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2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Suriname
|United States Department of State
|Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
|Publication Date
|11 March 2010
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Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
March 11, 2010
Suriname is a constitutional democracy, with a president elected by the unicameral legislature or by the larger United People's Assembly. The population is approximately 524,000. After generally free and fair elections in 2005, the New Front Plus government, consisting of a coalition of eight political parties, was formed. In 2005 the United People's Assembly reelected Ronald Venetiaan as president. Civilian authorities generally maintained effective control of the security forces.
The government generally respected the human rights of its citizens. However, there were problems in some areas, including overcrowded detention facilities; an overwhelmed judiciary with a large case backlog; lengthy pretrial detention; self-censorship by some media; governmental corruption; societal discrimination against women, minorities, and indigenous people; violence against women; trafficking in women, girls, and boys; and child labor in the informal sector.
Section 1 Respect for the Integrity of the Person, including Freedom From:
a. Arbitrary or Unlawful Deprivation of Life
There were no reports that the government or its agents committed arbitrary or unlawful killings.
During the year authorities completed an internal affairs investigation into the August 2008 police shooting and killing of Charles Burleson, a detainee who escaped a pretrial detention cell in May 2008 while awaiting trial on charges of murder and armed robbery. The Attorney General's Office reviewed the case and did not prosecute.
There were no known developments, and none were expected, in the October 2008 police shooting and killing of an armed robbery suspect.
During the year authorities completed the investigation into the 2007 killing of Andy Aroma and forwarded the results to the Attorney General's Office. The Attorney General's Office reviewed the case and did not prosecute.
As mandated by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights' ruling on the 1986 killings of 39 Moiwana residents, the government provided a settlement payment to the Moiwana Foundation and entered its second phase of housing construction in Moiwana village.
The trial of former military head of state Desi Bouterse and his codefendants for the 1982 extrajudicial killing of 15 political opponents continued at year's end.
b. Disappearance
There were no reports of politically motivated disappearances.
c. Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
While the law prohibits such practices, human rights groups and the media continued to express concern about mistreatment by police and prison officials and reported isolated incidents of abuse of prisoners by prison officials.
On December 24, mob violence in Albina occurred after a Brazilian man stabbed to death a Maroon man during a dispute. The violence, primarily directed towards Brazilian and Chinese migrants, resulted in at least three rapes. At year's end 20 persons, including a local official, were in custody on charges including rape, theft, and arson.
Prison and Detention Center Conditions
Prison and detention center conditions were poor. There were three prisons, which held female and male prisoners separately. There were also 19 smaller jails, or temporary detention centers, in police stations throughout the country. Most of these facilities, particularly the older jails, were unsanitary and seriously overcrowded. As of October 17, the 19 jails and three prisons held 584 men and 30 women. At year's end the three main prisons and the main pretrial detention center that opened in December 2008 held 915 persons.
Violence among prisoners was common. In a letter addressed to an attorney's office in November, prisoners from the Santo Boma prison complained of inadequate food provisions, mistreatment by prison guards, limited ventilation, and a lack of rehabilitation programs.
Human rights organizations expressed concern about conditions in pretrial detention facilities, which remained overcrowded. Growing numbers of convicted prisoners were held in pretrial detention cells due to prison overcrowding. Due to staff shortages, police officers rarely permitted detainees to leave their cells. Detainees and human rights groups also alleged that meals were inadequate.
Conditions in the women's jail and prison facilities were generally better than those in the men's facilities. Following conviction, girls under age 18 were held in the women's detention center and in the women's section of one of the prison complexes.
There was one juvenile detention facility, Opa Doeli, for boys and girls under the age of 18. This facility, located in Paramaribo, was considered adequate, provided educational and recreational facilities, and was occupied to less than its maximum capacity. A separate wing of the detention facility held boys under age 18 convicted of serious crimes.
The government permitted monitoring visits by independent human rights observers, and such visits occurred during the year.
The Welzijns Institute Nickerie, a nongovernmental organization (NGO) operating in the western district of Nickerie, visited and provided counseling for detainees in the youth detention center in that district. The institute continued a program to train prison officers to counsel detainees.
The government continued construction on the main pretrial detention center to improve conditions and reduce overcrowding. During the year the detention center absorbed pretrial detainees that were previously imprisoned in the 19 smaller jails around the country.
d. Arbitrary Arrest or Detention
The law prohibits arbitrary arrest and detention, and the government generally observed these prohibitions. Due to a shortage of judges, prisoners who appealed their cases often served their full sentences before the lengthy appeals process could be completed.
Role of the Police and Security Apparatus
The armed forces are responsible for national security and border control, with the military police having direct responsibility for immigration control at the country's ports of entry. All elements of the military are under the control of the Ministry of Defense. Civilian police bear primary responsibility for the maintenance of law and order and report to the Ministry of Justice and Police.
Corruption remained a problem. The Personnel Investigation Department (OPZ), an office within the Police Department, investigates complaints against members of the police force. The OPZ received 189 complaints and launched 57 investigations into cases involving narcotics, bribery, and other types of police misconduct. In contrast to 2008, the OPZ received no reports of police abuse. Impunity was not a problem; during the year authorities relieved 23 police officers of duty for various offenses, six of whom were jailed.
Police effectiveness was hampered by a lack of equipment and training, low salaries, and poor coordination with military forces.
Arrest Procedures and Treatment While in Detention
Individuals were apprehended openly with warrants based on sufficient evidence and brought before an independent judiciary. The law provides detainees with the right to a prompt judicial determination of the legality of the detention, and authorities respected this right in practice. Detainees were promptly informed of the charges against them. Police may detain for up to 14 days a person suspected of committing a crime if the sentence for that crime is longer than four years, and an assistant district attorney or a police inspector may authorize incommunicado detention. The police must bring the accused before a prosecutor to be charged formally within that period, but if additional time is needed to investigate the charge, a prosecutor and, later, a judge of instruction may extend the detention period an additional 150 days. There is no bail system. Detainees were allowed prompt access to counsel of their choosing, but the prosecutor may prohibit access if the prosecutor thinks that this could harm the investigation. Detainees were allowed weekly visits from family members.
The average length of pretrial detention was 30 to 45 days for lesser crimes. Detainees were held in 19 overcrowded detention cells at police stations throughout the country. In accordance with the law, the courts freed most detainees who were not tried within the 164-day period. According to human rights monitors, factors such as a shortage of judges, large case loads, and large numbers of detainees caused trial delays.
e. Denial of Fair Public Trial
Although the law provides for an independent judiciary, disputes over the appointment of judges undermined the independence of the judiciary. The attorney general and the president of the Court of Justice are appointed for life.
The judicial system consists of three lower courts, two specialized courts, and the Court of Justice as an appeals court. A military court system operates in cooperation with the civilian judicial system.
The Ministry of Justice and Police improved the functioning of the court system by addressing the long-standing shortage of judges. In July five new judges took their positions after completing the ministry's 5-year "Rechterlijke Ambtenaar in Opleiding" (Judicial Government Employee in Training) program in 2008. The former president of the Court of Justice was also sworn in as a judge, bringing the number of judges in the country to 20.
