SM Jaleel & Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed has con­firmed that it made a bid to sup­ply bot­tled wa­ter to State-owned Caribbean Air­lines (CAL), but says dis­cus­sions are still un­der­way with the air­line, al­though CAL has al­ready con­firmed that it has award­ed the com­pa­ny a $405,600 con­tract.

Ma­jor­i­ty State-owned Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL) has award­ed a con­tract worth $405,600 to SM Jaleel & Com­pa­ny for the pro­vi­sion of bot­tled wa­ter, ac­cord­ing to the sec­ond to last en­try on the air­line’s pro­cure­ment plat­form.

The in­au­gur­al Caribbean Games, planned for Ju­ly 13-19, 2009, in Trinidad and To­ba­go, were can­celled just weeks be­fore the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny due to the H1N1 virus out­break. Over 1,000 ath­letes from 26 Caribbean na­tions were ex­pect­ed to com­pete.

For decades, women have been taught that the month­ly breast self-ex­am­i­na­tion was one of their strongest weapons against breast can­cer.

Par­ent­ing prac­tices have changed rad­i­cal­ly in the last 50 years, from strict dis­ci­pli­nar­i­an, to to­day’s per­mis­sive­ness, bor­der­ing in some cas­es on in­dul­gence, with all sorts of vari­a­tions thrown in. There are par­ents who lock their un­der-fives in the bed­room at night and refuse to open the door un­til dawn so “they can have some time for them­selves.” There are par­ents who al­low their teenage child “space” when­ev­er she throws a tantrum and refuse to dis­cuss it.