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making several films and TVseries, and was nominated foran Emmy award in 1981 for forhis portrayal in the 1981 televi-sion show "Murder in Texas."

Flowers were to be placedon his sidewalk star on theHollywood Walk of Fame tohonor him, organizers said.

He is survived by his thirdwife, Cindi Knight, and anadopted daughter from his firstmarriage. An adopted son diedin 1996.

in "Mayberry RFD," set in thesame fictional town as "TheAndy Griffith Show," said tobe modeled on his hometownof Mount Airy, North Carolina.

Griffith sang in church as achild, and joined a universitydrama club before becoming ateacher after graduating, ac-cording to industry daily Vari-ety. He got his big break in the1950s when Ed Sullivan beganfeaturing him on his nationaltelevision show.

After a stint on Broadwayhe launched "The Andy Grif-fith Show," along with a youngRon Howard.

Griffith formed his ownproduction company in 1972,

ors exactly as stipulated in thelaw. In the future, anyone de-viating, in the slightest, fromthe legal colors of the Arubanflag will be sanctioned. Inother words, henceforth, it willbe punishable by law to print,order or sell flags using anycolor or shade of color not inexact conformity with the legalcolors!

The very same decree alsoidentifies the 4 national sym-bols of Aruba, namely, the na-tional anthem, the flag, thecoat of arms and the owl. Ap-parently, the owl is now con-sidered a national symbol andhas been included in the newlaw as such.

the Aruban flag are explicitlyand exactly described. It isnow obligatory to use the col-

Minister Michelle Hooyboer-Winklaar, with the culture ofAruba under her care, is verypleased that finally the decreewhich describes the official de-tails and colors of our flag andtranslates this into law is forth-coming. This particular lawwill be translated into Papia-mento and into English andwill be distributed to the publicand particularly to those busi-nesses that print, design, orderand sell flags.

Due to the fact that at theUnited Nations certain colorshave been changed, the bluecolor in our flag subsequentlyalso had to be adapted. In theofficial decree all the colors of

A public decree is forthcoming on

the offical colors of Aruba’s flag

Griffith, who was awardedthe Presidential Medal of Free-dom by then president GeorgeW. Bush in 2005, died at hisNorth Carolina home.

He became a householdname for his eponymous se-ries. He also played the sheriff

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - ActorAndy Griffith, 86, a belovedicon of US television for pro-grams including "The AndyGriffith Show" in the 1960sand the popular legal drama"Matlock," died yesterday, USmedia reported.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

US television icon Andy Griffith dies, 86

management positions at CMB44 of these are led by womenand that 67% of all the em-ployees at CMB are women, itis obvious that they are keenon such a Conference forwomen. According to MissSolognier, CMB is convincedthat women on Aruba can de -finitely become enriched bysuch a Conference.

Suzanne Leonard told thestory of her life through theformat of an interview.Leonard touched the hearts ofeveryone and demonstratedthrough her life that everything

is possible when you don’t losehope and keep persevering.

Dr. Gaytri Kachroo, thesecond speaker, also recountedher life story yet in a differentcontext. Kachroo spoke from alabor and judicial perspective.

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Director of Caribbean Mer-cantile Bank, Javier Wolter,whose bank played a pivotalrole in the realization of this

Conference as the primarysponsor, shared a brief wordthen turned the attention to oneof his employees, Miss NizanaSolognier.

Miss Solognier shared thereason for CMB’s big role inthe Conference, why CMBconsiders it so important.Considering that of the 75

On Friday, June 29th the pres-tigious Renaissance Conven-tion Center was filled tocapacity for the “Women inLeadership 2012 Conference.”More than 700 participants ar-rived from the early morninghours at the Convention Cen-ter. The great majority of theparticipants were women inour community who are play-ing important roles in the com-munity and in the labormarket.

There were also a few menin the audience, which, accor -

ding to the organizers indicatethat the men of Aruba under-stand the importance of anevent such as this wherewomen and men can work to-gether with the female leadersin our community.

The Conference wasopened by ATIA director Ronyvan Trigt who emphasized theimportance of the “Women inLeadership Conference” forour community. On Arubathere are a large number ofwomen in positions of great re-sponsibility. There is also alarge number of women study-ing both locally and abroad toimprove themselves and toprepare to help grow our eco -nomy.

Thanks to an event such asthis, the women of Aruba areable to receive information andknowledge that can be used tohelp them to make an even bet-ter contribution to the better-ment of our community.

COA is convinced that thisworkshop contributed signifi-cantly to the positive generaldevelopment of their sportsfederations.

Continued on page 5

On Olympic Day, June 23rd,the Aruba Olympic Committee(COA), under the auspices oftheir Management Develop-ment, conducted a workshopbearing the caption: “Perfor-mance Plan: Tips and Tricks.”

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Aruba Olympic Committeelooks back on successfulworkshop

Women in Leadership 2012: amajor success!

and the jubilant ambiancecreated by combining thesetwo popular events. On thisoccasion, as they do everyyear, Hadicurari honored in-dividuals who have con-tributed to the continuation offishing as an island tradition,a skill and enthusiasmhanded down from one gene -ration to the next.

Continued on page 4

catch them and en-courages the popu-lace to discover itas a tasty food fish. It appearsto have other highly benefi-cial properties as well, andwas a very popular foodstand.

Minister of Tourism,Transport & Labor, OtmarOduber, who administratesover Hadicurari and SantaRosa, expressed his extremesatis- faction at the responseto the 25th anniversary party

Those who know what theday will bring were lined upto purchase fresh fish, oncethe competitor’s catch wasweighed in; they enjoyedlunch under shade tents of is-land favorites, and some newcreations, such as LionfishSoup. These beautiful but in-vasive creatures, native to theIndo-Pacific and Red Sea, areendangering reef habitatsthroughout the Caribbean,and Hadicurari continuallysponsors tournaments to

with clean, white sand, andbooths featu ring island spe-cialties and native food werebusy. Normally, The SantaRosa Center of Agriculture,Livestock Husbandry andFishing would host such anevent the first Sunday of themonth, but to not competewith the popular annualHadicurari event, it was de-cided to combine the two,and bring it to town to handlethe enormous volume of peo-ple they expected.

This past Sunday, Arubabegan the month of summervacation with one last bigbash before families take off,with a go vernment sponsoredstreet fair in Oranjestad com-bining the monthly Farmer’sMarket at Santa Rosa, andannual celebration and fish-ing tournament conducted bythe Hadicurari Fishing Centerin Palm Beach.

