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Oleblagger@gmail.comOleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.comBlogger417125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-39066549164399147752010-02-08T06:17:00.002-04:002010-02-08T06:21:07.805-04:00Dookeran: More UNC people coming to COP<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 19px; "><div class="node-author" style="font-size: 9px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-transform: uppercase; font-family: Arial, Georgia; "><div class="submitted" style="display: inline; "><span class="authors"><a href="http://guardian.co.tt/byline-authors/akile-simon" title="See all stories by Akile Simon" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">AKILE SIMON</a></span></div></div><div class="node-date" style="font-size: 10px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: Arial, Georgia; ">Published: <span class="date-display-single">8 Feb 2010</span></div><div class="node-body"><div class="image-right " style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; float: right; "><div></div><div class="image-caption" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-align: left; font-family: Arial, Georgia; "></div></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 0px; ">Recent developments in the UNC will see another 25 per cent of its membership coming to join the Congress of the People, according to COP leader Winston Dookeran. “We will continue to have dialogue with all political and civic groups, aimed a setting the stage for real national unity,” he said. He told the monthly national council meeting of the COP at its Operations Centre in Charlieville yesterday that one of the gatekeepers had fallen by the wayside, and whilst the other gatekeeper built tall walls, he, too, was falling apart. Dookeran said the Congress of the People would survive because it was not founded on the racial divide, but remained an all-inclusive party aimed at the total reconstruction of Trinidad and Tobago. He said the COP was moving with a greater intensity, dexterity and force to manage the affairs of T&T when the time came.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 0px; ">He said he saw no fallout, following the new leadership at the UNC. “There is a new enthusiasm, new vibrancy,” Dookeran said. He said that there had been discussions with the National Joint Action Committee (NJAC) on the reformation of this country's politics, and he had also sent copies of COP’s “Fixing the Politics” to Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Tobago’s TOP. He said there were three basic views under study—the battle to fix the politics in TT; the politics of change that this opportunity has given us; and moving forward as “a nation, so that we can remove ourselves from the imprisonment of the gatekeepers that have kept our modern politics in a state of siege.”</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 0px; ">COP will commence the screening of interested candidates for the forthcoming Local Government elections, and it will resume its Meet-the-Constituency visits from Febuary 22. Additionally, the party’s national executive elections will be held on Sunday, June 6. All the posts will be up for grabs, except that of the political leader who holds office for three years, and whose term expires next year May. “It is going to be one man, one vote,” according to Roy Augustus, COP’s chairman. Additionally, there will be a special meeting of COP membership on Sunday, March 7, at the SWWTU Hall, Wrightson Road, Port-of-Spain. Dookeran said the COP would continue to work with all the people of T&T to improve the quality of life, security and good governance.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 0px; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 0px; "><b>Now so long ago I told you all that this man ha to be the biggest cont hole I ever come across.</b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 0px; "><b>Everybody joining the Kamla bandwagon. Many columnists, speculators and commentators are slowly comin to the conclusion that this Kamlamania might bring about an end to the COP.</b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 0px; "><b>Many COP supporters have already left and even voted in the UNC internal elections. </b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 0px; "><b>But here comes Cont galore, living in some fockin dream world to say that 'more UNC people coming to the COP."</b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 0px; "><b>Wa d fock I does really be hearing. Ah mean COP supporters is your fockin bouncin head leader for real ?</b></p></div></span>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com169tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-82505116482420900372010-02-08T06:08:00.001-04:002010-02-08T06:10:07.695-04:00We got it wrong<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><div class="texte" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "></span></p><div class="subheadline" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; ">Hunt apologises for $2m stadium flag fiasco<br /></div><div class="byline" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; ">by Ria Taitt Political Editor</div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Five months after its erection at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, the Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs, Gary Hunt, has finally bowed to public opinion, conceding that the $2 million flag was a grave error.</p><p>In an address to the nation last night, which focused largely on the accomplishments of his ministry, Hunt admitted that while the idea of the flag was noble, it went all wrong ’in its implementation’. Furthermore, he gave an undertaking to the country that never would this happen again.</p><p>’My fellow citizens, although the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs continues to make great strides and has enjoyed considerable success, we have not always got it right. There have been a few missteps along the way and one of these has been the construction of a national flag at the Hasely Crawford Stadium. The proposal to erect a national symbol at a facility that bears the name of our only Olympic gold medallist was a noble one but there were errors in its implementation,’ Hunt said.</p><p>’We have heard the public’s concerns and have acted appropriately. I have since directed the Sports Company to adjust its systems and policies to ensure that nothing like this occurs in the future. A national flag should never become the source of conflict and controversy and I wish to assure the national community that it will not happen again.’</p><p>This is a major turnaround for Hunt, who, at a press conference held with senior members of the Sports Company in September last year, stoutly defended the decision to erect the flag. He said then that he had received tremendous support on his Facebook on the issue. </p></div><div class="texte" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><p>But in reality, the flag has never gone down well with the population and the matter has continued to provoke criticism and has even been the subject of negative comments in calypso.</p><p>Hunt’s shift in position also comes amidst a growing sense of unease within the PNM, having regard to what has transpired within the Opposition UNC and the emergence of Kamla Persad-Bissessar as a bright new star in the political firmament.</p><p>In his address, Hunt said it was clear that the country was on the verge of a golden era of sport in Trinidad and Tobago.</p><p>’The many successes that we have enjoyed in the last two years are just the tip of the iceberg and the best is yet to come,’ he said.</p><p>He said the ministry recently finalised a comprehensive and systematic plan for the future development of sport entitled ’The Way - Pathways to Sporting Excellence’.</p><p>’I am confident that this new plan will take Trinidad and Tobago to the highest levels of international sporting glory,’ he added.</p><p>Hunt announced that the Sports Commission would be established soon and that the ’highly successful Elite Athlete Assistance Programme’ would be expanded ’to include an even larger base of talented citizens’.</p><p>In terms of youth development, Hunt said Government intends to implement 48 more sustainable community youth programmes throughout the country this year.</p><p>Saying, however, that Government recognises ’that more work needs to be done’, Hunt said, ’I wish to assure the national community that we shall not shirk this responsibility. Working together with communities, youth groups, schools, as well as our national sporting organisations, I have no doubt that we will scale even greater heights in the months and years ahead.’</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Gary Isaac Hunt now realise that? </b></p><p><b>Wa really happen is that some PNM syco teef half of that money and dey fock well know who it is.</b></p><p><b>He should push ah flag in the Colombian oman who threaten we here.</b></p></div></span>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-57173725803396734582010-02-08T06:04:00.001-04:002010-02-08T06:06:54.784-04:00End of UNC Monday Night forum<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, serif; font-size: 12px; "><p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 10px; ">By AZARD ALI and RICHARDSON DHALAI Monday, February 8 2010</p><p class="article" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, serif; "><b>DESPITE her painful injury, UNC political leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar launches a “Meet the Constituency tour” tonight in the heartland of former political leader Basdeo Panday’s Couva North constituency.</b></p><p class="article" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 4px; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, serif; ">The meeting replaces the traditional UNC Monday Night Forum — which was conceptualised by Panday — to sensitise UNC supporters every Monday on national issues. The forum, however, has not been held since the UNC announced internal elections in early December last year. <br /><br />Panday told Newsday yesterday that he has not been invited to tonight’s Meet-the-Constituency tour although he is Opposition Leader and the Couva North MP. The tour will begin at the Chandernagore Presbyterian School from 6 pm. Panday had voted in that school in the January 24 elections, but lost to Persad-Bissessar by over 12,000 votes for political leadership of the UNC. Yesterday, he said: “I have not been invited, but I will see how the meeting develops.”