Derrick Abdul Salick believes “Douglas” will be the new voice in Trinidad and Tobago — commentary by Hudson George
Caribbean News Now: June 20, 2013 – By Hudson George
European colonisation of the Caribbean destroyed the native populations and the Africans, who were brought by force to work on the plantation as slaves, became a majority group living in captivity, working for their colonial slave masters. During that period of slavery, the colonial masters were having intimate relationship with the African women. In that relationship, a new race of people became a part of the population. They were called mulattoes and some of those mulattoes had a better life experience than the Africans because of their mixed race status.
After slavery was abolished, the Europeans brought East Indians to work on the plantations as indentured labourers. Over the years some East Indians and Africans became intimate and in the relationship they created another race again, they called the offspring “Douglas”. Continue reading →
Police likely to act following completion of the IDB probe – Minister of Home Affairs Rohee – 18th Jun 2013 – Capitol News
An embarrassed Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee speaking about the alleged fraud uncovered by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) at the office of the Citizens security programme.
But in a strange twist to the story as it unfolded, the head of the project implementation unit Khemraj Rai tendered his resignation citing health issues. Continue reading →
CFATF gives Guyana until August to submit amended financial crimes law – e.g. money laundering
19 June 2013 (CND) –The Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) has given Guyana two months to pass upgraded laws against financial crimes before the global watchdog considers the country’s fate in November, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said Tuesday June 18, 2013.
Addressing the opening of a workshop on Guidelines for the 2009 Anti Money Laundering and Countering of Financing of Terrorism, he said the parliamentary select committee received a formal response from CFATF that Guyana has until August 26 to approve the amendments to the laws.
The committee had decided to formally ask CFATF to state the deadline in writing when Guyana has to submit the amended laws to that body for experts to study them ahead of the meeting.
Feasibility study for new Demerara Harbour Bridge completed
19 June 2013 (CMD) The feasibility study for the new Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) has been completed and pro posed locations will be identified in time Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon.
He told reporters on Wednesday that the study was not yet before the Cabinet.
“Our expectation is that the study will soon be before Cabinet, and on that basis decisions would soon be made about proposed locations and the complexities of the structures,” GINA reported Dr. Luncheon as saying. Continue reading →
What we’re learning from online education – Daphne Koller
Published on Jun 14, 2013 – TED Education
Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free — not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed.
