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Posted on 02/08/2007 12:39:03 PM PST by kcvl
Anna Nicole Smith collapsed in her hotel room at the Hard Rock Cafe and Casino in Hollywood, Fla., and was rushed to a hospital on Thursday. A Hollywood, Fla., fire department spokesman told MSNBC TV that the actress was unresponsive when the rescue unit arrived on the scene.
Sources confirmed to Access Hollywood that Smith was transported to Memorial Regional Hospital shortly after 2 p.m. EST on Thursday. Access Hollywood also is reporting that Smith was intubated at the scene.
Officials told the Miami Herald, "it does not look good."
And here we go. I notice that the Washington Post didn't note THAT fact. I still want to know why Bonnie Stern has a publicist. What does SHE do?
She owns a "business bookkeeping company." That's the sum total of what I know.
http://www.bahamasb2b.com/news/story.php?title=More-Questions-Shane-Gibson
More Questions For Shane Gibson
In the House of Assembly last week Immigration Minister Shane Gibson seemed to be backing off from his own words claiming Anna Nicole Smith as his "personal friend" - his words, not ours.
It was Mr Gibson himself who put his friendship with Ms Smith into the public arena. However, he did say to those who criticised the delivery of a residence permit in 21 working days that credit for the speed was due to his ministry's new found efficiency.
He said if he could have moved Ms Smith's permit through the bureaucratic hoops even faster he would have done so. "If it could have been done in a day then I would have done it in a day," he boasted arrogantly as he verbally cocked a snook at his critics.
However, in the House last Wednesday he took a few steps back. He now wanted to portray the friendship of Ms Smith as of recent vintage, and, if the truth be known, it was thrust upon him by the suggestion of a young lawyer in the law firm of Callenders and Co.
"Now bear in mind," he told parliamentarians on the evening of November 11 when he laid immigration documents in connection with Ms Smith's residence application on the table of the House, "I never met Ms Anna Nicole Smith up until the third week in August - that's the first time I met her in my life - this year."
He said that "they" - we assume he was referring to Ms Smith and her current companion, lawyer Howard Stern- had a conversation with Miss Tracy Ferguson, a junior partner at Callender and Co when they asked her if she advised them to meet with the minister. "That's me," said Mr Gibson.
Reading from a letter that Ms Ferguson wrote to Mr Stern on August 23 to confirm a conversation they had had that morning, Mr Gibson said the following was Ms Ferguson's response to their question.
"This is the response, Mr Speaker," said Mr Gibson: "I am aware of this. I am aware of the meeting - this is Tracy Ferguson speaking -'if a meeting has been requested, Anna should endeavour to meet with the Minister as soon as possible'. They advise her to meet with the Minister - that's me - 'he ultimately is the person who can expedite the process of her application.'
"You see," continued Mr Gibson, "she hadn't known me up to that point, so when they say I process it quickly because she is my friend you see, you see, I had not known her - the lawyers advise her that she should meet with me..."
We do not know if Mr Gibson needs glasses or if it were an accidental or deliberate slip of the tongue, but Ms Ferguson in her letter confirming her conversation with Mr Stern, never said that she was aware of a meeting she was being asked to recommend. As a matter of fact she said just the opposite.
In reference to Mr Stern's question as to whether Ms Smith should meet with the Minister, Ms Ferguson wrote: "I am unaware of this ..." The word Mr Gibson used was unaware, not aware - there's an ocean of difference in meaning between them.
However, there is a letter that does intrigue us and we certainly would like it explained.
On September 11 a letter from the Director of Immigration, addressed to Ms Ferguson at Callenders, advised her that the permit for Mrs Vickie Lynn Marshall (Ms Smith) for residence had been approved without the right to work. It said that the permanent residence certificate remains "in force during the lifetime of a person to whom it is granted unless otherwise revoked."
Now comes the unusual section of the letter. Remember all documentation is supposed to have been submitted to Immigration for them to do background checks, including a police certificate, before a decision can be made on the application for status. But, according to this letter, Ms Smith was granted her residence permit, but the department is yet to receive the essential police certificate! What kind of due diligence is this?
This is the first time that we have ever seen an Immigration letter that makes such a request after having granted a permit. Usually the delivery of a permit is subject only to the payment of a specified fee - all the other required documents having already been considered and processed.
We have asked many questions about this and received many explanations. However, the most persistent one was that Immigration was made to believe that the Los Angeles Police Department has such a backlog of applicants that it would take six months to get such information. It is alleged that Ms Smith was allowed to swear an affidavit as to her squeaky clean character - and Immigration accepted the explanation and the affidavit. Our officials obviously forget that we live in a computer age and that such information is available with the click of a mouse.
We would like to know if the account we have been given is accurate. Has Immigration received the required police character certificate as yet?
