Daily Archives: 09/24/2020

GUYANA: President Ali to investigate the US$150M decade-long CJIA renovation scandal…

09/24/2020 – 12:10 am

I will not accept this project …President Ali tells Chinese contractor, other stakeholders

 Sep 22, 2020  News–  –– investigations to be launched

Years of anger over the ongoing US$150M-plus expansion at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, culminated yesterday with an angry President Irfaan Ali making it clear that Guyana will not be accepting the project as is.

President Irfaan Ali with Chinese ambassador to Guyana, Cui Jianchun.

During a meeting and tour of the project, the president also vowed an investigation will be coming and that it is unacceptable that a fixed-price project could be so drastically reduced in scope.

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Barbados as a republic; soon to be free of tarnished ‘global Britain’ – The Guardian

09/24/2020 – 12:05 am
The Queen in Bridgetown during her silver jubilee tour of the Caribbean, 1977.

The Queen in Bridgetown during her Silver Jubilee tour of the Caribbean in 1977. Photograph: Ron Bell/PA

Tue 22 Sep 2020 13.39 BST
The decision to drop the Queen had long been planned, but the shameful Windrush scandal altered perceptions of the ‘mother country’ 
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COMMENTARY: BAR JOKES AND GRAMMAR – BY Linda K Sienkiewicz Blog

09/24/2020 – 12:02 am

COMMENTARY

What’s better than bar jokes for English majors, grammar nerds and writers? When they also serve as mini grammar lessons! These jokes are all over the internet, and unfortunately, I couldn’t find the author. But here they are for you, with my lessons:

A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

A dangling participle is one intended to modify a noun that is not actually present in the text. The second sentence reads as if the evening is enjoying the cocktail and chatting, which makes no sense.        Continue reading →

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