Other problems the judiciary faced included financial dependence on the Ministry of Justice and Police (and hence the executive branch), lack of professional court managers and case management systems to oversee the courts' administrative functions, and lack of physical space. These contributed to a significant case backlog. The courts required a minimum of six months to process criminal cases.
Trial Procedures
The law provides for the right to a fair, public trial in which defendants have the right to counsel, and the judiciary generally enforced this right. All trials are public except for indecency offenses. There is no jury system. Defendants enjoy a presumption of innocence and have the right to appeal. Defendants have the right to be present and to consult an attorney in a timely manner. Defendants and their attorneys have access to government-held evidence. Defendants' attorneys can question witnesses and can present witnesses and evidence on the defendant's behalf. The courts assign private sector lawyers to defend indigent detainees. There were 138 court-assigned attorneys for both the civil and the penal system. The law extends the above rights to all citizens.
Military personnel generally are not subject to civilian criminal law. A member of the armed forces accused of a crime immediately comes under military jurisdiction, and military police are responsible for all such investigations. Military prosecutions are directed by an officer on the public prosecutor's staff and take place in separate courts before two military judges and one civilian judge. Due to the shortage of judges, military and civilian judges are selected from the same pool by the Court of Justice, which makes assignments to specific cases. A mechanism exists to prevent conflicts of interest. The military courts follow the same rules of procedure as the civil courts. There is no appeal from the military to the civil system.
Political Prisoners and Detainees
There were no reports of political prisoners or detainees.
Civil Judicial Procedures and Remedies
Although there are separate procedures for civil processes, the same pool of judges is responsible for presiding over these procedures. There is access to a court to bring lawsuits seeking damages for, or cessation of, a human rights violation. Despite the installation of new judges during the year, the backlog in cases continued. Most civil cases were resolved approximately three to four years after being heard by the courts.
f. Arbitrary Interference with Privacy, Family, Home, or Correspondence
The law prohibits such actions, and the government generally respected these prohibitions in practice. The law requires search warrants, which are issued by quasijudicial officers who supervise criminal investigations.
Section 2 Respect for Civil Liberties, Including:
a. Freedom of Speech and Press
The law provides for freedom of speech and of the press, and the government generally respected these rights in practice. The independent media were active and expressed a wide variety of views without restriction. Individuals could criticize the government publicly or privately without reprisal. There was one case reported to the Attorney General's Office of a newspaper journalist receiving anonymous threats after reporting on government investigations into police corruption.
Some media members continued to practice occasional self-censorship. This was due to a history of intimidation and reprisals by certain elements of the former military leadership or a response to pressure applied by senior government officials and important community leaders on journalists who published negative stories about the administration. In addition many news outlets were affiliated with particular political parties, which discouraged journalists from reporting on some news items. In July a newscaster from the program Suriname Vandaag alleged that the management had engaged in self-censorship on some of its political content. In contrast to previous years, there were no reports of government officials threatening libel actions against the media.
In October and November, the Bureau of Human Rights, under the authority of the Ministry of Justice and Police, conducted training for the media on recognizing human rights violations.
In October the government announced it would pay compensation to two broadcasting companies for the national army's destruction of their radio stations under the military dictatorship of Desire Bouterse in 1982.
Internet Freedom
There were no government restrictions on access to the Internet or reports that the government monitored e-mail or Internet chat rooms. Individuals and groups could engage in the peaceful expression of views via the Internet, including by e-mail. The International Telecommunication Union reported that there were approximately 10 Internet users per 100 inhabitants in 2008. The population in the interior did not have equal access to the Internet due to limited infrastructure.
In August the Ministry of Justice and Police held a meeting with the Attorney General's Office; the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Tourism; TeleSur; the police commissioner; and Telecom Authority Suriname to discuss a government approach to gossip Web sites, which some officials saw as an invasion of individual privacy. The media expressed concerns that the government was attempting to limit political criticism.
Academic Freedom and Cultural Events
There were no government restrictions on academic freedom or cultural events.
b. Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association
The law provides for freedom of assembly and association, and the government generally respected these rights in practice.
c. Freedom of Religion
The constitution provides for freedom of religion, and the government generally respected this right in practice.
Societal Abuses and Discrimination
There were no reports of societal abuses or discrimination against members of religious groups, including anti-Semitic acts. There was a declared Jewish community of approximately 150 persons.
For a more detailed discussion, see the 2009 International Religious Freedom Report.
d. Freedom of Movement, Internally Displaced Persons, Protection of Refugees, and Stateless Persons
The constitution provides for freedom of movement within the country, foreign travel, emigration, and repatriation, and the government generally respected these rights. The occasion did not arise during the year for government cooperation with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees or other humanitarian organizations in providing protection and assistance to internally displaced persons, refugees, returning refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons, and other persons of concern.
Although the law does not address forced exile, the government did not use it.
Protection of Refugees
The country is a party to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol. Its laws do not provide for the granting of asylum or refugee status, and the government has not established a system for providing protection to refugees. Under special circumstances, persons may be granted refugee status, and in practice the government provided protection against the expulsion or return of refugees to countries where their lives or freedom would be threatened on account of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
Section 3 Respect for Political Rights: The Right of Citizens to Change Their Government
The law provides citizens the right to change their government peacefully, and citizens exercised this right in practice through periodic, free, and fair elections based on universal suffrage.
Elections and Political Participation
The constitution provides for direct election by secret ballot of the 51-member National Assembly no later than five years after the prior election date. The National Assembly in turn elects the president by a two-thirds majority vote. If the legislature is unable to do so, the constitution provides that the United People's Assembly, composed of members of parliament and elected regional and local officials, shall elect the president. After generally free and fair elections in May 2005, the United People's Assembly reelected incumbent Ronald Venetiaan as president in August 2005. Political parties could operate without restriction or outside interference.
Historical and cultural factors as well as societal pressures and customs, especially in rural areas, particularly with respect to marriage and inheritance, inhibited equal participation by women in leadership positions in government and political parties. While women made limited gains in attaining political power, men continued to dominate political life. There were 13 women among the 51 members of the National Assembly and three women among the 17 ministers in the cabinet. During the year four women were sworn in as judges, increasing to five the number of women among the 20 sitting judges. The head clerk of the Court of Justice, that body's highest administrative position, was a woman.
Several factors traditionally limited the participation of Maroons (descendants of escaped slaves who fled to the interior to avoid recapture) and indigenous Amerindians in the political process, particularly the fact that their populations were concentrated in remote areas in the interior, removed from the country's centers of political activity. There was one Amerindian and three Maroon political parties during the 2005 election, and voters elected eight Maroons and one Amerindian to the National Assembly. The opportunity for Maroons to participate in the political process increased when the three Maroon parties formed a coalition (A-Combinatie) for the 2005 election and became part of the governing coalition. The A-Combinatie remained active during the year, with three Maroons in the cabinet and several others in decision-making positions.
