...BLACK TUESDAY IN THE BAHAMAS(APRIL 27, 1965) (Events inside and outside of The House of Assembly and aftermath of Black Tuesday are excerpts from "The Quiet Revolution" by Dame Dr. Doris Johnson.) Possibly the greatest event in the movement towards Bahamian Independence was Black Tuesday. This event culminated in 1967 but started with the 1962 General Elections. The 1962 General Elections was the first elections where all Bahamians including women, were allowed vote: universal adult suffrage. Surprisingly, the United Bahamian Party won the elections over the PLP. The UBP had 21 seats and the PLP had 8. Roland Symonette became the country's first Premier. Historians have hypothesized as to why the PLP lost the elections despite overwhelming support from the majority of Bahamians. Firstly, the PLP complained of UBP job threats. Workers complained that they were threaten with being fired if they voted for the PLP. Also, the UBP campaigned on the grounds that they had done a good job of improving the Bahamian economy; and that change now would frighten the American tourists and investors who were just now coming back from the 1958 General Strike. The UBP suggested that the PLP were not knowledgeable enough to run the country and if the PLP were to gain control of the government, the economy would be ruined. Additionally, the PLP complained that the UBP had arranged the constituency boundaries in such a way as to give themselves an unfair advantage. This "fixing" of the constituency...
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...BLACK TUESDAY IN THE BAHAMAS(APRIL 27, 1965) (Events inside and outside of The House of Assembly and aftermath of Black Tuesday are excerpts from "The Quiet Revolution" by Dame Dr. Doris Johnson.) Possibly the greatest event in the movement towards Bahamian Independence was Black Tuesday. This event culminated in 1967 but started with the 1962 General Elections. The 1962 General Elections was the first elections where all Bahamians including women, were allowed vote: universal adult suffrage. Surprisingly, the United Bahamian Party won the elections over the PLP. The UBP had 21 seats and the PLP had 8. Roland Symonette became the country's first Premier. Historians have hypothesized as to why the PLP lost the elections despite overwhelming support from the majority of Bahamians. Firstly, the PLP complained of UBP job threats. Workers complained that they were threaten with being fired if they voted for the PLP. Also, the UBP campaigned on the grounds that they had done a good job of improving the Bahamian economy; and that change now would frighten the American tourists and investors who were just now coming back from the 1958 General Strike. The UBP suggested that the PLP were not knowledgeable enough to run the country and if the PLP were to gain control of the government, the economy would be ruined. Additionally, the PLP complained that the UBP had arranged the constituency boundaries in such a way as to give themselves an unfair advantage. This "fixing" of the constituency...
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...RUNNING HEAD: GENERAL GRIEVOUS FOR PRESIDENT GENERAL GRIEVOUS FOR PRESIDENT 1 GENERAL GRIEVOUS FOR PRESIDENT Sean Sawicki ITT Technical Institute January 21, 2012 GENERAL GRIEVOUS FOR PRESIDENT 2 GENERAL GRIEVOUS FOR PRESIDENT When it comes to politics we always debate which is better, republicans or democrats. Every four years we are faced with the decision to vote for the next Commander and Chief, with our economies in great ruin, unemployment at an all time low and war throughout the planet, it’s time to really face the facts of who’s really going to get the job done. One who will fight to the end to save our economy, or the one who wants to just save the people closest to his beliefs? Well that time has come, with our two running candidates General Grievous (democrat) and Wookie Chewbacca (republican). When we sit back and look into the past of these two candidates, only one stands out in the crowd as the next commander and chief “General Grievous”. According to Darth Sanwicki (2012), creator and trainer of Qymaen jai Sheelal, “The Brain of a human, body by Intel”. Looking into the republican party we see high class people making high class decisions, whatever happened to the Republican belief ” legislations should will be on the Jedi table ...your Jedi members and senators will probably try to get peace on a state or local level rather than national level “The republics...
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...and how will they deliver such bad news to the families while providing them hope? These are the two questions that this author will address and try to answer in this article How does the owner of the miner prepare to notify the families of the trapped miners? As a mining company one would expect that part of the Emergency Action Plan would cover a situation such as a cave in, the emergency action plan would cover needs to be done, step by step, while no one is really ready for such an emergency, routine practice, and drills. The conduct of such exercise would help the mining company identified, safety concern, procedures for notification, and prepare those that work in the staff for the media frenzy that will happen with such incident occurs. How the employer reacts and acts during the crisis will dictated how the public and the media will see it for years to come, if the employer is seen as careless or thoughtless when dealing with families, they may lose more than just business, they may be the subject of employee’s...
