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U.S. gives material assistance to the Maritime Police of the Philippines

On Monday, August 16, 2010, the U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, Harry K. Thomas, Jr., on behalf of the US Government presented four police patrol boats to the Philippine National Police Maritime Group Special Boat Unit (SBU) headquartered in Puerto Princesa, Palawan. Vigilance learnt that the funding from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) helped establish and train the unit and that it was a gesture meant to reflect the U.S’ partnership with the Philippines' law enforcement agencies in efforts to protect citizens of both countries against cross-border criminal threats.

: Editorial Team; Intelligence and Policing; Posted On Friday, 20 August 2010 20:39

MITIE launches MITIE Property Solutions .....enters the property insurance claims market

Recent reports about the global property market, especially the UK property market are mixed under the current recession, but mighty MITIE, the strategic outsourcing company, is not moved in any least way as it recently braved the murky waters of the property market with its entry into the Property Insurance Claims market, with the launch of MITIE Property Solutions.

: Editorial Team; Industry News; Posted On Friday, 20 August 2010 20:38

ADT achieves green status....awarded ISO-14001 Certification for Effective Environmental Management Systems

The corporate world, just like the politicians are concerned about the current threats to the global environment resulting in climate change and they are doing all to minimise the negative impacts of human activities on the environment, even if such efforts cannot totally halt climate change. Vigilance can now authoritatively report that ADT’s efforts in environmentalism have no doubt paid off!

: Editorial Team; Industry News; Posted On Friday, 20 August 2010 20:35

Tony Blair and his “blood money”: A Zacchaeus comes to confession

Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister for 10 years (+) once described the continent of Africa as “a scar on the conscience of the world” and he appears to have gotten away with that unguarded and ill-conceived statement because since the death of Kwame Nkrumah, Africa has had the misfortune of having dolomites who apart from lining up their pockets with money, care less about the place of Africa in the modern world as its leaders, hence whatever is said about that continent by anyone and by, especially the western media often goes unchallenged.