If they are still having difficulty procuring this information maybe we can be of some help. We suggest they go to the web, call up NNDB.com - select the letter S, scroll down to Smith and follow it with Anna Nicole - et voila! Tell the nation what you find!
Editorial from The Tribune
yes she was embalmed today at the ME office
No, her death was untimely to truly benefit HKS, and putting on my tinfoil for a minute, I think it's possible that she gave Daniel the accidental overdose --- that she did not monitor his intake --- but HKS obtained and supplied the drugs --- from his gay doctor friend and I am standing with my husband that HKS is gay, or at least bisexual.
She said, 'I've been with ANS every day for the past two years, and I've never met Jackie Hatten. How close of a friend could she be?'
If that was true, she would have been with her from CA to Myrtle Beach, to the Bahamas. That just doens't ring true.
I've seen several pictures of ANS with Jackie Hatten. Have we seen any of ANS with Bonnie Stern?
And I go you one step further in speculation. I think the Trimspa toad may be his special friend.
And I know the Trimspa toad has a wife and family.
LET ME KNOW IF YOU ALL DON'T WANT TO SEE THESE... (there has been conflict going on in the Bahama's for sometime about Gibson giving Anna residency in the Bahama's so quickly)
http://www.bahamasb2b.com/news/story.php?title=Immigration-Policy-In-Bahamas-1
Immigration Policy In The Bahamas (note the date at the end of the article)
Please allow me space in your newspaper to add my two cents about the country's immigration policy and what in my opinion is Minister Gibson's dubious conduct.
Let me start by saying this first: Ms Smith's paperwork may have been in order, and it may have been the correct decision to grant her permanent residency. However, Minister Gibson's personal involvement to expedite the process needs to be scrutinised.
The Tribune's editorial of today speaks of a married couple, the husband being a Bahamian citizen, who have been married for eight years, yet the wife still has no status in this country. By telling the story of one couple, newspaper readers might get the impression that this is an isolated incident. Sadly, it is not.
I personally know a number of couples where one partner is Bahamian, and one partner is foreign. I shall refrain from giving any details about these individuals, for I fear that they then would not only have to endure the frustrations of an inexplicably long wait, but also the wrath of an embarrassed immigration department. Just this much: these couples have all been married for more than five years, and their time to apply for permanent residency came after 2002 - so you know whose responsibility this mess-up is.
These couples' marriages do not strike me as "marriages of convenience," for there is nothing convenient about the process that the immigration department makes these people endure. Furthermore, all these couples have children, all these foreign spouses come from developed countries that are not typically the countries where illegal immigrant) seeking a better ~economic life originate from, and all these foreign spouses have university degrees. In other words, all these people could contribute to the development of this nation, if our government would only let them.
To make matters worse, and I have witnessed this myself, immigration officers told at least one of these couples (another one told me the same sad story, but I was not present as a witness when it happened) that for a "payment" of an amount between $2,000 and $5,000, they could get their paperwork (and status) within a matter of days. They should just "not expect receipt."
This brings me back to Minister Gibson. Using the power of your office to expedite a personal friend's affairs, and allowing her to bypass the obviously very long line of people who are waiting to get their status, is nothing else but nepotism and very questionable behaviour, regardless of whether or not payment was accepted for this favour - of course, no one is suggesting that any payment was either offered or accepted.
As a Bahamian voter, I am grateful that Minister Gibson admitted that he used his powers to do his friend, Anna Nicole Smith, this favour. Admitting a mistake is always the first step in the right direction, but he seems to be unaware that he did indeed take this first step. In fact it would appear as if he was completely and utterly oblivious to the fact that he did anything wrong in the first place. He - indirectly - admits to assisting a friend, and he seems to be proud of it! (Let me spell it out for you, Mr Gibson: It's time for you to resign!)
The immigration department does not work efficiently, nor does our government, for it seems like a waste of time if every citizenship or permanent residency decision has to be made by cabinet. I truly understand that cabinet meetings have other pressing issues to discuss, and they cannot handle immigration matters all day, every day. That is what we have an immigration department for, otherwise we may as well close it down, because you and I both know that it does way too little to monitor our borders - a task that is virtually impossible to complete.
Yet by making people wait too long, this country hurts itself. As outlined in The Tribune's editorial, some marriages end in divorce, this may leave some children in single-parent households, and I doubt this island needs more children growing up with only one parent - on the contrary. It also leads to some of these couples leaving the Bahamas.
Emigrating may be a sad experience for a Bahamian, and it may make him or her feel uprooted, but on the other hand their foreign spouse may have felt similar here. However, emigration of well educated people poses a real challenge to our nation. I know of cases, where couples frustrated by our government's excellence at procrastination moved to the foreign spouse's home country, where it takes them only a few weeks to get all the paperwork processed, and now two people, who wanted to contribute to the Bahamian national economy, are now contributing to some other country's national economy and are paying their taxes there.
