
Vroege vogels
1:25pm
Teleac: Rechtstaat & Democratie
1:45pm
Blauw bloed
2:20pm
Omrop Fryslan
3:00pm
NOS Journaal
3:10pm
Sesamstraat
3:40pm
Het klokhuis
3:55pm
Jeugdjournaal
4:00pm
Blokken
4:25pm
Thuis
4:50pm
ONM
5:15pm
RegioNed
5:20pm
Eenvandaag
5:50pm
Sportjournaal kort
6:00pm
VRT Journaal
6:40pm
De wereld draait door
7:30pm
NOS Journaal
7:55pm
Weerbericht
8:05pm
TROS TV show op reis
8:55pm
Met het mes op tafel
9:20pm
Nova/Den Haag vandaag
9:50pm
NOS Sportjournaal
10:15pm
Pauw & Witteman
11:10pm
Terzake
11:45pm
Man bijt hond
TeleCuraçao
Channel 30 St. Maarten Cable TV
Local time Programme
Monday, September 28
6:30am
Moru Bondia
9:30am
Transformashon
10:30am
Kontakto (r)
11:30am
Buen Provecho
12:00pm
Al Dia
12:30pm
Telenotisia Merdia
1:00pm
Bo Tra’i Merdia
3:30pm
Telsell
3:45pm
Atardi Hubenil
4:00pm
Enid pa Mucha (r)
5:00pm
Aghusa
6:00pm
Programa Internashonal
7:00pm
Muhe
8:00pm
Telenotisia Prinsipal
9:00pm
Wega di Number Korsou
9:10pm
Partisipashon di morto
9:15pm
Kiko ta Kiko
10:15pm
Transformashon (r)
11:10pm
Telenotisia (r)
12:00am
Estreno
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Comics
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
By Linda C. Black
Today’s Birthday (September 28) -- You’re not
quite finished with your household renovation
projects, but you’re close enough to take a day
off ever so often and enjoy what you’ve accomplished.
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 an 8 -- It
looks like you’ve achieved one major goal. Celebrate with friends, but don’t forget your chores.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Someone wants to offer you a new assignment. Have
confidence that you can do it. This will lead to
more income later.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is an 8 -You know you shouldn’t gossip, but sometimes
you do. This time there’s a false rumour going
around, so stay out of it.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Is your
treasure safe? Maybe you ought to go over the
numbers again. Something may have changed.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- You feel
like you’re carrying the world on your shoulders. Get your partner involved. Together you
can do anything.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Don’t
worry if your words are getting tangled. That’s
going around right now. Keep trying until you
get it right.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- You
change your tune today, so make sure your voice
is up to the task. Do you remember the words?
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- You
reverse direction today. You should plan on objections. Work out the kinks after lunch.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 6 - Practical measures don’t work today. But wild
ideas may work if you give them just a little
thought.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 6 -- If
it weren’t for all the changes, you’d do just fine.
Try to take the new stuff in stride. Tomorrow’s
another day.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- If
you can’t change your tune today, at least, sing
on key. This takes effort, so apply yourself.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Ordinary methods won’t work now. Use whatever
you can to change course. Remember: Water
flows downhill easily.
Community
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
environmentally friendly bags, dog collars and caps. Sterilisation certificates will be available for free. All proceeds
will go towards the foundation’s sterilisation programme.
Place: Le Grand Marché entrance
Time: Saturday, 9:00am until; Sunday morning
Tuesday, October 6
Wednesday, October 7
Friday, October 9
Saturday, October 10
Sunday, October 11
DISCOVER YOUR
OCEAN WEEK
For children, teenagers and adults
Tuesday: 9:00am to 12:30pm, Arts and Crafts; 5:00pm, ‘Learn
to Snorkel’ Presentation and Poster Awards
Wednesday: 9:00am to 12:30pm, ‘Learn to Snorkel’ in the
pool with. Mr. Sprott (at least have swimming diploma A)
Friday: 9:00am to 12:30pm, Atlantis Adventures Submarine
Excursion, admission $8 per person
Saturday: 10:00am to 1:00pm, Story Time, or Arts and
Crafts
Place: Philipsburg Jubilee Library
Sunday: 10:00am to 12:00 noon, ‘Learn to Snorkel’
Place: The Little Bay beach in front of Divi Resort
Dear Queenie,
Recently we took a trip to the States and while we were there
we stopped by to visit with my wife’s sister.
When we got there nobody answered when we knocked, but
it was obvious somebody was home because the door was unlocked, so we went in and sat down to wait for them.
You can imagine our surprise when some complete strangers
walked in and wanted to know who the hell were we and what
the hell were we doing in their house. It seems Sis had moved
away a couple of years ago and we had no idea where she lived
now. We had to call my wife’s family back home to find out
where she was. Everyone thought it was a big joke, but it was
Register For School
really embarrassing.
Queenie, why couldn’t she have let us know she had moved?— Star Light Educational Centre appeals to all parents/guardians whose children still are not attending school to register
Red-faced
their children for compulsory education Monday, September
28, to Friday, October 2. This data is being collected for the
Dear Red-faced,
I have a couple of much better questions: Why hadn’t your research being conducted by the Education Department. For
more information call tel. 548-3595 or visit the school, Wawife stayed in touch with her sister?
And why didn’t she check with Sis ahead of time to let her termelon Road #2, St. Peters.
NOTICES
know you were coming to visit? Dropping in without notice is
terribly inconsiderate – in fact, it’s just plain rude – even when
it’s a family member.
If she had done so, she would have known Sis’ new address.
Finally, how dare you enter another person’s home without
permission, especially one whom you had not seen, talked to
or corresponded with for some time?
Never mind being embarrassed, you were lucky you didn’t get
yourselves arrested! I hope you have learned a lesson.
EVENTS
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.
Thursday, October 1
AWARD OF
EXCELLENCE
Organised by Philipsburg Mutual Improvement Association to
honour a St. Maarten resident who epitomises the voluntary spirit.
Guest speaker: Elmora Pantophlet-Aventurin, a leader in sports.
Place: PMIA Hall, Back Street
Time: 7:30-9:00pm
Dress code: Formal
Saturday, October 3
CHURCH SERVICE TO
HONOUR TEACHERS
Organised by the Education Department of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church on observance of International Teachers Appreciation Day, October 5. Theme: Called to Shape the Future.
Place: SDA Church, Cole Bay
Time: 9:00am
Dress code: Formal
Saturday, October 3
Sunday, October 4
WORLD ANIMAL
DAY SALE
In observance of World Animal Day, October 4, St.
Maarten Animal Welfare Foundation is holding a sale of its
Professor Mamadou
CLAIRVOYANT - MEDIUM FROM BIRTH
Driving Lessons
Belvedere Community Centre is now registering interested persons for driving lessons, Monday-Friday, 9:00am to
4:00pm. Deadline for registration is October 2. Lessons begin on October 12. Belvedere residents with proof of such
are given preference and discounted prices. For more information, call 524-5499, 547-0239, 547-0157 or 547-0150.
Zumba Fitness Retreat
Zumba-N-Neon fitness retreat at Yogesh Commercial Complex, second floor, October 10-11, 8:00am to 3:00pm. Includes free glucose and B/P testing, Tae Kwando, Zumba
Fitt Resistance andEndurance Training, Pilates, Zumba
Belly Dance, Zumba-licious (abs only), Zumba Gold (beginner friendly), Zumba Advance, Zumba Stretch, Zumba
Salsa/Soca mix, Zumba Kids 4 years and up, weight loss programming coaching for children and adults, giveaways and
great raffles. Sponsored by F High Performance and Fitness Federation,Fountain of Health, Total Cleaning, Harbor
View Restaurant, and Sheriff Security. You can register now,
deadline October 5. US $25 registration fee. Call Rayetta
Harrell-Elsinga, tel. 520-FITT (3488), or e-mail ilovezumbasxm@gmail.com .
