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President Granger and First Lady, Sandra Granger
By Geoff Burrowes
Recently, my old friend Jai Naipaul made a very profound remark. He does from time to time – though not as often as he thinks!
We became friends on the hatch of the MV Mabiri while we were waiting for the Demerara tide to turn so we could dock. We were 15 years old at the time and were returning from the Jubilee Jamboree in England, and Georgetown was so near and yet so far, until the tide came in! Jai and a scout called Edwin Moses and I had a good gaff and we found kindred spirits in one another! Hence our friendship, thousands of miles north in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 63 years later! Continue reading
Black Montreal has been fighting a pandemic that predates Covid 19—It is Racism by the SPVM.
By Yvonne Sam – A Montreal resident
According to Monnica Williams, a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada, who studies African American mental health says, “Racism is traumatic for people of color.” “Everything that you have to carry around anyway as a black person, to add onto it having to watch people in your community who’ve done nothing killed at the hands of people in power who will probably suffer few, if any, consequences”. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/magazine/racisms-psychological-toll.html.
Our screens and feeds are filled with feeds and images of Black Americans dying or being brutalized. Scores of killings answered with acquittals. Now, as a pandemic rages, Blacks in communities across the country disproportionally devastated by COVID-19 are now forced to bear witness to more deaths at the hand of racist policemen. Continue reading
Friends of Villages Museum & Archives Inc.
(Supporting the Buxton/Friendship Museum Archives & Culture Center)
P.O. Box 352, Lanham, Maryland USA 20768-0352
Email – friendsofvmainc.gmail.com
A 501(c) (3) Organization – Tax ID# 82-1835070
The Museum is located at 35 Edmund Ford Street-Middle Street (Lower Level) in Buxton Village, East Coast Guyana.
Dear Supporters & Friends,
On behalf of the Board of Directors we wish you Happy New Year.
Also, Happy Kwanza on this last day of its celebration. IMANI- Faith, as we reflect and honor our African Ancestors. Continue reading
A rendering of how the new First Nations district Senakw could look from the Burrard Street Bridge. Photograph: Revery Architecture
The scrubby, vacant patch beneath the Burrard Street Bridge in Vancouver looks at first glance like a typical example of the type of derelict nook common to all cities: 11.7 acres of former railway lands, over which tens of thousands of people drive every day.
This is not any old swath of underused space, however. It’s one of Canada’s smallest First Nations reserves, where dozens of Squamish families once lived. The village was destroyed by provincial authorities more than a century ago.
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Scotland “cannot be imprisoned in the union against its will” by the UK government, Nicola Sturgeon has said.
The Scottish first minister says the SNP’s success in the general election gives her a mandate to hold a new referendum on independence.
However, UK ministers are opposed to such a move with Michael Gove saying the vote in 2014 should be “respected”.
Dec 10, 2019
Mayor Ubraj Narine
According to the Mayor, Houston Estates, whose principal is prominent Guyanese businessman, Michael Vieira, has been selling lands in Houston, East Bank Demerara area for billions of dollars without remitting to the Council its rightful taxes.
Narine said that an article published in the daily newspapers about sale of lands earlier this year by Houston Estates caught his attention.
The article outlined that Houston Estates was selling to Redstart Investments, an international firm which has established a presence in Guyana, over 52 acres of land in the Houston/Rome area. Continue reading
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CANADA: Ten positive things that have come out of the COVID-19 pandemic – blogTO
It’s difficult to see a potential silver lining from the devastating COVID-19 pandemic that’s been wreaking havoc around the world, and here in Canada. But amid the chaos and disaster, there have already been a few positives.
Here are some good things that have come out of COVID-19 in Canada that will hopefully stick once the pandemic is over.
1. Acts of kindness are trending Continue reading →
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