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“One of the real exciting parts of this strategy we hope, will be to launch high speed internet and upgrade the current network that we have so that we could become one of the first small island states in the region to have such a platform,” said the communications minister. “I think broadband has to be seen as critica...
" The Honourable Vincent Byron Jr, Minister with responsibility for Communications "
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi pressed euro zone countries on Saturday to make progress with economic reforms as part of a drive towards greater integration among the bloc's 17 members.
The ECB has taken some of the heat out of the euro zone debt crisis by last month unveiling its new bond-purchase program - dubbed "Outright Monetary Transactions", or OMT - but Draghi urged governments not to become complacent with reforms.
"Within the European Monetary Union, progress needs to be made in three areas: budgetary policy, structural reforms and financial market regulation," he said in the text of a speech for delivery via video link to Venice's Ca' Foscari University.
Calling for greater economic integration among euro zone states, Draghi said no country in such a currency union should be allowed to cause economic damage to other members by pursuing its own national economic policy priorities.
His message came as the ECB, the European Commission, and the International Monetary Fund - the so-called troika of international lenders - work on a review of their 130 billion euro bailout program for Greece.
Draghi said it was vital there be multilateral surveillance of budget policies in the euro zone. He called for structural reforms to promote innovation and for centralized authorities to be created to limit excessive risk taking in financial markets.
He said the European Commission's recent proposal for a single banking supervision mechanism for the euro area - in which the ECB would play an important role - was "a bold and necessary step towards creating a single financial market which ensures financial stability in the euro area and the European Union."
A permanent Australian resident of Indian origin has been refused Australian citizenship.
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal of Australia has affirmed the decision of the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection to reject Mr Manishkumar Mishra's application for Australian citizenship.
The department had refused Mr Mishra's application on 5 July 2016 on character grounds. Mr Mishra had two convictions against him in a case of domestic violence. On 20 May 2013, the applicant appeared before the Queanbeyan Local Court where he was fined $200 for common assault (DV) and $500 for assault occasioning actu...
The Minister for Immigration and Border Protection refused Mr Mishra's application for citizenship on the basis of these convictions. On 13 February 2017, Mr Mishra appealed to this Tribunal to review the decision.
An Australian citizen of Indian-origin, Mr Sunil Pahuja, has been awarded $300,000 in damages after the Supreme Court of New South Wales decided in favour of Mr Pahuja in a defamation case against TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd.
The tribunal reviewed his case and found that Mr Mishra had not been entirely honest about disclosing his convictions. Deputy President Dr P McDermott RFD of the Tribunal observed, "In my opinion, the applicant failed to disclose that he had been convicted of two assault offences which are serious offences, one of whic...
Mr Mishra had arrived in Australia on 27 August 2007 on a student visa. He was granted permanent residency on 31 January 2015. He lodged an application for Australian citizenship in February 2016. In May, Department of Immigration and Border Protection invited him to comment on the findings of adverse information which...
The AAT heard that Mr Mishra separated from his wife after assaulting her on the night of May 1, 2013.
In Australia, what do you miss India for? Most of what you can think of is available down under but there are some things you have to live without.
Mr Mishra disputed these facts, but the tribunal accepted that the applicant had committed the offences for which he was convicted when assessing whether he was of good character.
“Domestic violence is certainly quite contrary to the values of our society,” said Dr P McDermott RFD.
Deputy President Dr P McDermott RFD of the Tribunal also pointed out that Mr Mishra failed to accept the responsibility for his actions.
Dr P McDermott RFD, however, said: “My decision has no bearing on his entitlement to remain in Australia”.
London-based music producer Prashant Mistry of Indian origin is another Indian who has been nominated at the Grammy Awards this year after Falguni Shah. He recently opened up about his journey, his album and more. In an exclusive interview to ZoomTV.com, he spoke about his reaction when he first saw his name in the nom...
Speaking about what the nomination means to him, he reportedly it means a great deal, the Grammy’s are voted for by a selection of their peers – some of the finest musicians and engineers in the world. According to him, it’s the kind of thing they only dream of as artists. It’s a huge rush. He added that his parents ar...
