Monthly Archives: October 2020

USA ELECTIONS 2020: Why it has to be Biden – The Economist

October 31, 2020 – 12:20 am

Joe Biden

  • USA Elections: Donald Trump Versus Joe Biden 

Economist mag endorses Biden for President

Donald Trump has desecrated the values that make America a beacon to the world

THE COUNTRY that elected Donald Trump in 2016 was unhappy and divided. The country he is asking to re-elect him is more unhappy and more divided. After almost four years of his leadership, politics is even angrier than it was and partisanship even less constrained.    Continue reading →

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A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair – By Rosaliene Bacchus

October 31, 2020 – 12:15 am

Three Worlds One Vision –~ Guyana – Brazil – USA – By Rosaliene Bacchus

If you have ever achieved a goal or a dream, you know that the first step to success was in visualizing or verbalizing what you had hoped to achieve. To imagine a desirable future outcome is key to its realization. The animated short film A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair dares to imagine a better world in which no one is sacrificed; a world in which everyone is essential.

About a month into the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, Naomi Klein and her husband Avi Lewis, co-founders of The Leap, together with award-winning artist Molly Crabapple and Opal Tometi, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, started a conversation about the role of futurism when so much is at stake.    Continue reading →

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GUYANA 2020: GREG QUINN – On Five Eventful Years in Georgetown – Watch on YouTube

October 31, 2020 – 12:10 am

Greg Quinn

GREG QUINN is leaving Guyana after five eventful years as British High Commissioner there. They have been eventful. What are his takeaways: —– About this Event – FREE 

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19TH – 19.00 GMT

GREG QUINN UK HIGH COMMISSIONER – Subject: GUYANA 2020

Greg Quinn arrived as Her Majesty’s High Commissioner to Guyana in 2015.Since then it has been eventful. Three Presidents and two election seasons including the five month ‘hiatus’ in 2020. He was one of the three leading diplomats who refused to accept any election rigging. Greg has made his mark in many ways ‘back home’. What is he taking away from Guyana to the UK?            Continue reading →

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CULTURE: Wow! River Dance in China – Video

October 31, 2020 – 12:04 am

The Chinese are just unstoppable.
Anything you can do they can do better.

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GUYANA: A low-cost oil supplier; as world still needs 50% oil and gas energy – Hess

October 30, 2020 – 12:20 am

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Demerara Waves: Denis Chabrol in Business, News October 29, 2020

Hess Corporation, one of the co-venturers in the Stabroek Block, is keeping its eyes on Guyana as a low-cost supplier of oil, saying that global projections show that the world needs just under 50 percent oil and gas in an energy mix up  to another 30 years by when the cost of renewable energy is expected to fall.    Continue reading →

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GUYANA: Harmon promises `serious resistance’ if Local Gov’t Elections not held next year

October 30, 2020 – 12:10 am

Joseph Harmon

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Leader of the Opposition Joseph Harmon today said that there will be “serious resistance” by the APNU+AFC coalition if Local Government Elections (LGE) are not held next year as mandated by law.

“…..Local Government Elections must be held so that communities can choose their leaders. Since the APNU+AFC came into office in 2015, we had two Local Government Elections in 2016 and 2018. The next LGE is due in 2021,” Harmon said.          Continue reading →
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Caribbean Airlines Expands: Three weekly flights between Barbados and Ogle, Guyana

October 30, 2020 – 12:05 am

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Caribbean Airlines Introduces Twice Weekly Services between Guyana and Toronto

October 30, 2020 – 12:02 am

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COVID-19 Effects: Financial Crisis | What To Expect Next – Video

October 29, 2020 – 1:07 am

COVID-19 Effects: Financial Crisis | What To Expect Next – Video

By Neil McCoy-Ward – October 25, 2020 – Reporting from London UK

As we go into Nov & Dec to end 2020, you may be left wondering what’s going to happen over the next few months as we go to 2021.

You may think, so what if retailers are going bankrupt, so what if the local Mom and Pop restaurant has closed, it doesn’t affect me or my job so I don’t care… well, maybe, you should care…   HERE IS HOW IT WILL AFFECT YOU                Continue reading →

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USA: What is at Stake for Donald Trump? It is Certainly NOT Just the Election – Opinion

October 29, 2020 – 12:15 am

– By: Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian UK

GOING BANKRUPT ONCE IS UNFORTUNATE. Going bankrupt twice looks like carelessness. Driving your companies into bankruptcy SIX TIMES, however, as Donald Trump has done, makes you a brilliant businessman.

THAT IS ACCORDING TO THE US PRESIDENT, ANYWAY. Trump, a self-described “king of debt”, is proud of his multiple business bankruptcies, boasting frequently about how he has “brilliantly” exploited corporate bankruptcy laws in order to wriggle out of his companies’ financial obligations.          Continue reading →

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