Art Expo
Ruby Bute is organising an art expo at her art gallery in
Friar’s Bay on Sunday, December 20, 10:00am to 5:00pm,
to encourage the community to own a piece of painting or
artwork from our local artists. Spots where they can display
their work are available for all artists and crafters for a small
fee. Deadline for registration is December 15. To register,
call Ruby Bute, tel. 580-5533, or Marian Jno-Finn, tel. 523Yom Kippur Services
At Beach Plaza Hotel, French side: Arrangements have been 2371, or e-mail mjnofinn@hotmail.com .
made for those who would like to stay at the hotel at discounted rates. Please ask for the Jewish Holiday rate when Library Bus Schedule
The Library Bus will visit Dutch Quarter and Belvedere
booking. Call +590 590 29 14 08.
Monday, September 28: 10:00am, Yizkor Memorial Ser- every other week on Fridays. All children under 12 years
vice 12:00 noon, Evening services/Neilah 4:30pm, Fast ends are welcome to come to the bus to read, do a little handicraft, play games and check out books. October 2, 9, 16, 30;
6:32pm followed by a light break-the-fast.
Services are open to all at no charge. However, donations November 6 and 20; December 4 and 18. Location: Dutch
Quarter, Zorg en Rust, in front of Johnnie’s Minimarket,
are welcome.
2:00-3:15pm; Belvedere, Happy Estate Road, 3:30-5:45pm.
For more information contact Aukje de Jong at Philipsburg
October Camp Week
No Kidding With Our Kids Foundation has opened registra- Jubilee Library, tel. 542-2970.
tion for its October Camp week October 5-9 for children ages
4 and up. Programme: 8:00am to 4:30pm includes breakfast, Tutoring Assistance
lunch, snacks and drinks. Fee: US $25 for ASA children, $75 J&D Educational Foundation is accepting registration for
for non-ASA children. Registration at main office, Sucker after school assistance for children in grades 1-6; tutoring in
English, Dutch, math, arithmetic and computer; English as
Garden Road #13, tel. 542-4910, during morning hours.
a second language; and GED tutorials. We are also accepting registration of children in grades 1-3 starting October 15,
Enrichment Courses
Belvedere Community Centre is registering interested per- and persons who want to sit the naturalisation exam. Regissons for Secretarial Level 1 and Budgeting for Youngsters ter at Pondfill 55c, tel: 553-7187.
courses, Monday-Friday, 9:00am to 4:00pm. Deadline for
registration is September 30. Lessons begin on October 13. Toastmasters Meetings
Belvedere residents with proof of such are given preference Philipsburg Toastmasters Club meets at Philipsburg Jubilee
and discounted prices. For more information, call 524-5499, Library on the first and third Thursday of every month, 7:459:30pm.
547-0239, 547-0157 or 547-0150.
Achievers Toastmasters Club meets at Philipsburg Jubilee
Library on the second and fourth Thursday of every month,
Drawing Contest
The “Foster Families Central” office of Foundation Judicia- 7:30-9:00pm.
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Sports
CUL-DE-SAC--Anguilla’s
lower order batsman Masimba Bowen also known
as “Simba” bowled superbly to collect four for 51
and then played a roaring
innings of 67 not out as St.
Maarten was defeated by
three wickets by the visitors
at Caribe Lumber Ballpark,
yesterday.
The match was a practice
match for the two teams
in preparations for the
NAGICO Leeward Islands
one-day tournament which
bowls off in St. Kitts, Anguilla and St. Maarten on
October 12.
St. Maarten batted first
and posted a challenging
272 all out in 49 overs to
which the Anguillians successfully replied with 275
for seven with three balls to
spare.
Simba, who is tall, athletic
and fairly, skillful with the
bat strolled to the crease
with his team facing a
daunting position with his
team needing 98 with only
11.4 overs to go.
Nevertheless, he went
on the attack immediately
with some enterprising
strokes as he endeavoured
to dominate the bowlers.
Simba smacked five fours
and three sixes off his 42ball inning. The lower order batsman also ran quickly between the wickets with
his partner Junior Johnson
which literally unsettled the
fielding team.
Earlier, St. Maarten’s inning was built around two
intelligent innings from
Sherwin Peters 77 and Moreland Le Blanc 69. Both
batsmen came together at
17 for three with Sheldon
Le Blanc (0), Elias Aristhee
(4) and Anil Persaud back
in the dressing room.
Simba was responsible for
the dismissal of the first
two batsmen while Montcin
Hodge removed Persaud
via the lbw route. However, Peters and Le Blanc,
though only in their early
twenties showed outstanding maturity to build a 121
partnership for the fourth
wicket which set their team
on course for the competitive total.
Peters’ ground strokes
were once again stylish
while Le Blanc struck some
calculated blows in the
partnership. Peters hit 14
fours and Le Blanc stroked
six fours and two sixes.
After they were dismissed,
John Eugene hit three fours
and three sixes in 47 off 38
balls to give the inning some
late sweetening. The scores
for the other batsmen were
Romain Doodnauth 21,
Royston Trocard 16, Lionel
Ritchie and Joel Brown 11
apiece and Kenroy David
was left unbeaten on two.
The home team looked
in control of the match as
early as the first over when
Joevaughie Gumbs edged
David down the leg side (4
for 1) to when Josiah John
was caught for 18 (175 for
7). But, from there onwards
it was Simba and Johnson
who took control of the
run chase and handed their
team a come-from-behind
win.
In between their matchwinning innings, Lyndel
Richardson played fluently
for 59 off 57 balls with sev-
PHILIPSBURG--The RISC
Takers were the only seeded
team to lose in the first leg
of the quarterfinals of the St.
Maarten Futsal Association
playoffs at L.B. Scott Sports
Auditorium yesterday.
RISC Takers faced Sheriff Security and went down 3-1 in the
first of a home and away game
series. The Security Team took
a 1-0 led into the locker room
at the break off a goal by Dillian Mitchell. He also netted
the first goal for Security in the
second half to secure the win.
Martijn Schaap scored the
lone goal for the RISC Takers.
Ghetto Boys squeezed past
NAGICO Fun Makers 3-2.
Osette Cummings scored one
goal in the first half and one in
the second in the winning ef-
fort. John Singodikromo and
Basil Wong scored for Fun
Makers.
Creyola clobbered Heineken
Fun Boys 7-0. Creyola had a 20 led at the break from goals by
Wankendel Laurent. He netted
a third ball in the second half
and both Fixe Rockfeller and
Kinson Michel doubled.
Dewa Boys enjoyed an afternoon of target practice as they
faced Fire Starters. Dewa Boys
won 7-3. Lindsay Montcherry
and Feroz Bakas both recorded
hat tricks for the Dewa team.
Also playing Sunday were
Funmakers and Telstar in a
veteran division match up.
Funmakers won 7-3. J. Singodikromo scored five times in
the winning effort.
THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
en fours and two sixes and
captain Chaka Hodge batted sedately for 41 off 75
balls (3 fours, 2 sixes).
Johnson who contributed
37 not out off 51 balls hit
three fours. The men in
red, white and blue also
aided the Anguilla win by
conceded 36 extras of which
32 were wides.