<br /><br />Asked whether he will launch his own parallel meetings, Panday said that it all depends on how the new meetings of the newly-elected UNC executive fare. “I will see how they develop and if it becomes necessary then I will, or, I will not,” Panday said.<br /><br />Neither Persad-Bissessar nor new party chairman Jack Warner were available last night to comment on why Panday had not been invited to tonight’s meeting in his own constituency.<br /><br />The discontinuation of the Monday Night forum further widens the ongoing rift between Panday and the newly-elected executive led by Persad-Bissessar.<br /><br />But pressed for a comment on tonight’s launch which is in the Couva North constituency heartland, Warner, who is UNC chairman, stated, “We, this new executive, never had a Monday Night Forum. That was a Panday initiative. This new executive will not be having any Monday Night Forum.<br /><br />Kamla will instead be going into the constituencies and meeting the people and getting first hand information on their problems.”<br /><br />A release issued yesterday by Warner stated, “We wish to announce that the party’s leadership ‘Meet the constituents tour’, shall commence on Monday February 8, in the Couva North constituency, at the Chandernagore Presbyterian School from 6 pm.” “These meetings are intended to be an ongoing exercise as we seek to construct the bridge between the people and the leadership.<br /><br />It is our answer to the call to bring people closer to the governance.” Persad-Bissessar, who was injured when she fell in the Parliament chamber on Friday, will be the feature speaker. She spent yesterday resting at her home in Siparia for most of the day.<br /><br />Asked yesterday whether he will bow to Warner’s request to allow Persad-Bissessar to become Opposition Leader, by no later than next Wednesday, Panday said: “The office is not something to hand over. I can’t hand over any office. If they have a letter they should send it to the President who will appoint a new leader of the Opposition. As it is now, I have not being informed by the president.”</p><p class="article" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 4px; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, serif; "><br /></p><p class="article" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 4px; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, serif; "><b>It really look like Jack Warner take over this fockin party now yes. </b></p><p class="article" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 4px; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, serif; "><b><br /></b></p><p class="article" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 4px; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, serif; "><b>Another nigga. Ah mean dis fockin party going to mash up now. Kamla cyah open she cont and talk. <br /><br />Why JAck have to be making all the statements? Why Jack obsessed wid getting rid of Panday ? Why he have to talk to the MP's?</b></p><p class="article" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 4px; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, serif; "><b><br /></b></p><p class="article" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 4px; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, serif; "><b>Something smelling fishy.</b></p></span>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com99tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-439590868289576302010-02-02T06:01:00.002-04:002010-02-02T06:08:06.219-04:00WASA starts rationing<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 20px; "><h1 class="title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 26px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><div class="texte" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><p>THE WATER and Sewerage Authority (WASA) yesterday announced a national rationing plan in order to conserve the country’s dwindling water reserves, saying it was the only way to ensure customers have at least a supply they could survive on during what seems a tough dry season ahead.</p><p>Also, as of Wednesday morning, there will be nationwide restrictions on water use. Customers found breaking these restrictions, which fall under the Water and Sewerage Act, will face fines of at least $80 or $90 per offence.</p><p>Repeat offenders who leave sprinklers on excessively, religiously wash their cars with hoses, and refuse to take responsibility for their actions where water conservation is concerned will be further penalised, WASA corporate lawyer, Dion Abdool, said at a press conference at the company’s St Joseph headquarters yesterday.</p><p>The restrictions will be published in the press before they take full effect tomorrow, WASA officials said. The authority’s police will be on patrol once the restrictions are in effect.</p><p>WASA officials said given the low rainfall levels of last year, and further dry conditions this year, water will be redistributed from areas with regular supplies to those with irregular supplies.</p></div><div class="texte" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><p>’There will be a redistribution of water,’ WASA CEO Dr Jim Lee Young said.</p><p>We started with a dry wet season ... the levels in our reservoir are lower than they should be for this time of year. And we still have to enter the harshest part of the dry season.’</p><p>He said total rainfall for January was just over 30 mm, more than 40 mm less than the Meteorological Office had previously predicted. He explained that ’certain areas of Trinidad are blessed with water’.</p><p>’We will start moving water from those areas, for example the north-west part of Trinidad, and sending it to areas with less,’ he said.</p><p>He said water from areas like the Diego Martin and Tucker Valley area will be moved eastwards. Lee Young said this would then displace water from the Caroni area and the displaced water will run further into WASA’s system and be fed to other areas within the network.</p><p>The CEO said while WASA has its job to do, citizens also had to do their part in conserving water for everyone in the country by fixing things like leaking pipes and rotting tank floats.</p><p>’We are now asking our customers to respond,’ he said.</p><p>Company chairman, Shafeek Sultan-Khan, also said customers could soon expect to get WASA meters. ’We are going into universal metering,’ he said.</p><p>While Sultan-Khan said WASA had its own share of fixing to do, he said once people had meters on their homes they would be more willing to fix leaks quickly and save water more efficiently.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>These setta PNM fockin niggas spend out all the money blingin on fancy fockin building and now crunch time, it eh have no water.</b></p><p><b>How come niggas cyah think that hard times will come and the first priority is to provide people with basic things to fockin live.</b></p><p><b>Nah, build big big fancy building and teef out the fockin money, gove Calder Hart to tote out for you. </b></p><p><b>Now the money done we have to suffer. Somebody should bull Mannning in he bottom.</b></p></div></span></h1></span>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-12739227248165197072010-02-01T06:43:00.002-04:002010-02-01T07:00:09.577-04:00Ramesh: Kamla should rethink chief whip<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 19px; ">Tabaquite MP Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj is hoping that UNC leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar reconsiders the process of the appointment of chief whip. Maharaj said he received a call from Persad-Bissessar last Thursday asking for proposals for a chief whip. “I told her that is was my view that she ought not to change the status quo until she got a consensus of all the Members of Parliament.” Last Friday, Maharaj said he was surprised to see that Persad-Bissessar appointed Jack Warner as chief whip. Maharaj said he later found out that some of his colleagues were never consulted on the matter. “I am hoping that sister Kamla would reconsider this matter with the members because as a party in Parliament we should try and stay together. I am prepared to help.” Unless there is a consensus, Maharaj said the UNC can lead to problems in Parliament. “I think errors can be corrected and Mr Warner has a large heart. I am sure that whatever happened would be in the interest of Parliament.” (SH)</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 19px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 19px; "><b>Well is either one out of 2 things. </b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 19px; "><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 19px; "><b>Ah hoping is ah fas one she pull on Jack for em to take he own toti and fock he self or either he fock she wid it.</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 19px; "><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 19px; "><b>I dunno why dem suckin up to this fockin con artiste.</b></span></div>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-8508689262737791992010-02-01T06:19:00.002-04:002010-02-01T06:24:36.000-04:00Ravi B crowned youngest Chutney Soca Monarch<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, serif; font-size: 12px; "><p class="article" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, serif; "><b>RAVI BISSEMBHAR is the 2010 Chutney Soca Monarch. He was declared winner before a mammoth crowd at Skinner Park, San Fernando, early yesterday morning.</b></p><p class="article" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 4px; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, serif; ">At age 27, the popular chutney artiste, whose stage name is Ravi B, is the youngest winner in the history of the 15-year competition.<br /><br />Singing “You Know Ah Was ah Drinker”, Ravi B made a dramatic entry on stage at 10.15 pm carried on a sofa by members the bmobile Shiv Shakti Dance Company. He was accompanied during the performance, which was filled with dance and drama, by Barbadian soca star Allison Hinds and his sister, popular chutney singer Nisha Bissembhar.