The red bucket (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
... friendliest event I’ve competed in in some time.The event finished with a way through a 20 metre long pond, but it only turned out to by knee high and with the end (and a hot dog) in sight, it didn’t seem to matter. I’ve no idea what time we completed the race in - roughly an hour and a half - but I didn’t care.As to whether it was the best event of the year? I think, on balance,...
Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
... negotiations.The privatisation includes unloading five factories: Frome, Monymusk, Bernard Lodge, Long Pond and Duckenfield.Talk of a plan b surfaced after Government failed to meet a September 30 deadline for inking a deal with Infinity Bio, after which state officials pointed to a 90-day window from the initial date they announced.A delicate place"The discussions are continuing....
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
... many of them toxic. They were dumped into the canal — which was really more of a half-mile-long pond — in the 1940s and 1950s by the Hooker Electrochemical Co. In 1953, the canal was covered with soil and sold to the local school board, and an elementary school and playground were built on the site. A working-class neighborhood sprang up around them. “The neighborhood looked very...
