Tuesday, September 01, 2009 LONDON: An African woman was almost blinded following her desperate operation to obtain blue eyes. Shenise Farrell, an African woman obsessed with her appearance was forced to have a restorative sight surgery after enduring a horrendous cosmetic operation to obtain European coloured eyes.Despite being warned by opticians in the UK not to go ahead with the dangerous vanity procedure, Farrell who read about the £5,000 operation in Central America on the internet - ignored all professional advice on the matter. She was so determined to have the operation that would mask her dark brown eyes by surgical insertion of fake implants that she used her savings and lied to her family.Speaking to tabloid media, Farrell, said; ‘I’ve already had breast implants abroad in Bulgaria and had been very happy with that, so it didn’t faze me that I would have to go to Panama.After spending almost £2,000 on eye tests alongside air flight and accommodation costs, she travelled to Panama for the operation at a clinic run by Dr Delary Kahn.Less than a fortnight later, surgeons at the Western Eye Hospital in Paddington were forced to remove the implants in order to save her sight after she experienced severely blurred vision effectively rendering her blind. Despite the success of the operation she is now likely to develop cataracts in later life and is at increased risk of glaucoma.
Sunday, February 28, 2010 HAVANA: Hundreds of wealthy merchants and cigar aficionados from all parts of the world gathered in Havana this week to bid high stakes for humidors full of premium cigars. Cuba's annual Habanos festival ended on Friday night with an auction of ornate humidors of cedar and mahogany stacked with hand-rolled stogies that raised 800,000 euros ($1.09 million dollars). Habanos S.A. executives this month said cigar sales fell 8 percent to $360 million in 2009, so they have created the Julieta, a smaller, milder version of the Romeo y Julieta cigar, aimed specifically at female smokers. Women now make up only 5 to 10 percent of customers for Habanos. But even with the creation of the Julieta, Garcia said Habanos has only modest hopes for 2010 sales, due largely to a weak economy in Spain, the biggest market for Cuban cigars. The flavor of premium tobacco relies on the soil and climate in which it is grown. The western province of Pinar Del Rio, famous fo...
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