<br /><br />The new Chutney Soca Monarch credits popular music producer Big Rich, (Zaheer Khan) of the Pungulungs Factory for his success.<br /><br />“He is the mastermind behind this song. I was just lucky to get this sweet melody and rhythm from Big Rich,” he said.<br /><br />The song was written by Kevin Kissoon, of Piarco, who gave the lyrics to Big Rich. The producer then chose the music and experimented with various singers.<br /><br />“Ravi has a youthful and playful disposition. I believe the melody and lyrics suited his personality,” Big Rich said he celebrated the song’s success early yesterday morning.<br /><br />The new monarch, who is booked to perform every day until Carnival Monarch, has won $200,000 in cash.<br /><br />In winning the title, he edged out a favourite in the competition, Rikki Jai, a former monarch, who had to settle for the second prize of $100,000. Jai’s song “Barman” has been ruling the airwaves in the recent weeks and has earned him a spot in the finals of the International<br /><br />Groovy Soca Monarch.<br /><br />In third place was newcomer, Moses Charles, 21, with his composition “Indrani”. Since the release of the song, Moses has been in big demand to perform at fetes and is booked for the biggest chutney shows of the season.<br /><br />“I know people enjoyed the song but coming up against the big names in chutney was really a nerve wracking affair,” he admitted.<br /><br />Charles also credits Big Rich for helping him develop the hit song.<br /><br />“Although I was responsible for choosing the music to go with my song, Big Rich polished the tune to a certain perfection so it became an instant hit,” Moses said.<br /><br />Big Rich had a hand in the three top songs in the competition and worked on 11 of the songs in the finals, including Omadath Maharaj’s “The Night Before the War”. Maharaj, who performed the military-style song accompanied by the Primala Dance Company, placed fifth.<br /><br />Another newcomer, and the youngest competitor, Kris Persad, 20, placed fourth with “Sunita”. Persad, son of veteran musician Veerendra Persad, rode on stage on a white horse much to the delight of the crowd.<br /><br />In sixth place was Lalchan “Hunter” Babwah, who sang. “Puncheon”. Defending champion Kenneth Salick did not place among the top six in the competition. </p><p class="article" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 4px; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, serif; "><br /></p><p class="article" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 4px; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, serif; "><b>These fockin dumb ass coolies cyah even sing ah fokin song about something else beside RUM.</b></p><p class="article" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 4px; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, serif; "><b><br /></b></p><p class="article" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 4px; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, serif; "><b>This chutney ting goin from fockin bad to worse. All yuh should say thank god George SIngh is Lenny Saith family and he ha good contact for big prize money. </b></p><p class="article" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 4px; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, serif; "><b><br /></b></p><p class="article" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 4px; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana, serif; "><b>These conts illeterate yes!</b></p></span>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-59131690372094037252009-05-28T18:56:00.003-04:002009-05-28T19:06:27.241-04:00Investigate John Jeremie By Andre BagooInvestigate John Jeremie By Andre Bagoo - Newsday<br />Sunday, July 20 2008<br /><br />Desmond Allum, the President of the Criminal Bar Association, has written to the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr Geoffrey A Henderson, calling on him to conduct an investigation into whether former Attorney General John Jeremie attempted to pervert the course of public justice or misbehaved in public office arising out of his reported involvement in the re-purchase of land at Millennium Park owned by Chief Magistrate Sherman Mc Nicolls.<br /><br />The land transaction was one of the key issues which surrounded complaints against former Chief Justice Satnarine Sharma and attempts to impeach him over allegations that he tried to interfere in criminal proceedings against Prof Vijay Naranysingh and former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday.<br /><br />Allum’s letter, dated July 18 was released to the press on Friday, the same day it was delivered to the DPP. Also handed to the media was a copy of a similar letter also calling for an investigation from the Association’s Vice-President, Nizam Mohammed, dated April 5, 2007 and addressed to Mr Henderson.<br /><br />Mr Allum claimed that more than one year later there has been no reply to Mohammed’s letter. Allum wrote to Henderson:<br /><br />“There is already in existence enough material in the form of witness statements taken in relation to the investigations into the criminal as well as the disciplinary proceedings for us to establish that the Chief Magistrate approached the then Attorney General with two allegations, one about the conduct of Chief Justice Sat Sharma and the other in relation to a suspicious land transaction, at the same time the Attorney General was a key witness against Mr Sharma in the Naraynsingh 137 proceedings.”<br /><br />Mohammed, in his earlier letter to the DPP, noted that there were enough reports concerning the interaction and communication between Jeremie, Andre Monteil, a senior CLICO executive and the PNM Treasurer, Anthony Fifi, a director of Home Construction Limited and the Chief Magistrate, to warrant a full investigation.<br /><br />Jeremie’s role in the whole affair, involving attempts to impeach the Chief Justice and the attempt by the Chief Magistrate to re-sell the land he had purchased from Home Construction Ltd at Millennium Park, was heightened by information disclosed in the Mustill Tribunal which was held here in September 2007, Allum stated.<br /><br />Following the last General Elections, Jeremie was not re-appointed Attorney General. Instead, he received a prized posting as this country’s High Commissioner to London and has already taken up his position there with his family.<br /><br />Monteil has since retired from CLICO and did not seek renomination as PNM Treasurer at last weekend’s annual PNM convention. Allum’s letter details the chain of events that ended with Mc Nicolls signing a complaint against Sharma on May 5, 2006 reportedly the same day he received a cheque for $390,000 as a deposit towards the purchase of land that Mc Nicolls was trying to sell. With respect to the alleged actions of the Attorney General, Allum’s letter stated: ...<br /><br />t<span style="color:#000099;">hat the Chief Magistrate approached Jeremie with two allegations: one about the conduct of the Chief Justice and the other in relation to a suspicious land transaction. At the time the Attorney General was a key witness against the Chief Justice in the Naraynsingh Section 137 proceedings.</span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"> ... that despite being a witness against the Chief Justice, the Attorney General began to conduct a private investigation into these allegations in a manner that was not transparent. Thus, he became an active participant in a process calculated to impeach the Chief Justice; ... </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">that the Attorney General told the Prime Minister about the Chief Justice’s allegations and advised the DPP and Michael Quamina, the Prime Minister’s attorney, about the allegations. He was advised to take a written statement from the Chief Magistrate but did not at the time do so;</span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"> ... that despite being a witness in the Naraynsingh case against the Chief Justice, the Attorney General apparently did not refer the matter to the Police or the DPP; ... </span><br /><br />that no attempt was made to meaningfully investigate or act on the Chief Magistrate’s allegations on the Attorney General’s part, even as he assumed control of these serious allegations — including that senior persons at CLICO had tried to influence the 2006 Panday Integrity trial; ...<br /><br />that on April 28, 2006 the Attorney General called on a friend Mr Andre Monteil of CLICO, telling him, “clean up your mess”; ...<br /><br />that the Attorney General encouraged an HCL official, Mr Fifi, to re-purchase a piece of land at Millennium Park from the Chief Magistrate; ...<br /><br />that the Attorney General forwarded to the Prime Minister a statement signed by the Chief Magistrate, a complaint implicating the Chief Justice, on May 5, 2006, the exact date that the Chief Magistrate received money for the land he sold to HCL; ...<br /><br />that on the same day, the Attorney General put pressure on the Chief Justice to resign in order to avoid criminal charges arising out of the Chief Magistrate’s allegations.<br /><br />Allum’s letter quoted excerpts from evidence given at the Mustill Tribunal hearings including Lord Mustill’s expression of disappointment that Mr Jeremie chose not to give evidence before the Mustill Tribunal.<br /><br />Allum concluded his letter by stating that at no other time in our history was there more need for open transparency in the activities of all public servants and public officials “The matters raised in our correspondence,” Allum told the DPP, “are of serious public importance.<br /><br />The public has a right to know what action, if any, you will take in the matter.” “You will recall that the Attorney General has stated publicly on several occasions that no one is above the law.<br /><br /> This maxim applies to him,” Mohammed noted in his letter to the DPP.<br /><br />The call for an investigation into Jeremie’s conduct in the Sharma affair comes seven months after the Mustill Tribunal cleared Sharma of allegations of misconduct levied against him by the Chief Magistrate. During the course of hearings at the Mustill Tribunal in September 2007, Jeremie made one appearance on September 21 before Lord Mustill, Sir Vincent Floissac and Dennis Morrison QC.