Monthly Archives: July 2006
DELIBERATE attacks by Israeli forces against civilian property and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip violate international humanitarian law and constitute war crimes, Amnesty International said yesterday. ‘Israel must now take urgent measures to remedy the long-term damage it has caused and immediately restore the supply – at its own...
Yesterday Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary Beverly Malone condemned the government’s latest scheme to keep overseas junior nurses out of Britain. Responding to Labour’s plans to restrict international junior nurses coming to the UK, Malone said: ‘International nurses have always been there for the UK in times of...
ISRAEL blitzed Gaza from the air Sunday early morning, setting the interior ministry ablaze and killing a Palestinian fighter in the latest offensive aimed at freeing a soldier held by Palestinian militants. Egypt, which has been mediating in the crisis, said on Friday the ruling Hamas movement had agreed to...
THE latest NHS ‘reorganisation’ came into force last Saturday. This is the slashing of the number of Strategic Health Authorities in England from 28 to ten and NHS ambulance trusts from 31 to twelve. To justify the cut in ambulance trusts, health bosses argued that half of ambulance trips to hospital...
JUST a few months ago, the then Defence Minister John Reid was telling the media – while trying to douse public concern over a large force of British troops being sent to Afghanistan – that British troops would complete their whole three-year tour of duty without firing...
In a report titled ‘Shaming Destitution’, the Citizens Advice Bureaux condemn the Blair government’s treatment of refugees to whom it refuses asylum and who are forced to claim assistance under Section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. In summary, the charity says: ‘Since 2003 there has been...
UNISON accused the government yesterday of a ‘fundamental breach of trust’. This was after the Department of Health placed an advertisement in the official EU journal inviting the major international health insurers to bid to take over the management of NHS Primary Care Trusts, with a health care...
‘We make no bones about the death of Zahid Mubarek. He died because of institutional murder,’ said the young Asian’s uncle, Imtiaz Amin. In response to inquiry chairman Mr Justice Keith’s report into Zahid’s murder by his cellmate at Feltham Young Offenders Institute, Amin added: ‘The report exposes a litany...
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were very angry yesterday at having to reapply at the Hillingdon TGWU union office for their February hardship payment, which they had been promised by Region One Deputy Regional Secretary Patrick O’Keeffe. The locked-out workers have been fighting since August 10th last year...