A drug that removes your fingerprints?
Capecitabine is not the work of a criminal mastermind with a PhD in chemistry. Rather, it is a common cancer drug, routinely given to patients with head, neck and kidney cancers.The drug’s fingerprint-obliterating side effects were discovered when a cancer patient, 62, from Singapore, travelled to the US last year. [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 28, 2009
Drug Erases Fingerprints, Causing Immigration Drama
Filed under Barbados, News, Science & Nature, Travel
Tags: Annals of Oncology, capecitabine
May 28, 2009
Some 2010 World Cup Games Already Sold
Hey, if you are planning to head down to South Africa to watch the opening match and haven’t brought a ticket yet, you are out of luck.
Football’s governing body FIFA says tickets are sold out for the opening and final matches of the 2010 World Cup, as well as for all games involving England, [...]
May 19, 2009
Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson Second Budget Speech – More Questions Than Answers
Open letter to Prime Minister David Thompson
Dear Sir,
Everyone who was remotely interested in what you had to say in your budget speech yesterday in Parliament was eagerly looking forward to you addressing the issue of the high cost of living affecting the working class, middle class and quite possible the upper middle class. Atlas that [...]
Filed under Barbados, Blogging, Business, Economy, Government, Healthcare, News, People, Politicians, Politics
Tags: Barbados 2009 Buget Speech, David Thompson, DLP Government
May 11, 2009
US Swine Flu Cases Rise
The US now has 2,532 confirmed cases of swine flu, after a jump in figures in recent days, officials say.
The cases – up around 600 since Friday – mean the US has now surpassed Mexico as the most affected nation.
But the total of three confirmed deaths is far lower than in Mexico where 48 people [...]
May 11, 2009
Allen Stanford Was ‘US Government Informer’
A (BBC) Panorama investigation has suggested that Sir Allen was shielded from an earlier inquiry into his activities because he co-operated with a US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) attempt to track money laundering by Latin American drug cartels.
US officials closed down his banking activities in February, alleging a vast fraud centred on his Antigua-based [...]
Filed under Barbados, Caribbean, Corruption, Finance, News, People, Sports
Tags: cricket, DEA, global financial crisis, money laundering, off shore accounts, Ponzi scheme, Sir Allen Stanford
May 11, 2009
Opium Poppy Crop Set To Break Records This Year
Iranian police officials say drug production in Afghanistan has had a 40-fold increase since the US led invasion of the country in 2001.
Afghanistan’s opium poppy crop is set to break all records this year, as grim reports by Iranian sources showed that drug production has reached a new height in the land-locked country.
Instability in [...]
Filed under Barbados, Defense/Military, Government, Narcotics, News
Tags: Afghanistan, Middle East, opium, opium trade, UN, war on drugs
May 11, 2009
UN’s Ban Ki Moon Comes To The Defence Of Israel
A United Nations inquiry concluded that Israel’s military forces carried out direct and intentional strikes on its premises during the assault on Gaza earlier this year. Israel was therefore responsible for the deaths and injuries of UN personnel and civilians, as well as extensive damage to its property.
The inquiry, led by Ian Martin, a [...]
Filed under Barbados, Crime & Law, Defense/Military, News, People, Politics
Tags: Amnesty International, Gaza Strip, Gaza War, Hamas, Ian Martin, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, UN
May 7, 2009
Bilderberg Group Plans Economic Depression?
On the eve of the 2009 Bilderberg Group conference, which is due to be held May 14-17 at the 5 star Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel in Vouliagmeni, Greece, investigative reporter Daniel Estulin has uncovered shocking details of what the elitists plan to do with the economy over the course of the next year.
The Bilderberg Group [...]
May 1, 2009
Only 7 Swine Flu Deaths Not 152 – WHO
A member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has dismissed claims that more than 150 people have died from swine flu, saying it has officially recorded only seven deaths around the world.
Vivienne Allan, from WHO’s patient safety program, said the body had confirmed that worldwide there had been just seven deaths – all in Mexico [...]


