Archive for September 30th, 2009
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
The de facto Honduran government closed on Monday a radio station and a TV channel, against that regime, due to a decree suspending the Constitutional guarantees for 45 days.
The de facto government closed TV channel Canal 36 and radio station Radio Globo. Police spokesman Orlin Cerrato told reporters they proceeded according to an order of the National Commission of Telecommunications (Conatel), which is the governmental institution that regulates the communications in Honduras.
Policemen and soldiers entered Radio Globo about 5:30 a.m. (1100 GMT), took the transmission equipment and then occupied the facilities.
The decree was published on Saturday and it prohibited “the issuing of information for any oral, written or TV means, which offends the human dignity, public officers or attempts against the public peace and order.”
“Conatel, trough the National Police and Armed Forces are authorized to suspend any radio station, TV channel or TV cable system, which do not adjust their broadcasting to the current dispositions,” the decree said.
After President Manuel Zelaya ousting in June 28, Canal 36 and Radio Globo broadcasted messages from Zelaya and summoned mobilizations to support him.
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
The Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y de Arquitectos (CFIA) is calling on the government to declare a national emergency over the state of the nation’s bridges and is asking the presidential candidates to include the subject in their works projects.
The call comes after an intensive study completed by the CFIA on the state of the bridges in the country, this after the debacle over the “platina” situation on the Virilla bridge.
You remember, the bridge that paralyzed the Central Valley on three separate occasions when work on the bridge closed the East-West route of the General Cañas for more than 48 hours on each occasion. And the bridge that still sports a 10cm gap between its spans.
The CFIA is using the Virilla as an indicator of the situation that is common on many bridges around the country, mainly due to the lack of maintenance by this and previous governments, where bridges are left to deteriorate, while vehicular traffic passing over them has greatly increased.
The board of directors of the CFIA is asking that this government and future governments make bridge maintenance and repair a priority and only by declaring a national emergency will the problem be taken seriously.
The CFIA claim is supported by a study of the Laboratorio Nacional de Materiales y Modelos Estructurales (Lanamme) and to take the dust off the study done by the Agencia de Cooperación Japonesa (Jaica), with the idea that that the Dirección de Puentes del Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes (MOPT) use the document as a basis for planning their maintenance and rehabilitation work.
The CFIA will be also looking to make the bridge situation an issue in the upcoming presidential elections.
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
A Fall River Probate Court judge has ordered a man charged with kidnapping his son three years ago to return the child to his mother or pay $40,000 to help the mother return the boy from Costa Rica.
Judge Anthony R. Nesi’s ruling on Thursday found David Albanese, 29, guilty of failing to comply with two previous court orders that issued sole custody of the child to the mother.
Nesi ordered Albanese to return his 3-year-old son — who has been in Costa Rica since Albanese took him there in August 2006 — to the United States and to have the boy in the mother’s custody by Nov. 1.
If Albanese fails to comply with the court order, he will have to pay $40,000 to the child’s mother, Melanie Majewski, to cover her travel and legal expenses to return the boy to Massachusetts. The child is staying with relatives in Costa Rica.
Albanese is free on $400,000 bail from his April arraignment on criminal kidnapping charges in New Bedford District Court.
Albanese was arrested in July 2008 in Costa Rica by authorities acting on a warrant that Acushnet police obtained in September 2006 charging him with kidnapping a minor by a relative. Albanese was extradited to the United States earlier this year.
Albanese said through his lawyer that Majewski had written a notarized letter in August 2006 allowing him to take the child with him to Costa Rica while Majewski improved her living situation.
The letter had no conditions that he return the boy to Massachusetts.
However, before Albanese left for Costa Rica, Majewski made him sign a notarized letter that he would return the child to the United States by Sept. 10, 2006, court records said.
During a telephone conversation in September 2006, Albanese allegedly told Majewski he had “tricked” her and said he would not be sending the child back to her in Massachusetts, court records said.
Majewski was living in Acushnet at the time and filed a complaint with local police after her telephone conversation with Albanese, court records said.
At the time of the alleged kidnapping, Albanese was on probation for a Rhode Island drug case, and had three pending cases in Boston District Court, court records said.
Albanese and Majewski testified during a May trial at Probate and Family Court in Fall River.
In addition to finding Albanese guilty of violating prior custody orders and ordering him to return the child to Majewski, Judge Nesi demanded that Albanese surrender his passport to the probation department at Probate Court.
Nesi also said Albanese could face a jail sentence if he is found in contempt of the new court order.
The judge scheduled a compliance hearing for Dec. 17.
Meanwhile, Albanese’s criminal case in New Bedford District Court is pending
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