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Outdoors Notebook
Bass tournament: The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at Florida International University is holding the Fishing for Independence Open Tournament from safe light to 3 p.m. Sunday out of Everglades Holiday Park. Entry fee is $50 per two-angler team. The fee for the optional big-bass pot is $10 per boat. Call Alex Valdes at 305-343-7595.Fishing event: "Ladies, Let's Go Fishing!" is holding Kick Back in the Keys Saturday and Sunday at the Holiday Inn in Key Largo. Cost is $49 and includes a Kick Back party and a fun fishing tournament. Call 954-475-9068 or visit www.ladiesletsgofishing.com.
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Barracudas win swim meet
A mere week after collecting a team-leading five gold medals at the Caribbean Islands Swimming Championships, 14 year-old swim standout Ariel Weech was back in the pool at the Bahamas Swimming Federation's National Championships this past weekend at the Betty Kelly Kenning Aquatics Center.Picking up where she left off, Weech set an Open and Championship record in the Girls' 13-14 100 Metre Freestyle as she stormed to the win in 1:00.92 seconds, shattering the 1:01.28 set by Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace in 1990. After the race, Weech talked about her success of late and looked forward to the upcoming Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games.
"It feels great to know that you are still on top and hard training pays off. It makes me feel good to set records and I will just keep training harder and even more so that I can keep improving my time and breaking records," said Weech.
UNIeBulletin June 2006
A global agreement between UNI global union and South African-based packaging multinational Nampak was signed on 29 May. The deal covers Nampak and subsidiaries, incorporates core labour standards and provides for union access to members and to distribute information (including electronic information). Regular dialogue between the company and UNI Graphical and unions is built into the agreement. There is a joint commitment to "support high standards applicable to the environment, security, health and safety at the workplace". (adriana.rosenzvaig@uniglobalunion.org)Give low pay the red card
Property service unions around the world are giving low pay the red card on 15 June - International Justice Day. Actions are planned to highlight the poor wages that cleaners and security officers receive.
Ministry concerned over diving deaths
NASSAU The Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources has expressed concerned over the incidences of divers suffering from the "bends" or decompression illness that has killed three Family Island fishermen last month.Bahamian fishermen, with an average age of 31 years, comprise about 40 percent of patients suffering from the bends, seen at the Accident and Emergency Department of the Princess Margaret Hospital.
The bends is a sometime fatal disorder that is marked by neuralgic pains and paralysis, distress in breathing, and often collapse caused by the release of gas bubbles in tissue upon too rapid decrease in air pressure, after a stay in compressed atmosphere.
"We've had patients who have been paralyzed," said consultant Dr. Carolyn Burnett-Garraway, Clinical Director at Accident and Emergency.
MIDDAY BUSINESS REPORT: Aquila credit picture improving
Kansas City-based Aquila Inc . could see its credit rating improve after a two- or three-week review by Fitch Ratings in Chicago.Fitch said this morning that it put Aquila's long-term credit ratings on its Rating Watch Positive list pending the detailed look at its financial situation. The ratings cover about $2 billion of Aquila's debt.
The positive outlook at Fitch follows Aquila's announcement Friday that it had escaped its long-term energy purchase contracts with an Illinois power plant. Aquila paid another company $218 million to take over its obligations under the tolling contracts with Elwood Energy LLC.
The 6-year-old contracts had allowed Aquila to sell natural gas to the power plant and required Aquila to buy the electricity produced. Aquila also had to pay even if it didn't tap the plant to produce power.