WASHINGTON, USA — The Organization of American States (OAS) has convened a high-level meeting to launch a new partnership to fighting poverty in the Americas that comes at a time when the current economic crisis could reverse advances in poverty reduction made during the past five years. The meeting will be held on September 22 [...]
WASHINGTON, USA — US Virgin Islands Delegate to Congress Donna Christensen said on Wednesday that a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that focuses on the island, people and fisheries of St Croix and recommends its designation as a “fishing community” as defined by the Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act has given her hope [...]
Dear Sir: I am elated to see Sir James back on the campaign trail and particularly grateful for his experience, skills and knowledge on the constitution of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. As father of the party and a veteran politician who toiled in the political vineyard for so many years, sometimes alone, who is [...]
Mexico’s Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A.B. de C.V. has announced that total passenger traffic for August 2009 decreased by 12.8 percent when compared to August 2008. Traffic to Cancun was down 13.2 percent, and traffic to Cozumel was down 9.5 percent. Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A.B. de C.V. (ASUR) is a Mexican airport operator with [...]
The owners of the well-known Alvear Palace Hotel in Buenos Aires are investing $60 million in the addition of two new properties, Alvear Plaza San Martin and Alvear Puerto Madero. These projects are anticipated to open in Buenos Aires in 2012. Development has begun on Alvear Plaza San Martin, a $20 million project set to [...]
Trondent Development Corp. has launched GroupFare Analyzer, a Web-based tool enabling meetings planners to produce fare-analysis reports. Users begin by inserting origin and destination markets, date ranges and the number of travelers departing from each city. Each query may contain a maximum of 50 origins and five destinations. Based on this set of criteria, GroupFare [...]
Mr & Mrs William R. Peguero Sr, Shai Gold from Eaglemount; Hensley Daniel Minister for Health, Nevis; Tahjaa Knuckle from CMN and Evans Rogers, Minister for Health, Anguilla. CHARLESTOWN, Nevis — The Ministry of Health of the Nevis Island Administration has appointed Eaglemount Ltd of the Cayman Islands as special strategic advisor to Hensley Daniel, [...]
Holland America Line’s Zaandam is set to discover the Hawaiian Island chain in 2010 with Circle Hawaii itineraries that offer guests relaxing days at sea and islands to explore. The 1,432-passenger ship will sail five 14-day roundtrip San Diego, Calif., cruises and one 15-day voyage from Vancouver, British Colombia, to San Diego. The sailings are [...]
CASTRIES, St Lucia — The Ministries of Health and Education in St Lucia are presently involved in the investigation of an outbreak of flu-like illness at a secondary school in the north of the island. A number of students from one form of that school reported to school with flu-like symptoms. All students involved have [...]
AirTran Airways has released schedules for new service to Nassau, Bahamas, and Montego Bay, Jamaica. Pending final government approval, AirTran Airways will begin flights to Nassau on December 17, 2009, and to Montego Bay, Jamaica, on February 11, 2010. Both destinations will feature nonstop flights from Atlanta, Baltimore/Washington, and Orlando, and connecting service from over [...]
Marriott International, Inc. has announced that Bogota Marriott Hotel in Colombia has opened. The hotel is Marriott’s first branded hotel in Colombia, and is operated under a franchise agreement with Real Hotels & Resorts, a subsidiary of Grupo Poma of El Salvador. The Bogota hotel offers an all-together new experience for Middle East tourists with [...]
ROUSEAU, Dominica — Digicel, the largest mobile operator in the Caribbean, has completed the acquisition of Orange Dominica, the wholly owned subsidiary of France Telecom. Since launching operations in Dominica in 2006 — following the acquisition of Cingular Wireless — Digicel has built a state-of-the-art network in Dominica. Digicel said it has made a significant [...]
By Curtis Morton BASSETERRE, St Kitts — Former 100 meter world champion Kim Collins has announced his retirement from international competition. Kim Collins He made the announcement at specially called press conference held in the conference room of the pavilion named in his honour at the Silver Jubilee Stadium in St Kitts. Flanked by local [...]
By Abiola Inniss A recent report by the Kaieteur News newspaper of Saturday, March 14, 2009 carried the caption “21,366 civil matters pending at Dec 2007”, and detailed the difficulties being experienced by the judicial system in dealing with the amount of litigation before it. The report gives some account of the efforts at alternative [...]
Viking River Cruises has added three new holiday season cruises to its 2009 European offerings to meet the anticipated seasonal demand. The new “Christmas on the Rhine” begins and ends in Cologne, Germany, taking guests on six guided tours with Christmas markets in Cologne, Strasbourg, Baden-Baden and Mainz. Guided tours of Cologne, Rüdesheim, Strasbourg, Baden-Baden, [...]
