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March 27th 2012

Chavez return from Cuba after surgery`

the coast outside Cara-cas, the socialist leader warmly greeted Cabinet ministers and relatives before a military cere-

mony on the runway.

“This new return is a

song, a prayer, a com-

mitment to God!”

Chavez said in a tele-

vised speech to the na-

tion.

Upbeat as always, Chavez fired off a se-ries of Tweets before he departed, saying he had bid farewell to his friend and political mentor Fidel Castro, the former Cuban

leader.

“We had lunch with Fidel. He sent a gigan-tic hug to the whole Venezuelan people,”

Chavez said.

“We will live and we

will conquer!”

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Cuba after surgery

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he added, in what has be-

come his signature slogan

since he was diagnosed

with cancer.

Venezuelan President

Hugo Chavez

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Smiling and embracing supporters, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez flew home after sur-gery in Cuba for cancer that will require him to have radiation therapy ahead of October’s re-

election bid.

Chavez’s presence on Venezuelan soil after an absence of more than three weeks in Ha-vana will hope to reas-sert his leadership, calm anxiety among supporters and quell whispers of a brewing succession struggle be-

hind the scenes.

Yet little is known

about the type of can-

cer Chavez has or its

seriousness. So big

questions remain as to

whether he is fit

enough to campaign for

an October 7th election

that has turned into the

biggest political fight

of his 13-year rule.

Flying into Maiquetia international airport, on


Volume 1, Issue 6

TEAM RUSH

RUSH TV TEAM

• Rohan Bernard - Executive Producer

• Raynelle Benjamin - Marketing Officer

• Andrel Mc Millan - Technical Director

• Wayne Francis Wright- Camera/Sports

Commentator

• Ellisha Baptiste - News Anchor/Reporter

• Rawle Patterson - Community Reporter

• Maryann Tauofiq-Obst - Community Reporter

• Stephanie John - Reporter

Welcome again to this the sixth issue of RUSH Magazine. In this issue we re-port on the continued recovery of Presi-dent Hugo Chavez of Venezuela from

cancer.

Simultaneously we announce the dis-covery and production by Cuba of a new

cancer fighting drug .

While in Grenada, the government and opposition were locked in a delayed

budget debate for 2012.

From Antigua we pay living tribute to King Short Shirt, while its former resi-

dent Allen Stanford is carted of to jail.

Editor: Raynelle Benjamin

Welcome once again to another RUSH publication. Grencomm continues to push ahead by offering the public the latest

cutting edge in technology.

RUSH TV reorganizes its TV schedule to include an African segment and the first live on line streaming of Obituaries

from Grenada.

Continue to join us as we push forward to become the premier Caribbean inter-

net telecommunication company.

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Free Dental Clinic in the south of Grenada

Grenada’s Ministries of Health

and Education, along with the

New York University College of

Dentistry (NYUCD) Henry

Schein Cares Global Outreach

Program, have invited all indi-

viduals in need of dental care –

extractions, fillings and root ca-

nals – to visit a free temporary

dental clinic to be held at the

Grenada Youth Centre in Morne

Rouge, St. George, from Sunday

March 18th to Friday, March

23rd.

On Sunday March 18th, the pa-

tients would be treated by at least

30 dentists and specialists from

11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Then from

Monday, March 19th to Friday,

March 23rd, dental patients

would be treated from 8 a.m. to

5:30 p.m. each day.

This free dental clinic is one as-

pect of a comprehensive dental

care prevention and treatment

outreach program of the

NYUCD College of Dentistry, in

collaboration with the Govern-

ment of Grenada.

The three-year program is being

implemented as a component of

the Government’s primary

healthcare plan with the follow-

ing goals:

• to build capacity within the

present infrastructure;

• to increase oral health aware-ness and access to care in the

nation;

• to address as many of the na-tion’s children’s oral health

needs as possible;

• to develop a sustainable pre-ventative dentistry program;

and

• to implement preventative measures that will lead to a 50 percent decrease in new

decay over three years.

and treatment; free, open commu-

nity-based clinics which treat chil-

dren and adults; and a component

that provides for the training of 15

public healthcare providers, who

would ensure that the initiatives of

the program are sustained beyond

the three-year period.

To date, this is the eight visit of the

NYUCD team of doctors, to ad-

minister care through the school

based care and clinic services of

the program. Just prior to this cur-

rent visit, a team was here reexam-

ining and re-vanishing children's

teeth in schools throughout Gre-

nada.

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of Dentistry (�YUCD)

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Dentistry (�YUCD)

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Cuba makes cancer drug from venom of scorpions

The success rate so far, accord-ing to Dr Guevara Garcia, has been good, and in several cases, people suffering from cancer have been living longer, follow-

ing usage of the drug.