The music producer also opened up about how his Indian roots help him grasp a way to convey emotion through music.
The 61st Grammy Awards will take place in Los Angeles on February 11.
The spirit of Father's Day has led to fighting words.
Should the Lakers win the title, it would add forward Luke Walton and his father, former Blazers and Celtics champion Bill, to the elite list of NBA father-son champions.
Right now, Rick Barry considers himself, along with son, Brent, as the lone NBA father-son champions, with Rick winning a title with the '75 Warriors and Brent with the '05 and '07 Spurs.
The NBA, however, also lists Matt Guokas Sr. and Matt Guokas Jr. as champions, with the elder Guokas winning the '47 title with the Warriors and the younger Guokas with the '67 Sixers.
"It wasn't the NBA then," Rick Barry told the Rocky Mountain News of the elder Guokas winning what then was the championship of the Basketball Association of America, which merged with the rival National Basketball League in 1949. "So we're the only ones to do it in the modern era."
Microsoft behaves very differently when it feels its patents are threatened. It acts like an adult.
Microsoft rarely sues anyone, but gets sued plenty. It's interesting, therefore, that when Microsoft recently took legal action against an alleged patent violator, the subject is hardware, not software, and relates to its mouse technology, of all things, and not something more significant like, say, its Windows cash co...
As noted elsewhere on CNET, Microsoft filed a complaint [PDF] with the U.S. International Trade Commission against Taiwanese hardware maker, Primax, over allegations that Primax violated seven Microsoft patents related to two technologies - TiltWheel and U2 - used in computer mice.
In a sign of how Microsoft acts when it really feels its patents are being violated, Microsoft's Horacio Gutierrez, a Microsoft vice president and deputy general counsel for intellectual property and licensing, indicated that Microsoft approached Primax multiple times over two years to try to resolve the issue. In othe...
Now compare this to how Microsoft engaged the Linux community over the alleged violation of no less than 235 of its patents back in 2007. No quiet discussions with the alleged violators (No, the Novell patent deal doesn't count, as Novell never even remotely suggested it had violated any of Microsoft's patents). Just a...
With Primax, Microsoft demonstrates that it cares deeply about its intellectual property, but also that it knows grown-up ways to deal with protection of that intellectual property. In markets like computer mice it knows how to behave, but when the stakes are high...it yells loudly and stomps its feet?
Microsoft has publicly stated that it doesn't know how to have "grown-up" discussions with open source because there's no one corporate entity with which to negotiate. No cathedral, as it were.
But that's OK. Red Hat has shown how to work with the open-source communities. It's really not that hard, once you get your head around the importance of downstream users and contributors. Just follow Red Hat's example.
Make a breathtaking flight over the endless yellow desert. Boundless blue sky, amazing landscapes, high speed, unbelievable stunts like loops and flight through the rings upside-down will impress you more than ever. Just fasten your seat belts and start the flight of your life. Upsell screen is shown in 70 seconds. Thi...
The head of the Republican Party said Sunday that he thinks that — despite polls suggesting otherwise — Donald Trump will win the election. And he played down Trump's controversial claim that the election is rigged, saying that Trump has the right to reserve his options.
Dickerson asked Priebus whether he agrees with Trump's refusal to say that he will accept the election results. Priebus, one of the highest-profile Republicans left defending Trump since House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.) broke with Trump, minimized the nominee's “rigged” claims.
Dickerson challenged Priebus's interpretation of Trump's hesitation to accept the results of the election. This comes in the context of Trump's claiming in increasingly heated rhetoric that the election is “rigged,” Dickerson pointed out.
Priebus went on to try to explain that if you put yourself in the mind-set of Trump — a sense that the media is hyper-focused on his campaign instead of Clinton's — it's relatively easy to suspect voter fraud and a rigged election.
He said, “I think if you're Donald Trump, and if you see the barrage and media implosion on every single thing this guy does, no matter what it is. He eats cornflakes in the morning, and CNN or another cable news show, MSNBC, is talking about it 24 hours a day. If you look at Hillary Clinton, what she's gotten away wit...