The wicket takers for the
home team were Brown
(three for 62 off 10 overs),
David (two for 49 off 10
overs), Colin Hamer (one
for 38 off 10 overs) and
Anil Persaud (one for 26
off four overs).
The local team has some
other concerns apart from
the wides problem that
need to be addressed before the tournament starts,
especially how they handle
pressure situations and
they will need more decisive and strong leadership
in these situations. And
knowing that St. Maarten
has to play Anguilla in an
official preliminary match
in the one-day tournament,
they will have to plot better
to conquer Simba’s bowling
and batting because he is a
Lion King.
SABA--The Saba Sports
Federation was officially
notarized on Thursday and
sponsored an event the very
next day for Saba’s youngest, the children of Laura
Linzey Day Care Centre.
Many members of the
Federation turned out to
help President Jarmila
Berkel-Wilson and Day
Care Director Margaret
Child, her staff and parents to try and organize the
small ones into a semblance
of a race format. Start and
finish lines did not seem to
mean much to the tykes,
however, nor did directions. It soon looked like
a miniature bumper cars
concession, with traffic going in all directions. Adults
crossed the sports field at
their peril. However, the
main goal was met: everyone got good exercise and
had a good time.
President Berkel-Wilson
said that it had taken longer than expected to get the
Foundation set up legally.
When it was determined
that the Foundation’s documentation was missing key
The NAGICO Blue Jays, at bat, defeated the Coors Light Windward Roads Tigers at John Cooper Jose Lake Sr. Ballpark Saturday and lost to Diamondbacks Sunday.
CUL DE SAC--The St.
Maarten Baseball Association defending champions,
Carl and Sons Volvic Water
Stars are 0-2 as the Double
A season got underway at
John Cooper Jose Lake Sr.
Ballpark Friday.
The Stars lost the season
opener to sub champions
Zhaveri Jewellers Diamondbacks 12-13 Friday
and lost to Mets Access 3-0
Saturday.
Both teams connected
for 13 hits. Diamondbacks
drew 10 walks, Stars had
five.
The Mets bested the Stars
scoring three runs off two
hits. The team was flawless
in the field. The Stars had
four hits and committed
three errors.
It was a pitchers duel for
seven scoreless innings. Jairo Jabalera started on the
mound for Mets.
The Diamondbacks went
on to improve their record
A serious winner takes the lead! Sport Federation President
Jarmila Berkel-Wilson (left) organized a sports day of Big
Wheels and tricycles for Laura Linzey Day Care Centre pupils
points, the Board sought
advice from Curaçao. All
documents are now complete so that the Foundation will pass all scrutiny
when the Board applies for
funding and when Federation members are compet-
ing in officially sanctioned
competitions. “Now we
have a solid, well-rounded
organization,” Berkel-Wilson said.
The Federation has
planned a large sports fest
for Saba for the first week-
to 2-0 with a 12-8 win over
the NAGICO Blue Jays
Sunday. The Diamondbacks again had 13 hits but
committed six errors. The
Jays scored eight runs off
six hits and had seven fielding mistakes.
The Coors Light Windward Roads Tigers lost
their season opener to the
Blue Jays Saturday and
were clobbered Sunday by
the Mets 13-0.
end in October. There will
be soccer, volleyball, and
basketball games in the
sports auditorium in St.
Johns. All residents of any
age are welcome to play.
In addition, Sacred Heart
pupils will participate in a
dodge ball game. Two sports
experts from St. Maarten
will hold a basketball clinic
for players from Saba Comprehensive School.
Since the Sports Federation is promoting physical
activity in general, it will
form a Woman’s Walking
Group that will meet every
Saturday morning, starting October 10th. The walk
will rotate between Saba’s
villages, and women of all
ages are encouraged to participate.
Berkel-Wilson said that
more information about the
Federation’s sports weekend would be made available next week. The Foundation Board is very enthusiastic about getting sports
activities on a solid footing
on Saba, secure training for
coaches, and give longevity
to the programmes.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
matches.
“Our fielding, at times,
has been appalling and not
of international standard,”
captain Sangakkara said.
“The lengths we bowled
were not right. We have to
go back to basics and start
to hit our areas with aggression as opposed to just putting the ball on a spot.”
MENDRISIO,
Switzerland-- Twice Tour de France
runner-up Cadel Evans
pipped the favourites to
win the road race at the
world cycling championships on Sunday, becoming
the first Australian to claim
the title.
Evans broke clear around
four kilometres from the
end of the 262.2-km race
-- 19 laps of a 13.8-km circuit -- to prevail and make
up for a disappointing 30th
place in this year’s Tour.
He also went a long way to
shrugging off his reputation
as an unlucky loser.
His near-misses included
the same event in Stuttgart
two years ago when he was
in a group of sprinters who
crossed the line almost together but ended up with
fifth place.
Russia’s Alexandr
Kolobnev produced a late
burst to finish second, 27
seconds behind, edging
Spain’s Joaquim Rodriguez into third place in a
sprint for the line. It was
Kolobnev’s second silver in
three years.
Evans, 32, beat a field
which included local favourite Fabian Cancellara,
winner of Thursday’s time
trial, Vuelta winner Alejandro Valverde, Olympic
champion Samuel Sanchez,
defending champion Alessandro Ballan and Damiano Cunego of Italy.
“Sometimes, it got demoralising to come second so
many times,” Evans told reporters. “You do the same
work and face the same
difficulties as the one who
wins.
“But I’ve always looked
ahead to the future and the
possibility of winning.
“I’m very proud to win the
first world championship
for my country,” added
Evans, who has a second
home three kms from the
finish line.
“I suffered from some
illness during the Tour de
France and I couldn’t be as
competitive as I would have
wished. Straight after the
Tour de France, I concentrated on preparing for the
race today.”
Kazakhstan’s Alexander
Vinokourov, who returned
to cycling last month after a two-year doping ban,
was the first to try to break
clear on the last lap but was
quickly roped in by the first
group of chasers, which included three Spaniards.
Cancellara, aiming to become the first man to do
the double of world championship time trial and
road race, was next when
he burst clear climbing the
Castel San Pietro, the first
of two hills on the circuit.
The Swiss was caught by
a group of riders and Evans
produced a devastating attack up the Novazzano hill,
the final climb of the race,
to take the gold medal.
Rodriguez, who finished
ahead of his better-known
compatriots Valverde, Sanchez and three-times world
champion Oscar Freire,
denied it had been a disappointing day for the Spaniards.
“A medal is always important for the squad,” he said.
“We have done a good job
today.”
Several big names were
missing from the race, including Tour de France
winner Alberto Contador
who pulled out last month
citing fatigue.
Seven-times Tour de
France champion Lance
Armstrong also stayed away
and Britain’s Mark Cavendish decided this week he
was not fit enough to race.
LONDON-- European
champions
Barcelona
may be without striker
Thierry Henry when
they host Dynamo Kiev
on Tuesday looking for
their first Champions
League win of the season.
The Frenchman pulled
up with a strained muscle in Saturday’s 2-0 win
over Malaga in La Liga.
Barca, who drew 0-0
at Inter Milan in their
opening Group F match,
won their fifth successive
La Liga game on Saturday with Zlatan Ibrahimovic maintaining his
record of scoring in every match.
Dynamo, UEFA Cup
semi-finalists last season,
head for Spain as group
leaders after their victory over Russian champions and competition
debutants Rubin Kazan.
Rubin welcome Inter to
their refurbished 30,000capacity stadium, with
the Italian champions
travelling without Dutch
midfielder Wesley Sneijder (hip injury).
