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 | Island News: Ringing the Changes |
 http://nalil.blogspot.com/2010/02/rathlin-and-cape-clear-ferries-ii.html
It's recently been announced that Ciaran O'Driscoll, who established Rathlin Island Ferry Limited [RIFL] in 2008 to operate the Rathlin-Ballycastle Ferry service, is withdrawing from the Cape Clear - Baltimore service at the end of February. Shortly afterwards, he is due to appear before an industrial tribunal that is dealing with the dismissal of a former member of staff on the Rathlin route.
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Posted by editor on Saturday, February 06 @ 18:00:00 UTC (33 reads)
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| Island News: Help to end the illegal slaughter of protected birds in Malta |
Help to end the illegal slaughter of protected birds in Malta
eWings Issue 5 - February 2010
Wild birds migrate from Europe to Africa every autumn, travelling thousands of kilometres to spend the winter in warmer climes. Every spring, they migrate back to Europe to breed and replenish their numbers. On each leg of their journey, a large number of these protected birds meet their deaths over Malta.
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Posted by editor on Saturday, February 06 @ 06:15:00 UTC (7 reads)
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| Island News: West Cork Islands Integrated Development Strategy. |
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The West Cork Islands Interagency Committee is a multi-agency body that comprises of
representatives from public bodies and community groups in the area and was established under the auspices of the Cork County Development Board for the revitalisation of the islands.
RPS Planning and Environment has been appointed by the Interagency Committee to prepare an Integrated Development Strategy for the seven inhabited islands of West Cork. The focus of the strategy is centred on producing a development plan that identifies the physical, economic, cultural and social needs and the requirements of the islands and developing a framework to address these needs over the next ten years, which supports the seven viable islands, so that their
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Posted by editor on Friday, February 05 @ 06:00:00 UTC (17 reads)
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| Island News: Reports of rape, violence add to Haiti security fears |
By Virginie Montet, Port-au-Prince
Saturday, January 30, 2010
HAITI’S quake survivors faced rising insecurity yesterday with thousands of criminals on the loose and reports of rape and violence plaguing the weak and vulnerable.
Aid is still only trickling in despite a vast international relief effort launched after the January 12 disaster, and hundreds of thousands of homeless people are sheltering in tent camps short of food and medicines.
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Posted by editor on Sunday, January 31 @ 06:00:00 UTC (7 reads)
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| Island News: Protect The Chagos, A Natural Wonder |
Chagos is our chance to preserve a natural wonder
Protecting the Chagos archipelago is a rare opportunity for the UK to create a conservation area as important as the Galapagos islands or Great Barrier Reef
The Chagos islands are home to over 200 coral species and at least 1,000 fish species.
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Posted by editor on Friday, January 29 @ 12:00:00 UTC (10 reads)
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| Island News: Desperate scramble for food as prices rocket |
By Juno McEnroe, Haiti
Thursday, January 28, 2010
WHILE signs of daily life return to earthquake-stricken Haiti, the desperate scramble for food has seen prices rocket in recent days.
As bulldozers take away the rubble, food riots are breaking out and the security of aid deliveries is a major concern. The cost of beans, rice and oil among items are inflated because of the demand. Hungry survivors are also attacking food convoys while armed guards try to deter them by firing shots into the air.
While shops are reopening and fruit and vegetable markets have set up their stalls once again in some areas of the capital Port-au-Prince, merchants have been taking advantage of the situation and doubling prices for plates of food. Prices for small plastic bags of water have reportedly quintupled in some areas.
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Posted by editor on Friday, January 29 @ 06:00:00 UTC (12 reads)
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| Island News: Haiti: The humanitarian myth |
Radio Statement in Creole being broadcast by U.S air force over Haiti blasting the advice of the State Department's Raymond Joseph to the starving people - "I'll be honest with you," Joseph says, according to a transcript on the State Department's Web site. "If you think you will reach the U.S. and all the doors will be wide open to you, that's not at all the case. And they will intercept you right on the water, and send you back home where you came from."
While 10,000 US troops occupy the country and their Navy patrols the waters.
With U.S. forces obstructing aid and beefing up "security" while Haitians die, no one should accept that the U.S. is motivated by "humanitarianism."
Richard Seymour, the author of The Liberal Defense of Murder, analyzes the propaganda manufactured to justify U.S. actions in Haiti after the earthquake.
January 25, 2010
WITHIN DAYS of Haiti suffering an earthquake registering 7.0 on the Richter scale, the U.S. government had sent thousands of 82nd Airborne troops and Marines, alongside the super-carrier USS Carl Vinson.
By this Sunday, a total of more than 20,000 U.S. troops were scheduled to be operating in Haiti, both on land and in the surrounding seas. "We are there for the long term," explained Alejandro Wolff, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The justification for sending troops is that there is a "security" crisis, which soldiers have to deal with in order to facilitate the distribution of aid.
The situation was and remains a needful one. The Haitian interior minister estimates that as many as 200,000 may have died as a result of the quake, and 2 million have been left homeless. Potable water is extremely scarce, and was so even before the quake. Only half a million have found the makeshift camps that provide some food and water, but have such poor sanitation that they are fostering diarrhea. Clinics are overwhelmed by the injured survivors, estimated to number a quarter of a million.
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Posted by editor on Thursday, January 28 @ 13:22:16 UTC (10 reads)
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| Island News: Haitian man living in Cork appeals for help to return |
By Conall O Fátharta
Saturday, January 23, 2010
A HAITIAN man living in Cork has appealed to the public to donate money to Haven Partnership so he can return to help his people.
Karl Louis was born in Haiti and still has family in the country.
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Posted by editor on Monday, January 25 @ 12:00:00 UTC (8 reads)
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| Island News: natural and unnatural disasters, Haiti |
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(socialistworker.org 2008)
Analysis: Ashley Smith
(This article fills in more of the detail to the awful state of Haitian state and society, which has caused the earthquake to be a disaster on such a horrifying scale.
Ed-Ed.)
Natural and unnatural disasters
Ashley Smith describes the conditions that transformed the hurricanes that
struck Haiti into mass killers.
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Posted by editor on Wednesday, January 20 @ 06:00:00 UTC (7 reads)
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| Island News: Desperate attempts to send emergency relief |
By Ann Cahill, Europe Correspondent
Saturday, January 16, 2010
DESPERATE efforts to get aid from the EU and other parts of the world distributed to the earthquake victims in Haiti are under way.
More than €5 million in emergency aid funds has been donated by the EU and the Netherlands so far, and every member state has offered help, from field hospitals and medical staff to aircraft and canine search teams.
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Posted by editor on Sunday, January 17 @ 13:00:00 UTC (12 reads)
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