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'Choo Choo' ready for CABOFE title fight
Jermaine 'Choo Choo' Mackey has come a long way from a budding amateur boxer to being known as one of the best up-and-coming young professionals in the Caribbean.With a flawless 10-0 record, The Bahamas' Super Middleweight Champion is now set to go after the World Boxing Council's Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) Title. Standing in his way is the pride of Barbados, Marcus 'Marvelous' Thomas, and with the fight set for July 28 at the Radisson Cable Beach Resort, Mackey said that he is more than up to the challenge.
"It is a pleasure to fight for the WBC title. I would love to make my record 11-0 and then from there go on to fight for the British Commonwealth title and eventually winning a world title. I am doing everything, and I am in tip-top shape. I am getting ready for this fight and I am hungry," said Mackey.
Fed jets idle under Tories
OTTAWA -- The Conservative government has kept the pricey Challenger jet fleet mostly grounded since taking office, leaving Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean as the most frequent user of the government aircraft.Defence department logs obtained through access to information show most cabinet ministers opted for commercial flights over government planes for business travel.
In the records for the first three months in office, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor were the only two ministers to board the aircraft. Other frequent travellers, including Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay, have flown commercial.
Jean used the plane to make official visits across Canada and to Italy, Haiti and El Salvador. Only one trip was for personal travel -- a family trip to the Bahamas in March -- requiring the jet to make two separate flights to return the aircraft to Ottawa and go back to fetch Jean's family a week later.
Groton Alumni set final meeting to plan upcoming Aug. reunion
The Groton Alumni All-Class High School Reunion is scheduled from 2-9 p.m. on Aug. 5 at the Groton Rod and Gun Club on Elm Street Extension.The Alumni Association has set up a final planning meeting at 7 p.m. on July 11 at the Groton Senior Housing / Center Village Court.
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New $800,000 crime lab
The government has provided capital funding in the amount of $800,000 to go toward the construction of a new forensic science facility, it was revealed. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, Cynthia Pratt said the government plans to move the country's forensic lab away from the confines of the Royal Bahamas Police Force Headquarters. She explained that there are many qualified Bahamians in the field of forensic science, but they do not necessarily want to become police officers. There is a large number of civilians in The Bahamas capable of doing the job, so government's high expenditure in outsourcing work from the forensic lab is unnecessary. Mrs Pratt said that while the police await the modern forensic laboratory, an interim facility will be developed that will expand their forensic science capacity to reduce the cost and "anxiety associated with outsourcing the service." She added that the government spends some $58,000 a year for outsourcing.
Government and BUT hold 'successful talks'
With a majority of the issues settled and negotiations moving full-speed ahead, Education Minister Alfred Sears anticipates an industrial contract with the Bahamas Union of Teachers will be concluded by the end of the 2005/2006 school year.Sears led the government team when both sides met Tuesday afternoon in what apparently turned out to be 12 hours of successful talks.
"We had a very extensive session," he told The Freeport News yesterday. "We worked continuously negotiating from 3:00 p.m. until 3:00 a.m. Wednesday morning. During that session, we were able to successfully resolve most of the outstanding matters."
Talks between government negotiators and the BUT leadership became combative at times and even came to an impasse on at least two occasions.