<br /><br />Despite serious allegations against him, he later failed to show up at the Winsure Building for cross-examination, with Mustill noting that this fact would be taken into consideration in the drawing up of the tribunal’s final report.<br /><br />Of Jeremie’s role in the whole affair, the report would later conclude that, “there is evidence, the weight of which we are not in a position to assess, that on May 8, 2006, the Attorney General had attempted to use the Chief Magistrate’s first statement as a means of pressuring the Chief Justice to resign.<br /><br />“The picture presented to this Tribunal almost defies belief...We have heard allegations against the Attorney General, who could have given oral evidence to rebut them, but did not.”<br /><br />The report also noted that in the wake of Mc Nicolls’ refusal to testify in the collapsed criminal case against Sharma on March 5, 2007, Mc Nicolls’ flawed legal explanation for his actions “seems to have originated with the Attorney General.”<br /><br />“The concept of the separation of powers seems to have been ignored...The picture is troubling indeed, both for the Tribunal and for the peoples of Trinidad and Tobago.”<br /><br /><strong>republished from Newsday of 2008...........check it out fockers!</strong>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com72tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-139853385804197292009-05-28T08:14:00.001-04:002009-05-28T08:16:46.906-04:00Moves afoot for Max to go?By ANDRE BAGOO Thursday, May 28 2009<br /><br />GOVERNMENT yesterday tabled legislation regulating the pensions to be paid to former Presidents, a move which may be viewed by some as laying the groundwork for the possible resignation of President George Maxwell Richards.<br /><br />The ‘President’s Emoluments (Amendment) Bill 2009’ was quietly laid in the House of Representatives by Leader of Government Business Colm Imbert. The bill seeks to amend the President’s Emoluments Act “to ensure that the pension payable to former holders of the Office of the President is reviewed every six years from the date the holder of the office ceased to be President.” Clause 3 of the bill makes former Presidents “eligible on every sixth anniversary of the date he ceased to be President for a revised pension equivalent to salary payable to the incumbent on that date.”<br /> The review of pensions payable to former presidents may, thus, be revised upwards in an inflationary period, for instance. A 2003 report of the Salary Review Commission raised the President’s salary from $26,000 to $33,000.<br /><br />The ‘President’s Emoluments (Amendment) Bill 2009’ was not placed on the Order Paper for the Day, but rather the Supplemental Order Paper which is only issued moments before a sitting of Parliament.<br /><br />Since he returned from vacation on Monday, President George Maxwell Richards has remained silent over calls for him to resign.<br /><br />The President refused a meeting with members of the Congress of the People (COP) and carried on with routine issues such as the appointment of temporary senators. His explanation of how he came to appoint the members of the last Integrity Commission has failed to allay concerns that he adequately vetted his appointees.<br /><br />To date the President has failed to respond to any questions sent to him on the issue by Newsday.<br /><br /><strong>Yay, that is how the PNM does operate.......pay the focker off and let em relax in style......fock Integrity Comm and all who want statement.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>No integrity comm. for all d PNM teefs.</strong>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-78770452237322368052009-05-28T08:11:00.001-04:002009-05-28T08:13:41.039-04:00Give us jobs, AlutrintBy FELICIA RAMPERSAD<br />Thursday, May 28 2009<br /><br />FOR the second consecutive day, the gates of Alutrint’s Aluminium Smelter Complex construction site at Union Estate in La Brea were blocked yesterday by angry residents who demanded job opportunites on the project.<br /><br />The protesting residents alleged that Chinese labourers were being hired for the project over the unemployed locals. A woman complained that she saw foreigners working on the construction site of the smelter plant.<br /><br />“Look is better I go back home and take care of my children. I do not believe I’m not going to get any work at all. We were told that the residents would be given first preference for jobs on the site, but that is not the case,” the angry woman shouted.<br /><br />Resident Wendell Superville said that more Chinese labourers were being hired on the project and the ratio of foreign labour to local labour was too wide.<br /><br />“We could do everything that the Chinese could do and we can do it better.<br /><br />For every Chinese labourer hired, a local should be hired,” Superville said. Alutrint communications manager Josie-Ann Richards yesterday promised to speak with the residents to see how best the issue could be dealt with.<br /><br /><strong>It real good for all yuh niggas in La Brea. Come what may...election call all yuh go run dong the pnm for ah fockin roti and some stale black label and vote for dem again.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>It good dey should fock all yuh to the cross and starve all yuh lazy, duncee modder conts.</strong>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-43330096560198771592009-05-28T08:07:00.002-04:002009-05-28T08:10:59.603-04:00Magistrates and Criminal Bar express ‘dismay’By Onika James Thursday, May 28 2009<br /><br />The Trinidad and Tobago Association of Magistrates, yesterday registered its “dismay” at what it called “the intemperate assertions ascribed to Justice of Appeal Stanley John.”<br /><br />The statement was in reply to Justice Stanley John’s strong criticisms of Tunapuna Magistrates Anna Ryan, and Jo-Anne Connor.<br /><br />In a release yesterday, President of the Magistrates Association, Avason Quinlan, said, “ It is especially unfortunate that Court of Appeal Judge Stanley John would make these assertions at all, and more particularly at a time when integrity in public life is under great scrutiny.<br /><br />“Justice John, by virtue of his experience, and seniority in the judiciary is well aware of the role, and function of the Court of Appeal, which include deliberating, and making fair comment on issues arising out of matters on appeal.<br /><br />“The Privy Council exercises the similar role, and function over the Court of Appeal. At no time has the Privy Council, the country’s highest appellate court, in overturning decisions given by judges of the Court of Appeal, including Justice of Appeal Stanley John, called for their resignations, or stated that they do not know law, or do not read.<br /><br />“The statements made by Justice John do not advance the jurisprudence of Trinidad and Tobago or the Commonwealth. In fact, the Association views these statements as an indictment on all magistrates and as tantamount to bringing the Administration of Justice into disrepute.”<br /><br />Newsday understands that Chief Magistrate Sherman Mc Nicolls has called an emergency meeting for Friday afternoon to discuss the issue. Meanwhile, the Head of the Criminal Bar Association, Desmond Allum, yesterday said he was “dismayed” by the statements of Appeal judge, Justice Stanley John.<br /><br />In his release Allum said, “the Criminal Bar Association viewed the reported statements of Justice of Appeal John with dismay.<br /><br />Many criminal practitioners have appeared regularly before Her Worship Ms Connor. She operates her court professionally, efficiently, fairly, and with integrity.<br /><br />Even if the learned Justice found that she had erred in this particular case, his comment that she should resign was entirely out of order.”<br /><br /><strong>Why the fuck all these fuckin commentators doh talk about the magistrates from Ejenny go right back to asshole Sherman Mc Nicholls suckin Manning cock in every matter.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Some of them are real conts and that is a fact..</strong>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com201tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-58247172121750228502008-11-27T08:57:00.005-04:002008-11-27T09:03:58.960-04:00Floods Nov 18th, 2008A Pic speaks a thousand words.<br />Here are a few of HRH PNM's Colm Imbert fantastic drainage plans at work.<br />Enjoy, this is only Barataria.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SS6aNS8fG3I/AAAAAAAAAUY/JGee1jqiItw/s1600-h/Barataria+1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273321766911941490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 297px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SS6aNS8fG3I/AAAAAAAAAUY/JGee1jqiItw/s400/Barataria+1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SS6aNdgFD2I/AAAAAAAAAUQ/FSARCw1hKP0/s1600-h/Barataria+2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273321769745583970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 297px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SS6aNdgFD2I/AAAAAAAAAUQ/FSARCw1hKP0/s400/Barataria+2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SS6aNLq3a5I/AAAAAAAAAUI/mbxUsxttZPE/s1600-h/Bar+3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273321764958989202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 297px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SS6aNLq3a5I/AAAAAAAAAUI/mbxUsxttZPE/s400/Bar+3.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SS6aMrgodCI/AAAAAAAAAUA/PWIZuM8eePM/s1600-h/bar+4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273321756326130722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 297px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SS6aMrgodCI/AAAAAAAAAUA/PWIZuM8eePM/s400/bar+4.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SS6aMvOG64I/AAAAAAAAAT4/8s-3Qepb2v4/s1600-h/bar+5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273321757322177410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 297px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SS6aMvOG64I/AAAAAAAAAT4/8s-3Qepb2v4/s400/bar+5.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SS6Z0YqcyAI/AAAAAAAAATw/1XWqWP55kDw/s1600-h/bar+6.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273321338950174722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 297px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SS6Z0YqcyAI/AAAAAAAAATw/1XWqWP55kDw/s400/bar+6.