The west end of Oranjes-tad Harbor was literallyturned into a major beach


A unique celebration for 25 years of InternationalFisherman’s Day

An impromtu clubhouse for the Fisherman in town Islander enjoy the street fair ambiance

Minister Oduber greets a loyal vaca-tioner from Canada

Chartis Insurance Companyis a fully owned subsidiaryof AIG. AIG has manyunique policies applicable toall its companies worldwideand one of them is ‘BusinessContinuity Planning.’ Inshort, this planning preparesa business to keep its doorsopen in the event of any in-cident affecting the businessor the entire island of Aruba.The actions to be taken rangefrom little budget to some in-vestment to be made in alter-native plans that will helpthe company to continue itsbusiness in spite of differentodds.

Chartis Insurance Com-pany took advantage of pres-ence of its RegionalBusiness planning managerMr. Victor Soto to offer theknowledge and share thebest practice with all its in-surance brokers and largecommercial customers. Italso demonstrated the readi-ness of Chartis (AIG) againstany eventuality when sup-port is drawn from an alter-native center in Aruba orabroad to offer seamlessservice of policy issuanceand claims settlement to val-ued clients of the company.

Mr. Prakash Guptathanked the attendees whoturned up for this seminar.He also implored the compa-nies present to ensure thatthat they do business onlywith other companies thathave similar planning inplace to avoid any surprisesas, during any adversity, wecan be affected by our sup-pliers and vendors on whomwe rely to continue our ac-tivities.

Attached pictures showthe ambience prevailing atthe cocktails after the semi-nar.

This year’s hon-orees to receiveplaques were:Juan “Por” Hen-riquez, MariaTromp and MacaFlanegin with Au-gustin Tromp andAlejandra SintJago, receivingplaques from theStichting Rancho,the foundationdedicated to main-taining the historyof the area ofOranjestad wherethe celebrationwas held, andwhat was origi-nally Aruba’s cen-ter of fishing.

It was a dayfilled with food,fun and fish,steeped in islandculture and tradi-tion.

by Rosalie Klein

4 Wednesday, July 4, 2012

A unique celebration for

25 years . . .Continued from page 3

Flea markets offered local food and plants

Finding use for an invasive species

Chartis Insurance (AIG) presented an

interesting seminar on Business

Continuity Planning

they also focused on princi-pal elements to take into ac-count when designing amanagement plan.

Greg Peterson followedwith a rather unique presen-tation of the topic “(Wo)manpower planning.” Thispresen - tation was followedby the preparation of a prac-tical task by all participants.Each parti cipant had to pre-pare a practical task in teams.They had access to the ex-

During the workshop, se veralexperts developed the subjectmatter. In a very practicalmanner two basic elementswere dealt with during thecreation of a plan.

1. Establish a plan of ac-tion/policy. This topic waspresented by Roy Mezas,Project Manager.

2. The Importance of a(Wo) Manpower Plan (Pot-holes and Successes). Advi-sor, Greg Peterson was incharge of this topic

The workshop was de-signed specifically for leadersof the sports Federations affi -liated to the Aruba OlympicCommittee, along with theirtechnical staff members. Atotal of 18 of the 24 affiliatedfederations participated.

In the workshop much em-phasis was placed on the im-portance of having a plan ofaction. They also presented amodel for analysing thestrong and weak points of anorganization and what are thestrenghts, opportunities andpotential threats you can en-counter along the way. In ad-dition to this SWAT analysis

which, thanks to CMB and allthe participants, the Mary JoanFoundation received a hand-some check for Afls.25.000 tohelp their foundation with theirnoble work on the behalf ofwomen in our community.

ATIA expressed their heart-felt gratitude to their officialsponsor, the Caribbean Mer-cantile Bank, to the many vol-unteers and others who helpedin different ways to make theevent such a success. Also, abig ‘thank you’ went to all whoparticipated. ATIA also an-nounces that next year’s“Women in Leadership Con-ference” will be held on Fri-day, June 28th 2013.

To view some of the hap-penings at this year’s confer-ence, visit their website at:www.womenleadaruba.com.

Women in leadership 2012Continued from page 2

Dr. Kachroo is a lawyer whoholds 6 different titles. She isan example of the fact that it isnever too late to study and thatyou really never stop learningand that you should take ad-vantage of every opportunityto learn.

The last speaker was LisaNichols, whom they consi -dered “the cherry on the cake!”Lisa also took some time to tellher story. She also got the au-dience moving. Lisa’s work-shop of “Achieving Greatness,No Matter What!” had to dowith getting to know the per-son seated next to you; some-one unknown to you, so youcould discover your fears andwork them away.

The closing item on theprogram was the grand“Happy hour for a cause,”

perts present for assistance indeveloping their plans.

At the end of the work-shop each participant re-ceived a certificate from theGeneral Secretary, NicoleHoevertz and President ofCOA, Roy Mezas.

The COA expressedwords of gratitude and appre-ciation to all who helped tomake their workshop such agreat success.


Aruba Olympic Committee looks back

on successful workshopContinued from page 2

DOHA (AFP) - YasserArafat, who died in 2004,was poisoned by polonium,according to the findings oflaboratory research carriedout in Switzerland and citedin an Al-Jazeera report yes-terday.

The analysis focused onbiological samples takenfrom the late Palestinianleader's belongings given tohis wife Suha by the militaryhospital in Paris where hedied, according to FrancoisBochud, head of the Instituteof Radiation Physics at theUniversity of Lausanne.

pected criminal elements fromthe Turkish community werebehind the rash of killings.

The intelligence chief fi-nally threw in the towel afteran interior ministry official tes-tified to a parliamentary com-mittee last week that files withinformation about neo-Naziswere destroyed by agency em-ployees.

Friedrich said that Fromm'ssuccessor would be named inthe course of a "calm discus-sion about reforms andchanges" at the agency.

Despite his resignation,Fromm is to testify tomorrowbefore the parliamentary com-mittee probing failings in theinvestigation of the murders,as will the staff member whoordered the files shredded.

The committee's chairmanSebastian Edathy said furtherresignations were possible andcalled on the agency to pin-point what went wrong duringthe criminal probe.

agency.Yesterday with the dis-

missal of the head of a regionaldomestic intelligence servicewhich had been involved in anoperation to recruit right-wingextremists in the state as in-formants.

Interior minister in centralThuringia state Joerg Geibertannounced that Thomas Sippelwould retire, saying he has "nolonger the confidence" of thestate parliament.

Fromm had been under firesince November when itemerged that a far-right triocalling itself the National So-cialist Underground (NSU) waslikely behind a murder spreewith 10 victims, most of themshopkeepers of Turkish origin.

The case broke open onlywhen two members of theNSU were found dead in anapparent suicide pact and theother, a woman, turned herselfin.

Investigators initially sus-

BERLIN (AFP) - Germanypledged root-and-branch re-form of its security servicesyesterday after the domestic in-telligence chief resigned over abotched probe of serial killingsnow blamed on neo-Nazis.

Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich of ChancellorAngela Merkel's conservativebloc said the working methodsof the federal authorities nee -ded a "fundamental rethink"after it emerged that key casefiles were shredded.

