Communist allies China and Cuba hold landmark summit
November 20, 2008
China’s President Hu Jintao on Wednesday was to wrap up a landmark visit to Cuba where he brought millions of dollars in aid and promises of closer trade ties.
The Chinese leader brought 4.5 tonnes of humanitarian aid for victims of three hurricanes that battered Cuba this year, which was handed over late Monday after Hu’s arrival at the Jose Marti International Airport.
Receiving the gift, Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation Rodrigo Malmierca said Cuba “deeply appreciates the visit of President Hu Jintao, at the exact moment the country is struggling to recover and continue its development.” Read more
Caribbean region needs to work together to deal with challenges, says Guyana president
November 20, 2008
GEORGETOWN, Guyana: President of Guyana Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday evening told representatives of participating countries at the Caribbean Development Bank/Inter American Development Bank (CDB/IDB), Civil Society Organizations dialogue not to allow themselves to be lectured into creating a set of values in the region which may cause them to lose sight of their challenges and their unique way of dealing with them.
He stated that the challenges facing countries like Guyana demand that the region work together to deal with these issues. Read more
Caribbean Airlines cancels flight after computer on plane malfunctions
November 20, 2008
Some one hundred and fifteen passengers were seriously inconvenienced and forced to remain in Guyana yesterday, after a Caribbean Airlines flight was grounded owing to the malfunction of a computer on board the plane.
General Manager of Caribbean Airlines, South America, Carlton DeFour told Stabroek News that flight BW424 to JFK in New York with a stop in Trinidad was scheduled to leave the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri at 12:30 pm yesterday, but had to be cancelled when problems developed with a computer on the plane. Read more
Courts Caribbean Contact Info
November 19, 2008
For those of you who have been requesting Courts Caribbean contact information in the U.S. here it is:
STORE: 718-282-1667
TOLL FREE: 1-877-852-6878
Websites: www.courtscaribbean.com and www.courtscaribbean.us
Address: 2822 Church Avenue in Brooklyn, between Nostrand and Rogers Avenues.
General Motors,Chrysler and Ford should be allowed to go Bankrupt. No Bailout!
November 18, 2008
The following is no surprise to many of us who has had the opportunity to drive an American made vehicle as to one that is designed and produced by a foreign company; a foreign vehicle is better designed and has a longer lifespan than an American made Vehicle. It does not matter whether it is a Chevy, Chrysler, Dodge, Ford, Buick or Mercury or Cadillac , they are at a great disadvantage to Hondas, Nissans, Mercedes, BMW’s etc….you get the point.
Now that sales from General Motors, Ford and Crystal are in the toilet, bankruptcy is now a fast approaching reality. Should the United States government help these American Motor Companies out of the hole they have purposely dug into….NO! The reason why is that for the past twenty-five years foreign car companies like Honda and Nissan have been investing a lot of dollars in Read more
Is there a conspiracy to prevent soca/calypso music from making it?
November 18, 2008
Dear Sir:
Based on what I read on BBC Caribbean News, Nov 17, 2008, Popular Barbadian and Caribbean calypsoian John King thinks there is an international conspiracy against that popular Eastern Caribbean music genre. However, I personally believe that soca/calypso will break into the international music market, when the Eastern Caribbean countries unite as one strong force as a trading bloc.
In order for soca/calypso to constantly make the billboard chart, Eastern Caribbean countries must promote the music as an industry. Trinidad & Tobago alone cannot be the only Caribbean country Read more
Drug trade on the rise in Guyana, says crime chief
November 18, 2008
GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Despite managing to seize some 60 pounds of cocaine and more than 74,000 pounds of marijuana this year, tackling the drug trade remains one of the major hurdles for Guyana’s law enforcement agencies.
This is the word from the head of the Guyana Police Force (GPF), Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Seelall Persaud who Friday last revealed that at the end of October, police had destroyed more than 50 ganja fields’ totalling 44-1/ 2 acres, which amounted to more than 33,000 kilograms of marijuana. Read more
Miss Guyana Sari Pageant left something to be desired
November 18, 2008
The recently concluded Miss Guyana Sari Pageant, 2008, held on Saturday, October 25, 2008 at the National Park was an embarrassment. My first question to the Diwali Committee members is why was alcohol allowed and sold in the park? The contestants and the general public were made to understand that no alcohol consumption would have been allowed in the park on the night of the pageant!