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div> </div><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SS6ZtSXvIDI/AAAAAAAAATo/rpj9hGGeWXg/s1600-h/bar+7.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273321217001988146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 297px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SS6ZtSXvIDI/AAAAAAAAATo/rpj9hGGeWXg/s400/bar+7.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-4592045322732766502008-11-24T08:45:00.000-04:002008-11-24T08:46:13.597-04:00OPEN LETTER TO PATRICK MANNINGDear Mr. Manning<br /><br />An essay on Democratic Parliamentarianism by the most eminent Burke noted that it is as mandatory for each, once elected, to realize their new role as taking precedence over the demands of the isolated groups of constituents whose vote may have put them into office—a simple extension of the axiom-the whole being greater than the part.<br /><br />Mr Manning needless to say, you have fallen short as a Parliamentarian, Leader and Politician and history will accurately record the facts.<br />Your terms in office have been analysed as an ‘obsessional hatred for Indians’. This is not mere race talk as you may call it but the policy you have used to hold on to power .<br />Your greatest honour has been and will always be your ability to spread hate and divide people using race, religion. affirmative. ethnic preference .social programmes, guises of Caribbean integration, housing and education just for the purpose of personalized power.<br /><br />The question is do you really care?<br /><br />You will recall that, when Robinson won election, he said no witch hunting, when Panday won election, he said no witch hunting. Even the most honoured Obama has made friends with his opponents empowering them. But no, you have had an enduring fight against everything Indian:<br /><br />You have closed down The Sugar Industry with promises of land and houses which never materialized.<br /><br />You have hounded Sat Sharma and Panday out of Office and continue to do so.<br /><br />You have devised a housing programme and social programmes that benefit only one sector of the population i.e. your supporters.<br /><br />You have pursued frolics of your own without the support of the people-Caribbean integration, your mansion, your construction drive and it was inevitable that such enterprises will cost the country.<br /><br />Now you are ordering your Ministers and their paid supporters to go to African areas to deal with flooding, where flooding has been endemic in Indian areas without a drum heard but criticisms of Indians lying about losing their products.<br /><br />We are now seeing the beginning of the end Manning and one wonders if you have made plans to migrate like the many Indo-Trinidadians that you have hounded out of the country.<br /><br />The psychologist believes Mr Manning that you hate Indians because you really love them and want to be like them but since you cannot be like them you punish them.<br />This developed from your early days at Presentation college in San Fernando where you were never in the top of the class or privileged and felt so hurt and frustrated that you developed an inferiority complex and blamed Indians for your misfortune. Hitler had similar experiences against Jews.<br /><br />This will also explain why you hate powerful African men and surround your self with weak Indian and mixed persons and women without mamillary or testicular fortitudes.<br />They will do anything for you because their lifes are so empty that they don’t mind doing your bidding.<br /><br />I feel sorry for you Manning and it is a pity that ‘monkey cyar see he own tail’- no pun intended but for one moment what you are doing is tantamount to genocide of an entire race and someone is looking. The tears that Indians shed have never fell on barren soil.<br /><br />The Rum Shop Philosopher.Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-51956203257166106322008-11-14T16:14:00.002-04:002008-11-14T16:22:51.873-04:00Maracas<strong>So we gone dong Maracas Beach last Tuesday (Divali) and saw 6 big nigga setting up a huge suction/pump generator. </strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>After the machine had been pumping water out for over 2 hours I couldn't help but ask one of the niggas what exactly they were trying to achieve. He explained that they needed to lower the water level because the river continues all the way around to the Main Car Park (by Richard's Shark & Bake) and it causing flooding there. </strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>I then tried to simply explain to him that sucking the water out from one point and pumping it back into the same river (see pics & video below) just doesn't make sense ! Duh ! His reply was, "We just doing what dey tell we to do!"<br /><br />Hmmmm..... PS. The TDC (Tourism Development Company Ltd) has big plans for Maracas beach on their website: Asshole Colm Imbert again nah! </strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>What conts!</strong><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SR3c2OldpbI/AAAAAAAAATg/mKWU_OFadc4/s1600-h/Mar+2.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268609963279623602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 286px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SR3c2OldpbI/AAAAAAAAATg/mKWU_OFadc4/s400/Mar+2.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SR3cgHppnpI/AAAAAAAAATY/1VxVnJnwURY/s1600-h/Maracas+1.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268609583461015186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 286px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SR3cgHppnpI/AAAAAAAAATY/1VxVnJnwURY/s400/Maracas+1.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div></div>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-28573399856935777172008-11-14T16:09:00.001-04:002008-11-14T16:12:45.289-04:00BMWOnce again, the fuckin Manning is caught being less than honest with the population............ did a "deaL" (PERHAPS) fall through.......... a former senior Executive of BMW was very firm that this is not the way that Company does business..... <br /><br />BMW says it has no deal with Manning<br />2008/11/13<br /><br /> <br />There's a new twist to the story about the supply of VIP vehicles for two international summits in Port of Spain next year. Now, the Trinidad Express is reporting that the German automaker BMW has denied that it has any deal with Prime Minister Patrick Manning to supply the vehicles for the conference.<br /><br />Bavarian Motors Ltd, local agents BMW, issued a statement saying it has not had any direct discussion with the government of Trinidad and Tobago or Manning about the supply of the luxury vehicles for the summits.<br /><br />It denied any connection between a recent visit by its managing director Gordon Borde to Munich, Germany and Prime Minister Patrick Manning’s statement about Government leasing vehicles for next year’s summits, directly from BMW.<br /><br />Bavarian Motors said it had responded to tenders issued by the National Insurance Property Development Company (Nipdec) to provide vehicles for the summits and “is awaiting a response to its proposals.”<br /><br />It said Borde attended the annual Importers Conference in Munich from October 28 to November 1 at the invitation of BMW and “had absolutely no knowledge of a visit being paid to Munich and BMW by the Prime Minister.”<br /><br />It added, “Neither did Mr Borde have any contact with the Prime Minister during his visit to Munich...<br /><br />There is absolutely no truth whatsoever in any suggestion that Mr Borde accompanied the Honourable Prime Minister on his visit to Munich.” That seems to contradict what Manning told reporters last week at his post cabinet news conference.<br /><br />Manning announced that he had personally visited the showroom of a large BMW dealer in Germany and sealed the deal under which the Germans would ship the vehicles to Port of Spain for temporary use for both conferences and then take them back.<br /><br />In dismissing local offers the prime minister said they were too costly. “The local people...put a price on the alternatives that is so high, that you have little alternative but to purchase the cars, which we are determined not to do. We don’t need 200 cars.”<br /><br />Manning was in Munich from October 30 to 31, to address the “Day of the Americas” conference hosted by the Business Association of Latin America.<br /><br />Both Borde and Manning were in Germany at the same time.<br /><br />Manning did not say that he met Borde or any representative of BMW's local agents, Bavaria Motors Ltd. And he didn't say who he met. He told reporters, "I visited the BMW showroom in Munich, we had discussions on the matter and I have to discuss it with our people here.”<br /><br />Based on Bavaria Motor's Ltd.'s statement and Manning's confirmation that he held talks with BMW, it would seem that the prime minister bypassed the local agent and went directly to the German company's representatives in Munich.Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-61891486946576956702008-11-14T15:59:00.000-04:002008-11-14T16:00:21.794-04:00THE DJ<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SR3YwIcA06I/AAAAAAAAATQ/Ut_BftciyIM/s1600-h/dj.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268605460503647138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SR3YwIcA06I/AAAAAAAAATQ/Ut_BftciyIM/s400/dj.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-64887202710303989102008-10-31T07:26:00.002-04:002008-10-31T07:30:47.047-04:00Hunt criticises UNC-built stadiaGovernment plans to spend some $102 million to refurbish the four stadia which were built under the UNC government for the 2001 Youth World Cup, Sport Minister Gary Hunt stated yesterday.<br /><br />The stadia were built through the instrumentality of FIFA vice president and Concacaf boss Jack Warner and there was a controversy over the tendering procedures.<br /><br />"It speaks to the quality of construction," Hunt said, as he noted that the 30-year-old Hasely Crawford Stadium, which was close to the sea, never had a need for that kind of upgrade.<br /><br />Giving details of the breakdown in cost, Hunt said Government would spend $23.5 million on the Dwight Yorke Stadium in Tobago, $27.5 million on the Larry Gomes in Arima, $22 million on the Ato Boldon in Couva and $29 million on the Manny Ramjohn Stadium in Marabella. He said the Government proposed to put down two artificial fields on the two stadia - Manny Ramjohn and Larry Gomes- which were in high use.