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When the Americans invaded Grenada, they found, confiscated and shipped to the US 6 tons of paper records. The best kept records of a Communist revolution ever to be found anywhere. There were thousands of records some as government central committee records, some even written in the hand of Bishop.
They found all sorts of records, including the diaries of Maurice Bishop, and all the secret official agreements between Bishops regime and Cuba, East Germany, Russian USSR, Vietnam, North Korea, and dozens of other communist bloc countries, most of whom had required that such contracts and agreements be kept secret. K...
The records were copied in the US by the microfiche method, and then returned to Grenada. Returned to Grenada where they were made fully available for the public to scrutinise.
With regards to the fraud against the IMF, here are the US record office and Grenadian record locations and references.
Extracted from documents found by the U.S. forces when they invaded Grenada in 1983, stored on Micro Fiche in Maryland, USA. available to the public. Originals returned to Grenada Public Records Office.
Date: 3 Aug 1983: Description: Minutes of Central Committee, Political Bureau, Economic Bureau and other Meetings refer to the economy, fraudulently readjusting the books for IMF.
This opinion is not meant to infer or imply that Ralph E. Gonsalves is involved in the altering of any records whatsoever in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, or of committing or planning any illegal act.
But as the Minister of Finance and the Prime Minister who makes statements about the dead criminal Marxist, Maurice Bishop, we really do require some answers to his statements. Exactly what work of Maurice Bishop does PM Gonsalves intend emulating or completing?
Its a simple question. Because without the answer people may rightly or wrongly assume that Gonsalves intends to adopt all the work of Bishop.
That may well lay them open to being sued by Gonsalves, so for the sake of Justice, please PM Gonsalves, lets have the low down of your intentions.
There have recently been another opinions, one by ‘Simon Rouse’ quoting the International Airport that was being built by the Cubans in Grenada, being built for the use as a military airport. An opinion that asks if St. Vincent’s Argyle airport project is a military project.
I first raised the above questions about Maurice Bishops fraud, on several occasions since 2011. To date no answer, no explanation, no rendition to the Vincentian people who are owed an explanation, nothing except silence.
Some say silence is golden but in this matter its not, it hangs like a lead weight around the neck of those decent non-Marxist members of Vincentian society. Those people who are coming to feel tricked and deceived by their leaders, those people who want to know the truth and want an answer from the Gonsalves family le...
I say Gonsalves family leadership because PM Gonsalves is an elected member, his son is an unelected member, selected by him as a senator and minister, his cousin Julian Francis has stood for election on several occasion, always to be rejected by the people, an unelectable and unelected member of parliament, except by ...
Wake up people and smell the sulphur. Wake up Diaspora and seeketh the way of the Lord, reject those that claim to only work Obeah for the Lord.
“If I work Obeah, I only work Obeah for the Lord“, Dr. Ralph E. Gonsalves.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Peter Binose. Peter Binose,self appointed keeper of the bugle, thrown the whistle away.
Henry S. Fraser: Things that delight me over and over!
Representative José E. Serrano, who is currently the nation’s longest-tenured Hispanic congressman, said on Monday that he would not run for re-election, citing the effects of Parkinson’s disease.
Mr. Serrano, who has served in Congress since 1990 and represents the southern Bronx, one of the poorest districts in the country, has repeatedly won re-election with more than 90 percent of the vote. But with the Democratic Party seeking a younger brand of progressives, there was talk that he might have faced a seriou...
Two powerful members of the Bronx political establishment praised Mr. Serrano while predicting a wide open race for his seat; Ritchie Torres, a Bronx councilman often described as a rising star, said last month that he was exploring a primary challenge to Mr. Serrano.
Mr. Serrano said in a written statement that he had initially planned to stay in Congress despite the disease, but that he recently changed his mind. “I’ve come to the realization that Parkinson’s will eventually take a toll and that I cannot predict its rate of advancement,” the statement said. He said that he would s...
Mr. Serrano sits on the powerful Appropriations Committee and is the chairman of the Commerce, Justice, Science Subcommittee. He is also known for advocating for Puerto Rico, including a recent push to have the Trump administration improve relief efforts for the island after Hurricane Maria.
“I always tried to speak for those who are marginalized in our society, to give them a voice and a vote here in Washington,” he said, citing his efforts to bring federal funding to the Bronx, increase educational funding for minority students, clean up the polluted Bronx River and end the use of Vieques Island as a mil...
Mr. Serrano was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, and moved with his family to the South Bronx when he was seven years old. He said that, as a child in Puerto Rico, he learned English by singing along to Frank Sinatra records. Mr. Serrano lived in public housing in the Bronx and did not receive a college degree.
Mr. Serrano’s son, José M. Serrano, a Democratic state senator, said he would not seek his father’s seat because he did not want to be away from his wife and two children.
Jesse McKinley reported from Albany.
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STOUGHTON, Wis. - Four people were arrested in Stoughton following a three-month drug investigation, according to a release from the Police Department.
Around 8 a.m., officials executed a search warrant in the 500 block of South Seventh Street.
