Martin Barnes

Type: Person

Name: Martin Barnes

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

The Record: Pensioon sanity

STATE PENSIONS are rewards to public employees and officials who have put in their time, faithfully, over the course of decades to serve the people of New Jersey. They should not be set aside for those elected officials who broke the public trust willingly, ... [Published North Jersey.com - May 19 2013]

Entities: Martin Barnes, Forfeiture, Mail fraud, Administrative Law

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Paterson councilman six months late on campaign finance reports

PATERSON Six months after winning the November special election for the 2nd Ward City Council seat, Mohammed Akhtaruzzaman has not filed any campaign finance reports for that race.PATERSON PRESS FILE PHOTO Mohammed Akhtaruzzaman Since its already late, ... [Published North Jersey.com - May 06 2013]

Entities: Elections, Martin Barnes, Tropical Storm Irene, Superior Court, Election Law

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 2 reports

Herald News: Pensions must be earned

PUBLIC officials who violate the trust of the people should not then be entitled to a pension. No way, nohow. And neither should their families.Somehow, though, an administrative law judge, Leland McGee, has managed to see it differently. On March 4, ... [Published North Jersey.com - May 01 2013]

Entities: Martin Barnes, Forfeiture, Corruption, Administrative Law, Retirement Benefits

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

Holmes Chapel pub is named best in Cheshire

A HOLMES Chapel pub has been hailed as the best in Cheshire.Robinsons’ pub, the George and Dragon in Holmes Chapel was awarded the title of the Best Pub in Cheshire at the 2013 Chester and Cheshire Food and Drink Awards.The George and Dragon, which also ... [Published Knutsford Guardian - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Martin Barnes

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

Paterson activist retiring after 40 years of community work

PATERSON David Sanchez says he was heading for trouble until Al Moody intervened.PHOTO COURTESY OF ZATITI MOODY Photo caption is: Al Moody and granddaughter, Khadija Safiya Moody. I was one of the kids he took out of the streets, said Sanchez. He guided ... [Published North Jersey.com - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: James Smith, David Sanchez, Martin Barnes, Alexander Hamilton

First reported Mar 06 2013 - Updated Mar 07 2013 - 1 reports

Britain winning fight against heroin and crack cocaine - but use of synthetic drugs such as mephedrone soars

Britain is winning the war against heroin and crack cocaine with a 10 per cent fall in users over five years, the head of a leading drugs organisation said today. Paul Hayes, chief executive of the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, said ... [Published The Independent - Mar 06 2013]

Entities: Mephedrone, Drugs, Paul Hayes, Heroin (Diacetylmorphine), Crack Cocaine

First reported Mar 05 2013 - Updated Mar 06 2013 - 1 reports

United Nations

UN raises alarm over booming trade in 'legal highs' - with UK at its centre

Britain is at the centre of a booming trade in "legal highs" – chemicals designed to replicate the effects of illegal substances – a United Nations drugs watchdog warned today. It raised the alarm over the "unprecedented proliferation" of "designer drugs" ... [Published The Independent - Mar 05 2013]

Entities: Mephedrone, United Kingdom, United Nations, Drugs, European Union

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Martin Barnes, chief executive of Drugscope, said the decline was "encouraging evidence that the heroin epidemic of the 1980s was being reversed."

Britain winning fight against heroin and crack cocaine - but use of synthetic drugs such as mephe ... [Published The Independent - Mar 06 2013]

Martin Barnes, the chief executive of DrugScope, said: "when these new substances appear, we don’t know what is in them, we don’t know their toxicology, we don’t know their physical health harms. it is something to take very seriously."

UN raises alarm over booming trade in 'legal highs' - with UK at its centre [Published The Independent - Mar 05 2013]

"our findings underpin evidence that use is on the rise. people tempted to take this drug need to know how harmful it can be" said DrugScope's Martin Barnes. (IANS)

Britons taking drug used to sedate horses [Published Topnews.in - Nov 17 2011]

Martin Barnes, chief executive of charity DrugScope, said the concept was ` "exploitative, ethically dubious and morally questionable"

US charity pays 26 Brit drug addicts to use contraception [Published Topnews.in - Mar 09 2011]