"What happened, of course,is unacceptable and that is whythere must be consequences,"Friedrich told public radio oneday after he announced thatdomestic intelligence directorHeinz Fromm, 63, would takeearly retirement.

"I think that we need to takea very critical look at whathappened at the Office for theProtection of the Constitution,and I will," he said referring tothe domestic intelligence

Germany vows shake-up after botched

neo-Nazi probe17,000 deaths.

Bolivia's current outbreakprimarily has affected youngchildren, the elderly, andthose whose systems are al-ready weakened by illness orchronic health conditionssuch as high blood pressureor diabetes.

Some 471 cases have beenreported in the capital, LaPaz, while 109 were reportedin the neighboring city of ElAlto. In total, the La Paz de-partment, the most affectedby the outbreak, reported atotal of 585 cases throughJune 30. Santa Cruz, a largedepartment in eastern Bo-livia, reported 167 cases.

Eight of the deaths wereidentified in the departmentof La Paz department, whilethe remaining three were inSanta Cruz.

LA PAZ (AFP) - At least 11people in Bolivia have diedfrom H1N1 flu in recentmonths, with most of thecases occurring in just thepast few weeks, health offi-cials here said yesterday.

Deputy Health MinisterMartin Maturano said 873cases had been reportedacross the country, and urgedBolivians to take preventivemea sures, such as eating welland frequently washing theirhands.

Bolivian authorities havenot said whether the strain ofthe virus originated as swineor avian flu -- in other wordswhether it first spread to hu-mans from pigs or birds.

In 2009, an H1N1 epi-demic erupted in Mexico,sparking a worldwide pan-demic that caused at least


INTERNATIONAL NEWS 11 dead from H1N1 flu

in Bolivia

HoNDUrAS, Tegucigalpa : Police personnel in Teguci-galpa unload from a truck on July 3, 2012 a cargo ofaround 600 kg of cocaine seized after a Colombian-re -gistered light aircraft with two Brazilians aboard crash-landed in the oloncho department killing one of themand leaving the second severily injured. (AFP PHoTo)

New York : AFP photo shows five-time world hot dog-eating champion Joey Chestnut (L) and women’s hotdog-eating champion Sonya “The Black widow" Thomas(r) with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (C) atthe official weigh-in ceremony for the Nathan’s FamousFourth of July International Hot Dog eating Contest atCity Hall in New York, yesterday. The contest is today atNathan's Famous in Coney Island.

Report: Arafatpoisoned bypolonium

complete surprise to Wilders,who said he had never ‘beenstabbed in the back so manytimes’.

The PVV is due to publishits list of candidates for theelection on Friday. 'I suspectsome people are acting in an-ticipation of the list,' Wilderstold reporters.

The party is on target totake around 15% of the vote inthe general election, slightlydown on its performance in2010.

played by its founder Wilders.'Everything revolves

around Geert Wilders and hedoes not take anyone else intoaccount,' Hernandez told anews conference. ‘

Unlike Hero Brinkman,who declined to go into manydetails after leaving the PVVearlier this year, Hernandezand Kortenoven launched alitany of complaints againstWilders and his leadershipstyle.

The resignations came as a

THE HAGUE -- Two MPs forthe anti-immigration PVV ef-fectively sabotaged the presen-tation of the party’s electionmanifesto yesterday by mak-ing high profile resignationsover Geert Wilders' leadershipstyle.

As soon as the manifestopresentation was over, MarcialHernandez and Wim Korten-oven announced they wereleaving the party with immedi-ate effect because of the domi-nant role in the movement

were elderly people aged 66,70 and 95.

Authorities said about athousand people were recei -ving preventative medicaltreatment in Manzanillo, atown of some 130,000 inhabi-tants.

Health officials said theybelieve heavy rains and hottemperatures contributed to theoutbreak of cholera, an intes-tinal ailment which is spreadthrough contaminated foodand water.

HAVANA (AFP) - An out-break of cholera in easternCuba has killed at least threepeople, 130 years after the lastknown case of the disease wasreported on the island.

Health workers have identi-fied 53 people infected withthe illness in the coastal townof Manzanillo.

In a statement published inthe official newspaperGranma, Cuba's ministry ofpublic health said in a state-ment that the three fatalities

would likely be higher than the$17 charged for a similar unitthat the company already sellsto hospitals, clinics and physi-cians.

The company's presidentand chief executive DouglasMichels said the test wouldallow people "to learn theirHIV status in the comfort oftheir home and obtain referralto care if needed."

The Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention esti-mates that 1.2 million peoplein the United States are livingwith HIV infections -- ofwhich about one in five are notaware they are infected.

There are about 50,000 newHIV infections every year andmany of those infections aretransmitted from people whoare unaware of their HIV sta-tus.

"The availability of a home-use HIV test kit provides an-other option for individuals toget tested so that they can seekmedical care, if appropriate,"said Dr Karen Midthun, direc-tor of the FDA's Center for Bi-ologics Evaluation andResearch.

"Knowing your status is animportant factor in the effort toprevent the spread of HIV."

result does not mean that an in-dividual is definitely not in-fected with HIV, particularlywhen exposure may have beenwithin the previous threemonths," the FDA said in astatement.

The home testing kit, whichdetects both type 1 and type 2HIV antibodies, could identifylarge numbers of previouslyundiagnosed infections, ac-cording to the FDA.

Clinical studies for self-testing have shown that theOraQuick home HIV test hasan expected performance of 92percent for test sensitivity, thepercentage of results that willbe positive when HIV is pres-ent.

"This means that one falsenegative result would be ex-pected out of every 12 test re-sults in HIV-infected indi -viduals," the FDA said.

Similar testing indicatesthat one false positive wouldbe expected out of every 5,000test results in uninfected indi-viduals, according to the FDA,which is responsible for regu-lating medication in the UnitedStates.

A spokeswoman for Ora-Sure Technologies said a pricefor the over-the-counter test kithad not been decided but it

WASHINGTON (AFP) - TheUnited States announced yes-terday it has authorized salesof the first over-the-counterhome testing kit for HIV, thevirus that leads to AcquiredImmune Deficiency Syndrome(AIDS).

The OraQuick In-HomeHIV test is expected to beavailable from October at30,000 American retail outlets,its manufacturer said, with thekit allowing people to obtain aresult within 20 to 40 minutes.

The US Food and Drug Ad-ministration (FDA) and thecompany that makes the kit,OraSure Technologies, hailedthe approval as a major ad-vance in detecting Human Im-munodeficiency Virus infec -tions.

The test procedure involvestaking an oral fluid sample col-lected by swabbing the upperand lower gums inside a per-son's mouth, placing the sam-ple into the kit's developer vialand then waiting for the result.

The FDA noted that a posi-tive result from the test doesnot mean a person is definitelyinfected with HIV, but ratherthat an additional test shouldbe done in a medical setting toconfirm the result.

