Cosima Marriner
July 10, 2011
Subtle message ... the vice-president of the Commonwealth Games Federation, Tunku Imran, left, with the Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh, the Gold Cost mayor, Ron Clarke, and Eve Lutze, the Gold Coast youth representative.
Photo: ReutersREPRESENTATIVES of the 71 Commonwealth nations assessing the Gold Coast's bid for the 2018 Games are being advised not to ''take a risk'' by awarding the event to the developing Sri Lankan city of Hambantota.
''After the difficulties in Delhi, it's not the time to take risks; that's the subtle message we'll be sending the delegates,'' the chief executive of the Gold Coast 2018 bid, Mark Peters, said.
Delegates are rotating through the Gold Coast in regional blocs: the Africans were on the Gold Coast last weekend for the city's marathon, and in 10 days the Oceania region arrives, and will be treated to a Titans rugby league match.
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08 Jul 2011 / Country where love to animals is most preached gone to the dogs !
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| (In the pictures is shown the dog that was killed and dog’s head that was hung on the gate.) |
(July 08, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Yesterday night , a most strange and disgracefully despicable vindictive action was launched on a TNA candidate in Jaffna. The dog reared in the house of C . Sivakumar ,Tamil National Alliance (TNA) candidate for the Waligamam municipal council elections , Jaffna had been cruelly killed and its decapitated head hung on the gate of this candidate by his opponents in order to take political revenge on him.
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