| Home affairs told to pay in birth certificate row | | Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:47:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | THE director general of home affairs was ordered by the Port Elizabeth High Court yesterday to pay all the legal costs of a Motherwell woman who battled for more than two years to get an unabridged birth certificate for her daughter. Nomtandazo Willie of Ngqankosi Street in NU 3 asked the court last year to force the department to issue the birth certificate to her daughter, Nokutula Willie, after having failed to get one from the departments Port Elizabeth office since March 19, 2004. Willie told the High Court her 15-year-old daughter had been injured in a car crash in February, 2004. She lodged a claim on behalf of her daughter with the Road Accident Fund, but was told she needed to provide an unabridged birth certificate with the claim. Her lawyer, Steven Velthuisen, requested the certificate from home affairs and paid for it, but despite many visits to home affairs and letters, no birth certificate was forthcoming.... | |
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| | | 800 IDs stolen from home affairs | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 6:46:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | Thieves have stolen more than 800 identity documents from the Garankuwa home affairs office, SABC radio news reported on Saturday. Police said the robbers also took five computers worth more than R20000. The robbers used a crowbar to open the doors to the rooms where the IDs were stored. Home Affairs said the computers were used to store ID, birth and death certificate applications. Police have launched a manhunt for the robbers. Sapa .... | |
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| | | Man accused of offering a mobile home to hit man for killing teen mother of his child | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:46:59 AM by Blog57 Team | | A Georgia man was charged Monday with plotting a murder-for-hire scheme after he allegedly recruited a hit man to kill a teen who gave birth to his child. Authorities say they are considering more charges against Roy Holt, 50, who is accused of offering a hit man a mobile home to kill the 16-year-old girl. As of Monday afternoon, Holt remained in custody on $250,000 bail, or $25,000 cash bond. Prosecutors claim Holt agreed to transfer ownership "of one or more mobile homes or real property located in Georgia" to a hit man in exchange for carrying out the slaying. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Dec. 1 in Perry County Circuit Court in Illinois to determine if there is enough evidence to go to trial.... | |
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| | | Method and system for anonymous communication of information about a home | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:46:46 AM by Blog57 Team | | A system for establishing anonymous communications includes a plurality of party terminals, a plurality of requester terminals, and a central controller. The system receives and stores party data about respective parties. In some embodiments, a party may be a homeowner. Upon receiving criteria for parties of interest from a requester terminal and authorization from respective parties, the central controller releases to the requester party associated with the parties. The system also establishes communications channels between parties and the requestor, while maintaining their anonymity. # of times viewed: 19 views (SCROLL BELOW TO READ THE REST OF THE PATENT...) Agent: Walker Digital - Stamford, CT, US Inventors: Jay S. WALKER, James A.... | |
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| | | Scrap routine scans say midwives | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:46:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | ROUTINE scans given to women in labour should be scrapped, midwives have claimed in a move that has sparked fears for the safety of mothers and babies. Gillian Smith, Scottish national officer of the Royal College of Midwives, believes the move would prevent medical staff interfering with the process of natural birth and increase women's chances of delivering their babies without forceps or Caesareans. But doctors say the scans give them the best opportunity to see if there are problems with a baby during labour. Around 95% of women who give birth in a Scottish hospital undergo a routine admission cardiotocograph when they arrive on the ward. The scan, also known as electronic foetal monitoring, requires the woman to lie still for at least 20 minutes.... | |
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| | | Mother and baby in home birth drama | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:46:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | A WOMAN and her newborn son were airlifted to a Sydney hospital this evening after both nearly died during a home birth. The mother suffered life-threatening bleeding after giving birth at a Berowra Heights house in Sydney's north about 7pm (AEST), a rescue helicopter spokeswoman said. A midwife raised the alarm and worked to save the baby boy while the 31-year-old mother waited for urgent life-saving help. Doctors with the Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter stabilised the baby and the mother for 30 minutes before airlifting them to Sydney's Prince of Wales hospital. Both had recovered in hospital and were doing well. The boy was named William. Share this article (What is this?) .... | |
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| | | Collymore leaves Windies squad for birth of first child | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:46:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | Mumbai, Oct 15: West Indies will miss the services of Corey Collymore in their first super eight league match against Australia on October 18 as the ace seamer left for home today to be with his wife Dionne for the birth of their first child.Collymore is scheduled to rejoin the Caribbean squad after the birth, a release by the West Indies team management said."We'll miss Corey, he's a senior player in our side but the first born in anybody's life is a very important time," Head Coach Bennett King said."We wish him and his wife Dionne all the best and hope that this special time in their lives runs smoothly," King added.No replacement will be sought for Collymore during the time that he is away. .... | |
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| | | Man finds birth mother after 27 years | | Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:46:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | Lenora Dickens gave birth to her first and only child in New Orleans on Nov. 12, 1978, when she was only 16 years old. Dickens' boyfriend abandoned them before her son was born, she said, and she was left to raise her baby alone. She wanted to take care of him and did her best. He was a good baby. He slept well and had happy eyes, but she had no education and no income, and only welfare to help care for her baby. So she put her son up for adoption through the Volunteers of America agency at the tender age of 6 months, she said. .... | |
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| | | Low Birth Weight Infants May Have Cognitive And Physical Problems When They Reach Adolescence | | Posted Wednesday, October 04, 2006 6:46:11 AM by Blog57 Team | | Sixteen-year-olds who weighed less than 2,000 grams (about 4.5 pounds) at birth and are not disabled are still more likely than the average teenager to have physical and mental difficulties, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. .... | |
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| | | First home-price decline since 1995 | | Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 2:46:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | With sellers finally yielding to the reality of a cooling housing market, the median U.S. home price fell in August for the first time in 11 years and is expected to keep falling for the rest of the year, the National Association of Realtors said yesterday. The median-priced single-family home fell 1.7 percent in August compared with a year ago, to $225,700, the first drop since April 1995 and the second-steepest decline on record. For condominiums, the median price half were higher, half lower fell 2.4 percent to $223,200. At the same time, home sales fell for the fifth month in a row. And the supply of homes for sale reached its highest point in 13 years. "We have a serious correction taking place in the housing sector," Richard Fisher, the Federal Reserve president in Dallas, said in a speech yesterday.... | |
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