"Similarly, a negative test

US approves over-the-counter HIV

home testing kit

PRD, had so far found that113,855 out of the 143,000ballot boxes "that were in-stalled had inconsistencies."

"There is no doubt thatthere was not a fair and trans-parent election," said LopezObrador, accusing the Institu-tional Revolutionary Party(PRI) of having bought "mil-lions of votes.

Observers worry that LopezObrador's refusal to concede torival Enrique Pena Nieto couldtrigger a repeat of the 2006presidential election, when helost by less than one percent,claimed fraud and organizedmass protests that paralyzedMexico City for more than amonth.

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Therunner-up in Mexico's presi-dential election, leftist candi-date Andres Manuel LopezObrador, demanded yesterdaya full recount of the ballots,pointing to "inconsistencies."

"We have presented a for-mal request on behalf of thecoalition asking for a recountand counting the votes cast inthe 143,000 ballot boxes in-stalled for the presidentialelections," campaign coordina-tor Ricardo Monreal said at apress conference alongsideLopez Obrador.

Monreal explained that an"investigation" by the leftistcoalition led by the Demo-cratic Revolution Party, or


INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Mexico runner-up demands

presidential vote recount

Cuba's first cholera outbreakin 130 years kills three

Dutch dissidents sabotage PVV manifesto

launch with shock resignations

In addition, the companywill pay $1.7 billion in civilfines for illegal promotion ofthose drugs as well as others;paying kickbacks in their mar-keting; and making unsubstan-tiated claims about Avandia'ssafety and efficacy.

And separately, GSK isbeing fined $300 million tosettle charges it underpaid re-bates it owed to the US Medi-caid program.

The charges said that from1998 to 2003 GSK promotedPaxil to use in treating depres-sion in patients under 18 with-out approval from the USFood and Drug Administra-tion.

Likewise, in 1999-2003 thecompany illegally promotedWellbutrin for things likeweight loss, sexual dysfunc-tion treatment, and other uses.

The alleged kickbacks alsoinvolved the drugs Zofran, Im-itrex, Lotronex, Flovent, andValtrex, the Justice Depart-ment said.

promoted antidepressantsPaxil and Wellbutrin for usesnot approved for by US regu-lators, including treatment ofchildren and adolescents.

The company also concededcharges that it held back dataand made unsupported safetyclaims over its diabetes drugAvandia.

Altogether it will pay $1 bil-lion in criminal fines and for-feitures over charges relatingto the three drugs.

(AFP) - GlaxoSmithKline wassocked with $3 billion in finesby US authorities over chargesit marketed drugs for unautho-rized uses, held back safetydata, and cheated the govern-ment's Medicaid program.

In a longstanding case thatofficials said bared the uglyunderside of the US pharma-ceutical industry, GSK wasalso accused of paying kick-backs to doctors, paying forexpensive trips and other ben-efits, to gain their support forthe drugs the company waspushing.

GSK, one of the world'slargest health care and phar-maceuticals companies,pleaded guilty on three countsand agreed to the fines in whatthe department called thelargest health care fraud settle-ment in US history.

The British drugmaker ad-mitted to charges that it had

GlaxoSmithKline fined $3 bnin US

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Health & Living

were aged 95, 70 and 66 re-spectively.

Cholera is a water-bornedisease generally spread bypoor sanitation.

A major outbreak of thedisease has sickened thou-sands in Haiti and the neigh-boring Dominican Republicover the past several months.In Cuba, recent high temper-atures and heavy rains haveexacerbated the problem.

HAVANA (AFP) - A choleraoutbreak has killed three eld-erly people and sickeneddozens more citizens in east-ern Cuba, the health ministryannounced on Tuesday.

A government statementpublished in the dailyGranma newspaper said 53cases of the ailment had beenidentified so far, noting thatthe three people who died

Cholera outbreak inCuba kills three

There have been 61 reportedcases so far, Asgari said, withjust one patient surviving. Thevictims, all aged seven andunder, were admitted to hospi-tals in the capital Phnom Penhand the northwestern touristhub of Siem Reap.

In separate comments sentto AFP, the WHO said therewere no signs yet of conta-gion.

"To date, there is no reportof any staff or any neighbour-ing patients to the cases at thehospitals becoming sick withsimilar symptoms," it said.

Asgari confirmed there was"no cluster of the cases yet"but said the high mortality ratein such a short space of timewas worrisome.

"WHO is always concernedabout a disease which causesdeath in such high numbers ofchildren," he told AFP.

Cambodian health ministryofficials were not immediatelyavailable for comment.

PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Anunidentified disease has killed60 young children in Cambo-dia in three months, the WorldHealth Organization saidTuesday as it raced to identifythe cause.

"The number of deaths re-ported to WHO is 60 cases andthey have all been in youngchildren," said Dr Nima As-gari, a public health specialistfor the UN body in Cambodia,adding that the first casualtieswere reported in April.

The WHO is currentlyworking with the CambodianMinistry of Health "to identifythe cause and the route ofspread of this disease", he said.

With the investigation stillat an early stage, Asgari said itwas difficult to specify thesymptoms, which "includehigh fever and severe chestdisease symptoms, plus insome children there were signsof neurological involvement".

Unknown disease kills60 children in Cambodia:WHO

local woman and had no knownpolitical enemies, the investiga-tor added.

However, local co-workersalleged the killing of Geertman,described by police as execu-tive director of the non-govern-ment group Alay Bayan, waspolitically motivated.

"It is an outrage that he... be-came a target for such bar-barous killings," said theactivist group National Allianceof Indigenous People's Organi-sations in the Philippines.

It said Geertman had been inthe country for 46 years, help-ing farmers, tribesmen and en-vironmental groups and he wastargetted by the military as partof the government's counterin-surgency campaign againstcommunist rebels.

MANILA (AFP) - An elderlyDutchman who was workingfor a non-government organisa-tion in the Philippines was shotdead on Tuesday, police said.

William Geertman, 67, whoworked for an anti-malariacampaign, was killed on hisway to his office in the northerncity of San Fernando in an ap-parent robbery attempt, policeinvestigator Adrian Regala toldAFP.

"He had just come from thebank when two unidentifiedsuspects entered (his office)compound and shot him in theback," Regala said.

The suspects fled with Geert-man's bag, which police saidcontained the money he had justwithdrawn from the bank.

The victim was married to a

Dutch aid worker murderedin Philippines

ments depicting a boomerang-shaped territory named Amer-ica.

Only four copies of the seg-mental maps were previouslyknown about, the universitysaid in a written statement.

One of the four was sold atauction for one million dollarsin 2005.

The fifth was found by abibliographer, who was revis-ing the catalogue, "in an other-wise unremarkable volumethat had been rebound in the19th century", it said.

It was nestled between twoprinted works on geometryfrom the early 16th century.

