Hindus and Sikhs celebrated Diwali in a big way this year with Mahautsav, a 30-hour concert and film premiere. Mahautsav, which is being touted as the biggest and longest South Asian event in the history of...
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The Fifth Summit of the America -Drummit2Summit. What was suppose to be a peaceful protest highlighting Cuba’s exclusion from The Fifth Summit of the Americas and other pertinent issues nearly turned ugly as...
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In the previous series of articles that discussed Secretary Clinton laying the diplomatic groundwork, in anticipation of the Fifth Summit of the Americas, by visiting some nations as part of a comprehensive goal to...
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Landscape of the Americas
The origins of the Summit of the Americas are murky and bogus. However, much has changed since the first four summits of 1994, 1998, 2001, and 2005. These summits attempted to propagate a neo-Liberal, Free Trade of the Americas agenda which...
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Democracy: Summit Style
For the architects of the Summit of the Americas there is no God but the God of Democracy. All five sets of Summit declarations, between 1994 and 2005, affirm Democracy as it core principle. The first Summit in Miami, dead in line with the 1948...
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Summit : Bogus or Real?
Che Guevara was captured in the Bolivian jungles in October 1967. He was taken to a school; a young officer under instructions pointed a gun at him. “Don’t be afraid,” said Che. “Shoot.” The Argentinean revolutionary was executed and there...
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After months of negotiations, main gas producing countries agreed to form an Organisation to protect their common energy interests. The initiative has been criticised by those fearing the formation of a...
The CARICOM Summit held in Cuba issued a final declaration calling on the International Community to respect the rights of developing nations. It also awarded Cuban leader Fidel Castro "the Honorary...
It is the people who stand up, when elites and governments fail, to defend the nation. If they fail, the nation fails. They are the last bulwark of defense of the nation. As Sterling Craig, the most ital of activists in Claxton Bay, declares: “It is the people who...
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The Spent Pot Lining Nightmare Many persons will remember the great battles at Chatham just over two years ago. The mighty citizens of this village on the South West Peninsula, spearheaded by the...
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Look Who’s Committing Industri-cide
The propagandists for the State’s current heavy gas-based industrial drive, which includes proposals to build two aluminum smelters in the South Western Peninsula and a...
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A carbon footprint is the impact of greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide, on the environment. So the footprint for the proposed Essar Steel plant in Trinidad and Tobago is 900,000 tons per year. Please help...
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Oil, Gas, Aluminum and Steel in Trinidad and Tobago “It was the best of times……. It was the worst of times…..” (Charles Dickens-A Tale of Two Cities) Here‘s The Real Deal 1. There are certain...
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