‘Everything Comes To Those Who Wait’
I read with interest an item on the Isle of Man Ship Registry Site that a new seafarers ‘welfare app’ has gone live which should enable over 10,000 crewmen on Manx flagged vessels to access information, get advice and communicate concerns;
‘Everything comes to those who wait’ I mused!
It was over two decades ago that the then DTI Minister David North MHK invited me to attend a conference with ‘the great and good’ of the Manx shipping fraternity which was held at the Palace Hotel. David was always a genial individual and in those days Manx Ministers were less remote than they are these days and more disposed towards the Trade Unions than under Howards current regime. A guest speaker David informed me was Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry the Director of Labour Standards at the ILO (International Labour Organisation) – a lady I found to be extremely personable and who I spent an enjoyable day with after the conference . The TGWU (of whic
president the president basically said today that he s going to judge bp s performance basically by basically it sounded to me like the noise level coming around here. if you people down there along the gulf aren t satisfied, the president is not going to besou that s what he was saying today. politically because we re not satisfied today. there s 30,000 skimming boats in the world and 59% of every skimming boat in the world needs to be in the gulf of mexico and we need to be dealing with this spill out in the gulf of mexico, not in our waterways, inland waterways i keep bringing that up having talked to an expert, john hofmeister, head of shell, and i kept getting, i talked last night to carol browner who knows the environment issue and she said it s being looked at. i keep getting pushed back on this. what are they saying to you when they say there s a lot of boats in the world? they have them over in holland and different parts of europe. we ve got private enterprise