Published 8 August 2017
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London2017 | Thompson explains her 5th place
Elaine Thompson, the Olympic Games sprint double champion and pre-season favourite for gold in London, explained her 5th place finish in the women’s 100m final #London2017 American Tori Bowie won the event in 10.85
Published 8 August 2017
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Athletes get the runs at World Championships as gastroenteritis reported at official hotel in London
Telegraph Reporters
8 August 2017 • 7:36am
number of athletes at the World Championships have been laid low by stomach upsets with Botswana’s Isaac Makwala saying on Monday he was forced to withdraw from the 200m heats because of food poisoning.
London 2017 organisers released a statement late on Monday saying that a number of teams had reported cases of gastroenteritis at their official hotel.
“Those affected have been supported by both team and LOC medical staff, in addition we have been working with Public Health England to ensure the situation is managed and contained,” the organising committee said in a statement.
Published 8 August 2017
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1 of dead, 20 injured in Spring Garden Barbados shooting
Police are conducting investigations into the fatal shooting of Taried Junior Rock, 20 years, Chapman Lane, St. Michael, which occurred sometime after 6:00 p.m. on Monday, August 7, 2017, on Spring Garden Highway.
Published 7 August 2017
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The Basseterre Valley Aquifer must be protected from human faeces and other contaminants, says Douglas
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, AUGUST 7TH 2017 – Leader of the Opposition, the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas has welcomed professional opinion on the highly controversial decision of the Timothy Harris Team Unity Government (TUG) to build a new Basseterre High School (BHS) on the Basseterre Valley Aquifer but called upon the people of Basseterre and its environs to protect the island’s major source of drinking water.
Published 7 August 2017
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PM Harris accuses Mark Brantley of presiding over “a non functioning Public Accounts Committee”
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, AUGUST 7TH 2017 – Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris, has slammed his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Mark Brantley, for presiding over a “non-functioning Public Accounts Committee” when he was its chairman for nearly 8 years (2007 to 2015).
The irony is that Prime Minister Harris and his Deputy Prime Minister, Hon. Shawn Richards, were also members of the last Public Accounts Committee from 2010 to 2015.
