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Canada becomes second country to legalise recreational marijuana – BBC News

October 17, 2018 – 1:30 am

Customers Nikki Rose (centre) and Ian Power (right) with Canopy Growth CEO Bruce Linton (left) at Tweed in St John's Newfoundland, 17 October 2018

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Image captionNikki Rose (centre) and Ian Power (right) were the first to buy legal cannabis at Tweed in St. John’s Newfoundland, just after midnight on Wednesday

Canada has become the second country after Uruguay to legalise possession and use of recreational cannabis.

The nationwide market for cannabis opened on Wednesday at midnight amid lingering questions about the impact on health, the law and public safety.

Information has been sent to 15m households about the new laws and public awareness campaigns.  But there remain concerns, including about the readiness for police forces to tackle drug impaired driving.

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“Male and female He created them” – By Rosaliene Bacchus

October 14, 2018 – 10:58 am

Three Worlds One Vision

Brett Kavanaugh sworn in to the US Supreme Court - 6 October 2018

Brett Kavanaugh sworn in to the U.S. Supreme Court – October 6, 2018
Photo Credit: The Press Democrat

Despite sexual assault allegations, on October 6, 2018, Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in to the U.S. Supreme Court. His contentious nomination process before the male-dominated Senate Committee hammered home the gnawing reality: Women have yet to achieve equal footing with men under our legal system.

To achieve what may have been a lifelong ambition, Kavanaugh exposed his “two spirited daughters” to the public bashing of his integrity. Has he used the sexual allegations – which he has denied with tears and anger – as a teaching moment for his ten- and thirteen-year old daughters? Has he considered the possibility that his daughters could one day suffer the same trauma as his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford?

Ford did not tell her parents what had happened that summer day while she was out with…

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Guyana- Property Dispute: Campbellville property sold to radio station… Two Transports surface

October 12, 2018 – 1:25 am

 Oct 12, 2018 – Kaieteur News

30 Garnett Street. Campbellville

Victor Sukhai is claiming that the property with the radio tower behind was illegally sold in what is a clear case of fraud and conspiracy.

There appears to be light at the end of the tunnel over a disputed piece of Campbellville property that has ended up in the hands of radio station controlled by a Trinidadian company.

On Wednesday, representatives of Ansa McAl disclosed that according to their files, the property at 30 Garnett Street was sub-divided more than 40 years ago between two brothers.  However, one is claiming that no sub-division happened and fraud was involved.      Continue reading →

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UG – University of Guyana – Discussion on Marijuana and Guyana – October 17. 2018

October 10, 2018 – 6:50 pm

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Did  Feminism provoke Toxic Masculinity? – By Yvonne Sam

October 8, 2018 – 2:23 am

Did  Feminism provoke Toxic Masculinity?

– By Yvonne Sam

In the search for the truth consider beginning at the root.

I listened with rapt attention to the testimonies of both the sexually assaulted professor Christine Blasey –Forde and the aggressor likely Supreme Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh.  With equal intensity along with the rest of the world, ( or so I think) I listened to female after female recount their  tales , some more explicitly detailed than others of being at the receiving end of undesirable and unsolicited male advances.

While the political imbroglio deepened, women took to the streets in major U. S cities to highlight women’s issues, and to ensure that their voices were heard especially where it pertained to the likely voting for Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Judge, a position that he would occupy for the rest of his living and giving years. Say NO for Judge Kavanaugh was the popular chant. .    Continue reading →

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Cash-jet pilot found guilty for cocaine and money laundering – faces life sentence

October 7, 2018 – 7:29 am

Cash-jet pilot found guilty for cocaine, money laundering – faces life sentence

 Oct 06, 2018  – Kaieteur News

Convicted: Khamraj Lall

Guyanese-born Khamraj Lall, was convicted this week on several charges ranging from cocaine distribution to money laundering.

Lall was found guilty last Thursday of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, money laundering, structuring monetary instruments, and conspiracy to commit money laundering and structuring, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced yesterday.

Lall, 51, of Ringwood, New Jersey, was convicted on all eight counts of a superseding indictment following an eight-day trial before U.S. District Judge Anne E. Thompson in Trenton Federal Court.      Continue reading →

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Temperament & the Supreme Court Justices  – By Yvonne Sam

October 7, 2018 – 12:37 am

Why the detractory brouhaha about Kavanaugh’s temperament when the Bench has seated others of worse ilk? History reveals a different story.

Listening to Senator after senator and the media ramble on about the absent fitness of Judge Brent Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, one would get the impression that Justices of the U. S Supreme Court had been warm, affable, even tempered individuals.

Taking pride of place in the heated debate about the likely confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh was the question of temperament.  Pushed aside was the impropriety issue. The basic contention lay in the fact that by elevating his voice during the final part of his confirmation hearing , impertinently interrupting, and accosting senators and characterizing  the charges against him as politically motivated, the nominee presented himself as having a character unsuited  for U. S Supreme Court justice. The general impression conveyed was that such a case was totally new not déjà vu.     Continue reading →

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UG – University of Guyana – Events Scheduled from October to December 2018

October 5, 2018 – 12:09 am

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Organized and Responsible Citizen Power works – By Dave Martins

September 30, 2018 – 6:57 pm

Organized and Responsible Citizen Power works

 – By Dave Martins

It is sometimes the case with the international events surrounding us that an occurrence in a distant country can have relevance for us, in completely separate matters, in our homeland. This week, we had a classic, indeed startling, example in the furor raging in the USA over the nomination of a judge for that country’s Supreme Court when accusations of sexual dalliance by the candidate, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, were raised by Dr. Christine Ford, which she says occurred when she and Kavanaugh, were both teenagers in school.

With the judge stoutly denying the accusation, the matter came before the Senate and, as various Senators spoke on the matter, a vexing issue that arose from various contentious points, was the call from Dr. Ford, and others, to have an FBI background check done on the issue.  This suggestion was dismissed by the Senate body and also ruled out as “this is not what the FBI does” by President Donald Trump.     Continue reading →

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Kavanaugh saga is tale of hypocrisy:… sanity and decency in short supply  – By Mohamed Hamuludin

September 27, 2018 – 12:41 am

Kavanaugh saga is tale of hypocrisy and sanity and decency in short supply  

By MOHAMED HAMALUDIN

Reactions to the allegation that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted at least one woman have ranged from the absurd to the ridiculous among his supporters.

Gina Sosa, a former Florida congressional candidate, offered this defense: “Tell me, what boy hasn’t done this in high school? We’re talking about a 17-year-old boy in high school, with testosterone running high.”

 Irina Villarino took it a step further: “In the grand scheme of things, my goodness, there was no intercourse. There was maybe a touch. Really? Thirty-six years later she’s still stuck on that?”     Continue reading →

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