<br /><br />"We would be using the highest specs in the refurbishment and upgrade of the stadia," he said.<br />Hunt said Government was doing a general refurbishment on the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Shaw Park in Tobago, Woodford Lodge and Saith Park, all in preparation of the Trinidad and Tobago Games next year.<br /><br />Stating that international athletes such as Usain Bolt would be competing here, Hunt said the Games would be "as close to Grand Prix status as possible". -RT<br /><br /><strong>Gary "Isaac" Hunt must fockin criticise the stadia the UNC built.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>How fockin long now this nigga run regime trying to build one stadium (the Brian Lara Stadium) in Tarouba. </strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Cost overuns galore. It suppose to finish for the cricket world cup. Maybe for the fockin one in 2011.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>This is only about givin contracts to dey fockin conts to milk the fockin country some more.</strong>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-9867297178803876492008-10-31T07:17:00.002-04:002008-10-31T07:23:34.975-04:00Due to lack of funds, baby Marissa diesThe Ministry of Health could not help nine-month-old Marissa Ramlal—who died on Tuesday— with funding for a liver transplant because of “budgetary circumstances,” Health Minister Jerry Narace said yesterday.<br /><br />Narace was speaking at yesterday’s post-cabinet media briefing at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann’s.<br /><br />Baby Marissa, who was unable to suckle milk and had been vomiting blood, required $1.8 million to undergo a liver transplant.<br /><br />Marissa’s belly was also swollen to the size of a football.<br /><br />But Narace maintained that his Ministry could only operate within budgetary and policy circumstances.<br /><br />He noted, however, that the ministry gave the maximum possible amount—$60,000—which was “the policy by which we are guided.”<br /><br />Narace said, “The media will be the first to tell us we must always review our budgets and look at the way we are spending.<br /><br />“My instructions to the ministry was for us to do the maximum possible to assist the young lady,” Narace added, while offering condolences to baby Marissa’s family.<br /><br />He said unless the Health Ministry found some financing mechanism it was going to be difficult—but traditionally, people had engaged in different fundraising ventures and that the ministry was more than willing to give the maximum possible amount.<br /><br />Asked whether the country was equipped to deal with liver transplants and other procedures, Narace said: “These are objectives that we are working towards and there are certain speciality measures/procedures that we are unable to do at this time.<br /><br />“However, the Government, in trying to create a first world health care system—and we have plans currently to develop two new institutions, one in Port-of-Spain and one in Central Trinidad—we are hoping to acquire that kind of capability as we proceed.”<br /><br />On the issue of a special fund that would assist families to get specialised care for their children, Narace said an appropriate solution was being sought through the introduction of the National Health System (NHS).<br /><br />“That NHS is going to be a new system that would allow us to treat with all of these circumstances in the future,” Narace added.<br /><br />He said the Cabinet had recently approved a health economics unit for the Health Ministry to make appropriate arrangements so that unit would be able to provide the ministry with the cost of a number of services which would commence the NHS system.<br /><br />The interim measure, however, was the ceiling figure of $60,000, Narace said.<br /><br /><strong>If this was ah fockin nigga baby, you woulda see how fast these fockin Hutu power hungry animals woulda geh da money to save the the niglet life eh.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>It real fockin easy to take ah million dollars and give niggas for running ah 100meters under 10 secs, which is what they normally do after robbing some Indian home. </strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>It real fockin easy to take up $50.000.00 and give that lil niglet "Chocolate" for starving she mudder cont self, which she was doin in any case.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>But to save the life of ah lil Coolie baby. </strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Fock dat, leh she dead. </strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>THat summarises how things are in Trinidad. </strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Thank you PNM, thank you COP.</strong>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-30660408742396408112008-08-08T08:12:00.001-04:002008-08-08T08:14:31.323-04:00The Barbados NationManning's reformsPublished on: 7/27/08.<br />by ALBERT BRANDFORD Political Correspondent<br /><br />IT IS BECOMING increasingly clear that Prime Minister Patrick Manning is on a journey to leave a legacy not only on the political landscape of Trinidad and Tobago but across CARICOM.<br />He is already known for toying with political constructs that seek to isolate sub-regions in CARICOM, such as the Manning Initiative which, to this day, does not have a compelling purpose.<br /><br />But the biggest of Manning's ideas has come in the form of a working paper – not yet government policy – that strives to improve the governance structure of Trinidad and Tobago, perhaps inspired by the 18-18 tie in the 2001 general election.<br /><br />The proposed reforms of the constitution, however, do not indicate in any way how they would resolve such an occurrence in the future.<br /><br />The essence of Manning's proposed reforms is to make the executive president the head of both the government and the state, giving what is now an all-powerful prime minister even greater powers of governance and control.<br /><br />While upgrading the status of the prime minister, the proposed new draft constitution devastates the contribution of other elected members of the House of Representatives, both in terms of quantity and quality in the cabinet.<br /><br />In fact, according to Manning: "It is proposed that the cabinet would now AID AND ADVISE [my emphasis] the president on the general direction and control of the government. It would comprise the president, vice-president and up to 25 members, of whom not more than six would be appointed from the House of Representatives and three from the Senate. The rest of the ministers would be appointed from outside of the parliament."<br /><br />Imagine, a leader of a political party in Trinidad and Tobago uses 40 other party members to assist him in securing victory at the polls, but then agrees sufficiently with proposed reforms to bring them to parliament suggesting that at most – not at least – six ministers could be elected Members of Parliament.<br /><br />On two scores, Prime Minister Manning's motives would have to be questioned: first, no other elected MP has to be a minister; and secondly, the number of ministers elected is restricted to six.<br /><br />It takes a very special politician, guided by some higher power, to reduce other elected Members of Parliament – from whom he derived his power – to mere statistical objects.<br /><br />It must be the case that only elected members of the House of Representatives can cast a secret ballot to determine who becomes the executive president.<br /><br />Under the current constitution, the non-executive president is chosen by the Electoral College, a unicameral body consisting of all of the members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, convened by the Speaker, as chairman, and who has an original vote.<br /><br />It is particularly striking that only the president and the vice-president are guaranteed membership of Manning's proposed cabinet which has an upper limit of 25 members.<br /><br />Since the president and vice-president are to be appointed from the House of Representatives, only four other members from the ruling party can become ministers. That makes the proposals even more ludicrous!<br /><br />Political folly<br /><br />At the two extremes, ministers appointed from outside of the parliament may make up – at most – 23 out of the possible 25 members of the cabinet, or – at least – 16 out of the possible 25 members.<br /><br />These ministers would be all appointed by the president who got his power from the elected members of the House of Representatives!<br /><br />In its current state, the governing party in Trinidad and Tobago must have at least 21 members in the Lower House who, under the proposed reforms, would be restricted to offering only "aid and advice" to the cabinet on the general direction and control of the government – a restriction that is also imposed on the cabinet.<br /><br />To me, that is political folly in the extreme.<br /><br />The only reasonable proposal that prevents the new draft constitution from being seen as the making of an elected dictatorship is one for a term limit for the executive president, a maximum of two terms – ten years at most.<br /><br />Otherwise, the Manning proposals smack of a leader trying to secure ultimate political power, more in search of creating a one-man show than entrenching a participatory democracy that broadens the base of leadership.<br /><br />Having proposed to emasculate the elected representatives in the Lower House, Manning also wants to see an enlarged and essentially elected Senate for Trinidad and Tobago.<br /><br />The following proposed reforms may help to restore a sense of balance with respect to those who voted for having some say in the general direction and control of government.<br /><br />The Senate would comprise 49 – up from 31 – members of which 28 would be elected, and based on recommendations from the political parties following a general election, 18 would be assigned seats on the basis of proportional representation.<br /><br />The other three senators would be elected by the Tobago House of Assembly.<br />More questions than answers<br /><br />The existing nine Independent senators would be no more; yet, it appears that the broad principle – apart from the President becoming more powerful - is to involve more non-political practitioners in the decision-making process.