Jamaica resorts are offering specials this fall to celebrate Jamaica’s success at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin. Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort offers the 958 Sale in honor of the new 100-Meter Sprint world record of 9.58 seconds. The 958 Sale enables guests to take advantage of a special rate of $958 for five-night all-inclusive [...]
Prague Airport, the hub airport for Czech Airlines and the largest airport within the Czech Republic, has added an interactive timetable and route-mapping tool. OAG Route Mapper is a new online mapping application, developed and hosted by OAG, and integrated into an airport’s website. Currently, 50 scheduled airlines offer direct flights from Prague Airport to [...]
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands — The Cayman Islands has been elected as a member of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Steering Group at the recent Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information held in Mexico. Along with members from thirteen other countries, the Cayman Islands will assist in the restructuring of [...]
By Lloyd Noel Throughout history we have seen countless examples of persons who have used and abused power for their own purposes, rather than for the purposes of the Social group and the society as a whole. The misuse and abuse of power have taken place in so many different countries, with very different outlooks [...]
MIAMI, USA – The Coast Guard suspended its search on Sunday evening for a capsized vessel in the vicinity of Luquillo, Puerto Rico , after a reporting source notified watchstanders of a possible boat fire on Sunday morning. A good Samaritan called watchstanders at the Coast Guard Sector San Juan Command Center around 12:50 am to report sighting [...]
Her rivals call her Germany’s “debt queen,” but Hannelore Kraft’s victory in a state election on the weekend has driven speculation she could challenge Chancellor Angela Merkel as the mother of a nation famed for its frugality. Ms. Kraft’s ready smile and common touch helped her turn around the fortunes of her centre-left Social Democrats [...]
Anders Behring Breivik screamed a “battle cry” and appeared both angry and joyous as he shot his victims one by one, survivors of the Norwegian far-right killer’s massacre told a court on Wednesday. “I heard screaming but I couldn’t make out the words,” Ingvild Leren Stensrud, 17, who was shot in the leg and shoulder, [...]
Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America’s novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died Tuesday in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83. Fuentes died at the Angeles del Pedregal hospital where he was taken after his doctor, Arturo Ballesteros, found him in shock in [...]
Will it be Greece or gay marriage? As the American presidential election campaign enters the serious phase, social issues seem to have taken a front seat in the debate over who best can lead the country into an almost certainly tumultuous future. Less than 24 hours after Barack Obama delivered the commencement address at Barnard [...]
Canadians want to take concrete action on behalf of those in developing countries who are needlessly suffering from fully treatable ailments. They want to help millions of people worldwide gain access to live-saving, affordable medicine. Our politicians have this very opportunity in the form of Bill C-398, currently making its way through Parliament. The bill [...]
First came the purge of Bo Xilai, a rising star in the Communist Party who fell into disgrace just before he was expected to join the inner circle of power in China. Now a sitting member of that omnipotent club – the Standing Committee of the Politburo – has reportedly been stripped of his main [...]
A plane carrying 21 people crashed Monday while trying to land at a mountain airstrip in Nepal’s northern Himalayas, killing at least nine, authorities said. Eight survivors in critical condition were flown by helicopter to a hospital. The plane hit a mountain while it was turning around to land at Jomsom Airport, said Laxmi Raj [...]
Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in what could be the latest outburst in an escalating war of terror among drug gangs. Mexico’s organized crime groups often abandon multiple bodies in public places as warnings to their rivals, [...]
Greece’s president met party leaders on Sunday in a final bid to cobble together a coalition and avert a repeat election, but the veteran politician’s effort looked set to fail because of deep splits over an EU/IMF rescue plan. Leaders of the three biggest parties, each of whom had failed to form a government in [...]
Greek politicians abandoned their quest to form a government on Saturday, leaving the President with one final chance to avert new elections that could drive Greece out of the European single currency. Greece’s political landscape is in disarray after voters last week humiliated the only parties backing a rescue plan tied to spending cuts, leaving [...]
The Obama administration is resuming some arms shipments to Bahrain after most were suspended last year because of a government crackdown on political dissent. The State Department said Friday the administration still has human-rights concerns about the strategic Persian Gulf island nation and will work with that government to improve the situation. But it said [...]
