The Commission of Inquiry investigating the transfusion of HIV tainted blood to three patients at the K.H.M.H. has entered its second day…and the time has come to name names and point fingers. In her testimony today Joy Charlie, head of the Blood Donor Service, recounted an April fifth meeting called to discuss how the infected […]
In police news a man has been arrested for a murder which occurred last week. Stephen Hyde, a tour guide of Banana Bank, has been charged with the murder of eighteen year old Norma Orellana. Orellana, described as a prostitute working out of the M & S Bar in St. Matthew’s Village, was found dead […]
The Inter-American Development Bank, which usually lends money for multi-million dollar investments, also has an interest in far smaller projects. This afternoon it awarded twenty thousand dollars to two local groups that participated in it’s Cultural Promotion in the Field Programme. The popular steel band, Pantempters, received eight thousand dollars to purchase instruments and encourage […]
The Global Environmental Facility is an international small grants programme that assists grass roots organisations in developing community projects and creating jobs, mostly in rural areas. The funds, which can reach up to fifty thousand U.S. dollars, are monitored carefully by unpaid professionals who sit on G.E.F.’s National Steering Committee. Because it is the year […]
Representatives of L.G. Electronics, the giant Korean Corporation that is contracted to provide government with its own high speed communication network, are in town this week to provide details of the system. News 5’s Stewart Krohn met with them this morning and was told that the wide band C.D.M.A. technology, originally developed for military use, […]
While the system is designed primarily for data and Internet use, a limited amount of voice transmission will also be provided. But the equipment can be upgraded and expanded to form the nucleus of a full national telecommunications system. Glenn Godfrey, whose company, International Telecommunications Limited, partnered with L.G. on the project, was asked if […]
