| NEWS |
| TREMORS ROCK THE NORTH |
| Residents of the north were paralysed with fear as the earth trembled beneath them for hours. The rattling started at about 8:45 pm on Monday, 14 April 2003 causing people to scream and pray. The Mayor of the town got on the radio and appealed for calm and asked people to monitor their radios. Initial fears that the shaking was as a result of volcanic activities from Morne Diablotin (Dominica's highest peak - located in the North) was laid to rest. Dr. John Shepherd, Head of the Seismic Research Unit of the St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies issued a release on the occurrence. The release stated: "There has been another resurgence of earthquake activity in northern Dominica... Approximately 500 earthquakes had been recorded on the Dominica Seismography network, all of them in the same region as the previous bursts of activities". The biggest tremor had a magnitude of 3.5 on the Richter scale. " "These earthquakes are unconnected with the ongoing volcanic earthquake swarm in southern Dominica. They are not directly associated with either of the two volcanoes in northern Dominica and there are no other signs of volcanic activity", the release said. Thoughts are that these tremors were associated with plate tectonics. |
| INSURANCE JOKES |
| Some unbelievable explanations. Only in the world of Insurance!!! |
| 1. Coming home I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don't have. 2. The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intention. 3. As I approached an intersection a sign suddenly appeared in a place where no stop sign had ever appeared before. I was unable to stop in time to avoid the accident. 4. An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my car and vanished. 5. I WAS MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS WHEN A PEDESTRIAN HIT ME AND WENT UNDER MY CAR!!! THIS IS A CLASSIC A man walks into an insurance office and asks for a job. "We don't need any one," they replied. "You can't afford not to hire me. I can sell anyone anytime any thing." "We have two prospects that no one has been able to sell. If you can sell just one, you have a job." He was gone for about two hours and returned and handed them two checks, one for a $80,000 policy and another for a $50,000 policy. "How in the world did you do that," they asked. "I told you I'm the world's best salesman, I can sell anyone anywhere anytime." "Did you get a urine sample?" they asked him. "What's that?" he asked. "Well, if you sell a policy over $40,000 the company requires a urine sample. Take these two bottles and go back and get urine samples." He was gone for about eight hours and then he walks in with two five gallon buckets, one in each hand. He sets the buckets down and reaches in his shirt pocket and produces two bottles of urine and sets them on the desk and says, "Here's Mr. Brown's and this one is Mr. Smith's." "That's good," they said, "but what's in those two buckets?" "Well, I passed by the school house and they were having an island-wide teachers convention and I sold them a group policy!" |