Section 4 Official Corruption and Government Transparency
The law provides criminal penalties for official corruption; however, the government did not implement the law effectively, and officials sometimes engaged in corrupt practices with impunity. Long delays often occurred before corruption cases came to trial. The World Bank's worldwide governance indicators reflected that government corruption was a problem. The media frequently reported alleged corrupt practices with regard to the acquisition of land by one of the political parties in the governing coalition. In contrast to prior years, a shortage of police personnel did not hamper police investigations of fraud cases.
In September the police announced that 200 pounds of cocaine went missing from a storage vault at the arrest team's headquarters. The minister of justice and police terminated the command of the arrest team due to the incident. The OPZ suspended several arrest team officers and initiated an investigation.
On May 4, former minister of trade and industry Siegfried Gilds was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for his involvement in a money-laundering case and for bribing witnesses. Gilds allegedly laundered SR$3.56 million ($1.27 million) between 2003 and 2005. At year's end Gilds was serving his prison sentence pending the outcome of his appeal.
Public officials were not subject to financial disclosure laws. Various sections of the Ministry of Justice and Police, including the Fraud Police and the Attorney General's Office, were responsible for combating government corruption.
Although the law provides for public access to government information, such access was limited in practice for citizens and noncitizens, including foreign media. While almost every ministry has an information service, onerous bureaucratic hurdles made obtaining information difficult.
Section 5 Governmental Attitude Regarding International and Nongovernmental Investigation of Alleged Violations of Human Rights
A number of independent domestic human rights groups generally operated without government restriction, investigating and publishing their findings on human rights cases. NGOs reported generally positive relationships with government officials, although occasionally officials were not responsive to their views. No international human rights groups operated in the country during the year.
A parliamentary commission on human rights continued operating throughout the year, but resource constraints hampered its effectiveness. Parliament also has a commission dealing with women's and children's rights.
Section 6 Discrimination, Societal Abuses, and Trafficking in Persons
The law prohibits discrimination based on race and ethnicity but does not address discrimination based on disability, language, or social status. Although the law does not specifically prohibit gender discrimination, it provides for protection of women's rights to equal access to education, employment, and property. In practice various sectors of the population, such as women, Maroons, Amerindians, persons with HIV/AIDS, and gay and lesbian persons, suffered forms of discrimination.
In August the law criminalizing rape was amended to include spousal rape. The prescribed penalty for rape or forcible sexual assault ranges between 12 and 15 years' imprisonment. The government enforced the law effectively. Through November the Ministry of Justice and Police registered 27 cases of attempted rape and 68 cases of rape.
Violence against women was a common problem. The Ministry of Justice and Police registered 1,769 cases of domestic violence, an increase from 2008. The media attributed the increase in registered domestic violence cases to a greater awareness of domestic violence issues. On June 20, the National Assembly adopted the Law Combating Domestic Violence, which allowed for more severe punishments for offenders than had been available when prosecuting domestic violence cases under the assault law. Penalties range from four to eight years' imprisonment. The Bureau of Women and Children Policy, under the Ministry of Justice and Police, conducted an awareness campaign on domestic violence in cooperation with the Foundation Ilse Henar Hewith. In August the Bureau of Women and Child Policy trained government officials, social workers, and NGO staff on domestic violence issues. The Victim Assistance Bureau that opened in Paramaribo in December 2008 provided resources for victims of domestic violence and other crimes. It operated a satellite office in Nickerie, the country's second-largest city. There were four victims' rooms in police stations in Paramaribo and Nickerie, and police units were trained to deal with victims and perpetrators of sexual crimes and domestic violence. An NGO operated a shelter for victims of domestic violence.
Although the law prohibits sexual exploitation, including prostitution, in practice prostitution was tolerated and common (see section 6, Trafficking). Poverty continued to put young women at risk of being exploited for commercial sex. The presence of large groups of illegal workers in the gold mining sector in the interior drew young Maroon women and girls into commercial sexual exploitation. Police allowed many brothels to operate but made bimonthly checks on these establishments to monitor if women were being abused, held against their will, or having their passports retained by brothel owners to ensure fulfillment of work contract obligations.
While there was no specific legislation on sexual harassment, prosecutors could cite various penal code articles in filing sexual harassment cases. There were no reported court cases involving sexual harassment in the workplace during the year.
Access to information on contraception and skilled attendance during childbirth and in postpartum care were widely available. Couples and individuals have the right to decide the number, spacing, and timing of children, and have the information and means to do so free from discrimination. Women and men were given equal access to diagnostic services and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.
Women have the legal right to equal access to education, employment, and property; nevertheless, societal pressures and customs, especially in rural areas, inhibited their full exercise of these rights, particularly with respect to marriage and inheritance. Societal pressures on families to have their daughters married at or near the legal age of marital consent frequently interfered with these girls' education and resulted in the direct passage of all property the women would have inherited from their parents to their husbands and parents-in-law in accordance with these customs.
Men and women generally enjoyed the same rights under property law and under the judicial system. The Bureau for Women and Children, under the Ministry of Justice and Police, worked to ensure the legal rights of women and children.
Women experienced discrimination in access to employment and in rates of pay for the same or substantially similar work. The government did not make specific efforts to combat economic discrimination.
The National Women's Movement, the most active women's rights NGO, continued assisting women in launching small home-based businesses, such as sewing and vegetable growing, and provided general legal help. The Women's Business Group advocated for business opportunities for women, while the Women's Parliament Forum advocated for opportunities in the public sector. Stop Violence against Women provided assistance to victims of domestic violence, including legal help with dissolving an abusive marriage. The Maxi Linder Foundation worked with prostitutes, including women and children who were victims of trafficking, and conducted outreach and informational sessions to inform victims about their rights. Resource constraints continued to limit the effectiveness of these groups.
Citizenship is derived by birth within the country's territory and from one's parents.
Physical and sexual abuse of children continued to be a problem.
During the year police received reports of 265 cases of sexual abuse of children, compared with 338 reported in 2008. The police Youth Affairs Office conducted three visits per week to different schools in the capital and the surrounding areas on a rotating schedule to provide outreach and raise awareness about child abuse and to solicit and investigate complaints. The Youth Affairs Office also raised awareness about sexual abuse, drugs, and alcohol through a weekly television program.
According to one study, more than 80 percent of children in Paramaribo, and an even greater percentage elsewhere, were exposed to violence. An estimated 10 percent of the victims developed post-traumatic stress syndrome as a result of serious mental and physical damage; in most cases victims lacked professional assistance from the government, according to research conducted in 2006 on behalf of the Ministry of Social Affairs and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).
Various laws were used to prosecute perpetrators of sexual abuse, and several cases of sexual abuse against minors came to trial. Sentences averaged three years in prison. In the capital there were several orphanages and one privately funded shelter for sexually abused children. In contrast to the previous year, there were no reports of sexual abuse of children in public institutions.
Although the legal age of sexual consent is 14, it was not enforced effectively. The marriage law sets the age of marital consent at 15 for girls and 17 for boys, provided parents of the parties agree to the marriage. Parental permission to marry is required up to age 21. The law also mandates the presence of a civil registry official to register all marriages.
Trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of minors remained problems. On July 29, the criminal law was revised to include penalties against child prostitution. The maximum penalty is six years' imprisonment, and the maximum fine is SR$100,000 ($35,714). The law also prohibits child pornography, which has a maximum penalty of six years' imprisonment and maximum fine of SR$50,000 ($17,857).
UNICEF continued cooperating with the government in providing training to officials from various ministries dealing with children and children's rights. The government-operated "1-2-3" telephone hotline for children provided confidential advice and aid to children in need.
Trafficking in Persons
The law prohibits all forms of trafficking in persons; however, the country was a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation. No reliable numbers were available indicating the magnitude of the problem.
There were reports that Chinese and Haitian men and women were trafficked to and through the country. Some Chinese men and women were forced to work in supermarkets, construction sites, and in the sex industry. Some Haitian migrants transiting the country were forced to work in the agricultural sector. NGOs expressed concern that local boys and girls, particularly Maroon children, were trafficked to the interior of the country for exploitative work, including sex work at gold mining sites. However, there were no reliable estimates as to the extent of the problem. At least one organized ring trafficked Brazilian women to gold mining sites in the country. There were allegations that other foreign women were trafficked to these sites for sex work and forced labor.
Trafficking was largely under the control of local criminal organizations, many of which were active in the sex industry. The most common victims of sex trafficking were women aged 18 to 23. Many victims were from Brazil and Guyana. Some traffickers lured victims to the country with promises of employment or job training. There were reports that minors from underprivileged areas were trafficked within the country for prostitution.
The penal code specifically prohibits trafficking in persons for both sexual and other purposes. The law covers both internal and external forms of trafficking. Penalties for trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation and labor exploitation, such as forced or bonded labor and involuntary servitude, range from five to 20 years' imprisonment. The Attorney General's Office may press dual charges against a trafficker for both the act of trafficking and for the rape of a victim. The penalty for rape or forcible assault ranges between 12 and 15 years in prison. The government provided free legal services to trafficking victims.
During the year authorities prosecuted six individuals for trafficking in persons; the trial of four other individuals was pending at year's end.
There were reports that government officials, including consular affairs, customs, and immigration officers, fostered an environment conducive to trafficking in persons by allowing individuals who were not bona fide visitors to enter the country.
On June 9, a judge sentenced a Dutch man and two Guyanese women who were arrested in September 2008 for trafficking an underage Guyanese girl and forcing her to work as a prostitute. The Dutch man received two years' imprisonment, one woman received 9 months' imprisonment and a SR$3,000 fine ($1,071), and the second woman received 18 months' imprisonment and a SR$10,000 ($3,571) fine. The two women appealed the decision. On December 22, they were released from prison after having served two-thirds of their sentences. The outcome of their appeal was pending at year's end.
The government's Antitrafficking Working Group, which has primary responsibility for interagency coordination of antitrafficking efforts, assessed progress and coordinated new actions. Police cooperated with counterparts in Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Dominican Republic, and justice officials sought improved mechanisms for cooperation with Colombia and French Guiana. The government requested the cooperation of Trinidad and Tobago and Curacao in investigating the case of 23 individuals trafficked to Trinidad and Tobago for forced labor. The government of Curacao cooperated in extraditing four individuals arrested in connection with the crime (see section 7.c.).
The Public Prosecutor's Office and the police continued a registry of all brothels and their employees by nationality. Although prostitution is illegal, the police had informal agreements with many brothel owners allowing them to operate. The Special Antitrafficking Police Unit conducted bimonthly checks to ensure that women were not mistreated, that no minors were present, and that owners did not keep the women's airline tickets or passports.
While there was no shelter designated solely for trafficking victims, the Foundation against Trafficking in Persons, a private organization mandated by the government to provide victim protection, arranged shelter and provided other services to both foreign and domestic victims.
Women arrested in brothel raids as immigration violators and who did not indicate they were trafficked were deported, but authorities sought to treat identified victims as material witnesses needing protection rather than as criminals. An NGO receiving government funding, the Maxi Linder Foundation, continued working with trafficking victims, providing counseling and rehabilitative training.
The government continued operating a trafficking-in-persons awareness campaign funded by the International Organization for Migration and focusing on the Chamber of Commerce, Youth Parliament, and the various districts.
See also the State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons Report.
Persons with Disabilities
There are no laws prohibiting discrimination against persons with physical or mental disabilities in employment, education, access to health care, or the provision of state services. In general persons with disabilities suffered from discrimination when applying for jobs and services. Some training programs were provided for the blind and others with disabilities. There are no laws or programs to ensure that persons with disabilities have access to buildings. A judge may rule that a person with a cognitive disability be denied the right to vote, take part in business transactions, or sign legal agreements. A Ministry of Social Affairs working group remained responsible for protecting the rights of persons with disabilities but made limited progress during the year.
National/Racial/Ethnic Minorities
The law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity, and no such discrimination complaints were filed during the year. Nonetheless, Maroons, who represent approximately 15 percent of the population, generally continued to be disadvantaged in the areas of education, employment, and government services. Most Maroons lived in the interior where limited infrastructure reduced their access to educational and professional opportunities and health and social services. Some forms of discrimination that affected indigenous Amerindians also extended to Maroons.
During the year some progress was made on the execution of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights' ruling on a 2006 case involving 12 Saramaccan clans who claimed authority over 60 villages in the Upper Suriname River area. In 2007 the court ruled that the government must recognize the collective land rights of the Saramaccan clans, draft legislation that complies with international treaties, establish a development fund of SR$1,680,000 ($600,000), and begin demarcation by February 2008. During the year the Saramacca Commission met with the Association of Saramaccan Leaders and prepared a draft report on implementation of the ruling. The Saramacca Commission established a private foundation to manage the development fund and reimbursed the clans for court costs. However, constitutional issues prevented demarcation of land claimed by ethnic groups. It was reported that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights did not take into account the presence of non-Saramaccan groups in the area, including indigenous and Maroon tribes, which complicated the demarcation process. The deadline for implementation is December 19, 2010.
Indigenous People
The law affords no special protection for, or recognition of, indigenous people. Most Amerindians (approximately 3 percent of the population) suffered disadvantages and had only limited ability to participate in decisions affecting their lands, cultures, traditions, and natural resources. The country's political life, educational opportunities, and jobs were concentrated in the capital and its environs, while the majority of Amerindians (as well as Maroons) lived in the interior, where government services were largely unavailable.
Because Amerindian and Maroon lands were not effectively demarcated, populations continued to face problems with illegal and uncontrolled logging and mining. Organizations representing Maroon and Amerindian communities complained that small-scale mining operations, mainly by illegal gold miners, dug trenches that cut residents off from their agricultural land and threatened to drive them away from their traditional settlements. Mercury runoff from these operations also contaminated and threatened traditional food source areas. Many Maroon and Amerindian groups also complained about the government granting land within their traditional territories to third parties, who sometimes prevented the villages from engaging in their traditional activities on those lands. There are no laws granting indigenous people rights to share in the revenues from the exploitation of resources on their traditional lands.
