Stories for December 8th 2009
England’s Capello is paid eight times more than Dunga or Maradona
The 32 coaches of the national teams participating in the South Africa 2010 World Cup are paid handsomely with England’s Fabio Capello top of the list with an annual salary of 10 million US dollars while Nigeria’s Shaibu Amodu, figures at the other extreme with 180.000 US dollars, according to the Argentina’s sports publication Olé.
Woman elected president to the Brazil’s most popular football club
Former swimmer Patricia Amorim became the first woman to be elected president of Flamengo, the most popular football club in Brazil.
Spain formally apologizes for hot pursuit “error” in Gibraltar waters
A dramatic hot pursuit at sea by Spanish Civil Guards of two suspected smugglers whose vessel crashed into the rocks in Gibraltar avoided becoming a major political incident with Spain apologising for the “error” just a few hours later on Monday night, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.
Mike Summers chairman of Falklands Overseas Games Association
Following sixteen years as Chairman of the Falkland Islands Overseas Games Association (FIOGA) and the previous two years as Vice-Chairman, Patrick Watts M.B.E confirmed his decision not to seek re-election at the 2009 Annual General Meeting of FIOGA held on 03 December 2009.
Mike Summers O.B.E. a former member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Falkland Islands was elected to replace Mr Watts.
Six charged with the death in 1982 of former Chilean president
A Chilean judge has charged six people over the death in 1982 of the country's ex-President, Eduardo Frei Montalva. The judge said there was now evidence that Mr Frei, a vocal critic of military leader Augusto Pinochet, had been poisoned in hospital.
Mercosur promotes trade with local currencies, far from “US dollar tensions”
Mercosur is considering extending a “successful” Brazil/Argentina bilateral trade experience which sidelines the US dollar and privileges regional currencies to the rest of the group’s full members, Paraguay and Uruguay, thus avoiding being submitted to the “greenback’s tensions”.
Sawle thanks UK for unconditional commitment to Falklands’ self-determination
The Falklands’ electorate vote for complete change, the UK’s unconditional commitment to the Islanders right to self-determination, economic diversification and development, Argentine next of kin humanitarian visits, were among the issues discussed Monday by Falklands Legislative Assembly member Dick Sawle and Foreign Office Minister Chris Bryant.
