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Clive Mullings (right), Opposition member of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC), makes way for K.D. Knight, Government member, following a verbal clash over seating arrangements during yesterday's sitting of the PAC. - Rudolph Brown/Chief Photographer Contractor General Greg Christie, who yesterday made his last appearance before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee which is examining the Sandals Whitehouse debacle, says his office had been subjected to verbal attacks during the three sittings. The claim, while supported by Opposition members, was dismissed by Government member K.D. Knight. Minutes after Mr. Christie's pronouncement, Government member John Junor created a firestorm when he asked the Contractor General if he had a relative linked to the Sandals Whitehouse project.
The branch office of Segen Construction Company in Gash-Barka region has offered training to 78 demobilized nationals on operating heavy vehicles and machineries. The 6-month training is in line with the nation-building process and is aimed at improving their living standards through acquiring new skills. .
In at least one significant way, the Denver Art Museum's radically unconventional addition has succeeded before it even opens. Some area residents have scorned the Frederic C. Hamilton Building, others enthusiastically embrace it. It has generated international press attention, and many of the country's top architecture critics have already visited it or soon will. Museum leaders wanted to raise a ruckus and get noticed, and to that end, they have gotten exactly what they wanted. Architect Daniel Libeskind has said the $90.5 million building was inspired in part by the Rocky Mountains. With its faceted, crystalline forms and jutting, sharply sloping walls, it looks like a mineral formation that has just burst from the ground. It is the anti-box. There are no perpendicular lines, no two rooms the same shape.
SPRINGFIELD - Onetime Springfield Housing Authority contractor Frank Ware Jr. yesterday told jurors in a federal corruption trial he gave cash bribes to a former authority executive at the official's office, the Greek Cultural Center, the Holiday Inn and in the men's room at a local bar. "It was the cost of doing business at the Springfield Housing Authority," said Ware, a prosecution witness in the trial of another former contractor in U.S. District Court. Ware is the third private contractor to testify he paid nearly $500,000 in bribes to ousted Executive Director Raymond B. Asselin and his former assistant, Arthur G. Sotirion. Defendant Peter Davis, 72, of Newburyport, is charged with racketeering conspiracy, bribery conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
LANDOWNERS who build a house in the Redlands could face a new fee of more than $13,000 under a Redland Shire Council proposal to fund road upgrades. On the mainland the charges will not apply to land resulting from subdivision or density increase. On the Southern Moreton Bay Islands, however, where the land is nearly totally subdivided, the charge will apply at the time of building a house. The public has until October 6 to have its say on Council's plan to introduce transport infrastructure charges to pay for roads and other local transport improvements. Land on the Bay Islands was subdivided before Council took control in 1973. With no planning controls in place at the time, no financial provision was made for the cost of basic roads. .
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