Entries from April 2008

April 29, 2008

How To Catch A Sex Offender

Family Watch Dog is a free service run by volunteers to assist persons in locating registered sex offenders in their neighbourhoods.
So I decided to put in a search for the Brooklyn New York area, since I have relatives out there and out pops a zillion- looking little squares in front of me. Click on [...]

April 29, 2008

Girl, 17, Killed In Iraq For Loving A British Soldier

A 17-year-old Iraqi girl was murdered by her father in an honour killing after falling in love with a British soldier she met while working on an aid programme in Basra, it has been claimed.
Rand Abdel-Qader was stamped upon, suffocated and stabbed by her father, then given an unceremonious burial to emphasise her disgrace. [...]

April 28, 2008

Haiti’s New Prime Minister Named Amidst Food Crisis

Haiti on Sunday named a new prime minister two weeks after his predecessor was ousted over rocketing food and fuel prices that sparked violent demonstrations claiming several lives.
President Rene Preval chose Ericq Pierre, 63, a respected Haitian economist with the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, to be the country’s prime minister, government sources told AFP.
Pierre, [...]

April 28, 2008

The Iraq Of The West Indies

While Haiti awaits the appointment of a new Prime Minister and its people yearning for the return of Aristide, we found this brief historical bio on the political misfotunes in Haiti by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling.
Mr Darling is active in the Central American Peace Movement and currently works with Pastors For Peace in delivering humanitarian [...]

April 28, 2008

Saudi Blogger Farhan Freed From Prison

Saudi Arabia’s most popular blogger was released Saturday after serving four months in prison without charge.
The blogger, Fouad al-Farhan, 33, was detained Dec. 10 after authorities warned him about his online support of an activist group. At the time of his arrest, the Interior Ministry said only that his violations were not related to [...]

April 26, 2008

Barbadians Still Gambling Pay Cheques Away Despite Raising Cost Of Food Hikes

MY BOYFRIEND has always enjoyed betting on the horses and so on, but I am concerned that his gambling has now become an obsession.
Christine, a large amount of money has gone missing from our joint account, but whenever I tackle him about it he just changes the subject.
A friend of mine told me [...]

April 25, 2008

14 Million Stolen And Lost Travel Documents May Be Used By Terriorists To Disrupt Olympics Games!!!

With 14m stolen and lost travel documents in its database, Interpol will work with Chinese authories to implement a system for conducting checks at Beijing’s airport and other major border entries to prevent dangerous elements from entering China.
Head of Interpol Ronald Noble has warned that there is a “real possibility that the Beijing Olympics will [...]

April 25, 2008

Is The Lastest James Bond Film Cursed?

TimesOnline have an article on the filming of the 007 Quantum Of Solace in northern Italy, where in the space of a week, 3 accidents were recorded.

The destruction of 007’s Aston Martin by a stuntman which skidded off a wet road, smashed through a guardrail and ended up in a lake.
Another stutman man suffered head [...]

April 25, 2008

Can Barbadian Biodiesel Company Save Us From Rising Energy Bills?

Barbadian entrepreneur Handel Callender is in the right place at the right time. With raising energy prices worldwide having a negative impact locally, the Barbadian who operates a biodiesel company, Native Sun NRG, have seen his vision to expand the one man operation taken off. Native Sun NRG is being bought over by a US [...]

April 24, 2008

Forty Years On, Bank Beer Finally Makes It To The US Mainland

It was long in coming but we finally made it. Fantastic.
Read full article here

April 23, 2008

Children’s Hospital Launches Sex Change For Kids Program

Just when you though you have hear it all, then along comes something that just rocks your world and leaves you in a state of total disbelief. This is a classic example of the medical profession gone totally haywire. I wanted to comment more on this story but I hurting after reading the article.
[Further reading]
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April 23, 2008

Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Honoured [Again]

It is interesting to see how quickly the opposition have embrace the idea of the renaming of Sherbourne Centre even suggesting that the Prime Minister’s official residence be removed to accommodate ” a proper hotel’ according to MP Ronald Toppin in the Nation newspaper.

Ilaro Court which the BLP party have a love affair [...]

April 23, 2008

Europe Switching Back To Coal

The same environmentalists that jumped on the biofuel bandwagon [because of it environmentally cleanliness to reduce carbon emissions as oppose to oil/gas which increases carbon emissions in the atmosphere], thereby reducing the land available for crop production to feed the world’s 6 billion plus people on planet Earth are utterly horrified that Europe [...]

April 23, 2008

Weapons For Zimbabwe May Return To China

Last week we posted an article on a Chinese arms ship destined to Zimbabwe loaded with 77 tonnes of ammunition which included AK47’s and grenades. The ship was subsequently bar by a judge from unloading the weapons at the South African port of Durban to cross the country to landlocked Zimbabwe. The ship went [...]

April 23, 2008

Food Crisis - International Answer Needed

There are plenty of voices blaming biofuels for the world food crisis. They all are right, and also are wrong. There is a link between biofuels and food prices — the move to biofuels to counter the high price of oil has taken massive amounts of land out of food production, resulting [...]