<br /><br />This identifies a basic inconsistency in the proposed reforms.<br /><br />Oddly enough, the Cabinet, which has the responsibility only to "aid and advise" the President on the general direction and control of government, would be the least democratic of the institutions of government.<br /><br />It is widely believed that people who get involved in elective politics do so out of self-interest, and so, it is going to be more than interesting to witness a national debate in Trinidad and Tobago on a proposed constitution that reduces the effective participation of the majority of elected Members of Parliament in running the affairs of government.<br /><br />Prime Minister Manning is unorthodox, but his desire to change Trinidad and Tobago's constitution to increase the power of the political leader raises more questions than it provides answers.<br /><br />It is being argued by some commentators that that increased power would come at the expense of the judiciary and the parliament – a frightening prospect for any country!<br /><br />But perhaps the most frightening aspect of this proposed mischief would be the decimation of the will of the people in the first-past-the-post system used to elect members to the House of Representatives that would have to give way to the will of a political leader, especially in determining the composition of the Cabinet, a body of ministers who traditionally initiate policy and are collectively responsible for the government of the country.<br /><br />For the sake of the people of the people of Trinidad and Tobago, may it never happen.<br />The rest of us in the region, especially here in Barbados, should watch the developments closely, because politicians are . . . well, politicians.<br /><br />PS: I'll be off for a few weeks and, God willing, be back in this space on September 7.<br /><a href="mailto:albertbrandford@nationnews.com">albertbrandford@nationnews.com</a><br /><br /><strong>Even Bajans realise that this ah real cont!</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>This after freeing the 2 Bajan fishermen.</strong>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com132tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-54738030732781410552008-08-08T08:10:00.000-04:002008-08-08T08:11:09.977-04:00The TrinidadianA German, a Frenchman, an Englishman, and a Trinidadian went to an Art museum and were spending some time in front of the painting of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. After observing the painting for a while an intrigued observer asked the four men where they thought Adam and Eve's origins could be from.<br /><br />The German said: 'Look at the perfection of their bodies. She with her slender and well formed figure and he with that athletic body and bulging muscles. There is no doubt they must be of German origin.'<br /><br />Immediately the Frenchman reacts! 'C'est impossible! One can clearly see the eroticism that is exuding from both figures... She so feminine? he so masculine... and both so aware of the impendingtemptation.. . They must be French!' <br /><br />Shaking his head in disagreement, the Englishman comments: 'Oh No, Chaps It can't be! Note the serenity on their faces, their delicate pose, the sobriety in their gestures. They could only be English.'<br /><br />After a few more seconds of contemplation the Trini exclaims: 'Nah, I doh agree with ANY of alyuh! Watch de picture good nah man.<br />Dey naked cause they cyah afford clothes or shoes.<br />Dey eh have no shelter cause a house too expensive.<br />Dey eh have no electricity or water.<br />But dey eh protesting cause dey STILL think dey in Paradise !? ?<br />Clearly, dey is two Jack-Ass PNM supporters from Trinidad . ..!!!'Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-22336103864945448762008-06-27T09:05:00.002-04:002008-06-27T09:09:19.621-04:00PM Manning sees greenPM Manning sees green<br />By LEISELLE MARAJ<br />Friday, June 27 2008<br /><br />PRIME MINISTER Patrick Manning yesterday urged energy companies to show their commitment to saving the environment by looking for alternate sources of fuel to oil and natural gas.<br /><br />Manning was speaking at the opening of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America (AACCLA) annual mid-year meeting, hosted at the Hyatt Regency Trinidad, Port-of-Spain by the local leg of the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM).<br /><br />The topic of the two-day meeting is energy and the environment. Manning said the topic was timely considering its relevance. “Energy and the environment are closely related as the use of fossil fuels have been linked to present levels of global warming, producing climatic changes and environmental challenges for every country in the world,” he said.<br /><br />Further exploring the link between the two, he said, the more troubling effects of global warming are experienced by lesser developed countries of the world. “In the Caribbean, we are certainly not one of the world’s major polluters but we have direct experience as islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans are already threatened by rising sea levels, coastal erosion and increasing ferocity of storms, hurricanes and typhoons,” he said.<br /><br />Manning added that global warming also had links to increasing food prices globally. “Something is fundamentally wrong in the way we have been proceeding in utilising the resources that we have. We, undoubtedly, need to liberalise economies for greater productivity but in the process we are attaining levels of consumption that are clearly not sustainable,” he said.<br /><br />To combat these problems, he said, there is need for greater energy production, increase emphasis on alternative sources of energy and greater energy efficiency. “It is clear for us in Trinidad and Tobago that no one approach would solve the problems caused by unprecedented energy consumption and its inflationary and environmental consequences. We need a battery of solutions involving all the approaches I have mentioned,” he said.<br /><br /><strong>This cont eh bet he is one big cyat nah!</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>This is the same fockin asshole that want to puh down 2 fockin aluminium smelter plants in this fockin god forsaken place. Eh! Like he dotish or wa.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>This is the same cont that lickin up the South Western Peninsula.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>This is the same cont that cyah run this government without oil and gas money.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>And he want to talk about ENVIRONMENT.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Fock off Manning!</strong>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com106tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-49279308573706740232008-06-26T09:35:00.002-04:002008-06-26T09:52:42.563-04:00Mc Leod retires with $4.5MBy CECILY ASSON<br />Thursday, June 26 2008<br /><br />RETIRED Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) president general Errol Mc Leod is to receive a retirement package worth $4.5 million for his 21 years of service to one of the country’s richest trade unions.<br /><br />An OWTU source told Newsday yesterday that the contents of the separation package include a house to be built at a cost of $2 million on a piece of land owned by Mc Leod in Aripero, a new X5 BMW SUV worth $750,000, guaranteed car insurance for the next five years plus a $1.5 million annuity.<br /><br />According to reports, the OWTU general council approved Mc Leod’s retirement package during a meeting at the union’s headquarters at Paramount Building, Circular Road, San Fernando. The meeting was chaired by Mc Leod.<br /><br />Mc Leod was celebrated last night by members of the union at a ceremony at the Palms Club, San Fernando.<br /><br />When contacted for comment, Mc Leod said: “I don’t know what my separation package is worth and even if I knew I wouldn’t disclose.” When given a breakdown of the package, Mc Leod said: “I never knew I was valued so highly by the union.”<br /><br />McLeod worked as a refinery operator at State-owned oil company Petrotrin and became the union’s second vice president, labour relations in 1975 before rising to the position of president general. He retired from Petrotrin about three years.<br /><br />OWTU sources said the May 31general council meeting was attended by an estimated 35 delegates. Four of them abstained from the vote on the package for Mc Leod and one voted against the multi-million dollar payout. Sources said the delegates voted in favour of the package without discussing the proposal with their respective branches.<br /><br />Some delegates felt it was exorbitant compared to the retirement package for his late predecessor George Weekes. “A committee was formed and we all went back to our branch unions where we discussed the matter. Weekes had to give up the deed for a piece of land he inherited in Petit Bourg. The union took that money to help purchase the house in Cocoyea, San Fernando that was given to him. His package was never exorbitant like this,” said a source.<br /><br />Mc Leod had announced that he was giving up his position as the leader of the union at the OWTU’s annual general meeting last July and was passing the baton over to first vice president Ancel Roget.<br /><br /><strong>Look another PNM hack, quiet for the last 7 years under the PNM feel the pressure and focking resigning now. </strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Make all he money, fool all dem fockin assholes and now walking away wid ah hefty take home. </strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Typical African nigga dictator attitude.</strong>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-43987425128227953942008-06-26T09:30:00.002-04:002008-06-26T09:34:36.692-04:00Paul quitsPaul quits<br />By NALINEE SEELAL<br />Thursday, June 26 2008<br /><br />With crime at its highest ever, Trevor Paul has quit as Commissioner of Police breaking the year-long extension he had to continue to serve as head of the Police Service.<br /><br />Paul advised the members of his executive of his decision during a meeting at the Police Administration Building in Port-of-Spain on Tuesday.