Priebus also backed off comments he made on “Face the Nation” a month ago that Republicans who don't support Trump could be punished. Such Republicans would probably include Ryan, a good friend of Priebus who said after the second presidential debate that he won't defend or campaign for Trump anymore.
Joy Villa: I'm a Republican for the first time in my life. The extreme left is out of control.
I’m a public figure and new Republican. I'm going to take my energy where it counts: the polls. You should, too, whether you share my views or not.
Voting: It’s the thing my ancestors bled and died for. It’s the thing women in America were jailed for daring to suggest they could, too, impact nationwide elections.
I’m a public figure as a recording artist and TV commentator. In 2017, I hit No. 1 on the Billboard Rock and Alternative Charts with my independent album, “I Make The Static,” and have amassed over half a million followers in my #Joytribe and countless red-carpet events displaying my fashion.
Most notably, my 2017 and 2018 Grammy dresses, where I actually wore my heart on my sleeve.
Today we log on to social media to find left-leaning Hollywood think it’s their duty to attack our president and anyone he endorses. I’m tired of the same old story coming out of their mouths; I think it’s time we start healing and encouraging a healthy and respectful differing of opinions.
Most recently, Taylor Swift broke her silence on her politics, telling her followers she was voting against Republican Marsha Blackburn in Tennessee.
But I’m not mad at her.
Why? Well, even though I love what powerful pro-life advocate Marsha stands for, I’d be a hypocrite if I went against another singer who decided to share her own personal politics. I say share and share liberally.
Don’t attack, don’t slander, and don’t dictate. Taylor kept it civil, and I applaud that.
I’m not a Democrat, but that doesn’t make me an enemy of the Democrats, and I don’t consider them mine.
As a Latina, I’m working with my friends in the nonpartisan Latino Coalition encouraging people to register and vote. I’m working with my Jewish friends in the Jewish Republican Alliance to mobilize the Jewish community. I’m in the inner cities with the African-American Get Out The Vote campaign.
More: I'm a liberal, Democratic teenager in a family of pro-Trump partisans. Don't worry, I'm safe.
I’ll let you in on a secret: I’m actually a registered Republican for the first time in my life. When I voted for the first time ever, it was in 2008 for Barack Obama, and I was a registered independent.
When I voted for Donald Trump on 2016, I was still an independent. For this November, I believe in and have thrown my weight behind voting Republican.
Why? Because the extreme left is out of control. They are no longer the moderates or centrists of old, the kind-hearted liberals who truly wanted to help the underprivileged and champion women’s rights and change America for the better.
Things have changed. I believe the leftist culture is now made up of socialist university professors, confusion of genders, attacks on families, believing public opinion over facts, the news media's twisting of what was said, hatred of men and white Americans and the slander of anyone they don’t 100 percent agree with.
I can no longer be a part of this group. I had to walk away.
The right is guilty of extremist diatribes, too. But I’ve seen much less of it from them. In fact, I’ve become less judged by my skin color or gender since coming out as an open conservative two years ago.
I don’t care whether you’re gay, straight, religious or not, what color you are or your stance on Trump. I really don’t care whether you register as Democrat, Republican,independent or undecided. I don’t care what you call yourself; that doesn’t matter.
I may be just another public figure telling you my opinion, but I’m going to take my energy where I know it counts: the polls.
On Nov. 6, whether you agree with my politics or not, register, study the issues, and vote.
Don’t just get mad, go out there and do something about it. Exercise your right that was fought and bled for.
Use your power and your voice in your city, state and nationwide elections. Study the issues, know the candidates, and make the choices based on your heart and mind, not your party affiliation or even what your family or friends say.
I’ll use my voice as black, Hispanic and female, to vote.
As a free American, it’s my right.
Joy Villa is a No. 1 iTunes, Amazon and Billboard artist. You can follow her on Twitter: @Joy_Villa.
