Monday July 27, 2009 • Issue 30Saint Lucia Government Gazette 787

(“the Company)

THE undersigned as Liquidator of the above named Company does hereby give notice under Section 94(8) of the International Business Companies Act,

Cap. 12.14 of the Revised Laws, 2001 that the Company has been dissolved, that a Certificate of Dissolution has been issued, and the Company has been struck-off the Register.

Dated this 10th July, 2009.

Walter Fernandes da SilvaLiquidator

Full Day Holiday on Carnival Tuesday

THE public is hereby notified that pursuant to Section 33 of the Banking Act, No. 34 of 2006, approval has been granted to all commercial

banks to observe a full holiday on Carnival Tuesday, July 21, 2009 as a means to support and facilitate carnival celebrations.

Signed: Stephenson KingMinister for Finance

Customs Exchange RatesEffective Monday,

6th July, 2009

IT is notified for general information that under the provisions of section 78 (2) of the Customs (Control and Management)

Act No. 23 of 1990 as amended that the under-mentioned rates of exchange shall be used for determining their equivalent in E.C. dollars.

U. K. Pound $4.4427

U.S.A $2.7169

Canadian Dollar $2.3375

Notices ...........

Ministry of Finance

Registrar of Insurance

Notice of Cancellation of Agency Registration

CLICO Mortgage & Finance Corporation

TAKE Notice that the Registrar of Insurance pursuant to Section 68 (b) of the Insurance Act, Chapter 12.08, hereby cancels the registration

of CLICo Mortgage & Finance Corporation (CMFC) as Agency for CLICo International General Insurance Limited, effective July 1, 2009.

Dated: June 14, 2009.

Signed: Calixte LeonRegistrar of Insurance

Development Control Authority

THE general public is hereby notified that in an effort to provide a better service, the Development Control Authority will from time to time be

making improvements to its existing processes and systems. This would also include changes to the current fee structure for all applications submitted to the Authority for consideration.

All developers and professionals (including planners, architects, engineers and surveyors) are kindly asked to be guided accordingly. Your cooperation in this endeavor will be highly appreciated.

Executive Secretary

Infinity Bio-Energy Holdings St. Lucia LimitedIBC No: 2008-00508

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D.Krs. (Danish Kroners) $0.5098

NZ (New Zealand Dollar) $1.7085

Australian Dollar $2.1729

Jamaican Dollar $0.0304

Japanese Yen $0.0281

Guyanese Dollar $0.0135

Swedish Kroners $0.3500

Venezuelan Bolivars $0.0013

Barbados Dollar $1.3542

Euro $3.7962

Swiss Franc $2.4895

Trinidad & Tobago $0.4545

HERMAN ST. HELEN, Comptroller of Customs & Excise (Ag.)

$ $ $ $

Monday July 27, 2009 • Issue 30Saint Lucia Government Gazette 789

Decisions taken by the Development Control Authority (DCA) by Round RobinList of Approvals for the week ending: June 29, 2009

Saint Lucia Government Gazette Monday July 27, 2009 • Issue 30790

Decisions taken by the Development Control Authority (DCA) List of Approvals for the week ending: June 26, 2009

Monday July 27, 2009 • Issue 30Saint Lucia Government Gazette 791

Decisions taken by the Development Control Authority (DCA) List of Approvals for the week ending: July 13, 2009

Saint Lucia Government Gazette Monday July 27, 2009 • Issue 30792

SAINT LUCIAPRINTED BY THE NATIONAL PRINTING CORPORATION

CASTRIES2009 [ Price : $3.00 ]

GOVERNMENT NOTICE

SAINT LUCIAPRINTED BY THE NATIONAL PRINTING CORPORATION

CASTRIES2009 [ Price : $3.00 ]

THE public is hereby notified that, effective 24th June, 2009 and until further notice, I Hon. Stephenson King, Minister of Finance, acting in accordance with the Consumption Tax (Amendment) (No.92) order 2000, approve the following rates of consumption tax as corresponding to the description of goods and HS Tariff

Numbers specified:

HS Tariff Number Description of Goods Rate of Tax/Duty

27.10.13.90 Gasolene (Unleaded) 221.65 cents per imperial gallon

27.10.22.10 Illuminating Kerosene exported -162.43 cents per imperial gallon under processing agreement

27.10.22.90 other Illuminating Kerosene -162.43 cents per imperial gallon

27.10.31.10 Diesel oil exported under the 273.05 cents per imperial gallon processing agreement

27.10.31.90 other Diesel oil 273.05 cents per imperial gallon

27.10.39.10 other diesel oil exported under 273.05 cents per imperial gallon processing agreement

27.10.39.90 other 273.05 cents per imperial gallon

27.11.12.00 Liquid Propane - Bulk 63.88 cents per pound (More than 100 lbs)

Liquified Propane - (100 lbs) 10.88 cents per pound

Liquified propane - (20 lbs) -54.12 cents per pound

27.11.13.00 Liquified Butane - Bulk 63.88 cents per pound (More than 100 lbs )

Liquified Butane (100 lbs) 10.88 cents per pound

Liquified Butane (20 lbs) -54.12 cents per pound

27.11.11.00 Liquified Natural Gas - Bulk 63.88 cents per pound (More than 100 lbs )

Liquified Natural Gas (100 lbs) 10.88 cents per pound

Liquified Natural Gas (20 lbs) -54.12 cents per pound

27.11.14.00 Ethelyne, Propylene, Buthelyne 63.88 cents per pound Bulk (More than 100 lbs)

Ethelyne, Propylene, Buthelyne 10.88 cents per pound (100 lbs)

Ethelyne, Propylene, Buthelyne -54.12 cents per pound (20 lbs)__________________________________________________________________________________________________

HoN. STEPHENSoN KING,Minister of Finance.

Monday July 27, 2009 • Issue 30Saint Lucia Government Gazette 793Technology

In less than a week, Google announced an operating system to compete with Windows, while Microsoft announced that Office 10 will include free, online versions of its four most popular software programs -- a shot at Google’s suite of web-based office applications. And not more than a month and a half ago, Microsoft unveiled its new search engine Bing, which it hopes will steal market share from Google and finally make it real money online. From the news of it, it’s a full-blown tech battle, complete with behind-the-scenes machinations to sic government regulators on each other. It is, however, not a death match -- it’s more of an fight to see who will be the King of Technology, since both companies pull in their billions through completely different siphons and are unlikely to severely wound one another any time soon. Google pulled in $22 billion in revenue in 2008, 97 percent of which came tiny text ads bought by the keyword and placed next to search results or on pages around the web. Google makes a negligible amount of money bundling its online apps for businesses, charging $50 a head annually -- but mostly it just gives its online text editor, email and spreadsheet programs away. By contrast, Microsoft sold $14.3 billion worth of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint and other business applications over the last nine months, making a profit of $9.3 billion. It made a further $16 billion in revenue in 2008 through sales of its operating systems, which range from XP installations on netbooks, to Vista, to Windows Mobile to its server software. Google now plans its own range of operating systems, starting with Android, an open-source OS for small devices like smartphones, and Chrome OS, a browser-focused, open-source OS that will run on notebooks and desktops. Clearly top executives at each company look over at the others’ pots of gold and dream of ways to steal them, or at least make it harder for the other guy to make money. In fact, they even dislike each other enough to spend money to make the other one lose revenue -- take for example, Microsoft’s behind-the-scenes campaign to scuttle last year’s proposed Google-Yahoo advertising deal or its ongoing attempts to derail the Google Book Search settlement. But in reality, the competition is really about creating universes or ecosystems that it hopes consumers will want to live their technology lives inside. And it’s about ego -- a fight to be recognized as the world’s most important technology company. Microsoft would love for everyone in the world to be using its Internet Explorer browser to search through Bing to find a story from its MSN portal to email via Hotmail or Outlook to a friend. Add in a smartphone running Windows Mobile and an Xbox in the living room for the kids, and you have a Microsoft family. And though it is much joked about, Microsoft is the dominant platform for software developers of all types, whether they are making small business software, massive online role-playing games or photo-editing utilities. Google’s ecosystem looks different. It starts with a Google Chrome browser (oddly running only on Windows) with a default homepage set to Google News or a customized Google homepage. From there you might go to Gmail and then click on a Word document sent to you as an attachment which Google will quickly -- and safely -- open for you in its online word processor. But most importantly, Google wants you to search and travel