While Barca were
maintaining their perfect La Liga start, Real
Madrid, aiming to win
a record-extending 10th
European Cup at their
Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in May -- also won
their fifth successive
league match by beating
Tenerife 3-0.
Real won 5-2 at FC
Zurich in their opening
Group C match and host
Olympique
Marseille
on Wednesday with the
French side reeling from
their first Ligue 1 defeat
of the season.
“I didn’t recognise Marseille,” defender Cyril
Rool told reporters after
Saturday’s 3-2 loss at Valenciennes. “Obviously,
it would have been better to win before going
to Madrid.”
Three of the four Eng-
lish challengers won in
the Premier League at
the weekend, with Manchester United going top
for the first time this season after a 2-0 victory at
Stoke City.
Liverpool crushed Hull
City 6-1, Fernando Torres scoring an outstanding hat-trick, and Arsenal beat Fulham 1-0 in
a London derby at Craven Cottage. Previously
unbeaten Chelsea went
down to a shock 3-1 defeat at Wigan Athletic.
United, who began their
Group B campaign for a
third successive Champions League final appearance with a 1-0 win at
Besiktas, host Wolfsburg
knowing the German
champions have conceded 14 goals in seven
Bundesliga games.
Liverpool travel to
Fiorentina in Group E
with the English side
having beaten Debrecen
of Hungary 1-0 in their
opener and the Italians
having lost to Olympique
Lyon by the same score.
Chelsea should follow
up their opening 1-0
win over Porto with another victory in Group D
against APOEL Nicosia
in Cyprus, especially if
England midfielder Joe
Cole continues his rehabilitation from his long
injury layoff and plays.
APOEL gained a point
from a surprise 0-0 draw
at Atletico Madrid two
weeks ago and the Spaniards, at the wrong end
of La Liga without a win
in five matches, will be
hoping to kickstart their
season in their trip to
Porto.
Arsenal, who came
from two goals down to
beat Standard Liege 3-2
in their Group H opener, host Olympiakos Pireaus, while Liege travel
New Zealand’s Kyle Mills attempts to get the ball as Sri Lanka’s Nuwan Kulasekara runs past
during the ICC Champions Trophy cricket match in Johannesburg, September 27.
JOHANNESBURG-- New
Zealand resurrected their
Champions Trophy campaign when they beat Sri
Lanka by 38 runs in their
last Group B match on
Sunday.
After losing their first
game against South Africa
by five wickets, New Zealand can now qualify for
the semi-finals if they beat
England in their final group
game on Tuesday.
Half centuries from Jesse
Ryder and Martin Guptill
helped New Zealand plunder 315 for seven from their
50 overs.
In reply, Sri Lanka could
muster only 277 all out in
46.4 overs thanks mainly to
77 from Mahela Jayawardene and an undefeated
maiden ODI half-century
from Nuwan Kulasekara.
“It was a crucial win and
it kept us alive in the tournament and that’s the most
important bit,” New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori
told a news conference.
“But the manner of the
win is something that will
be pleasing to ourselves
and also to our fans back
home. To do it in such an
important game is very satisfying.”.
After being put into bat by
Sri Lanka, the left-handed
Ryder gave his team a perfect start as he pummelled
74 runs off 58 deliveries
before edging a delivery
from Kulasekara through
to keeper Kumar Sangakkara.
The 25-year-old’s third
ODI half-century was
made all the more remark-
able due to the fact that he
strained his left abductor
muscle just seven balls into
his innings.
Forced to bat with a runner, Ryder shared a firstwicket partnership with
Brendon McCullum (46)
that produced 125 runs at a
run-a-ball.
Ryder’s departure signalled the start of a collapse from the Black Caps
as they lost four wickets for
15 runs before Guptill and
Vettori (48) steadied the
innings with a sixth-wicket
stand of 69 runs.
Guptill reached 66 before
being bowled by fast bowler Lasith Malinga as New
Zealand smashed 61 runs
off the last five overs.
Forty-year-old left-arm
spinner Sanath Jayasuriya
was Sri Lanka’s most successful bowler with three
for 39 off 10 overs.
Sri Lanka made a lively
start thanks to 41 runs off
31 balls from opening batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan
to help them to 66 without
loss.
However, Sri Lanka then
lost three quick wickets to
slip to 85 for three and never recovered, only a spirited
seventh-wicket stand of 78
runs between Jayawardene
and Kulasekara providing
any real resistance.
Jayawardene was eventually bowled by left-arm
spinner Vettori while Kulasekara remained unbeaten on 57 runs off 56 deliveries.
Sri Lanka have completed
their group fixtures, collecting one win from three
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Wilma Salas of Cuba receives the ball during their bronze medal match against U.S. at the
2009 NORCECA Continental Championship volleyball finals in Bayamon September 27. Cuba
won. Dominican Republic took first place and Puerto Rico finished second.
METZ, France-- Top seed
Gael Monfils beat second
seed Philipp Kohlschreiber
7-6 3-6 6-2 in the Metz ATP
tournament final on Sunday to win the second title
of his career.
Frenchman Monfils, 23,
had been chasing a title
since his victory in 2005 in
Sopot, Poland. He had lost
six finals since.
The gifted but erratic
Monfils relied on his strong
serve and held his nerve to
BUENOS AIRES-- The
ghost of World Cup failure
before Diego Maradona’s
playing days threatens to
haunt Argentina again as
he fiddles for a winning formula as coach.
Maradona, his team fighting to avoid a humiliating
World Cup exit, announced
a string of changes on Friday for the final qualifiers
next month against Peru
and Uruguay.
He had already reshuffled
his team, to little effect, for
this month’s defeats by Brazil and Paraguay.
Now Maradona is betting
on the good Benfica form
of midfielders Pablo Aimar,
last seen in an Argentina
shirt in 2007, and Angel Di
Maria, back from a fourmatch suspension.
He has also finally decided
to reward Gonzalo Higuain
for his sparkling displays
for Real Madrid where the
striker fits in seamlessly with
the expensive ‘Galacticos’.
These and other call-ups
are set against the discarding of several players including Maxi Rodriguez and
record 138-cap defender
Javier Zanetti.
seal victory in two hours
and 13 minutes.
Both players held serve
throughout a tight first set
and a tiebreak was needed
which Monfils won 7-1
thanks to two superb backhand passes.
Kohlschreiber fought back
with a break in the sixth
game of the second set to
level the match but Monfils
was back in control in the
decisive set, taking his opponent’s serve with a fore-
That Gabriel Heinze is still
there indicates Maradona
appreciates the defender’s
fighting spirit because he is
one of the least popular selections for fans and media.
Argentina need to win
their last two qualifiers to
at least stay in the playoff
berth they occupy at present
in fifth place in the South
American group.
Local media speculated
for 10 days while Maradona
was on a European break on
what was happening at the
heart of his coaching staff
and whether he was getting
advisers imposed on him
given his inexperience in the
job.
“No one imposes a player
on me. That’s the last thing
I’d put up with from anyone ... not even a suggestion
about a player,” Maradona
told reporters after his return on Thursday.
He will sink or swim with
the teams he puts out
against Peru in Buenos Aires on Oct. 10 and Uruguay
in Montevideo four days
later.
What he hopes to see is
a team that can fight their
way out of trouble, unlike
hand winner in the sixth
game.
The German then collapsed, dropping serve
again two games later to
hand Monfils victory.
“I am glad I could show
that I could win a second
title and I am happy to have
done it in France,” Monfils
said.
“This is an encouragement
but not a relief,” he added.
“I’ll feel relieved the day I
win the French Open.”
the side that tamely surrendered 1-0 in Asuncion on
Sept. 9.