<br /><br />Sources said Paul felt he had done all that he could to lead the Police Service in its fight against crime, which has risen to unprecedented levels with murders standing at 243 for this year to date.<br /><br />Paul is expected to leave on Monday and he has already begun to pack his books and personal documents and mementos from his service of over 40 years.<br /><br />“Monday might be my last day in office. I have done my part and it is time to move on,” he told his executive of Assistant Commissioners of Police (ACPs) on Tuesday.<br /><br />When contacted yesterday, Paul would only say, “When I am leaving office you will know, I will tell you myself.”<br /><br />Paul had been asked to stay on for an additional year as the top cop although his official retirement date was November 9, 2007.<br /><br />Sources said Paul’s decision to break his extension before November is expected to put additional pressure on the Government to get debate moving in Parliament on the appointment of a new Commissioner of Police (CoP).<br /><br /><strong>Well at last! This total waste of a Police Officer will be shipping out. His tenure will be remembered as one in which the CoP was the biggest failure in this country.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>But really all that focker wanted was to get he pension. Now he goin to live like some big pappy at the expense of the citizens of T&T. <br /><br />How we so dotish in this country. </strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Now another duncee head nigga will take his place and the same shit will continue. Another PNM cont.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Wanna bet ?</strong>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-22403689401150621312008-06-14T08:11:00.002-04:002008-06-14T08:14:54.861-04:00Joseph: I'm sorryNational Security Minister Martin Joseph yesterday apologised for his now infamous pronunciation of the word "arrests" as "arrestes" during last week's post-Cabinet news conference.<br /><br />He did so during yesterday's post-Cabinet news conference at Whitehall, Port of Spain, one week after making the verbal blunder, while responding to questions on new anti-crime measures that the Government expects will result in an improvement in its war on crime.<br /><br />"I know it's too late now. I certainly, I certainly apologise," Joseph said.<br /><br />He quipped that the mispronunciation was an attempt on his part to help boost the Police Service's low detection rate.<br /><br /><strong>Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !</strong><br /><p><strong>OH GAWD OYE! </strong></p><p><strong>Ah cyah stop fockin laughin. R'fari cont, see if you could translate this piece of dotishness for meh nah.</strong></p><p><strong>I quote, <span style="color:#3333ff;">"the mispronunciation was an attempt on his part to help boost the Police Service's low detection rate."</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Lard Father, have mercy on me! Fock! Niggas EH!</span></strong></p>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-55448073619964957522008-06-07T12:13:00.001-04:002008-06-07T12:14:51.564-04:00NIGGERS AGAIN NAH!<strong>India set to exempt Africa from ban on rice exports</strong><br /><br />By Joe Leahy in Mumbai and Amy Yee in New Delhi<br /><br />Published: June 2 2008 03:00<br /><br />India is facing growing pressure from African countries to exempt them from export bans on rice implemented by New Delhi to curb domestic food price inflation.<br /><br />The move illustrates how efforts by large producers such as India to control a sharp rise in food costs are hurting poor nations and giving rise to a form of rice diplomacy."We have no shortage of rice and wheat. Our buffer stocks are adequate. Our production has not been reduced. Food prices are driven to a large extent by sentiment and not merely by supply and demand, says the indian minister<br /><br />"I have a minister from Mali [here]," said Kamal Nath, India's commerce and industries minister, in an interview with the Financial Times.<br /><br />"They are traditional buyers of rice so when we banned the export of our cheaper medium-quality rice, they [were] in trouble."<br /><br />Global food prices are expected to remain high over the next decade, spelling hardship for millions of the world's poorest, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said in a report last week.<br /><br />Mr Nath said India had already allowed some exports to Sierra Leone and would consider other exemptions for Africa. "We will have some carve-out to African countries depending on our own current production," he said.<br /><br />He did not give details but there is speculation that India might eventually export about 2m tonnes of rice to the least developed African countries as well as some neighbouring nations, including Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.<br /><br />The move fits with India's growing diplomatic efforts to woo African nations and counter China's rising influence in the resource-rich continent.<br /><br />India's economy continues to grow strongly, reaching a rate of 9 per cent in the last fiscal year, according to government figures released on Friday.<br /><br />The new report predicted growth of 8.5 per cent this year but the rising cost of fuel has contributed to a sharp jump in inflation. In the 12 months ended May 17, it reached 8.1 per cent, a three and a half year high and well above the central bank's target of less than 5.5 per cent.<br /><br />Mr Nath said the price of imported cooking oil and lentils had more than doubled "not because of India-supply stress but international supply-side stress".<br /><br />He said: "We have no shortage of rice and wheat. Our buffer stocks are adequate. Our production has not been reduced. Food prices are driven to a large extent by sentiment and not merely by supply and demand."Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com83tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250450074852216258.post-42163621484610543502008-05-18T19:09:00.003-04:002008-05-18T19:13:57.926-04:00T&T visit just what Miss World needs<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SDC3cP5w3qI/AAAAAAAAAOA/T1zJFKEmO6Y/s1600-h/misswo%2520copy.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201859265545952930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vrr5vRrrWNw/SDC3cP5w3qI/AAAAAAAAAOA/T1zJFKEmO6Y/s200/misswo%2520copy.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>By SEAN NERO </div><div><br />REIGNING Miss World, Zi Lin Zhang, is convinced that a visit to T&T was just what she needed to gather her thoughts, in the wake of the devastation caused to her native China by a massive earthquake. </div><div><br />She said her decision to travel to T&T, while her countrymen were still coming to terms with the disaster, was a necessary sacrifice at this time. </div><div><br />Zhang believed that she could do more for the people of China by creating greater awareness of the effects of the natural disaster, while the search for survivors continues and the death toll rises. </div><div><br />Authorities in China have mounted a massive relief and rescue operations. </div><div><br />Meanwhile, international aid agencies remain alert, monitoring the situation, to lend assistance to those in need. </div><div><br />Using her limited command of the English language, Zhang said she hoped that her visit would brighten her spirits and consequently allow her to do more for the people of China. </div><div><br />“As you know, my country has had a terrible earthquake. I was sad and everything. I hope I can come here to be more happy and do more for my country. </div><div><br />“All of us (are) working hard. We are raising funds for the earthquake. I don’t know how to do more, but I would try my best.” </div><div><br />During a media conference in the VIP Lounge at Piarco International Airport, Julia Morley, chairman of the Miss World Organisation, who accompanied Zhang on this trip, defended her decision to fly to T&T. </div><div><br />She said thousands of Chinese troops had been deployed on the grounds and had the reigning Miss World gone back home, “all she could have done was stand and stare.” </div><div><br />Morley disclosed that there were discussions on whether Zhang should return to China at this time, but it was decided that she could do more “useful things here,” rather than stand and stare.<br /><br />“Unless you are a qualified person working, digging people out you are only able to stand and stare. </div><div><br />“Is it not better to come and do something useful here?” she asked. </div><div><br />Morley made it clear that on their return to China, a big fund-raising exercise would take place in that country. </div><div><br />Zhang arrived at Piarco International Airport on Friday, almost an hour past her scheduled arrival which was caused by a flight delay. </div><div><br />Her visit to T&T was on the invitation of the National Aids Co-ordinating Council (NACC) for this evening’s 19th National Aids Candlelight Memorial in the borough of Chaguanas. </div><div><br />Zhang and her entourage were received by former Miss World, Giselle La Ronde-West; former Miss T&T/World delegate, Valene Maharaj; Angela Lee Loy, chairman of the NACC, Andy Fearon, acting head of the NACC; and Peter Elias, national director of the Pageant Company of T&T. </div><div><br />Also present were reigning Miss T&T/World representative Gabrielle Walcott; Miss T&T/Universe delegate Anya Ayoung-Chee; and Adrian Raymond, of the Pageant Company.<br />Morley said: “We work very hard around the world to do the best we can to bring awareness to the problem (HIV/Aids) that we all face.” </div><div> </div><div><strong>More fockin Chinee in we mudder cont! Imagine in some parts of fockin T&T ah seeing Chinee road signs. Like dey fockin driving too or wa.</strong></div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong>Chinee coming here in droves and look another one. Only Chinee Chow Mein, Chow kai Cow and Chow kai Goat.</strong></div><div><strong> </strong></div><div><strong>Ah wonder if she related to Calder Hart wife, Sherrine Lee. </strong></div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong>Yuh know that is the real contact for all this setta Chinee. The mark muss buss one day.</strong></div>Oleblaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892123133655324626noreply@blogger.com236