Government critics, and even some supporters, are ridiculing a state TV host’s allegation that a newspaper crossword puzzle may have had a hidden call for a plot to kill President Hugo Chavez’s elder brother. Intelligence agents questioned the author of the puzzle after state TV presenter Miguel Perez Pirela pointed out that Wednesday’s crossword contained [...]
Greece’s wrangling politicians were locked in last-ditch efforts Friday to form a coalition government, with chances of a deal appearing slim and the country’s future in Europe’s common currency at stake. Voters on Sunday punished both main parties, the conservative New Democracy and socialist PASOK, for their handling of the country’s protracted financial crisis, deserting [...]
This is part of The Immigrant Answer –The Globe’s series on the future of immigration in Canada. Read the original story here. Since the early 1980s, Canada’s immigration selection policies have focused on the principal applicant’s highest educational achievements and language skills, explicitly to ensure that immigrants would be suitable for employment and economically successful [...]
Mitt Romney is countering the notion that he bullied high school classmates and insists he didn’t know some were gay. The Republican presidential candidate apologized Thursday to anyone he may have offended by what he said were “hijinks and pranks during high school.” His comments in a hastily arranged radio interview followed a Washington Post [...]
This is part of The Immigrant Answer –The Globe’s series on the future of immigration in Canada. Read the original story here. A few months after arriving in Canada in 2005, Edwin Sonsona was working 20 hours a day at six different jobs. He began each morning at 3 a.m., delivering the local newspaper. By [...]
India’s Supreme Court has banned the Exxon Valdez from entering India, saying the ship involved in one of the worst U.S. oil spills will not be allowed in for dismantling until it has been decontaminated. The ship, now known as the “Oriental Nicety,” entered Indian waters last week and was headed for the western Indian [...]
DIY and hardware selling members of the British Independent Retailers Association (BIRA) reported Q1 2012 sales were up by over 3% on Q1 2011, bettering the Q4 2011′s +2.9% figure. In its quarterly sales monitor for the period ending March 31, 2012, BIRA highlighted the positive contrast to retail giant B&Q’s recent sales drop. Cookshop [...]
Enlarge Paul Sancya/AP Workers on the assembly line at a Ford truck plant in Dearborn, Mich. Half of the April increase in factory output reflected a 3.9 percent jump in the production of motor vehicles and parts. Paul Sancya/AP Workers on the assembly line at a Ford truck plant in Dearborn, Mich. Half of the [...]
The boxer played by Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter has been hospitalised following a dog attack. Micky Ward, the athlete whose early career was retold in last year’s Oscar-winning picture, fell victim to a stray while walking his own pet in Massachusetts on Wednesday, according to TMZ. Ward was admitted to a local medical facility [...]
Yaz Lawsuit Update Share Yaz Lawsuit Yaz Lawsuit Update 05/14/2012: Although Bayer has indicated that it plans to start making settlement offers on the 11,000 plus Yaz Lawsuits it currently faces, new Yaz Lawsuits are still being filed. On or about April 04/24/12 Case Number 3:12-cv-20100-DRH-PMH was filed on behalf of 4 adults and one [...]
Larry Tanenbaum, the billionaire construction magnate and chair of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, is the latest big-name player to signal he’s game to make a bid for a Toronto casino. Mr. Tanenbaum, who holds a minority stake in MLSE, says he favours a waterfront site for any proposed Toronto casino, including Exhibition Place, home [...]
Facebook Inc. increased the size of its initial public offering by almost 25 per cent, and could raise as much as $16-billion as strong investor demand for a share of the No.1 social network trumps debate about its long-term potential to make money. Facebook, founded eight years ago by Mark Zuckerberg in a Harvard dorm [...]
Nebraska state Senator Deb Fischer won the Republican nomination Tuesday to run for a U.S. Senate seat in November. She will face former Senator Bob Kerrey, a Democrat who represented the state from 1988-2000. Source: NPR : National Public Radio
IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: It’s time to make a decision. Do you carry on as before, allowing yourself to be swept along by events over which you have no control? Or do you set yourself a goal and go for it with all your heart? You know the answer – now make the commitment. [...]
Australian male found dead in hotel in Colombia Cocaine overdose suspected as cause of death Hotel worker discovered the body of the tourist AN Australian man has been found dead in a hotel room in Colombia. According to a translation of a Spanish news report, 36-year-old Martin Trent Alexander was found dead in the Las [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. The Forbidden Fashion Show roars into the Seattle Art Museum on Saturday, May 21, with sexy swimwear and lingerie strutting a runway designed like a roadway. The James Bond-themed show, titled “Live Another Night,” is in its fourth year, and it’s the only show of its kind in Seattle, [...]
