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Bernie Sanders: Now More Than Ever, It’s Our Revolution
The Senator from Vermont remains optimistic about the country’s future, and urges citizens to become more deeply involved in the political process.
Caribbean Life News Update 16 November 2016 
A full cast of soca and calypso artists entertained an exuberant crowd Sunday evening, as officials from the Carnival Development Committee and the Ministry of Sports and Culture in St. Vincent and the Grenadines launched the 40th Anniversary of Vincy Mas in Brooklyn.
A Guyanese-born legislator in Brooklyn has joined the ranks of Caribbean American politicians in expressing consternation over Donald Trump’s unexpected triumph in the US Presidential Election last Tuesday.
With an international protocol on forced labor coming into force, the United Nations labor agency, the International Labor Organization, says the world is closer in ending modern slavery.
Members of the Caribbean contingent in the city and state government say we must move forward.
Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles, has joined the global call on United States President Barack Obama to grant a posthumous pardon to Jamaica’s first national hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., for his 1923 mail fraud conviction in the U.S.
Here’s this week’s round-up.
Will take on host nation and Sri Lanka.
Caribbean American congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke on Wednesday urged the Obama administration to immediately halt the deportation of undocumented Haitians.
Ron Daniels, President of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, has been assessing the conditions of Blacks throughout the world, and now that the marathon campaign to electing a US president has ended, the distinguished lecturer at York College will convene a State of the Black World Conference IV in Newark, N.J. from Nov. 16-20 to decide a national Black agenda.
Secretary-General of CARICOM States, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, a national of Dominica, is in Marrakech, Morocco, attending the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP 22) — the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) that will run until November 18, 2016.
More than 100 immigrants have been repatriated since October.
Frank (Seth Rogen) finds himself frustrated sitting on a shelf at Shopwells supermarket where he’s cooped up in a shrink-wrapped package with seven other sausages. They pass their time speculating about what awaits them in “The Great Beyond,” meaning the vast unknown just past the cash register on the other side of the door.
Deaths from the disease in the country have been virtually illiminated.
Analysis: // Dr. Priebus and Mr. Bannon at Donald Trump’s White House
For American Jews, Bannon’s appointment is the stuff of which Jewish nightmares are made.
Chemi Shalev (Washington) | Haaretz
WASHINGTON – The announcement of Donald Trump’s first two appointments to the White House on Sunday elicited a classic double take. At first, when the networks only reported that Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus would be White House Chief of Staff, politicians and pundits sighed in collective relief and sounded the all clear.
This proves that Trump is going to be a more conventional president than previously expected, and that he would work closely with the Republican Congress. A short while later, it turned out that Trump was also appointing his controversial campaign director and former Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon as his “chief strategist” – whatever that means – setting off full throttle, five-bell alarms. This proves that Trump is out of control and that, as presidents go, he will be a pyromaniac. Continue reading
A lot of non-voters are mad at the election results…. If only there were something they could have done!
Of America’s 320-million-odd residents, only about three-quarters are eligible to vote (mostly because they’re over the age of 18). Of the group that could vote in the presidential election, the U.S. Election Project’s Michael McDonald estimates that about 58.1 percent did — meaning that 41.9 percent of eligible Americans didn’t vote last week.
Using the most recent national splits from Cook Political’s Dave Wasserman, that means that Donald Trump was elected president with the support of fewer than 1-in-5 Americans.
So be it. That’s the system. You vote; you shape the government. You stay home, you don’t. Continue reading
Guyana Government News Brief – November 16, 2016
The Guyana tribe in search of a lost identity – By Gemma Handy – BBC News
The Guyana tribe in search of a lost identity
Painted on a classroom wall, high above the modest wooden benches and chalkboards, Moco-Moco primary school’s motto reads: “Onward upward may we ever go”.
It serves as a daily reminder that there are opportunities for those who apply themselves diligently at this tiny school of 81 pupils in a remote Amerindian village in Guyana.
Sometimes, though, the lack of modern teaching aids is a source of concern for long-time head-teacher Stephen Demetro. Continue reading →
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