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Gulf Daily News
Wednesday, 28th January 2015
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New scholarship to encourage female pilots
A NEW scholarship has been set up to
help encourage female pilots in the Gulf.
The Arabian Section of the 99’s International Women Pilots Association has set up
the Yvonne Trueman Scholarship, named
in honour of its former area governor.
“The scholarship is aimed at promoting opportunities for the flying members
of the section to expand their aviation
knowledge,” said current area governor
Alia Twal. “We want to give them the
chance to achieve more through the
Yvonne Trueman Scholarship.
“Yvonne has spent the past 20 to 30
years fundraising for various charities and
she has run marathons, including four in
London and two in New York.
“She was the governor for the Arabian
section for 15 years and she is the reason
we now have 69 female pilots as members
and are rapidly increasing.
“Her late son Captain Julian Pooley, a helicopter pilot, was killed in 1984
whilst serving with the British Army Air
Corps as a Gazelle helicopter pilot and
Yvonne wished to give the first donation
of $10,000 in his memory.”
Ms Trueman told the GDN that she was
flattered to have the scholarship named
after her.
“The idea for the scholarship didn’t
come from me, but from the lady pilots
themselves,” she said.
“I wanted to donate because I thought it
was rather nice to have something in my
son’s memory and keep his name alive in
the flying world.”
She said the section has grown “tremendously” over the last 15 years.
“With this scholarship’s foundation, we
can guide female pilots and help them,” she
said. “If someone is flying and they need a
type rating, we can try and help them.
“A type rating is training for a specific
kind of aircraft, as you can’t go from one
aircraft to another without it.
“It can cost a lot of money these days,
and if you don’t have a sponsor it comes
out of your own purse.
“We hope to assist those who need help
to go up the aviation ladder.
“These girls are all over the Gulf, and
we’re able to help them.
“Our ambition is to get to 99 members.”
Ms Trueman said in order to qualify, a
female pilot would have to be in the 99’s
International Women Pilots Association,
which was founded by Amelia Earhart in
1927 and has more than 5,000 members in
35 countries.
Nine convicts win
citizenship appeal
NINE Bahrainis who had their citizenships revoked after being found
guilty of forming and joining a terrorist group have won an appeal
against the loss of their nationalities.
The men were among a group of 13
defendants who stood trial for conspiring with Iran to assassinate high-ranking
policemen and public figures and target
key sites across Bahrain two years ago.
After being found guilty last summer,
they were handed sentences ranging
from five to 10 years behind bars.
By NOOR ZAHRA
These sentences were upheld at the
Supreme Criminal Appeals Court yesterday, however due to a technicality
the judges ordered that those defendants
who had lost their nationalities should
have them reinstated.
This was because they had committed
their crimes before the introduction of
2013’s tough new anti-terror law, which
brought in the revocation of citizenship
for convicted terrorists.
“The nine defendants have been found
guilty, but committed their crimes before the anti-terror law came into effect
in July 2013,” read the appeals court’s
verdict documents.
“Therefore this law does not apply to
the defendants in this case and the appeals court has ordered that the verdict
regarding the stripping of their nationalities be overturned.”
The GDN earlier reported that the defendants had stockpiled AK-47s to use
against security guards with the aim of
freeing 10 convicted members of the
Iranian-backed terrorist group Jaish
Al Imam (Army of Imam) from the
Dry Dock Detention Centre in Hidd in
2013.
The jailbreak was planned for 6am on
June 21, but the plan was foiled and all
the defendants were subsequently convicted of establishing a terrorist cell,
possessing unlicensed firearms and ammunition, receiving militia training and
smuggling weapons.
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Action sought over
exposed cables
AN MP is demanding immeBy ANIQA HAIDER
diate action on behalf of Hamad Town residents who are Road 530 in Block 1205.
“This is dangerous as there
outraged over deep holes and
exposed underground cables are children playing in that
left unattended by a local area, and people walking
nearby,” said the
contractor.
MP.
Abdulhameed
“Leaving unAl Najjar, who is
derground
cathe representative
bles exposed is
for Southern Govnot acceptable as
ernorate constitupeople could be
ency nine covering
killed or injured
east Hamad Town,
by electrocution –
said he had immeit could also cause
diately contacted
an explosion or
the Electricity and
fire.
Water Authority
“This is not only
and Works, Mun Mr Al Najjar
about residents,
nicipalities
and
Urban Planning Affairs Min- what will happen when workistry upon hearing about the ers return to the excavation
dangerous excavations on site? It could be dangerous
Woman claims
lover arranged
fake marriage
By NOOR ZAHRA
A WOMAN who claims she
was tricked into a “fake” marriage to a police captain has
testified against her former lover in court.
The officer and his co-defendant, who is accused of posing
as a religious cleric to conduct
the sham marriage ceremony,
were standing just metres from
the alleged victim as she recounted her ordeal in the High
Criminal Court yesterday.
She testified that she was in
a relationship with the captain
for six years before they broke
up, but he then won her back
by proposing to her.
“He said he would marry me
and that everything was going
to be good between us, like
before,” said the 31-year-old
during questioning.
“We went to an apartment in
A’ali to get married and he (the
co-defendant) pretended to be a
marriage official and I fell for it.
“My brother and a family
friend were witnesses to the
marriage.
“When I later asked for copies of the marriage certificate
I found out that they were fake
and the man who married us was
not a legal marriage official.”
Ceremony
n Deep excavations left unattended in Hamad Town
for them as well.”
The
contractor
could
even face prosecution if he
was found to be negligent,
Two fined over price of meat
A SUPERMARKET owner and employee
have been fined BD500 each for selling
overpriced meat.
The Bahraini, 48, and Indian, 23, were
n Ms Trueman
both convicted of selling Australian lamb
for BD1.5 for a kilo – 500 fils more than
the legal market price – at a supermarket in
Muharraq last June.
They were found guilty by the High
Criminal Court yesterday, but did not attend the hearing having earlier been released on bail.
said Mr Al Najjar, who also
vowed to personally visit affected residents and keep on
pressuring the authorities
concerned until action was
taken.
“We have launched an investigation to find out who is
at fault, so we can speak to
them and solve the problem,
before taking any further action,” he added.
Her brother told the court
that the first time he met the
police captain was at the wedding, but said the ceremony
appeared to be legitimate at the
time.
“I did not know about the
relationship he had with my
sister, but the wedding seemed
legit,” he said.
“He and the other man, who
claimed to be a religious cleric,
carried out the wedding ceremony which looked real.
“They had a book that looked
like it was used in marriages
and we sat on chairs and were
surrounded by microphones
in a place that looked like a
ma’atam.
“My sister then said ‘I do’.”
Both defendants have pleaded not guilty and the trial was
yesterday adjourned until February 25 to summon defence
witnesses.
The police captain is accused
of rape and staging a fake marriage, while his co-defendant is
accused of aiding and abetting.
The alleged victim told
prosecutors that she only discovered the marriage was fake
after she lodged a complaint
against her “husband”, claiming he attacked her with a knife
during one of their rows.