Before Cesar Luis Menotti
was appointed coach for the
1978 World Cup on home
soil, Argentina’s potential
was regularly wasted by a
lack of organisation and
constant sackings or resignations of coaches, with a
consequent lack of selection
consistency.
Steadying the boat brought
world titles in 1978 and 1986
with just two coaches spanning the 16 years between
1974 and 1990, Menotti
then Carlos Bilardo.
Maradona, taking over
from Alfio Basile a year ago,
was only the second coach
to come on board in the
middle of a four-year World
Cup cycle after Marcelo
Bielsa’s surprise resignation
in 2004 when Nestor Pekerman stepped in.
The 1986 World Cup-winning captain has called up
more than 60 players for
eight qualifiers and five
friendlies but his appointment will probably only be
judged a failure if Argentina
do not get to next year’s finals in South Africa.
JOHANNESBURG-- Australia need to improve despite their 50-run victory
over West Indies in Saturday’s Champions Trophy
Group A match, captain
Ricky Ponting said.
“We all know that we need
to play better when we take
on India in a couple of days’
time,” Ponting told a news
conference, saying he was
concerned that his side had
conceded 36 extras as they
bowled out West Indies for
225.
“Today we had a few too
many extras. We expected
the new ball to do a bit
more for us than it did and
the bowlers probably got a
little bit carried away with
that,” he added.
Australia, the defending
champions, play India in
Centurion on Monday.
However, Ponting was
pleased with his batsmen’s
application on a wicket that
provided uneven bounce
and seam movement, particularly after Australia had
been put into bat by West
Indies captain Floyd Reifer.
“It was hard work early.
The ball seamed around
a lot in the morning and
we ended up batting on
a pretty difficult wicket.
To get that sort of total, I
thought the batsman did a
really good job and Mitch
finished things off really
well for us,” Ponting said
in reference to all-rounder
Mitchell Johnson’s unbeaten 73 off 47 balls.
Australia were struggling
on 171 for seven in the 40th
over but Johnson’s knock,
together with a 70-run
eighth-wicket partnership
he shared with Brett Lee,
enabled Australia to post a
competitive 275 for eight.
“Those runs at the end of
our innings ended up being
pretty vital in the game,”
Ponting said.
Reifer was also impressed
with Johnson’s efforts.
“We had Australia 170odd for seven but the game
was taken away from us in
the last 10 overs. Mitchell
Johnson played well and
Brett Lee also played a
pretty good innings,” he
said.
“Chasing 275 and being
124 for two, I thought we
had a good chance to win
the game. But we needed
one of our top batters to
carry on and get a good
score,” he added.
Two West Indies batsmen,
Andre Fletcher and Travis
Dowlin, scored half-centuries but were both dismissed with only 170 runs
on the board.
The West Indies will com-
plete their Champions Trophy campaign when they
play India at the Wanderers
on Wednesday.
Red Bull Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany
drives during the Singapore F1 Grand Prix at the Marina Bay
street circuit September 27.
SINGAPORE-- Sebastian
Vettel refused to give up on
the Formula One title after
wrestling his wounded Red
Bull into fourth place at the
Singapore Grand Prix on
Sunday.
The German’s car was falling apart by the finish of the
night race and Vettel, who
had challenged race winner
Lewis Hamilton for the lead
in the early stages, crossed
the line one spot ahead of
championship leader Jenson Button.
Brawn’s Button leads Vettel by 25 points with 30 still
to race for.
“I think history has shown
many different examples of
how it can finish over the
years, with it going either
way,” the slender blond
driver told reporters.
“At the next races our approach will be simple -- we
will try to get pole position
and try to win, so it’s very
straightforward.”
Vettel will hope for a more
robust machine when he
takes to the Suzuka track in
Japan next weekend after
suffering a series of problems on the Southeast Asian
street circuit on Sunday.
One was a drive-through
penalty for speeding in the
pit lane which was still confusing the German several
hours after the race.
“It was a pretty good race
for me until we had the
drive-through,” he said.
“There’s a bit of a question mark as to why I got
the penalty, I mean I had
no reason to push at that
point.”
Vettel had started alongside Hamilton on the front
row but that drive-through
penalty ended any hope the
German had of winning the
race.
His Australian team mate
Mark Webber suffered
brake problems and crashed
at the end of the finishing
straight after 45 laps, allowing Brawn to extend their
lead in the constructors’
title to 42.5 points.
There are a maximum of
54 still to be won.
“We had a suspected
brake problem, so when I
came in for my pit-stop, the
guys made a visual check.
It seemed reasonable for
me to continue, but then
we had the failure and I retired,” explained Webber,
now mathematically out of
the title chase.
“The guys did everything
they could -- I think they
were seconds away from retiring me when we had the
failure, so it’s disappointing.”
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DETROIT-- The Detroit
Lions snapped a 19-game
losing streak to beat the
Washington Redskins 19-14
on Sunday and record their
first victory in nearly two
years.
Lions fans, who had staged
protests and worn bags over
their heads during the winless run, had not celebrated
a victory since Detroit beat
the Kansas City Chiefs on
Dec. 23, 2007.
“We not only got the monkey off our back, we got
King Kong off our back,”
Lions owner William Clay
Ford told reporters. “I’m
hoping this gets up over the
hump and gives us a winning attitude.”
Only 40,896, the smallest
crowd for an NFL game at
Ford Field, witnessed the
victory with a league-mandated television blackout
in effect because the game
was not sold out.
Following the win the Lions returned to the field
to shake the hands of their
loyal fans who had stood
behind them through last
season’s 0-16 campaign and
a 19-game losing skid that
equalled the second longest
in the NFL.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers hold the record after
they lost 26 consecutive
games over the 1976-77
seasons.
“Just to show appreciation
to the fans,” said Lions linebacker Larry Foote. “It says
a lot about our fans and the
people of Detroit.”
After becoming the first
NFL team to finish a regu-
MINNEAPOLIS-Veteran quarterback Brett
Favre completed a 32-yard
touchdown pass with two
seconds remaining to give
the Vikings a 27-24 victory
over San Francisco 49ers
on Sunday.
Wide receiver Greg Lewis
leaped high into the air at
the back of the end zone to
catch the ball from Favre
and give the Vikings their
third successive victory.
“It’s pretty special,” the
39-year-old Favre, who
came out of retirement for
the second time to play for
the Vikings this season, told
reporters.
He threw for 301 yards
and two touchdowns but
completed only 24 of 46
passes and was intercepted
once. Only one of his passes went to Lewis - the game
winner.
“I guess it is my lucky day,”
the reserve receiver said.
The game also featured a
101-yard kickoff return by
the Vikings’ Percy Harvin
in the third quarter, which
gave Minnesota a 20-17
lead.
San Francisco (2-1) regained the momentum on
quarterback Shaun Hill’s
second touchdown pass to
Vernon Davis, a 20-yarder
with 8:12 left in the game.
Favre then drove Minnesota 80 yards on 10 plays
in the final 1:27 for the victory.
lar season 0-16, the Lions
underwent an off-season
overhaul that included a
new logo, a new head coach
Jim Schwartz and a rookie
quarterback Matthew Stafford.
Stafford, the number one
draft pick in April, completed 21-of-36 passes for 241
yards, including a 21-yard
first quarter touchdown
strike to Bryant Johnson
to give Detroit a lead they
would never surrender.
