Daily Archives: 09/30/2020

Peace Studies and Gandhi Peace Festival event on Oct 2, 2020 – Live Stream Event

09/30/2020 – 3:22 pm

The Centre for Peace Studies and Gandhi Peace Festival
are pleased to invite you to the

The 28th Annual Gandhi Peace Festival

Festival Theme: Black Lives Matter

Please join us for a conversation with

Adrienne Shadd on a Live Stream Event

Black Lives in Hamilton. Ontario. CANADA

October 2, 2020 from 10am to 11:30am EDT

To join the event, click on: https://youtu.be/TjP3HhPKlXw
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GUYANA: No talks with APNU+AFC unless Harmon recognises PPP as “legitimately elected” gov’t – Pres. Ali

09/30/2020 – 12:15 am

President Infaan Ali

Demerara Waves: Denis Chabrol in Elections, News, Politics September 29, 2020

President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday categorically ruled out any political engagement with the opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) unless he is recognised as the Head of State and Government by Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon.

“Mr. Harmon must be honest enough to correct the wrongs he has done in that narrative and go out to the public and say the PPP (People’s Progressive Party) has been legitimately elected and it is the recognised government of Guyana and then we talk,” he told reporters at his Vlissengen Road-based office.    Continue reading →

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USA: Warning signs: Mike Pompeo goes to Guyana – By Ryan Cecil Jobson and Matthew Quest

09/30/2020 – 12:10 am

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By Ryan Cecil Jobson and Matthew Quest

  •  The latest episode of U.S. imperialist intrigue in the Americas deserves our critical attention. On September 17, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Suriname, beginning a diplomatic tour of South America that included additional stops in Guyana, Brazil, and Colombia.

But what is the motivation for Pompeo to visit Guyana, a country demeaned until recently as the “second poorest in the hemisphere?” Guyana, as well as Suriname, is central to the subversion of Venezuela, its neighbour to the west. In recent years, as energy multinationals withdrew from Venezuela under the threat of US economic sanctions, the Guyana-Suriname Basin emerged as a hotbed of offshore oil and gas discoveries totaling over 8 billion barrels of crude oil equivalent.      Continue reading →

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OPINION: The Hidden History of Canada’s Influence and Interference in Guyana

09/30/2020 – 12:05 am

Canadian corporations have played a role in neoliberal economic restructuring in the small South American country

Yves Engler / Canadian Dimension

Reflecting an extreme imbalance in power, people in Guyana are well informed about Canadian activity in their country, but our media seldom mentions the small nation on South America’s North Atlantic coast. 

As such, it was a positive sign to see the CBC and the Calgary Herald report on former Alberta Premier Alison Redford’s recent appointment to lead a review of the oil sector in the former British colony, which sits between Venezuela and Suriname on the northeastern tip of South America.

The industry friendly Redford will head a team of Canadian consultants to review Exxon Mobil’s massive planned project at the proposed Payara oil well that has been criticized for low royalty rates.  Continue reading →

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