Here is NEWS that was mailed to my readers in April:-

April 5, 1998

LAND USE... the LATEST NEWS
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This site was always opposed to the Greenland Landfill project....
 and the Advocate newspaper, on Friday, now informs us...
 that 20 tonnes of cruise ship garbage PER MONTH is being dumped at
 the Mangrove Landfill in St. Thomas.

April 12, 1998

DOCTORS ON STRIKE
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Right now is not the time to get sick in Barbados....
 BAMP (the doctors union) has nearly shut down the
 Queen Elizabeth hospital... in their war with the
 Government of Barbados over the salaries and status
 of the junior doctors....

Right now neither side is budging.... so all we can do is wait and see.


April 19, 1998

(there was a crash of my list software... so NO news was sent out)

April 26, 1998

NEWS
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The sea has claimed another life, an 18 year old youth,
 fishing at the Oistins jetty... fell in and drowned.

and McClean,69, a fisherman for 51 years... found 6 giant
 conger eels in his fish pot...weighing about 70 pounds each
 and about 7 feet long... these are the largest ever seen to
 date in Barbadian waters.

Hundreds of people walked, drove and even arrived in taxis at
 the gruesome sceen of a partially decomposed body of a woman
 found in the canes at Brighton Plantation, St. George.

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