Indigenous groups, with the assistance of the Amazon Conservation Team, mapped their lands and presented proposed demarcation charts to the government in 2000 and to the Ministry of Physical Planning, Land, and Forestry Management in both 2006 and November 2009. At year's end, however, the government had not accepted the proposed demarcations, and the indigenous groups did not have official rights to the lands.
Maroon and Amerindian groups continued to cooperate with each other to exercise their rights more effectively. Moiwana and other NGOs continued to promote the rights of indigenous people.
Societal Abuses, Discrimination, and Acts of Violence Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Although the law prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, there were reports of employment discrimination against gay and lesbian persons. There were no reports of official discrimination based on sexual orientation in housing, access to education, or health care. Police neither perpetrated nor condoned violence against gays, lesbians, bisexuals, or transgender (LGBT) persons. LGBT organizations operated in the country independently and without restriction.
Other Societal Violence or Discrimination
Persons with HIV/AIDS continued to experience societal discrimination in employment and medical services. An NGO working with HIV-infected persons reported that law enforcement agencies and the fire department conducted HIV testing as part of their hiring procedures. Catering establishments, casinos, and some private companies also reportedly demanded HIV tests prior to employment. The Mamio Foundation noted that individuals, mostly women, reported physical violence or discrimination after their HIV-positive status became known. Insurance companies allegedly denied services to HIV-positive clients, having identified their status via their medication histories.
The Ministry of Health continued its efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS through a comprehensive outreach program involving local health care providers. The program achieved its goal of voluntary testing of 90 percent of expectant mothers. The military continued its ongoing HIV/AIDS awareness program among troops. In October the Ministry of Defense unveiled a two-year plan to develop a workplace policy on HIV/AIDS awareness that included the development of a policy and protocols manual, free condom distribution, and training of peer educators, with the goal of reducing the risk of HIV/AIDS to military personnel and their families.
Section 7 Worker Rights
a. The Right of Association
The law allows workers to form and join unions of their choice without previous authorization or excessive requirements, and workers did so in practice. Nearly 60 percent of the workforce was organized into unions, and most unions belonged to one of the country's seven major labor federations. Unions were independent of the government but played an active role in politics.
The law provides for the right to strike, and workers in both the public and private sectors exercised this right in practice.
b. The Right to Organize and Bargain Collectively
Collective bargaining is protected by law, and the government generally enforced this right in practice. Collective bargaining agreements covered approximately 50 percent of the labor force. The law prohibits employer interference in union activities, and in practice it did not occur.
There are no export processing zones.
c. Prohibition of Forced or Compulsory Labor
The law prohibits all forms of forced or compulsory labor, including by children; however, there were reports that such practices occurred (see section 6, Trafficking).
On April 2, the International Organization for Migration repatriated eight of 11 individuals to Indonesia after it was reported in December 2008 that they were brought to the county under false pretenses and made to work in poor conditions without pay. The remaining three decided to stay in the country and return to work for the employer.
The trial of two individuals arrested after allegedly recruiting 23 men for a cooking course in Trinidad and Tobago and then providing them as forced labor upon arrival in that country continued at year's end. During the year an additional four persons were arrested in Curacao and extradited to Suriname, where they were awaiting trial at year's end.
d. Prohibition of Child Labor and Minimum Age for Employment
The law sets the minimum age for most types of employment at 14 years and restricts working hours for minors to day shifts but does not limit the number of hours minors can work. Children younger than 14 are allowed to work only in a family-owned business, small-scale agriculture, and special vocational work. The law does not define the worst forms of child labor. Children younger than 18 are prohibited from doing hazardous work, defined as work dangerous to their life, health, and decency. Children under the age of 15 are not permitted to work on boats. However, the Ministry of Labor and the police enforced the law sporadically, and child labor remained a problem in the informal sector, especially in the western districts of Nickerie and Saramacca, as children faced increasing economic pressure to discontinue their education to seek employment.
Children under 14 worked in gold mines, in informal urban sectors, and reportedly in the commercial sex industry. Employers in these sectors did not guarantee work safety, and children often worked barefoot and without protective gloves or access to medical care. There was a lack of statistical data on the labor environment and child labor situation in the country. In contrast to 2008, there were no reports of commercial sexual exploitation of children and teenagers by caretakers and older recruiters.
The Ministry of Labor's Department of Labor Inspection, with 75 inspectors, has responsibility to implement and enforce labor laws; however, enforcement was inadequate. Inspectors visited private sector companies throughout the country, but no data was available regarding the number of inspections performed during the year. Employers were required to maintain a Register of Young Persons that includes each employee's information. Employing a child less than 14 years of age is punishable by fines and up to 12 months in prison. Parents who permit their children to work in violation of labor laws may also be prosecuted. The government did not investigate exploitive child labor cases outside urban areas. Labor inspectors were not authorized to conduct inspections in the informal sector as responsibility for controlling the informal sector lies with the police.
Although the government provided no programs to remove children from the worst forms of child labor, it supported vocational programs for dropouts and older children to serve as an alternative to underage labor.
On November 20, the National Commission for the Eradication of Child Labor became active. Members included officials from the ministries of labor, social affairs, and education, as well as representatives from labor unions, the private sector, and NGOs. The commission's mandate includes formulating national policy regarding the eradication of child labor, initiating specific programs for indigenous children, developing a list of occupations involving the worst forms of child labor, and monitoring the country's compliance with international child labor standards.
e. Acceptable Conditions of Work
There is no legislation providing for a minimum wage. The lowest wage for civil servants was approximately SR$600 ($214) per month, including a cost of living allowance, which did not provide a decent standard of living for a worker and family. Government employees, who constituted approximately 50 percent of the 100,000-member workforce, frequently supplemented their salaries with second or third jobs, often in the informal sector. The president and the Council of Ministers set and approved civil service wage increases. During the year the government implemented the first phase of a new civil servant wage system, which increased wages for many civil servants.
Work in excess of 45 hours per week on a regular basis requires special government permission, which was granted routinely. Such overtime work earned premium pay. The law prohibits excessive overtime and requires a 24-hour rest period per week.
The government sets occupational health and safety standards, and a 10- to 12-member inspectorate in the Occupational Health and Safety Division of the Ministry of Labor is responsible for enforcing occupational safety and health regulations, but it did not make regular inspections. There is no law authorizing workers to refuse to work in circumstances they deem unsafe; they must appeal to the inspectorate to declare the workplace situation unsafe.


