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...The answer is that this monumental building, constructed in the 1880s as a grand temple for the arts worthy of a wealthy port on the banks of the River Scheldt, required some serious work to bring it up...
...There are no sunbeds, no resorts, no banks (the ATMs often run out of cash), and (apart from Koufonisia) no pharmacies....
...For his bravery in this disastrous battle — where 200 out of 230 Ottoman ships sank and some 50,000 of their seamen lost their lives, he was made the Kaptan Pasha, or High Admiral....
...Have your say Katsuwonus comments on Unvaccinated sailors risk deepening global supply chain crisis: Seamen are frontline workers and deserve the same priority as healthcare workers, carers and others...
...(or on both banks, if you choose to do a circular walk and there is a suitable crossing)....
...However, the worldwide economic shutdown does threaten to diminish one of the Philippines’ main sources of foreign exchange: remittances from carers, seamen and other overseas workers, some of whom have...
...He survived a terrible fire in 1967 on the USS Forrestal after an onboard missile exploded, killing more than 120 US seamen....
...Hundreds of farmers used tractors to stop the traffic on large roads across the country and the second day of a 48-hour strike by seamen led to the cancellation of ferries to the Greek islands....
...More than 10m Filipinos work overseas in a wide range of jobs from seamen to engineers, domestic workers to nurses. Last year, remittances were worth $24.3bn....
...Outside the parliament building demonstrators shouted anti-austerity slogans and told the bailout monitors from the European Commission, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank to “stay away...
...The rum is produced close to sugar plantations on the banks of the Demerara river....
...The mosquito-ridden Cayman Islands was dependent on remittances from seamen. The Isle of Man, threatened by an exodus of young people, saw a future ravaged by depopulation....
...The strike closed government offices and branches of state-controlled banks....
...Although protests in Athens were smaller than last year’s, transport ground to a halt and the militant seamen’s union prevented island ferries from leaving Piraeus port, as hundreds of police were deployed...
...“This is a critical moment for Greece, but a very painful one, and we have to be here,” said an official from the seamen’s union PNO....
...The LISCR, which will not disclose the size of its own fee, deposits the proceeds of the registry in the Central Bank of Liberia’s account at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York....
...Picketing seamen have scared off cruise liners....
...Seamen and railworkers staged a 24-hour strike, shutting down train services and ferry sailings to the Greek islands....
...It was the first large anti-austerity protest since May 5, when three bank employees died in a fire triggered by a petrol bomb. Riot police walked alongside groups of leftwing protestors....
...Seamen’s rations The navy did not always dine well....
...Another wave of strikes will hit the capital this week, with unions representing Greek seamen, transport workers and civil servants planning walkouts and demonstrations....
...“If anybody decides that anything is worth sinking a warship and killing 46 seamen for, we should be worried; in particular because somebody was ready to accept the related risk,” says Professor Rudiger...
...For the merchant seamen and pleasure craft owners it was a chance to do something for their country....
...But in weather, it was ‘What can I do for seamen? What can I do for you?’ It was so mentally rewarding.”...
...The success of brewers such as Meantime and Sambrook’s has encouraged Andrew Moffat, who recently left his job as a bond trader at Deutsche Bank, to set up Redemption Brewery Company....
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