Sparrow released from hospital on October 22, 2013

Sparrow released from hospital

Trinidad Express

Press Release: Oct 23, 2013 at 12:15 PM ECT

The Mighty Sparrow

The Mighty Sparrow, Slinger Francisco, has been released from hospital and he is now recovering in a special therapy facility.

This according to a press release sent out yesterday on behalf of Margaret Francisco, wife of the internationally renowned calypsonian. Sparrow was hospitalised last month in the US where he remains after falling into a coma.

The release said Sparrow continues to improve daily and will now undergo physical strengthening and other medical procedures to improve his overall well-being.   

Capitol News – TV News Videos – 22 Oct 2013

Capitol News – TV News Videos – 22 Oct 2013

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• Police will not let up to bring businessman to justice in the biker shooting.
• Sports.
• Annual National Toshaos Council meeting that is underway.
• The PNC/R is leaving no stone unturned as they prepare supporters for local Gov’t elections.
• Hydro project still on the plate of government.
• The ruling party the PPP is not about to accept the blame for the growing crime situation.

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Police will not let up to bring businessman to justice in the biker shooting.Posted: 22 Oct 2013 04:24 PM PDT Weeks after the murder of biker Kurt Davis the businessman Rondy Jadgeo who is the prime suspect is still eluding capture, but crime chief Seelall Persaud said that international help is being sought to bring the businessman to justice. Persaud was speaking recently to members of the media. The businessman was last seen in neighbouring […]

USA Politics: The Triumph of the Right – by Robert Reich

The Triumph of the Right – by Robert Reich

Robert Reich

Conservative Republicans have lost their fight over the shutdown and debt ceiling, and they probably won’t get major spending cuts in upcoming negotiations over the budget.

But they’re winning the big one: How the nation understands our biggest domestic problem.

They say the biggest problem is the size of government and the budget deficit.

In fact our biggest problem is the decline of the middle class and increasing ranks of the poor, while almost all the economic gains go to the top.

The Labor Department reported Tuesday that only 148,000 jobs were created in September — way down from the average of 207,000 new jobs a month in the first quarter of the year.

St. Joseph Alumni Association NY – Holiday Party – Dec. 28, 2013

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Senior Guyanese Friendship Asso. Toronto – 40th Xmas Gala – Dec 14, 2013

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Guyana: Law Courts: Over 2000 case dockets misplaced

OCTOBER 22, 2013 | KNEWS

Corruption was cited as the main cause for the disappearance of almost 2000 case dockets throughout the main Magisterial Districts of Guyana.

According to the 2013 Auditor General report a whopping 765 case dockets were listed as misplaced from the Georgetown Magisterial District alone for 2010-2011.

The report said that the matter of constantly misplaced case dockets is one which has not been resolved since 2010 despite the recommendations of the Auditor General.

The document revealed that the affiliation, criminal and civil case dockets at the Georgetown, West Demerara and East Demerara Magisterial Districts continue to be disorganized with a number of case dockets being misplaced or filed at different locations.   

Money Laundering: US Banks start severing ties with Guyana

Anti-money laundering laws … US Banks start severing ties with Guyana

OCTOBER 22, 2013 | BY KNEWS | By Leonard Gildarie

Guyana’s failure to pass anti-money laundering laws is being felt in the banking sector with at least one overseas financial institution reportedly severing ties locally.

The news would come even local lawmakers continue to wrangle over the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill, No. 12/2013 (AML-CFT).

In August, the bill was sent by the Opposition to a special select committee of the Parliament, despite protests by Government over the approaching deadlines. The Opposition said that it wanted more time to study the bills and make recommendations.

The private sector and insurance have already expressed worry, publishing whole page advertisements in the dailies over the fallouts of the delay.  

Buxton Heritage Fund – Xmas Party – Brooklyn NY – Dec. 7, 2013

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NEW YORK GUYANA MASS for Catholic Standard – Francis Farrier

NEW YORK GUYANA MASS for Catholic Standard
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 08:48:47 -0400

Traditions of the New York Guyana Mass; Francis Quamina Farrier reports from New York

 

The packed St Gerard Majella church in Queens, New York.

The traditional annual Guyana Mass in New York, will celebrate its Silver Anniversary next year.
What an achievement that will be. Last Sunday, New York-based Guyanese, and indeed some from other States, and even from across the border in Canada, turned out in their numbers at the St. Gerard Majella Church in Queens, New York, for this year’s Mass; the 24th.

The tradition is to hold the Mass on the second Sunday of October, and to alternate it between the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens on a two year basis. There is also the tradition of having a Guyana-based Guyanese priest as the Chief celebrant. Priests such as Msgr. Terrence Montrose, Fr. John Persaud, Fr Oliver Farnum, SJ, Fr. Malcolm Rodrigues, SJ, as well as the late Fr. Andrew Morrison, SJ, Fr. Harold Wong, SJ, and Fr Hildebrand Greene, OSB.   

Guyana”s Media: A dream of censorship – commentary

A dream of censorship

OCTOBER 20, 2013 · Stabroek News · COMMENTS

On Monday, October 7, Mr Clement Rohee, in his capacity as General Secretary of the PPP informed the media corps dutifully assembled in Freedom House, that his party wanted to regulate the local press. The PPP was of the “firm view,” he told them in all seriousness, that a “special body” should be established “to oversee the operations of the media and to defend the public against malpractice in the media.”  Well in case for one heady moment anyone thought he was talking about the Guyana Chronicle, he was not; it is the Stabroek News and the Kaieteur News, it appears, from which the public is in such dire need of protection.

In his best apparatchik style General Secretary Rohee complained: “The party has observed that in the case of Stabroek News, while it religiously attends PPP press conferences and receives PPP press statements, nothing is carried in its columns”; in contrast, he continued, “prominence” is given to almost everything opposition politicians say which is “uncomplimentary of the government and the party.” And there was more to come. “Our position that the opposition media is anti-government and anti-PPP,” he told his audience with solemn mien, “is buttressed by the information we received from friends and supporters of the party that their letters and information are not carried and/or [are] butchered and buried.”