President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, is systematically implementing the pledges he made during the Presidential election campaign. Those who argued that limitations on Presidential power and the restraining hands of Cabinet and Congress, would cause many, if not all, of the President’s promises to fall by the wayside, are now becoming convinced of his determination.
He had re-enforced that determination in his Inauguration speech when he told the world, “From this moment on, it’s going to be America First”. Continue reading →
January 27, 2017 – Stabroek News – Letters – By Yvonne Sam
Dear Editor,
Yvonne Sam
Permit me to respond to the letter in Stabroek News of January 26, by Clement Rohee, captioned ‘Where were the women of Guyana on Saturday?’(see letter below). Yes, where were they? It is apropos to quote a Guyanese saying: ‘It na good foh pick up other people fire rage.’ Do the women in Guyana need overseas impetus to jolt their awareness of what is taking place right in their own part of the world?
If as stated by the writer, almost every issue raised (with very few exceptions) affects women in every Caricom country including Guyana, then what have they all done thus far? Do they lack the skills to mobilize and spread awareness, or have they become complacent with their lot? Are there no local clarions to be sounded? No leaders to spur them into action? Continue reading →
Mikhail Gorbachev, seen here in 2011, writes at TIME magazine Thursday: “It all looks as if the world is preparing for war.” (Photo: kris krüg/flickr/cc)
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has warned that it appears “as if the world is preparing for war.”
Writing in an op-ed published Thursday at TIME magazine, Gorbachev, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 for his role in ending the Cold War, writes that the most pressing problem facing the world is “the militarization of politics and the new arms race.” Continue reading →
By Dolen Perkins-ValdezJanuary 27 at 2:29 PM- Washington Post
Lori Tharps argues that skin hue will become more important than race.
Book: Same Family, Different Colors – By Lori L. Tharps
Book Review By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the author of the novels “Wench” and “Balm”. She is a visiting assistant professor in the Literature Department at American University.
Their mother was Eritrean and their father African American, but the two sisters, Lana and Asha, had vastly different experiences growing up in Brooklyn in the 1980s because of their different skin tones. When Asha was born, she was “the color of milk,” Lana said. “When I was born, I looked like a chocolate drop.” As a teenager, Lana wished she had lighter skin, while her fairer sister had no idea of her longing. [Read more]
ADL Chief: History Will Frown on Trump’s Heartless Attack on Refugees
We must stand up to remind the Trump Administration and the world – once we were strangers, too. And we must do better.
Jonathan A. Greenblatt –Haaretz
History will look back on this as a sad week in the United States of America — as the week that the president turned his back on people fleeing for their lives, in defiance of a proud promise indelibly inscribed on the Statue of Liberty that America will provide safe harbour to the world’s “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
President Trump signed an executive order on Friday to stop refugee admissions for at least several months, including shutting the door to all Syrian refugees; drastically reduce the annual cap on refugee admissions to 50,000 annually; and temporarily bar even visitation to the United States of America from some Muslim majority countries. Continue reading →
Guyana: ExxonMobil says Liza to flow at 100,000 barrels per day
Jan 29, 2017 Kaieteur News – 17 production wells planned
Trinidad (Oil and Gas Journal)- ExxonMobil Corp.’s giant Liza discovery offshore Guyana will have an average production of 100,000 b/d of oil when it begins flowing in 2020 according to the company’s Country Manager Jeff Simons.
Country Manager Jeff Simons
It also expects to produce 165 MMscfd of natural gas that will be mainly used for re-injection into the wells.
Speaking last week at the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago’s annual energy conference, Simmons said the company will use a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit to produce the oil and would then export it, and raised the possibility of it being refined in nearby Trinidad and Tobago. Continue reading →
A first time visitor to Guyana would conclude that the government is doing nothing right. He would not have been aware of the atrocities performed by the previous administration. Instead, he would be adorned with talks of victimization and witch-hunting.
He would hear complaints about the move by the government to procure special prosecutors away from the ambit of the Director of Public Prosecutions. He would also hear that the economy is on the downward slope because of poor administrative practices. Continue reading →
President Trump’s Policies and the Caribbean – by Sir Ronald Sanders
President Trump’s Policies and the Caribbean
– by Sir Ronald Sanders – Kaieteur News
Sir Ronald Sanders
President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, is systematically implementing the pledges he made during the Presidential election campaign. Those who argued that limitations on Presidential power and the restraining hands of Cabinet and Congress, would cause many, if not all, of the President’s promises to fall by the wayside, are now becoming convinced of his determination.
He had re-enforced that determination in his Inauguration speech when he told the world, “From this moment on, it’s going to be America First”. Continue reading →
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