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WBO 2006 Awards!
The WBO 2006 awards were presented Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida to kick off the organization's 16th annual convention, which is currently taking place on a Carribbean cruise ship that is making stops in Fort Lauderdale (FL), Key West (FL), Cozumel (MX), Cococay (Bahamas).The award winners were...Fighter of the Year: Joe Calzaghe
Fight of the Year: Lyakhovich vs Brewster
Promoter of the Year: Golden Boy Promotions
European Promoter of the Year: Universum Box-Promotions
Trainer of the Year: Enzo Calzaghe
Special recognition went to: Don King, Bob Arum, Todd duBoef, Frank Warren, Dietmar Poszwa, Tutico Zabala, Eric Gomez, Bob Goodman, Mohammed Hedi Taouab, Sampson Lewkowicz, Telemundo Network, Antonio Margarito, Jan Zaveck, Antonio Escalante, Roinet Caballero, Kokiet Panichayarom, Alisultan Nadirbegov, Jermain Taylor, Acelino Freitas, Ivan Calderon, Zsolt Erdei, Sergiy Dzinziruk, Miguel Cotto, Joan Guzman, Omar Narvaez, Daniel Ponce De Leon and Johnny Nelson.
For US Haitians, Home Is Both Near and Far Away
NEW YORK, Nov 21 (IPS) - Roman Catholic Bishop Guy Sansaricq presides over his flock at St. Jerome's Church in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. Sitting on a busy, heavily Caribbean stretch of Nostrand Avenue, Sansaricq's office in the brick church is adorned with both a portrait of the Virgin Mary and a nave painting depicting a lyrical scene of village life from his native Haiti."You leave a piece of your heart in your native country," says Sansaricq, a voluble 72-year-old, whose appointment as Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn this past summer makes him the first Haitian-American to hold that post. "But at the same time, you need to live, you need an income, you need an education."
Sansaricq emigrated to the United States in 1971, following stints in the Bahamas and Canada.
Business briefs, October 27
The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an investigation of 27 mutual-fund companies that the agency says have accepted kickbacks totaling hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years.The investigation centers on alleged arrangements in which independent contractors agreed to pay rebates to mutual-fund companies in order to win lucrative contracts for jobs such as producing shareholder reports and prospectuses. The probe stems from a $21.4 million settlement the SEC reached last month with Bisys Fund Services Inc., an administrative-services provider owned by Bisys Group Inc.
Gateway to review investors' proposal
Gateway Inc. said Thursday it will review a proposal from activist investors who are pressuring the computer maker to add three new board members and change other governance practices.