…Celebrating Christmas in Guyana… “There’s nothing like meh home on Christmas morning, liming wid meh frens and family…” By: John Slingshot DrePaul, 2016…
…special ‘thank you’ to Russel Lancaster & staff (Guyana) for the original video shoot…and Dani Donadi & Donadi Music Productions (Florida) for the recording…our forever gratitude…!!
Hillary Clinton lost the November election because she blew off Sanders activists and voters
The anger among Sanders backers by the time of the convention at the end of July was palpable.
By Dave Lindorff – December 21, 2016 – | Op-Ed – Nation of Change
The incredible “group-think” that has seen the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, President Obama, the Clinton campaign and most of the corporate media braying that Vladimir Putin scandalously upended American democracy and threw the election to his favored candidate Donald Trump is based on a ludicrous premise. That premise: that the election went Trump’s way because several tens of thousands of voters in a few states – Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin – switched away from Clinton to Trump because of an alleged (and factually unproven) Russian “hack” of Democratic National Committee and of Hillary campaign chair John Podesta’s emails. Continue reading →
Cricket: Ramnaresh Sarwan calls it a day – By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine
Ramnaresh Sarwan
The stories flow like honey on a freshly baked bun. They are nostalgic and tell of a young man in his prime dispatching the ball to all parts of the boundary. He is nimble, has eyes like the jaguar of his island and is unafraid to take on the opposition. The cricket stories are endless and they will become part of his legend.
But there are other stories that are seldom told. Kishan and Kumarie are standing in the line at Piarco Airport in Trinidad. An immigration officer spots them. He approaches the couple, takes their passports and ushers them to a secluded room. The television is on and the officer says, ‘ you can watch your son bat. I will be back later.’ Ramnaresh Sarwan tore into the opposition at Queens Park Oval on that day. Continue reading →