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text: Six survival tips for Nokia and Microsoft Technology 14 February 11 by Brian X Chen Nokia Nokia on Friday announced it was putting the decade-old Symbian operating system to rest, and future Nokia phones will ship with Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 software.The decision will be famously remembered as the time Nokia jumped off what its CEO called a "burning platform" to reverse the company's downward spiral in the phone market.It was a radical but necessary move for Nokia. Although the company is still the world's top seller of phones, its market share is rapidly declining in the wake of more modern handsets offered by Google and Apple, which are iterating and expanding their mobile platforms at blazing speeds."Nokia and Microsoft will combine our strengths to deliver an ecosystem with unrivaled global reach and scale," said Stephen Elop, Nokia's CEO. "It's now a three-horse race."The benefits are obvious: Nokia gets brand-new phone software to replace the broken, outdated Symbian OS. And Microsoft, which has seen only tepid Windows Phone 7 sales so far, gets the huge springboard offered by Nokia and its enormous customer base.But if executed poorly, the new partnership will be a fruitless effort to catch up: a failure for both companies."Out of the fire and into the water," said Michael Gartenberg, a Gartner analyst. "Now what? Next step is to get out of the frigid waters before the sharks eat you."Both Nokia and Microsoft have their work cut out for them. Here's what they have to do if they ever hope to stand a chance.Ship a product, fast Nokia said 2011 and 2012 would be "transition" years, in which Symbian will gradually be phased out, and it won't be until 2012 that a large number of Nokia Windows phones will ship.That seems too late. By 2012, Apple and Google will probably be shipping devices with substantially more powerful processors and features than the phones we're familiar with today.If Nokia and Microsoft hope to catch up, they have to ship sooner. "They have to ship," Gartenberg said. "That's what it's all going to come down to. The market is moving at such a rate and pace that they've got to execute against this very, very quickly."Differentiate Not only do Microsoft and Nokia have to ship fast, they have to ship a compelling product that stands out from the rest of the phones licensing Windows Phone 7, along with the huge crop of Android devices, not to mention Apple's iPhone.Manufacturers shipping Android devices continue to make their hardware stand out with muscular features such as dual-core processors and even dual screens. What will Microsoft and Nokia do to compete? They'll probably have to offer several hardware variations -- something Nokia's pretty good at -- and Windows Phone 7 needs some exclusive killer apps.Cultivate developers In the past week, many Symbian programmers and fans have expressed outrage over the switch to Windows. It's like their world has fallen apart, and they feel betrayed."That's it! After 15 years using Nokia, it's time to move on," a commenter posted on The Nokia Blog. "I will go for Android. Sorry Nokia, it is my long- and short-term strategy from now on. I don't believe one single word of what Nokia says anymore."That's not good: the Nokia developer community was instrumental to Nokia's early success. Nokia and Microsoft will have to exert every effort to retain and recruit programmers to make apps for the Nokia Windows Phone platform. They need to treat programmers like gods. It's a good sign already that Microsoft has been extremely amicable with Windows Phone 7 developers, handing them free phones and even t-shirts whenever they get involved. They should extend that effort to Symbian and Nokia developers. Read page 2 12 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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15 cops and a taser required to take down public masturbator
Oregon man Andrew Frey (37) was arrested on Christmas Eve on a litany of charges which stem from a weekend crystal meth binge in his home town of Beaverton.
Authorities were able to track Frey's movements from Sunday afternoon after he called a locksmith to his home and refused to pay him.
He then made his way to a local shopping centre where employees quickly removed him from the premises before he finally descended upon 'Iggy's Bar & Grill'
It was here where Frey started to let loose; while sitting in the venue he decided to begin exposing his genitalia to the bar-staff.
Frey then turned it up a notch and took it upon himself to start publicly masturbating in the bar.
The meth user scuttled off to the bathroom before police arrived, but continued to touch himself while in the restrooms.
A deputy responding to the incident saw it fit to taser Frey multiple times in order to bring him under control but the electrified weapon had no effect on the crystal smoking public masturbator.
The deputy then got into a fight with the suspect and tried to radio for help but the radio signals weren't working inside the restaurant toilet.
A dispatcher tried to radio the deputy for an update and realised communications were not going through.
The dispatcher then radioed for backup and 15 officers descended onto the bar and finally arrested him reports the New York Daily News
Police noted it took several officers to finally get Frey under control.
Frey said he took the drugs Saturday and did not remember anything that happened since.
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Frey (37) was charged with public indecency, resisting arrest and theft of services.


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>Deleting Warrior's post to "Tiller" is something that is reflective of the deliberate suppression of ideas.
I explained that this was an accident, and apologized for it. Are you calling me a liar?
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Schools chief became citywide advocate
Principal pushed for reforms at her school and beyond
Just about everything in Cindy Marten's office at Central Elementary School tells a story.
A Superman T-shirt draped over a chair is a reminder that she is not "Waiting for Superman," a reference to the 2010 documentary that painted a grim picture of public education. Some of the 585 Chinese fortune cookie messages she's collected sit in dishes, the messages eerily relevant to Marten's quickly changing life. Then there are the photos and references to Dorothy's ruby slippers and "The Wizard of Oz."
The San Diego school board looked no further than its own backyard last week when it plucked the principal from her inner-city campus to succeed Bill Kowba as superintendent of California's second-largest school district.
In the landscape of urban education where CEOs, former military officers and big-name reformers lead districts, Marten will be a novelty of a superintendent.
"It's kind of an underdog story, isn't it?" Marten said. "Why did I take it? I am taking this job because I want to save public education in America."
For the past decade, Marten has been chipping away at that goal for more than 850 children and their families in the heart of City Heights, where poverty, crime and language barriers are part of daily life. She has chronicled her 25-year education career in bound journals — 187 of them, so far.
"What can San Diego expect from Mrs. Marten? Expect her to get things done," said Jeremiah Atienza, a fifth-grade teacher at Central. "I have never seen Mrs. Marten panic or run to an emergency. She is calm, steadfast. She knows what to do."
Cindy Marten
Age: 46
Hometown: Chicago
Residence: Rancho Peñasquitos
Family: Married and has a college-age son
Education: SD Unified's Hardy Elementary, Horace Mann Middle schools; La Jolla Country Day School; bachelor's degree, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse; master's in curriculum and instruction, UC San Diego.
Experience: Poway Unified School District, teacher and literacy specialist; Beth Israel Day School, teacher; Central Elementary, teacher and principal since 2008.
Marten worked with Price Charities to get a health center on campus to treat students during school and after hours. An employee child care center allows teachers to work close to their children. Marten also organizes neighborhood walks where volunteers check up on the community on weekends.
Having attended small classes of 16 students at La Jolla Country Day School, Marten has worked to give Central students a similarly intimate classroom experience. Class sizes there hover near or below 20 children in the earliest grades under a program that Marten has fought to keep alive amid relentless budget cuts.
"You shouldn't have to live in Poway or be able to afford La Jolla Country Day to get a good education," Marten said. "You should be able to walk down the street in your neighborhood to find a good school."
San Diego Unified is in the midst of an effort to restore the quality of neighborhood schools, eliminating the need for thousands of students to commute across the city in search of a decent education. Marten was named superintendent, in part, because her work champions that cause.
"This is about creating sustainable reforms, not just in City Heights, but in Scripps Ranch and throughout the district," she said. "I don't have it all figured out yet, but there are a lot of smart people at the district who I will gather around me."