The search revealed that illegal drugs were being sold at a home there, according to the release.
Stoughton 34-year-old Johntile Alexander, Fitchburg 27-year-old Seky Daniel, Stoughton 42-year-old Keshia Graham and Stoughton 19-year-old Eric Woods were arrested as a result of the investigation, according to the release.
Greenville may have a flourishing food scene, but a sizable segment of the population still goes hungry, new research shows.
South Carolina comes in 7th worst on a new national ranking of food insecurity from the Food Research and Action Center, a national nonprofit that works to end poverty-related hunger in the U.S.
Nearly one in five people in the Palmetto State lives in a family that could not afford to buy food at times during the previous 12 months, the study shows.
Overall, 18.3 percent of the state’s residents couldn’t afford food, compared to the national average of 15.7 percent, according to the center.
Among South Carolina households with children, 19.9 percent experienced food hardship, compared with 17.9 percent nationally, the research shows.
And the food hardship rate in the Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin metropolitan statistical area was 16.2 percent overall and 18.2 in households with children.
The numbers came as no surprise to Ethan Friddle, director of programs and operations for United Ministries, which offers a variety of services for the disadvantaged.
“These numbers may be hard for us to reconcile with our sense of Greenville being a thriving community, especially if we’re thinking of the exciting development in our downtown,” he told The Greenville News.
Just blocks from downtown in West Greenville, more than half the households live below the poverty line, Friddle said.
And in 2017, more than 2,000 families sought crisis assistance at United Ministries, he said, adding that the agency also provided shelter or interim housing for more than 40 homeless families with children.
“Being situated in between downtown and West Greenville, we see both worlds at United Ministries,” he said.
Though the national food hardship numbers are still high, they represent a decline from 2008, when the rate was 17.8 percent overall and 23 percent for families with children, according to the report.
The Southwest had the highest overall rate of food insecurity, 19.3 percent, the study showed, followed by the Southeast, with 17.1 percent.
"While often hidden behind closed doors, food hardship is a serious national problem that requires a serious national response,” said Jim Weill, president of the center.
Southern states accounted for seven of the 15 worst states for food hardship in families with children.
Mississippi led the list with 25.8 percent, followed by Louisiana with 24.1 percent, Delaware with 23.4 percent, District of Columbia 23.3 percent, Arkansas at 23.2 percent, according to the center.
North Dakota was the best state with 6.1 percent.
To learn more about United Ministries, click here.
CHICAGO - The nation's Roman Catholic bishops renewed their pledge to remove sexually abusive clerics from ministry in a near-unanimous vote yesterday to accept a revised version of their policies regarding abuse.
The 235 bishops gathered for their semiannual conference also agreed to spend up to $1 million on a study to investigate the causes of the sexual abuse crisis and to require that potential priests live celibate lifestyles for at least two years before entering the seminary.
"I am convinced that we must leave this meeting with a clear, clear message that we are committed to the protection of young people," said Bishop Anthony M. Pilla of Cleveland, voicing a sentiment that was heard repeatedly on the floor.
The new versions of the two abuse policies, the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People and Essential Norms, will be binding for five years once the Vatican officially recognizes them.
The updated version says bishops will no longer have to forward every abuse case to Rome, and dioceses will no longer be subject to annual independent assessments of compliance with the rules.
Those changes prompted some critics to charge that the bishops were backing away from the commitments they made at their Dallas meeting in 2002 when, under intense public scrutiny, they adopted strict standards to handle abuse allegations.
"They have used every opportunity to backpedal. They're looking for ways to give bishops more wiggle room," said Barbara Blaine, founder of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests.
But the bishops voted to keep the central "zero tolerance" policy, which requires them to remove from ministry any cleric who commits an act of abuse. That policy remains controversial at the Vatican and among priests. Many bishops have said they would like eventually to regain discretion in dealing with abusive priest...
Only one bishop spoke against the policy, saying it destroys trust between the bishops and priests. "I'm not sure our priests really trust us," said Bishop Edward T. Hughes, a retired cleric from New Jersey. "Such lack of trust can be destructive of all our efforts."
In accepting an updated version of the seminary policies, the bishops agreed to require higher academic and personal standards from candidates for the priesthood. The standard of two years of celibacy marks the first time that the bishops have mandated that candidates be abstinent for a defined period before entering s...
The new standards come as seminary enrollment is at an all-time low in the United States. But Archbishop William J. Levada, the new prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said the bishops have realized that many candidates have been sexually active and need a transition to a celibate lifes...
"Many bishops have come to a mature look at the ability of sexually active - heterosexually or homosexually active - people to change quickly," he said in an interview.
The study the bishops decided to partially fund is expected to cost $2 million to $4 million and take more than three years as independent researchers comb through the history of the abuse scandal. The bishops voted to allocate up to $1 million for the study, contingent on finding outside funding to pay for the rest.
The money would be well spent, said Cardinal Roger Mahoney of Los Angeles, "so we learn ... what has gone into making this problem so we can avoid it in the future."
ENERGY and Power Development Minister Dr Joram Gumbo yesterday announced a new seven-member ZESA board, and directed the members to superintend over the rebundling of the power utility, fight corruption and ensure a steady power supply.
