Up, up and away for 100 days of school!
Colourful balloons, costumes, happy children – all celebrating the number of days spent in school. Can that be right? Yes! If the number is 100 and the school is North Side Primary, where on last week the whole school participated…
Police Investigate Coral Gardens Death
A 56-year-old cruise ship passenger died in the area of Coral Gardens in the North Sound. Shortly before midday yesterday, Wednesday 15th February 2012, police received a report that a man was unconscious and unresponsive on the water near to…
Trial opens for top suspect in 2002 Bali bombings
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The Muslim militant suspected of building the bombs used in the 2002 Bali attack went on trial Monday on terrorism charges, a year after he was captured in the same Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden…
Kids tidy up at Miss Lassie’s
Around 20 students, teachers and parents from George Town Primary School’s Year Two got together to help clean up Miss Lassie’s House at South Sound. The kids learned all about visionary painter the late Gladwyn Bush, better known as Miss…
Drug maker for ‘El Chapo’ seized in Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials said Tuesday they have arrested a man who manufactured methamphetamine for the Sinaloa drug cartel run by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The arrest of suspect Jaime Herrera Herrera was the latest in a series…
Clarke was fast in Arkansas, faster in France.
LIEVIN, France (AP) Lerone Clarke set the world-leading time for 60 meters in Fayetteville over the weekend. The Jamaican then crossed the Atlantic and shaved 0.02 seconds off that time to win in 6.50, beating Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre. At 30,…
More than 300 killed in Honduras prison fire
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Trapped inmates screamed from their cells as a fire swept through a Honduran prison, killing at least 300 inmates, authorities said Wednesday. Lucy Marder, chief of forensic medicine for the prosecutor’s office, said early Wednesday some…
iThought for February 16, 2012
You should forget all injury done to you by your neighbor, and you should do nothing among the works of injury. Ecclesiaticus 10:6
