Jason Hanson slotted two
field goals in the second
quarter to give Detroit a
13-0 lead at halftime before
the Redskins answered with
a 57-yard touchdown pass
from Jason Campbell to
Santana Moss in the third
quarter. Maurice Morris
rumbled over from the two
early in the fourth quarter
to push the Lions to a 197 lead though Washington
answered with a four-yard
touchdown
pass
from
Campbell to Rock Cartwright shortly after.
With just over a minute to
play, Washington again had
the ball, Campbell driving
the Redskins down inside
the Lions 25 yard-line before the final seconds ticked
down sparking the Detroit
celebration.
“We’d like to get to a point
where a regular season win
isn’t celebrated that much,”
said Schwartz. “It had the
feel of a post-season win.
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U.S. manager Eddie Rodriguez (C) holds the trophy on the podium after winning their IBAF
World Cup 2009 baseball final game against Cuba at the Steno Borghese Stadium in Nettuno,
near Rome, September 27.
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New York Yankees players Mark Teixeira (C), Jose Molina (L) and Nick Swisher (R) celebrate
with champagne in the locker room after the Yankees clinched the American league East
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game at Yankee Stadium in New York, September 27.
NEW YORK —Soaked to
the skin with champagne,
Mark Teixeira stood on the
giant “NY” logo in the Yankees clubhouse and shouted
like crazy.
“Tastes good!” he hollered.
Favored to win the World
Series since opening day,
the New York Yankees celebrated like playoff newcomers after beating Boston 4-2 Sunday to clinch the
AL East title and homefield advantage throughout
the postseason.
Absent from the playoffs
last season, the Yankees
put a bow on this title with
their major league-leading
100th win.
“Everything is clicking
right now,” winning pitcher
Andy Pettitte said. “When
you miss out, it makes you
a little more hungry to get
back there.”
Maybe that’s why Derek
Jeter , Mariano Rivera and
a roomful of All-Star multimillionaires went wild,
chanting and jumping and
spraying each other with
bubbly. Teixeira and many
others wore goggles to
stave off the sting—of victory, that is.
“I think the way last year
ended left a bad taste in all
our mouths,” manager Joe
Girardi said. “There’s a
lot of excitement. This has
been a fun group, and they
enjoy it.”
Hideki Matsui’s go-ahead
single in the sixth inning energized the damp fans and
put them on notice that a
party was coming. The first
real bash at the new Yankee
Stadium began with a most
familiar scene—Rivera on
the mound, closing out another clincher.
Catcher Jose Molina
leaped up from behind the
plate even before Rivera
had fielded Jacoby Ellsbury’s soft comebacker for
the final out. The Yankees
swarmed Rivera on the
first-base side of the mound
while players in the bullpen
streamed in.
Nick Swisher wasted no
time putting on an AL East
Champions hat. The crowd
responded with a standing ovation as the Yankees
began walking off the field,
with Jeter at the front and
several teammates pulling
on gray championship Tshirts. “Winning a championship is what I came here
for,” pitcher CC Sabathia
said. “It definitely feels
good—first one in pinstripes, first one in the new
stadium, first celebration.”
The three-game sweep
extended the Yankees’ winning streak to five. They
finished 9-9 against Boston
this year, surprising since
New York lost the first eight
matchups.
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of the game,” Eagles coach
Andy Reid said. “We wanted to knock some of the
rust off. We accomplished
that.”
Vick, 29, said he hoped
to have a different feeling
when the Eagles play Tampa Bay in two weeks after a
bye.
“I won’t feel like all eyes
were on me like they were
today,” he said.
“I’m progressing. I’m not
regressing, which is a big
thing,” added Vick, who
served 18 months in federal
prison.
He was suspended for the
“We’re going to see them
again down the road, we
have a feeling,” slugger
Alex Rodriguez said.
Despite the defeat, the
Red Sox remain in firm
control of the wild-card
race. Their magic number
is two to beat out Texas for
the final playoff spot.
“Hope we win tomorrow,”
Boston manager Terry
Francona said. “That’s normally what we do. Play. If
you win, move on. If you
lose, learn and move on.
That’s what our next chore
will be.”
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Mets
4 Marlines
Dodgers 5 Pirates
Braves
6 Nationals
Phillies 6 Brewers
Reds
2 Astros
Cards
4 Rockies
Cubs
1 Giants
Padres
4 D’backs
0
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first two regular-season
games by the NFL but was
allowed to compete in the
pre-season.
Kevin Kolb started at
quarterback for the injured
Donovan McNabb and
completed 24 of 34 passes for 327 yards and two
touchdowns for the Eagles
(2-1). He also rushed for a
touchdown.
Wide receiver DeSean
Jackson had six catches for
a career-high 149 yards and
a touchdown.
Quarterback Matt Cassel
threw for two touchdowns
for the Chiefs (0-3).
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THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
Atletico Madrid’s Diego Forlan (R) and Valencia’s Alexis Ruano fight for the ball during their
Spanish first division soccer match at the Mestalla Stadium in Valencia September 26.
MADRID-- Villarreal were
still searching for their first
La Liga victory this season
after Juca’s superb free
kick earned Deportivo Coruna a 1-0 win at the Riazor
on Sunday.
The Brazilian’s curling effort went in off the post after only eight minutes and
although Villarreal rallied
after the break they could
not find a way past keeper
Daniel Aranzubia.
New Villarreal coach Ernesto Valverde watched his
side slump to their third
consecutive defeat and they
lie second-bottom in the
standings with two points
from a possible 15’.
“We had the opportunities,
and pushed hard in the second half and I think a draw
would have been a fairer
result,” Villarreal president
Fernando Roig told Canal
Plus television. “We are
very low in the standings
and we need to worry about
getting some points soon.”
Valverde joins Valencia’s
Unai Emery and Atletico
Madrid’s Abel Resino in
the spotlight with the three
sides, all considered topfour candidates, struggling
to live up to expectations.
Atletico, also without a
win, scrambled a last-minute 2-2 draw at Valencia
on Saturday. Valencia are
seventh with eight points,
Atletico 18th with three.
Leaders Real and Barca
have 100 percent records
from their opening five
matches and top the standings with 15 points each.
On Saturday, Real beat
promoted Tenerife 3-0 at
the Bernabeu, the champions were 2-0 winners in
Malaga, and Sevilla consolidated third place on 12
points with a 4-0 demolition of Athletic Bilbao at
San Mames.
Real Mallorca are the surprise fourth-placed side on
10 points after their 3-0 victory over visitors Real Val-
ladolid, earlier in the day.
The islanders made it
three wins from three at the
Ono Estadi with goals from
Nunes, Aritz Aduriz and
Borja Valero to continue
their impressive start to the
campaign.
Deportivo are fifth on nine
points with Bilbao. Real
Zaragoza climbed to eighth
with seven after a comfortable 3-0 win over visiting
Getafe with Colombia midfielder Abel Aguilar scoring twice.
La Liga newcomers Xerez
earned their first top-flight
point but have still to score
their first goal after drawing 0-0 at Espanyol. They
remain bottom after five
games. “It’s not much, but
the point will be a boost for
morale,” Xerez coach Jose
Angel Ziganda said.
“The players gave their all
and it could be a turning
point for us. Next Sunday
we’ll play with more confidence.”
LONDON-- Sunderland
continued their strong
start to the Premier
League season with an
all-action 5-2 home win
over
Wolverhampton
Wanderers at the Stadium of Light on Sunday.
The match contained
goals of all sorts as
the hosts led 2-0, were
pegged back to 2-2, and
then drew clear again to
move to 12 points.
Sunderland, who narrowly escaped relegation
last season, moved level
with Aston Villa, Manchester City and Arsenal
on 12 points.