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...Dear Sir I refer to the incident that occurred on the 18th February 2014 with Bankosi when i unfortunately lost my temper. The sequence of events are as follows: * I had called for Bankosi to remove the scrap bricks from the yard. * Bankosi shows me his fists in an intimidating manner and proceeds to talk in his language to his peers when they all laughed at me. * I called him to resolve the matter maturely but Bankosi proceeded to “entertain” his friends at my expense where at this point they were even more amused. * I became quite frustrated and unfortunately lost my temper and punched him which I deeply regretted afterwards hence i went to apologise to him which he accepted. We talked about it and i apologised and we were cool. When the maintenance foreman instructed him to do his job, he refused and he was given a yellow card for not following instructions. That is when he decided to come and report me after 6 days. As a matter of fact, this hearing is void. One more thing he said that i must give him a R100 for punching him and when i came back the next day he demanded more money from me and i refused as we sorted our difference out. This is a business and we cant afford to have customers complaining about bad quality products. Our main priority in this industry is the best of quality. This is a business where only the best product must be sold to customers. We are running double shift at the moment and whatever product i make during my shift...
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...UM Specialist Centre Sdn Bhd UMSC Building, Lot 28, Lorong Universiti, Lembah Pantai, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ATTN: Manjeet Kaur Gill / Saasi Reka Jayeramasamy September 11. 2015 NEGLIGENCE OF NURSING STAFF Malathi Maniam, acting on behalf of my mother Waliama a/p Kalimuthu (ic: 470826105164), a patient of Prof. David Choon (Hospital registration: SC 00063097) wish to lodge an Official Complaint on the negligence in my mother's care which has resulted in a serious injury, no to mention unnecessary additional pain and unbearable trauma. The following is the chronology of events: 8th September Waliama was checked in USMC for surgery under Prof David Choon at 8am. We were informed that the surgery was scheduled for 5pm in the evening on the same day, and as such we decided to go back, to make preparations for her food post surgery. We gave the nurse on duty both my father's and my sister's mobile numberd and informed her that we would return well before her surgery at 5pm that evening. When we returned later that afternoon we were shocked to learn that the surgery had been completed. Neither my father or my sister was called and informed of the reschedule - which we find totally uncompassionate, not to mention unprofessional! 9th September Prof Choon visited my mother at about 9:30am and made her walk with a brace; that was provided by the hospital. She was made to walk, initially with his assistance then on her own. He informed her that she would be discharged...
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...Critical incident often refers to a scenario or an event which has an effect on an employer/employee in the work environment. Lately, however, it is now becoming a very popular tool, used for collecting feedback from customers. A journal article entitled ‘The Business Case for Workplace Critical Incident Response…’ states ‘Critical incidents are sudden, unexpected, often life-threatening time-limited events that can inhibit an individual’s capacity to respond adaptively’ (Attridge et al 2010). If not tended to correctly such incidents can have a very negative affect on the individual’s experience, whether it being employee or a customer. In his book ‘Critical Incidents in Teaching’, David Tripp writes, ‘Incidents happen, but critical incidents are produced by the way we look at a situation: a critical incident is an interpretation of the significance of a situation’ (Tripp, 1993). Whether good or bad, when critical incidents take place in the work environment they can serve as training and development for other members of staff. As part of their research to find out the effects of webpages on customer satisfaction, Wang et al used critical incidents technique (CIT) in order to compare in-store customer experiences to that of those customers using the website. Their chosen restaurant was TGIF. To carry out the CIT, a front door intercept interview process was carried out where customers had to recall their TGIF experiences in the previous six months (Wang et al, 2004). Customers...