It would be distributed as an over

the counter product, thus not re-

quiring a prescription, due to the

natural products involved in its

production, Dr Guevara Garcia

said.

The Labiofam Entrepreneurial

Group, the medical & biological

research arm of the Cuban Gov-

ernment, is responsible for the

commercial development of the

drug.

The drug took 15 years to de-

velop in a Cuban laboratory after

scientists began research on the

properties of the scorpion.

Cuba is trying to get a drug devel-

oped from the venom of scorpions to

fight various cancers, on the shelves

of Jamaican pharmacies by the end of

the year.

Two Cuban officials are in Jamaica to help promote the drug, called Vida-tox, an extract from the Rhopalrus Junceus scorpion, which is indige-nous to the Socialist country, and al-ready they have held talks with gov-ernment officials as well as a major

distributor.

The Havana resident and former lec-turer in pharmacology at the Medical University of Havana said in an inter-view that the drug, taken orally, was a safe product, with almost no side-effects and is being used by thou-sands of people worldwide to help in the treatment of many cancers, in-cluding prostate, lung, breast, colon,

brain, cervix and pancreas.

It was registered in Cuba in

May of last year as Vidatox

30 CH as a cancer fighting

drug that prolonged the life

of cancer patients by boost-

ing the immune system, re-

ducing pain, and destroying

cancerous tumours in some

cases.

"When we take the scorpion

from the farm to extract the

venom, it is never killed but

returned to the environment

to guarantee ecological bal-

ance in the country and so

that it can reproduce, provid-

ing that certain factors are in

place, like climate, tempera-

ture, etc," Guevara Garcia

said.

The most pressing action

now is to register the product

in various countries, a proc-

ess that could involve a lot of

bureaucracy. Requests have

been made for the drug to be

distributed in over 70 coun-

tries and the Cubans are pre-

pared to wait.

Cuba cancer fighting drug Vi-

datox

Dr. Guevara Garcia

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Caricom embarks on road to reform

The central message from the just-concluded Caricom Sum-mit in Suriname is an assur-ance that the long recognised and recommended overhaul of the Community Secretariat

should soon get underway.

But there is a caveat. It may

involve a long route, at least

another five years, for a new

"strategic plan", which em-

bodies management reform

and implementation proc-

esses, to unfold with the in-

tention of arresting current

pessimism and cynicism about

the future of the 38-year-old

economic integration move-

ment.

The envisaged "change proc-

ess" in the restructuring and

functioning of the Secretariat

is to be subjected to the

"oversight"

of the Caricom Bureau, the so-

called management committee of

Heads of Government that meet

between regular annual summits

and inter-sessional meetings.

Governance of West Indies cricket and the elusive restructur-ing of the Georgetown-based Se-cretariat were two of the major agenda issues to prominently feature in a five-page commu-niqué on the two-day 23rd Inter-Sessional meeting of Caricom leaders that concluded in the Su-

rinamese capital, Paramaribo.

Cricket: As far as the recurring controversies over the central management of West Indies cricket are concerned, the com-munity leaders decided to have an "urgent meeting" between the Prime Ministerial Sub-committee on Cricket (currently chaired by Antigua and Barbuda's Baldwin Spencer) and the West Indies

Cricket Board (WICB).

A core issue for discussion would be

to ascertain precisely what actions -

if any - have been taken on the far-

reaching recommendations of the

2007 Report on 'Governance of West

Indies Cricket' that came from a

team of outstanding regional person-

alities under the chairmanship of Ja-

maica's retired Prime Minister P J

Patterson.

That decision came after a collective

rebuke of the WICB's recent per-

sonal public criticisms of Prime

Minister Portia Simpson Miller, who

had criticised the board's decision to

exclude Jamaica from any of the

scheduled matches for the coming

Australia tour. Simpson Miller had

also weighed in on the WICB's

seeming unwillingness to resolve the

old controversy over Chris Gayle's

suspension from the West Indies

team.

Chris Gayle

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Opposition leader’s response to 2012 Budget

He stated that it is unfair to the

government ministers to be tak-

ing a pay cut at this time of their

tenure since the ruling party

claimed in the person of finance

minister Nazim Burke that the

world economic crisis is over.

He stated that although the in-

creased figures presented in the

budget presentation looked

somewhat impressive based on

the political party track record in

the past three budgets, one has to

wonder how many of it will ma-

terialize.

He went on to target the various

ministries and the

Opposit ion

leader Dr.

K e i t h

Mitchell pre-

sented his

response at

the trade

center in

Grand Anse.

His first ob-

s e r v a t i o n

was a 16

percent increase from last year's budget

announced by minister of finance

Nazim Burke.

