Britain Debating Cause Of Its Worst Unrest In Years

Britain Debating Cause Of Its Worst Unrest In Year

By Portia Walker – McClatchy News Report – Published 10 August 2011

“London’s former mayor, Ken Livingstone, blamed the turmoil on the economic challenges young people face and the disenfranchisement many feel.”

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Tottemham protesters demonstraing against the police killing of Mark Duggan

Last Thursday night, in circumstances that remain unclear, police shot dead Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old black man. The next day, a group of 200 protesters gathered outside the police station in London’s Tottenham district, demanding an explanation. In the hours that followed, the peaceful protest somehow disintegrated.

Four days later, after rioting and looting spread first to other poor suburbs but then reached wealthier areas Monday in the worst civil unrest Britain has seen in years, Britons were undertaking a national debate over the pervasive poverty and unemployment that many think have fed the disturbances and what role the country’s austerity drive has played in making matters worse.

London’s former mayor, Ken Livingstone, blamed the turmoil on the economic challenges young people face and the disenfranchisement many feel.   

Nothing ‘mindless’ about Rioters

Daniel Hind makes a powerful statement in the end: Those who want to see law and order restored must turn their attention to a menace that no amount of riot police will disperse; a social and political order that rewards vandalism and the looting of public property, so long as the perpetrators are sufficiently rich and powerful.

Although riots are complex social phenomenona, the recent unrest in England has inescapably political roots.

Daniel Hind Last Modified: 09 Aug 2011 18:04

High unemployment may not have directly caused the riots, but the riots certainly had a political context [EPA] Civil disturbances never have a single, simple meaning. When the Bastille was being stormed the thieves of Paris doubtless took advantage of the mayhem to rob houses and waylay unlucky revolutionaries. Sometimes the thieves were revolutionaries. Sometimes the revolutionaries were thieves. And it is reckless to start making confident claims about events that are spread across the country and that have many different elements. In Britain over the past few days there have been clashes between the police and young people. Crowds have set buildings, cars and buses on fire. Shops have been looted and passersby have been attacked. Only a fool would announce what it all means.

Plane Crash – Editorial

Posted By Stabroek News – August 7, 2011  Print copy

Timehri, or the CJIA as it is now known, has been fortunate in that it never had a major air crash prior to last Saturday morning. It is still fortunate in so far as there were no fatalities as a result of the accident involving BW523. In fact, given the state of the plane, it was, as Trinidad Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar remarked on inspecting the wreckage, “a miracle” that no one died.

It was the veteran pilot Mr Gerry Goveia who explained in an interview with this newspaper on Wednesday that the pilot may have realized he was going to overshoot the runway, and as a consequence shut down the engines and the electrical systems (some passengers had reported that the plane was in darkness when they landed); it was good emergency procedure, he said. Others have hypothesized that the aircraft was not carrying much fuel for the short trip between Trinidad and Guyana, which would certainly have reduced the danger from an explosion and fire. Finally, of course, there is the fact that the aeroplane conveniently split along a seam roughly corresponding to the divide between the first class and economy sections where no one was sitting. Perhaps passenger aircraft are deliberately designed this way with accidents in mind, but whatever the case, the location of the split was also a matter of good fortune.   

Triple Play & Fuh Fun – Calderia BBQ 2011- photo album

TORONTO CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL – GUYANESE EVENTS – 2011

Here is a photo album slide show of 277 pictures taken at the Triple Play & Fuh Fun  all day Calderia BBQ 2011 –  . … held near Toronto Canada. …. on Sunday July 31, 2011.

Pictures from Mark Bannister – www.gtlime.ezreunions.com

Click link below then click view album for all pictures.

