Daily Archives: 12/08/2015

GUYANA: Capitol TV News Videos – 07 December 2015

Capitol TV logoGUYANA: Capitol TV News Videos – 07 December 2015

  • Bharrat and Donald; former Presidents in court for more benefits
  • Permanent Secretary at Legal Affairs sent on Admin leave to facilitate probe
  • Business on a literacy drive
  • Operation Dragnet reels in Army rank
  • I was wrongfully terminated says neighbourhood policewoman
  • Consultations on Guyana’s next Chief Justice soon to start
  • Sports

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GUYANA – Latest News from various sources – December 08, 2015

GUYANA – LATEST NEWS – 08 December 2015  –  Kaieteur News  

         (see other News sources at the end of this entry)

Loewenstein: “Disaster Capitalism” – Making a Killing out of Catastrophe + 2 videos

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 05:08 PM PST – St Stanislaus College Blog

9781784781156-max_221Loewenstein: Disaster Capitalism – Making a Killing out of Catastrophe

Crisis, what crisis? How governments and corporations profit from disaster.“A keenly observed and timely investigation into rampant resource plunder, privatized detention centers, and an array of other forms of corporate rapacity on four continents.” – Naomi Klein

Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein trav­els across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism. He discovers how companies such as G4S, Serco, and Halliburton cash in on or­ganized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining…….     [Note: 2 videos below] Continue reading

Guyana Cultural Association of New York Inc. on-line Magazine – November 2015

Guyana Cultural Association of New York Inc. on-line Magazine – November 2015

GCA NovIN THIS ISSUE      PAGE 3-13: Opening of GACC      PAGE 14-16: Diwali Holiday       PAGE 17: Wooden bicycle         PAGE 18-19: UN Catherine Pollard       PAGE 20-21: Focus on Wellness       PAGE 22: Book Review – Winnie Cox      PAGE 23: Ban the Cane       PAGE 24-26: Guyanese Youth in international fashion       PAGE 27: In Memoriam: Lynette Patterson

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR – November Editor Juliet Emanuel

 Guyana Cultural Association of New York Inc. on-line Magazine

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When the Media team decided on the theme, Wellness, for the November 2015 online magazine we did wonder whether reuse of articles on various cures for ailments of the body would form the greater portion of the edition. Not so – although quips about remembered doses of castor oil after a sumptuous meal, such as, the one enjoyed by most persons on Thanksgiving Day were made.  Continue reading

After Party Loss, Venezuela’s Maduro Vows to Continue “Socialist Revolution”

Pres. Nicholas Maduro

After Party Loss, Venezuela’s Maduro Vows to Continue “Socialist Revolution”

Published on Monday, December 07, 2015 by Common Dreams – by  Nadia Prupis, staff writer  – Comments

“I can say today that economic war has triumphed,” president says in concession speech

Venezuela’s right wing won a majority of seats in the country’s National Assembly on Sunday, (December 6, 2015) signalling a major political shift that President Nicolas Maduro said would not suppress Latin America’s socialist revolution.”This is not the time to cry,” Maduro said Sunday, conceding to opposition leaders from the Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD) party, who claimed 99 out of 167 seats, though they may gain more as the ballots continue to be tallied. “It’s the time to fight.   Continue reading

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