Being allotted a little more than two

hours, Dr. Mitchell addressed a number

of areas of concern, gave enlightenment

and in many cases clarity to the esti-

mates of revenue and expenditure for

the tri island state for the upcoming

year.

In his address he made reference to the

largest ever budget allocation in Gre-

nada’s history as a pre-election gim-

mick to woo the people into giving the

National Democratic Congress a sec-

ond term in office as July 2013 is the

deadline for the next election .

allowances made to them

and spoke of the number of

shortcomings in their de-

partments, with an allow-

ance of $109.6 million in

the ministry of education

for which he made a pas-

sionate plea.

Subsequently, he addressed the impressive recovery of the agricultural sector. Af-ter the passage of hurricane Ivan in 2004 where numer-ous of the countries vegeta-tion was destroyed we have seen a significant increase in the rebuilding of the na-tion main agricultural prod-

ucts.

The opposition leader

pointed out that the New

National Party need to be

credited for playing apart

in the rebuilding.

The 2013 budget will con-

tinue throughout the week

with presentations from

various ministers.

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Financial Group in Houston in February 2009. Left with no money, Stanford was declared indigent by the court and his defense was paid for with

public funds.

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Stanford found guilty

A Houston jury convicted Texas financier R. Allen Stanford on all but one of the charges he faced for allegedly bilking investors out of more than $7 billion in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history.

The federal jurors found Stanford guilty on 13 of 14 counts he faced. They found Stanford not

guilty on one count of wire fraud.

The 61-year-old Stanford, whose net worth was once estimated at more than $2 billion, looked

down when the verdict was read.

He faces up to 20 years in prison for the most serious charges but could be imprisoned for much longer if a judge orders his sen-

tences be served consecutively.

Prosecutors say Stanford orches-

trated a 20-year scheme that

took billions through the sale of certificates of deposit from his

Caribbean bank.

Stanford's attorneys blamed his ex

-chief financial officer.

The verdict came less than a day after a Houston federal jury said it could not reach a verdict, and U.S. District Judge David Hittner instructed jurors to keep deliberat-ing. Still, the verdict may prove only a moral victory for Stan-ford's victims, most of whom have received none of their

money back.

The government's star witness, former Stanford aide James Davis, testified that he and Stan-ford faked documents and made up financial reports to calm inves-tors and fool regulators. They fun-neled millions of dollars from Stanford International Bank to a secret Swiss bank account that Stanford tapped for his personal

use, Davis testified.

Stanford's lawyers portrayed their client as a visionary who was not involved in his firm's daily activi-ties. They blamed Davis for any fraud and argued that Stanford's businesses were viable until the government shut down Stanford

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Tribute to King Short Shirt

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Since his conversion, Brother Em-manuel – as he is now known - has been inspired to produce two gospel albums, often awakening in the middle of the night with melodies and lyrics racing through his mind.

The Monarch. King Short Shirt. Brother Emmanuel. Musical ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda.

Whatever you choose to call him, you can't help but marvel at this self-taught calypsonian whose near-prophetic music is arguably more relevant today than it was over 30 years ago. In1963 he copped second position with his rendi-tions of "Shakespearean" and "Straight Hair". By 1964, however, his awe-some talent could no longer be contained and he waltzed off with top honours singing "�o

Place Like Home" and "Heritage". Successive wins were secured in 1965 and 66, then again in 1969 and 1970. In all, he won 15 titles between 1964 and

1992 – his last year of com-petition – including 6 wins during his 'decade of victory' from 1970 to 1979. No calyp-sonian before or since has accomplished as much, and many feel the history of mod-ern calypso in Antigua is the history of Short Shirt's devel-opment. Like the biblical Saul, how-ever, Short Shirt's life was dramatically changed in 1997 when he received Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour. Short Shirt claims he shed tears like a baby on the morning when Pastor Weldon Jarvis visited him. Somehow, he felt a searing guilt and decided there and then to dedicate the rest of his life to spreading God's Word to mankind.

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Volume 1, Issue 6

RUSH TV PROGRAMME

Apple’s iPad has been a transformative tablet device, but it was cursed from the beginning with a low-

resolution display.

That changed today with the launch of the iPad HD, Ap-ple’s third-generation tablet, which adds an ultra-high resolution Retina Display

and LTE 4G connectivity.

Segment 1 RUSH News

Segment 2 RUSH Sports

Segment 3 RUSH Weather Report

Segment 4 RUSH Entertainment

Segment 5 RUSH Money Report

Segment 6 RUSH Technology

Segment 7 Tribute

Segment 8 Strictly Spice

Segment 9 African Rising

Segment 10 Obituaries

15.5 million iPads last quarter,

more than any PC manufacturer

sold in their computer lines.