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Guyana, Belize reduced hunger by 50% in 2010 – FAO

Saturday, 06 August 2011

Guyana, Belize reduced hunger by 50 percent in 2010

Guyana is one of two countries (Belize being the other) in the Caribbean to reduce hunger by 50 percent last year, says Lystra Fletcher-Paul, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) representative. Fletcher-Paul indicated that Guyana knows what it wants in terms of agriculture in the Caribbean. Though the country has a high food production rate there is an issue of accessibility and this is the case in most hinterland communities where transportation is a challenge. Other Caribbean countries have become dependent on imported food and the emphasis is not on agriculture like Guyana. Explaining further, Fletcher-Paul stated that Guyana has land space available for agricultural purposes, while other countries like Trinidad and Tobago focus on other industries like petroleum.

The Caribbean Region is confronting an ever increasing food import bill which now stands at US$4B. […] They need to have the will to increase their agricultural output. Fletcher-Paul noted that agriculture needs to be featured in the schools’ timetables as it is necessary to get children involved in agriculture. Utilizing agriculture as a school based learning tool would increase the importance placed in this field. […]

Fletcher-Paul emphasized that in Guyana, under the All ACP Agricultural Commodities Project, the Guyana Agricultural Producers’ Association (GAPA) assisted the Kuru Kuru Crop and Livestock Farmer’s Association to develop a business model and strategic action plan to improve the linkages between their farmers and buyers of eddoes.

Source: guyanesenews.com

http://brussels.cta.int/index.php?option=com_k2&id=5851:guyana-belize-reduced-hunger-by-50-percent-in-2010&view=item&Itemid=54

CAL Plane from NYC crashes at Guyana’s airport + video

Plane from New York crashes at Guyana airport + video

30 July 2011 Last updated at 09:34 ET – BBC News

A plane has crashed and broken in two on landing at Guyana’s main airport in the capital, Georgetown, causing injuries but no deaths.

The Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737-800 flight BW-523 from New York had 163 people aboard.

The plane apparently overshot the runway at Cheddi Jagan International Airport during wet weather.

Guyana’s president said it halted near a 200-foot (61-metre) ravine that could have resulted in dozens of deaths.

“We are very, very grateful that more people were not injured,” Bharrat Jagdeo added, quoted by AP news agency.

The airport was due to re-open at 1000 local time (1400 GMT).

Continue reading the main story

US Investigators to probe plane crash   <click Written by Denis Scott Chabrol   Demerara Waves Saturday, 30 July 2011 13:58 Police have secured the crash site American investigators are due in Guyana Monday to retrieve the flight recorders of the Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) plane which crash-landed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) early Saturday. Flights in and out of the airport have resumed while efforts were underway throughout the day to retrieve the baggage belonging to the 151 passengers and six crew members. Transport Minister Robeson Benn revealed Saturday evening that eight US National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) specialists are expected in Guyana on Sunday at 5PM. Several specialists from manufacturer Boeing are also expected. The cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder have already been removed fronm the plane and secured. All records concerning the aircrfat are being ” collected and sequestered” he said told reporters at a news briefing at CJIA. Continue reading this story  US investigators to probe plane crash CAL’s JET ENGINE SMOKED…. Guyana Fire Service comments on crash :Read report here  <click

CARIBANNA SCHOLARSHIPS

By EWALT (WALTIE) AINSWORTH                    07 05 2011

CARIBANNA is essentially the Canadian version of CARIFESTA.  The Caribbean Festival of the Arts, showcasing the artesian skills, the culture,  the music, the wining, the grinding, the smoking, the sexting, the drinking and the eating of the halaal-beef wraps.  It is a perennial love fest between and among the host country, the deep seated Caribbean and the interlocking communities in multi-racial, multi-ethnic Toronto.

Caribbean people live each day counting down for the next Caribanna, planning, scheming, thinking what they will wear, how they look and how it-go-look off Young street or in the playpen now designated to maintain law and order.