Tottenham Hotspur and
Liverpool have 15. Chelsea, who dropped points
for the first time this
season when they lost
3-1 at Wigan Athletic on
Saturday, have 18 as do
Manchester United, 2-0
winners at Stoke City.
Manchester City could
climb into the top four
if they beat West Ham
United on Monday
night.
In Sunday’s only match,
Sunderland led 2-0 early
in the second half after
two penalties following
fouls on Darren Bent.
The striker converted
the first after nine minutes while Kenwyne
Jones took the second
after 48 but Wolves hit
back with two quick
strikes.
The first was an own
goal by John Mensah
after goalkeeper Craig
Gordon punched the
ball straight at him and
watched it fly back into
the net.
Gordon then illegally
handled a Kieran Richardson back pass that
was heading into the net
for another own goal but
Wolves equalised from
the subsequent free kick,
Kevin Doyle ramming
the ball in.
Sunderland went ahead
again with a crisp Jones
shot after 70 minutes,
Michael Turner headed
the fourth three minutes
later and Bent completed
the rout with a deflected
fifth to take his season’s
tally to seven.
Sunderland face a stiff
test of their early season
form as they face Manchester United and Liverpool in their next two
games.
Wolves stay 16th on seven points.
Liverpool’s Albert Riera stretches for the ball during their
English Premier League soccer match against Hull City at
Anfield in Liverpool , northern England, September 26. Liverpool won 6-1.
CHELSEA
Burnley.
Arsenal moved into fifth
place after Robin van
Persie’s goal earned a 1-0
win at London rivals Fulham, a victory they owed
to several fine saves from
reserve goalkeeper Vito
Mannone.
Portsmouth’s misery continued with a 1-0 home
defeat by Everton which
means they have lost all
seven league games this
season, the worst start in
the top flight for 79 years.
Aston Villa lost 2-1 at
Blackburn Rovers to end a
four-match winning streak
in the league and Bolton
Wanderers beat Birmingham City 2-1.
Wigan’s first victory over
Chelsea in the Premier
League was a landmark day
for new manager Roberto
Martinez whose side moved
into mid-table.
“We showed a great attitude and great determination to win the game and we
fully deserved it,” Martinez
told Sky Sports.
“The intensity and concentration was fantastic,”
added the Spaniard who
had seen his side suffer
heavy defeats against Manchester United and Arsenal
this season.
Chelsea, who last tasted
defeat in March, could
have few complaints at the
outcome and there was further cause for concern for
Ancelotti when left back
Ashley Cole was carried off
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near the end.
Bramble was allowed time
and space to head Wigan in
front after 16 minutes but
after a poor first-half display Chelsea got lucky two
minutes after the interval
when Drogba’s scuffed shot
trickled through keeper
Chris Kirkland’s legs.
The match swung Wigan’s
way after 51 minutes when
Cech clipped Rodallega’s
leg and was sent off.
Chelsea hunted an equaliser but it was Wigan who
looked the more dangerous
side on the break and they
sent their fans into raptures
when Scharner sealed victory.
“Today was not a good day
for us, we didn’t play well
and they deserved to win,”
said Ancelotti before adding he had no complaints
with the referee’s decision
to red-card Cech.
Manchester United were
frustrated for an hour by a
resolute Stoke side but their
pressure eventually paid off
when substitute Ryan Giggs
unlocked the home defence
with a perfect pass for Dimitar Berbatov to side-foot
into the net.
Giggs then teed up John
O’Shea for United’s second.
“It’s always good to win
away from home. You can
never relax at Stoke but it
was a good performance by
us,” said United manager
Alex Ferguson.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
RIYADH-- A Saudi prince
is set to spend up to 350
million pounds ($558 million) to buy a 50 percent
stake in English soccer club
Liverpool, al-Riyadh news-
paper quoted him as saying
on Sunday.
“We are currently seeking to buy 50 percent of the
shares in the club which
is now suffering of debts
Girondins Bordeaux’s Marc Planus (R) challenges Asamoah
Gyan (C) of Stade Rennes as Cedric Carasso (L) catches the
ball during their French Ligue 1 soccer match at the ChabanDelmas stadium in Bordeaux September 27.
PARIS-- Champions Girondins Bordeaux made
Olympique Lyon’s spell at the
top of Ligue 1 a short one, recapturing the lead with a 1-0
home win over Stade Rennes
on Sunday.
Bordeaux scored just once
in an entertaining game, with
a diving header by Brazilian
midfielder Wendel from a
Benoit Tremoulinas cross on
23 minutes, but thrilled their
fans with a string of clever
moves.
The club from the wine
capital moved top with 19
points from seven games, two
points clear of second-placed
Olympique Lyon, who had
briefly taken command with
a 2-1 home win over Toulouse
on Saturday.
“We knew that Rennes were
a strong side and it was tough
but we wanted that first place
badly,” Bordeaux midfielder
Mathieu Chalme told French
television channel Canal
Plus.
“This is a good way to prepare
for Wednesday,” he added,
referring to Bordeaux’s game
at home to Maccabi Haifa in
the Champions League.
Bordeaux, who ended Lyon’s
seven-year reign to take their
first title in 10 years last May,
have now gone 21 matches
without defeat in all competitions.
Lille needed a last-gasp goal
by striker Pierre-Alain Frau to
salvage a 1-1 home draw with
fellow strugglers Nice earlier
on Sunday.
Frau fired in from 18 metres
with one minute left to save
Lille, lying 17th with just one
win from seven games, from
an embarrassing defeat.
Forward Loic Remy exploited a defensive blunder to put
the visitors ahead on the hour
but Nice had to be content
with a share of the points and
stay second from bottom in
the 20-team standings.
Midfielder Frederic Thomas
struck twice to help Le Mans
to a comfortable 3-0 home
win over Racing Lens which
lifted them up to 15th.
worth 245 million pounds,”
Prince Faisal bin Fahd bin
Abdullah, who chairs a privately owned group called
F6 and a Saudi-based holding company called Fama
Group, was quoted as saying.
“The transaction, upon
which a decision is close to
be reached, will be worth
200 (million) to 350 million
pounds,” he said, according
to the newspaper.
No-one at Liverpool,
which beat Hull 6-1 on Saturday to move to third position in the English Premier
League, could immediately
be reached for comment.
A Fama spokesman declined to comment on the
report, saying: “What I
know is that the prince attended the Liverpool game
against Hull and signed yesterday an agreement with
Liverpool to build a sport
academy in Saudi Arabia.”
Liverpool is co-owned by
Americans Tom Hicks and
George Gillett. The two
have had a stormy relationship since purchasing
the club for 218.9 million
pounds in 2007 and neither
wants to sell his stake to the
other.
F6 said in a statement
on Sunday it had signed a
memorandum of understanding with the George
Gillett Group which paves
the way for an exclusive
cooperation with Liverpool that would lead to the
opening of academies affiliated to the English club.
The F6 statement did not
refer to any planned acquisition of a stake in Liverpool.
Dutch championship results and standings
on Sunday.
Ajax Amsterdam
3
Groningen
1
NAC Breda
0
NEC Nijmegen
0
Sparta Rotterdam 0
Played on Saturday.