Marten has ingratiated herself throughout the sprawling district — from La Jolla to Logan Heights — becoming one of the city's most visible educators.
She's a regular at school board meetings. She appeared in TV commercials promoting San Diego Unified's $1.51 billion Proposition Z bond measure last year. She helped organize a big rally in 2010 against education funding reductions proposed by the state.


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|Washington, D.C. December 30, 2002
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking the public's assistance in determining the whereabouts of the following individuals:
Abid Noraiz Ali, DOB August 15, 1977
Iftikhar Khozmai Ali, DOB September 20, 1981
Mustafa Khan Owasi, DOB December 11, 1969
Adil Pervez, DOB December 27, 1983
Akbar Jamal, DOB November 1, 1974
The above identified individuals, whose names and dates of birth may be fictitious, are believed to have entered the United States illegally on or about December 24, 2002. Although the FBI has no specific information that these individuals are connected to any potential terrorist activities, based upon information developed in the course of ongoing investigations, the FBI would like to locate and question these persons.
The FBI has been working with Homeland Security Agencies (U.S. Customs, INS, TSA) to locate these individuals. The above information has also been disseminated to the appropriate law enforcement agencies around the United States and throughout the world.
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Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives.
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations.
So begins this rare, original story about the abiding strength that imagination, once ignited, can provide. As artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures of a young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose contours soon become more real than their own blighted landscape. As Mr. Watts says, "A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe." Soon come the rest of the villagers, initially threatened, finally inspired to share tales of their own that bring alive the rich mythology of their past. But in a ravaged place where even children are forced to live by their wits and daily survival is the only objective, imagination can be a dangerous thing.
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The 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival could have been a solemn, self-congratulatory affair, but instead the atmosphere was celebratory and welcoming.
This annual celebration of independent cinema felt like a gathering of the faithful, where new converts are always welcome. The AAFF has grown dramatically: a scrappy program mounted by University of Michigan art students and cinema society diehards grew into an internationally recognized festival of shorts (narrative, documentary, animation, experimental) and unconventional features; and a cramped campus auditorium gave way to the historic Michigan Theater, whose main stage seats 1,710 and screening room holds 200.
Despite the changes, the AAFF maintains a very specific atmosphere: challenging films are shown in a convivial environment, and the seriousness of the programming doesn't extend to the festival itself. From AAFF founder George Manupelli leading the opening night audience in a rousing version of "Happy Birthday," to performance artist and festival stalwart Pat Oleszko dressing like a candelabra and leading a group of dancing candles in a Busby Berkeley routine (complete with overhead camera), the mood was loose and fun.
By contrast, the more than 200 films shown at this year's AAFF (which ran March 27 to April 1) required dedicated viewing. This is cinema as personal expression: there were many dense, non-linear tomes that felt much longer than their brief running times, while others were so inspired that their effect was like an invigorating tonic. The AAFF represents moviegoing as an immersive experience, and the viewers dove right in, no matter how deep (or shallow) the offering.
Audiences at the Ann Arbor Film Festival are unfailingly respectful and polite, even waiting for the pause between shorts to make their exit. (A list of shorts is flashed onscreen as the projectionist switches formats – 16mm, video and 35mm – during the roughly 90-minute programs.) When the engrossing found footage narrative, "An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925," kept getting caught in the 16mm projector's film gate and had to be restarted, viewers stayed put, and as one jam resulted in a spectacular emulsion melt (with director Sasha Waters Freyer in attendance), there was a collective gasp in the theater.
In a perceived breach of festival etiquette, one particularly tedious offering was greeted with a small spattering of hisses, which led another patron to loudly retort, "Did somebody spring a leak?" Even as the French-language "Lack of Evidence (Manque de Preuves)" unspooled without subtitles, there were no vocal protests.
This short turned out to be the AAFF's big winner, and when a subtitled version was screened during closing night, a harrowing account of an asylum seeker is added to the hypnotic visual narrative (a colorful African village is transformed into topographical line drawings) for powerful, intimate storytelling with geopolitical reverberations. The same can be said for "Untitled," the atmospheric best international film winner from France, with its echoes of colonialism: locals, staff and the owner of a modern villa discuss razing the property after terrorists used it as a refuge.
"Guañape Sur" was one of several strong films that found new ways to look at the interactions between people and their environment. This documentary winner is beautifully shot, clear-eyed and engaging look at Chilean men harvesting guano from a remote island so it can be used for fertilizer. Josh Gibson's "Kudzu Vine" uses the eerie black and white of vintage scifi to explore how this prodigious foreign invader is altering the Southern landscape. In the elegiac and quietly moving "The Sea [is still] Around Us," Hope Tucker employs old postcards and their text to illustrate the devastation of industry on a Maine coastal town. Laura Heit explores that symbol of wildness – the wolf – in the layered, animated "The Deep Dark," revealing how a deep-seated fear of the woods affects our perception.


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On 4 October, I was travelling from Brussels to Frankfurt again, like I do every quarter. The choice of the airline was easy: only Lufthansa flies there. The price of that monopoly was less funny: an outrageous EUR690.40 for a flexible economy return booked 10 days in advance, a little bit more than the EUR686.68 that I paid last time for a non-flexible economy return. The outbound flight was LH 4593, dep. 7:05. I had an e-ticket, whose confirmation by e-mail said recommended time for check-in 6:20, latest check-in 6:35.
Big problem: my alarm clock did not ring and, instead of getting up at 5:30 as I planned, I woke up only at 6:20. I should already have been at the airport! Of course, my basic A-check personal maintenance this morning was omitted and I jumped in my clothes, took my bag and ran to my car, which I had fortunately left outside instead of parking it in the garage as usually. The road to the nearest motorway exit was closed because of works; however, the works had just been completed 2 days before and I took that forbidden road, entered the motorway, speeded at 140 km/h (not possible to go faster because of traffic) and arrived at the airport 28 km further at 6:42. I fortunately immediately found a parking spot right near the entrance.
I ran to the Lufthansa check-in desk, where a friendly agent told me at 6:45 that the flight was closed. But he gave me a provisional access card to the airside where he scribbled some words and told me that if security let me go to the airside I could run to gate A63 where I would get my boarding pass. Very indeed: German efficiency combined with Belgian common sense. I jumped the queue at the security check, ran through the catacombs to Pier A, where the queue for baggage and personal scan was very short, and further to Gate A63 where I arrived at 6:58. The last passengers were boarding, and I could join them after receiving my boarding pass: the guy at the check-in had phoned his female colleague at the gate, who had immediately printed the boarding pass.
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FOX Sports on MSN - COLLEGE BASKETBALL - Beasley to announce draft intentions Monday
What are the chances he stays? .1%?
And that is if he dies.
Very rarely does a player setup an announcement date for returning to college ball. If they stay, they typically just say the are staying, if they setup a press event, most of the time it's because they want the publicity jump-start going into the pre-draft activities.
Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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FOX Sports on MSN - COLLEGE BASKETBALL - Beasley to announce draft intentions Monday
What are the chances he stays? .1%?
I'll take the under on that...