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...Improving Staff Communication and Relations (Author’s Name) (Institutional Affiliation) Introduction Healthcare is a responsibility of everyone, but the overall custodians are health practitioners within the society. Healthcare provision system needs doctors and nurses who are well qualified to handle any cases no matter the severity of the condition of the patient. Some patients are usually in such disparate and distinct conditions that require carefully crafted professionalism and minimal ineptness from the doctor for them to survive. Proper service requires transparency, care integration, patient engagement, restoration of joy and meaningfulness and medical education reforms. There is always room for quality improvement as the fronts keep widening and each hospital has to keep increasing the quality of service, beginning from its staff to quality of machinery and equipment. There are established approaches to quality. These approaches include PSDA cycle, the six sigma; which identifies the needs and causes for variations in meeting these needs, structured methodology that define, analyze and control (DMAIC). The critical human factors espouse the team performance, understanding of effects, tasks, equipment, organization on human behavior and abilities, workspace and culture. These should guiding principles for those who work within the practice. During my rounds in Sabah Hospital in Kuwait country, I observed quite a number of malpractices, or rather ineptness by...
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...A) There are several issues in the case of Mr. J that need to be examined. Using nurse sensitive indicators “reflect patient outcomes that are determined to be nursingsensitive because they depend on the quality or quantity of nursing care” (American Sentinel University, 2011). Mr. J. was not receiving acceptable care, because his daughter noticed a red, depressed area over Mr. J’s lower spine, similar to a severe sunburn. This skin condition is the first stage of a developing pressure ulcer. a. Nurses should be aware that a patient with limited mobility is at risk for skin breakdown, and pressure ulcers. Anyone with limited mobility should be assisted to change positions by the care providers on a regular schedule to help circulation and prevent skin breakdown. b. Providers should also consider that the patient is 72, and has fragile skin due to aging skin. This also places the patient at further risk for pressure ulcers. c. The patient is also on restraints, which limits mobility even further. While restraints can help confused patients from falling, they can also cause skin damage. Care providers should continually access the need for using restraints, and remove them as soon as possible. B) Using hospital data on nursing sensitive indicators could advance quality care throughout the hospital. In this case, the hospital should examine the incidence of pressure ulcers, the use of restraints, and dietary requests. a. When examining the pressure...
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...Task1: Writing an email To: Craig_Jenkins@macville.com.au From: Pat@macville.com.au Subject: The responses to the incident, Gary King’s case Dear Craig Jenkins, I am writing this email to outlining the organization response to the incident of Gary King. The maintenance manager took Gary to the company doctor when Gary complained of an onset of severe lower back pain while undertaking repairs to machines in the workshop. Subsequently, Gary was given four days off work by the doctor. Statements made by Gary: He had a chronic look back condition for over 25 years but he has learned to live with it. He uses a range of strategies to manage it while maintaining espresso machines. He usually follow a self-pacing approach, vary his work tasks, take short rest breaks and change his posture and position as required. He must push it a bit hard on the day of incident. Comments that Gary made concerning his work environment: • The work bench is a bit too high to work on easily • There are two person lift rules but with many staff on customer visits there are not always two people left in the work shop. • Repair tools are stored under the bench, which makes it hard to reach them easily. • The seat in the repair van is uncomfortable to sit in for long periods of time. After discussing the incident with the maintenance manager to discover that Gary (like other technicians) has been given some very repetitive tasks that need to be performed for long periods in a standing position...
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...I'd like to bring your attention to an incident that occurred a couple months ago involving my brother. He was out celebrating the New Year and within the course of a few minutes, was incapacitated and sent to hospital by what's known as a 'king hit' or a 'one-hit punch'. The pain and grief that comes from losing a loved one, especially by something so foolish is distressing and I'm sure that some of you have been in the same position as me. Now what comes to mind when the phrase 'king hit' is mentioned? Is it perhaps a memory? A story you've heard about? Or maybe a news program you recall watching detailing the tragedy of yet another young person's death. For those of you who are still unaware of what I am talking about, these incidents occur mainly well into the night where predominantly young men will get into groups and form some sort of disagreement, generally fuelled by alcohol, then one of the men will be punched, usually in the head and fall to the ground. Unfortunately, in some of these cases people have died and the issue has definitely become a bit of an epidemic particularly over the holiday season. Since bars and their booze-serving times are directly related to these incidents, this brings to my perspective, a concept that bars should have a restriction on the time alcohol can be served. This restriction would undoubtedly decrease the number of alcohol-fuelled scuffles in general and would lessen the chance of an incident such as a king hit from occurring as these...
