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April 22, 2021 at 8:34 am
âWe were ordered to kill the birds which had been injured by the explosion. Some were still flying around, but they were blind, as their eyes had been burned out. We used pickaxe handles to kill the birds. I did not like doing this, but we had no choice because of the terrible condition they were in.â
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On 7 November 2019, during routine Scottish parliamentary proceedings, Member of the Scottish Parliament George Adam read out this piece of shocking testimony from a long-time friend, Ken McGinley. It is just one of many horrific anecdotes to emerge from Britainâs secret nuclear history, many of which are being told by the British Nuclear Test Veterans Association, representing men sent to build explosive devices and to carry out and witness Britainâs nuclear bomb tests.
Kokomo Private Island in Fiji practically invented the term getting away from it all. And now, with its new island buyout program, it really means it.
Beginning on April 1, 2021, travelers to the Fijian Islands will have the chance to book out the entire Kokomo Private Island resort, a 140-acre pristine paradise that takes social distancing to a whole new level. Kokomo Private Island in tropical paradise
Image zoom Credit: Courtesy of Kokomo Private Island
Kokomo has gained special permission to welcome small groups of travelers who can fly privately to Fiji on either Fiji Airways exclusive business class on its weekly cargo flights or via a private jet company of their choosing (international flights are not included in the package). Upon arrival, these adventurous travelers will have the run of the place.
Havelock North boy makes decorations to fundraise for Fiji s Happy Chicken Project
7 Jan, 2021 07:19 PM
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Ten-year-old Xavier Lynch, from Havelock North, has helped raise more than $4500 for the Happy Chicken Project in Fiji. Photo / Paul Taylor
Ten-year-old Xavier Lynch, from Havelock North, has helped raise more than $4500 for the Happy Chicken Project in Fiji. Photo / Paul Taylor
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Gianina Schwanecke
Ten-year-old Xavier Lynch, from Havelock North, came back with a business and fundraising idea.
In 2017, Lynch and his family visited Fiji where they stayed at the Happy Chicken Project permaculture farm. I learned that they help the communities in the Fijian Islands to sustain an alternative food source while the reefs are closed to repopulate the fish.
The impact on Fiji s Vanua Levu Island is likely to be devastating, but major populated areas spared of direct hit.
Radar image of Tropical Cyclone Yasa at 02:30Z December 17, 2020, (9:30 p.m. EST December 16), approximately four hours before it made landfall on Fiji’s Vanua Levu Island. Yasa was undergoing an eyewall replacement cycle, where the inner eyewall was collapsing. (Image credit: Fiji Meteorological Service)
Tropical Cyclone Yasa made landfall on Fiji’s Vanua Levu Island (population 136,000) at 6Z (1 a.m. EST) Thursday, December 17, as a high-end category 4 storm with 145 mph winds, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC). Yasa is the second-strongest cyclone on record to make landfall in Fiji, behind Tropical Cyclone Winston, which hit Fiji’s Koro Island as a category 5 storm with 180 mph winds in 2016.