Daily Archives: March 7, 2019

BRAZIL: Lights, sequins, samba: Rio carnival at the Sambadrome – in pictures

March 7, 2019 – 12:44 am

Performers from the Salgueiro samba school parade during carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome

Lights, sequins, samba: Rio carnival at the Sambadrome – in pictures

From giant turtles to Roman centurions, Rio de Janeiro’s two nights of carnival parades at the Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí began in a burst of fireworks and continued with the cheers of thousands of tourists and locals who also enjoyed street celebrations all around the city.
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U.S – Trump, the wall and a yearning for blond, blue-eyed Nordic men – By Mohamed Hamaludin

March 7, 2019 – 12:28 am

U.S – Trump, the wall and blond, blue-eyed Nordic men

– By Mohamed Hamaludin

During a January 2018 meeting in the Oval Office with members of Congress focusing on a possible bipartisan immigration policy, Haiti, El Salvador and African countries came up and President Donald J. Trump asked, according to The Washington Post, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” He wanted, instead, more immigration from countries such as Norway.

Trump had just recently met Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg so his reference to her country could have been a throw-away line. Or perhaps not.

The Nordic people have been featured prominently in the views of so-called nativists, including those who have advocated eugenics for more than a century as the ideal breed of the human race.            Continue reading →

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Guyana Politics: A brief history of instabilities in Guyana: 1953-2019 – By Freddie Kissoon

March 7, 2019 – 12:23 am

A brief history of instabilities in Guyana, 1953-2019

Freddie Kissoon

 March 07, 2019  Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

The year 2019 has come at an uncertain time. Guyana is facing an egregious Constitutional monster that is making every citizen in and out of the land nervous. There are more than a million Guyanese in foreign lands and they have loved ones living right here, so they too will not want to see ugly crises engulf the land.

Guyana drifts from one explosive imbroglio to another. This has been long before Independence. Guyana became independent in 1966. Yet way back in 1953, problems, troubles, confusion, terrible tensions, instability visited the land, and since then the runaway train is still in runaway mode.          Continue reading →

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Guyana: Former GRDB accountant loses Canadian extradition appeals – Deported

March 7, 2019 – 12:10 am

 Mar 05, 2019 – Kaieteur News

A former accountant of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), wanted here by the police on fraud charges, has exhausted his appeals against extradition in Canada.

Peter Ramcharran is expected to be flown back to Guyana on March 6, 2019, accompanied by Canadian border officials.

According to Canadian officials, Ramcharran had sought a stay in the court order to send him back to Guyana.

The last possible appeal process ended with an Ottawa court on March 04, 2019 refusing the stay.  Continue reading →

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NO ELECTION DATE: Jagdeo-Granger talks ended in stalemate; President to meet GECOM

March 7, 2019 – 12:01 am

Posted by: Denis Chabrol in Demerara Waves – March 6, 2019 President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo hold meetings, accompanied by their delegations.

President David Granger Wednesday morning maintained that he could not call an election date unless the “independent” Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is ready, and he is expected to meet the seven-member body next week.

“GECOM is in charge of elections, not the Executive. I cannot decide when elections will be held,” he said minutes after meeting Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo.

The Guyanese leader said he would be asking GECOM how much money as well as time it needs to prepare for the conduct of general and regional elections.    Continue reading →

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