Secondly, what were the criteria for the selection of judges? And why weren’t the judges introduced to the contestants? Probably right after the introduction of the contestants would have been a good time to introduce the judges. I can understand that a lawyer was selected to judge the pageant. Read more
The problem in Guyana lies with the existence of ethnic parties which are committed to ethnic voting
November 18, 2008
I refer to Mr Hamley Case’s letter ‘Inspired by Obama Guyanese should seize the day’ (SN 15.11.08) dealing with the lessons learned from the American elections and applying them to solve Guyana’s political problems.
The lessons from Obama’s election victory are simple.
(1) He never appealed to race to win votes. He ran mainly an issues-based campaign.
(2) The overwhelming majority of approximstely 115 million voters decided they wanted “change,” as in change from the Republican to the Democratic party. (They were tired of the Bush war; deregulation (responsible for the financial meltdown); lack of an energy policy; need for universal health care, etc.)
(3) The great fear was that the majority of the American voters would not be able to overcome their racial prejudices and vote for an African-American candidate. But they did with flying colours. This process was helped immensely by the brilliance of candidate Obama himself – always calm and cool as a cucumber; always right on the issues; always presenting the arguments in a non-threatening way; always appearing confident and knowledgeable, etc. Read more
Defence
November 16, 2008
INTRODUCTION:
Our military has not been modernised in decades. Their mission has been recently changed to crime-fighting instead of building a military for the current times, such as protecting our borders.
As we enter the last few years of this decade, it is time we come to grips on the future of our nation from all aspects of political, social and economic perspective. We are all aware of the nagging claim Venezuela has on key portions of our country that is affecting our economics, and as I have said before, contributing to the growing poverty in our nation while holding us hostage. We continue to have border disputes with Suriname. Read more
Where are all the men in the fight against HIV/AIDS
November 16, 2008
By Royston King
I AM not talking about those few men who appear in television advertisements, or the very few who volunteer to do community work. I am talking about the men in our local communities who are supposed to be making a big difference in the lives of our children; our young men and women and their partners; men who have a responsibility to provide the moral and spiritual rudder, for families, communities and our society. Where are these men? Read more
What Obama’s victory hasn’t changed
November 16, 2008
While the election of Senator Barack Obama does suggest that American politics has withstood the Bush years better than many had feared, his margin of victory in the popular vote – six percentage points – should give pause to anyone who believes radical change is coming to Washington any time soon. Six points is far from a landslide given that Obama ran against a party that led the country into two major wars (after deceitfully inventing premises for one of them), made torture into an official policy and mismanaged the economy into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Obama’s margin seems even narrower if you consider that his campaign possessed an overwhelming financial advantage, and the man himself displayed surer political instincts than any nominee since Bill Clinton. Even so, 55 million voters, many of them swamped by political attack ads and months of shallow TV coverage, were prepared to consider the McCain/Palin ticket as a serious alternative despite their chaotic, clownish often farcical ill-preparedness in the final weeks of the campaign. Read more
Jamaica to buy more rice from Guyana
November 15, 2008
Published on Tuesday, November 11, 2008
By Oscar Ramjeet
Caribbean Net News Special Correspondent
Email: oscar@caribbeannetnews.com
GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Jamaica’s Minister of Industry and Commerce Karl Samuda has said that his government will buy more rice from Guyana as of next year.
Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister, Karl Samuda. Samuda, who was in Guyana over the weekend, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) to purchase 60,000 tonnes of rice from Guyana next year. Read more
Poem: You Move Me! by Fx Chitanda
November 15, 2008
I have been touched before
I have been moved before
I have been transferred before
All that before today.
You move me in many ways
you touch me in very warm ways
today you left an everlasting impression Read more
Poem: To my Nubian Princess by Fx Chitanda
November 15, 2008
My imagination is running wild.
Places I am right now
I would not want to be,
Its neither the right place nor the right time
Yet I still go there
Your image is not blurred
Your scent lingers at the tip of my nostrils
Touching you touching me Read more