Daily Archives: 02/04/2014

We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima – 50 Reasons + videos

50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima

 By Harvey Wasserman – NationofChange
Published: Monday 3 February 2014
This “see no evil, pay no damages” mindset dates from the Bombing of Hiroshima to Fukushima to the disaster coming next … which could be happening as you read this.

Fukushima’s missing melted cores and radioactive gushers continue to fester in secret.

Japan’s harsh dictatorial censorship has been matched by a global corporate media blackout aimed—successfully—at keeping Fukushima out of the public eye.

But that doesn’t keep the actual radiation out of our ecosystem, our markets … or our bodies.

Speculation on the ultimate impact ranges from the utterly harmless to the intensely apocalyptic .    Continue reading

Clairmonte Taitt Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the Earl Warner Foundation. (Barbados)

Clairmonte Taitt Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the Earl Warner Foundation. (Barbados) .

Lifetime Achievement Award winner Clairmonte Taitt (left) accepting his plaque from Zara Warner.
Lifetime Achievement Award winner Clairmonte Taitt (left) accepting his plaque from Zara Warner.

Hats off to Taitt, Hippolyte

Nation News– Barbados.  – By Ricky Jordan February 03, 2014

OUTSTANDING CARIBBEAN THEATRE practitioners Clairmonte Taitt and Kendel Hippolyte are the new Earl Warner Trust’s Lifetime Achievement Awards recipients.

Taitt, 81, born in Guyana to a Barbadian father and Guyanese mother, and St Lucian Hippolyte, 61, were hailed by members of the Trust and a small audience at the Walcott Warner Theatre of the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination on Saturday night as versatile artistes from whom ensuing generations had much to learn.  Continue reading

EU to give G$4b for sea defences but conditions have to be met

EU to give G$4b for sea defences but conditions have to be met

(Stabroek  News  – January 31, 2014 ) –  Guyana’s besieged sea defences are in line for a G$4b injection from the European Union but it will first require the government spending G$5.5b over the next three years and fulfilling a host of conditions.

A release from the European Union office here said that the Government of Guyana, represented by Minister of Finance and National Authorising Officer, Dr. Ashni Singh, on January 31, signed the Financing Agreement for the 10th EDF Sea and River Defence Sector Budget Support Programme, valued at €14.8M (US$19.7m) at the Ministry of Finance. The Head of the EU Delegation to Guyana, Ambassador Robert Kopecký and Minister of Public Works and Communications,  Robeson Benn, witnessed the signing. The Agreement was signed in EU HQ in Brussels by Jolita Butkeviciene, Director for Latin America and Caribbean of the European Commission’s Directorate for Development and Cooperation.

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KARMA II – by Naraine Datt

KARMA II © –  by Naraine Datt

Today some don’t believe in aged karma
Because it is not in their cultural dharma
The Germans are guilty of this evil thing
When millions sat around and did nothing
As Adolph Hitler slaughtered millions of Jews in blazes
They’re sitting on the same soil with the bones and ashes
On the notorious Auchwitz-Berga-Dachau death camps
When Jews had their final showers by those evil scamps   Continue reading