The unearthed map man-aged to survive World War II,hidden but unscathed, despiteair raids having devastated theuniversity library as much ofits holdings of older bookswere moved out in 1942.

Waldseemueller probablyused information gleaned fromthe transatlantic voyages ofChristopher Columbus,Amerigo Vespucci -- afterwhom America is named --and unknown Portuguese andSpanish sources, to draw the1507 map.

Historians ponder why henamed the new continent afterVespucci and not Columbus,who 'discovered' America in1492.

SPACE, - : A handout image taken by the NASA/ESA Hub-ble Space Telescope and released on July 3, 2012 by theEuropean Space Agency (ESA) shows Herbig-Haro 110(HH 110), a geyser of hot gas flowing from a newbornstar. HH 110 appears different from most other Herbig-Haro objects -- in particular, it appears on its own whilethey usually come in pairs. Astronomers think it may bea continuation of another object called HH 270, after ithas been deflected off a dense cloud of gas.

AFP PHOTO


BERLIN (AFP) - Librarians ata German university havestumbled across a version ofthe 500-year-old world mapthat was the first to mentionthe name "America", they saidTuesday, calling the chancefind "sensational".

Experts did not even knowabout the existence of a fifthcopy of the map by Germancartographer Martin Wald-seemueller until it showed upa few days ago, Ludwig Max-imilian University of Munichsaid.

The discovery is muchsmaller and thought to have

been made after the 1507 orig-inal version, which Germanyofficially handed over to theUnited States in 2007 and nowlies in the Library of Congressin Washington.

The newly unearthed map,one of the so-called globe seg-ments, is believed to have beenproduced by Waldseemuellerhimself, who died in 1522.

The new find shows theworld divided into twelve seg-ments which taper to a point ateach end and are printed on asingle sheet, which, whenfolded out, form a small globe,with the three rightmost seg-

Version of 'America's birth certificate'surfaces in Germany

Sci-Tech

A handout picture released on July 3, 2012 by the Lud-wig-Maximilians University (LMU) of Munich shows oneof the five so called Waldseemüller world maps car-tographed in the 16th century by Martin Waldseemueller.

"Consumer preference formobile computing devices isshifting from notebook totablet PCs, particularly in ma-ture markets," said RichardShim, analyst at NPD.

"While the lines betweentablet and notebook PCs areblurring, we expect maturemarkets to be the primary re-gions for tablet PC adoption.New entrants are tending tolaunch their initial products inmature markets. Services andinfrastructure needed to createcompelling new usage modelsare often better established inmature markets."

In its most recent quarterlysurvey on mobile devices,NPD said in May that Apple'siPad had 62.8 percent of thetablet market, with Samsung adistant second at 7.5 percent.

Since then Google said itwould sell its own brandedtablet made by Asus, whileMicrosoft introduced a tabletthat converts to a notebook, tobe on sale later this year.

(AFP) - Tablet computers areexpected to overtake notebookPCs by 2016 as consumersshift to newer devices like theApple iPad, a survey saidTuesday.

The survey by research firmNPD said tablets will be "thegrowth driver" for the mobilecomputer market over the nextfew years.

Overall mobile PC ship-ments including tablets willgrow from 347 million in 2012to over 809 million by 2017.

Notebook PC shipments areexpected to increase from 208million in 2012 to 393 millionby 2017, but tablet shipmentsare expected to grow from 121million to 416 million in thesame period.

A key driver for tabletgrowth is adoption in NorthAmerica, Japan and WesternEurope, which will account for66 percent of shipments in2012 and remain in the 60 per-cent range throughout the nextfew years, NPD said.

Tablets to overtake notebook PCsby 2016: study

The Amazon Kindle Fire tablet.

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LONDON : In this file pic-ture taken on May 5, 2012Bob Diamond, GroupChief Executive of Bar-clays PLC is seen on thepitch before the FA Cupfinal football match be-tween Liverpool andChelsea at Wembley Sta-dium in London, England.

Barclays chief execu-tive Bob Diamond has re-signed with immediateeffect over a rate riggingscandal at the Britishbanking giant, the com-pany said yesterday.

"Barclays today an-nounces the resignationof Bob Diamond as chiefexecutive and a directorof Barclays with immedi-ate effect," the bank saidin a statement to the Lon-don Stock Exchange.

Diamond who onlytook up his new job lastmonth, was previously asenior figure at the firm'sinvestment banking armBarclays Capital.

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talks on July 9, he said.Finland and the Nether-

lands this week voiced theirconcern about the accord touse the European StabilityMechanism (ESM) to buybonds on the secondary marketto ease the punishing borro -wing costs that have doggedmore vulnerable eurozoneeconomies.

Monti, who had hostedfour-way talks in Rome inpreparation for the big summitin Brussels, said the results"constitute a step forward to-wards the Europe that we Ital-ians want: more gearedtowards growth and more sta-ble."

Eurozone leaders had cob-bled together 120 billion eurosto boost growth.

ROME (AFP) - Italian PrimeMinister Mario Monti saidyesterday that he would try topersuade an unwilling Finlandand the Netherlands to playball on using the European Sta-bility Mechanism to stabilisebond markets.

"We will try to overcomeopposition from countries likeFinland and the Netherlands,which have a certain intoler-ance towards stability mecha-nisms," Monti said a daybefore debt crisis talks withGerman Chancellor AngelaMerkel.

The deal reached at an EUsummit in Brussels last week,which bolstered confidence inthe euro and brought swift re-lief to crisis-hit Italy andSpain, must be "crystallisedand consolidated" at eurozone

tressed labor market, wherejob growth has nearly stalledand the unemployment rate isat 8.2 percent.

The global lender citedrisks to US growth, includingthe limited room for monetarypolicy to counter the drag ofdeficit cutting and an erosionof skills in the labor market.

But the IMF emphasizedthat weak consumer spending,which accounts for about 70percent of the economy, re-mained a key obstacle to re-covery three years after theGreat Recession.

"Consumption is expectedto be held back by householdscontinuing to repair their bal-ance sheets amid a sluggish re-covery of house prices" afterthe housing bubble collapsedsix years ago.

on a deficit reduction plan, re-sulting in mandated tax in-creases and spending cuts totake effect by January 1, 2013.

Congress remains dead-locked over how to avoid themandated measures, and thepolitical impasse was not ex-pected to end before the No-vember 6 presidential election.

The IMF warned that lea -ving the measures to take ef-fect could force a US con -traction early next year, slam-ming an already fragile worldeconomy.

It noted the nation's debtceiling will need to be raised inearly 2013, after a historic bat-tle over the same issue in Con-gress last year roiled marketsand cost the United States itscoveted triple-A debt rating forthe first time.

The looming need for thelimit hike was "bringing backthe risk of heightened uncer-tainty and financial market dis-ruption," the Washington-based institution said, calling itto be lifted as soon as possible.