The tablet also features a new

processor, Apple’s A5X, which

features quad-core graphics capa-

bilities.

As expected, Apple updated the iPad’s camera capabilities: It can now shoot 5-megapixel photos from a rear camera as well as 1080p video. The rear camera sports backside illumination (for better low-light performance), a 5-element lens, and a hybrid IR

filter.

Apple CEO Tim Cook un-veiled the iPad HD at a media event in San Francisco today, where he also announced an updated Apple TV set-top box. “We think the iPad is the poster-child of the post-PC

world,” Cook said.

Technology Report

Will Apple iPad be a transformative device

Tim Cook

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Volume 1, Issue 6

Money Report

Digicel concert for MoBay

Sam Sharpe Square and Tropical Beach in Mon-

tego Bay came to a great entertainment package

engineered by Digicel.

The second leg of its $8.99 free concert series,

which takes place

at Sam Sharpe

Square at 6 pm, is

head l ined by

Cham, Romain

Virgo and Pop-

caan. Tropical

Beach is also the

hot spot later that

evening as the

Digicel sponsored All

-island Carnival

makes its first stop of the season in the second

city.

The recent staging of the Mandeville leg of the

$8.99 free concert was a tremendous success.

However Montego Bay, the second city known

for huge crowds and great participation is highly

anticipated by entertainers and organisers alike.

As part of the Digicel $8.99 Free Concert series,

patrons will be treated to additional performances

from Bugle, Tash, Delando and Latty J and Shady

Squad. Patrons can look forward to lots of give-

aways, fun, and great performances from some of

Jamaica's brightest stars in music.

According to Shelly-Ann Curran, Senior Spon-

sorships and Activations Manager, "The re-

sponse from our customers since we launched

our $8.99 one rate option to any number, on

any local network, at any time has been phe-

nomenal and the take up has equally been a

huge success. Through our concert series, we

are able to further connect with our customers

while ensuring that they have all the informa-

tion they need on how to activate this great rate

option", she explained.

Digicel's $8.99 free concert, slated for Sam

Sharpe Square will precede the Digicel spon-

sored All Island Carnival at Tropical beach on

Saturday March 17. Since being announced on

Friday, March 2, Digicel's One Rate Option of

$8.99 has been a runaway success and the

company is well on the way of having one mil-

lion customers activate the rate plan before the

end of March.

Romain Virgo

Montego Bay

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Money Report

Two people found guilty of money laundering

Two people, including a Ber-mudian national, will be sen-tenced later after they were found guilty at the Serious of-fences Court in a trial that had been dubbed the largest money laundering case in St Vincent

and the Grenadines.

Vincentian businessman Antonio “Que Pasa” Gellizeau and Ber-mudan sailor Winston Robinson were found guilty on two charges of money laundering, involving US$1.7 million in cash. Trinidadian Kent Andrews

was acquitted.

The men were charged after Coast Guard officials found the money concealed in vacuum packed bags on board the yacht,

Jo Tobin on April 5, 2008.

Andrews and Robinson were on board the yacht and were charged with breaching the Proceeds of Crime and Money Laundering

(Prevention) Act of 2001.

Prosecutors say that Robinson sailed the yacht from Bermuda to

St. Vincent.

But Robinson denied the money laundering charges and told the court that he had earned the cash while working in the hotel and

fishing industry.

After the guilty verdict was handed down, Bermuda Police Service is-sued a statement describing the

case as “significant and complex”.

“This conviction resulted from a multi-agency cross border investi-gation with fellow law enforce-ment agencies in St Vincent, Ber-muda, (the) USA and the Carib-bean region. It underscores the value of joined-up partnership working and highlights the value of shared intelligence,” Acting Su-perintendent Sean Field-Lament

said in the statement.

The yacht was owned by Gel-lizeau and the court granted an order restraining him from trans-ferring, selling, parting with or otherwise charging all realisable assets owned or controlled by him, whether in his name or not, whether solely or jointly owned or held, whether located in our outside of St. Vincent and the

Grenadines.

But High Court judge, Frederick Bruce-Lyle dismissed the claims, ruling that they were brought, in part, pursuant to section 1(c) of the Constitution, which, as a general provision, is not justicia-

ble.

The judge also ruled that the Pro-ceeds of Crime Act did not

amend the Constitution.

In their appeal, the appellants contended, among other things, that Justice Bruce-Lyle erred in holding that section 38 of the Constitution does not apply to Acts which affect fundamental

rights and freedoms.

But after hearing arguments from both sides, the Court of Appeal

dismissed the case.

Antonio “Que Pasa” Gellizeau

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