Monthly Archives: June 2008

Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer sexually assaulted by Israeli govt thugs

Democracy Now! Meanwhile a prominent Palestinian journalist has been hospitalized after being strip-searched and assaulted by Israeli officials at a border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank. The journalist, Mohammed Omer, was on his way back to Gaza after visiting London where he won the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for journalism. Omer is the […]

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Guyana Times website is no longer with us

update july 1 2008 :: earth to Patrick Sukhlal!! earth to Patrick Sukhlal!! your web.shite is down!
the only thing the folks over at Guyana Behind the Times seem to have gotten right so far is free money from big bucktuh bhar.rat and aunty ashni. for quite a while now their website is coming and going. going and […]

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the greatest silence : rape in the congo

Maria Namafu, 70 years old
Raped by 3 soldiers who told her “you’re not too old for us.”
Director’s Note: These are the faces of some of the women I met in eastern Congo, all of them rape survivors. I talked to them in their huts, in hospital beds, on the hard benches of the local church. […]

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A bequest for Panama’s poor children - blocked by family

But Lucom, a native of rural Pennsylvania who spent much of his life in Palm Beach, Florida, surprised everyone in his will, which was disclosed upon his death two years ago at the age of 88. After doling out relatively small portions of his tens of millions of dollars to survivors, he left the rest […]

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Ashram of Central Florida release court documents - Narad Jokhulall accuses propaganda press of indulging in evil

I am very surprised that when people sent trash to you or when you want to trash someone you used so much effort to do so on your website. I am pretty sure your fans do not like the fact that the Florida Mandir has published the official documents at their website, ashramofcentralflorida.com
For all the evil […]

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Morgan Tsvangirai leaves Dutch Embassy

HARARE, ZIMBABWE - Zimbabwe’s opposition leader emerged from his refuge at the Dutch Embassy Wednesday to call for African leaders to guide talks to end Zimbabwe’s crisis, saying a presidential runoff this week was no solution.

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Guyana crime update - Satyadeow Sawh murder accused disappears like magic

Guyana Chronicle aka Guyana fishwrapper: MURDER accused Jermaine ‘Skinny’ Charles, 19, of 133 Brutus Street, Agricola, Greater Georgetown, escaped from police custody yesterday, during his court appearance at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court, East Coast Demerara.
Reports said that Charles was left in the courtroom unattended and calmly walked out of the building without being detected by […]

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Being African in Guyana has limitations even with ‘power’ - minister Robeson Benn’s son arrested

facing some heat in New York the other day, dictator bhar.rat jagdeo declared that Guyana was a racial and lovers paradise. poor ole bhar.rat! what else did you expect him to say? new york is not Guyana and he can’t get away with the same crapola as he does in Guyana so he had to […]

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New York Institute calls on Guyana President to repudiate racist Guyana Chronicle editorial

Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID)
June 24, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jevon Suralie, Director of Communications
New York Institute calls on Guyana President to repudiate racist Guyana Chronicle editorial
The New York based Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy is blasting Guyana’s State owned newspaper, the Guyana Chronicle, for a “racist” editorial which it published yesterday, June 22, 2008
The […]

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Exxon Valdez $2.5 billion oil spill ruling overturned

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out the record $2.5 billion in punitive damages that Exxon Mobil Corp had been ordered to pay for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska, the nation’s worst tanker spill.
By a 5-3 vote, the high court ruled that the punitive damages award should be […]

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“My brother was killed by the Guyana Defense Force and the government knows”

The government of Guyana has to change its strategy on crime fighting. There is no sense of direction in their administration. The country is so politically and ethnically divided that one has to know how,and what to say. There are people who are so brain washed that they are only sitting waiting to see what […]

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The great corn ethanol - another american fraud & illusion

The stickiest question about ethanol is this: Does making alcohol from grain or plant waste really create any new energy?
The answer, of course, depends upon whom you ask. The ethanol lobby claims there’s a 30 percent net gain in BTUs from ethanol made from corn. Other boosters, including Woolsey, claim there are huge energy gains […]

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Barack Obama Inc.: the birth of a Washington machine - Ken Silverstein

Meanwhile, Obama, Durbin, and three other farm-state senators opposed a proposal this year by the Bush Administration to lower stiff tariffs on cheaper sugarcane-based ethanol from Brazil and other countries. To lower such tariffs, the senators suggested, would leave the nation dangerously dependent on foreign ethanol. “Our focus must be on building energy security through […]

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Architecture for Humanity

 
Architecture for Humanity is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis and brings design services to communities in need. We believe that where resources and expertise are scarce, innovative, sustainable and collaborative design can make a difference.
By tapping a network of professionals willing to lend their time and their talents to […]

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Confident Expectation - an African American Peace Corps man & wife comes to Guyana

I love life. God has me here for a purpose, and I am enjoying this journey.

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