The IMF criticized Presi-dent Barack Obama's proposedfiscal 2013 budget, which callsfor slashing the nation's deficitby three percentage points toabout 5.5 percent of gross do-mestic product.

Even if as expected thedeficit cutting is less than threepoints, the IMF warned that"this smaller reduction wouldbe too rapid, given the weakeconomy."

"The composition of spend-ing should be as growth-friendly as possible," the IMFsaid, suggesting a larger deficitof about 6.25 percent of GDPwould be appropriate.

It called for spending on in-frastructure, measures to easethe housing crisis, and workertraining programs in the dis-

WASHINGTON (AFP) - TheInternational Monetary Fundyesterday pared its growthforecast for the US economyand warned that the Obama ad-ministration could be slicingthe deficit too fast for the weakeconomy.

It also said the country's"tepid" recovery was underthreat from the pre-pro-grammed "fiscal cliff" combi-nation of sharp spending cutsand tax increases at the year-end, and a worsening of the eu-rozone debt crisis.

The IMF estimated 2012US economic growth at a 2.0percent, down from April'sforecast of 2.1 percent, citingsluggish consumer spending,the key driver of gross domes-tic product activity.

But even that outlook wasat risk both from the domesticpolitical stalemate and deepe -ning international economicchallenges, the global crisislender said.

"It is critical to remove theuncertainty created by the 'fis-cal cliff' as well as promptlyraise the debt ceiling, pursuinga pace of deficit reduction thatdoes not sap the economic re-covery," the fund said in its an-nual report on the USeconomy.

IMF managing directorChristine Lagarde, speaking ata news conference, highlightedthe risks to the global economyof US political inaction on thelooming domestic challenges.

"The domestic effect wouldbe severe, with negative spill -overs to the rest of the world,"Lagarde said.

She said the threat of thefiscal cliff and the debt ceilingnot being moved has erodedconfidence in the country.

The fiscal cliff is the resultof Congress's failure to agree

IMF warns US against cutting deficittoo fast


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"gift", aged just16, prompting avice probe intothe Frenchsquad.

Now aged 20,the youngwoman hasreinvented her-self as a lingeriecouturiere, win-ning high-pro-file supportfrom Chanel de-signer KarlLagerfeld whoshot the official

pictures for her first collec-tion unveiled in Paris in Jan-uary.

For her second line, show-cased Monday night, gor-geous models stepped out ofa giant US-style refrigerator,their bodies adorned -- barely-- with crystals, minute G-strings, tiny tassels and wispsof lace on the nipple by wayof bras.

PARIS (AFP) - A one-timecall-girl got the Paris fashionpack hot under the collar witha delectably naughty lingerieline unveiled on the sidelinesof the haute couture shows.

Zahia Dehar made globalheadlines in 2010 when itemerged the French-Algerianwas offered up for sex withthe footballer Franck Riberyand co-players as a birthday

tology views her as a threat tothe organization, and has put ateam on her tail, with "myste-rious" men and vehicles tailingher in recent weeks.

The attorney's statementcame after 33-year-oldHolmes was spotted in NewYork on Monday without herwedding ring.

Holmes announcement thatshe was filing for divorce re-portedly took Cruise by sur-prise. A spokeswoman saidFriday that he was "deeplysaddened" by the move to endtheir five-year marriage.

TMZ reported that Holmes,who announced on Friday thatshe was filing for divorce,feared that he wanted theirdaughter to join the Sea Org inthe near future.

But it cited the Scientolo-gist's lawyer as saying nobodyunder the age of 16 can jointhe elite body, adding that mi-nors must have the "consent ofboth parents and/or all legalguardians" to become mem-bers.

TMZ also cited sourcesclose to Holmes as saying shebelieves the Church of Scien-

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - TheChurch of Scientology deniedMonday sending anyone tofollow Katie Holmes after shefiled for divorce from TomCruise, amid reports she fearedher husband's plans for theirdaughter.

A lawyer for the church alsodismissed reports that Cruise -- a prominent Scientologist --wanted their six-year-olddaughter Suri to join the SeaOrganization, described as aboot camp for the controver-sial religion.

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Scientologists deny tailing Cruise wife,eyeing daughter

ren from east London.The gold medals are not ac-

tually made of solid gold. Theyare in fact 92.5 percent silverand 1.34 percent gold, whilethe rest is copper.

Metals used in the medalswere mined in Mongolia andUtah in the United States.

Featuring some of theworld's largest diamonds, theCrown Jewels are used by theBritish monarch during corona-tions and other state functions.They have been kept at thetower since 1661.

The imposing castle hasstood in east London since the11th century and has a fa-mously grisly history.

It was first used as a jail in1100 and went on to witnessthe imprisonment and execu-tion of many political and reli-gious prisoners until the 17thcentury.

It returned to this role duringthe two World Wars, with sev-eral spies executed there be-tween 1914 and 1916.

Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler'sNazi deputy, was one of the lastprisoners to be held at the towerin 1941.

LONDON (AFP) - The medalsfor the 2012 Olympic Gameswere locked up on Monday ina vault at the Tower of London,where Britain's Crown Jewelsare kept under armed guard.

The 4,700 gold, silver andbronze discs will not be seen inpublic again until they are hungaround the necks of the win-ning athletes at the Games,which open in the British capi-tal on July 27.

London Games chief Sebas-tian Coe took the medals downto the vaults, where they willstay until they are due to beawarded.

"For an athlete, winning anOlympic or Paralympic medalrepresents the conclusion ofthousands of hours of trainingand reaching the highest levelin sport," said Coe, who is him-self a two-time Olympic 1500-metre gold medallist.

"The victory ceremoniesthen provide the moment theycan truly celebrate their suc-cess."

The medals were greeted bya fanfare, as the tower's Yeo-man Warder guards -- com-monly known as Beefeaters --watched with 150 schoolchild-

Olympics Medals lockedup in Tower of London

Playful notes abounded,like a raspberry-colouredbikini with little twists ateach side of the knickers, asif inciting the onlooker to re-lease the candy from itspackaging.

Another tableau saw themodels step out of a cupcake,while a third had them sittingsweetly on school benches,rising to the sound of achurch bell -- in a nod to thecouture custom of the bridewhich traditionally closeseach show.

Finally, the cherry on thecake, the curvaceous, blondeZahia herself stepped out inan infinitely-flattering sec-ond-skin dress, with whitebuttons running up its spine.

Backed by an Asian in-vestment fund, Zahia is alsobranching into ready-to-wearwith a string of pieces di-rectly inspired by her firstlingerie collection.

Call girl lingerie quickens pulses atParis couture


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Radwanksa makes Polishhistory at Wimbledon

Agnieszka Radwanskabecame Poland's firstGrand Slam semi-finalistwhen she beat Russia'sMaria Kirilenko 7-5, 4-6,7-5 in a Wimbledon quar-ter-final which tookseven and a half hoursto complete.Third-seeded Radwan-ska's victory over the17th seed ended fouryears of frustration aftershe suffered last-eightlosses at Wimbledon in2008 and 2009 and threedefeats at the same stageof the Australian Open.The 23-year-old -- a Wim-bledon junior championin 2005 -- will play Ger-

man eighth seed Angelique Kerber for a place in thefinal.

talent, determination andtenacity.