Unless he tears his ACL over the weekend, bye bye.
This doesn't seem like a real mystery.
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Sic Semper Jayhawks
If he comes back, he needs to be slapped. He's not going to improve his stock and he has no shot to win a national championship, so going pro is the only option
Hopefully he takes Bill Walker with him. See how great Frank Martin is next year.
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Hopefully he takes Bill Walker with him. See how great Frank Martin is next year.
if beasley take walker with him then i hope walker takes his bladder problems with him
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From the interviews I've seen with him it seems like he actually wouldn't mind staying and screwing around another year talking about SpongeBob but there's just absolutely no reason he should so he's definitely gone.
I wonder what gives? Basketball fans around the nation, including KSU fans, tend to have a low opinion of Frank Martin as a coach. His coaching peers seem to have a great deal of respect for him. Time and time alone will tell if the coaches are being candid or not. One year from now we all will have a pretty good idea if he has a future as a Div 1 head coach.
He's as good as gone, IMO.
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CG. No one knows what you're talking about.
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FOX Sports on MSN - COLLEGE BASKETBALL - Sources: Beasley leaving K-State, will enter draft
Sources say Beasley is gone.
AND Bill Walker will declare but won't hire an agent.
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Sources say Beasley is gone.
I'm shocked because...
A. I thought Beasley was a lifer.
B. Why would anyone want to leave KSU?
C. None of the above.
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ISU, Texas Tech, and Texas all lost their first-round games today so the Big XII had a rough opening. Disappointment city. (Throw Iowa in that mix too if you'd like.)
I'm not one of those people who likes to talk a lot about the "strength of conference" and "down years" etc.... Because as the Marist fan on this board or the ESPN board said, strength of conference doesn't equate to strength of team.
BUT anyway, it will be interesting to see if K-State can beat Purdue and OU can beat James Madison tomorrow. I predict a K-State loss and OU win.
A&M and Baylor are another story, obviously.
Just some thoughts on the conference. We're not the only ones upset tonight.
I think when you have to take recent history into the strength of confernce. When a team goes thru a conference unbeaten any conference they have to be a very good team. I like what marist and gonzaga did going out in the non conference and challenging themselves after successful runs last year and bringing back a bunch, Now with ISU bringing back a bunch i hope that they don't put to much on the conference strength and go challenge themselves outside conference a couple of times and not just when they play Iowa, UNI and Drake
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Back when Desperate Housewives debuted in 2004, some locals claimed that the town in the TV show was modeled after Naperville, Illinois, an affluent, modern, Chicago suburb. As far as I know, there is no direct connection between Naperville and Desperate Housewives, nor do I believe that Naperville's cultural subterrane is darker than that of any other affluent suburban community.
Of course, the dark-side stereotype of suburban life is nothing new. In fact, it's a cinematic staple. More than a few observers have noted a certain similarity between DH and John Waters' satirical portrayals of life in America's superficially idyllic, bedroom communities. As for the imaginary Naperville-Desperate Housewives link, I wonder if a conscious connection between Desperate Housewives and Naperville was primed by memories of the Marilyn Lemak case.
In 1999, a Naperville mother, Marilyn Lemak, murdered her three young children and botched her own suicide attempt. Lemak and her husband David, a physician, were going through a divorce. I've read conflicting accounts of who initially left whom, but the proximate trigger for the murders was Lemak seeing her estranged husband with his new girlfriend.
This week, the dark suburban stereotype was tragically resurrected after another Naperville mother brutally murdered her 7-year-old son and another child in her care. The details of the crime as reported in the ChicagoTribune are chillingly Waters-esque. If you're easily upset by such matters, I strongly suggest that you read no further.
Many in Naperville struggled to focus on those details and not the scene of "unimaginable horror" that prosecutors laid out Thursday in describing how Justin's mother, Elzbieta M. Plackowska, allegedly killed the two children.[...]
In bond court Thursday, prosecutors offered a chilling account of how Plackowska allegedly stabbed 7-year-old Justin 100 times as he pleaded for his life and told his mother he loved her.
The suspect then allegedly stabbed 5-year-old Olivia, whom she was baby-sitting, about 50 times because she was a witness. The girl also begged for her life, prosecutors said.[...]
According to prosecutors, Justin and Olivia were told to get ready for bed Tuesday, but instead they began jumping on the bed in the master bedroom of Olivia's town home on Quin Court.
Plackowska went to the kitchen to get a knife, then entered the bedroom and ordered the children to kneel and pray, prosecutors said.
"She told Justin he was going to heaven tonight," DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said.
Two family dogs also were stabbed to death in the rampage, officials said. Police said they recovered two knives, one in the kitchen sink, the blade bent backward, and the other in Plackowska's car.
Plackowska's attorneys asked that the judge assigned to the case, John Kinsella, be replaced by another judge. Kinsella was the prosecutor in a notorious 1995 murder case involving children. In their motion, the defense also asked that Judge George Bakalis not be assigned as a replacement. Judge Bakalis was the presiding judge in the Marilyn Lemak trial. In that case, a jury rejected Lemak's insanity defense and convicted her on three counts of first-degree murder. Lemak is serving life in prison without possibility of parole.


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Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) won the Vlaamse Industrieprijs Bosduin on Sunday in Kalmthout.
The Belgian national champion stormed away from an elite lead group with just over two laps to go.
Going into the bell lap Bart Wellens (Telenet-Fidea) had likewise left the group behind and had closed to within eight seconds of Albert. Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) was out of the hunt, set afoot in a tight corner when another rider crashed in front of him.
Wellens, winner of round 2 of the U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross last Sunday in Wisconsin, came within eyeshot of Albert at one point on the winding, rolling circuit, but would get no closer. He held on for second place, 13 seconds behind Albert, as teammate Tom Meeusen outsprinted Francis Mourey (Fdj) for third.
Nys, meanwhile, trailed in sixth behind teammate Vincent Baestaens.
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- 2. Bart Wellens (Bel), 1:03:03
- 3. Tom Meeusen (Bel), 1:03:12
- 4. Francis Mourey (Fra), 1:03:12
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Among the detainees is former al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades commander Zakaria Zubeidi.
According to reports, Zubeidi and other Fatah members were placed in custody in the Jericho Prison and removed from Jenin over fears of riots in the operation's aftermath.
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Palestinian forces arrested Zubeidi last December claiming that Israel had told them it had revoked the Fatah commander's pardon.
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If you have one, or two, or more of your own, you probably know that raising boys can be a handful. Gretchen Carlson discussed some tips for this sometimes-daunting endeavor with Rosalind Wiseman, author of "Masterminds and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World."
Wiseman previously penned a best-seller on raising girls.
Gretchen, who has a son and a daughter, asked about the perception that girls are more difficult than boys. Wiseman says that's a myth, and argues that we do boys a "disservice" when we make them feel that they're less complicated.
She said parents of boys need to guard against making their sons feel like they cannot talk about a problem or issue that they're having. Wiseman said "if they keep not talking to us, they can get themselves into problems that are way over their head and get really hurt."
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