Entries Tagged as 'Corruption'

May 7, 2008

Prince William Off To Fight Cocaine War In The Caribbean

Prince William is to fight in the war against South American drug cartels.
The Household Cavalry officer will join Royal Navy patrols to catch cocaine smugglers in the Caribbean.
Both Clarence House and Armed Forces chiefs want William, 25, to gain experience as an officer in all three services and he will soon [...]

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 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 19, 2008

UPDATED - Chinese Arms Ship Destined For Mugabe Regime - Document Issued 3 Days After Zimbabwe Elections!!!

propagandapress posted that the Chinese arms ship is heading to Mozambique whereas Wordwright comments on the shipment heading to Anglola.
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April 11, 2008

Daily Mail Reports - Dick Cheney And Condoleezza Rice ‘Authorised Waterboarding Torture Of Al Qaeda Prisoners

The story is as follows.
The White House was directly implicated for the first time last night in the decision to torture Al Qaeda prisoners.
Sources say that Vice President Dick Cheney and a handful of other top politicians met in secret and agreed to the mistreatment of prisoners, according to ABC [...]

April 10, 2008

Admit Your Sins To The Lord, Priest Tells Gay Judge

Here’s is another interesting article in Sidney Morning Herald we came across to share with our readers.
A senior minister of a Sydney Anglican parish has made an extraordinary attack on the High Court judge Michael Kirby, warning he would face the wrath of God if he remained unrepentant as a gay man.
The rector of St [...]

April 4, 2008

UPDATED - Mugabe: It Isn’t Over Until I Say So

     Head of the African Union {AU} election observer mission, Ahmad Tejankabbath, met with Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvanigirai separately in a bid to resolve the deadlock created by Mugabe blocking the official poll results and refusing to concede defeat publicity. In what can be consider a last desperate act to hold on to power, Mugabe would fight [...]

April 1, 2008

Cops ‘In Cahoots’ With Drug Dealers

Saw this article over at Trinidad Express.  It read like a movie script. Had me riveted in my seat that the only thing missing was the actual events play out in front of me on wide screen TV.
Further reading - http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161301565  

March 25, 2008

Grenada Deputy Minister Named In Bribery Case

With all the talk these days about accountability, integrity legislation in Barbados and forensic audits across the board on government projects under the former BLP government, we came across a rather interesting piece involving one of our Caribbean neighbours. According to press reports, Grenada Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Energy, Gregory Bowen, [...]

March 24, 2008

Ottawa Engineer Believes The US Had No Intention Of Heeding Group’s Advice To Rebuild Iraq

This article was written on the 5th anniversity of  the Iraq war which was Thursday 20th 2008. 
An Ottawa telecom engineer invited by George W. Bush to join a group developing a post-invasion strategy to rebuild Iraq says he now believes the U.S. president never had any intention of heeding its advice.
“It was optics,” Ahmed Al-Hayderi [...]

March 22, 2008

Drug Cartels Running Rampant

In its 127 page annual report, the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board {INCB} reported that governments across the world are failing to target cartels. Instead they are concentrating on small time users, which has led to the ‘rampant flow’ of drugs into fresh markets through new international trade routes.
For instance around 40% of the cocaine [...]

March 19, 2008

Cop Charged For Ganga In Courtroom

Enought marijuana to roll more than 200 joints. Was it worth it?
Constable John Parsons was arrested by Sgt Zamsheed Mohammed, the Court Prosecutor after Mohammed led  a special exercise where every police officer who entered the prisoner lock-up was searched.
Parsons, 38, was charged with the possession of 134 grammes of marijuana compressed into three blocks [...]