“We consider this group offine young athletes to be won-derful role models for islandyouth,” comment PaseoHerencia GM Valerie Pietersz-Camacho. “We are honored toadd them to our Wall of Fame,and we look forward to plac-ing Jamal and Daniella’snames to our other tribute ded-icated to Aruban Olympians,those who have representedthe island at the World Gamessince 1950. Congratulations toall of them for their wonderfulperformance at this year’sCISC and our thanks for mak-ing us so proud over theyears.”

by Rosalie Klein

Co-operative (BALCO) scan-dal broke.

Under a British OlympicAssociation (BOA) bylaw, ath-letes testing positive for drugswere banned for life fromcompeting at the Olympics.

However the BOA rule wasdeclared to be in contraventionof the World Anti-DopingAgency (WADA) code byCAS, paving the way forChambers to return.

"For me representing mycountry in an Olympics is aprivilege that should never betaken for granted," he said.

"To be given the opportu-nity to do so in my home townhas been a dream that at timeshas seemed very distant and isnow a reality."

LONDON (AFP) - Convicteddrugs cheat Dwain Chamberswas named in Great Britain'sOlympic athletics squad onTuesday after his lifetime banwas overturned by world anti-doping chiefs.

The 34-year-old sprinterwas included in the 71-strongsquad for London followingthe conclusion of a long-run-ning legal battle which endedwhen the Court of Arbitrationfor Sport (CAS) ruled in hisfavour in April.

Chambers, who has notcompeted in the Olympicssince a fourth-place finish atthe 2000 Sydney Games, wasbanned for two years after test-ing positive for drugs in 2003as the Bay Area Laboratory


Drug-cheat Chambers back in BritishOlympic fold

PARIS (AFP) - Bonuses owedto the France team for havingmade the quarter-finals of therecently-concluded EuropeanChampionships have beenfrozen, the French footballfederation announced on Tues-day.

Each member of the Frenchteam, which lost 2-0 in thequarters to eventual winnersSpain, was eligible for a bonusof 100,000 euros.

But in light of the in-fight-ing and ill-discipline thatdogged the country's Euro cam-paign, federation presidentNoel Le Graet said: "The wholeof the bonuses of the Franceteam at Euro 2012 are frozen.

"It's blocked money, whichmay be redistributed or maybenot."

Le Graet, up for re-electionin December, added that fourplayers from the squad wouldappear at a disciplinary com-mittee "as soon as possibleafter their holidays" to explaintheir behaviour at the tourna-ment hosted by Poland andUkraine.

"Four players will go be-fore the disciplinary commit-

tee: (Hatem) Ben Arfa, (Yann)Mvila, (Samir) Nasri and (Je-remy) Menez," Le Graet saidafter a meeting of the execu-tive committee, a body he saidwas unable to impose sanc-tions.

France players' bonus frozenas quartet face probe

COLORADO SPRINGS,Colorado (AFP) - New YorkKnicks guard Jeremy Lin haswithdrawn from the USAmen's select team that willtrain this month against the2012 USA basketball men'snational team during trainingcamp in Las Vegas.

Lin told USA BasketballMonday that he was with-drawing because he is now aNBA restricted free agent.

"Unfortunately, I am notgoing to be able to participatein the 2012 USA men's selectteam this summer," said Lin.

"It was such an incrediblehonor to be selected, but Ihave withdrawn my namefrom the team because of mystatus as a free agent. I hopeto have the opportunity toparticipate with USA Basket-ball at some point in the fu-ture."

Members of the USA se-lect team will be in Nevada,beginning July 5 to train withthe USA national team. Thenational team opens its train-ing camp a day later.

Lin withdrawsfrom USAselect team

•Semi finalist at Pan Amer-ican Games

•2 Bronze Medals SouthAmerican Championships

•7 Gold Medals CCCAN +record holder 50, 100 & 200Breaststroke (13-14 yrs)

•7 Gold Medals CISC +record holder 200 Breaststroke(15-17 yrs)

•11 Gold MedalsCARIFTA Games + recordholder 200 Breaststroke &400 Individual Medley (11-12yrs), 50 Freestyle (13-14 yrs)200 Breaststroke (15-17 yrs)

Kyra and Anouk are alsomultiple medal winners in sin-gles, duet and team divisionsfrom synchronized swimmingmeets in which they have beencompeting since very young.During the CISC, Kyra won inthe Singles Championship inthe 13-15 year division.Anouk, is attending Linden-wood University and has oftenwon gold for Aruba during heryounger years. She has been iscompeting on a national levelin the U.S. and in March, withher partner Reem Abdalazeem,who is participating in thisyear’s World Games in Lon-don on behalf of Egypt, de-fended LindenwoodUniversity at the US Colle-giate Synchronized SwimmingChampionship in Gainesville,Florida to win third place. Fol-lowing the unveiling of theirportraits on the Wall of Fame,Kyra and Anouk performed abreathtaking demonstration oftheir talent and athleticprowess in the Plaza Padupool.

The evening included theannouncement that Jamal leGrand and Daniella van derBerg have been selected torepresent Aruba in this sum-mer’s Olympic Games takingplace in London, England. Itwas an exciting night for allthe audience as these young-sters were rewarded for their

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LONDON (AFP) - SerenaWilliams produced a cham-pion's display to knock outtitle-holder Petra Kvitova aswinning machine AngeliqueKerber ousted Sabine Lisickiin the Wimbledon women'squarter-finals on Tuesday.

Kvitova tipped Williamsto win a fifth Wimbledoncrown after the US sixth seedused her experience and coolnerve to dethrone the Czechwith a 6-3, 7-5 victory.

Meanwhile Kerberemerged victorious in the all-German clash with Lisickiafter blowing four matchpoints, the eighth seed tri-umphing 6-3, 6-7 (7/9), 7-5to notch a tour-leading 45thwin of the year.

Williams will take on ei-ther Australian Open cham-pion Victoria Azarenka, the

Belarusian second seed,or the unseeded, in-form Austrian TamiraPaszek in Thursday'ssemi-finals.

Kerber faces eitherPolish third seed Ag-nieszka Radwanska orMaria Kirilenko, theRussian 17th seed, for aplace in Saturday'sfinal.

Kvitova believesWilliams will now goon and win the tourna-

ment."I think so," the Czech

fourth seed said."It is very difficult (to beat

her). I can't say impossible.She's human.

Williams said she had tostep up a gear on CentreCourt to get past the big-hit-ting Czech.

