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A year and no oil
Caribbean countries still waiting for promised petrol from Venezuela.MIRANDA LEITSINGER
Associated Press Writer
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- One year after 13 Caribbean countries signed a deal with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to buy oil under preferential terms, a majority of them have not received a single drop of fuel, while those that have are still paying high prices at the pump.
Cash-strapped Caribbean countries have welcomed the pact known as Petrocaribe as a way to counter soaring oil prices. But eight nations say they haven't gotten fuel shipments yet, largely because they're figuring out how to handle them.
The program has gotten bogged down because many governments don't have state-owned docking or storage facilities, or the know-how to run an oil business -- a task they previously left to private companies.
Group seeks to promote harmony between Bahamians and Haitians
To eradicate what they term as the 'constant prejudice' placed on persons of Haitian descent by Bahamians, the Positive Association of Nonviolent Bahamian and Haitian Residents (PANBAHR) announced plans yesterday for new initiatives they believe will make it possible.Formed some months ago, the non-partisan and non-political group held a special press conference yesterday where its President Dr. Roopi discussed some of their upcoming plans.
Dr. Roopi said the organization was formed to promote harmony between Bahamian and Haitian residents where they can come together and deal with problems affecting adults and children in The Bahamas who are of Haitian Bahamian extraction.
Stating that the problems faced by children of Haitian background stem from laws put in place by the late Sir Lynden O.
Fountain picks up win for team Bahamas
With the exception of William Fountain, no Bahamian player was able to get their game in gear to pull off a win in the opening stages of The Security and General International Jr. Tennis Open on Saturday.Fountain was able to get past American Cole Conrad in a tough 1-6, 6-4, 6-2 victory in the Under-18 Boys Qualifying Draw at the National Tennis Centre, but no other local player was able to follow suit.
Kermit Strachan was determined to get past another American in Harris Radzematovic, but it wasn't meant to be as Radzematovic cruised to a 6-3, 6-1 win.
"The match for me was basically a very good experience. I thought that I didn't play to my maximum but the guy that I played was a very tough person," said Strachan. "He kept his composure and I tried to keep mine and I just tried to play my best mentally and physically.
Exotic lizard threatens other species in Florida
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - With a ferocious little predator called the northern curlytail lizard, South Florida may finally have the exotic reptile it deserves.Native to rocky areas of the Bahamas and nearby islands, the lizard has made a home in sections of southeast Florida that mimic its native habitat, such as sidewalks, parking lots and strip malls.
As it spread through coastal areas, it has crowded out native lizards and devoured the prey of native mockingbirds, grackles and shrikes.
"They're the T-Rex of our little ground critters," said Hank Smith, wildlife biologist for the Florida Park Service and affiliate research assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University's Wilkes Honors College in Jupiter.
"They're larger than our native lizards that occur along the coastline, the green anole, the green racerunner.
View from the sidelines
For Theo De Rooy, general manager of the Rabobank cycling team, each of his 22 or 23 Tours de France (he's lost count) he has either ridden in or directed are now memories, he says. He's very much a man with a focus on the now and the future, and that's how he's managed to sooth Thomas Dekker's disappointment after being replaced at the last minute, and at the same time, keep his two Dutch veteran thirty-somethings Erik Dekker and Michael Boogerd feel as if they were racing their first Tour de France. Cyclingnews' Anthony Tan caught up with De Rooy at the team's presentation in Valkenburg. Rabobank team manager Theo De RooyPhoto ©: Anthony Tan .
Cuban Ambassador has mastered the art of deceit
It is with a most disgusting and nauseating feeling that I am compelled to respond to two recent press releases by the Cuban Ambassador to The Bahamas, Mr. Felix Wilson Hernandez. After more than 30 years of being involved with human rights issues, I have drawn certain logical conclusions about dictators, their embassies and their diplomatic representatives when it comes to presenting the truth objectively to the public. They portray an idyllic society or country, one that is in the best interest of its citizens or one where the population is living in a "paradise." By carefully and deliberately controlling the flow of information, it is possible to create an "Animal Farm" society, where only the leaders and the system controls the behaviour of individuals. Anyone who challenges this process or offers a contrasting point of view, no matter how patriotic the motive, is deemed an "enemy" of the state and is either imprisoned or otherwise deprived and punished in some way.