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— Trump confirms ‘safe third country’ plan – ‘Remain in Mexico,’
– 15 June 2019
(Trinidad Guardian) National Security Minister Stuart Young has announced that from Monday, the Government of Trinidad and Tobago will implement a visa system for Venezuelans wishing to come to Trinidad and Tobago.
The minister made the announcement at a news conference in Port-of-Spain at the end of the Venezuelan registration process.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Citizens of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) “have important rights but to exercise these rights clear documentary evidence of their nationality is required.” This was the ruling handed down Wednesday 29 May 2019, by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the case of Bain vs Trinidad and Tobago.
BLUE PLAQUE UNVEILING FOR CECILE NOBREGA
International Educator, Playwright, Composer and Renowned Poet
Cecile Nobrega
“Find me a place in the sun, in the sea, on a rock, near an Isle,” is the opening salvo of a poem written in 1968 by Cecile Nobrega. The poem was titled The Bronze Woman, which was published in her first book of verses, soliloquies, and celebrates the women of the Caribbean and elsewhere. However, Cecile Nobrega’s poem would go on to inspire the first public statue of a Black woman in the UK.
The Bronze Woman
The 10-foot bronze statue of a woman holding a child was unveiled in 2008 as part of the 60th anniversary commemorating the arrival of the Empire Windrush. The sculpture, a physical representation of the Bronze Woman poem, was created to symbolise the strength and resilience of women as mothers, their essence as nurturers, and future aspirations for their families and themselves.
The statue proudly stands in a Lambeth Park known as Stockwell Memorial Gardens, a stone’s throw away from where Cecile lived. Continue reading
US citizenship and immigration services
Washington, USA – Acting Homeland Secretary, Kevin Mc Aleenan revealed that over 42,000 Caribbean nationals from across the region overstayed their non-immigrant visas and stayed in the US between October 2017 and September 2018. This figure is contained in the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DSH) fiscal year 2018 entry/exit overstay report.
The US government has provided figures to show that overall, in the wider Caribbean Community (CARICOM countries, Trinidad and Tobago has the lowest over-stay rate with the United States at 0.40 percent, followed by The Bahamas (0.475), Barbados (1.11 percent), St Kitts and Nevis (1.73 percent), Saint Lucia (1.86 percent) and Belize (1.93 percent). Continue reading
Trump’s new immigration bill is ‘dead on arrival’ — but its real value could be shoring up his immigration strategy for 2020
President Donald Trump
ANALYSIS… Business Insider- Michelle Mark – May 16, 2019
Out of the 66,416 Guyanese who were expected to depart the United States last year after visiting the country on a visitor’s visa, over 3,000 of them remained in the country, according to the United States Homeland Security’s ‘Fiscal Year 2018 Entry/Exit Overstay Report’.
The Overstay Report provides data on expected departures and overstays by country, for foreign travelers to the United States who entered as nonimmigrants through an air or sea port of entry (POE) and who were expected to depart in 2018 (October 1, 2017 – September 30, 2018). Continue reading
By Harry Hergash – May 6, 2019 – In In The Diaspora 
Harry Hergash, a graduate of the University of Guyana, taught at the Annandale Government Secondary from 1964 to 1969. He immigrated to Canada in 1974.
Between 1838 and 1917, Indians were recruited and brought to Guyana, then a British colony called British Guiana, under the Indentureship system to provide manual labour on the sugar plantations, almost all in the hands of British and Scottish owners. Under this system, an overseas worker was hired under contract which bound the worker to a specific plantation for a fixed period of time under stated terms and conditions, including a fixed wage rate and paid return passage.
Indians were not the first or only group of labourers recruited under this arrangement. However, most of the non-Indian immigrants withdrew from the plantations soon after their introduction, and by the early 1850s, India became the primary source. According to one report from the 1924 British Empire Wembley Exhibition, of the 343,019 immigrants recruited between 1835 and 1921, India provided 239,979. Continue reading
Dear Editor: – May 5, (Indian) Arrival Day is special to me.
As an Indian Guyanese, I reflect on those Indians taking that bold step to leave Hindustan (India) behind and cross the kala pani (black water) into the unknown future. Folks were promised a just reward for indentured servitude, and they were willing to take a chance. They never knew of the slave-like conditions that were awaiting them, but they were a resilient lot.
The Indians endured much hardship. Most of them were sick and many died on the way to British Guiana during the months it took them to reach the promised land. Caste-ism, a societal bane then, as it is now, virtually disappeared because of the dynamics within the ship. Folks from all religions and castes became a virtual family. This jehaji (shipmates) familial feeling was so strong that they could have a marriage that involved jehajis! Continue reading
A VERY CARIBBEAN POT….WINDRUSH LONDON – Documentary video
22nd June 1948: MV Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury Docks in London
Interesting documentary…...
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