B.A. Hinsey, Nassau,
September 26, 2006
Letter to the Editor
Published in The Tribune on November 9, 2006
Trivia - I *think* I recall seeing that their PO Box at Mail Boxes Etc (not sure that was the name of it, kind of kidding there) in Nassau was #512. See if I was right about that, lol.
They interviewed a girl that works there on one of "those" shows (remember, I don't have cable) the other day and did a quick cut to the box itself, showing the number - and said she seldom ever saw Anna there, but that Howard came in almost every day and got their mail.
That was where the methadone prescription was send from Dr. Kapoor.
"I can only believe that someone in US law enforcement is doing a thorough investigation."
I think they are being thorough, in Florida, but I don't think they will charge HKS with anything....my opinion. They're going to say it was a suicide.
Unfortunately, Daniel died in the Bahamas. Why do I think they will be as "efficient" in their investigation as the Aruban authorities were in the Natalee Holloway case? I think HKS was somehow responsible for Daniel's death, but the Bahamians will cover for HKS. I saw his attorney being interviewed a few days ago, and he is scarey.....a shark!
I think HKS is going to get away with it, but I pray I'm wrong!
I want a full biography of this Stern family....a gene pool of liars.
No, it doesn't. She had never seen the baby until now, either.
She said she and ANS were "best friends" and liked to "go to movies and just hang out." When they asked her about Daniel's relationship with Howard, she said "they were best buddies. They liked to go to the movies and hang out."
Ha ha. Sure.
http://www.bahamasb2b.com/news/story.php?title=American-Bloggers-Rip-Into-Bahamas
American Bloggers Rip Into Bahamas
Finally, international bloggers join BahamasB2B in demanding an inquiry into the mysterious death of Anna Nicole's son, Daniel, in The Bahamas.
A group of American "bloggers" who call themselves "The Mob" are echoing demands from the Bahamas' largest website and are stepping up their calls for an inquest into the mysterious death of Daniel Smith.
They say they are determined not to let Bahamas Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson rest until the matter is thoroughly investigated.
And they have vowed to keep up the online pressure, encouraging other Americans to press for action.
Daniel, 20, was visiting his mother, former reality star Anna Nicole Smith, at Doctors Hospital in Nassau when he was found dead beside her bed on September 10.
A private autopsy later revealed that his body contained a lethal cocktail of drugs, including methadone and at least two anti-depressants.
Disquiet has been expressed on US cable television and elsewhere over the Bahamian authorities' failure to order a proper inquiry into the case.
Yesterday, blogger Mary Jackson of San Antonio, Texas, said a letter writing campaign has now begun, targeting Mrs Maynard-Gibson and her failure to set an inquest date.
In a letter to the attorney general, copied to Prime Minister Perry Christie, Mrs Jackson points out that hospital staff had claimed Daniel was vomiting uncontrollably before his death.
And she raises questions over the alleged shredding of documents at Ms Smith's Eastern Road home following the tragedy.
"The public will not let this issue go away without further investigation," said Mrs Jackson.
"Tourism in the Bahamas will be negatively affected if a US citizen dies in a Bahamian hospital under suspicious circumstances. and the matter is not fully investigated."
Mrs Jackson said letter writers in the United States and the Bahamas were now determined to mount a campaign "to keep this matter in the public eye".
It was particularly important, she added, that the matter was not allowed to die over the Christmas and New Year period.
Campaigners from all over the American west and south who call themselves "mobstas" have joined the "Justice for Daniel" drive.
One called Patty from South Carolina has raised a petition which will be sent to the Bahamas government.
Mrs Jackson said she and her husband - both self employed - have no special links with the Bahamas.
But their newly-married son decided against a Bahamas honeymoon "after this mysterious and frightening event."
She and her supporters have a "strong passion" for justice in Daniel's death, she said. A blog they started is attracting a lot of response.
"We are encouraging the public to write to Mrs Maynard-Gibson asking her to order an inquest," said Mrs Jackson.
Source: The Tribune
Indeed! I think I agree.
I watched the interviews with ANS on ET and kept thinking...it would be a travesty if Virgie got the body and buried it in TX. ANS clearly did not want anything to do with Virgie. You could see the hate on her face and in her eyes. She clearly wanted to be buried in the Bahamas. She bought burial plots there.
I personally think Virgie is being selfish to fight over the body of ANS.
Let's say that Howard murdered them both. That doesn't change the fact that ANS wanted to be buried in the Bahamas.
Right --- it was sent to the PO Box is my understanding too.
One last one... the rest can be found here:
http://www.bahamasb2b.com/news/nsearch.php?search=anna%20nicole&tag=true (Click on each title to get the full article)
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