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...Incident Response Plan Example This document discusses the steps taken during an incident response plan. To create the plan, the steps in the following example should be replaced with contact information and specific courses of action for your organization. 1)The person who discovers the incident will call the grounds dispatch office. List possible sources of those who may discover the incident. The known sources should be provided with a contact procedure and contact list. Sources requiring contact information may be: a)Helpdesk b)Intrusion detection monitoring personnel c)A system administrator d)A firewall administrator e)A business partner f)A manager g)The security department or a security person. h)An outside source. List all sources and check off whether they have contact information and procedures. Usually each source would contact one 24/7 reachable entity such as a grounds security office. Those in the IT department may have different contact procedures than those outside the IT department. 2)If the person discovering the incident is a member of the IT department or affected department, they will proceed to step 5. 3)If the person discovering the incident is not a member of the IT department or affected department, they will call the 24/7 reachable grounds security department at xxx-xxx. 4)The grounds security office will refer to the IT emergency contact list or effected department contact list and call the designated numbers in order on the...
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...It was through these women's organizations and their international counterparts that Bahamian women gained increasing confidence to lobby for the suffrage and the further advancement of women's rights and civil rights in general. The Suffrage Movement in the Bahamas received tremendous support from its allies in the United States, Canada and England. The growing enfranchisement of women around the world provided an enabling environment for the Suffrage Movement in the Bahamas. The specific social climate in the Bahamas in regard to women which engendered the struggle for the enfranchisement of women was described by Sir Randol Fawkes in his book, The Faith That Moved the Mountain. He states: "More than half of the adult population of the Bahamas - the women - still remained voteless. In 1958, they lagged far behind their male counterparts in the field of human rights. The chief roadblocks to full citizenship for Bahamian women were: - i) the traditional attitudes of men and women towards their respective roles in society; ii) the lack of equal education and training, vocational guidance and counselling in the school; iii) the division of the labour market into traditionally male and female sectors; and iv) lack of child-care facilities for working mothers". Sir Randol detailed other disadvantages women faced including the inheritance law of primogeniture and the inadequate maintenance laws for child support. In its particular pursuit of the right to vote for women and its...
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...sirens” to set the tone of the story to evoke emotions from viewers at home. Broadcast stations, like CBS, use visuals and interviews to give a clearer understanding of what happened and how it happened. However, some stations, like FOX tend to give viewers a goofy and simply non-serious report on events and incidents that occur in the nation. Then there are stations, like ABC, who simply deliver the news clearly and directly to viewers at home. News stations around the nation have different methods of delivering their news, although some of them are less beneficial than others. During NBC’s Nightly News, with Brian Williams, the Pentagon correspondant, Jim Miklaszewski, emphasizes the implications the Navy yard shooting had in the four mile radius of the incident. He states, “... nearby schools were locked down, highways shut down, the Capital closed and the Nationals game postponed.” The emphasis of these implications the shooting had on the public shows the intense and immediate fear that struck throughout Washington D.C. The emphasis constantly hits the reader with the consequences of the shooting and it allows the viewer to realize the seriousness and the gravity the incident has had on people close to the capital and national security as well. However, other news stations lack the ability to convey the seriousness of a news story to the public. FOX, for example, lacks that ability. The anchors and reporters tend to deviate from the topic, even if it’s serious, and begin to...
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...are devoting their lives to violence and horror. The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they were once apart of. Shot over the course of a year, The Interrupters captures a period in Chicago when it became a nation symbol for the violence in our cities. During this period, the city was overwhelmed with numerous shootings, fights and even deaths. There were three specific incidents in the documentary that stood out to me. Tio Hardimar, creator and director of the Violence Interrupters program, mentioned how when he was 14 years old, this boy beat him up; then his stepfather walked outside and killed that young boy right in front of Tio’s eyes. Tio stated, “I felt good about it, really.” Violence is the answer to every problem. That’s how all those kids were raised, and that’s all they knew. It is disturbing to see how violent these communities are, and how no one cares. Another incident that occurred was when Ameena Matthews, a Violence Interrupter, took Caprysha Anderson, an 18-year-old girl, out for a day and really learned her story. Caprysha had been in more than 15 homes, and basically raised herself and her sisters while her mom was out doing whatever it was that she did. While she was getting her nails done, the worker asked Caprysha where had all the violence got her; Caprysha responded,...
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