Profile of Terry Roberts

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• The farm doctor is in
  While jurisdictions throughout North American struggle to cope with a declining number of farm animal veterinarians, officials in this province ...
• Haiti aid effort growing locally
  Brothers Emerson and Vaden Oram could be forgiven for wanting to keep a low profile and quietly give thanks for their health and well-being. ...
• Newfoundland man missing in Haiti
  A Newfoundland man, described by his family as an adventurer and very generous, is among those unaccounted for at the shattered United Nations ...
• Fortis eyeing major project
  Fortis Properties Corp. is expected to submit an application to the City of St. John's "in the nearer term" for a major downtown development ...
• 'Prayers are needed'
  Several Newfoundlanders living and working in Haiti have escaped injury following a devastating earthquake that rocked the already impoverished ...
• Navigating toward a brighter future
  The body that operates St. John's International Airport is attempting to deal with technological shortcomings and staggering growth. To do this, ...
• Doing hard time?
  A former inmate at Her Majesty's Penitentiary in St. John's says he was singled out for harsh and disrespectful treatment by correctional ...
• Serving in the 'heart of darkness'
  When you're near enough to a passing bullet to hear the snapping sound as it whizzes by, you take cover. That's just what Sgt. John Carew did ...
• Pharmacy frustration
  It's happened to Burin Peninsula resident Madeline Broydell and many others with chronic illnesses. Here's how it usually plays out. Broydell is ...
• House full of heritage
  Brigus - Each time Iris Dalton walks inside Hawthorne Cottage, she is moved by the sights, sounds and smells of this former outport household ...
• Lobster lament
  The turmoil in Newfoundland's fishing industry is reaching into nearly every sector, with those who harvest lobster also feeling the pinch from ...
• Crab season in peril
  The latest hitch in the province's most lucrative fishery is once again pitting seafood producers against those who catch the resource, with both ...
• Going modular
  Makinsons - Todd Clarke bounces the power nailer along the oriented strand board (OSB), skilfully fastening the four-by-eight sheets to the floor ...
• Bus tragedy still painful
  It's been nearly three decades, but Mike Lake of Rushoon still has flashbacks and nightmares about the fiery crash on a stretch of highway in ...
• Going public about private school
  It's a weekday morning and the halls and classrooms at Lakecrest school are unusually quiet. It's Easter vacation time for the 133 students from ...
• N.L. workers' comp rates still highest in Canada
  Workplace injuries in this province are now among the lowest in the country, but the rates paid by employers to fund the Workplace Health, Safety ...
• 'My mother's house was shaking'
  If he were younger and in better health, Bruno Dicintio says he would travel to Italy in great haste to provide whatever help he could to the ...
• No longer cottage country
  Long Harbour - People who illegally built cabins in the forest near the site of the former phosphorous plant in Long Harbour in the past decade ...
• Driving schools get defensive
  Controversy - The owner of a St. John's driving school wants one of his competitors - a franchise of Young Drivers of Canada - to yield after ...
• Milestone has different appeal in Labrador
  We often hear debates about Newfoundland's place in Confederation, and undercurrents of nationalism as some still debate the merits of joining ...
• Abitibi walks away from talks
  The government and AbitibiBowater can't agree on how much the province should pay for the company's hydroelectric assets. "At this point in ...
• Unhappy campers
  Green's Harbour - A bitter, complicated legal dispute over who owns the lease for a former provincial park in Trinity Bay is causing serious ...
• Alone at the top
  Cindy Fleet will always remember the moment her late grandmother, Mary Grace, turned to her and said, "Never rely on a man for your living." It ...
• 'We're still here'
  The owner of the only remaining My Brother's Place in the St. John's area is being forced to adapt following the closure of two other restaurants ...
• Mayor banking on budget
  Grand Falls-Windsor Mayor Rex Barnes has mixed feelings about how the rest of this month will unfold. First, there's the pending closure of the ...
• Hemmed in on the Heights
  It's ironic that one of the best places for observing growth in St. John's is from Shea Heights, where vacant building lots are as rare as ...
• Hydro assets should benefit region, ex-Abitibi...
  A former executive with the paper mill in Grand Falls-Windsor says the hydro power that once energized the facility should be used to help ...
• 'Everything is good'
  Earle Smith never imagined a scenario where reporters and photographers would be staked out, waiting to capture his image and bombard him with ...
• Province made bid for Star Lake
  Premier Danny Williams admitted Friday that the province's energy corporation, Nalcor, attempted to buy AbitibiBowater's ownership share of the ...
• Expropriation anxiety
  There's growing frustration at the lack of openness from the provincial government over plans for the hydroelectric generating stations ...