Twente Enschede
2
Utrecht
1
PSV Eindhoven
3
RKC Waalwijk
4
Standings
1 PSV Eindhoven
2 Twente Enschede
3 Ajax Amsterdam
4 Feyenoord
5 Utrecht
6 AZ Alkmaar
7 Heracles Almelo
8 ADO Den Haag
9 NAC Breda
10 NEC Nijmegen
11 Vitesse Arnhem
12 VVV-Venlo
13 Groningen
14 Sparta Rotterdam
15 Roda JC Kerkrade
16 Heerenveen
17 Willem II Tilburg
18 RKC Waalwijk
ADO Den Haag
Vitesse Arnhem
Feyenoord
Heracles Almelo
Heerenveen
0
0
2
2
2
VVV-Venlo
AZ Alkmaar
Willem II Tilburg
Roda JC Kerkrade
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2
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Juventus’ David Trezeguet (2nd R) shoots and scores against Bologna during their Italian
Serie A soccer match at the Olympic stadium in Turin September 27.
ROME-- Juventus missed
the chance to overtake surprise Serie A leaders Sampdoria when they were held
1-1 at home by Bologna on
Sunday while stuttering AC
Milan drew 0-0 with promoted Bari at the San Siro.
Bologna’s Brazilian forward Adailton side-footed
home a cross deep in stoppage time to deny the Turin
side, who had ridden their
luck after French forward
David Trezeguet prodded
them ahead from close
range on 24 minutes.
Juve are second with 14
points from six games, one
behind Sampdoria, who
beat Inter Milan 1-0 in Genoa on Saturday.
Champions Inter slipped
two points off the pace to
share third place with Fiorentina, who won 1-0 at
struggling Livorno.
Udinese climbed to fifth,
Serie A top scorer Antonio
Di Natale setting them on
their way to a 2-0 home win
over Genoa with his eighth
goal of the season.
Juventus went on the attack from kick-off and
it was no surprise when
Trezeguet struck as he had
already twice come close to
opening the scoring.
Bologna responded well
and created a series of good
chances before substitute
Adailton gave them a deserved draw. “It (the goal)
wasn’t the only chance they
had. At times we were naïve
when they took free kicks
quickly,” Juve coach Ciro
Ferrara told Sky television.
“We gave away too much
today. Maybe when we have
the ball we don’t manage it
as well as we should, which
means there are chances at
both ends.”
The good news for Ferrara was that Brazilian playmaker Diego showed nice
touches on his return from
a hamstring injury before
being substituted just before the hour.
Fit-again captain Alessandro Del Piero came off
the bench in the closing
stages to make his first appearance this term for Juve,
who visit Bayern Munich in
the Champions League on
Wednesday.
Mid-table Milan can consider themselves lucky to be
trailing Samp by no more
than seven points as the
southern visitors, who also
held Inter 1-1 on the opening day, frequently had
them on the back foot.
Bari midfielder Emanuel
Rivas blazed wide after
leaving a string of players
floundering in his wake,
while Milan keeper Marco
Storari produced excellent saves to repel efforts
by Leonardo Bonucci and
Riccardo Meggiorini.
Milan coach Leonardo
gave the inconsistent Ronaldinho a starting place at
the expense of his off-form
Brazilian compatriot Alexandre Pato, who came on in
the second half.
The former Barcelona
forward showed desire and
had a crisp strike well saved
in the 59th minute but he
frequently found himself
surrounded by markers as
soon as he got the ball.
Napoli gave respite to
under-fire coach Roberto
Donadoni by beating Siena
2-1 at home with a Marek
Hamsik double.
A stoppage-time Daniele
De Rossi goal earned AS
Roma a 1-1 draw at Catania, cancelling out Japanese
striker Takayuki Morimoto’s first-half goal.
Catania had Gennaro
Delvecchio sent off as the
match reached a bad-tempered conclusion.
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THE DAILY HERALD, Monday, September 28, 2009
Michael Vick of the Philadelphia Eagles looks to pass against
the Kansas City Chiefs on September 27, at Lincoln Financial
Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
in 2007 to 23 months in
prison for bankrolling a
dog-fighting ring, had limited action as a quarterback
and once went in as a wide
receiver.
The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback was on
the field for 11 plays, rushing once for seven yards
and throwing incomplete
on two pass attempts. He
had not played in a regularseason game since December 2006.
“I thought I played fairly
well,” Vick told reporters.
“I would by lying if I
said I wasn’t nervous,” he
said. “The whole situation
causes some butterflies. It
was a good thing because
I was able to come out and
relax.”
He took to the field on the
second play of the game
as a wide receiver, then
rushed for seven yards later
in the quarter. He handed
the ball off on most of his
other plays.
“We wanted to get him in
and just get him gradually
back in with the speed
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CENTURION, South Africa-- England beat hosts
South Africa by 22 runs to
knock the world’s number
one ranked side and tournament hosts out of the
Champions Trophy on Sunday.
Owais Shah, Paul Collingwood and Eoin Morgan
blazed half-centuries as
England piled up 323 for
eight, their highest ever total against South Africa.
South Africa, despite
captain Graeme Smith’s
LONDON-Chelsea’s
perfect start to the season
under new manager Carlo
Ancelotti came to a surprise end on Saturday when
the Premier League leaders
lost 3-1 at Wigan Athletic
and had goalkeeper Petr
Cech sent off.
Titus Bramble headed
Wigan in front before Di-
Chelsea, who had won
their first six league games
of the season, slipped below Manchester United on
goal difference after the
champions cruised to a 2-0
win at Stoke City.
United and Chelsea
have 18 points from seven
matches.
There were big wins for
Liverpool and Tottenham
Hotspur who occupy third
and fourth spots, three
points behind the leaders.
Fernando Torres hit a hattrick for Liverpool in a 6-1
thrashing of Hull City and
Robbie Keane went one
better for Spurs, scoring
four in a 5-0 hammering of
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PHILADELPHIA-Michael Vick played his first
NFL regular-season game
in more than two years on
Sunday, helping the Phila-
delphia Eagles soar to a 3414 victory over the Kansas
City Chiefs.
Vick, released from jail in
May after being sentenced
dier Drogba equalised at
the start of the second half.
Cech was then shown a
red card for bringing down
Hugo Rodallega and the
Colombian fired his penalty past substitute keeper
Hilario.
Paul Scharner scored
Wigan’s third goal in stoppage time.
South Africa’s Graeme Smith (L) plays a shot during their ICC Champions Trophy cricket
match against England in Pretoria, September 27.
career-best 141, could only
manage 301 for nine in reply.
Shah and Collingwood
inflicted enormous destruction on a home attack that
could not stick to a length
as they plundered 163 runs
off 162 balls in a record
third-wicket stand for England against South Africa.
Shah went over the boundary six times in his 98 off 89
balls, while Collingwood
showed wonderful placement and composure in
cruising to 82 off 94 deliveries.
Morgan finished the innings in style as he took
advantage of woeful death
bowling to wallop four
fours and five sixes in his 67
off 34 balls.
Wayne Parnell, South Africa’s youngest bowler, was
their best, taking three for
60 in 10 overs.
South Africa were unable
to compile a telling partnership despite Smith’s fine
innings and they went into
the last 10 overs needing 94
runs to win with six wickets
in hand.
Big-hitter Albie Morkel
netted a six and a four off
successive deliveries in his
17 off 14 balls, but, with
debate raging as to whether
England captain Andrew
Strauss should allow a limping Smith a runner, Morkel
ran himself out attempting
a bye to stand-in wicketkeeper Morgan.
Strauss’s decision to call
on off-spinner Graeme
Swann to bowl three overs
in the closing stages paid
off as he conceded just 10
runs and bowled the JP Duminy for 24.
James Anderson finished
with three for 42 as South
Africa slid to defeat and
England, crushed 6-1 by
Australia recently, reached
the semi-finals.
AB de Villiers (36) and
Herschelle Gibbs (22)
made promising starts but
failed to master the conditions or England’s attack.