Loose crabs in cargo hold delay NY flight

Saturday, October 04, 2014 | 3:27 PM    

NEW YORK (AP) — If passengers on a delayed flight from New York to Charlotte, North Carolina, got a bit crabby, no one could really say they were being too shellfish.

Their flight left LaGuardia Airport about a half-hour late Thursday evening because some live crabs got loose in the cargo hold.

US Airways spokeswoman Liz Landau said Friday it’s unclear how the fairly small crustaceans escaped their container or what species they were. She says there were “more than a few” of them.

It’s unknown who was shipping them. The airline carries various cargo shipments, along with passengers’ luggage.

Workers swept the crabs out of the hold, and the flight went on its way.

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Transport group calls for delay in toll increase

Within the next seven days, the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Service, (TODSS), will submit a petition to the Prime Minister,  calling for a one year suspension of  the toll increase on Highway 2000.

In a news release this afternoon, the group said it’s doing so, with a view to re-visit the contract between the operators of  Highway 2000 and the Government. A copy of the petition will also be sent to Transport Minister, Dr. Omar Davies.

The petition will be signed by transport operators who use the Highway.

TODSS says, it will not rule out increasing fares and added that a meeting will be held in Portmore on Wednesday with members to announce what  action will be taken.

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Transport group calls for delay in toll increase

UN hears rising concerns on Haiti’s election delay

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Wednesday, August 28, 2013 | 2:50 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The UN Security Council heard Wednesday about rising discord in Haiti over long-delayed national elections, which were expected in 2011 but may not take place even this year.Political infighting among the government’s branches has held up the vote. An electoral council responsible for overseeing the elections wasn’t formed until April, and it still needs to approve a calendar for voting that will be largely financed by foreign governments.“These delays have led a number of political and civil society actors to express skepticism concerning the likelihood that elections will be held in 2013,” the UN special representative for Haiti, Sandra Honore, told the council.The election is needed to fill one-third of Haiti’s 30-member Senate and dozens of local posts. In the absence of a vote, some 130 elected municipal officials have been replaced with appointees chosen by President Michel Martelly.Honore said delays in submission of a draft electoral law “have fueled speculation among the legislators that the executive was intentionally delaying the process to ensure that Parliament becomes non-functional.”A group of the main opposition parties has been calling on Martelly “to uphold the constitutional requirement of timely elections, or else resign,” she said.Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jamaicaobserverFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/JamaicaObserver

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Vybz Kartel trial faces further delay

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The murder trial of dancehall DJ Vybz Kartel failed to get underway Wednesday for the third day in a row.

The often-postponed trial is now expected to start Thursday, July 11.The trial scheduled to begin on Monday was postponed to Tuesday because of issues pertaining to the location of Kartel’s case files.On Tuesday the trial was again postponed, this time because of the unavailability of a courtroom.It failed to proceed further on Wednesday due to the involvement of the presiding judge, Justice Bryan Sykes in another trial.The entertainer whose name is Adijah Palmer is, along with Lenburgh McDonald and Nigel Thompson, charged for the July 2011 murder of St Catherine businessman, Barrington ‘Bossie’ Bryan.Bryan was reportedly shot to death while he was standing with friends in Gregory Park, St Catherine.Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jamaicaobserverFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/JamaicaObserver

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