Former Cottco managing director Mr Collins Chihuri will chair the board, while Ministry of Energy and Power Development acting permanent secretary Engineer Benson Munyaradzi will represent the ministry on the board.
The other board members are Ms Jacqueline Sande, Mr Trust Chifamba, Mr Hussein Omar, Mrs Cathrine Befura and Mr Thomas Timire.
"We meet at a watershed moment as Zesa embarks on a journey to be re-engineered and rebundled into a single entity," sad Dr Gumbo, while addressing the board members and the press in Harare yesterday.
Dr Gumbo said the new board was leaner than it ordinarily would have been, given that it is a single board to oversee the rebundling process and also ensure that the power utility is managed as one entity, and potentially bring efficiencies. He said the board should look at the structure of ZESA, with a view to streaml...
"You come to ZESA at a time when the company is marking four years of stable power supply and is in the throes of undertaking perhaps one of the biggest capital projects in the country since independence — the Hwange Expansion Project — at a cost of US$1,4 billion, which comes soon after the completion of the Kariba pr...
The Mega Millions lottery is now at a record-breaking $1.6 billion. CNBC estimates that your odds of winning the Mega Millions are one in 302.6 million.
There's no secret to winning the lottery — the only surefire way to get yourself a winning ticket is to be incredibly lucky. Kimberly Morris of Wake Forest, North Carolina, won the lottery twice in one day, and she can attest that there's nothing to victory but chance. "I wasn't really expecting much," she says. "I jus...
If you do win big, however, there are clear rules experts suggest you follow and traps to avoid. Here are three ways to really beat the odds — by making sure your winnings don't go to waste.
The first thing that experts recommend winners do is to keep quiet. "I would recommend not telling people," says Nick Holeman, certified financial planner at Betterment. "I wouldn't necessarily go broadcasting it to the world."
Holeman says that coming forward too early can lead to hasty decisions and can make lottery winners targets of crime and greed. Lottery winners typically have three months to present their ticket, but they often come forward much more quickly.
For instance, when Mavis L. Wanczyk of Chicopee, Massachusetts, won the $758.7 million Powerball jackpot earlier this year, she spoke with the press in less than 24 hours.
Experts also suggest not making any rash life changes. The CFP Board of Standards says nearly one-third of lottery winners eventually declare bankruptcy, and lottery winners are more likely to declare bankruptcy within three to five years than the average American.
That's often because winners can become reckless with their newfound wealth. In order to avoid a harsh fate, lottery winners should not make any hasty decisions. Former social worker Sandra Hayes maintains a frugal lifestyle, even after winning a $224 million Powerball jackpot with a dozen of her coworkers.
Victoria Vazquez displays $280 worth of Mega Millions lottery tickets for her office pool on March 30, 2012.
Powerball winners have the option of collecting their winnings as a lump sum prize or in a series of payments over 30 years, known as an annuity. Holeman says the annuity is the smart choice.
"If you get a huge lump sum, it's easier to make a mistake, whereas if you choose the annuity, then at least if you mess up and blow the first year's worth, you have another chance."
Jim Cramer, on the other hand, thinks the lump sum option is the right choice, arguing that you want to put as much money as possible to work for you as soon as possible. "Take the money all at once," the CNBC "Mad Money" host said. "Don't let them string it out like that. You want the time value of all that cash worki...
No matter which you choose, thinking strategically can help you avoid making the same mistakes of winners past.
April 7 - Workers at Rio de Janeiro's Olympic Park strike to demand better working conditions. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Workers building Rio's 2016 Olympic Park continue a week-long strike. Rio won the right to host the summer Olympics in 2009 and will become the first South American city to host the world's biggest multi-sport event. Workers say they are being asked to carry too big a burden. (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) PRESIDENT OF THE W...
Above: Tommy Palm's latest effort brings fishing to Facebook Spaces.
When Bait! from Resolution Games first launched on Gear VR it introduced several visually pleasing vistas at which players could cast their line for some recreational fishing. With a mixture of free-to-play design and some light microtransactions, it quickly soared on the platform and became one of the most-downloaded ...
Now today Bait! is coming to Facebook Spaces through a new iteration dubbed Bait! Arctic Open. This time around it’s exclusive to the Facebook Spaces social space on Oculus Rift and is freely available to anyone in Facebook Spaces. And unlike the previous game, Bait! Arctic Open has a heavy focus on multiplayer.
Grace Park, right, and Daniel Dae Kim talk Hawaii Five-0 at San Diego Comic-Con in 2010.
Critics of the newfound lack of diversity at television's Hawaii Five-0 are focusing some of their ire on the network that broadcasts the primetime cop show, CBS.
Citing the 2014 Television Network Diversity Report, the National Hispanic Media Coalition said in a statement over the weekend, "The lack of diversity at CBS isn't new."
"In 2017, the fact that we're still fighting for equal and fair representation on a major television network is extremely problematic and changes must come about," Alex Nogales, president and CEO of the organization, said in the same statement.

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