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GREENBELT, Md. A Virginia man who works at Walter Reed Army Medical Center has been indicted, along with a contractor, in a bribery scheme involving contracts for work at the Washington military medical center. Forty-five-year-old Kevin Roach of Fredericksburg is accused of accepting thousand of dollars in cash and the use of a pickup truck from contractors in return for steering work to the contractors. Roach and 40-year-old Louis Pisani were charged in an indictment unsealed yesterday in federal court in Maryland. The indictment charges the men with conspiracy and obstruction of justice. According to the indictment, Roach accepted payments from Pisani and another contractor -- typically ten percent of the value of the contract. Copyright 2006 Associated Press.
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE — A 78-year-old man, who allegedly prevented workers from leaving his summer residence until some home improvements were done to his satisfaction, was indicted Tuesday by a Cape May County grand jury.
According to the indictment, Nicholas L. Exar, also of Harrisburg, Pa., was in his Stone Harbor condominium on Aug. 15, 2006, when he allegedly used a 17 inch collapsible baton to restrain and threaten Steven Stankiewicz and/or Patricia Manyak.
The indictment goes on to allege that Exar then caused harm or injury to Borough Police Officer Robert Walker.
According to police reports, Exar became irate with the way work was being performed on his Third Avenue residence.
Police said he allegedly waved the baton at the contractor and supervisor, who is pregnant.
The Meru Central District environment committee said the contractor of the Sh939 million Ruiri-Isiolo road project had excavated construction stones near a water catchment in Buuri Division. This, it said, would expose hundreds of residents to severe shortage of water if the Kisima springs dry up due to stone mining. Committee chairman, Mr Isaiah Gicheru, said his committee was not consulted before the exercise. However, a senior official at the construction company told The Standard yesterday that they had obtained a licence from the Department of Defence to blast stones. Gicheru said the company harvested the stones before an environmental impact assessment was conducted. .
Female-owned businesses represent a strong presence in the U.S. economy and they continue to grow at faster rates than any other types of ownership. However, simply being one of the 10.6 million firms that are at least 50 percent owned by a woman or women is not a guarantee of fiscal success. Author Janet Christy, who owns a South Carolina-based consulting firm that helps female- and minority-owned businesses, shares guidelines for this group to use the leverage that their status affords in today's business climate. Christy's focus is not on grants or "free money" for starting and running a business. Rather, she concentrates on marketing and selling since "that is what will sustain your business and make it successful," she says in the book's Introduction.
VietNamNet Bridge - Beijing Urban Construction International Co Ltd has beaten competitors to become lead contractor on Golden Westlake Executive Residence, a 50 million USD project.
The Chinese company took part in a signing agreement ceremony with Ha Viet Tung Shing Joint Venture in Hanoi on Sept. 25, to be officially appointed lead contractor on the luxury-apartment project near the southern bank of Hanoi's West Lake.
Beijing Urban Construction International Co. Ltd was selected based on its track record in China, where they have been constructing thousands of square metres of spaces for the 2008 Olympics. The company has carried out engineering projects in more than 10 countries including Tunisia, Botswana, Iran, Singapore, Mongolia and Vietnam.
Pre-construction preparations for the Westlake project are underway and the civil works should become apparent by the middle of next month.
The death of a landscape contractor in Bermuda struck by a large branch that fell from a tree he was helping to lop has brought renewed calls for stricter controls on the training and certification of workers involved in potentially dangerous jobs. The owners of two of the largest landscaping companies in Bermuda, along with a qualified tree care professional and trainer, say there needs to be proper regulation of the industry as happens in many other countries. The circumstances surrounding the death of the 34-year-old Portuguese man, believed to be a father-of-one with another child on the way, are still being investigated. He was killed while working on a casuarina tree in a garden. The tree was the last in a row that was being cut back by a team from Island Construction and Landscaping Services.
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