"You can't play a defend-ing Wimbledon champion orGrand Slam champion andnot elevate your game. I hadto weed out the riff-raff andjust get serious," the 30-year-old said.

Either Azarenka or Rad-wanska will become the newworld number one after Wim-bledon depending on theirperformances, thanks toLisicki knocking out Shara-

pova.Radwanska and Kirilenko

will have to finish their quar-ter-final on Wednesday afterenduring a rain-affected, on-off day on Court One.

They started their match at2:20pm local time(1320GMT), but had to sitout two lengthy delays beforea halt was called just before8pm (1900GMT) with thepair locked at 4-4 in the de-ciding set.

Williams dethrones Kvitova, Kerber struggles through

LONDON (AFP) - AndyMurray on Tuesday reached afifth successive Wimbledonquarter-final where he willmeet Spanish bulldozerDavid Ferrer who has madethe last eight for the first timeat the 10th attempt.

British fourth seed Murraybeat Croatian 16th seedMarin Cilic 7-5, 6-2, 6-3 asorganisers scrambled to makeup for lost time caused byheavy rain.

He will now attempt to goon to a fourth All EnglandClub semi-final on the trot,but will first have to get pastseventh-seeded Ferrer whoput out former US Openchampion Juan Martin delPotro 6-3, 6-2, 6-3.

Murray had led Queen'sClub winner Cilic, againstwhom he was defending a 5-1 career record, 7-5, 3-1overnight when play was sus-pended due to Monday's

downpours.They played two games

Tuesday before more rainsent them off Court One foran hour.

Only three of the sched-uled last 16 men's ties hadbeen completed on Mondaywith Novak Djokovic, RogerFederer and MikhailYouzhny able to enjoy a day-off before Wednesday's quar-ter-finals.

Men's singles quar-ter-final line-up (x de-notes seeding):

Novak Djokovic (SRBx1) v Florian Mayer (GERx31)

Roger Federer (SUI x3) vMikhail Youzhny (RUSx26)

David Ferrer (ESP x7) vAndy Murray (GBR x4)

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRAx5)/Mardy Fish (USA x10)v Philipp Kohlschreiber(GER x27)

Murray, Ferrer set-upWimbledon quarter-final

clash

BOULOGNE-SUR-MER(AFP) - Slovakian championPeter Sagan continued hisimpressive start to his Tourde France debut with his sec-ond stage win inside threedays on Tuesday.

RadioShack's Fabian Can-cellara of Switzerland re-tained the overall leader'syellow jersey at the end of acrash-marred day which wit-nessed the race's first aban-dons.

Despite the near incessantdrama on the tight, hillyroads leading to France'snumber one fishing port,plenty was kept in reserve forthe last of six punchy climbson the 197 km stage from Or-chies.

Having sprinted to victoryon an uphill finish on Sundayto open his Tour stage ac-count, Sagan produced an-other display of power tofinish ahead of NorwegianEdvald Boasson Hagen andfellow Slovak Peter Velits.

Amid a breakout seasonwhich has seen him win mul-tiple victories at the Tour ofCalifornia (five) and Tour ofSwitzerland (four), Sagansaid he was simply stickingto his plan.

"After my wins in Califor-nia and Switzerland I hopedto come here and win a fewstages," he said, after also re-inforcing his lead in thepoints competition for thegreen jersey.

"Now it's done and I'mvery happy.

"Today I knew the sprint-ers wouldn't be there at thefinish and it ended up with(Ivan) Basso and (Vincenzo)Nibali working for me!

"I would shine Basso'sshoes if he asked, so I reallycan't say thank you enough tohim."

SuperSagan sealssecond winon Tour de

France

Serena Williams

•4 Gold Medals CARIFTAGames + record holder 400 In-dividual Medley (11-12)

18-year-old Jamel le Grandhas also competed atCARIFTA, CISC, CCCAN,C O N S A N A T , C A C ,ODESUR, Junior and SeniorWorld Championships since2008, his accomplishments in-clude:

•1 Gold Medal CCCAN•5 Gold Medals CISC +

record holder 100m Freestyle(15-17 yrs)

•1 Gold Medal CARIFTAGames

Finally, promising youngswimming star Jordy Groters,only 15 and competing sinceage 11 at CARIFTA, CISC,CCCAN, CONSANAT, CAC,ODESUR, Pan AmericanGames and Senior WorldChampionships has claimed:

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Jordy Groters, along withAruba’s two outstanding syn-chronized swimmers beinghonored, Kyra Hoevertz andAnouk Eman, both multiplegold-medal winners and recordholders in the discipline.

16-year-old Allyson Ponsonhas been representing Aruba incompetition since 2008. In thattime she has won:

•1 Gold Medal CCCAN•3 Gold Medals CISC•4 Gold Medals Carifta

Games16-year old Daniella van

den Berg has competed forAruba since 2008 atCARIFTA, CISC, CCCAN,CONSANAT, CAC,ODESUR, Pan AmericanGames and Junior and SeniorWorld Championships. Herachievements include:

•1 Silver medal SouthAmerican Championships

•2 Gold Medals CCCAN•4 Gold Medals CISC

time, Aruba’s team of youngracers earned a total of 16gold, silver and bronze medalsand accumulated the pointstandings to take the team titleas Overall Champions of theCISC.

Paseo Herencia GM ValeriePietersz –Camacho and Mar-keting Manager Candy Ras-mijn-Reino were proud towelcome Aruba’s Minister ofPublic Health and Sport, Dr.Richard Visser, to unveil thenew portraits of the honorees.MC for the ceremony wasNicole Hoevertsz, a formerOlympian and Secretary ofAruba’s Swimming Federa-tion, as well as one of the fewwomen ever elected to the In-ternational Olympic Commit-tee.

Nicole introduced the fourteenage medal winners ofAruba’s racing swim team,Allyson Ponson, Daniella vanden Berg, Jemal Le Grand and


Over two years ago, PaseoHerencia Shopping Center,home to not only shops andentertainment, but enlighten-ing information regardingAruban culture and history, es-tablished their “Wall of Fame.”On this wall mall owners andmanagement pay homage toArubans who have excelled asathletes in the internationalarena. There are portraits ofchampion baseball players and

BMX racers, and on Monday,July 2, Aruban swimmers whohad just made island and re-gional history were added tothe lineup.

The week prior to the hon-oring ceremony, Aruba hostedthe Caribbean Islands Swim-ming Championships, CISC,with fourteen island nations,Suriname, Venezuela andCanadian swimmers compet-ing for medals. For the first

Six new faces grace the “Wall of Fame”Paseo Herencia honors Aruba’s young swimming champions

Syncro Swim Stars Kyra Hoevertsz and Anouk Eman

Unveiling the new honorees

Jamal and Daniella will go to the World Games in London

Swim champs with Minister dr Visser and Paseo Executives

Valerie Pietersz and Candy Rasmijn

july 4, 2012

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