File photo of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and US President Donald Trump. Source: Screenshot White House video.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo came as a surprise to the top diplomat.
Shortly after releasing that statement, Goldstein was also fired by the White House.
The rapidly announced departures came just hours after Tillerson returned from a weeklong trip to five African nations.
In the days leading up to his firing, Tillerson showed no outward signs that his days in the administration were numbered.
A senior administration official told VOA on Tuesday that Tillerson was informed of his ouster last week.
The official, speaking on background, said Tillerson was told by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly last Friday that he was being removed from the Cabinet by the president. The official said Kelly “followed up” with another phone call Saturday.
However, that account contradicts other reporting, which said Kelly never explicitly told Tillerson he was being fired. The Associated Press reported that Kelly warned Tillerson that Trump might tweet something that would concern him, but was not told what the tweet might say.
Tillerson told reporters traveling with him at the time that he did get a late-night phone call, but did not elaborate.
“I got another call at 2:30 [a.m.] that woke me up. I can’t say. And so I was up most of that night. And that was Friday night,” Tillerson later told reporters.
Just two days later, dressed in sneakers and khakis, Tillerson appeared relaxed and enjoyed a tour at Kenya Wildlife Service Genetics and Molecular Forensics Laboratory, chatting with experts working at the lab, as well as prominent conservationist Dr. Richard Leakey.
On Monday, during a rare on-the-record briefing with seven members of the traveling press en route to Cape Verde, Tillerson appeared to be at ease, occasionally smiling while answering questions. Later, at a refueling stop in Cape Verde, he again seemed relaxed, with VOA hearing his signature loud laughter while talkin...
And during a joint press conference with Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama in Abuja earlier Monday, his last public event in Africa before Trump’s tweet announcing his replacement, Tillerson appeared fully invested, showing no outward signs that he would soon be leaving his position.
It’s no secret that Trump and Tillerson did not see eye to eye on several key issues, including how to deal with the nuclear and missile threat from North Korea.
The then-secretary of state was halfway across the world and reportedly asleep when news broke that Trump had accepted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s invitation for direct talks Thursday, a major diplomatic development that Tillerson was said to be kept out of the loop on.
“I got the call a little before 2:30 [a.m.] on Thursday night about the decision and had a conversation with the president and then I was on the phone the rest of the night,” Tillerson said.
Tillerson canceled his schedule in Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday because he was under the weather due to sleep deprivation and what he said was “a little stomach bug” as a result of something he ate in Ethiopia.
“I’ve been up most nights on the telephone. I think I had 4 hours of sleep in 72 hours because of a lot of what’s going on,” Tillerson told traveling press on the plane.
VOA’s Steve Herman contributed to this report.
Last week I mentioned a car was produced for 23 years and was a very successful undertaking. Unfortunately the development costs were so high it bankrupted the manufacturer and sent him to an early grave. Cars bearing his name are still sold today. What was the car? I wanted the model, not just the marque. It was the C...
So to this week. A car was penned in the US by a famous designer, but ended up being moved to Canada. It is 53 years old, but you can still buy a new one. The car held many records from Bonneville, including a 170 mph pass. Who was the designer, as well as what is the car?
Bureaucrats from the Department of Home Affairs have flagrantly rorted taxpayers by claiming fraudulent sick leave, including one who submitted 29 bogus medical certificates and another purportedly trying to save colleagues from contracting an exotic disease.
The misconduct in the department overseen by minister Peter Dutton is contained in internal department documents obtained by Fairfax Media under freedom of information laws.
The documents show an internal investigation found one staff member provided 29 fraudulent medical certificates between 2011 and 2017.
In a letter to the employee, who had since resigned, an official says an investigation found they were “untruthful and lacked integrity” when they submitted the false certificates to gain sick leave.
Two doctors had told investigators they did not issue the certificates. They included one doctor to which 21 certificates were attributed, who no longer worked at the medical clinic for multiple dates the employee claimed to have attended.
Upon being told of the initial investigation, the bureaucrat claimed they were at times “bedridden [and] unable to get to the doctor's”.

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