around the web, hitting web pages that run Google-served ads and Google tracking cookies. You might think that Google is a really cool company to give away all this free technology, while never thinking about the persistent and silent data collection Google is undertaking to profile you in order to deliver you to advertisers for a premium. So how do the two stack up in four key areas of competition? Browsers: Internet Explorer in all its variations still retains close to 70 percent of the market (depending on who is counting and how). That dominance remains, even though Microsoft’s latest offering IE8 lags behind all the other major browsers in features and advanced web capabilities. Firefox, Opera, and Apple’s Safari have all driven browser innovation over the last five years, but most people have not been convinced to leave IE behind, despite other alternatives being safer and more advanced. Why does it matter? Well, IE installations come with a default home page, don’t they? Google’s Chrome browser, on the other hand, is a handsome, whiz-kid of a browser. It’s sleek and nimble, and it revolutionizes how tabs are handled. The address bar is the search box (Google as default, naturally). Each website opened runs as its own browser instance and has very low permissions to read and write to files. The sandboxing of tabs means that if a single website hangs or crashes, the rest are unaffected. Meanwhile, lower permissions make it harder for a hacker to bust into your computer through your browser. Chrome also has less than 2 percent of the browser market share. Online Search: Google’s name now means search to most users. Google’s search engine means money to Google. In June, it delivered 78.5 percent of search results pages delivered to U.S. web users. In the first three months of 2009, Google pulled in $5.2 billion in revenue, a majority of which came from AdWords, an auction-based service that triggers ads based on the keywords in a search query. Microsoft recently debuted Bing, a new search engine it hoped would fare well in comparison to Google. It’s got some fine innovations, and shows the company is thinking very hard about better ways to present information to users by finding ways to synthesize data, rather than just retrieving links. Still, despite these improvements, a $100 million ad campaign, and generous press coverage that treats Bing like an underdog, Bing gained only a point in June to get Microsoft 8.2 percent of all searches. Operating Systems: Microsoft has been making operating systems since 1979 and has spent 28 years perfecting MS-DOS and Windows NT, the frameworks that Windows have been built around. Microsoft is estimated to run on about 90 percent of all laptops and desktops in the world. By copying its competitors’ best features, leveraging questionable licensing arrangements and using its base of accustomed users to buy it time against innovators, Microsoft has held on to its lead in the OS market for almost 30 years. That’s despite challenges from Digital Research, Apple and IBM. Microsoft’s newest version, Windows 7, will be available in the fall. Early reviews say the OS boots quickly and sleeps fast, and avoids much of the confusing interface decisions that have made many dislike Vista, the successor to Windows XP. Microsoft also dominates in the business world, where nearly every medium to large company standardizes around Microsoft Office. Microsoft is also at work on version 6 of its operating system for handheld devices, which it first launched in 2000. Its OS advantages are immense. It has millions of users who know nothing else and who like Windows. There are millions who are attached to games or the thousands of desktop apps that are only available on Windows. Thousands of devices just plug in and work on its hardware. And familiarity with Microsoft software is a requirement for a huge number of office jobs. By contrast, Google first stepped into the OS game in 2007 when it announced its Android operating system for small devices. Google estimates that some 18 phone models will be running its system by the end of the year. Last week, Google announced, but did not show off, a new OS to compete with Windows, dubbing it Chrome OS.

