Sydney port plan

There was another step yesterday in turning Sydney into a major North American container port.

The port has signed up Ports America as part of the proposed development.  It will work with the other players in designing and marketing then it will actually run the operation at Nova Porte near Sydport for 40 years.

The plan is to turn the port into the only one in North America that will be able to handle the new generation of ultra-large containers ships.

Halifax murder case

Lawyers were in court yesterday arguing before a judge that Codey Hennigar should not be held criminally responsible for killing his mother and grandparents in their home in Wyse’s Corner in January last year.

He hit them all in the head and then set fire to the house.

Both Crown and Defence lawyers agree Hennigar is not criminally responsible for three counts of second degree murder but they have to convince the judge of that as well.