Daily Archives: 08/27/2021

VIDEO: “IF THIS TIME”…. has taught me anything – By Kevin Mc Cormack (2020)

08/27/2021 – 5:38 pm

“IF THIS TIME”…. has taught me anything – By Kevin Mc Cormack (2020)

A very philosophical analysis of how an individual can deal with these times.

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TRINIDAD: Corruption, Pollution and Economic Crisis: The Cautionary Tale of The Oil Industry

08/27/2021 – 12:22 am

By August 23, 2021

By Alexander Ramdass (Legal Officer), Lisa Premchand (Programme Director) and Gary Aboud (Corporate Secretary) For Fishermen and Friends of the Sea.

Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), once proud, hopeful, and wealthy, is today left with nothing but a beleaguered Treasury and toxic crude poisoning our waters and food system.

From Sir Walter Raleigh stumbling upon the Pitch Lake in La Brea in 1595, to businessmen Randolph Rust and John Lee Lum successfully establishing the first commercial oil well in T&T in 1902, we have built a legacy that has transformed the once richest biodiverse waters in the Americas to a marine desert filled with toxic waste.  The curse of coveted oil wealth has encouraged corruption, squandermania and mismanagement resulting in trade imbalances, weakened institutions, and a legacy of undervalued royalties shrouded in contract secrecy.       Continue reading →

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BOOK: Duplicity and Complicity in a Whitewashed Church – By Rosaliene Bacchus

08/27/2021 – 12:06 am

Rosaliene Bacchus –– August 24, 2021– PRESS RELEASE — NEW NOVEL — THE TWISTED CIRCLE

Front Cover The Twisted Circle: A Novel by Rosaliene Bacchus (USA, 2021)

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Aggrieved, angered, and ashamed by the revelations in the documentary film, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, author Rosaliene Bacchus breaks her silence as a former Catholic nun in her novel, The Twisted Circle, and adds her voice for victims of sexual abuse by predatory priests in the patriarchal Catholic Church.

Drawing on her seven-year experience of the religious life during the 1970s in her native land, Guyana, Bacchus explores the abuse of power by members of the clergy. The religious women ensnared in the author’s twisted circle of deceit, are not without guilt. Taught to hate the sin but forgive the sinner, they share silent complicity with the abusers.      Continue reading →

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BUSINESS: Companies Do Not Care About Staff Loyalty (Anymore) – Video

08/27/2021 – 12:03 am

Companies Do Not Care About Staff Loyalty (Anymore) – How Money Works

Video by How Money Works:

How many people do you know that have been with their current employer for more than 10 years? Well according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics it’s actually 29% of people, which sounds suspiciously high until you consider that a vast majority of this group are made up of workers on the verge of retirement, which is important to remember for later. Amongst all workers in the US the median was just over 4 years.           Continue reading →

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