Google vs. Microsoft: What you need to know

Saint Lucia Government Gazette Monday July 27, 2009 • Issue 30794

cRIcKeT

Flintoff to retire from Test cricket

Andrew Flintoff has announced that he will retire from Test cricket at the end of this Ashes summer, although he still intends to make himself available for Twenty20 and oDI cricket, and is expected to be fit for tomorrow’s second Test against Australia. Flintoff, who has missed 25 of England’s last 48 Tests through a variety of injuries, suffered another fitness scare on the eve of the Lord’s Test, when he reported soreness and swelling in the same right knee that required surgery back in April, after he tore his meniscus while playing in the IPL. “It’s not something I have just thought of overnight, it’s something that’s been on my mind for a while regarding this series,” said Flintoff. “With the knee flaring up again and getting the injections on Monday, now is a time I felt comfortable with doing it. There’s been a lot of speculation over my future for the past few weeks, so I wanted to get it out there, and concentrate on playing cricket. “I’ve had four ankle operations and knee surgery, so my body is telling me things, and I’m actually starting to listen. I can’t just play games here and there while waiting to be fit. For my own sanity, and for my family’s, I’ve got to draw a line under it. I’ve been going through two years of rehab in the past four, which is not ideal.” Prior to England’s practice session on Wednesday morning, Flintoff gave the team talk in a sombre atmosphere, and afterwards Paul Collingwood immediately came up and shook him by the hand. “Freddie simply said that these four Tests would be his last in Test cricket,” a team insider told Cricinfo. Andrew Strauss, the England captain, said the team were saddened, though not surprised, about Flintoff’s decision to stand down from Test cricket. “As players we’ve had a feeling this would come sooner rather than later,” Strauss said. “We feel sad he’s had to make this decision at his age, but we’re sure it will motivate him even more for this series.” The knee injury that has threatened

SPoRTShis participation at Lord’s followed a spirited performance in the first Test at Cardiff, in which Flintoff bowled 35 overs but was once again under-rewarded with figures of 1 for 128. Strauss was optimistic on Wednesday that Flintoff will come through a fitness test and make himself available for selection, and he was seen skipping during England’s warm-up in the indoor nets, before padding up for batting practice, then sending down a few pacey overs on the outdoor nets. “The indications are that he’s going to be fine,” Strauss said. “He had a good bowl today, we just need to see how he reacts to what he did today before we can be 100% sure. At this stage we are hopeful but we can’t be sure. “When you go in with three seamers, you’ve got to expect all three to bowl a lot of overs. Fred understands that, but this week in all likelihood there will be four seamers and maybe [they] won’t have quite as big a workload. We’d never play any bowler in a Test match who we didn’t think could contribute as fully as anyone else.” Though he acknowledged that Flintoff’s overall statistics do not bear greatness, Strauss lauded Flintoff’s effect on the modern game. “He’s had a dramatic impact in English cricket over the past few years, in the style with which he’s batted, and for a long period he’s been one of the bowlers in world cricket that batters least like facing, although the figures maybe don’t show that,” Strauss said. “And also as a personality, he’s done a huge amount for cricket in the way he’s played with a smile on his face. Test cricket will miss him, there’s no doubt about that. I’m sure he’ll go out in a style that befits his quality, with a bang, with big performances, and with some stories to tell at the end.” Regardless of his immense stature in the England dressing-room, the statistics of Flintoff’s recent form and impact on the Test side are not flattering. Since the 2005 Ashes, he has averaged 28.25 with the bat and 34.68 with the ball in 23 Tests (both figures down on his overall Test record of 31.69 and 32.51), and he has not managed a century or five wickets in an innings in any series since then. Moreover, he has been unable to impose himself on matches in the same way that he did in his 2005 pomp. Although some leeway has to be made for the quality of the opponents he has faced - Flintoff has often been recuperating during low-key series in preparation for the marquee events - the statistics paint a sorry tale. In the 25 matches that Flintoff has missed since 2005, England have won 12, drawn 10 and lost on only three occasions. In the 23 matches in which he has been present, those numbers are almost exactly reversed - won 3, drawn 7, lost 13. “Being part of an Ashes-winning team was very special, and so was beating everyone in the world for a period of time, and playing a major part in that,” said Flintoff. “I’d have liked my career to kick on after that, but being a professional rehabber for two years makes it pretty difficult to do that. It would have been nice if it had carried on a bit longer, but I’ve no regrets. I’m happy.” Flintoff received a cortisone injection on Monday, and is sure to play through the pain if he has to. “For the next four Test matches I’ll do everything I need to do to get on a cricket field and I’m desperate to make my mark,” he said. “I want to finish playing for England on a high and if you look at the fixtures going forward, the way my body is suggests I won’t be able to get through that.”

Cricinfo

Andrew Flintoff sent down a few pacey overs at Lord’s as he attempted to prove his fitness for the second Test