Caribanna is the mecca for typee.  Big men, proud men, loud men,  sleep and come while others come and sleep so that they will not miss a event, eyeballing and trying to figure out who is who and whose they are.  Some men come to integrate, others to gyrate while another set, come packing.  Caribanna was never meant to be a proving ground or an arena for settling old scores.  It is about we and how-we-do what we do.  It is about the scholarship, turning the rejections and recessions into new vistas and avenues for change. Over the decades, scores of careers have been launched and cottage industries established.  The secret is about your net worth is influenced by your network.  

St. Stanislaus – CARIBJAM – Toronto – Friday July 29, 2011

Call one of the Committee members for tickets

Nostalgia 561 – Saga and Romance of the ‘Sea Wall’

Nostalgia 561 – Saga and Romance of the ‘Sea Wall’ ..godchin2@gmail.com

Ask any Guyanese, at home or abroad, to name the first five ‘things Guyanese’ that comes readily to mind, and they often reply – Kaieteur Falls – Stabroek Market – St George’s – Public Buildings – Town Hall – and sometimes, Jonestown. Can you imagine they always oversight our Sea Wall – which actually saves the capital city of Georgetown from being a ‘Venice’, and our Coastline languishing as another ‘lost Continent of Atlantis’. This Nostalgia seeks to rectify this situation, and record the Saga and Romance of our ‘ubiquitous’ Sea Wall.

The Guyana Coastline stretching 425 kilometres from Venezuela to Suriname is approx 2 metres below high water, and its defence from the threatening Atlantic Seas has been a battle since the Dutch attempted to empolder the Coastline, in the seventeenth century for agriculture etc. The British on takeover 1814 continued this task in spite of governmental bickering – shortage of funds etc, and the perennial challenges continue to today.

Early history records that Kerfield Village and Sandy Point were washed away 1792, and major flooding breaches occurred subsequently at Enmore 1955, Buxton 1959 – Bladen Hall 1961, and most recently 2005 on the E. C. Dem. Mahaicony to G’town.  

Folk Festival Symposium Update – Historical Obeah Article

July 21, 2011
Dear Colleague:

The attached journal article is an interesting contribution to Guyanese cultural history, especially the study of religion/spirituality–one of the themes to be explored at the 10th annual Guyana Folk Festival Symposium to be held at the Empire State College, 177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, NY on Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 9:45 a.m. The theme is “Arrivals, Encounters, and Exchange.”

For further details on the theme, please visit: http://www.guyfolkfest.org/symposium2011.htm

By way of an update, twenty-four proposals have been selected for presentation at this year’s symposium. Through panel discussions, short performances, and a video festival featuring documentaries and a short narrative film, attendees will explore contemporary ideas on Guyanese culture and identity. Among the ideas to be addressed are pre-Columbus Guyana; African cultural retentions; Guyanese art, language (including language loss), literature, music, and food; religion in Guyana; the Guyanese diaspora; and the new media and Guyanese identity.

Your usual support will be appreciated.

Peace,

Vibert
Vibert C. Cambridge, Ph.D., Professor, School of Media Arts and Studies, Scripps College of Communication, Ohio University
740-593-9178 (Office) 740-593-9184 (Fax)
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From: Randy M. Browne [randybrowne@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 9:07 AM
To: Cambridge, Vibert
Subject: Fwd: WMQ article on obeah in Berbice
From: “Randy M. Browne” <RandyBrowne@gmail.com>
Date: July 20, 2011 9:00:06 AM EDT
To: cambridg@ohio.edu
Subject: WMQ article on obeah in Berbice

Dear Vibert,

I’m not sure if you remember me, but we corresponded briefly about a year ago about a research trip I was planning to Guyana. I’ve since been to Guyana and I had a wonderful time there. Thanks again for your help orienting me.

At the time we corresponded, you had expressed an interest in reading an article I was preparing on obeah in early nineteenth-century Berbice, and now that the article has been published I thought I would share it with you. If you have any thoughts on the article, I’d love to hear them.

All the best,
Randy

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